Welcome to our Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

Lasco Chin Foundation is located at:

The Lasco Chin Foundation (LCF) is the sole owner and operator of this website www.lascochinfoundation.org. It is Lasco Chin Foundation’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://lascochinfoundation.org/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://lascochinfoundation.org/”). 

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

The Website is designed to inform you about the programmes and the initiatives organized and operated by the Lasco Chin Foundation. Only in a few places on our Website we ask you for your Personal Data in order to be able to offer you and our beneficiaries certain services, e.g. the newsletter, donations, mentorship forms, or contact us. You may also use the Website without disclosing or otherwise leaving any Personal Data to us, especially if you deactivate cookies and do not communicate with us via the Website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Lasco Chin Foundation collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Lasco Chin Foundation’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Lasco Chin Foundation’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Lasco Chin Foundation may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Lasco Chin Foundation also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://lascochinfoundation.com/ blog posts. Lasco Chin Foundation only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Lasco Chin Foundation’s websites choose to interact with Lasco Chin Foundation in ways that require Lasco Chin Foundation to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Lasco Chin Foundation gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter, mentor programmes or to donate to a cause, for identity and/or contact data.

SECURITY 

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. 

The LASCO Chin Foundation maintains the highest level of integrity and respect for the privacy of our website users and donors. We seek to ensure that website users have trust and confidence in our practices.

The LASCO Chin Foundation collects and maintains the following type of user information which is received by, both online and offline, on any platform, as well as electronic, written or oral communications:

Personal Data

This is any personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer (together “process”) different kinds of Personal Data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, or similar identifiers.
• Contact Data includes postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your choices as well as preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, your communication preferences, data in social media profiles and social media username, and all information you provide to us via email or the Website or otherwise.

Donation Data

This includes any data that is collected when a user makes a donation on the LCF website, such as:

• Donation amount
• Donation date
• Selected cause or activity 
• Any donation restrictions requested by the donor or comments that are added

Other Data 

Information on events attended, publications received, any special requests for programme information

Aggregated Statistics

Lasco Chin Foundation may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Lasco Chin Foundation may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Lasco Chin Foundation does not disclose your personally identifying information.

How we process and store your data 

All user information is secured stored in databases that are protected by a variety of access controls as well as using encryption methods.  For donations, this is done to coordinate and manage projects and programmes of the Lasco Chin Foundation, including the distribution of LCF COVID-19 Relief Care Packages and for the purposes of audit. Information is also used to analyze donation patterns in order to make accurate budget projections. 

We do not store your credit card information or other sensitive data on our servers. For any transaction done on the LCF website, we use the services of a secure payment gateway to provide safe and secure payment procedures. Your credit card information is never transmitted via our website since the payment gateway is responsible for collecting, storing and encrypting your data. 

While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name (“Personal Information”).

The LASCO Chin Foundation will use confidential donor information for the following purposes:

• Distributing donation receipts
• Sending thank you letters to donors
• Informing donors of LCF news and events
• Internal analysis and record keeping
• Contacting donors about changes in policy 

Use and Disclosure of your Personal Information:

We will not sell, share or trade your personal information with other entities without your permission. However, where necessary, personal information may be shared with partners in the execution of joint projects/programmes. For example, if you have donated to the LCF COVID-19 Relief Care Package Programme, our partners listed on our website will have access to our care package distribution dashboard which will contain the following information: Contact Information: name, address, telephone number, email address; and Donation History: donation amount, date and any donation restrictions requested by the donor. 

We will not send you mailings on behalf of other organizations.

Where donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation and coordinate the execution of programmes.

We will use personal information to protect against potential fraud. We may verify with third parties the information collected in the course of processing a donation.

We publicly recognize donors by publishing names in our Year in Review, on our website and in other publications, unless a donor explicitly requests to remain anonymous. Donors may contact us to request that they not be included in such publications. By sending us an email at info@lascochinfoundation.org.

Security and Enforcement

The LASCO Chin Foundation protects your personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or unauthorized disclosure by requiring employees with access to personal data to comply with our privacy policy. We operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our donors.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Lasco Chin Foundation and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Lasco Chin Foundation uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Lasco Chin Foundation uses cookies to help Lasco Chin Foundation identify and track visitors, their usage of https://lascochinfoundation.org/, and their website access preferences. Lasco Chin Foundation visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Lasco Chin Foundation’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Lasco Chin Foundation’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Lasco Chin Foundation’s use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Lasco Chin Foundation – by purchasing Lasco Chin Foundation’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Lasco Chin Foundation collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Lasco Chin Foundation. Lasco Chin Foundation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described herein. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website, which is a web analytics service provided by Google. This tool uses cookies to help a website to analyse how users use and navigate the website. The information generated by the cookie about your behaviour on our Website (in particular the IP address of the device, device type, screen size, browser information, geographic location, preferred language used to display our website) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America.

You can find more information about Google and its services via the link below: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

If you do not want to wish to be recorded by Google Analytics, visit the link for more information on how to opt out:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Hotjar

We use hotjar on our website, in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize our service and users’ experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience and this enables us to optimize our user experience. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices (in particular the IP address of the device, device type, screen size, browser information, geographic location, preferred language used to display our website). The data will be transmitted and stored on Hotjar’s servers. 

For further details, please see Hotjar’s Privacy Policy. https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/

If you do not want to wish to be recorded by Hotjar, you can disable it by setting the DoNotTrack header in your browser. For more information and more about Hotjar’s data processing, please visit: www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out.

Social media and Social plug-ins

Our Website uses social media plugins by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. These services are provided by the respective companies such as Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc., and LinkedIn. 

Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. An overview of Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your related rights and settings options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Facebook: www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. An overview of the Twitter buttons and their appearance can be found here: https://about.twitter.com/en_us/company/brand-resources.html

For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Twitter as well as your related rights and settings options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Twitter: twitter.com/privacy.

Instagram is operated by Facebook, Inc. 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

An overview of the Instagram buttons and their appearance can be found here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges

For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Instagram as well as your related rights and settings options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Instagram: 

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lasco Chin Foundation may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Lasco Chin Foundation’s sole discretion. Lasco Chin Foundation encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.