Effective as of August 18, 2022.
We are GiveSendGo Charities, a 501(c)(3) charity (EIN: 88-3776392). This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes and governs how we collect, use, share and protect information collected in the context of mission and charitable purpose: to provide fast and effective relief to victims of disaster; to fund educational, religious, and other charitable initiatives (“Services”). Before you use or submit any information through or in connection with the Services, please carefully review this Notice. By using any part of the Services, you acknowledge the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as this Policy outlines.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland (collectively “Europe”):
•For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), the data controller is GiveSendGo Charities and can be reached
at info@GiveSendGo.org; and
•You acknowledge you have read and understood its terms.
GiveSendGo Charities only collects information from you if you send it to us directly or donate to us through our use of online donation platforms.
Information You Send. You may send us your information regarding a donation or grant or as an inquiry. This may include your full name, email address, home or work address, phone number, bank records, or any other information you choose to provide us.
Information from Other Services. GiveSendGo Charities may use third-party services so that we can raise money for a cause or organization. For example, it may use a crowdfunding platform like GiveSendGo or Facebook. In those cases, if you permit it, your information as a donor on such platforms may be sent to GiveSendGo Charities.
Information That is Passively or Automatically Collected. When you interact with GiveSendGo Charities, we may receive information from the devices you use to learn about or donate to us. This includes browser information or IP addresses, which may identify the city or country from where you logged in to view our site.
GiveSendGo Charities uses the information collected in a manner that is consistent with this Notice. We use the information that you provide for the following purposes:
Communicating With You. We process this information as necessary (i) to fulfill our obligations under our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or (ii) for our legitimate interest, such as to maintain our relationship with you or to protect you and us against fraud.
Legal. We process information to comply with legal obligations.
There are certain circumstances in which we share information collected with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below.
Business Transfers. We might sell or buy businesses or assets as we develop our organization. In the event of a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, similar event, or steps taken in anticipation of such events, user information may be part of the transferred assets.
Agents, Consultants, Vendors, and Related Third
Parties. GiveSendGo Charities contracts with other companies to perform certain organizational functions on GiveSendGo Charity’s behalf, and we provide access to or share your information with these companies. Examples of such functions include issuing grants or processing donations. We limit the personal information provided to these service providers and entities to what is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and we require them to agree to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
Legal Requirements. GiveSendGo Charities can access, disclose, transfer, and preserve your information when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to (i) comply with the law including with subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and any other legal process; and respond to inquiries or requests from government, regulatory, law enforcement, public authorities, or content protection organizations; (ii) protect and defend the legal rights, privacy, safety or property of GiveSendGo Charities, its employees, volunteers agents, contractors, or its users; (iii) permit us to pursue available remedies, commence, participate in, or defend litigation, or limit the damages we may sustain; or (iv) enforce this Notice.
Your Consent. In certain situations, we may share your information if you consent to the sharing of your information. For example, we may partner with third-party organizations to arrange specific fundraisers. Suppose you agree to our providing your contact information to a
particular partner. In that case, with the partner organization, we share your name, email address, and other information you’ve provided regarding your donation to the specific fundraiser.
This Notice applies only to the activities of GiveSendGo Charities. Our site may link to other websites not operated or controlled by GiveSendGo Charities, operated by a different entity (the “Third-Party Sites”). The policies and procedures described here do not apply to Third-Party Sites. The links from our site do not imply that GiveSendGo Charities endorses or has reviewed the Third-Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their respective privacy policies. That said, we use the GiveSendGo Platform often and thus provide the link to the privacy policy for that Third- Party Site here.
We retain your information for as long as we deem necessary for the purpose for which that information was collected and for our legitimate business operations, provided, however, that your information is only retained to the extent permitted or required by applicable laws. When we no longer need to retain your information, we will take reasonable steps to remove it from our systems and records and/or to anonymize it so that our internal document retention policies can no longer identify you.
If you are located in Europe, you have the right to ask for an overview of the information we process about you and for a copy of your data. In addition, you may request us to update and correct inaccuracies, delete your information, restrict the processing of your information, or exercise your right to data portability to transfer your information to another company quickly. In some cases, you may object to the processing of your information, and where we have asked you for your consent to process your information, you can withdraw it at any time. You may also withdraw previously given consent for processing your data; the withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The above rights may be limited under applicable law.
You can request to exercise any of these rights about your information by sending the request to us at info@GiveSendGo.org. For your privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to provide your identity before providing the requested information. Please note that GiveSendGo Charities may take up to 30 days to fulfill such requests.
The above rights can be limited under applicable law. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority if you believe we have not complied with applicable data protection laws. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your residence, place of work, or where the incident occurred.
GiveSendGo Charities reserves the right to update or modify this Notice at any time and from time to time. We will notify you of any material updates or changes we make to this Notice. If you disagree with our revisions to the Notice, please stop visiting the site. Please review this Notice periodically for any updates or changes.
By visiting our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms of the Notice as updated or modified.
You can contact us with any questions about this notice at Info@GiveSendGo.org.
