Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 2, 2026
Website: https://mohwaglobal.org
Organization: MOHWA GLOBAL-USA / Manyu Women’s Association Inc.

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA respects the privacy of our members, visitors, donors, volunteers, branch leaders, chapter leaders, partners, and community supporters. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, share, and retain information when you visit our website, submit a form, make an inquiry, register for membership, support a project, donate, subscribe to updates, participate in programs, or otherwise interact with MOHWA GLOBAL-USA online.

By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA is a cultural, community, and service-focused organization connected to the Manyu Women’s Association network. Our website supports communication, membership engagement, branch and chapter coordination, event promotion, donations, community programs, leadership visibility, and public information about our mission.

For privacy-related questions, you may contact us at:

Email: mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org
Phone: 770-744-8703
Mailing Address: [ ]

2. Information We Collect

We collect information that you voluntarily submit through the website, as well as limited technical information collected automatically when you use the site.

A. Information You Provide Directly

Depending on how you interact with the website, we may collect:

  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Phone number or WhatsApp number
  • Mailing address, if provided
  • Branch, chapter, city, state, country, or regional affiliation
  • Membership information
  • Donation or pledge information
  • Event registration details
  • Volunteer interest information
  • Leadership, officer, or chapter contact information
  • Messages submitted through contact forms
  • Inquiry type, subject, and message content
  • Uploaded documents, images, receipts, payment confirmations, or supporting files, where applicable
  • Consent confirmations, form submissions, and communication preferences

B. Membership and Community Participation Information

If the website includes membership registration, member login, chapter profiles, leadership directories, or private member areas, we may collect and process information needed to manage:

  • Membership applications
  • Member status
  • Branch or chapter assignment
  • Dues or contribution verification
  • Member communications
  • Internal routing to appropriate officers or committees
  • Access to member-only pages, documents, or resources
  • Event participation and attendance records
  • Volunteer, committee, or leadership participation

C. Donation and Support Information

If you donate, pledge, or support a MOHWA project through the website, we may collect information necessary to process, verify, acknowledge, and record your contribution, including:

  • Donor name
  • Contact information
  • Donation amount
  • Donation purpose or project designation
  • Giving method
  • Payment confirmation details
  • Receipt or acknowledgment information
  • Optional dedication or message information

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA does not intend to collect or store full credit card numbers directly on this website. If third-party payment processors, banks, Zelle, PayPal, Stripe, or other payment services are used, their own privacy policies and security practices also apply.

D. Automatically Collected Information

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages visited
  • Date and time of visit
  • Approximate location based on IP address
  • Cookies or similar tracking technologies
  • Security logs and spam-prevention signals

This information helps us operate the website, improve performance, prevent abuse, secure forms, and understand general visitor activity.

3. How We Use Your Information

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA may use collected information for the following purposes:

  • To respond to inquiries submitted through the website
  • To route messages to the correct branch, chapter, officer, committee, or administrative contact
  • To process membership registrations and updates
  • To verify dues, donations, pledges, or payment confirmations
  • To manage member access to protected content
  • To send confirmations, receipts, acknowledgments, or administrative notices
  • To communicate about events, programs, projects, meetings, campaigns, or organizational updates
  • To maintain accurate membership, donation, event, and volunteer records
  • To support branch and chapter coordination
  • To publish approved leadership, event, project, or community information
  • To protect the website from spam, abuse, fraud, unauthorized access, and security threats
  • To improve website design, performance, accessibility, and user experience
  • To comply with legal, accounting, governance, audit, tax, reporting, and recordkeeping obligations

We do not use personal information for unlawful profiling, predatory marketing, or unrelated commercial exploitation.

4. Contact Forms and Internal Message Routing

The website may include contact forms that allow visitors to select a branch, chapter, inquiry type, or department. When you submit a form, your message may be routed internally to the appropriate MOHWA representative.

Branch, chapter, officer, or committee email addresses may be kept private and used only for internal routing. This helps protect leaders and volunteers from public spam while still allowing the community to contact the right team.

By submitting a form, you consent to MOHWA GLOBAL-USA using the information provided to respond to your inquiry and route your message appropriately.

5. Email Communications

If you contact us, register, donate, join a mailing list, submit a form, or participate in a program, we may email you for purposes related to your request or relationship with MOHWA.

