500 Give a **** Privacy Policy

 

We the team at 500 give a **** are committed to ensuring that we protect your privacy. The following policy sets out in a clear manner, how 500 give a **** collects, stores, uses and protects any information which you give to us when you are using our website or engaging with our project. 

 

Any information that you are asked to provide, which we will use to identify you when you are using the website or engaging with the project, will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy. 

 

500 give a **** is fully up to date on current GDPR laws and changes and ensures that its data storage system complies fully with new guidance.

 

This policy is effective from 1 April 2020.

 

Information We Gather

 

When engaging with the 500 give a **** project and/or our website, we may collect the following information about you if you sign up to be kept informed of our actions:

 

- Your Name

- Your Email Address

 

And if you nominate someone we will also collect:

 

- Your Telephone Number

 

We collect this information in a number of ways, but primarily through email subscription boxes on our website, through nomination forms, through surveys and questionnaires, and through engagements with our projects and events. 

 

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Storage & Security of Your Data

 

The 500 give a **** website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

 

500 give a **** may also store your data electronically in a secure database outside the website. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect and store.

 

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

 

The information we collect from you will never be shared with any other organisation, group or company unless we have your permission to do so or if we are required to do so by law.

 

 

How We Use Your Data

 

We use this information to better understand your needs and to give you the best experience with the project we possibly can. 

 

In particular, we use the information we gather for the following reasons:

 

• The primary use of your personal data is for the circulation of information, promotion and effective running of the 500 give a **** fundraising group.

• We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your data (a) where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, and (b) where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

• The types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data are set out below.

• We do not share your personal information with any third-party companies unless we are legally required to do so or unless it is automatically collected by our website host providers, Wix.com

 

We may contact you for any of the above reasons by email, post or telephone. You can customise your preferences with us at any time by contacting hello@500give.co.uk

 

We may also contact you if we have any issues with your membership account and/or to troubleshoot any problems with your account.

 

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Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

 

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

 

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer, however please note that this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links

 

We may from time to time provide links on our website which direct you away from the 500 give a **** website. We are not responsible for any privacy and security practices of other sites and we encourage you to read their privacy and security statements separately.

 

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

 

500 give a **** reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time to ensure that it is up to date and in line with legal requirements, and we advise you to check this statement regularly to ensure you understand any changes made and are happy with them. 

 

If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy or any concerns about the use being made of your personal data, or if you believe we may have incorrect data stored on our system please contact us at: hello@500give.co.uk

 

Your Rights

 

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under the data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right at any time to edit or remove your details from our database on request by contacting us via the above details.