PRIVACY POLICY

 The Responsible Finance Forum is a forum managed by the Center for Financial Inclusion (hereinafter, “CFI”, “we”, or “us”), an initiative housed at Accion International. CFI created this policy and terms to demonstrate its firm commitment to your privacy and to outline the terms applicable to your use of the website located at www.responsiblefinanceforum.org.

This policy and terms are your guide to how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website and how to use the website appropriately.

Information Collected by Us and How We Use It

We may collect various types of personal information when you use our website or when you voluntarily provide us with your personal information, such as personal information submitted by you through our website when you submit an online form, register for an event, sign up for a mailing list or personal information submitted by you through email.

Examples of personal information that we may collect include contact information you provide, such as name, email address, zip/postal codes, mailing address, phone number, job title, company/organization name; information submitted by you related to your company/organization’s inclusive finance and/or impact investing activities, financial and social performance data, case studies, survey responses, and media contact details; communications data, including information provided by you about your subscription preferences; user data and usage information collected by our website, such as IP address, date and time of access, location, technical data and other information regarding your visit and use of our website.

We may use your personal information for a number of purposes and activities, such as to send you periodic communications with information about our events, programs and services or general financial inclusion developments; to access tools, publications, and resources; to manage event registration and participation; to support your participation in surveys, benchmarking activities, or messaging forums; to analyze and improve our website and our communications; to comply with our legal obligations; and to respond to your requests or inquiries. You may always opt out of receiving communications; see the “Opt Out” section below.

We use your personal information only where necessary to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations; where necessary to pursue our legitimate interests, provided that your fundamental rights and freedoms do not outweigh that interest; or where you have provided your consent, which can be withdrawn at any time. Our legitimate interest in processing your data is to promote and support our work to create a financially inclusive world through rigorous research and advocacy to advance inclusive financial systems for low-income people around the world.

Cookies

As with many other internet sites, we collect certain information in the form of “cookies” to understand how users use our website. Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and storied on a visitor’s web browser. Cookies may be used to gather information that will help us personalize your experience on our website and to customize and improve the content and layout.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to refuse to accept cookies if you prefer. We use Google Analytics and other third-party plug-ins to tailor our content to our visitors. For more information about how Google Analytics uses your information, please consult Google’s Privacy and Terms. You can always opt-out of Google Analytics cookies through Google’s opt-out page.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information for the purposes described in this policy and terms with our affiliates, project and funding partners related to this website, consultants, vendors and service providers, subject to applicable confidentiality and data protection obligations. We will never rent, trade or sell your e-mail address or other personal information for commercial purposes.

Opt-Out

Our e-mail marketing platform provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us through a special Email Subscriptions / Preferences form. You may choose to receive only specific communications or none at all.

Third-Party Sites

We work with a number of third-party vendors to provide special features, such as our marketing platform, and our website may allow you to “click” over to the other websites. This policy and terms do not cover the collection methods or use of information collected by third-party websites, even if our name and logo appear on the screen. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of the third-party before you use any services they offer.

Rights Regarding Your Information

You may request access to, correction or deletion of your personal information held by us. We will consider any such request seriously and promptly, although we may choose not to delete information where it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, or we otherwise have a substantial need to retain your information. You may also have rights to restrict or to object to processing of your data and to portability of your data to other service providers. You may exercise any of these rights by contacting us as described below.

Retention of Information

We keep personal information, in a form which permits us to identify you, for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or until consent to hold your information is revoked, provided that there is no other basis for us to hold the information, such as to comply with our legal obligations, protect and defend ourselves against legal claims, or it is not technically reasonably feasible to remove it.

Use of Links

Throughout our website, we may provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers.

Creating a text link from your website to our site does not require permission. If you have a link you’d like us to consider adding to our website, please send an email to center@accion.org with the subject “Link request.”

Use of Text and Images

If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, please send your request to center@accion.org. The use of our logo, images, texts and related materials is protected and requires permission. Where text or images are posted on our site with the permission of the original copyright holder, a copyright statement appears at the bottom of the photo or page.

Accessibility

This website is designed to be accessible to visitors with disabilities, and to comply with federal guidelines concerning accessibility. We welcome your comments. If you have suggestions on how to make the website more accessible, please contact us at center@accion.org.

Kids and Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children or knowingly allow such persons to provide us with their personal information. In the event we learn that we collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13 we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at center@accion.org.

Updates

Our privacy policy may change occasionally, and we will endeavor to inform you of any major changes. Each time you use our website the current version of the policy will apply. You may always review our current policy on our website at www.responsiblefinanceforum.org.

Last Updated March 2022