Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Education Finance Network website. Your privacy and security are very important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or interact with us.

The Education Finance Network is an initiative operated by Dalberg and Opportunity International. This initiative receives funding from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the Education Outcomes Fund, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Dalberg is the data controller and Opportunity International is a data sub-processor. Personal information collected through this website is not routinely shared with Palladium or USAID.

Personal information you provide through this website is accessed by Dalberg and Opportunity International for the purposes listed below.

If you have any queries or concerns about how we use your personal information, please email educationfinance.network@dalberg.com.

Information we collect

This section describes what information we collect about your visit to our website and how we handle this information.

Information collected and stored automatically

When you visit educationfinancenetwork.org, we may store some or all of the following:

  • the IP address from which you accessed our site
  • the date and time
  • the URL of the website from which you linked to our site
  • the name of the file or words you searched for
  • the pages you visited on our site
  • the items clicked on a page
  • the browser and operating system used

We do not collect or track any personal information through these processes. We use this information, in the aggregate, to make our website more useful to visitors – to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology used, to detect operational problems, and to improve the website’s overall security.

Data retention

When you subscribe to our services we will hold and keep your personal information on our systems for no longer than is necessary. The length of retention is determined by relevant operational and legal considerations and is in line with the particular processing activity in question.

Your legal rights

We would like to make you aware of a law that provides to you with certain rights concerning your personal information. This is described in the Privacy Act of 1974 (as amended by 5 U.S.C. 552a) governing Federal Records. This law concerns any information held in a Privacy Act System of Records (SOR) that can be retrieved by a personal identifier such as name, social security number, or other identifying number or symbol. An individual is entitled to access to his or her records and to request correction of these records if applicable. The Privacy Act prohibits disclosure of these records without the written consent of the individual(s) to whom the records pertain unless one of the twelve disclosure exceptions enumerated in the Act applies. The actual Act can be found at this link: http://www.justice.gov/opcl/privstat.htm.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, or wish to exercise any of your legal rights please contact us:

By post
Dalberg Advisors, 155 West 23rd Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA; or
Opportunity International, PO Box 2826, Carol Stream, Illinois, 60132, USA; or Opportunity International EduFinance, Level 18, 100 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 1GT, UK

By email
educationfinance.network@dalberg.com

Data security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved.

Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.

Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use.

Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.

If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you may not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

Social media

Education Finance Network maintains a company page on LinkedIn, which provides information for the public. While we encourage commenting and conversation on our LinkedIn page, please remember that it is a public forum and any information provided will be visible to the public. Please do not include personal details such as your telephone number, email address, or any other personal information that you do not want available to the general public.

Because LinkedIn is not owned and operated by Education Finance Network, we cannot control what personal information is being collected and or how it is used by LinkedIn. For more information, please refer to LinkedIn’s Privacy Notice for what information they collect about you and how it is being used.

Our presence on social media sites is not intended to endorse, recommend, or favor any third-party company or service provider.

Embedded third-party content

Education Finance Network makes use of third-party embeddable content and applications (widgets). When content is embedded from a third-party provider, we will clearly label the source of the content. Embedded videos may set a cookie when they are played. For more information please see the Cookies section in this Privacy Policy.

Accessibility

Education Finance Network is committed to providing access to all individuals seeking information on educationfinancenetwork.org.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader, Braille reader, etc.) and have trouble accessing information on this site, please contact us at educationfinance.network@dalberg.com with the nature of the problem, the URL (web address) of the information you tried to access, and your contact information. We will contact you as soon as possible and do what we can to provide you with the information you need.

Accessing documents in different file formats

Some documents on educationfinancenetwork.org are in Portable Document Format (PDF), so you can view publications in their original format regardless of the type of computer, browser, or operating system you use to access the Internet. In order to view, navigate through, and print PDF documents, you must first download the free Acrobat Reader software. Visit the Adobe Reader Help and Support page for troubleshooting tips. If you use a screen reader, you may want to visit Adobe’s Reader accessibility page, which has a user’s guide for accessing PDF documents with assistive technology.

Verification of content

If you would like verification of information released on this website, contact us at educationfinance.network@dalberg.org.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please contact Education Finance Network at educationfinance.network@dalberg.org.