Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Beacon Heart Foundation (BHF) is a Ghanaian non-profit organisation dedicated to improving healthcare access, empowering women, and driving sustainable development. Our registered contact is info@beaconheartfoundation.org.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information only when you voluntarily provide it — for example, when you:

• Submit a volunteer application (name, email, phone, address, interests)
• Send a partnership enquiry (organisation name, contact name, email, phone)
• Sign up for our newsletter (name, email)
• Contact us directly via email or phone

We do not collect any information automatically beyond standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages visited), which are used solely for security and performance monitoring.

3. How We Use Your Information

Your information is used solely to:

• Respond to your enquiry or volunteer application
• Send you the newsletter you subscribed to
• Contact you about volunteering or partnership opportunities
• Improve our website and services

We will never sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the basis of your consent (given when you submit a form) and our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries related to our charitable mission.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by law. Volunteer applications and partnership enquiries are retained for up to 2 years. Newsletter subscriber records are retained until you unsubscribe.

6. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Withdraw consent at any time (e.g. unsubscribe from our newsletter)

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@beaconheartfoundation.org.

7. Cookies & Analytics

This website uses Vercel Analytics (privacy-friendly, no cookies) and optionally Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our site. Google Analytics may use cookies. You can opt out by using a browser extension such as the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

8. Third-Party Services

We use Resend to deliver emails from our web forms. Your submitted data is transmitted securely and is not stored by Resend beyond email delivery.

9. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss, or misuse. Our website is served over HTTPS.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects when the policy was last revised. Continued use of our website after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at info@beaconheartfoundation.org or call us on +233 (0) 20 244 2426.