Privacy statement Plan Kiskeya foundation

Mission of the organisation

Reuniting family members from Haiti through DNA kinship research. Reunification is understood to mean: establishing biological family relationships and bringing relatives into contact with each other.

Vision 

We realize that you share a lot of personal information on our website. This is what it takes in order to reunite people. We will handle your data in a careful and responsible manner.

In this privacy statement you can read how Plan Kiskeya handles your personal data.The  statement is made up of various chapters

1. What are personal data?
2. For what purpose do we process your personal data?
3. How do we handle your personal data?
4. When will your data be shared?

Personal data? 

Personal data is information that is directly about a person or information that can be traced back to this person. Examples of personal data are a home address, telephone number and email address.

Special personal data

Some personal data are extra sensitive, because their processing may have a great impact on someone's life. Data referring to a person's race, religion or health are examples of special personal data. This data is extra protected by law. Personal data of children and criminal data are always sensitive and therefore always receive extra protection.

For what purpose do we process your personal data?

• For the reunification of family members.
• For passing on the request for a DNA test

How do we handle your data?

• We only process your personal data if we have your permission
• We will process as little data as possible from you.
• We will not keep your data longer than necessary to achieve the purpose for which you provided the personal data.
  • After creating an account, the data are stored for 1 year. Annually, you are actively asked by email whether the data should be stored or deleted. The data will be saved if there is no response. 
  • If you have found family members, we will delete your data at your request.

We protect your personal data in the following way:

• We protect your personal data with technical and organizational security measures to minimize the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, provision and changes. Our safeguards include firewalls, data encryption and authorization management for information access.
• We will only share your personal data at your request.

Your rights:

• View,  correct, delete, process less data.
  • You can change your data yourself by changing your profile.
  • You can have your account deleted by sending us an email. Your account will be deleted within 4 weeks.
  • We do not have any more data about you than you indicated on your profile.
  • If you want less data in your profile, you can adjust that yourself

Consent

I give consent to the Dutch Foundation Plan Kiskeya for the processing of my personal data for the purposes described above and under the conditions set out in this form. My consent explicitly covers: 

1. Giving consent to the processing of (special categories of) personal data.
2. Declaring that I am at least 18 years old at the time of agreeing, or that I am younger than 18 and have the consent of my parent/guardian.
3. The provision and transfer of special categories of personal data to our local partners in Haiti, under the appropriate safeguards described in this form. I understand that this consent specifically applies to special categories of personal data and that, without my explicit consent, such data will not be disclosed to third parties.

Please refer to this document for a complete overview of our terms and conditions.