Last updated: [November 19, 2025]

Welcome to Idara Development Foundation. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit our website (https://idara-df.org/) or engage with our services.

We may collect and process the following categories of personal information:

• Contact information: name, email address, phone number, postal address (e.g., when you contact us, sign up for our newsletter, volunteer, or donate).
   
• Donation information: payment details (processed via third-party payment providers), donation amounts, billing addresses.
   
• Usage data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, time spent on pages, clickstream data (via analytics).
   
• Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies or similar tracking technologies to analyze usage, improve our website, and for other legitimate purposes.
   
• Communications: when you email us, we may retain correspondence.
   

• Forms: When you fill in contact forms, volunteer / donor forms, or newsletter sign-up.
   
• Analytics: Through Google Analytics (or other analytics tools) to monitor website usage.
   
• Cookies: We use cookies to track usage and preferences.
   

We use your data for:

• Operating and improving our website
   
• Responding to your inquiries
   
• Sending newsletters or updates (if you consent)
   
• Processing donations
   
• Reporting and fundraising purposes (internally)
   
• Legal and compliance purposes
   

Depending on what you do on the site, we process your data on different lawful bases:

• Consent: when you sign up for newsletters, or explicitly give us your data (e.g., via donation form).
   
• Legitimate interests: for analytics, improving our website, maintaining security.
   
• Legal obligations: where required by law or regulation.
   

We may share your personal data with:

• Service providers / partners: such as payment processors, email newsletter services, analytics providers.
   
• Third parties: if legally required (e.g., by a court or regulatory body).
   
• Affiliates or associated organisations: but only to the extent necessary and in line with your consent or our legal obligations.
   

We will not sell your personal data to third parties for marketing.

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it. After that, data may be anonymized or securely deleted. Where relevant (e.g., for legal or reporting obligations), we may retain certain data for longer.

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data we hold against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse.

Depending on the relevant data protection laws applicable to you (for example, United State Of America’s data protection laws), you may have rights over your personal data, such as:

• Access: request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
   
• Correction: ask us to correct or update inaccurate or incomplete data
   
• Deletion: request the deletion or removal of your data where there is no compelling reason for us to keep processing it
   
• Objection: object to certain types of processing (e.g., direct marketing)
   
• Data portability: ask us to transfer your data to another organization, where technically feasible
   

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us (see “Contact Us” section).

We use cookies to:

• Understand how you use our site (analytics)
   
• Remember your preferences
   
• Improve site performance
   

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of parts of our website.

Our website may contain links to other sites (e.g., to partner organizations or external resources). This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked sites you visit.

Our site is not directed at children under 13 (or the age applicable in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child without parental consent, we will delete it.

We may update this policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will:

• Post the new Privacy Policy on our website
   
• Notify you, if appropriate (e.g., via newsletter)
   

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at:

Idara Development Foundation
Email: [idaradevelopmentfoundation@gmail.com]
Address: [Watauga Texas, USA]