Privacy Policy
Welcome to Animal Rescue Cambodia and Animal Rescue e.V.
Privacy Policy
This website is owned and operated by Animal Rescue Cambodia, located at St. 99, House 137 a + b, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Our Fundraising organization in Germany is called Animal Rescue e.V., registered at Seebergerstr. 4, 81477 Munich, Germany.
ARC/AReV makes every effort to comply with the European GDPR of May 2018. If you feel some of our information is unclear or missing, please contact us at info@ar-cambodia.com. We will happily follow up on your suggestion.
This Privacy Policy governs all pages hosted at www.ar-cambodia.com, as well as donor information that may be provided to ARC/AReV via other means.
The use of the website is conditioned on your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, and your use of the website constitutes your agreement with this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically. Your continued use of the website following any such changes will constitute your agreement with the amended Privacy Policy.
ARC/AReV respects the privacy of its supporters and website visitors. We have developed a rigorous privacy policy that reflects that respect. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. In addition to the terms of this Policy, we will use reasonable efforts to honor any other limitations you may wish to place on the usage of your personal information.
Information we collect and how we use such information
ARC/AReV collects information regarding visitors to the website, including IP address, browser and domain information, and information volunteered by you, such as your e-mail address and name.
WordPress automatically collects IP addresses via server logs and security plugins record IP addresses for network security purposes on our website. As these are in-build functions by WordPress and related plugins, they are out of our control and we are unable to delete IP addresses upon requests. If you do not wish for our website to collect such data, we sadly need to advise you not to use our website.
ARC/AReV collects personally identifiable information (which may include for instance; name and email address for donations, or name, email address, physical address and so forth, for fostering and adoption purposes) from visitors and other supporters when they register to join our organization to make a donation, apply for fostering or adoptions, purchase online or offline, or subscribe to our newsletter. Please note that our web server does not automatically recognize or collect personal information based on your e-mail address; the personal information we collect is always voluntarily submitted by you.
Fostering/adoption information you have voluntarily provided is collected via an online form and manually stored in our Shelter Manager software. Such information is necessary in order for the Adoption Coordinator to evaluate whether you are a suitable candidate for fostering and/or adoption but also to contact you regarding fostering/adoption. Whether you foster or adopt, our Adoption Coordinator may be in touch with you regularly, to follow up on the animal’s well-being in your care. If reasonable concerns exist that the animal is not taken well-care off, the Adoption Coordinator serves the right to visit your physical address unannounced and, if deemed necessary, remove the animal(s) from your care. For the safety of our rescues, such information can not be requested for deletion if you are an active foster or if you have adopted an animal. If you wish for such data to be deleted, you are required to officially exit our foster/adoption program and return any animal(s) currently in your care. To do so, please email adopt@ar-cambodia.com.
We may also monitor and track information, such as visitor usage patterns using standard website tracking software, such as Google Analytics. When you are on the website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with ARC/AReV alone, unless stated otherwise.
To collect payments and donations, ARC/AReV uses Woo Commerce, PayPal and Stripe. ARC/AReV collects the following data: Name and email address, donated amount, frequency of donation (monthly, once, etc.), payment method, purchased item/chosen donation and date. Such information is recorded in our CRM/Financial Software/Salesforce. It allows us to estimate regular monthly income and therefore enables us to use our funds more securely. We also use such data for email communication, such as sending a thank-you email, updates regarding your sponsorship, news about the impact of your donation, call for actions, new donation/support opportunities and email newsletters. By providing such information, you explicitly agree for us to store such data and use them for communication purposes.
In case you wish to receive a German donation receipt (or “Spendenquittung”), please contact us at ev@ar-cambodia.com and submit your physical address via email. As registered German charity, AReV is allowed to provide tax deductible donation receipts. These need to be originally signed and stamped, in order to be valid. Therefore, we are required to either hand them to you in person, or to mail them to your physical address. ARC/AReV will save this information in our CRM/donor database, for future mailing purposes of such receipts. If you wish for us not so save this data, please email info@ar-cambodia.com and inform us about your wish.
Sharing of information
ARC/AReV shares personal data with third party business partners when this is necessary to provide our services to you. Examples of third parties are to whom we may disclose personal data for this purpose are Stripe, Mail-chimp, PayPal, Woo Commerce, and similar.
Please note: We are aware of and sensitive to the issue of unsolicited e-mail (“spam”); therefore ARC/AReV will never rent, trade or sell your e-mail address to a third party for directed marketing of commercial products.
Update, correct, or delete personally identifiable information
We store information as follows:
- Adoption/Foster Information: Open-end, for reasons explained above
- Active accounts (regular donations, active newsletter subscription, etc.): Open-end, as we need your information to continue the service and your involvment
- Inactive accounts: Your account on this website will be deleted after 2 years of inactivity.
- Financial software: As all donations made to via this website are transferred to AReV before being granted to ARC, we are following German regulations. These require to store financial information for a minimum of 10 years. Recommendable are 12 years.
- Donor Database: We will store information as long as you provide active support and will automatically delete your information after 5 years of inactivity. We keep such data, to analyse support patterns and behavior and help us develop effective fundraising strategies.
The accuracy of your individual information is important to ARC/AReV. To change or delete your personal information, or to opt-out from receiving communication from ARC/AReV, or for any other inquiry please send an e-mail to our Data Protection Officer, Ms. Martina Mayr, via tina (at) ar-cambodia.com or call +855 (0)11761722. Requests to unsubscribe, change or delete information may take 10-14 days to come into effect.
To view your account and your personal information provided on our website, please login with your username and password HERE.
Protecting personally identifiable information
When you give ARC/AReV personally identifiable information, we take steps to treat your information securely. All online donations are processed via third parties (such as PayPal, Woo Commerce and Stripe) using secure servers. ARC/AReV does NOT store your credit card information.ARC/AReV is not responsible for use of personally identifiable information by its partner companies. Please consult the website of those companies for information concerning their privacy policies.
Use of cookies
Cookies are small text-only files that are stored on your computer and that can be used to help identify you when you visit any website. A cookie cannot read data off of your computer hard disk, nor can it read cookie files created by other website. We may use cookies to make visiting and using our website easier, for instance, so that you do not have to continually re-enter information, and so that we can tailor the website to your expressed preferences.
Most web browsers accept cookies. However, if you wish, you can usually set your browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. Note that if cookies are disabled, you may not be able to enjoy all the interactive features of the website.
Links to third-party sites
The website provides links to several third party websites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take responsibility for the content of linked websites, or for the privacy policies of websites we link to. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies on those websites prior to any use.
Children’s privacy
If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 18 and believe that he or she is using any of our pages on this website, please contact us at info@ar-cambodia.com. Upon request, the parent or guardian of a child under 18 may review and request the deletion of said child’s personally identifiable information, as well as refuse to permit the further collection or use of such information. If we discover that a user is under the age of 18, we will delete their account and all personally identifiable information immediately.
Offensive or inappropriate content
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content to our website, social media or email and so forth, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behavior on any ARC/AReV service, we may use your personal information to stop such behavior.
International account holders
Privacy Policy changes
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we may disclose it to anyone. Your continued use of any of the website indicates your consent to the Privacy Policy as posted from time to time.
Contact information
We are grateful for your support. If you have any questions about ARC’s Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, the practices of the website, or your interaction with the website, please contact us at info@ar-cambodia.com
Last Updated: June 10th 2018