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Privacy Statement

GOAL USA Inc. (“GOAL”) is committed to protecting the privacy of your information.

This Privacy Statement for GOAL ("GOAL", we", "ourselves" or "us"), a company registered in the United States of America as a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization the United States of America under EIN Number 13-3492792, having its registered office at 1310 L Street NW Washington, DC, USA explains how we collect, use, and disclose information provided by users of our website, (www.goalus.org), applications, services, tools and features (collectively, the “Website”). It also applies to information you provide to GOAL by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise provide to us in respect of which we are a data controller.

Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. By using one of our Websites or any mobile apps we may develop and providing your information to GOAL, you are agreeing to this Privacy Statement and its terms. This Privacy Statement should be read in conjunction with our Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Statement, please discontinue your use of the Website.

  1. Updating this Privacy Statement

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we do so, we will update the “Revised” date at the top of this page and post the changes on the Website and in this Privacy Statement. It is important that you review any of these changes and we therefore encourage users to familiarize themselves with the contents of this Privacy Statement on a regular basis. If we make material changes to the way we use the information we collect, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you and will take additional steps as required by applicable law. If you do not agree to any updates to this Privacy Statement, please do not use or access the Website.

GOAL is committed to protecting the privacy of your information and takes its obligations under applicable privacy laws seriously. We will use your information only for the purposes set forth below and in compliance with applicable laws.

  1. The Information We May Collect About You

Your support means a lot to us and, more importantly, the people who benefit from our programs overseas. We value all individuals and organizations who give their time and/or money to enable us to do the vital work we do. When you visit the Website or contact GOAL regarding a fundraising activity, campaign, to make a donation or for any other reason, you may provide us with the following information:

  • Contact Information, such as your name, date of birth, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number.
  • Financial information, such as your bank account, credit or debit card information, or billing address that you provide to us when making a donation and/or providing funding. We rely on third party payment processing software to process donations. This software is designed to be Payment Card Industry ("PCI") compliant and encrypt financial information entered online, to help ensure that third parties cannot read your payment card information while your donation is being processed.
  • Employment application information, which you voluntarily provide to us when making an application for employment with us, including but not limited to such information contained in application forms and/or CVs – if your application is unsuccessful, we may store this information for up to 12 months in order to consider you for future vacancies which may become available either with us or within the GOAL Group.
  • Survey information, which you may provide when you complete surveys that we may send you for research purposes.
  • Information relating to your visits to the Website, such as information relating to your interactions with the Website and the Service’s features collected via cookies and tracking technologies, as described further below.
  • Any other information you choose to provide, including when you communicate with us. For example, if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Certain categories of your personal data may be regarded as “sensitive” under certain privacy laws, such as government-issued identification information (including your Social Security number, driver’s license, and passport information), or information relating to physical or mental health, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, ethnic or racial origin, biometric or genetic data and sexual orientation. Where we collect sensitive data, we will only process the data in accordance with this Privacy Statement or for purposes to which you expressly consent or that are otherwise permitted under applicable law.

  1. How We Use the Information We Collect

We use the information we collect from you for the purposes described in this section.

  • To process your donation, and as relevant to request your consent for GOAL to claim tax relief on your donation.
  • To communicate with you, including to keep you updated and information about our work and how your donation is being used, and provide marketing or advertising communications about our activities.
  • To help us better understand and engage with those who are interested in learning about our services, content, and fundraising-related initiatives.
  • To provide, operate and maintain the Website, including billing and account management purposes, conduct internal research and development and analyze trends in user behavior as well as improve the technical performance and personalized experience of our Website.
  • To ensure that content on our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your devices.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including for the prevention and detection of fraud, money laundering or other crimes or for the purpose of responding to a binding request from a public authority or court.
  • To enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect the Website, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
  • To process job applications, to perform or enter into a contract with you, and/or to support our legitimate business interests in assessing job applications provided such interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

To assist us with the uses described in this Privacy Statement, information collected about you and your use of Website may be aggregated, analyzed or combined with personal or other information about you from other online or offline sources.

  1. Where We Transfer and Store Your Personal Data

Although we are registered in the United States of America (“US”), the Personal Data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination in any of the countries where our Head Quarters are located (Ireland) and where are other management offices are located (Turkey and Jordan) and our program countries (Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Niger, Iraq, Syria, Malawi, Honduras, Haiti, and Uganda). Please note that this list may change from time to time. These countries’ data privacy differ from those in the United States. We may also from time to time share information with vendors that help us to manage and process donations and credit card payments as well as fulfilling orders.

