This Privacy Notice (hereafter the “Notice”) portrays the manner in which Diálogo Intercultural de México Activo, A.C. (hereafter the “Habesha Project”), which designated address to receive notices is the one located in Gral. Ignacio Allende 304, Zona Centro, Dto. Centro, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, C.P. 20000 and which designated email is contacto@proyectohabesha.org, in its character as “Data controller” will process the Personal Data and Banking Data of the Donners and the Possible Donners, as such terms have the following meanings.

Definitions

For purposes of this Notice, these terms have the following meanings:

1. Law: Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties.

2. Regulations: The Regulations to the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties.

3. Personal Data, Sensitive Personal Data, Database, Privacy Policy, Handler and Treatment: As established in Article 3 of the Law.

4. Bank Details: Any information on any Donor or Potential Donor relating to any account under his or her name in any Credit Institution, Financial Technology Institution, Popular Finance Institution (Sofom), or any other financial institution in which the Donor or Potential Donor has stored money, foreign currency, or any liquid assets.

5. Donor: Any individual who makes a Donation to Habesha Project.

6. Donation: As established in Article 2202 of the Civil Code of Aguascalientes.

7. Potential Donors: Any person who communicates any Personal Data or Bank Details with Habesha Project for the purpose and with the intention of making a Donation to Habesha Project.

Habesha Project shall collect Personal Data and Bank Details from Donors and/or Potential Donors by any means of communication, digital or otherwise. This includes, without limits, any electronic or non-electronic program, automatized or not, intended to receive Donors’ Donations. The Personal Data and Bank Details that Habesha Project shall include but not be restricted to the name, date of birth, nationality, home address and proof of address, photo identification, email address, telephone number, account number, credit or debit card number, name and address of financial institution at which the account is held, BIC or Swift code, and any other information on the Donor or Potential Donor of which Habesha Project deems the collection necessary in order to receive Donations.

The main purposes for which Habesha Project collects the Personal Data and Bank Details of Donors and Potential Donors are as follows:

1. To verify the Donor’s identity.

2. To receive Donations.

3. To process payments.

4. To comply with regulations related to the Prevention of Operations with Funds of Illegal Provenance to which Habesha Project is subject.

5. To comply with other regulations to which Habesha Project is subject according to Mexican and foreign fiscal law, as well as any international treaties of which Mexico is a signatory.

6. To comply with local and federal law.

7. To carry our Habesha Project’s work.

Other, additional purposes for which Habesha Project collects the Personal Data and Bank Details of Donors and Potential Donors are as follows:

1. To send, electronically or otherwise, information about possible events, meetings or talks related to Habesha Project’s activities.

2. To send letters of thanks for Donations received.

3. To send, electronically or otherwise, updates on Habesha Project’s activities, such as how Donations have been spent.

Methods of limiting the use of Personal Data and Bank Details

Should any Donor or Potential Donor not wish for his or her Personal Details to be used for the additional purposes, he or she may at any time submit a written request which includes his or her full name, address and proof of address, email address and photo identification, and in which he or she indicates the specific additional purposes for which he or she does not wish for his or her Personal Data and Bank Details to be used.

The said request should be sent via email or mail to the address provided by Habesha Project.

Habesha Project shall respect the said request and shall not use the Donor or Potential Donor’s Personal Information or Bank Details for the purposes given in the written request.

Methods of exercising rights of access, correction, cancellation or opposition

According to the content of article 28 of the Law, the Data Owner or his legal representative may request to the Data Controller, at any time, the Access, Rectification, Cancellation or Objection (hereafter the “ARCO rights”), of the Personal Data and Banking Data communicated to the Habesha Project.

Considering that such rights are considered, under the context of this Notice, as follows:

Access: Knowing what Personal Data does the Habesha Project has, what is it used for and the conditions that is given to its processing.

Rectification: To make corrections of the Personal Data and Banking Data and of any other information that is incorrect, outdated or inaccurate.

Cancellation: Request that the information stored in the data basis or records of the Habesha Project is deleted when it is considered that it is not being used in accordance with the purposes, principles, duties and obligations established in the applicable laws and in this Notice.

