Guidelines for creating projects

DoNation Platform is initiated with the intention of providing support to the registered NGOs in Pakistan. This platform helps them in fundraising by sharing their campaigns with their donors in a simple & straightforward manner.

DoNation Platform is for crowdfunding!

The crowdfunding has come about so that people can take part in a noble cause just by sending an SMS to make a fundraising campaign successful collectively.

Our process is simple, after getting registered with DoNation Platform, the campaign organizer is allowed to post a fundraising campaign (including all supporting content) to the platform for approval.

When publishing a project on the DoNation Platform, the campaign organizer is responsible (including legally) for the content displayed on the campaign page as well as the veracity of the data/text, for the commitments and timelines related to the campaign. 

To avoid any kind of problem, we recommend the following practices:

Know all the rules

By submitting a campaign to the DoNation Platform, you must be sure that all project content is within the Project Guidelines and our Terms of Use and that no rights are being violated.

We stipulate some basic guidelines related to supporting content that all campaigns must follow: 

These rules will serve as a basis for reviewing, evaluating and, if necessary, withdrawing campaigns with content that disregard these agreements. Campaign   “Content” includes the text, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, audiovisual combinations, interactive features, and other materials.

The content developed to support your fundraising campaign must follow the following criteria :

• provide true information;
• the campaign, in any way, shouldn’t reflect any religious or political influence;
• fulfill its promises of project execution;
• to remain available and to communicate in an effective, clear and transparent manner with its supporters/donors until the completion of the campaign;

The campaign organizer CAN NOT :

• propose a campaign that has a potentially illicit scope, albeit veiled;
• create a campaign that explores the image, voice or name of people without their explicit consent;
• create campaigns that, in their outreach campaign, exploit sexual themes explicitly and unreasonably or exploit shocking content such as scenes of mutilation, violence, etc.
• create campaign that characterize pedophilia, child pornography, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religious and social intolerance, an apology to Nazism, apology or incitement to crimes, apology or incitement to cruel practices against animals;
• violate the intellectual property rights of others;
• ask for loan;
• offer financial rewards (such as equity interest, percentage over future sales or assignment of copyright, for example);
• involve tobacco, illicit drugs, medicines, cosmetics, weapons or knives in the project and / or rewards;
• import and resell products ready;
• abusing email and notifications – no one likes SPAM;
• misuse of supporters’ data.

About Promotions:

You are responsible for the lawful operation, including official rules, terms and requirements related to your fundraising campaign promotion. In addition, you have full responsibility for compliance with applicable rules and regulations governing the campaign and promotions (e.g registration and obtaining required regulatory approvals).

The promotions must indicate the total exemption of responsibility of the DoNation Platform, as well as that the DoNation Platform is not responsible for its administration. DoNation Platform has no way of guiding you about the authorizations required for such promotions or how to obtain such authorizations. If you report a promotion, you will be doing so at your own risk.

About Political Campaigns

The DoNation Platform does not accept projects that seek direct support for political candidacies or political parties. It is understood as direct support for the candidacy, campaigns involving actions or production of materials for electoral campaigns, maintenance of political parties, registration of political candidates, content that characterize as electoral propaganda, among others.

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These guidelines are not able to cover all possible recommendations for an online project, however, they make it clear that the DoNation Platform expects the proper use of the tool.

In the event that the campaign organizer does not comply with any of these guidelines and consequently fails to comply with the Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, DoNation Platform reserves the right to freeze, withdraw the project from the air and cancel the account of the campaign organizer. 

We encourage all DoNation Platform visitors to  denounce projects that they believe violate these guidelines, the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, as well as other rights guaranteed by Pakistani law, in search of an environment that is increasingly transparent, secure and reliable.

GOOD HABITS

The DoNation Platform also recommends that the campaign organizer:

• Communicate constantly with their donors
• Observe the deadlines promised during the collection campaign
• Be realistic about their physical capacity and resources needed to run the project
• Look for references in successful collections through the DoNation Platform and in the stories recorded on the Blog

We are not responsible for executing a project, but it is our commitment to offer a variety of channels and tools that can improve the reach of your campaign. We are committed to evaluating each request and, within our competencies, to decide on the best course of action for each case. Learn more about our complaint mechanisms and dispute resolution.

If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact us by email: [email protected]