Privacy Policy

At Samaksh.org, your privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, and share your data when you use our products or services. This includes when you access Samaksh.org, our mobile applications, or when you engage in activities such as fundraising or donating through our platform (collectively, the “Samaksh Services”). Scope of the Policy This Policy applies to Samaksh.org and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Samaksh”, “we”, “our”, and “us”). For information on which entities are responsible for processing your data, please refer to the “Contacting Samaksh” section below. Please read this Policy carefully as it contains important information about your privacy rights and choices. About Samaksh Overview Samaksh.org is dedicated to assisting non-profit organisations in maximising their impact through a suite of online fundraising tools designed to accelerate social impact globally. Non-profits utilise the Samaksh platform to raise funds, engage their communities, and advance their missions. Additionally, Samaksh hosts conferences and awards to highlight the innovative work being undertaken by non-profits around the world. Important Notice Before using or submitting any information through or in connection with the Services, please carefully review this Notice. By using any part of the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as outlined in this Notice. To the extent allowed by law, this Notice in English is binding, and its translations in other languages are for convenience only. In case of discrepancies between the English version of this Notice and its translations, the English version shall prevail. International Data Protection For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland (collectively “Europe”) who have used the Samaksh Services under a contractual relationship with Samaksh.org, the data controller is Samaksh.org, in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), the UK GDPR, and the Swiss Federal Act of 19 June 1992 on Data Protection (FADP). Samaksh can be contacted at the address provided in the “Contacting Samaksh” section below. For users in the EEA not covered by the previous paragraph, and to the extent required by GDPR, Samaksh also acts as the representative in the EU for Samaksh.org. Additional Rights for Indian Residents If you are a resident of India, the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 provides you with additional rights. Please view our “Indian Privacy Notice” to learn more. Residents of other states within India may also have additional rights under their respective state laws. For more information, please view our “Privacy Notice of certain Indian states”. Additional Rights for European Residents If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have additional rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, and other applicable data protection laws. Please view our “European Privacy Notice” to learn more. Additional Rights for U.S. Residents Residents of California are provided with additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. For more information, please view our “California Privacy Notice”. Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia have additional rights under their respective state laws. For more information, please view our “Privacy Notice of certain other states in the United States”. Information Collection and Use Fund Withdrawal Information Our payment processors collect and maintain information related to your withdrawal of funds from any fundraiser. For more details, please refer to the section “Information collected by our payment processors”. Setting Up Withdrawals When you are the beneficiary or recipient of funds from a fundraiser, we may collect the following information: • Contact Details: Name, email address, postcode, country, and phone number (for purposes of multi-factor authentication and to send you important messages). • Additional Information: Any other information you choose to provide us. Our payment processors collect your bank details as well as other necessary information to set up the withdrawals. For more details, please refer to the section “Information collected by our payment processors”. Donation Information When you donate to a fundraiser through our services, we may collect the following information: • Contact Details: Name, email address, physical address for billing purposes, postcode, and country. • Additional Information: Any information you choose to provide us, such as a description of why you have donated. Our payment processors collect your credit card details and other necessary information to process the donation, such as your home address. For more details, please refer to the section “Information collected by our payment processors”. Public Communications You can post comments, leave feedback, send thank-you notes, or otherwise communicate with other users through our services. Any content, including such comments, feedback, and notes that you choose to post on publicly available campaign pages through our services, is available to the public by default. Important Considerations • Public Information: Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information for both us and other users to use and share. • Privacy Caution: Take care not to disclose personal data unless you intend for that data to become public. • Community Guidelines: Please be considerate and respectful of others while using the community to publish your opinions. We reserve the right, but do not have the obligation, to review and monitor such postings or any other content on our services and to remove postings or content that may be viewed as inappropriate or offensive to others. