Global Health Innovative Technology Fund ("us", "we", "our", or “GHIT Fund”) operates the https://www.ghitfund.org/ website (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service.

Information Collection and Use

Types of Personal Data Collected

“Personal Data” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• • Identity Data including [first name and last name]
• • Contact Data including [email address]
• • Usage Data including [internet protocol (IP) address, browser types and versions, operating system and platform, data about the devices you use to access the Service, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages]
• • Marketing and Communications Data including [your preferences in receiving newsletters, marketing and promotional material from us]

How we Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• • Your interactions with us. You may give us your Personal Data by [filling in online forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide when you contact us via the “Contact Us” page or when you subscribe to our newsletter.]
• • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Service, we will automatically collect Usage Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

Use of Personal Data

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, the law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your Personal Data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• • Performance of a contract with you: Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• • Legitimate interests: We may use your Personal Data where it is necessary to conduct our business and pursue our legitimate interests, for example to prevent fraud and enable us to give you the best and most secure user experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights (both positive and negative) before we process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your Personal Data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
• • Legal obligation: We may use your Personal Data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.
• • Consent: We rely on consent only where we have obtained your active agreement to use your Personal Data for a specified purpose, for example if you subscribe to a newsletter.

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use the various categories of your Personal Data, and if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Purpose/Use	Type of Personal Data	Legal basis
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy (b) Dealing with your requests, complaints and queries	(a) Identity (b) Contact	Performance of a contract with you Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Necessary for our legitimate interests (to help users with requests, complaints and queries)
To provide you with our newsletter and/or other promotional and marketing materials	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing and Communications	Consent
We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Data so that it will no longer be considered Personal Data. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we use to improve our Services	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing and Communications (d) Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how our Service is used and to help us improve and develop our Service)
To detect, prevent and address technical issues.	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, to provide users of the Service with a seamless experience, to ensure network security and to prevent fraud)

Opting out of Marketing

You can ask to stop sending you newsletters and other marketing and promotional materials at any time by following the opt-out links within any marketing communication we send to you or by contacting us by email info@ghitfund.org.

Retention of Data

GHIT Fund will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Service to you (for example, for as long as you have agreed to receive newsletters from us).
• • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them).
• • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as regard to applicable statutes of limitation, litigation or regulatory investigations).

Disclosure of Personal Data

Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties

We may share your Personal Data to:

• • Our service providers who provide services such as data analytics, information technology and related infrastructure provision, platform hosting, customer service, product development, auditing, advisory and other services.
• • A third party in the event of reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our, or any of our Affiliates’, business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

We may also use or disclose Personal Data, as necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our Terms and Conditions, available at https://www.ghitfund.org/general/termsofuse/en ; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, property or safety, and/or that of other users of our Service, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data

Your Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Japan, please note that your Personal Data is transferred to Japan and processed there. If you are located in the EEA or the UK, please note that Japan is currently recognized by the European Commission and the UK as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA and UK standards. [For transfers from the EEA or UK to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission or the UK, we have put in place adequate measures, such as [standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission or the UK (as applicable)] to protect your Personal Data. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us using the contact details below.]

Safeguarding your Personal Data

Security of Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

"Do Not Track" Signals

We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.]

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. GHIT Fund aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to exercise these rights.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
• The right of rectification. You have the right to have your Personal Data rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data.
• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the Personal Data we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format and/or have your Personal Data transferred to a third party in such a format.
• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where GHIT Fund relied on your consent to process your Personal Data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us (see Contact details below).

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

You have the right to lodge a complaint about our collection and use of your Personal Data with a data protection authority for your country or region where you have your habitual residence or place of work, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. A list of the EEA data protection authorities is available here. The contact details of the UK data protection authority can be found here.

Analytics

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").
We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

GIHT Fund is responsible for Personal Data used under this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy, or how we process your Personal Data, please contact us at:
By email: info@ghitfund.org