Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 28, 2026
Welcome to Green Forest Conservation (GFC). We value your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit www.gfc.com.np, use our services, participate in our projects or training programs, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with Green Forest Conservation.
By accessing or using our website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
Who We Are
Green Forest Conservation (GFC) is a forestry, environment, GIS, remote sensing, biodiversity, climate change, and natural resource management organization dedicated to supporting sustainable development through research, consultancy, innovation, training, and conservation initiatives.
As part of our activities, we may collect information from website visitors, project partners, clients, researchers, students, government agencies, donors, consultants, and other stakeholders.
Information We Collect
We collect information to provide our services effectively, improve user experience, and support our conservation and research activities.
Information You Provide
- Contact us through our website
- Request consultancy services
- Register for training, workshops, or events
- Subscribe to newsletters
- Apply for employment or volunteer opportunities
- Download publications or datasets
- Submit project inquiries or partnership requests
Depending on your interaction with us, this information may include your name, email address, phone number, organization, job title, mailing address, country, and any other information you choose to share.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain technical information is collected automatically. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, pages visited, referring website, date and time of access, session duration, and similar technical information.
This information helps us understand how visitors use our website, improve performance, enhance security, and identify technical issues.
Forestry, Environmental, and Geospatial Information
As part of our professional activities, GFC may collect, create, process, or manage environmental and geospatial information. This may include forest inventory data, GIS layers, satellite imagery, drone imagery, biodiversity observations, ecological monitoring data, watershed information, climate datasets, carbon assessment data, environmental reports, maps, technical documents, and other scientific information necessary for research, planning, consultancy, conservation, and development projects.
Some environmental information may originate from government agencies, project partners, communities, or publicly available sources, while other datasets may be created by GFC during project implementation.
How We Use Your Information
We use information only for legitimate organizational and operational purposes. These purposes include responding to inquiries, providing consultancy and technical services, implementing forestry and environmental projects, conducting scientific research, organizing capacity-building programs, communicating with stakeholders, publishing reports, improving our website, analyzing website performance, maintaining information security, fulfilling contractual obligations, and complying with applicable laws and regulations.
Where appropriate, information may also be used to prepare statistical summaries, technical analyses, research publications, and educational materials. Whenever practical, such information is aggregated or anonymized to protect individual privacy.
Legal Basis for Processing Information
We process information only when there is a legitimate reason to do so. Depending on the circumstances, processing may be based on your consent, the performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations, protection of legitimate organizational interests, or the implementation of research, conservation, and development activities carried out in accordance with applicable laws and ethical standards.
Information Sharing
Green Forest Conservation respects the confidentiality of personal information and does not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third parties.
We may share information only when necessary with government agencies, project partners, donor organizations, academic institutions, research collaborators, technology service providers, cloud hosting providers, or professional advisors involved in supporting our activities. Such sharing occurs only for legitimate project implementation, contractual obligations, legal compliance, or operational support.
Where required, third parties receiving information are expected to maintain appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Protection of Sensitive Environmental Information
Some environmental information requires additional protection because public disclosure could threaten biodiversity, ecosystems, cultural heritage, or community interests.
Accordingly, Green Forest Conservation may limit access to sensitive information relating to endangered species, protected habitats, wildlife locations, ecological monitoring sites, indigenous knowledge, confidential project information, or other environmentally sensitive datasets.
Decisions regarding access to restricted information are made in accordance with applicable laws, project agreements, donor requirements, scientific ethics, and conservation best practices.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve functionality, remember user preferences, analyze website usage, measure website performance, and enhance the overall user experience.
You may choose to disable cookies through your browser settings. However, some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
Data Security
Protecting information is an important responsibility for Green Forest Conservation. We implement reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse.
Although we continuously work to maintain secure systems, no method of electronic transmission or online storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should therefore exercise appropriate caution when transmitting information over the internet.
Data Retention
We retain personal information and project-related information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, comply with legal obligations, satisfy contractual requirements, support research activities, resolve disputes, maintain historical project records, and meet donor or regulatory requirements.
When information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to securely delete, anonymize, archive, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with our internal policies and applicable laws.
Your Rights
Depending on applicable laws, you may have the right to request access to your personal information, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion where legally permissible, object to certain processing activities, withdraw consent where consent has been provided, or request additional information regarding our data practices.
We will make reasonable efforts to respond to such requests within an appropriate timeframe while complying with applicable legal and contractual obligations.
Third-Party Services
Our website may integrate or link to third-party services, including mapping platforms, video hosting services, analytics providers, social media platforms, cloud hosting providers, and payment services where applicable.
These third-party services operate independently and are governed by their own privacy policies. Green Forest Conservation is not responsible for the privacy practices, security measures, or content of external services or websites.
International Data Transfers
Where necessary for project implementation or technical services, information may be processed or stored outside Nepal by trusted service providers or international project partners. When such transfers occur, GFC will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the information.
Children's Privacy
Our website and services are intended primarily for researchers, professionals, organizations, educational institutions, and the general public. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate consent.
If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, legal requirements, organizational practices, or technological developments. The revised version will be published on this page together with the updated Effective Date.
Continued use of our website after any changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our information handling practices, please contact us.
Green Forest Conservation (GFC)
Website: https://www.gfc.com.np
Email: app.gfc1@gmail.com
We will make reasonable efforts to respond to your inquiry as promptly as possible.