Emails aren’t always secure, and they may be intercepted or changed after they have been sent. SAFER Foundation does not accept liability for any damage or loss caused or suffered in connection with any such communications. The contents of emails reflect their author’s views and not necessarily those of the SAFER Foundation. Please do not send SAFER Foundation any confidential information, financial or other sensitive personal data through email. The information in emails is confidential, so if you’ve received one by mistake, please delete it without copying, using, or telling anyone about its contents.

SAFER Foundation takes a proactive approach to user privacy and ensures that adequate steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users.

Information collected is used to:

• Improve the user experience and provide you with content tailored to your needs and interests
• Monitor how the site is used in order that we can continually improve it.

The information you provide may also help learning providers or practitioners and other learners interact with you on the site.

We may also receive information about you from third parties – for example, where we use information from publicly available sources as discussed below.

When you register with us, we may collect personal and employment information such as name, age (as a range), email address, country location, and the organization you work for, and other similar information. We do not use cookies to collect this type of information.

When you contact us through other means or use our website, we may collect some or all of this information, depending on how you contact us or use the site. We monitor how people use our website so we can improve it. However, you can use our website anonymously without giving us any information. We collect this information anonymously.

If you visit our website as a guest, we may record information about

• the areas of the website you visit
• the amount of time you spend on the site
• whether you are new to the site, or have visited it before
• how you came to our website – for example, through an email link or a search engine
• the type of device and browser you use.

We do this by using cookies, which you can learn more about in this document.

If you visit our website as a logged-in, registered user we may record information about all of the above, as well as the courses you express interest in, start and/or complete, the scores you achieve in assessments, certificates and badges you earn, your responses to evaluation and feedback surveys, and other information relating to your participation in learning.

As well as the information you provide when registering, you will have the opportunity to provide additional data such as interests, profile picture, or additional contact details through your profile. Contributions made through the site, for example through chat sessions or discussion forums, may be stored on the site (and visible by other users).

All online financial transactions will be encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

We may also collect information regarding the preferences you indicate in interacting with our site and services, and information that we may collect from publicly available sources to better understand your interests and preferences.

We will never sell your details and, except as indicated below, will only share your details with third parties (who are not service providers working at our direction) if you ask us to.

If, as part of a course given by a third party provider, you are asked to provide personal information about yourself, you agree that this information can be shared with that third party provider.

We may disclose your personal information if we are requested or required to do so by a regulator or law enforcement or in order to enforce or apply our rights (including in relation to our website or other applicable terms and conditions) or to protect the SAFER Foundation, for example in cases of suspected fraud or defamation, or in order to comply with any other applicable legal obligation.

Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure. We do our best to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to our website, so any transmission is at the user’s own risk.

However, any payment card details (such as credit or debit cards) we receive on our website are passed securely to our payment processing provider according to the Payment Card Industry Security Standards.

For financial and technical reasons, we may, on occasion, need to use the services of a service provider outside the European Economic Area (EEA) – this may include a country which does not have the same level of data protection as in the United Kingdom. However, unless they are located in a country which has been assessed by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data, we will only use a service provider outside the EEA on the basis of an agreement with the service provider, designed to protect your data, in the appropriate form approved for this purpose by the European Commission – please contact our data protection officer (see Contact Us above) if you would like to see a copy of any of these agreements. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is processed securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Our privacy & cookie policy takes into account several laws, including:

• the Data Protection Act 1998
• the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003
• General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

Generally, our processing of your personal information as described in this policy is allowed by these laws because we have a legitimate need to carry out the processing for the purposes described above (How do we use your information?) Some processing may also be necessary so that we can perform a contract with you or because it is required by law. We only use your information to send you marketing communications by email or text (or, in some circumstances, by post or telephone) with your consent, and you can always opt out of receipt of marketing communications.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block the SAFER Foundation’s website cookies, you can perform the following:

1. On your browser tools menu, select ‘Internet Options’
2. Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and then on the ‘Sites’ button
3. Type the following into the ‘Address of website’ field: “www.safer.org.ph”
4. Click on the ‘Block’ button
5. Click on the OK button
6. Repeat the process, typing “www.kayaconnect.org” into the box in step 3.

Other browsers: Firefox cookie management: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences Chrome cookie management: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB Safari cookie management: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=en_GB Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities in their preferences settings, please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ facility. Find more detailed information on disabling cookies from aboutcookies.org.