Yegna.com has been created and owned by Girl Effect. Girl effect is committed to respecting the privacy and security of your personal information. The following Privacy Policy describes the information we collect via this website and how we use it. By using this website, you consent to our Privacy Policy. We collect information (“data”) about you to help you make the most of 'Yegna' and our related products. When we collect your data, we ensure that it is kept securely, and we always respect your privacy.
If you use our 'Yegna' website, regardless of your geographical location, we will collect and store certain information about you. This information includes a user name (of your choice), your age, your gender, your password, and your security questions. If you participate in commenting, polls and surveys, or competitions, we will also store that information.
We may collect geographical information about which country or state you are from when you are using 'Yegna' and related products. In addition, through more technical methods, such as Cookies, we may also collect further information about your location (for example your village or town). (A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your computer or smartphone when you access a website. It allows the website to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions).
We use Cookies to keep track of things such as how many people from your general location have used the site. We would never use location information to locate you or find your home unless you have been specifically asked for this and have given us your explicit consent.
When participating in polls and surveys, we may ask you to share information about yourself and your life or to tell us about your opinions and experiences. You can choose what information you would like to share. We will use this to help us make sure we are giving YEGNA the best service and the most useful kinds of information.
Sometimes, you may engage in a conversation on ‘yegna’ website or our other products. When you make comments on the site, you have the option to post your comments anonymously. When commenting, you may offer up information about yourself, your hobbies, family, things that happened to you, things you would like to do, your thoughts and feelings. We will always do our best to monitor these comments to make sure anything that may be inappropriate can be removed. But please remember that it is your responsibility not to share personal information which may identify you when commenting on Yegna website. We use the information provided in comments to better understand what topics and stories people using ‘yegna; website are interested in and how Yegna uses information shared through our products in their daily lives.
The first group of people who may see any of the data we have collected from you are Girl Effect staff (and those working on behalf of Girl Effect) - all of whom have signed agreements confirming they will keep your information confidential and who are required to follow very strict guidelines around privacy and security. Our staff is carefully selected, trained and very committed to you as members of the Yegna community.
You can ask us to completely delete all the data we have about you, this may mean you will no longer be able to use all our services. This is also called your Right to be Forgotten. If we do not have a very good reason to keep any of your information, we are happy to delete it all. However, there are times when we use your information for statistical or research purposes or to help Girl Effect achieve its goal of empowering girls. In these cases, we will not delete all of your data, we will just remove all the factors which may identify you (also called ‘personally identifiable information’) and keep the rest for our use as anonymized data (meaning that it is not possible to identify you). We will tell you if we do this. You can email us on dataprotection@girleffect.org to ask for your data to be deleted or if you have any other questions about your data.
You can also ask to receive a copy of the data we hold about you, should we have any, or for us to correct any of the information. These are also called your Right to Access and Right to Rectification. We will try our best to respond to requests within one month of confirming your identity. Please email us on dataprotection@girleffect.org and we will send you a form to complete so we know exactly what you would like us to do.
If you are at all unhappy with the way we manage your data, you can always contact us on dataprotection@girleffect.org and we will do our best to respond to you as soon as we can, (and always within a month).
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