Privacy Policy

What This Policy Covers

Dignity in Adoption ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal information we may collect through this website, how we use it, and the rights you have over it under Nigerian law, specifically the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA).

Information We Collect

We only collect what we genuinely need to run this movement well:

• Newsletter sign-up: your email address, and your name if you choose to give it, when you join our mailing list.
• Contact forms and enquiries: your name, email, and whatever message you send us, if you reach out directly.
• Shared stories: any story, testimonial, or personal account you choose to submit for possible publication.
• Basic site usage: general, non-identifying data about how visitors use this website, gathered through standard web analytics.

We do not collect sensitive personal details — such as health information, financial details, or information about a specific adoption case — through this website. Any such information shared with Heritage Homes directly, outside this website, is handled under Heritage Homes' own confidentiality practices, not this policy.

How We Use Your Information

• To send you our newsletter and updates about Dignity in Adoption, if you've asked to receive them.
• To respond to your questions, comments, or requests.
• To consider a story you've submitted for publication — we will always ask your explicit permission before publishing anything, and confirm exactly how you'd like to be identified, or not identified.
• To understand, in general terms, how people use this website, so we can make it more useful.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone, for any reason.

Your Rights Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023

Under the NDPA, you have the right to:

• Know what personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct any information that is inaccurate or outdated.
• Ask us to delete your information, including unsubscribing from our mailing list at any time.
• Withdraw your consent for us to use your information, at any point.
• Object to how your information is being used, and ask us to explain our reasons.

To exercise any of these rights, please reach out to us through our contact page, and we will respond as promptly as we can.

How We Protect Your Information

We take reasonable, appropriate steps to protect the information you share with us from loss, misuse, or unauthorised access. This includes limiting who on our team has access to personal information, and only keeping it for as long as we genuinely need it for the purposes described above.

Third-Party Services

We use trusted third-party services to help run parts of this website — for example, an email service provider to manage our newsletter, and hosting providers to keep the site running. These providers only receive the information necessary to perform their specific service, and are expected to handle it responsibly.

Children's Information

This website is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children through this website. Any information about a specific child that arises in the course of Heritage Homes' adoption work is handled separately, under child protection and confidentiality standards appropriate to that work — not through this website.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, as our work grows or as Nigerian data protection law develops. The most current version will always be posted on this page.