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information for both us and other users to use and share. Be careful not to disclose personal data unless you intend for that data to become public. Please be considerate and respectful of others while using the community to publish your opinions. We reserve the right, but do not have the obligation, to review and monitor such postings or any other content on our Services and to remove postings or content that may be viewed as inappropriate or offensive to others. Communications to Samaksh If you have questions about how Samaksh handles information about you, you may contact us via a contact form, email, chat services, or by other means (for example, with questions about our Services, for customer support, or to share your ideas for new products or modifications to existing products). You may also choose to respond to surveys that we send out or requests for user interviews or queries about your fundraisers. If you respond to our requests for surveys or interviews, we will collect any information you provide to us and use that information as described herein. When you do so, we collect the information you choose to provide us, such as your contact details, any images you choose to upload, and the contents and nature of your message. We may engage vendors to provide certain interactive features on our Services. Your use of these interactive features is voluntary, and we may retain the information that you submit through these features. For example, we may offer an interactive chat feature on the Services for customer service purposes. When you participate in the interactive chat, the contents of the chat may be captured and kept as a transcript. By using these features, you understand that we and our vendors on our behalf may in real-time collect and process the information obtained through the feature. We request that you avoid sending financial information or other sensitive personal data to us through our chat services or other means unless we specifically ask for that data as part of providing the Services to you. When you provide such information to us directly, you consent to the processing of this data by Samaksh and/or our vendors. We collect the information listed in this section for the purposes described in the sections “Our Use of Information Collected” and “Our Disclosure of Information Collected Through the Services” You can choose to provide us with information relating to other parties. For example, if you choose to provide personal information about someone on your fundraiser, you confirm that you have the consent of such person to share their personal information with us. Sensitive Information You can also provide us with information about yourself or other parties that are considered sensitive, such as political opinions, race, ethnicity, health information, or religious beliefs. If you post this information in a fundraiser, you choose to provide such information to be published publicly in relation to your fundraiser, donation, or otherwise. Subject to applicable law, Samaksh may use any information which has manifestly been made public, including processing information about you that reveals sensitive information. When you provide such information to us, you consent to the processing of this data by Samaksh and/or its service providers. We collect the information listed in this section for the purposes described below in the sections “Our Use of Information Collected” and “Our Disclosure of Information Collected Through the Services”. Biometric Information We sometimes collect biometric information through vendors for identity verification, regulatory compliance, and fraud prevention purposes. We or vendors we engage may collect a copy of your government-issued ID (e.g., your driver's licence, national ID card, or passport) and a scan of the picture on your valid and unexpired government-issued ID for identification purposes. Our vendors may, with your consent, employ facial recognition technology to verify your identity and share the results of their analysis with us if needed. Samaksh does not have access to or otherwise collect or maintain any biometric information. Your biometric information will be retained by our vendors, in accordance with applicable retention policies, privacy policies, and applicable law. Please contact us as detailed in the “Contacting Samaksh” section if you have any questions regarding your biometric information. We use Stripe, Adyen, and PayPal for payments, analytics, and other business services. These payment processors may collect personal data, including via cookies and similar technologies. The personal data they collect may include transactional data and identifying information about devices that connect to their services. They use this information to operate and improve the services they provide to us, including fraud detection, loss prevention, authentication, and analytics related to the performance of their services. They operate both as processors for us and independent controllers for the information they collect directly from our users. You can learn more about Stripe and read its privacy policy here. You can learn more about Adyen and read its privacy policy here. You can learn more about PayPal and read its privacy policy here. Data from Other Parties Samaksh may use vendors to improve the quality of our own user database to enhance our services to you, for verification and fraud prevention purposes, and as otherwise described in this Notice. Additionally, Samaksh obtains contact details and other personal information regarding media contacts and influencers from various groups such as Cision and MuckRack. For more information, you can refer to the privacy policies of Cision and MuckRack When you interact with Samaksh through our services, we automatically receive and store certain information from the devices you use to access the services. This information is collected passively using various technologies and includes the type of geolocation information, Internet browser or mobile device you use, any website from which you have come to the services, your operating system, and location data through an IP address that identifies the city and state where you logged into the services. Samaksh either stores such information itself or includes it in databases owned and maintained by Samaksh and/or its agents or vendors. Location Information When you use the services to organise a fundraiser, the services may require that you provide your postcode, city or town, and state or province of residence. Please keep in mind that other users of the services can view your postcode, city or town, and country or region of residence in connection with the fundraiser. We also use your location information as described in this notice, such as under “Device & Usage Information”, and in an aggregate way, as described below in the “Aggregated Data” section. Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies When you interact with the services, we try to make that experience simple and meaningful. When you visit our services, our web server, business providers, and/or the social networking services integrated into the services, we use cookies or other electronic technologies (such as web beacons or pixel tags) for various purposes. Cookies are small pieces of information that are issued to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website, or access or use a mobile application. That information regarding your use of the services is stored and sometimes tracked. Web beacons are transparent image files, which... We use various technologies to enable our services to track website usage information. Pixel tags are tiny graphic images with unique identifiers that track the online movements of our users. For the purposes of this notice, we will refer to cookies and other technologies collectively as “Cookies.” Types of Cookies Essential Cookies Some cookies are strictly necessary to make our services available to you (“Essential Cookies”). We cannot provide our services without these Essential Cookies. Non-Essential Cookies We also use cookies for functional purposes to maintain and improve our services or your experiences, and for marketing purposes (collectively, “Non-Essential Cookies”). Some of the Non-Essential Cookies used are set by us to collect and process certain data on our behalf, and some are set by third parties and/or our Social Networking Services. Information to and from Social Networking Services Non-Essential Cookies include cookies we use in conjunction with Social Networking Services. One of the special features of our services is that it allows you to enable or log into the services via various social media applications/services, like Facebook or X, or to upload videos using YouTube APIs (“Social Networking Service(s)”). By directly integrating these services, we aim to make your online experiences richer and more personalized. To take advantage of these features, we will ask you to provide your credentials for the applicable Social Networking Service to log in to our services. When you add a Social Networking Services account to the services or log into the services using your Social Networking Services account, we will collect relevant information necessary to enable the services to access that Social Networking Service. As part of such integration, the Social Networking Service will provide us with access to certain information that you have provided to the Social Networking Service (for example, your name and photograph, as well as other information that you permit the Social Networking Service to share with us). We will use, store, and disclose such information in accordance with this notice. However, please remember that the manner in which Social Networking Services use, store, and disclose your information is governed by the policies of such third parties, and Samaksh shall have no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any Social Networking Services that may be enabled within the services. For example, if you upload a video onto your fundraiser using the mobile application for the services, your video will be uploaded using YouTube and subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s Security Settings. You further acknowledge that if you choose to use this feature, your friends, followers, and subscribers on any Social Networking Services you have enabled will be able to view such activity. For example, if you sign on using Meta, Meta’s privacy policy and terms of service would apply to the data Meta might obtain from your activities on Samaksh. Please visit the terms of use and privacy policy of the relevant Social Networking Service to learn more about your rights and choices, and to exercise your choice about those technologies. Analytics We use web analytics vendors on our services, such as Google Analytics, to help us analyse how users interact with the services. This includes noting the website from which you arrive and providing certain features to you, such as: • User ID tracking • Dynamic remarketing • Interest-based advertising • Audience targeting • Behavioural reporting • Demographics and interests reporting • User segment analysis • Device reporting • Display advertising • Video ads reporting The information collected by these technologies will either be disclosed to or directly collected by these vendors. They use this information to evaluate your use of the services, which may result in you seeing advertisements for our services when you visit other websites. To limit Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can also adjust your advertising settings here. We use vendors to help us understand and analyse how visitors use our services, and to improve the services. They may collect the following types of information from users of our services: • Device IP Address • Device screen size • Device type (unique device identifiers) • Browser information • Geographic location (country only) • Preferred language used to display our services • Details about your use of the services Why We Use Cookies We use cookies to collect information about your access to and use of our services, including to: 1. Allow you to navigate and use all the features provided by our services. 2. Customize elements of the layout and/or content within the services and remember that you have visited us before. 3. Identify the number of unique visitors we receive. 4. Improve the services and learn which functions of the services are most popular with users. 