Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Commitment

Frontier Research and Innovation Foundation is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards regarding personal privacy and data security. As an independent non-profit scientific and social development institution, we process all personal information in accordance with applicable national laws in Bangladesh and internationally recognized data privacy principles.

We never sell, rent, monetize, or commercialize any personal information submitted by our scholars, donors, event attendees, or community beneficiaries.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect personal details when you interact with our platform, including:

• Membership & Account Information: Name, institutional affiliation, academic designation, professional email address, phone number, and area of research expertise.
• Donation & Payment Records: Contribution amounts, transaction confirmation IDs, donor contact details, and tax receipt invoicing preferences (credit card numbers are processed directly via secure payment processors and are never stored on our servers).
• Grant & Award Nominations: Abstract submissions, research proposals, curriculum vitae, and recommendation documents submitted for evaluation.
• Technical & Log Data: Anonymized IP addresses, browser types, device information, and session cookies used to optimize website performance.

3. How Information Is Used

Collected information is strictly utilized to advance our scientific and humanitarian mandate:

• Processing foundation membership registration and issuing digital membership credentials.
• Reviewing and evaluating research grant, award, and fellowship applications.
• Issuing official tax-deductible donation receipts and publishing transparent non-profit annual reports.
• Dispatching conference schedules, research journal announcements, and emergency humanitarian relief updates.
• Ensuring platform security and preventing unauthorized digital activity.

4. Security & Storage Controls

All data transmitted to frinf.org is encrypted in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3 / SSL 256-bit). Data at rest is secured behind enterprise firewalls with restricted access granted only to authorized Secretariat personnel under non-disclosure obligations.

5. Your Rights & Contact Information

You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data stored in our foundation records.