Emails may include:

  • Responses to inquiries
  • Membership notices
  • Donation confirmations
  • Event updates
  • Program announcements
  • Meeting notices
  • Volunteer coordination
  • Chapter or branch communications
  • Administrative or governance notices
  • Website account or security notifications

You may request to stop receiving non-essential promotional or newsletter-style communications. However, MOHWA may still send important administrative, membership, transaction, legal, security, or governance-related messages when necessary.

6. Donations, Payment Verification, and Receipts

When donations, dues, project contributions, or other payments are made, MOHWA may use the information provided to:

  • Verify payment
  • Record the contribution
  • Issue receipts or acknowledgments
  • Reconcile financial records
  • Support donor reporting
  • Maintain organizational accounting records
  • Comply with nonprofit, tax, audit, and governance requirements

If you submit proof of payment, screenshots, receipts, bank confirmations, or transaction references, you should avoid uploading unnecessary sensitive information. Do not submit full bank account numbers, full card numbers, passwords, PINs, or unrelated personal financial records.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The website may use cookies, scripts, pixels, log files, or similar technologies to support:

  • Website functionality
  • Security and spam prevention
  • Form protection
  • Login sessions
  • User preferences
  • Analytics and performance monitoring
  • Website traffic measurement
  • Embedded content functionality

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect some website features, including login, forms, security checks, embedded media, or protected content access.

8. Google reCAPTCHA

This website may use Google reCAPTCHA v3 or similar security tools to protect forms from spam, bots, abuse, and automated attacks.

reCAPTCHA may collect technical information such as device data, browser information, IP address, user interaction signals, and cookies necessary for risk analysis. Your use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google’s applicable Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

9. Analytics and Website Performance Tools

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA may use analytics, hosting logs, security plugins, performance tools, or similar services to understand website traffic and improve the site.

These tools may collect aggregated or technical data, such as pages visited, device type, browser type, approximate location, and site usage patterns. We use this information to improve website reliability, design, content, security, and accessibility.

10. Embedded Content and Third-Party Links

The website may include links to third-party websites, social media pages, donation platforms, payment processors, event tools, maps, videos, documents, or embedded content.

Examples may include:

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X / Twitter
  • YouTube or video platforms
  • Google Maps
  • Payment processors
  • External partner websites
  • Government or embassy websites
  • Event registration platforms
  • Document viewers or file services

Third-party websites and services are controlled by their own privacy policies. MOHWA GLOBAL-USA is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of external websites.

11. How We Share Information

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA does not sell personal information.

We may share information only when reasonably necessary for legitimate organizational, operational, legal, or service-related purposes, including with:

  • MOHWA officers, administrators, committee members, branch leaders, or chapter leaders
  • Authorized volunteers assisting with membership, events, donations, communications, or programs
  • Website hosting providers
  • Email delivery services
  • Payment processors or financial service providers
  • Security, spam-prevention, or reCAPTCHA providers
  • Analytics and website performance providers
  • Professional advisers, such as accountants, auditors, legal counsel, or compliance consultants
  • Government, regulatory, or law enforcement authorities when legally required
  • Successor organizations, if organizational restructuring or transfer of website operations occurs

We limit access to personal information to individuals or service providers who reasonably need it for authorized purposes.

12. Publicly Displayed Information

Some information may be displayed publicly on the website when appropriate and authorized, including:

  • Names and titles of elected or appointed leaders
  • Branch or chapter names
  • Public event information
  • Approved photographs
  • Public project updates
  • News and announcements
  • Community achievements
  • Sponsor, partner, or donor recognition, where approved
  • Volunteer or committee recognition, where approved

If you believe personal information, a photograph, or other content has been published incorrectly or without proper authorization, contact us at mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org.

13. Photos, Videos, and Event Media

MOHWA events, programs, meetings, and cultural activities may include photography or video recording. Images or recordings may be used for community documentation, website updates, newsletters, social media, archives, reports, and promotional materials.

Where practical, MOHWA will respect reasonable requests not to publish a person’s image, especially for minors or sensitive situations. To request removal or review of a photo or video, contact us at mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org and identify the specific image or page.

14. Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian consent. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without proper consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete or restrict that information.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has submitted personal information through the website should contact us at mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org.

