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Privacy policy

At the ICR Global Foundation we are committed to protecting your privacy. This statement is made in order to alert valued contacts to the ICR Global Foundation’s data processing practices which will govern the processing of your data. If you have any queries about this statement, please contact us.

How do we collect information?

We will obtain personal information from you when you inquire about our activities, register with us, send or receive an email, telephone us, make a donation to us or otherwise provide us with personal information. We may also receive information about you from third parties, for example a friend who wants to tell you about our website.

What information do we collect?

The types of information collected might include names, date of birth, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and credit/debit card details (“personal information”).

How do we use this information?

We will use your personal information to provide you with the types of information you have requested, to notify you of changes to our administration and fundraising activities and to further our charitable aims. We may need to share your personal information with our service providers, associated organizations and agents for these purposes.

In respect of direct marketing, we will only use your personal information to send you information about The ICR Global Foundation’s fundraising campaigns and those of our research partners if you have consented to this.

If at any time you wish to change your registration details or the uses of your personal information to which you have consented, please contact us.

Will we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

As indicated above, we may pass your personal information, other than credit card details, to our services providers, agents and associated organizations but will not otherwise pass your personal information to third parties. We do not sell, trade or rent personal information to any other organizations for fundraising purposes. Once your donation is processed, we will not share your credit card or other financial details with any person or organization.

We may however need to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law.

Do we use ‘Cookies’?

A 'cookie' is a piece of information which is sent to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow the sender to recognize you when you next visit the site. The ICR Global Foundation uses anonymous cookies on some of its websites. This is just to tell us we if you visited the site before and cannot be used to identify an individual; it can be only used for statistical purposes. We do not use third party cookies on any of our sites.

Your consent

By providing us with your personal data you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with the above purposes and this privacy statement.

UK residents: You also consent to our transferring your information to countries or jurisdictions outside the European Economic Area, which do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK, if necessary for the above purposes. If we do make such a transfer, we will take appropriate measure to protect your information.

Right of access

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

If you have any queries about making a request for information, please contact us.

Changes

We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement. If we do so, we will post notice of the change on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.