The Dipendra Kandel Initiative is committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about what information we may hold about you. 

This notice (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us is collected and processed by us, whether online (through 'our Site': dk-initiative.org), via telephone, email in letters or in any other correspondence or from third parties. 

Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. This privacy notice covers the following: 

• Who we are

• Information we may collect

• How your personal data may be used

• Sharing your personal data with third parties

• Your rights

• How long we store your data for

• Changes to our privacy notice. 

• Contact us

The Dipendra Kandel Initiative is an independent policy organization based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Our mission is to help to build sustainable, secure, prosperous and just region. 

We take great care in comply with the requirements of data protection law in force in Nepal, relating to the processing of your personal data, including the Individual Privacy Act 2075 (2018) ('the Privacy Act'), and the Individual Privacy Regulation 2077 ('the Privacy Regulation'). 

We may use information held about you in the following ways: 

• To enhance content on our Site and its technical performance.

• To provide you with information or services that you request from us.

• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us, for example if you take up an internship with us. 

• To invite you to events run by us or co-partners. 

• To fulfill orders for goods or services. 

For virtual conferences, your name, job title and company name will appear on the participant list through the official conference networking system enabling participants to connect with you during the conference. 

The lawful basis we rely on when processing your personal data: 

Legitimate interest: 

Those carefully considered and specific purposes might for example include the following: 

• Inviting potential speakers and participants in a business / professional capacity to our meetings or events. 

• Engaging with individuals holding relevant policy-making positions hand-picked experts, corporate professional individuals, journalists and those working in other relevant sectors in a professional capacity. 

Our site and its content are protected by intellectual property rights, including copyright. 

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you draw the attention of others within your organization to material posted on our site. 

Except as expressly authorized in writing either separately or where otherwise stated in these terms of use, you agree not to copy, download, alter, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works of any content of our site, or of any site property received by you as part of an order, in whole or in part. All rights not granted or licensed pursuant to these Terms are hereby expressly reserved to us. 

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us. 

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. 

• We may share your personal data with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries:

We may also share your personal data with third parties in the following circumstances: 

• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of Dipendra Kandel Initiative, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purpose of terrorism, fraud protection and credit risk reduction. 

• We may need to use certain service providers to carry out work on our behalf such as, for example, fulfilment companies, event partners or program funders. Where we enter into a relationship with an external party that would involve the processing of your personal data on our behalf, any such agreements will be subject  to a formal agreement between Dipendra Kandel Initiative and that organization, aimed to protect the security of your data. 

• Hotels, airlines and travel agencies should Dipendra Kandel Initiative arrange your travel and accommodation, for example, if you are an intern or volunteer for one of our programs. 

When working with partners to deliver an online or physical event, registration details may be shared with events partners for the purposes of monitoring attendance. 

• Whenever we share your personal data with third parties, it will be done lawfully, fairly and transparently and we will ensure that your rights and freedoms respect of the processing of your personal data are adequately and appropriately protected. We will not sell your data to any third party. 

Withdrawing your consent: 

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will always inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes and, where required, we will seek your consent. 

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from external websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 

Accessing and managing your personal information.

You also have the following rights: 

• To request us to erase your personal data.

• To request us to restrict our processing of your personal data.

• To object to the way in which we are processing your personal data.             

Should you wish to exercise these rights, we will require you to prove your identity. To help us deal with your request in the most efficient manner, please address your request, contact us and we will respond within thirty days of receipt of your request and confirmed ID. 

Please provide as much information as possible about the nature of your contact with us to help us to locate your records. 

We will hold your personal data on our systems for as longs as is necessary to operate the service in accordance with legal requirements and tax accounting rules.  

Where your information is no longer required, we will ensure it is disposed of in a secure manner. 

We keep our privacy under regular review. This privacy policy was last reviewed and updated on 06 December 2021. 

Any changes we may make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. 

By continuing to user our site, you shall be deemed to have accepted such changes.  

If you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy you can contact us. 

Thank you for visiting our site.