Privacy Policy
Last updated 11 July 2021.
We, the Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education (FCE : that is Foundation 4 Cross-Cultural Education in South Africa), and its partners, (Foundation for Cross-cultural Education in Zambia, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia), place great importance on the security of your data. We commit ourselves to protect the privacy of every person using our services, and to treat our personal data as highly confidential.
You may visit our website without providing your personal data. During your website visit, we only save access data containing any personal details. The data is solely assessed to improve our website services and does not allow insight into your identity.
Personal data is only saved during your visit to our website if you voluntarily submit it to us, for example, by using our online contact form or by sending us an application through our application form.
COLLECTING AND USING PERSONAL DATA
If we have your contact details, this also means we might have been told about you, or someone might have connected us to you or given us your contact details. We consider having a legitimate interest to process this data, but you may be assured that your name and other details will be secure in our systems and will not be shared with anyone outside FCE. You can also ask us at any time to delete this data. If we feel you have an interest in hearing from us, we will contact you to inquire if you would be interested in certain training events we present.
You also have the possibility to submit your data through our website, for example through the online contact form or Application Form. Entry of this data is explicitly done on a voluntary basis.
In all our application procedures (when applicants approach us) the applications will go through the same process. All candidates submit their Applications via FCE’s online system. When doing this, they give written consent that we may store and review personal data.
We use the application data we receive from potential candidates only to evaluate and process their application. This personal data shall be treated confidentially and shall be used solely for its intended purpose according to the respective valid data protection provisions and shall not be forwarded to a third party outside our organisation (Foundation 4 Cross-cultural Education, South Africa) without consent.
After Acceptance, your personal data will remain in our database, unless you request us, in writing, to delete the data. The purpose for storing the data is for statistics, future enquiries on your training with us, re-issuing of certificates/Diplomas/Degrees and marketing of future FCE training events or sharing FCE’s Newsletter / monthly Prayer Calendar.
For our marketing purposes, we only use data of potential clients that are publicly available, or data provided by our clients, based on legitimate interest ground.
TRANSMISSION OF DATA TO A THIRD COUNTRY
During an application process it may be the case that we have to transmit your personal data to a FCE partner in a country whose data protection laws are inferior to those in South Africa. In those instances, we will do our best to offer a substantially similar protection of personal data shared with us.
DATA SECURITY
We put special emphasis to employ technical and organisational measures in order to safeguard our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, changes or the distribution of your data by unauthorized persons, taking into account the risks appropriate to each dataset or data-processing activity.
However, please note that notwithstanding our best efforts, complete data security and protection against all risks are not possible.
DATA RETENTION
We will keep your Personal Data only for the purposes for which they are processed as explained under “COLLECTING AND USING PERSONAL DATA”.
RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECT
You always have the right to get information about the ways in which we process your data, to obtain a copy of the personal data being processed by us, as well as the right to request that it be corrected or erased (the right to be forgotten). Under certain circumstances, you may also object to processing, or ask that processing of your data be restricted, or that it be transmitted directly to another controller (data portability). You may always withdraw consent previously given to us.
In accordance with applicable laws, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.
USE OF COOKIES
We use web browser cookies on different pages to make our website more user-friendly, attractive and secure, and to enable the use of specific functions, especially to remember language settings or to enhance security on forms. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer. Some cookies may remain on your device and enable us to recognise your browser during your next visit (persistent cookies). You may adjust your browser settings in such a way that you will be informed about the issuing of cookies and, in each case, may decide on the acceptance or principal exclusion of cookies. Please note the functionality of our website may be limited through this.
WEB ANALYSIS THROUGH SQUARESPACE AND GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This website uses Squarespace for statistical analysis. For this, cookies transmit text files, user activity logs (including a log of your abbreviated IP address) to the server and store them for user analytics after anonymisation. Squarespace’s privacy policy is available here.
You can block the installation of cookies by changing a setting in your browser software; however, please be aware that, if you block cookies, you might not have full use of all functionalities of this website.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available here.
You can block the cookies customizing your browser: in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. In Chrome (version 41), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data
YOUTUBE
We use video streaming services of YouTube (Google LLC, D/B/A YouTube, 901 Cherry Ave San Bruno, CA 94066, USA) when embedding videos. When embedding videos the server of the providers is activated.
To learn more about the purpose and extent of data collection, processing and the use of this data by YouTube as well as your relevant rights and settings available for the protection of your privacy, please refer to Google’s privacy policy, which is available here
RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT
If you have any questions about this Privacy and Cookies Policy, our data protection practices or the practices of this site, you can contact us by sending us an email to admin1@fce.org.za