Privacy policy

Howrah South Point is an Indian NGO founded in 1976 by Father François Laborde to help the most underprivileged children, especially disabled children.
In order to continue our work in the 9 children's homes, 11 schools, visits and assistance to the poorest families, we collect donations and maintain regular communication with each donor.

Howrah South Point is committed to ensuring the protection of personal data collected via this website and/or through any digital or paper medium. This Privacy Policy details how Howrah South Point, in its capacity as data controller, processes and protects your personal data collected in accordance with the provisions of the French Law of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, known as the "Loi Informatique et Libertés", and the European Data Protection Regulation of 25 May 2018 ("GDPR").

However, Howrah South Point is not responsible for the processing carried out by the social networks themselves when users visit their pages.
Everyone is invited to consult the privacy policies of the social networks themselves to find out about their practices in this regard, and to configure their profile to guarantee their privacy.

Data collected
Howrah South Point collects information that you provide directly to us.
This is particularly the case when you contact Howrah South Point via the contact address hsouthpoint@gmail.com or any other address or means of communication indicated on the website, when you make a donation or subscribe to the newsletter.
Howrah South Point also collects your browsing data via cookies used during your browsing, for the sole purpose of improving the navigation of the site and the information that is offered. To deactivate the collection of cookies, we invite you to configure your browser accordingly.
Finally, Howrah South Point has access to the public profile data of users who interact with its Pages on social networks. This data is only used by Howrah South Point within the social network concerned and is not included in any file.
 
Use of data
Howrah South Point uses your personal data primarily for the following purposes

• To provide the information you have requested from us, including: information about our mission and projects, support actions, sending newsletters.

• To solicit your commitment, including: sollicitation for donations and volunteers.

• To ensure the administrative management of donations, in particular: management of direct debits and sending of tax receipts.

• Collecting data for statistical purposes, in particular: analysing the activity of our site and improving the products and services that we offer (by means of cookies).

Data processing
Your personal data will be processed by Howrah South Point and its partners in a secure environment. It will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purposes for which you provided it to us. For example, personal data provided to make a donation will be used to process that donation; personal data provided to receive the newsletter or other information will be used to fulfill that request.
 

Data retention
We will only keep your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed.

Contact for a request to exercise rights
If you have any questions about our data retention and processing policy, please contact us at the following e-mail address: hsouthpoint@gmail.com