Data Protection Policy (DPP)
Great Lakes Initiative for Human Rights and Development (GLIHD) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Principles
- Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: We will process personal information lawfully, fairly, and transparently in accordance with individuals’ rights.
- Purpose limitation: We will collect and process personal information only for specified and legitimate purposes.
- Data minimization: We will collect only the minimum amount of personal information necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
- Accuracy: We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is accurate and up-to-date.
- Storage limitation: We will retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.
- Integrity and confidentiality: We will implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
- Accountability: We will be accountable for our compliance with data protection principles and will regularly review and update our data protection practices as necessary.
Data Subject Rights
Individuals have the right to:
- Access their personal information and receive a copy of it.
- Rectify inaccurate personal information.
- Erase personal information under certain circumstances.
- Restrict or object to the processing of personal information under certain circumstances.
- Data portability, where applicable.
Data Security
We take appropriate measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Data Protection Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at [contact email/phone number].