(This policy has been added February 22nd, 2018)

Paper for Water (“We,” “us,” or “our”) a non-profit organization bringing clean water and the Word to the Thirsty, one piece of paper at a time, has the commitment of respecting the privacy of all our donors (“You,” “user,” “site user,” “your”). We have developed this exclusive this privacy policy (“Donor Privacy Policy”) to ensure our donors that their information will not be shared with any outside entity (third party) other than Paper for Water staff.

Paper for Water has a Donor Privacy Policy to make donors aware of their privacy policy and to inform the methods in which the information provided will be used.

At any given time, donors have the right and opportunity to remove their names from our mailing list, donor database, or any other places where the donor information is collected and stored.

Information collected


Paper for Water and its platform collects the following types of information, but not limited to:

- Contact information: name, organization, complete address, phone number, email address;
- Payment information is executed through a secure third party API called Stripe within our platform, specialized in processing payments. Information collected will include credit card number, expiration date, amount donated, and billing information;
- Non-personally identifiable information, such as user behavior inside the platform. This requires that a “cookie” be sent to your web browser.

By inputting any of the information above onto our Platform, the donor agrees to receive periodic mailing and/or emails related to specific, but not limited to: fundraising events, appeals, newsletter, organization’s updates, new achievements, water well projects, and volunteering opportunities.

Paper for Water uses your information solely to complete donation transactions, communicate and update with the donor about foundation happenings. Credit card numbers are only used for donations or any payment processings allowed by the donor and are not retained for any other purposes.

No sharing of personal information


Paper for Water promises its donors that we will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to any other organizations. We assume that as a donor and as a general user of our platform that your identity and information will be kept confidential. The usage of information will be limited to the internal purposes of Paper for Water.

Removal of name from our Mailing List


Please contact us if you wish to be removed from our mailing list by contacting

[email protected].