15. Data Security

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

These safeguards may include:

  • Secure website hosting
  • HTTPS encryption
  • Spam and bot protection
  • Access controls
  • Administrative account restrictions
  • Security monitoring
  • Limited internal access
  • Form validation
  • Backup and recovery procedures
  • Regular website maintenance

No website, email system, or online transmission is completely secure. You should avoid submitting highly sensitive information through general contact forms unless specifically requested through a secure process.

16. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including organizational operations, membership management, donation records, event records, financial reporting, dispute resolution, legal compliance, tax obligations, audit requirements, and historical or governance records.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information. For example:

  • Contact form messages may be retained for administrative follow-up.
  • Membership records may be retained while membership is active and for a reasonable period afterward.
  • Donation and financial records may be retained as required for accounting, tax, audit, and legal purposes.
  • Event and program records may be retained for historical, reporting, or organizational continuity purposes.
  • Security logs may be retained for fraud prevention and website protection.

When information is no longer needed, we may delete, anonymize, archive, or securely restrict access to it.

17. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and relationship with MOHWA, you may request to:

  • Access personal information we maintain about you
  • Correct inaccurate or outdated information
  • Update your membership or contact details
  • Request deletion of certain information
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Opt out of non-essential email communications
  • Request that we limit certain uses of your information
  • Ask questions about how your information is used
  • Request removal of a photo or publicly displayed personal information, where appropriate

To make a privacy request, contact:

Email: mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. Some information may not be deleted if we need to retain it for legal, financial, tax, governance, audit, security, dispute-resolution, or legitimate organizational purposes.

18. California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under California privacy law, depending on how the law applies to MOHWA GLOBAL-USA and the nature of the information involved.

California residents may have the right to request:

  • The categories of personal information collected
  • The purposes for collecting or using personal information
  • The categories of sources from which information is collected
  • The categories of third parties with whom information is shared
  • Access to specific personal information
  • Correction of inaccurate personal information
  • Deletion of certain personal information
  • Information about whether personal information is sold or shared
  • The ability to opt out of sale or sharing, where applicable
  • Non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA does not sell personal information.

To submit a California privacy request, email mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org with the subject line “California Privacy Request.”

19. International Visitors

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA is based in the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, your information may be processed, stored, or accessed in the United States or other locations where our website, service providers, officers, volunteers, or administrative systems operate.

If you are located in a jurisdiction with specific privacy rights, such as the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Canada, or other regions with privacy laws, you may have additional rights regarding access, correction, deletion, objection, restriction, portability, or withdrawal of consent.

To exercise privacy rights, contact mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org.

20. Legal Bases for Processing Where Applicable

Where a legal basis is required, MOHWA GLOBAL-USA may process personal information based on:

  • Your consent
  • Performance of a membership, donation, event, volunteer, or program-related relationship
  • Legitimate organizational interests
  • Compliance with legal, tax, accounting, audit, governance, or regulatory obligations
  • Protection of website security and prevention of fraud or abuse
  • Public-interest, nonprofit, community, cultural, or service-related purposes, where applicable

21. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, the website may not respond to them automatically. You may still control cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings and privacy tools.

22. Sensitive Information

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through general website forms unless it is specifically requested and necessary.

Sensitive information may include:

  • Social Security numbers
  • Full bank account numbers
  • Full credit card numbers
  • Passwords or PINs
  • Medical records
  • Government identification documents
  • Highly confidential financial information
  • Information about minors unless submitted by a parent, guardian, or authorized representative

If a form requests proof of payment or supporting documentation, submit only what is necessary and redact unrelated sensitive details where possible.

23. Volunteer, Officer, and Chapter Information

MOHWA may collect and maintain information about officers, volunteers, committee members, branch leaders, and chapter leaders for internal governance, routing, reporting, and coordination.

This may include names, titles, email addresses, phone numbers, branch or chapter affiliation, role history, service records, and related administrative information.

Some leadership information may be published publicly when appropriate for transparency, governance, or organizational communication.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the website, organizational practices, technology, legal requirements, or services.

When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the effective date at the top of the page. Continued use of the website after updates means you accept the revised policy.

25. Contact Us

For privacy questions, correction requests, deletion requests, photo removal requests, data access requests, or concerns about how your information is handled, contact:

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA / Manyu Women’s Association Inc.
Email: mohwausa@mohwaglobal.org
Phone: 770-744-8703
Mailing Address: [. ]

MOHWA GLOBAL-USA will make reasonable efforts to review and respond to privacy requests in a timely manner.