Privacy notice
In short, we never see your message, your name or your town. We set no cookies, and we keep no accounts or mailing list.
Who is responsible
Cuba Action Desk SA is an independent, volunteer-run project in South Africa. Timothy Brits runs it and is the responsible party under POPIA. For anything about your personal information, write to hello@cubaactiondesk.org.za.
What stays on your device
- What you type on an action. Your name, town and message are put together in your browser and sent from your own email app or WhatsApp. They never reach our server. If you turn JavaScript off, the “Update message” button reloads the page with what you typed in the web address; we do not log or store web addresses, and Cloudflare Web Analytics does not log them either.
- Which actions you finished. The star on an action card is saved in your browser's local storage on your device only. Clear your browser data to remove it.
What we store
Nothing here can identify you.
- Action counters. When you press “Mark as done”, we add one to that action's total. The request has no body and we store only the action name and the total.
- Link checks. Once a week we test each donation link and keep whether it worked.
- Outbound clicks. When you press a donate button we count one click for that organisation, and nothing about you.
Abuse protection
To stop automated abuse, the counter is rate limited per network address by Cloudflare. We do not store network addresses.
Cloudflare
We use Cloudflare to host the site, serve it quickly, protect it, and forward email. Cloudflare processes your network address to deliver pages, as any host does, under its own privacy policy. Cloudflare may process data outside South Africa. For page views and loading speed we use Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare's documentation says it collects page-load timing metrics, does not collect or use visitors' personal data, and does not track individual end users across the sites it serves.
When you email us
Email to hello@cubaactiondesk.org.za is forwarded by Cloudflare Email Routing to a private inbox. We use it only to reply and to deal with what you wrote, and we delete it as soon as that is done.
Other sites
Email apps, WhatsApp and the organisations we link to have their own privacy practices. When you leave this site, theirs apply.
Your rights under POPIA
Under the Protection of Personal Information Act you may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and object to how we use it. Write to hello@cubaactiondesk.org.za.
Complaints
If you are not happy, you may complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa.
- General enquiries: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za, toll free 0800 017 160, 010 023 5200
- POPIA complaints: POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za
- Woodmead North Office Park, 54 Maxwell Drive, Woodmead, Johannesburg, 2191
- inforegulator.org.za
Changes
If this notice changes, we update the date at the top.