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Privacy Policy

This policy describes how DI MI PA BÔS collects, uses and protects your personal data when you interact with this website.

Last updated: 27 May 2026

1. Data controller

The controller of your personal data is DI MI PA BÔS (Non-Governmental Organisation), tax identification number 910324840, with its registered office in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

For any question regarding the processing of your data, you can contact us at privacidade@ongdimipabos.org.

2. Personal data collected

We only collect the data necessary to operate the services made available on this website, as indicated in the forms we provide. Specifically, we may collect:

  • Identification and contact data voluntarily provided in forms (name, email address, phone, message).
  • Data associated with donations, where applicable, processed directly by the payment service provider that may be engaged.
  • Technical data automatically collected by our infrastructure provider (IP address, browser type, access date and time), exclusively for security and site operation purposes.

3. Purposes and legal basis

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To respond to contact requests, volunteer applications and partnership proposals submitted through the website's forms (performance of pre-contractual steps and legitimate interest).
  • To process donations, issue receipts and comply with related legal and accounting obligations (compliance with legal obligation and contract performance).
  • To ensure the security, integrity and technical operation of the website (legitimate interest).

4. Sub-processors

To provide our services we rely on suppliers acting as sub-processors, bound by contractual obligations of confidentiality and data protection:

  • Cloudflare, Inc., for hosting, distribution and security of the website and its digital assets.
  • A payment service provider, to be announced in due course, for the processing of electronic donations.

5. International data transfers

Some of our sub-processors are based outside Guinea-Bissau and the European Economic Area, in particular in the United States of America. Whenever international data transfers occur, we ensure that they are carried out on the basis of appropriate safeguards, in particular the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, where applicable.

6. Data retention

Your personal data is kept only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or for the legally required period. Messages sent through the website's forms are kept for as long as needed for their processing and historical archive, and may be deleted at the data subject's request. Records associated with donations are kept for the periods required by the applicable accounting and tax legislation.

7. Your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

  • Right to access your personal data.
  • Right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure of data, in the cases provided for by law.
  • Right to restrict and object to processing, in the cases legally permitted.
  • Right to data portability, where applicable.
  • Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

8. Cookies

This website uses only cookies and similar technologies strictly necessary for its operation, and does not use advertising or behavioural tracking cookies that require prior consent. For statistical purposes we use a cookieless analytics solution (PostHog), hosted in the European Union and configured without cookies, without storage on your device and without collecting your IP address. For more details, see our Cookie Policy.

9. Contact

To exercise your rights or clarify any question about the processing of your personal data, contact us at privacidade@ongdimipabos.org or, alternatively, contact@ongdimipabos.org. We undertake to respond without undue delay and, in any case, within the legally applicable deadlines.

10. Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated at any time to reflect legal, technical or operational changes. The version in force is always the one published on this page, identified by the last updated date shown at the top.

See also our Terms and Conditions.