Privacy Policy

Healthy Minds Initiative respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Data. This policy explains what we collect through this website and how we use it.

Personal Data you provide

When you contact us, we collect your name, email address, optional phone number, and message. A volunteer application may include your name, email, how you heard about us, motivation, languages, residence, expertise, student status, skills, platforms, credentials, optional CV, and additional comments.

Online donations are temporarily unavailable while we move to a new donation system. This policy will be updated before online giving resumes.

Data we collect automatically

Our hosting and security services may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, requested pages, date and time, and diagnostic information needed to deliver and protect the site.

How we use your Personal Data

We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to, including:

• To respond to your questions and requests.
• To review and manage volunteer applications.
• To send updates you requested.
• To operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve our website.
• To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.
• Where necessary for our legitimate interests and where your rights do not override those interests.

Sharing of your Personal Data

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us host the site, store submissions, communicate with you, or operate our programs. They may use it only to provide those services and must protect it appropriately. We may also disclose information when required by law. We do not sell your Personal Data.

Keeping your Personal Data secure

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to prevent Personal Data from being accidentally lost, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. Access is limited to people and providers with a legitimate need.

Retention periods

We retain Personal Data only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, reporting, and program administration requirements. When it is no longer needed, we delete or anonymize it.

Children

This website is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 13.

Access to and control over your Personal Data

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, restriction of, or a copy of your Personal Data, and to object to certain uses or withdraw consent. To make a request, email contact@healthymindsinitiative.org. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

Change of purpose

We use Personal Data only for the purposes for which it was collected unless we reasonably determine that another use is compatible. If we need to use it for an unrelated purpose, we will explain the legal basis and notify you when required.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our services or legal obligations change. The date above shows when it was last reviewed.