KWF Privacy Policy

The Kent Wish Foundation relies on the generosity and support of people like you. We value transparency and want you to be really clear about why we ask you for personal information when you support us or volunteer with us, and want to be honest about how we will use it. Knowing more about you and why you support us helps us to make decisions that are right for our supporters, right for the children and families that we work with, and help us communicate more effectively. Ultimately, it helps us to achieve our goal of granting a wish for every eligible child. We’re also committed to protecting your information and using it responsibly.

 

This policy tells you how we collect, use and store your information. The processing of your information is carried out by or on behalf of the Kent Wish Foundation. Registered Charity 1181342

 

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy and how we use your information you can contact us by writing to us at: Kent Wish Foundation 185 Talmead Road Herne Bay Kent CT6 6FE

 

You can also get in touch by emailing us at: info@kentwish.co.uk

 

1 - Why we use your information

We will only use your information where we have a legal basis and will always respect your rights. Where we use your information, it may be because you have consented to us doing so or because we consider we have a legitimate interest to do so. Where we do rely on a legitimate interest to use your information, we will always ensure that this is done in a way that is not intrusive or does not cause distress. We may also use your information because we have a legal obligation to do so or because we need to fulfil a contractual obligation.

 

Some examples of what we mean by this include:

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• You have given us your consent to use the information for a specified purpose, such as sending you marketing emails.

• We have a legal obligation to use your information, for example to claim Gift Aid.

• We need to use your information to fulfil a contract with you – such as providing an auction prize.

• We are using your information in pursuit of a legitimate interest, for example writing to you to tell you about our wishes and ask for your support in helping us grant wishes.

 

Other reasons include:

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• To pursue our charitable purpose to deliver our mission and vision

• To raise vital funds for our work

• To ensure we meet our regulatory requirements as a charity

• To manage our ongoing relationship with our supporters and anyone we work with

• To manage our financial transactions and prevent fraud

 

2 - How we use your information

 

2.1  To respond to any requests, complaints or queries you make to us

If you contact us directly, we will use the information you give to us to handle your enquiry or request. This may include responding to your query or feedback, or sending you relevant information or fundraising materials. We may also keep a record of conversations we have with you, feedback you provide and any marketing materials we send out to you. This can help us to handle queries more efficiently.

 

2.2 To process any donations you make, claim any relevant Gift Aid and maintain a record of your past or potential future financial contributions

This includes keeping a record of any pledges, gift agreements or any other indications that you are planning to donate to the Kent Wish Foundation. We keep a record of any donations we receive for audit purposes, and as we are legally required to keep information related to Gift Aid. We may need to use your information to prevent fraud. We may also use your information to administer any lotteries or auctions you participate in, for example, contacting you to let you know you have won a prize.

 

2.3 To provide you with information and support for any events, fundraising and campaigning activities or volunteering opportunities you sign up to Registering or enquiring about an event, activity or campaign

If you have completed a form to register or enquire about an event or activity, or to sign up to one of our campaigns plus given us consent to contact you, we will consider this as a request to send you details about the event, activity or campaign.

 

Supporting you in your charitable role

Where you provide contact details, we will provide information and support by post, phone, mobile messaging, email, via social media, and any other channels for which you have given consent. When you have asked for details of an event, we will send you information including, where relevant, ideas for fundraising and reminders on key information about the activity. You can change your contact preferences at any time by getting in touch with us at info@kentwish.co.uk Where appropriate, we will use the information you provide to identify any help we can offer, specific to the activity you have signed up for and to provide necessary information to event organisers. Where this includes information about sensitive topics such as your health, we will only use this information if you have given us explicit consent to do so. We may also receive information through event organisers or through third party websites (for example JustGiving) so we know you are fundraising for us.

