Below are the Terms and Conditions that govern the use of this Website. You should read the Terms and Conditions carefully. If you do not wish to be bounded by these Terms and Conditions, you should not continue to use or access this Website.

The Terms and Conditions may change or be updated periodically. You are responsible for accessing and checking on the latest Terms and Conditions whenever you access the Website. The latest Terms and Conditions will govern any usage by you on the Website.

PROFILE DATA AND CONTACT

Any personal information collected on the Website is used solely for World Vision Singapore (WVS) to communicate campaign updates, provide campaign results, and other WVS purposes. WVS reserves the right to remove offensive or inappropriate names or content on the Website.

We promise not to transmit, transfer, or sell your private information to any third parties. When registering, you will be asked to select a username and password; since you are responsible for all activities occurring under your username, we suggest you keep that password secure. We reserve the right to refuse usernames that impersonate someone else, are or may be protected by trademark or proprietary rights law, or which are vulgar, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

SITE USAGE

All users of the Website have to be at least 18 years old. If you are younger than 18 years old, get a parent, teacher, or any responsible adult to start a campaign on your behalf. Anyone who makes a donation or starts a campaign on our site represents and warrants that he/she is 18 years or older.

USER CONDUCT

You must at all times use the Website and its associated services in a responsible and legal manner. In particular, but not exclusively:

• You must not upload offensive, obscene or racist content, including photographs, onto the Website. We do not actively edit the Website but reserve the right to remove or edit any content posted on the Website at its sole discretion and without notice, regardless of whether or not it is, in the opinion of any third party, offensive, obscene or racist.
• If you start a campaign on the Website, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are not soliciting funds from the public but seeking funds and support from your own private circles of friends and family. Should you intend to raise funds from the public, you are to inform World Vision Singapore and apply for a public fund raising license from the Commissioner of Charities, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth.*
• You are also responsible for ensuring that the content you are uploading on your page is not copyright-protected. If it is, you must obtain the copyright owner’s written consent to use it. We reserve the right to remove any content from personal fundraising pages, at its sole discretion and without notice if their copyright status is in any doubt.
• Other than in relation to your own fundraising page, you may not remove or change anything on the Website.

In addition, as a user, you must not:

• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any other person or organisation;
• Use the Website to conduct, display or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters;
• Interfere with, or disrupt, the service or services or networks connected to the service and introduce any computer virus (including any variant or similar malicious code or instructions) to our systems.

We reserve the right to cancel your account and delete any fundraising page without notice in the event of a breach of the above rules. Building a fundraising page in no way implies WVS’ endorsement of your fundraising activity.

EXTERNAL LINKS

The Website contains external links directing out of the Website. Inclusion of a link to another Website does not imply endorsement of its content or opinions. Your relationship and any transactions with other organisations through their Websites or otherwise are your own responsibility.

USE OF DONATIONS

No more than 20 cents of each dollar goes to WVS for administrative costs and public awareness programmes. The rest of the donation goes to the field. Administrative costs include finance and accounting functions, information technology for better efficiency, postal services, telecommunications, human resources, legal and risk management, and fixed office overheads. Public awareness programmes include marketing, creative services and publishing to draw attention to our poverty alleviation activities. The Singapore Government allows registered charities to deduct a maximum of 30% of all donations for administrative costs. World Vision International’s stewardship mandate is that administrative and public awareness costs should not exceed 20% of all donations received. Click here to read the annual report.

*Click here to find out about the distinction between Public and Private Donations.