Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to us. At all times we do our best to protect any personal information you share with us, or that we receive from other organizations. This Privacy Policy (Policy) explains how we hold and use personal information and your rights and options in relation to it.

If you have any questions about this Policy please contact us. This Policy contains important information about your personal rights to privacy. Please read it carefully to understand how and why we use your personal information.

PARTNERS

Our current partners include 1% for the Planet and GlobalGiving. We may share personal information with them and our additional partners for the purposes set out in this Policy below, and they will sometimes share personal information with us where it is lawful and appropriate to do so. Unless stated in this Policy, we do not share (unless we have your consent to do so), sell or rent your personal information to third parties outside of our partnership for their own marketing.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU:

When you give it to us directly: For example, personal information that you give us by filling in forms on our website or communicating with us by letter.

When you give it to us indirectly: Your personal information may also be shared with us by third parties. To the extent we have not done so already, we will notify you when we receive personal information about you from them and tell you how and why we intend to use that personal information.

When you visit our Website: When you visit our Website, we automatically collect the following personal information: (a) Technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions and operating systems and platforms. (b) Information about your visit to the website, including the uniform resource locator (URL) clickstream to, through and from the site (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, referral sources, page interaction information (such as scrolling and clicks) and methods used to browse away from the page.

We also collect and use your personal information by using cookies on our Website. Please see our Cookie Notice for more information.

We may combine your personal information from one or more of these sources for the purposes set out in this Notice.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information: 1) name and contact details, including email address and office location, where applicable, social media identity and any additional information that’s shared about an individual or organization; 2) information about your computer or mobile device and your visits to and use of our websites, including for example your IP address; 3) any other information shared with us as per the section “How we collect information about you” above.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your personal information, however provided to us, may be used for many purposes, including: 1) to provide you with services or information which you request; 2) to administer our Website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; 3) to improve your interactions with our Website, for example by ensuring that content is presented in the most relevant and effective manner for you and for your computer; 4) to report on the results and impact of our work; and 5) as part of our efforts to keep our Website and our internal operations safe and secure.

USE FOR COMMUNICATIONS/MARKETING

We may use your contact details to provide you with information about our work which we consider may be of interest to you. We will obtain your consent to contact you via email for these purposes. We may send the following marketing materials but please note that recipients can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time: Updates about our company, including email, newsletters, magazines and other publications informing you about our work; Information about our Projects, including how you can support such campaigns and updates about the progress of our campaigns; and Information about our events. On occasion we will also send you a reminder about the same event in future years in case you want to participate in it again.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media messaging services like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram you may receive targeted advertisements about our company through our use of social media audience tools.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Whatever your relationship with us, we will only store your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

Usually this will be for a specified amount of time in accordance with our internal retention policy. That length of time may vary depending on the reasons for which we are processing the personal information and whether we have a legal (for example under financial regulations) or contractual obligation to keep it for a certain amount of time.

Once the retention period has expired, personal information will be confidentially disposed of or permanently deleted.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Due to the collaborative nature of our work, our Website may contain links to other sites, including those of our delivery partners. This Policy does not cover those external websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any external websites you visit via links on our Website or if you are involved in one of our Projects, please visit the website of those partners who are listed on the Website as being involved so you can understand how they collect, use and share your personal information.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We keep this Policy under regular review and may update it from time to time, so we recommend that you check it regularly. Where necessary we may also notify you of changes to this Policy by email.