Objection: To oppose to the use of the Personal Data and/or Banking Data for specific purposes.

To exercise the ARCO rights the Data Owner must send a request to the designated email established by the Habesha Project, or by corrier service with confirmation of receipt to the designated address to receive notices, of the Habesha Project, which must fulfill with the requirements established in article 29 of the Law.

It is important that the Data Owner takes into account that in case he requests the rectification of his Personal Data and Banking Data, he must indicate the changes to be performed and provide the documents that support his request.

The Habesha Project will notify within the next 20 days following the receipt of the request hereafter mentioned, if the request is admissible or inadmissible. If it is admissible it will become effective following 15 days after it is notified that it is admissible.

In all matters concerning the exercise of the ARCO rights that are not contemplated in this Notice, it will apply what is established in articles 28 to 35 of the Law, just as any other article that results applicable from the Law or the Regulations. If there is any contradiction between this Notice and the Law and/or the Regulations, the Law and Regulations will apply.

Data Protection and Transfer

Habesha Project has in place technical, physical and informatic measurements and adequate and efficient methodologies to ensure the protection and confidentiality of the Personal Data and Banking Data of the Donners and the Possible Donners.

In accordance with articles 36 and 37 of the Law and 17,68 and 74 of the Regulations, the Data Owner gives his consent and accepts that Personal Data and/or Banking Data may be transferred to people within or outside the United Mexican States. This, with the purpose to ensure and comply with the legally binding relationship between the Habesha Project and the Data Owner. Likewise, the Habesha Project may transfer the Personal Data and/or Banking Data without the Data Owners’ consent, in any of the cases established in article 37 of the Law.

The recipients to whom the Habesha Project sends any information must maintain the confidentiality of said information, on the same manner and under the same standards in which the Habesha Project maintains it. Likewise, said recipient must comply with the legislation and regulation that applies to personal data protection, in whatever country he is located.

Procedure and measure to notify any changes to this Notice

This Notice may be modified by the Habesha Project at any time.

Said modification will be notified by posting a notice in the official internet page of the Habesha Project. Said notice will not have to say anything else besides the fact that this Notice has been modified and the date of its modification.

Reimbursement and cancellation policy

Any Donner may cancel at any time his subscription to the periodic donation platform established by the Habesha Project. Following, he may cancel a Donation that has not been reported yet as paid, by the correspondent financial institution, in the accounts of the Habesha Project. If said Donation is reported as paid in the account of the Habesha Project, it will apply what is established in the reimbursement policy of this Notice.

The Donner may cancel the Donation, whether by the procedures established in said platform or by sending a written request to the designated email established by the Habesha Project, or by corrier service with confirmation of receipt to the designated address to receive notices, of the Habesha Project. This doesn’t mean that this Notice ceases to have legal effect over the Personal Data and/or Banking Data communicated by the Data Owner to the Habesha Project.

In case any Data Owner request the cancellation of his Donation, he must provide his name, address and proof if address, photography ID, assets and amount that comprise the Donation that he wishes to cancel, Banking Data and any other information that in the opinion of the Habesha Project is necessary to perform the cancelation. The processing of the data communicated in order to perform the cancelation will have to follow the rules of this Notice. Likewise, the Donner may request the reimbursement of his Donation to the Habesha Project and the Habesha Project may reimburse such Donation, as long as the request for the reimburse of the Donation is done within the 5 days following the payment of said Donation in the accounts of the Habesha Project.

Hard assets, such as real estate, acquired by the Habesha Project through a Donation, do not comprise said Donation and the Donner does not have any right over such assets.

The request for the reimbursement of the Donation must have the same data as the request of cancelation and must be communicated to the Habesha Project in the same manner.

All reimbursed payments may delay up to 20 working days following the reception of the request for reimbursement, however, such term may be extended by events of force majeure, as it may be, without limiting, failures in the payment systems administrated by the Mexican Central Bank, failure in the systems of financial institutions, failures in the systems of the Habesha Project, natural disasters, non-predictable human mistakes and/or any other circumstance or action, of nature or men, beyond the control of the Habesha Project.

Any Data Owner has the right to be answered of any question he may have regarding his Donation and the process for canceling and reimbursing a Donation, by sending an email to the designated email established by the Habesha Project, or by corrier service with confirmation of receipt to the designated address to receive notices, of the Habesha Project.

Elige el proveedor de tu preferencia para hacer tu donación única en línea.

Elige el proveedor de tu preferencia para hacer tu donación recurrente en línea.

A Statement From Habesha Project on the COVID-19 Crisis

In light of the unprecedented global health crisis we find ourselves in, Habesha Project has begun to think seriously about the effects that the pandemic and related lockdown will have on the organisation's physical health, operations and finances.

Because diversity, education and solidarity are both fundamental values of Habesha Project and the principles that should guide the world as it emerges from this health emergency, we feel it necessary to reaffirm our commitment to improving access to education for young refugees and displaced people around the world. Indeed, because of the humanitarian nature of our work, we wonder if there is even more we could be doing to help during these particularly difficult times.

The first thing to emerge from Habesha Project's process of evaluation is a set of a action points that constitute a solemn pledge that Habesha Project is making to members of the team, student beneficiaries, migrants and refugees in Mexico, and the generous donors that make our work possible.

Our pledge to the Habesha Project Team:

Habesha Project has taken measures to guarantee the health and wellbeing of all members of the team, and those measures comply with the highest Mexican and international standards. We have procured the resources necessary for team members to continue work from home, while also implementing the use of technology and increased coordination to ensure that the organization's productivity is unaffected.

Conscious of the needs of all team members, and despite the financial challenge that the current climate presents, Habesha Project will neither cut jobs nor reduce salaries or benefits.

Our pledge to student beneficiaries:

Practices have been put in place to prevent the spread of disease amongst student beneficiaries. Also, a means of maintaining constant, direct communicating with all beneficiaries has been established in order to monitor beneficiaries' mental health and help them access basic services and food.

All beneficiaries are working from home and following social distancing guidelines. Also, through the use of online resources and with the support of professional, committed volunteers, virtual tutorials are taking place.

A dedicated isolation room has been chosen and prepared in Habesha Project's student residences in case any beneficiary should contract COVID-19. Should this happen, the room will be used to avoid the sick beneficiary from infecting others.

Our pledge to migrants and refugees in Mexico:

Habesha Project recognises that refugees are among those who are most vulnerable to the effects of this crisis, especially if they are pregnant or suffer from any underlying health conditions. For that reason, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, we've taken on a project to source food to up to 30 refugee families present in Mexico who have suffered the sudden loss of their sources of income. We pledge to protect the food security of those families for the next three months.

We have begun conversations with other non-governmental organizations in Mexico who are working for the good of migrants and refugees with the objective of setting up a national coalition that promotes empathy for and solidarity with these organizations and the refugees they work for among Mexicans.

The Habesha Project team will voluntarily donate a percentage of their salary to a family of refugees or migrants facing extreme difficulty and precarity during the pandemic.

Our pledge to the generous donors who make our work possible:

Habesha Project is keenly aware that what allows us to carry out the humanitarian work we do for young refugees around the world is the generous support of our donors big and small. It is for that reason that, in spite of the total paralysis that the pandemic has caused, we will strive to achieve all of the objectives that donors signed up to support us with.

Since it was established in 2015, Habesha Project has made achievements that are both important and unprecedented in Mexico using extremely limited resources. Nonetheless, we are currently undergoing a process of identifying any area whatsoever in which we can make savings of any size. That way, our donors can be confident that the organizations is using their donations in a way that is efficient, transparent, and goes furthest in promoting higher education for refugees.

The above are the specific points of action that we have identified as important during our first round of evaluations. We will repeat the process at the end of every quarter until normality is restored.

We are inspired more than anything by seeing the positive effects of our work on beneficiaries, who are living testament to how with strength, resilience and hope one can overcome crisis.

From our own experience, we can say that now more than ever is a time for solidarity, hard work and hope.

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