admin@cwfoundation.in
Effective Date: 17.08.2026
Last Updated: 17.08.2026
Care and Welfare Foundation ("Foundation", "we", "us", or "our") respects the privacy of visitors, donors, volunteers, beneficiaries, applicants, supporters, and other individuals who interact with us.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, processed, stored, and protected when you visit or interact with www.cwfoundation.in.
Depending on how you interact with the website, we may collect information such as:
This may include:
When registering as a volunteer, we may collect information required to coordinate volunteer activities, such as name, contact details, educational or professional information where relevant, areas of interest, availability, location or preferred activity area, and emergency contact information where required for an activity.
When making a donation, we may collect information necessary for processing and acknowledging the donation, including donor name, contact information, donation amount, transaction reference or acknowledgement details, PAN, or other information where required for legal, accounting, reporting, or tax purposes.
Payment credentials such as card numbers, CVV numbers, UPI PINs, passwords, or banking credentials should not be submitted to the Foundation through ordinary website forms.
Payments may be processed through authorised third-party payment service providers.
If you contact us by email, website forms, telephone, messaging services, or other communication channels, we may retain information necessary to respond to your enquiry and maintain appropriate organisational records.
When you access the website, certain technical information may be automatically collected, depending on our hosting, analytics, security, and website technologies.
This may include IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, approximate location information, pages visited, date and time of access, referring website, and technical logs.
We may use collected information for legitimate organisational purposes, including:
Online donations may be processed through third-party payment gateways or payment service providers.
When you make a payment, your information may be processed by the relevant payment provider according to its own terms and privacy policy.
The Foundation does not request or intentionally collect sensitive payment authentication information such as UPI PINs, card PINs, internet banking passwords, or OTPs.
You should never share such credentials with Foundation representatives through email, telephone, WhatsApp, forms, or any other communication channel.
The website may use cookies or similar technologies to improve website functionality, understand visitor behaviour, maintain security, and provide a better browsing experience.
Cookies may be used for website functionality, session management, security, analytics, website performance, and remembering preferences.
You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
We do not intend to sell or rent personal information to third parties.
Information may be shared with trusted service providers where reasonably necessary to operate the Foundation's activities, including payment processors, website hosting providers, IT and technology service providers, email or communication service providers, accounting and professional service providers, event or programme service providers, and government or regulatory authorities where legally required.
Such sharing will be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
We may disclose information where required or permitted by applicable law, including where necessary to comply with a legal obligation, respond to a lawful request from an authority, protect the rights or property of the Foundation, prevent fraud or misuse, protect the safety of individuals, or investigate suspected unlawful activity.
We take reasonable organisational and technical measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, no internet-based system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should never share passwords, OTPs, UPI PINs, card PINs, or banking credentials with anyone claiming to represent the Foundation.
We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including organisational, accounting, donation, legal, regulatory, audit, dispute-resolution, and reporting requirements.
When information is no longer required, it may be deleted, anonymised, or securely disposed of, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
Our programmes may involve children and young people as beneficiaries.
Information relating to children will be handled with particular care and, where applicable, appropriate consent or authorisation will be obtained from parents, guardians, institutions, or authorised persons.
We do not intend for children to provide sensitive personal information through the website without appropriate adult involvement or consent where required.
As part of our social-impact activities, the Foundation may document programmes through photographs, videos, testimonials, stories, and other materials.
Where required, appropriate consent or permission will be obtained before using identifiable information for public communication, subject to applicable law and organisational practices.
If you believe that your photograph, name, testimonial, or other identifiable information has been published inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the concern.
Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to those external websites.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of any external website they visit.
The Foundation may maintain pages or profiles on social-media platforms.
Interactions with those platforms may be governed by the privacy policies and terms of the respective platforms.
Information publicly shared by users on such platforms may be visible to others depending on the user's privacy settings.
Subject to applicable law, you may contact us regarding your personal information and request appropriate action where applicable.
Depending on the circumstances and legal requirements, you may request:
Certain information may need to be retained to comply with legal, accounting, tax, audit, or other obligations.
If you receive newsletters, campaign updates, volunteer communications, or other non-essential communications from us, you may request to stop receiving such communications.
However, certain essential communications relating to donations, receipts, transactions, registrations, or organisational matters may still be sent where necessary.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.
Changes will be published on this page along with the revised "Last Updated" date.
For questions, requests, or complaints relating to this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact:
Care and Welfare FoundationWe will make reasonable efforts to review and respond to legitimate privacy-related requests.
By using www.cwfoundation.in, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy and the manner in which information may be handled as described above.