Privacy Policy

Stawi Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 1st July 2025
Last Updated: 5th July 2025

Who We Are

STAWI is an entity that proposes a series of well-formulated, innovative, and sustainable strategies and investment schemes that mainly focus on value addition.

This approach greatly improves the region’s enviro-economy, social well-being, and overall living standards.

To move beyond the usual dependence on fundraising, we promote our innovations and value addition methods as practical ways to create financial and employment stability, accelerating us towards our goal of securing a better future.

1. What Personal Information We Collect

A. Information You Provide Directly

Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, postal address.
Account Information: Username, password, and profile details if you create an account.
Purchase/Donation Information: Payment details, billing/shipping address, and transaction history.
Communications: Messages, emails, survey responses, or other information you submit.
Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you use it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here. After comment approval, your profile picture is visible publicly with your comment.

B. Information Collected Automatically

Device & Usage Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent, links clicked.
Cookies & Similar Technologies: We use cookies to enhance your experience, remember your preferences, and analyze site usage.

Examples:

If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience — so you don’t need to re-enter them. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, screen option cookies last a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an extra cookie saves the post ID of the edited article. It expires after one day.

C. Media

If you upload images to the site, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

D. Embedded Content

Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited those sites directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content, including if you are logged in to that site.

E. Information from Third Parties

We may receive information about you from:

Payment processors or shipping partners.
Social media platforms you interact with.
Public sources or partners, if relevant.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

Provide and fulfill our services, process orders, and accept donations.
Communicate with you about your orders, donations, or inquiries.
Send updates, newsletters, or promotional content (with your consent).
Improve our website and services through analytics and feedback.
Protect the security and integrity of our website (including spam detection).
Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms.

3. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell your personal information. We may share it with:

Trusted service providers (e.g., payment processors, web hosts, email services).
Legal authorities if required by law.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Other third parties only with your consent.

4. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

For users who register on our website, we store the personal information in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We retain other personal information as long as necessary for our operational or legal requirements.

5. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided to us. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except for data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

6. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to help prevent abusive content.

7. Cookies and Tracking

As detailed above, we use cookies to:

Authenticate users.
Store preferences.
Enable core site functionality.
Analyze traffic and improve performance.

You can manage or block cookies in your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use parts of our Site.

8. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data. However, no system is completely secure. Please use caution when sharing personal information online.

9. International Transfers

Your data may be transferred to and stored on servers located outside your country. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally. The updated version will be posted with the effective date at the top. Please review it periodically.