1.Who we are
This website (adi.org.ly) is run by Atheer Organization for Development and Innovation (“Atheer”, “we”, “us”), a nonprofit non-governmental organization registered with the Civil Society Commission – Greater Tripoli Branch, Libya, under Registration No. 544-02-2025, dated 11 September 2025.
Atheer is responsible for (the “controller” of) the personal data described in this policy. You can reach us at:
- Address: Hay Al-Andalus, Tripoli, Libya
- Email: info@adi.org.ly
2.What information we collect
When you contact us
If you use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, the organization you name (optional), the topic you choose and your message. If you email us directly, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your email.
To keep the form free of spam, it also checks how long the form was open and whether a hidden field was filled in. These checks are used only to decide whether a message is genuine and are not stored.
When you visit the website
Like almost every website, our web server records basic technical information about each request: your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, and your browser type. These server logs are kept by our hosting provider for security and to keep the website running.
To stop the contact form from being misused, we keep a one-way scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address for one hour after you send a message, which lets us limit how many messages can be sent from the same connection.
What we do not collect
- We do not use advertising, tracking or analytics cookies, or social media pixels.
- Our fonts, images and documents are served from our own website, so visiting it does not send your data to services such as Google Fonts.
- We do not ask for, and ask you not to send, sensitive information such as health or financial details.
3.How we use it, and our legal basis
We use personal data only for the purposes below. For each, we rely on the legal basis shown.
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Reading and replying to your message, and any follow-up you ask for | Our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries, or steps you ask us to take before entering an agreement (for example a partnership) |
| Working with partners, donors and other organizations who contact us | Our legitimate interest in running our programmes and partnerships, or performing an agreement with you |
| Keeping the website and the contact form secure and free of abuse | Our legitimate interest in protecting our website and users |
| Remembering your cookie choice | Strictly necessary to provide the choice you asked for |
| Meeting legal, audit and reporting obligations | Compliance with legal obligations that apply to us |
We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not add you to mailing lists without your agreement.
5.International transfers
Atheer is based in Libya. Our email provider, Microsoft, may process and store data in data centres in other countries, including in the European Union and the United States. Where data is transferred, it is protected by Microsoft’s contractual data protection commitments, including the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
6.How long we keep it
- Messages and related correspondence: as long as needed to handle your enquiry and any resulting partnership, and no longer than 24 months after our last contact, unless a longer period is needed for legal, audit or donor reporting obligations.
- Spam protection record (hashed IP address): one hour.
- Server logs: a limited period set by our hosting provider for security purposes.
- Your cookie choice: stored in your browser for twelve months, after which we ask again. You can clear it at any time in your browser.
7.How we protect it
The website is served only over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Messages are delivered directly to our organization mailbox, and access to it is limited to authorized members of our team, who are bound by confidentiality under our Code of Conduct. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we take appropriate measures to protect your information against loss, misuse and unauthorized access.
8.Your rights
You can ask us at any time to:
- give you a copy of the personal data we hold about you (access);
- correct data that is wrong or incomplete (rectification);
- delete your data (erasure);
- limit how we use it (restriction), or object to how we use it (objection);
- send your data to you or another organization in a common format (portability);
- withdraw any consent you have given, without affecting what was done before.
To use any of these rights, email info@adi.org.ly with the subject “Privacy request”. It is free, and we will reply within one month. We may ask you to confirm your identity first.
If you are in the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you also have the right to complain to the data protection authority in your country. We would appreciate the chance to address your concern first.
10.Links to other websites
Our website links to other sites, such as our Facebook and LinkedIn pages and the websites of organizations we mention. These are plain links, not embedded widgets, so those platforms receive no information about your visit unless you click. Once you leave our website, the other site’s privacy policy applies.
11.Children
This website is intended for adults, such as partners, donors and civil society professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 through it. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, please contact us and we will delete it.
12.Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our website or the way we work changes. The date at the top shows when it was last updated. If we make significant changes, we will make them clear on this page.
13.Contact us
For any question about this policy or your personal data, email info@adi.org.ly or write to us at Atheer Organization for Development and Innovation, Hay Al-Andalus, Tripoli, Libya.