5. Understand how you use the services (e.g., by learning how long you spend on the services and where you have come to the platform from). 6. Market our services to you. As we adopt additional technologies, we may gather additional information through other methods. We will notify you of such changes with updates to this notice. Your Cookie Preferences Most web and mobile device browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser settings to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. • If you are located in the EU, you will be requested to opt-in to all cookies other than essential cookies. • If you are located in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia, you can learn more about how we use cookies in our "California Privacy Notice" or the "Privacy Notice for Certain Other States in the United States." You can also learn more about cookies by visiting this site, which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browsers or mobile devices. You can also consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information (e.g., Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari). If you receive tailored advertising on your computer, you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer by visiting the following sites: • Network Advertising Initiative • Digital Advertising Alliance • European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance 1. For advertising based in the United States, you can use the following opt-out links: • Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out Link • Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out Link • Your Ad Choices for App Tool 2. For advertising in Europe, you can use the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Ad Choices Opt-Out Link. We do not control any of the above opt-out links and are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms. If your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit these opt-out pages, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer, or change web browsers, your opt-out may no longer be effective. Mobile Device Privacy Settings If you are accessing our services through a mobile device, you can update your privacy settings on your device by: • Setting the “Limit Ad Tracking” option and adjusting the Diagnostics and Usage settings on your Apple iPhone or iPad. • Resetting your Android ID through apps available in the Play Store. You can also limit information collection by uninstalling the app on your device using the standard uninstall process available as part of your device. Social Networking Services In connection with Social Networking Services, you can visit your settings with each of the Social Networking Services to exercise your choice about those technologies. Please note that we do not control these mechanisms maintained by other parties and thus cannot be responsible for their functionality. Samaksh uses the information collected from the services in a manner consistent with this notice. We may use the information you provide (or otherwise permit the services to access) for the following purposes: A. Communicating With You We use the information we collect to contact you for administrative purposes, such as: 1. To provide services and information that you request. 2. To respond to comments and questions. For instance, if you contact us by email, we will use the information you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. 3. In addition, we may call you if you are not responding to email and your fundraiser is subject to refunds. B. Sending Communications We also use the information we collect to send you communications related to the services, such as: 1. Updates on events. 2. Communications relating to products and services offered by us and by third parties. 3. Requests for your feedback on our services. 4. Communications about services we believe will be of interest to you. For example, we can send periodic emails to registered users of the services relating to their recent interactions with the services, such as donating to a fundraiser. B. Text Messages You may agree that we can communicate with you regarding your Samaksh account by SMS, MMS, or text message. When setting up your Samaksh account, if you click “Send code” by “Text Message”, you agree to receive automated and non-automated text messages related to your account from or on behalf of Samaksh at the phone number provided. You can reply STOP to such text messages to cancel, except for automated text messages related to the security of your account. Message frequency will vary. Message and data rates may apply. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you agree to promptly update your Samaksh account information to ensure that your messages are not misdirected. Please note that your wireless service carrier’s standard charges, data rates, and other fees may apply where you access the services through a mobile device. In addition, downloading, installing, or using certain services on a mobile device may be prohibited or restricted by your provider, and not all services may work with all carriers or devices. C. Providing and Improving the Services We use the information we collect to operate, maintain, provide, and improve our services such as enabling access to the platform, customer support, or to complete transactions. D. Security and Fraud Prevention We use the information we collect to secure our services and to verify identity, prevent fraud, and continually improve these aspects of our services. This includes our request for your (mobile) telephone number to conduct multi-factor authentication when you create an account and/or at the time you set up withdrawals as a beneficiary. E. Analytics, Research, and Product Development We use the information we collect to analyse data usage trends and preferences to improve the accuracy, effectiveness, security, usability, or popularity of our services. We may also use the information we collect to train our artificial intelligence/machine learning models. We further use data in connection with our research