Privacy Policy
1. This Privacy Policy governs your use of www.mygift.org.uk ("our Website") and other services, and our use of any information you provide on our Website. It explains how we use your personal information. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to us processing your information as set out in this Privacy Policy What information do we collect about you?
2. In order to make use of certain services we provide through our Website, you will need to register with us. We will ask you to provide us with the information about yourself we need to provide our services to you.
3. If you build a personal fundraising page on our Website and upload or post any information to it we may use that information in accordance with our Terms and Conditions and it may be viewed and used by others. We will also collect information if you complete any of our online forms or contact us with comments or specific requests. How do we use your personal information?
4.We will ask you to select how we can use your information for marketing purposes. You can amend your marketing preferences at any time. We will only use your information in accordance with your instructions and as set out in this privacy policy. Our aim is to provide a personalised service and to give you control over what communications and information you receive as a result of registering with us.
5. We may use your information for any purpose if we are required to do so by any law or other regulatory or government authority, to enforce our Terms and Conditions or to enforce our rights, or to protect the safety of others. In particular, we may collect and use your personal information for the purposes of investigating and, if necessary, removing any content about which we receive a complaint.
Contacting you
6. We may contact you occasionally with surveys, reports, special offers or competitions but we will only contact you about our other products and services if you ask us to. When you sign up to use our services, we will ask you to let us know if we can contact you by email, telephone, fax or other electronic messaging service. We will also ask you to let us know if our carefully selected business partners can contact you.
7. Please remember that if you publish personal details or contact information in any forum, chat room, or charitable fund page on our Website, that information may be accessed by the public and used to send you unsolicited communications. We accept no responsibility for this.
Automatic Information Collection
8. When you visit our Website we automatically collect information about your visit. This information helps us to make your experience of visiting our Website even better. Our external web host may also automatically log your IP address; this is the unique identifier for your computer or other access device.
Use of Cookies
9.Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by the browser on the hard drive of your computer. Our Website uses cookies for two purposes: (a)To automatically gather information such as the IP addresses of visitors and the number and frequency of visitors to our Website and individual web pages.
This information is used by us for security and monitoring purposes, to manage our Website, to track usage, and to make improvements to our Website; and (b)To enable us and anyone who advertises on our Website to provide features such as remembering certain information about you and your preferences, so that, for example, you do not need to use your username and password to access our content when using the computer on which the cookie is stored. The cookies can also be used to deliver targeted onscreen advertisements which will be of most interest to you.
10. To delete any of the cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.
Security
11. Your information is collected and stored on servers which are owned and maintained by or on behalf of The Charity Service. We may keep your information for a reasonable period for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
12. In accordance with our requirements under the Data Protection Act 1998 we will adopt appropriate security procedures to help prevent unauthorised access to your information. We shall not be liable for any attempt to hack or crack or otherwise gain access to any part of our Website including any of your information.
Data information requests
13. You can ask for a copy of the information we hold about you at any time (for which we may charge a small fee). We will also correct any inaccuracies in your information at your request.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
14. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy that affect how we handle your data, we will let you know by email. Minor changes will not be notified. You can check our Privacy Policy at this page at any time.