The DKE Foundation Privacy Policy

PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT?…

COMMENTS ….

If visitors are able to leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address & browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available on their website.

Website Address: https://www.automattic.com/privacy/

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

MEDIA …

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

CONTACT FORMS …

We collect your personal information, for example, when you apply for the DKEF Scholarship, provide us with references and when you tell us about yourself.

COOKIES …

If you are able to leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit or go to our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

If you are able to log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you are to edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES …

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH? …

Companies choose how they share your personal information.  Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing and require DKEF to inform you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information.

For our everyday business purposes, such as processing your Scholarship Application, DKEF may share your information as necessary. If we are required to respond to court orders, government inquiry, security & safely matters or legal investigations, DKEF will strive to limit the types and amount of information we may need to share to that which is reasonably necessary.

We may share your information with non-affiliates such as technology service providers (software) but only during the course of everyday business practices. By default, WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone.

We will never use your personal data to advertise, promote or market third-party goods or services to you nor do we sell any personal data to third parties for their own commercial use.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA? …

If you are able to leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA? …

Federal law gives you the right to limit only the sharing of data for affiliates’ everyday business purposes, affiliates from using your information to market you, and sharing for non-affiliates to market you. State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA? …

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION …

By giving us your contact information, you agree to be contacted by DKEF for the purpose(s) for which you authorized. You may “opt-out” or unsubscribe at any time and receive no further communication from DKEF by contacting us in writing. We will retain your contact information to ensure we do not contact you again.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION …

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA? …

In order to protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative security measures that comply with Federal Law. These measures include computer safeguards and protected files including, but not limited to, secure, monitored communication through emails or texts, two factor access authorization to systems using randomized codes, using technology like firewalls and intrusion detection, and with secure connections to the internet by using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Our website also uses a SSL Certificate (data encryption), reCAPTCHA (anti spam and abuse) technology and honeypot field technology (designed to catch spammers).

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and, to the fullest extent possible by law, DKEF disclaims any warranty or guarantee that your information will be protected from misuse, appropriation, alteration or loss as we can not guarantee third parties will not overcome these measures and gain access to your information.

WHAT THIRD PARTIES WE RECEIVE DATA FROM? …

DKEF is a private, nonprofit charitable Foundation which currently has no other interests, affiliates or subsidiaries, and we do not currently receive or purchase data from any third parties at present.

However, during the processing of your Application, it may be necessary to ask for your authorization to obtain verification of your GPA and your full-time enrollment status from the appropriate third party source. We reserve the right to do so and would make it clear why and what interests are relevant at that point and time.

(DTD 2024 JANUARY 20)