on our customer demographics, interests, and behaviour. To help our users fundraise more effectively, we employ machine learning and other analytics that make inferences about some characteristics of our users. We use these tools to tailor emails to you, show and prioritise causes, fundraisers, and pages we think you’ll be interested in, and make suggestions about how much you may want to fundraise or donate. F. Customisation and Marketing We may use the information we collect for customisation and marketing purposes. For example, we may use device identifiers to learn how users interact with our services in order to personalise the content of our services, such as customising the language and fundraisers on our homepage based on your location. G. Legal We use information we collect to defend our legal rights, comply with state, local, federal, or international laws, and to enforce our Terms of Service and this notice. B. Text Messages You may agree that we can communicate with you regarding your Samaksh account by SMS, MMS, or text message. When setting up your Samaksh account, if you click “Send code” by “Text Message”, you agree to receive automated and non-automated text messages related to your account from or on behalf of Samaksh at the phone number provided. You can reply STOP to such text messages to cancel, except for automated text messages related to the security of your account. Message frequency will vary. Message and data rates may apply. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you agree to promptly update your Samaksh account information to ensure that your messages are not misdirected. Please note that your wireless service carrier’s standard charges, data rates, and other fees may apply where you access the services through a mobile device. In addition, downloading, installing, or using certain services on a mobile device may be prohibited or restricted by your provider, and not all services may work with all carriers or devices. C. Providing and Improving the Services We use the information we collect to operate, maintain, provide, and improve our services such as enabling access to the platform, customer support, or to complete transactions. D. Security and Fraud Prevention We use the information we collect to secure our services and to verify identity, prevent fraud, and continually improve these aspects of our services. This includes our request for your (mobile) telephone number to conduct multi-factor authentication when you create an account and/or at the time you set up withdrawals as a beneficiary. E. Analytics, Research, and Product Development We use the information we collect to analyse data usage trends and preferences to improve the accuracy, effectiveness, security, usability, or popularity of our services. We may also use the information we collect to train our artificial intelligence/machine learning models. We further use data in connection with our research on our customer demographics, interests, and behaviour. To help our users fundraise more effectively, we employ machine learning and other analytics that make inferences about some characteristics of our users. We use these tools to tailor emails to you, show and prioritise causes, fundraisers, and pages we think you’ll be interested in, and make suggestions about how much you may want to fundraise or donate. F. Customisation and Marketing We may use the information we collect for customisation and marketing purposes. For example, we may use device identifiers to learn how users interact with our services in order to personalise the content of our services, such as customising the language and fundraisers on our homepage based on your location. G. Legal We use information we collect to defend our legal rights, comply with state, local, federal, or international laws, and to enforce our Terms of Service and this notice. Information is disclosed as stated in the Section entitled “Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies”. Other Users of Our Services We provide your information to other users of our services if you choose to make your information publicly available in a publicly accessible area of the services, such as in your fundraiser or in the comments. Volunteered Information Please be advised that some information you provide may be publicly accessible, such as information posted in forums or comment sections. We also collect information through forums and communities, surveys, and customer support communications, your communication to us of ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, feedback, and other solicited or unsolicited submissions (collectively, with publicly-accessible information, “Volunteered Information”). By sending us Volunteered Information, you further agree that we are under no obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Volunteered Information. This Volunteered Information section shall survive any termination of your account or the services. Children Our services are not designed for use by individuals under the age of 13 (or 16 for children located in Europe). If you are under the age of 13 (or 16 for children located in Europe), please do not use the services and/or submit any information through the services. