Privacy Policy

Africa Future Gateway, Inc. is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization registered in the United States under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and classified as a public charity under Section 509(a)(2).

This policy applies to personal information collected through:

• Our website africafuturegateway.org and its subdomains (including learn. and portal. when launched)
• Online forms, newsletter subscriptions, donation processing, and partnership inquiries
• Program, mentorship, and volunteer applications
• Email, telephone, and in-person communications with our team

This policy does not apply to third-party websites we link to.

Information you provide

• Contact details — name, email, phone, country, city
• Donation information — donor name, email, billing country, gift amount, designation, message. Card and bank details are processed by our PCI-compliant payment processor and not stored on our servers.
• Program applications — participant details, education background, program of interest
• Partnership inquiries — organization, contact, role, country, partnership area, proposed contribution
• Volunteer & mentor applications — background, expertise, languages, availability, country
• Newsletter subscriptions — name and email
• General inquiries — any information you include in a message

Information collected automatically

• Technical data — IP address, browser, device, operating system
• Usage data — pages viewed, links clicked, referring URL, approximate location (country level)
• Cookies — as described in Cookies & analytics

We use personal information to:

• Process donations, issue receipts, and maintain donor records
• Respond to inquiries from donors, partners, applicants, and the public
• Review program applications, partnership proposals, and volunteer applications
• Deliver our programs — Digital Academy, Sports-to-Workforce, Music & Creative Futures, Women & Rural Opportunity, Global Exchange
• Send transactional communications — application confirmations, receipts, program updates
• Send newsletters and updates where you have opted in (unsubscribe any time)
• Measure program and website effectiveness
• Comply with legal, tax, and nonprofit reporting obligations
• Protect against fraud, misuse, and security threats

Where required by law (including the EU GDPR), we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

Service providers

We work with third-party providers who process information on our behalf under contract:

Legal & safety disclosures

We may disclose information when required by law or court order; when necessary to protect children, youth, or other individuals; or when necessary to investigate fraud or enforce our rights.

Organizational changes

If AFG merges with or transfers assets to another organization, personal information may be transferred. We will notify you before your information becomes subject to a different policy.

With your consent

We may share information for other purposes with your prior consent.

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, remember preferences, and understand how visitors use the site.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the site from working. We honor browser-level “Do Not Track” signals where technically supported.

We retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes in this policy, meet legal requirements, and resolve disputes.

We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information:

• HTTPS encryption on all traffic
• Firewall, bot protection, rate limiting
• Multi-factor authentication
• Role-based access controls
• Regular off-site backups
• PCI-compliant donation processing
• Monitoring & incident response

No system is perfectly secure. If you believe your information has been compromised, contact wecare@africafuturegateway.org immediately.

• Where a program accepts participants under 18, we obtain informed consent from a parent or legal guardian as required by applicable law and program policy.
• We collect only the minimum information necessary to evaluate an application and administer the program.
• We do not publish personal profiles, images, or identifying information about minors without separate, documented parent/guardian consent.
• We do not permit unsupervised one-to-one adult/minor communication through our website, LMS, or connected tools.
• Media consent is collected separately from program consent and may be withdrawn at any time.

Parents and guardians may contact us at wecare@africafuturegateway.org to review, correct, or delete information about their child.

AFG is based in the United States and operates programs in Cameroon and potentially other African countries. Information you provide may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, Cameroon, or other countries where we or our service providers operate.

Where required, we implement appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers, including contractual protections with our service providers.

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights:

To exercise any right, contact wecare@africafuturegateway.org. We will respond within the timeframe required by law and may need to verify your identity.

Our website may link to websites operated by other organizations. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review their policies before providing personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. Material changes will be reflected in an updated effective date and, where appropriate, notified by email or through a notice on our website.

For any questions about this Privacy Policy or our handling of your personal information: