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Masks
To ensure the safety of all our stakeholders and their families, Welcome Ideas requires the use of masks for all students, staff, and visitors once they enter the property, regardless of vaccination status. Each student has been provided with two cloth masks and medical masks are available for visitors and outside vendors. As more of our students become vaccinated, this policy will be revisited based on the state of the pandemic in Zanzibar and the percentage of students vaccinated.
Checks
Temperature Checks
A digital thermometer has been installed at the entrance of Welcome Ideas, to allow for the temperature testing of all students, staff, and visitors. Students are encouraged to stay home if they aren’t feeling well or if they have a fever. Our strict attendance policies have been relaxed during the pandemic and students are now allowed to watch videos of the lectures that they miss if they stayed home because of illness. If an individual’s temperature check is too high or too low, an additional and more accurate reading can be done using thermometers in the office.
Sanitizing
Hand Sanitizing
Welcome Ideas has installed hand sanitizer in each of the classrooms and at the entrance to the facility. Students, staff, and visitors are required to sanitize their hands when entering the facility. We also remind everyone at Welcome Ideas that the use of hand sanitizer is not a substitute to good handwashing and hand hygiene practices.
Distancing
Social DIstancing
To ensure that students, staff, visitors, and their families are protected from the COVID-19 virus, social distancing (of 2 meters or 6 feet) is required on the Welcome Ideas campus. Classroom capacity has been cut from a maximum of 26 students down to 8 students. Student seating in each classroom is determined by our social distancing guidelines and students are not allowed to move their chairs or change seats in the classrooms. To comply with our social distancing policies and the special culture of greetings in Zanzibar, the shaka from Hawaii has become the official greeting and handshake used at Welcome Ideas.
Washing
Hand Washing
Fully stocked hand washing stations are located through-out the school, in each of the restrooms and in the student lounge and both kitchens. Everyone is reminded to wash their hands after using the restroom, after coughing or sneezing, before/after preparing or eating food, and after touching their mouth, nose, or face. We also encourage the use of hand sanitizer after hand washing to ensure proper hand hygiene.
Campaign
Vaccine Campaign
For the safety of our students, the entire staff at Welcome Ideas has been vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. During our Pandemic Re-Opening Orientation, we discussed the importance of being vaccinated to protect each other and our families. Most of our students live in multigenerational households, so it is extremely important that we ensure our students do not get exposed to COVID-19 while at Welcome Ideas. Our “Welcome Ideas Vaccine Club,” which is updated every day on our welcome board, highlights all the students who have demonstrated the courage and kindness to care about one another.
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Welcome Ideas Privacy Notice
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Welcome Ideas (www.welcomeideas.org). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website (www.welcomeideas.org). It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through our website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us via our web forms, email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request (for example: process your donation and send you a receipt or answer a question you submit to us).
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about a new fundraising campaign, give you updates on our program, or provide you with changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email form or phone number given on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.
Orders
We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.
Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example: credit card donation processors or Google Maps). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Sharing
We use outside credit card processing companies to process donations. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond processing your donation or any recurring donations.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Surveys
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and mailing address) and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and our programs.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example: donation processing or fundraising page approval) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at +1 509 795 0264 or +255 772 333 670 or via this email form.
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Privacy Policy Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Welcome Ideas privacy policy including questions about the use of your data, please use the form below. We look forward to answering your questions and addressing any concerns you may have as quickly as possible. (Note: All fields with an * are required fields)
To view our privacy notice, click here.