Privacy Policy

Alankit Foundation (“Alankit Foundation,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates to serve all site visitors. That goal powers all of the decisions we make, including how we gather and respect personal information. This privacy policy exists to be as clear and straightforward as possible because we know that you (“You,” “user,” “site user,” or “valued user”) care about how the information you provide to us is used and shared. Our aim is for you — a valued user of our site — to always feel informed and empowered with respect to your privacy on Alankit Foundation.

This Privacy Policy applies to all information received by Alankit Foundation, both online and offline, on any Platform, (“Platform”, includes the Alankit Foundation website, social media, and Alankit Foundation-associated linked sites), as well as any electronic, written, or verbal communications.

Our Commitment to Our Donors ("Donor Privacy Policy")

We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or Personal Information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations. This Donor Privacy Policy applies to all information received by Alankit Foundation, both online and offline, on any Platform, as well as any electronic, written, or verbal communications.

The Information We Collect

Alankit Foundation collects information when you visit our website, create an account, edit your account information, or use features on the platform to donate to a charity. Some of this information is technical information automatically logged by our servers. Outlined below are the types of information, both directly from you and indirectly through the collection of information by third-party service providers (together, “Partners”) that we specifically collect.

You authorize us to use, store and otherwise process any personal information which relates to and identifies you, including (but not limited to) your name and address, to the extent reasonably necessary to provide the services which are available through our website, our Partners, successors, assignees, associates, sub-contractors, or other third parties.

1. Personal Information ("Personal Information")

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information means any information or set of information that identifies or could be used by or on behalf of Alankit Foundation, or any of our Partners to identify a natural or legal person. Personal Information does not include information that is encoded, aggregated, anonymized or publicly available information that has not been combined with non-public Personal Information.

Examples of different purposes for which we may collect Personal Information include, but are not limited to:

  • The registration process for Registered Users;
  • Use of areas of the Alankit Foundation website, in which you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, username and password, falling under the registration process for Registered Users (“Registration Process”);
  • Donations made through Alankit Foundation using Network for Good, from which we collect Personal Information such as your name, billing address, and e-mail address if you have not already provided these details. We collect information about your donation, including the charity you are donating to and the amount of your donation.
Non-Personal/Other Information

In addition to the Personal Information, we and our Partners may collect additional information that does not personally identify you (“Other Information”). Other Information may include information collected:

From Your Activity. Information that we or our Partners may automatically collect when you visit, access, and/or use the Platform, including, but not limited to your IP address, Internet service provider, browser type and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, which sections of the Alankit Foundation or Partner website you visit, number of links you click while on the Platform, search terms, operating system, general geographic location, and technical information about your mobile device.

The Information Collected by or Through Third-Party Advertising Companies

We may share Other Information about your activity on the Platform with third parties for the purpose of tailoring, analyzing, managing, reporting, and optimizing advertising you see on the Platform and elsewhere.

Search Engines and Other Sites

Search engines and other sites not affiliated with Alankit Foundation such as archive.org or google.com, may crawl the Site and make it available to public publicly available content and postings from the site. The Site may also contain links to other websites. Alankit Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. Alankit Foundation encourages its visitors and users to be aware of such search engines and other sites when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statement of each website they visit.

How We Use and Share the Information

We use Personal Information and Other Information to provide you Services, process your donations, solicit your feedback, inform you about our products and services, personalize communications and fundraising appeals that we believe will be of interest to you, and improve our Services to you.

We may also use and/or share Personal Information, Other Information, and User Content as described below:

  • All of your User Content on the Platform will be publicly viewable and shareable by other users both within and outside the Platform.
  • We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include providing technical assistance and customer service. These other companies will have access to Personal Information and Other Information only as necessary to perform their functions and to the extent permitted by law.
  • In an ongoing effort to better understand visitors to our site and our products and services, we may analyze Other Information in aggregate form in order to operate, maintain, manage, and improve our products and services. This aggregate information does not identify individuals personally. We may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents, and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our products and services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
  • We may share some or all of the Personal Information and Other Information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, or other companies under common control with us.
  • We may use charity logos, marks, mission statements, or other identifiers provided by a Registered User when updating the Alankit Foundation Website to continue the normal course of Alankit Foundation business.
  • As we develop our businesses, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Personal Information, and Other Information may be part of the transferred assets.
  • To the extent permitted by law, we may also disclose the Personal Information and the Other Information: (i) when required by law, court order, or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory agency; or (ii) whenever we believe that disclosing such information is necessary or advisable, for example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Alankit Foundation or others.
Changes to This Privacy Policy

Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of the Personal Information and Other Information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collect the information. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Alankit Foundation via: