Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

By using this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies (see privacy policy).

By registering an account on this site, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• You are over 18 years of age and have the ability to make sound choices for your own life.

• You have the ability to volunteer your time and resources for the benefit of others.

• You will not demand recompense for volunteering your resources.

• You will not engage in malicious activity against this website or any of its users.

• You will maintain the highest honour and respect towards all other volunteers whether on this site or on location while volunteering.

Volunteer Term:

To apply for a volunteer term, you will fill in the form “Volunteer Now”, selecting the start date and end date for the time period you wish to volunteer. Click “submit”.

The volunteer coordinator will reply to either discuss, change, or confirm the dates of your volunteer position.

Note: The first week of any term is always probational.

Your volunteer coordinator is always available to discuss any concerns you may have, and you or the volunteer coordinator may choose to cancel or terminate your volunteer term at any time.

Please be kind, and notify your coordinator in advance if you plan to leave earlier than the term initially agreed upon.

A volunteer term is not a contract, but rather a request to volunteer at the location under the direction of the volunteer coordinator.

A volunteer term will only be upheld by the mutual agreement of the volunteer and the coordinator. Either party may terminate the volunteer term at any time.

iVolunteer.network will not be held liable for the failure of a volunteer, or a volunteer coordinator, to complete an agreed upon term.

Who we are:

We are a global network of Volunteers! We are not paid for anything we do for this site, and we do not charge for anything we do or any of the services we offer on this site. This site will always be free to use. We are not paid for advertising, and we do not purchase advertising. We are volunteers and this site is for volunteers.

Any information (whether text, contact info or media such as photos) you enter on this site is volunteered by you, but you can remove this information, or request it to be removed, at any time. The information you volunteer will be available for volunteer coordinators (who are volunteers themselves) to view. If you leave feedback for a location, this will be available for other volunteers and the public to view. Your contact info will not be displayed, but a link to your profile will be displayed to other volunteers and volunteer coordinators.

Our website address is: https://test.ivolunteer.network

Registered volunteers may contact us anytime through our support page.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it:

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Forms

When you submit data through one of the contact forms on this site (support, contact volunteer coordinator, or volunteer now) you are volunteering the data to be stored in our database for up to a year… it is only held temporarily in the database in case an email does not go through, in this case the email can be re-sent by an administrator.

Feedback submitted for a location will be stored and displayed indefinitely.

We have implemented the invisible reCAPTCHA on our login and registration forms. See section “embedded content”.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

The site uses cookies to identify the visitor’s current language, the last visited language and the language of users who have logged in.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Emails

If you have signed up for our newsletter you may receive emails from us. This includes but not limited to transactional emails and informational emails.

We’ll only send emails which you have explicitly or implicitly (registration, newsletter subscription etc.) signed up to.

On signup we collect your email address, your name, your current location, your current IP address and timestamp of signup, your IP address and timestamp when you have confirmed your subscription and the current web address where you signed up.

We send our newsletter emails via a service called sendinblue.

When you get a newsletter from us we track if you open the email in your email client, if you click a link in the email, your current location, and your current IP address. This is only to help us understand how our subscribers are interacting with our newsletters. We do not sell this information or allow any other parties to view this information.

Private Messaging and Chat

Private messages and chat sessions are deleted from the server every three months. For three months you will be able to review a chat session and your private messages via the “messages” tab on your profile page.

Embedded content from other websites:

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos hosted on another service such as youtube or vimeo etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with:

We share your data with no one outside of our volunteer network.

How long we retain your data:

For volunteers that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Our volunteer website administrators can also see and could edit that information if need be.

Your user profile is available for volunteer coordinators to see. Consider this as your volunteer resume. The purpose for you volunteering this information is so that volunteer coordinators can make decisions as to the suitability of volunteer tasks or events for you.

What rights you have over your data:

If you have a volunteer account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.

Where we send your data:

We don’t send it anywhere.

Our contact information:

Please use our support page (available when logged in) to contact us with any questions or privacy concerns.

Additional information:

How do we protect your data?

Our site is only accessible via SSL (https) so all data is encrypted.

We regularly clean our database so it doesn’t get cluttered up with old form submissions.

Hey, we are all volunteers, so we will never do anything with your data that we would not want anyone to do with ours.

What third parties we receive data from:

None.