We endeavor to have standard data protection clauses with data subject’s locations where applicable as well as entering into data processing agreements and model clauses with our vendors if appropriate.  To the extent that it is necessary to transfer your data outside the US, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the privacy and integrity of such Personal Data.  Our hosting partner has adopted the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (including the UK Extension of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework.

By providing your Personal Data, you agree to this transfer, storing and/or processing.

  1. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your information to third parties in the following circumstances:

  • GOAL Group Entities: To any member of the GOAL group (including our affiliates, subsidiaries, branches, employees and liaison offices who have a business need to know), within or outside of the United States), subject to strict obligations to protect your Personal Data and process it on our behalf and under our control only.
  • Vendors or other service providers who help us provide the Website: To third parties who provide a service to us and who process Personal Data on our behalf, for example project workers, secondees, volunteers, banks, payment networks and payment processors, insurance and health providers; cloud storage; security, and advertising and web analytics partners that provide advertising and marketing services on our behalf. We generally require service provider to be bound by confidentiality provisions.
  • Advertising Partners: GOAL uses advertisers and advertising networks, including social networks that select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others. We do not disclose your Personal Data to our advertisers, but we may provide them with anonymized, aggregated information about our users in order to market our activities.
  • For legal purposes: If we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Data in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order, or in order to enforce, establish, exercise or defend legal rights, the rights, property, or safety of you, us, our group, or employees, for example to statutory and regulatory authorities and government bodies.
  • Business transaction participants: In connection with any proposed merger, acquisition, or any form of sale, restructure of our organization (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation) in which case we may disclose your Personal Data to the relevant parties.
  • Other third parties with your consent: To any other person with your consent, direction or authorization.

We may also disclose aggregated or deidentified data to third parties, where such information cannot reasonably be used to identify you.  For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our Website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our Website, or the activities that visitors to our Website engage in while on our Website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include our Website design, development and hosting contractors.

  1. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you may be able to control the way in which your devices permit the use of tracking technologies. If you choose, you may block or delete our cookies from your browser; however, blocking or deleting cookies may cause some of the Website to work incorrectly. For further information about tracking technologies and choices available to you, please read our Cookie Policy here.

  1. Third Party Websites and Links

GOAL’s site may include temporary or permanent links to other websites. If you follow a link to any of those websites, you should review their policies and other terms before you submit any Personal Data to their websites. Please note that those websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility of liability for those policies or for any content on their websites.

  1. Children

Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use our Website, and we do not seek or knowingly collect any Personal Data from children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected information about a child under 13 years of age, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.  If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their Personal Data, you may contact us using the details provided in the Contact Us section below to request that it be deleted using the below contact information.

  1. Storage of your Information

We will only retain your information for as long as we need to in order to achieve the purpose(s) for which we obtained it or for example for legal, regulatory, tax and accounting purposes.

  1. Security

Your Personal Data is protected both online and offline. Your information will be stored on a secure, computerized database designed to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction of this information.

We endeavor to protect your Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. We are committed to providing security for your information, including working with leading suppliers of secure payment services. However, despite our reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Data, no collection or data transmission over the Internet can be 100% secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any transmission and you transfer the Personal Data at your own risk.

However, we cannot guarantee that your information will be completely secure from cyberattacks, hacking, phishing, or other malicious activities that may compromise our security measures. Therefore, we disclaim any liability for any loss, damage, or harm that may result from such incidents. You acknowledge and agree that you provide your personal information at your own risk and that you are responsible for taking appropriate measures to safeguard your own devices, accounts, and passwords.

  1. Your Privacy Choices

To the extent that we are a controller of your Personal Data, and depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below with regard to collection of your Personal Data.  In each case, these rights are subject to restrictions as laid down by law and may apply only in certain circumstances.

Right to Access. The right of access enables you to receive a copy of your Personal Data, as well as details about the way in which we use and share your Personal Data.

Right to Correct. The right to correct enables you to correct any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data we hold about you.

Right to Delete. The right to delete enables you to ask us to delete your Personal Data in certain circumstances.

Objection. The right to object enables you to object to us processing your Personal Data on the basis of our legitimate interests (or those of a third party).

Right to Obtain. The right to obtain enables you to request us to transmit Personal Data that you have provided to us, to a third party without hindrance, or to give you a copy of it so that you can transmit it to a third party, where technically feasible.

Opt-Out of Communications. You can opt-out by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in any emails which we might send you or by contacting us via our email address, address or phone number provided below.

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

  1. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or the privacy and/or security of Personal Data submitted to GOAL, please email privacy@us.goal.ie.

To update your communication preferences or opt-out of communications in the future, please contact us at unsubscribe@us.goal.ie.