This privacy policy applies only to the actions of Share-Net Ethiopia and Users with respect to this website. It does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this website.
Share-Net Ethiopia is one of the country hubs of Share-Net International, the knowledge platform on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. The other hubs being: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Colombia, and Jordan. We work towards a world in which all people have the freedom of choice, are able to make informed decisions, can take action on their sexual and reproductive health and have access to quality care to meet their sexual and reproductive health needs and rights. We aim to strengthen linkages between research, policy and practice through sharing, generating, translating and promoting the use of knowledge for the development of better policies and practices in SRHR. Share-Net Ethiopia is hosted by the Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations (CORHA) which is a registered Organization in Ethiopia, under a registration Number 1424.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, you can phone, email us or write to:
Share-Net Ethiopia
P.O. Box 14507
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
E-mail: [email protected]
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and treat your personal information appropriately. This privacy and cookie policy is in place to ensure your personal information is appropriately protected.
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on January 2022.
The Share-Net Ethiopia website is a place where people can find more information about our country hub, e.g. in the about section. Visitors can find news, events, jobs and resources shared by Share-Net Ethiopia.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Share-Net International is the “data controller”.
We collect certain information or data about you when you call us, email us and use our services. This includes:
The general categories of personal information that we may collect for the aforementioned purposes are as follows:
When you register with us, you are agreeing that you are over 18 years of age or are acting with parental consent.
We may use your personal information to:
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control your personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases:
Consent: through certain actions such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you with further information you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal information. This can be done by entering our website and filling in your information for the purposes set out in section 2.1 using personal information. Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies set out in this policy under section 4.2. Collecting information with cookies
Legitimate interests: we may process information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us. Where we process your information on this basis, we do after careful consideration whether the same objective could be achieved through other means and whether you would expect us to process your data, and whether you would consider it reasonable to do so. For example, in order to deliver our services for your benefit, we may share your personal data with a trusted third party organization for the purpose of our business activities or to conduct a survey to better understand your needs and requirements of us as set out in section
We store your data on our secure servers in the EU. It may also be stored outside of Europe, where it could be viewed by our staff or suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this.
Share-Net Ethiopia will never sell your personal data to third parties. We do share some personal data within partnerships when that is necessary in order to carry out our mission. In specific cases we also use systems or services of suppliers, where the supplier may also have access to data on our members. In all cases we ensure that these parties offer sufficient guarantees in terms of privacy protection and security.
Through our business activities, we may disclose your personal information to donors, consortium partners and subcontractors for purposes directly related to the management and delivery of our services. Those in question will be obligated to use the personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.
We may also need to disclose your information if required to do so by law and for the purpose of defending our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention).
We take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. All personal information is stored securely in accordance with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation.
By using our website services, you acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.
You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.
Personal data that we process shall not be kept for longer than is necessary. Our retention period is in line with our contract conditions with the donors we serve and the default legal standard retention period.
Under the GDPR your rights in relation to the personal data we hold are expressed as follows. You have;
If you would like any further information about your rights, please contact us by sending an e-mail to the Share-Net Ethiopia Coordinator, Dejene Getahun at: [email protected]
Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If we do hold information about you, we will:
You may exercise your right to withdraw your consent in relation to your personal data being used at any time by written notice to us via email to: [email protected] or by way of letter to:
Share-Net Ethiopia
P.O.Box: 14507
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Tel: +251-1-911228516, +251-1-940271632 +251-1-118592641/42(off.)
By withdrawing your consent this does not affect the lawfulness or processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
When someone visits our website, we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. The information collected by Google is anonymised. Your IP address is partially masked (namely the last octet).
We do not share data with Google for any reasons other than those stated and also do not use other Google services in combination with Google Analytics cookies, apart from the mutual exchange of web statistics and campaign statistics with our Google Ad Words account, for the purposes of tracking website use and conversion events. This method of measurement data exchange results in no or only a very limited infringement of your privacy, as no personal information is collected and we do not use these data to adapt advertisements to your personal preferences.
Our website contains buttons to promote (‘like’) or share (‘tweet’) webpages on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work through snippets of code originating in Facebook or Twitter that place cookies in your browser. We have no influence on this. Read the privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter (which can change frequently) to find out what they do with the data they gather through these cookies.
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently (e.g. by recognizing a user’s device), as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
We use the following types of cookies:
We may use cookies to collect information about how you use the website, for example we may store information related to:
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit About Cookies (opens in a new window) or All About Cookies (opens in a new window). If you disable cookies by blocking them, or delete cookies, the functionality of the website will likely be affected.
