Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 2026
1. Who We Are
The Friendship Christian Organisation (FCO) is a community-based grassroots organisation located in Nkoma, Katalyeba Town Council, Kamwenge District, Uganda (Registration No. 084/NKTC/25). Our website address is: https://friendshipug.net. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled safely and responsibly.
2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
- Contact Forms & Communications: When you reach out to us via contact forms, email, or other communication methods, we collect your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. We use this solely to respond to your inquiries and manage our programs.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
- Cookies: If you leave a comment or log in to our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again. We also use temporary cookies to manage login sessions and screen display choices.
- Analytics: We may collect non-personally identifiable data regarding website usage (such as pages visited and time spent on the site) to help us improve our website and outreach efforts.
3. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
4. Who We Share Your Data With
FCO respects your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to outside organizations. We may share necessary information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our work, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
5. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically. For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments and form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.