Privacy Policy

1. Purpose & Scope

Reaching Sky Foundation is committed to the highest levels of protecting the information that you share with us. This Privacy Policy describes the practices followed by Reaching Sky Foundation for protecting and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your personal information.

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time to reflect changing statutory standards. Any updates will be effective immediately upon posting to this website. We will never make changes to this policy that reduce the protection of your personal information without explicit consent.

2. Our Data Privacy Principles

The following core principles govern our collection, disclosure, disposal, and transfer of personal information:

• Choice: You will be given clear choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data.
• Individual Rights: We uphold individuals' rights to access, modify, erase, restrict, or object to certain uses of their data, and to withdraw prior consent.
• Purpose Limitation: We collect personal data solely for legitimate, stated charitable and programmatic purposes.
• Integrity & Confidentiality: We deploy reasonable technical, operational, and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access, leakage, or loss.

3. The Information We Collect

Depending on your interaction with Reaching Sky Foundation (as a donor, volunteer, intern, or website visitor), we may collect:

• Contact information such as your full name, email address, phone number, and physical mailing address.
• Statutory donation records, including PAN (Permanent Account Number) for Section 80G tax receipt issuance, transaction amounts, and payment timestamps.
• Academic and professional background for internship and volunteer applications (college, program, resume, and statement of interest).
• Technical metadata collected via standard web logs (IP address, browser type, device identifiers).

4. How We Use Collected Information

We use personal information strictly for:

• Processing charitable donations and generating statutory 80G tax receipts.
• Evaluating, onboarding, and coordinating volunteer and internship cohorts.
• Distributing impact updates, organizational newsletters, and program announcements.
• Internal analysis, program auditing, and regulatory compliance reporting to Indian authorities.

5. Information Sharing & Third Parties

Reaching Sky Foundation never sells, trades, or rents your personal information to commercial third parties. We disclose data only to trusted service providers (such as authorized payment gateways and cloud infrastructure providers) bound by strict confidentiality agreements, or when legally compelled by a court of law.

6. Data Retention & Security

We retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by applicable tax and non-profit accounting statutes in India (such as 7-year record keeping for audited donations).

7. Contact Our Data Protection Officer

If you have questions, wish to review or update your personal data, or request data deletion, please contact our compliance team:

Email: contact@reachingsky.org
Address: New Delhi