Our privacy policy

Details of our privacy policy and how we protect your data when using the MamaYe website.

This Privacy Policy Statement explains how Options for International Health (“Options” or “we” or “us”) and its authorized data processors process the personal information which is held about you and which is collected via mamaye.org (the ”Website”).

Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy:  

By accessing the Website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by Options and/or its authorised data processors in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other terms and conditions of our Website. Options reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time and without notice. Therefore, we recommend that you review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis to ensure that you are kept up-to-date with any such changes.

Information that we may collect from you:

Contact Us: The information which you voluntarily provide us through the ‘Contact Us’ page on the Website will be used for the purposes of satisfying your request such as responding to a query or providing an article or publication. We will only use your email address to respond to such query.

Media requests: Media requests should be sent to the media@evidence4action.net email address. The information which you voluntary provide us through sending an email to this address will only be used for the purposes of satisfying your request. We will only use your email address to respond to such query.

Registration: If you choose to separately register to receive information from Options via the subscribe link in the Website footer, we will collect certain information from you in order that we can send you the following information.

  • The MamaYe programme newsletter sent to you periodically and which includes news on E4A-MamaYe’s work as well as events and opportunities.

We do not want to bombard you with emails and so we will try and limit our communications and updates to you no more than once or twice a month.

If you wish to stop receiving information or updates from us at any point, you can follow the unsubscribe instructions on any communications sent to you or contact us using the details at the end of this Privacy and Cookie Policy.  

Where we store and transfer your personal information:

We have a number of offices around the world and, as below, we may disclose personal information to third parties to the extent necessary to enable us to fulfil your requests. When you provide information to us (or a third party on our behalf) it may be accessed and used in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).

Disclosure of your information:

We may use the following third-party service providers named below to process and store your data:

We may also disclose your personal information to our affiliates who assist us in fulfilling requests for information, receiving and sending communication or other services from time to time.

We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law, Court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect the rights of Options.

Use of Cookies

This Website uses cookies. Cookies set by our Website can be read by our web server and may contain information you have provided to us for use in connection with the purposes outlined above. For example this Website typically serves:

  • session cookie - to see how long an anonymous user has used the site continuously
  • Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Sharethis buttons, google analytics (tracking) all set multiple cookies - these are known as 3rd party external cookies, but they are set via our site
  • any video services such as YouTube will serve cookies in order to display videos
  • a general cookie called is placed to tell our website whether javascript is enabled
  •  in your browser. Javascript is required for a lot of the advanced UI we use like interactive menu, flip book effect, slideshow, scrolling and many more.
  • a cookie to enable our Sharing function

Control of cookies:

Managing cookies in your browser - most modern browsers will allow you to:

  • See what cookies you’ve got and delete them on an individual basis.
  • Block third party cookies.
  • Block cookies from particular sites.
  • Block all cookies from being set.
  • Delete all cookies when you close your browser.

You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies. Ironically, this includes where you have opted out from cookies, as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set. Also, if you block cookies completely many websites will not work properly and some functionality on these websites will not work at all. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our Website for these reasons.

Acceptance of the Privacy Policy and Contact

By using the Website, you consent to the collection, transfer, storing or processing of your data by Options. We reserve the right to amend or delete any part of the Website and/or this Privacy Policy at any time and without notice. Therefore, we recommend that you review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis to ensure that you are kept up-to-date with any such changes.