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Privacy Policy

How the Green Futures Initiative collects, uses, and protects your personal information.

Last reviewed 25 September 2026 Western Regional YMCA
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Last updated: September 25, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Western Regional YMCA (Green Futures Initiative) ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your information when you visit this website or make a donation.

1. Information we collect

  • Donation details: your name, email address, organisation (optional), the number of bags sponsored, and the amount contributed.
  • Payment information: payments are processed by our payment provider (Paystack). We do not store full card or mobile money credentials on our servers.
  • Account information: if you create a supporter account, we store your name, email, phone (optional) and a hashed password.
  • Technical data: IP address, browser type, and pages visited, collected through cookies and server logs.

2. How we use your information

  • To process donations and send you a receipt and impact updates.
  • To operate, maintain, and improve the website.
  • To respond to your enquiries and provide supporter care.
  • To comply with legal and accounting obligations.

3. Legal bases

We process personal data to perform our agreement with you (processing your donation), for our legitimate interests in running the programme, to comply with the law, and (for analytics cookies) on the basis of your consent.

4. Sharing your information

We share data only with service providers who help us operate (payment processing, email delivery, hosting), and where required by law. We do not sell your personal information.

5. Data retention

Donation and receipt records are kept for as long as required by tax and accounting rules. Account data is kept until you ask us to delete it.

6. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, and object to certain processing. Contact us at info@westernregionalymca.org.

7. Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information, including encryption in transit and hashed passwords. No method of transmission is completely secure.

8. Children

This website is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

9. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date above shows when it last changed.

10. Contact

Western Regional YMCA (Green Futures Initiative)
Western Region, Ghana
info@westernregionalymca.org

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