Privacy and data protection
CharitySoftware Limited (Donor Strategy) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This privacy policy sets out the basis on which your personal data will be processed by us as the data controller of your personal data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act"). Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how they will be treated by us. Information we may collect from you.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on the site. This includes information provided at the time of registration or at the time of posting material or requesting further services. This includes requesting a quote, attending a demonstration day, requesting information. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion or when you report a problem with the site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Donor Strategy may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes although you do not have to respond to them
• Details of your visits to the site and the resources that you access.
IP Addresses and Cookies
We may collect information about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration and marketing analysis. These are data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and do not identify any individual. For the same reason we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
Cookies and the information contained in your IP address may enable us:
• to estimate our audience size and usage pattern
• to store information about your preferences and so allow us to customise the site according to your individual interests
• to speed up your searches
• to recognise you when you return to the site You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser, which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the site. If you want to find out more about how to disable cookies please see this external third party website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Risks Involved in Transmitting Personal Data Over the Internet
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. So, whilst Donor Strategy will do its best to protect your personal data, we cannot ensure the security of data transmitted by you to the site. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information we will use security procedures and features to prevent unauthorised access to it.
Uses made of the information
We may use information held about you in the following ways:
• to enable us to formulate a quotation for our services
• to process your attendance at a demo day event
• to enable us to respond to your enquiry
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service where you choose to do so
• to notify you about changes to our product and services, about forthoming events and recent news
Your rights
You have the right to request us not to disclose any of your personal data or information or to pass information to third parties. We will usually inform you before collecting your data, if we intend to disclose your information to any third party and you can exercise that right by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also notify us by contacting us at unsubscribe@donorstrategy.com
The site may from time to time contain links to and from partner and/or affiliate websites. If you follow a link to their sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policy and that Donor Strategy does not accept any responsibility or liability for protection of personal data which you may submit to a third party's site. You are recommended to check the wording of the relevant privacy policies before you submit any personal data to those sites.
Access to information
The Act gives you various rights including the right to access information held about you. Questions about this privacy policy can be addressed to privacy@donorstrategy.com