What is this Privacy and Data Protection Policy for?
This Policy governs the privacy of this website www.changefinance.org and its users who choose to use it. Subscribers to our mailings are included into this Privacy Policy.
The Policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners.
The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with European law and requirements for user privacy, including the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Use of 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and may prevent us from providing the best service possible.
How we collect information
For our mailings, we only collect information through a form completed by a subscriber, containing his/her first name, last name, email address and country and postcode.
We collect also basic information through the participation or the organisation of events & actions: These may vary per event and action.
For specific purposes (advocacy, events or campaigning), we collect information through desk research, in order to find the correct person to interact with. Most of these information are publicly available on official websites of organisations.
Data storage
We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures in order to protect this data from any accidental or malicious activities.
Personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the General Data Protection Regulation 2018.
Your details are not passed on or sold to any third parties.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively. Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details.
This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save their request to share a web page respectively through their social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy URL’s. Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URL’s published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URL’s are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Your rights
In line with the changes to European Union data protection law (GDPR), you have the right to:
- Access your data
- Request correction of your data
- Get your data deleted / be forgotten
- Object data distribution
Contact
For any question, or if you would like to exercise any of these rights, please reach us at contact@changefinance.org.
Last updated: 16.07.2018