Privacy Policy

How do we store, use, share, disclose and protect your personal information?

Your data is primarily necessary to verify who you are when accessing your account and to ensure you meet our eligibility requirements in order to submit a fundraiser application.  However, we will also use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

In most cases, we do not use consent as the primary legal justification for processing your personal information.  By registering for Account and/or otherwise using the Website, you expressly consent to:

• provide us with the personal data necessary to allow you to use the Website;

• the processing of your personal data by us, or those specifically listed third parties, in accordance with this policy; and

• the transfer of your personal data to those third parties listed in this policy, for the reasons specified.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us. However, where the withdrawal of your consent prevents us from verifying your identity or otherwise monitoring who you are, you will be unable to use your Account through our Website OR you may exercise your rights at any time, which includes withdrawing your consent to our processing of your personal data.  However, where this withdrawal prevents us from performing our contract with you, we may not be able to provide our goods and services to you.

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Additionally, we will use all of your data you provide us to notify you about:

• similar opportunities listed on our Website that are like those you have already expressed interest in, or otherwise viewed or enquired about; or

• changes to our Website or our services.

We can also use any data we collect about you (as a result of your visit to our Website) to:

• personalise and improve our services (including the Website and its security);

• deal with your inquiries and requests;

• administer and monitor traffic and behaviours on our Website for analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

• ensure that any part of our Website (including any Content) is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer or device, and to make improvements (where necessary); and

• keep our Website safe and secure.

Where we change our services, or any applicable terms and conditions, we will notify our users.

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Any data we obtain about you from third parties are used for the purposes of verifying your eligibility to submit an application through our Website and are acquired only to the extent we are unable to do so as a result of the information you provide to us.

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Once collected, we and may retain your data for up to six years following the date of your last interaction with the site or the date you close your Account (whichever is the later). This is to enable us to refer back to any transactions or records you are involved in (should we be required to do so).

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. 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. 

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All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

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Your data will also be stored within Click Up, as part of our process management software and Brevo, as our CRM/mailout provider. 

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We will only disclose your personal data to the following third parties for the following purposes:

• any relevant Crowdfunding Marketplace Company – in connection with your application for funding;

• our CRM, mailout and Process Management software, Brevo & Click Up - in order for us to effectively monitor applications, interact with our database and monitor website use;

• our Website provider, Wix.com – to allow us to host our website effectively;

• our affiliate companies/partners - to inform them which registered members from their database have registered via the affiliate link/landing page.

In addition to the transfers outlined above, we may transfer or disclose your personal data to:

• any prospective buyer of any part of the relevant business or assets in connection with the sale (in which case, any personal data held by us about you and our Account Holders could potentially be one of the transferred assets);

• comply with any legal obligation (such as where stated in our Terms of Use);

• enforce or apply any part of our Terms of Use generally; or

• protect our rights or our property, or those of our other Account Holders.

Any websites which are linked from the Website are outside of our control and not covered by this policy.  If you access those websites using any links provided, the website operators may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies (if any exist). These policies may differ from ours, and we cannot accept any responsibility or liability in respect of these.

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We have put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable Data Protection Laws.  Each member of staff has unique log-in details and use authentication software to access the systems.  Staff have access to personal data only for the purposes of performing their roles.  We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.