Effective 26 September 2026

Privacy policy

Techmo connects ChangeMakers, who organise impact work, with Volunteers who contribute their time and skills. This policy explains what information we collect when you use Techmo, how we use it, and the choices you have.

Information we collect

• Account details: your name, email address and whether you joined as a ChangeMaker or a Volunteer.
• Password: if you sign up with email, we store only a secure one-way hash of your password, never the password itself.
• Google sign-in: if you continue with Google, we receive your name, email address, profile photo and a Google account identifier. We do not receive your Google password and do not access your Gmail, contacts or files.
• Onboarding answers: for Volunteers, your answer about previous volunteering, the causes you want to support, your skills, and a LinkedIn profile link if you provide one.
• ChangeMaker details: whether you are an individual or an organisation, your organisation's name and type, your mission, country, website and social media links, and your cause areas. The Techmo team reviews these before approving your account.
• Projects: for ChangeMakers, the answers you give in the project builder. Drafts are visible only to you and the Techmo team. Once you post a project, its description and your organisation's name, country, mission, website and cause areas are shown publicly on Techmo so volunteers can find it; your email address is never shown.
• Offers to help: when a Volunteer offers to help with a project, we save their answers and share them, with the Volunteer's name, skills and LinkedIn profile, with that project's ChangeMaker. Email addresses are not shared between ChangeMakers and Volunteers.
• Account vault and handover files: when a ChangeMaker confirms an offer, the logins they hand over are encrypted and can only be viewed by that ChangeMaker and Volunteer; every time a login is viewed is recorded and shown to the ChangeMaker. Files they upload for the Volunteer are visible only to the two of them. Neither is ever sent by email.
• Milestones and QA: the updates, links and feedback shared on a project's milestones are visible to that project's ChangeMaker and Volunteer, and to the QA volunteer who accepted the project's QA role if the ChangeMaker asked for QA support. While a QA role is open, other Volunteers can see the project's plan so they can decide whether to take it on. QA volunteers don't see the account vault.
• GitHub (optional): if you connect GitHub, we receive your GitHub username and read the languages and topics of your public repositories to suggest skills. We save your username and the suggested skills, not your GitHub access token, and we never post to or change your GitHub account.
• Technical information: a session cookie that keeps you signed in and a security (CSRF) cookie that protects your account. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.

How we use your information

• To create and secure your account and keep you signed in.
• To verify your email address by sending you a verification link.
• To tailor your Techmo experience, such as suggesting volunteer opportunities that fit your experience.
• To respond when you contact us.

We do not sell your personal information or use it for advertising.

Who we share it with

We share information only with the service providers that run Techmo for us:

• Railway hosts the application and its database.
• Resend delivers account emails such as verification links.
• Google handles sign-in if you choose to continue with Google.
• GitHub handles the connection if you choose to connect your GitHub account.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

Google user data

Techmo's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We use Google data only to sign you in and set up your Techmo account.

How long we keep it

We keep your information while your account is active. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete your personal information, except where we must keep something to meet a legal obligation.

Your choices and rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete the information we hold about you, or to close your account, by emailing info@techforchangemakers.org. You can also remove Techmo's access to your Google account at any time from your Google account settings, and to your GitHub account from your GitHub application settings.

Security

All connections to Techmo are encrypted with HTTPS, passwords are hashed, and access to our systems is restricted. No service can guarantee perfect security, so please use a strong, unique password.

Children

Techmo is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes to this policy

If we make significant changes, we will update this page and its effective date, and tell you by email or in the app where appropriate.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your information? Email info@techforchangemakers.org.