 

2.4 To manage our recruitment

When applying for a staff or voluntary role with the Kent Wish Foundation, through a third party portal or through a recruitment agency, the personal data you provide as part of the recruitment process will only be held and processed for the purpose of the selection processes of the Kent Wish Foundation, and in connection with any subsequent employment unless otherwise indicated. By submitting your personal information, you will be asked to give your consent for us to hold and use the data for the purposes being consented to. You will be asked to provide certain information including your name, contact details, employment history and qualifications. This information is mandatory so we can fairly consider your application, communicate with you about your application and where successful, follow up with references or meet our statutory and internal monitoring and reporting responsibilities. We may also view social media profiles such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, to the extent that it is relevant to your application or candidate selection. Unsuccessful applicant data will be held confidentially within the recruitment system for up to six months before it is deleted. This means you can use your information in any future applications and we can respond to statutory reporting requests.

 

3 - How we use your information and tell you about our work

3.1 To send you marketing communications by email, mobile messaging, or direct message on social media, where you have agreed to receive this

Where you have provided an email address, mobile phone number, or details of your social media profiles and consented to being contacted in this way, we will send you information by those channels – including by direct message through social media – covering ways to give or raise money for us, campaign for us, to volunteer for us, updates on wishes and other areas of our work. This may include promoting the work of partner organisations that we believe will benefit us and our charitable cause. We never give your information to partner organisations and third parties without your prior consent.

 

3.2 To contact you by phone and post

Where it is appropriate and relevant, and you have provided us with a telephone number or a postal address, we will occasionally call or write to you to tell you about ways to give or raise money for us, to volunteer for us, the wishes we are granting and our wider work. We do this as we consider it as a legitimate interest to promote our charitable cause and communicate with you about ways you can support us. We will not contact you by phone for marketing purposes if your number is registered with the Telephone Preference Service, unless you have agreed to receive calls from us. We will not contact you by mail if you have registered your address with the Mailing Preference Service.

 

3.3 To manage your contact preferences

You can tell us to stop contacting you, or change the way in which we do so, by getting in touch with us by emailing info@kentwish.co.uk. We will keep a record of any requests to stop receiving marketing and fundraising information from us to ensure that we do not communicate with you in the future, unless you tell us you want to hear from us again.

 

3.4 To help us speak to you in a way that is relevant to you, and to understand our supporters more broadly

We try to ensure that our communications are as effective as possible. This means communicating with people in different ways, appropriate to them. On occasion, we will use information you have given us, for example the record of your previous donations to us and the type of activity you have been involved with, to tailor our communications with you about future activities. We will also use information about how you use our website or interact with our emails so we can make them more effective. In certain circumstances we will use information about you from publicly available sources - such as online registries, websites, media or social media, or personal introductions - in order to understand more about your interests and preferences so that we can better tailor our communications – telling you about the things you are likely to be interested in or letting you know of ways to fundraise with us which are relevant to you. We may do this by looking at your career information, peer networks, demographic information, hobbies and interests or other information. We will also use broad demographic information such as statistics and analysis from third parties to better understand how our own supporter base compares to the general population. This helps us to decide who to send our communications to and is useful to ensure the communications you receive are relevant to you.

 

3.5 To target our digital and social media marketing and website activity

When you access our website, some cookies are saved to your computer, for example if you have chosen a particular landing setting or created a user account. You can also turn off your cookies so that we can’t access this information. We may also use the information you provide us with to target our digital and social media advertising effectively. This could include securely providing contact details such as your name and email address to digital advertising networks or social media companies, including but not limited to Facebook, Google and Twitter. For example, we may use your information to enable us to display adverts to you, or to find potential supporters who have similar characteristics to you. Where you have asked us not to use your information for targeted digital advertising, you may still see adverts related to Kent Wish Foundation. This is because the social media site or advertising network may select you based on information they hold, such as your age and location, or websites you have visited, without using information that has been provided by us. You can control the kind of advertising which you see through the settings in the relevant social media site.

 

3.6 Use of any images, videos of, or other information you tell us about something you have done for the Kent Wish Foundation.

If you share information about the fundraising or campaigning activities you have done for us, or your personal experiences, by post, email or over social media, we may want to use this to help us promote our events and activities in the future. If you are participating in an event with us, we’ll ask if you are happy to be included in our pictures – please tell us if you are not. In other cases, we will obtain the necessary permission to use this information or share this via social media – if you have already posted information yourself via social media about your engagement with us, we may repost your information.

