PRIVACY POLICY
We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use helpdonateblood.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safe guard that information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
helpdonateblood.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protect the privacy of visitors to our website.
1. Personal Information
Helpdonateblood.com collects some personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Such information may include name, gender, date of birth, weight, address, e-mail address, telephone number, blood group, last blood donation date or any other descriptive information as the visitor may wish to display on his profile page.
This information is collected when you register on our website or when request some information from us, participate in a contest, voting or sweep stakes, sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is used for the purpose of connecting the prospective blood donors with the prospective blood receivers, improving the content of our website, notifying our visitors of updates, and responding to visitor inquiries.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and for the purpose of connecting the prospective blood donors with the prospective blood receivers. It will not be sold or provided to third parties for any other purpose other than for beneficial interest of blood donation for public at large.
2. Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the site’s pages, or register with any of our site’s services, a cookie enables helpdonateblood.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.
We may serve third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our website to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they can not personally identify you with that information on our web site.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to over-ride web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn’t cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
3. Children’s Online Privacy Protection
This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to persons under the age of 18. We operate our site in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 18 years of age. By signing up as member of our website, the user undertakes that he has read and understood the terms of use of this website, and that he agrees to the same. One of the term of use of this website is that the visitor is above 18 years of age. A parent or guardian of a person under 18 years of age may, however, share such person’s personal information on helpdonateblood.com, for the benefit of such person.
4. Non-Personal Information
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user-base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.
5. Release of Information
If helpdonateblood.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make of us.
6. How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, you may do so by visiting your user account or profile page, or you may Contact Us.
7. Updates and Effective Date
Helpdonateblood.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
8. Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to helpdonateblood.com’s Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.
9. Monetary declaration
This website is a non-financial project, meaning thereby that the project is for the purpose of providing a platform where the needy person can look for the voluntary blood donor in a quick and effective way. The website never asks for money or any other financial transaction to or from any blood donor or from anyone visiting the website seeking blood. We do not promote or initialize or indulge in any money transaction with the blood donor or recipient or individually between them or with us. Any financial dispute if arises between any person related to use of this website, the responsibility lies with the payer and payee and website has no role or responsibility for the same.
10. Fitness to donate blood
Once the donor wishes to donate the blood, the entire fitness to donate, the procedure of blood donation and any issue after that is between the blood donor and the blood bank where the blood donation is done. This website is not responsible for any medical or health issues related to blood donation or transfusion.
11. Voluntary Blood Donation
Members agreeing to voluntary blood donation would agree to the national or regional rules and regulations as updated from time to time. This website has no role regarding to the rights and responsibilities as defined for voluntary blood donation and the local rules and regulations must be followed for the safe and legal voluntary blood donation.
12. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy or your data, please contact us at our email support@helpdonateblood.com.in