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16 for children located in Europe) has provided personal information to Samaksh through the services, please contact us at GFMlegal@gofundme.com, and we will delete that information from our databases to the extent required by law. Links to Other Websites The services can contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Samaksh (the “Third-Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third-Party Sites. The links from the services do not imply that Samaksh endorses or has reviewed the Third-Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their respective privacy policies. Security While no organisation can guarantee perfect security, Samaksh has implemented and seeks to continuously improve technical and organisational security measures to protect the information provided via the services from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please see here for details. Do-Not-Track Signals Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. To learn more about Do Not Track, you can do so here. If you are a California consumer, you can view our “California Privacy Notice” to learn more about our recognition of other signals. Retention of Your Information We retain your information for as long as we deem necessary for the purpose for which that information was collected and for our legitimate business operations; provided, however, that your information is only retained to the extent permitted or required by applicable laws. When we no longer need to retain your information, we will take reasonable steps to remove it from our systems and records and/or take steps to anonymise it so that you can no longer be identified from it in accordance with our internal document retention policies. When determining the retention period for your information, we take into account various criteria, such as: 1. The type of products and services requested by or provided to you. 2. The nature and length of our relationship with you. 3. Possible re-enrolment with our products or services. 4. The impact on the services we provide to you if we delete some information about you. 5. Mandatory retention periods provided by law. 6. The statute of limitations. Cross Border Data Transfers Samaksh is a global organisation headquartered in the United States, which processes your information on servers in a number of countries, including the United States. Samaksh has implemented other appropriate cross-border transfer solutions, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by appropriate regulatory authorities, to provide adequate protection for transfers of certain personal data from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland to the United States. Users from Outside the United States The platform is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting the platform from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located, and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, and data may be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities under certain circumstances. Users in Europe If you are located in Europe, our legal grounds for processing your information may be as follows: • Consent: Where you have given consent to such processing for one or more specific purposes. • Contractual Obligation: Where the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you. • Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligation. • Legitimate Interest: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of our users, and your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms do not override those interests. Cross-Border Data Transfers We transfer your personal data to third countries subject to appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses. Users in Europe If you are located in Europe, you have the right to: • Ask for an overview of the information we process about you and request a copy of your information. • Request us to update and correct inaccuracies. • Delete your information or restrict processing of your information. • Exercise your right to data portability to easily transfer your information to another company. In some cases, you may object to the processing of your information. Where we have asked you for your consent to process your information, you can withdraw it at any time. You may also withdraw previously given consent for processing your personal information; the withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The above rights may be limited under applicable law. You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your information by sending the request to us at the email address or mailing address provided under “Contacting Samaksh.” For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to provide your identity before providing the requested information. Please note that Samaksh may take up to 30 days after identity verification to fulfil such requests. The above rights can be limited under applicable law. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws. You can also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your residence, place of work, or where the incident took place. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner shall act as the competent lead supervisory authority for users in the European Economic Area, and you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Marketing Opt-Out Each email marketing communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to “opt out” of receiving future marketing communications. Additionally, if at any time you wish not to receive any future marketing communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us at the email address or mailing address provided under “Contacting Samaksh.” If you opt out of receiving marketing communications or other information we think may interest you, we can still send you emails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us. Other Terms Your access to and use of the services are subject to Samaksh’s Terms of Service and such other terms, which may be made available to you in connection with your use of the services. Changes to Samaksh’s Privacy Notice Samaksh reserves the right to update or modify this notice at any time and from time to time. We will notify you of any material updates or changes we make to this notice. If you disagree with our revisions to the notice, you can deactivate your account or discontinue the use of our services. Please review this notice periodically for any updates or changes. By using our platform and services after any such update or modification, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms of the notice as updated or modified. Contacting Samaksh You can contact our Data Protection Officer by emailing dpo@gofundme.com. To submit a Data Subject Request, please fill out this form or email privacy-requests@gofundme.com. 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