Privacy & personal data
Privacy policy
1. Data controller
The website www.nkseeds.org is published and operated by: NK Seeds — Nong Khiaw Sharing Education Environment Development Solidarity Association governed by the French law of 1901 RNA: W742007165 · SIRET: 851 387 167 00014 Registered office: 20 Grande Rue, 74300 Cluses, France Email: [email protected] NK Seeds is the controller of the personal data collected on this site, within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act.
2. Data we collect and why
We collect the data you send us yourself through the forms on the site: last name, first name, email and, depending on the form, your message, the amount of your donation, and details of a membership, a sponsorship or a volunteer application. If you sign up for our newsletter, your email address is collected too. This data is used to: answer your enquiries; process your donations, memberships and sponsorships; send you our newsletter and news about our work if you have agreed to that; and handle volunteer applications. It is kept for as long as those purposes require (for example the length of a member’s relationship with the association, or until you unsubscribe from the newsletter), and beyond that where a legal or accounting obligation requires it (e.g. donation receipts).
3. Sharing your data
Your data is never sold, rented or passed on to third parties for commercial purposes. It may be shared only with our technical providers, and only as far as their work requires: — the site’s host and publisher, What The Web; — our newsletter provider (Mailchimp), for people who have signed up; — our card payment provider, to process online donations and memberships. These providers are contractually bound to keep your data confidential.
4. Cookies
The site may use cookies needed for it to work properly and, where applicable, anonymized analytics cookies. You can set your browser to refuse non-essential cookies; some features of the site may then be limited.
5. Your rights
Under the GDPR and the French Data Protection Act, you have the right to access, correct, object to, erase and restrict the processing of your data, as well as the right to data portability where it applies. You can withdraw your consent at any time (for example by unsubscribing from the newsletter). To exercise these rights, write to us at [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (www.cnil.fr), if you believe your rights are not being respected.
6. Security and updates to this policy
NK Seeds puts reasonable technical and organizational measures in place to protect your data against unauthorized access, loss or disclosure. This privacy policy may be updated; the date below shows the latest version. If you have any questions, write to us at [email protected].
7. NK School app
The NK School app (iPhone, iPad, Android) is for students of NK Seeds schools only. NK Seeds is the data controller, as for the website. Data the app uses: — the student’s name and email address, entered by their school, to open their account and sign in (with a password, or with Apple or Google for the same address); — their work in the lessons: exercise answers, progress, points, review cards and grades; — their notebook: the texts they write and, if they choose, voice recordings (30 seconds at most). The microphone is only used while the student is recording. This data is used only to follow the student’s schoolwork: it is visible to the student and their teachers. It is hosted by What The Web, which publishes the app. The app has no advertising, no tracking and no analytics. Reminders are notifications scheduled on the phone, with no data sent. Deleting your account: in the app, Settings → “Delete my account”, or by writing to [email protected]. The account and its sign-in details are deleted; the school keeps the student’s school record.
8. NK Seeds Medical app
The NK Seeds Medical app (iPhone, Android) is for the NK Seeds medical mission team only: carers, translators and coordinators. NK Seeds is the data controller, as for the website. Data the app uses: — each team member’s name, email address and role, entered by the coordinators, to open their account and sign in (with a password, or with Apple or Google for the same address), and their station during the mission; — the data of patients seen during a mission, entered by the care team: name, sex, year of birth, phone number, village, consultations, measurements, diagnoses, prescriptions and equipment handed out (glasses, for example). This is health data: it is used only to treat the patient and follow their record from one mission to the next, and it is visible only to the team members who need it; — the camera, to read the QR code on patients’ tickets and wristbands, and for the photos a carer attaches to a consultation (the paper form, an examination). These photos are part of the patient’s record and are never public. This data is hosted by What The Web, which publishes the app. It is never sold, nor used for anything other than care and running the mission. The app has no advertising, no tracking and no analytics. Deleting your account: in the app, Settings → “Delete my account”, or by writing to [email protected]. The account and its sign-in details are deleted; the medical team keeps the record of the member’s part in the mission and the patients’ records.
Last updated: October 2026