Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting BHA.org.  At  Better Health Care for Africa, Inc., we are always doing our best to provide privacy and security of information that you share with us online at our website  and via any e-communications and social networks.  We urge you to also take steps to protect the privacy of your personal information, such as  safeguarding  your passwords and logging off of the website after submitting personal  information.  This privacy policy is designed to help you keep you and your  information safe while you are visiting our website while also providing you  with information about security measures, precautions and legal requirements to  secure your information.

We Protect Your  Information
Our website has a number of security measures in place to  protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our  control.  Our websites  and technology have restricted access limited only to  authorized staff.  This access applies to all electronic and physical security  measures. Highly sensitive data including credit card information is  additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket  Layer (SSL) protocol. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment  and are monitored on a continuing basis.

How We Gather Information From Users
How we collect and store information depends on the page  you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. You can visit many pages on our site without providing any  information. Other pages may prompt you to provide information, such as when you  register for access to portions of our site, sign up for membership, request  certain features (e.g., e-newsletters, news updates and other  products).

How Do We Use the Information You Provide?
At Better Health Care for Africa, Inc., and all associated web sites & projects, we may ask for your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.  We will use your e-mail address to provide you news and information about BHA and include a periodic e-Newsletter,  event invitations & updates, urgent news of interest, or for  fundraising  support.

Contributing Money Online
Better Health Care for Africa, Inc., is a non-profit organization and registered as a 501 (c)3 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Contributions to BHA Inc., are  tax-deductible.   We recommend that you keep all contribution receipts on hand for tax preparation  and for your accountant or tax preparer.  Better Health Care for Africa Inc.,  will not disclose the identity of its donors.

We  Keep Your IP Addresses Safe
We may or may not keep track of your IP address, which is the location of your computer or network on the Internet, for systems administration purposes. We also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site.  There is no personal identifiable information  collected in our log files.

Subscribing to Email Communications
Better Health Care for Africa Inc., will provide to its website users the option to subscribe to Email Communications, often referred to as e-communications, e-newsletters, e-updates or email solicitations.  Better Health Care for Africa, Inc., is not responsible  for the subscription email address submitted by any user or  subscriber to the  BHA database(s).  Better Health Care for Africa Inc., however, has the right  to use discretion when communicating, by all means, to the email account  provided by any user or subscriber.  Better Health Care for Africa Inc., will  do its best to protect users from spam subscriptions.  If you feel you have been  improperly subscribed to Better Health Care for Africa Inc., please see  “Unsubscribing from Email Communications” in this privacy  policy.

Unsubscribing from Email Communications
If you wish to unsubscribe from our communications, please click on the link “Unsubscribe” at the bottom every mass email communication or you may request an unsubscribe by emailing Insert  address here.  We will process these requests to the best of our ability to  comply with legal requirements, however, our contributor records will be continuously maintained in a separate secure database.

Affiliated Sites, Linked Sites and Advertisements
Better Health Care for Africa   Inc., expects its partners, potential advertisers and third-party affiliates to respect the privacy of its users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through  our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices.

While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of  your preferences or retrieve information about you.  Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose personally Identifiable Information on our site, that information may be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control Better Health Care for Africa, Inc., and this policy.

Contacting Us

Our site links to a limited number  of other websites such as media, blogs and other websites of interest to supporters of Better Health Care for Africa, Inc.  Better Health Care for Africa, Inc., is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites, however, we do our best to ensure that we are leading you to responsible and credible content.  For questions or for general contact,