H&F Giving Privacy Policy
At H&F Giving we are committed to protecting your privacy. This statement describes how United collects and uses personal information about people who visit our website. We ensure that our policy and procedures are in line with General Data Protection Regulations. If you have any queries about this privacy statement please contact us on 020 7952 1230, by post to H&F Giving, Dawes Road Hub, 20 Dawes Road, London SW6 7EN, or by email to: [email protected].
How do we collect information?
We obtain personal information from you when you contact us directly, sign up to our newsletter, share your story with us, tell us about an event, make a donation to H&F Giving or otherwise provide us with personal information. We may also receive information about you from third parties, for example from our service providers or from a friend who wants to tell you about our websites or the fundraising activities we carry out.
What information do we collect?
The personal information we collect might include name, date of birth, email address, postal address and telephone number. It may also include information about your skills, interest and experience that is related to volunteering opportunities.
We also gather general information about the use of our websites, such as which pages users visit most often and which services,
events or facilities are of most interest. We may use this information to make improvements to our websites and to ensure we provide the best service for users. Wherever possible we use aggregated or anonymous information which does not identify individual visitors to our websites.
Occasionally we may ask you to fill in a questionnaire which is related to our charitable objectives, community you live in or work with in Hammersmith and Fulham.
How do we use this information?
We will use your personal information:
- to provide you with the information, services or products you have requested;
- to create a record in our database for you if you register to receive our newsletter;
- for administration purposes;
- to further our charitable aims, including for fundraising activities.
As part of this, we may analyse the personal information we collect to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you in the most appropriate way and with the most relevant information. Where relevant, we may also assess your personal information for the purposes of fraud and credit risk reduction.
We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organisations and agents for the purposes described above.
Your choices
You have a choice about whether you want to receive information about our progress and fundraising activities. We will not use your personal information for marketing purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us on 020 7952 1230, by post to H&F Giving, Dawes Road Hub, 20 Dawes Road, London SW6 7EN, or by email to: [email protected].
How do we protect personal information?
Data collected through our ‘Donate’ button on a website is processed by Charities Aid Foundationaccording to their data protection regulations which can be found at: https://www.cafonline.org/privacy
Will we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?
As indicated above, we may pass your information to our service providers, agents and associated organisations for the purpose of completing tasks and providing services to you. Where we use service providers we will make sure there are appropriate controls in place.
We may also need to disclose your information if required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or if we have your permission to do so.
We will not sell any information about your web browsing activity.
Your consent
By providing us with your personal data, you consent to the collection and use of this information in accordance with the purposes described above and this privacy statement.
Right of access
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. If you wish to do this, please contact us on 020 7952 1230, by post to H&F Giving, Dawes Road Hub, 20 Dawes Road, London SW6 7EN, or by email to: [email protected].
Links
Our websites may include links to websites run by other organisations. H&F Giving is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites so you should read their privacy policies carefully.
Other people’s information
If you provide us with someone else’s personal details (for example when you recommend we let someone know about our community activities or fundraising appeals you must make sure that you have that person’s consent to provide us with their details, particularly if you’re giving us sensitive information about them.
Changes
If your personal details change, please help us to keep your information up to date by notifying us at the above address.
We may change the terms of this privacy statement from time to time. If we do so, we will post the changes here so please check from time to time. By continuing to use our websites you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.
Contacting us
If you have any comments or queries concerning the website or data protection, please email us at [email protected]
Cookie Policy
This policy explains how H&F Giving (“we”, “us”, “the Charity”) use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.
We use cookies to help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and to allow us to improve our site.
The Head of Grants and Community is responsible for overseeing this policy. You should contact the Head of Grants and Community if you have any questions about this policy.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following types of cookies:
- strictly necessary cookies – required for the operation of our website (for example, cookies that enable us to remember your cookie preferences)
- analytical or performance cookies – to allow us recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors use the site. These cookies help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily
- targeting cookies – to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We share this information with a third party for this purpose, that is, Google Analytics, a provider of web traffic analysis services. This third party may also use cookies over which we have no control.
Setting your cookie preferences
You can choose to accept the cookies when you first land on the website. More advanced cookie settings can be accessed using the Settings button on the cookies notification bar.
You can also change your cookie settings in your web browser. The “Help” menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings or to disable cookies altogether. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