 

3.7 To undertake our wider work

We maintain a record of information relating to areas of our wider work in wishgranting. This could include examples of offers you have made to donate items for a child’s wish, donations of time or money via a company or partner, or offers to provide us with discounts and other offers for wishes. This information is stored because it is critical to help us reach our charitable goal. This will include keeping a record of contact details such as address, telephone number and email address as well as the offers you have made, and any networks or connections you have shared with us.

 

3.8 To comply with the law

As with all charities, we ensure that our activities comply with the law. Therefore, we may need to share or use your personal information if we are required to do so by law (for example, in response to a warrant or court order) and we may use information from other sources for the purposes of fraud prevention, for example to comply with money laundering regulations, or to protect people’s rights, property or safety.

 

4 - Keeping your details up to date

We always use information you have provided for us to keep your records up to date and respect your preferences when you express them. We also sometimes us publicly available information to ensure information is up to date, for example, Mailing Preference Service, Telephone Preference Service, Post Office National Change of Address database. We may use other services to cross-check the accuracy of the contact details we hold for you. You can let us know if you move house or your details change by contacting us at info@kentwish.co.uk

 

5 - What we do if you choose to tell us about your experiences with us

Where you have provided information about your experience of our fundraising events, wishes you know about or feedback on us (such as how we look after you), through surveys, focus group, questionnaire, or when we are talking to you by phone or email, we will explain what the information will be used for and whether it will be held anonymously or not. If the information will be held in a way that could be connected to you personally, we will ask your permission to store and use what you tell us.

 

We will use this information for the purposes explained to you when we ask you about taking part. For example, to better understand the issues that are important to our supporters which helps shape our communications and activities. We may compare statistics related to our supporters to information about the general population, to help our understanding.

 

Where you provide more detailed information we may want to use this in our communications including PR and media activity, digital and social media, campaigning, fundraising materials and internal communications, to help us raise awareness of the Kent Wish Foundation, how you can volunteer and how you can help grant wishes and even the impact of wishes on children and families.

 

We will never use your story without obtaining your consent first. If a suitable opportunity arises for us to use the information you have given us in a way which we do not feel is covered by our normal agreements, we will contact, you to discuss the use of your story in further detail. We will fully explain how we would like to use your information, so that we may obtain your fully informed consent.

 

Where you have given appropriate consent, we will use information you have shared to send you communications which are relevant to, for example to better support you in an activity you are doing for us; or to ensure that we do not send you any communications or ask you to take part in any activity that would not be appropriate.

 

The Kent Wish Foundation ensures that all "consented to" media coverage is positive and accurate. However, once this media coverage is released to the wider internet The Kent Wish Foundation is unable to physically control any "consented to" media coverage and therefore cannot be held liable for its misuse. The Kent Wish Foundation will make every effort to ensure that your "consented to" media is protected and used on the internet in a positive and accurate manner where and when possible. Where your “consented to” media coverage has been released to the internet the Kent Wish Foundation indemnifies itself from all, damages and claims of any kind connected with the use, distribution or disclosure of any photographs, films, videotapes, electronic recordings, art work, or other information regarding participants and the wish, through any media whatsoever, including but not limited to the internet, electronic media, and print publications other than where the Kent Wish Foundation is deemed as the primary cause of the misuse of your “consented to” media coverage data.

 

6 - Sharing your information with other organisations

We will never share your information with third parties for their own purposes, unless this is explained to you at the time we collect your information, you give us your permission to, or we are legally required to do so. For example, we are legally required to provide your data to HMRC if you have agreed to us claiming Gift Aid on your behalf. We may need to provide information to a third party to fulfil and auction prize or offer, or to help grant the wish of a child. We may also use suppliers known as 'data processors' to process data on our behalf, for example, to send out mailings and fulfil orders. When enlisting the services of such suppliers we ensure that they are under a contractual obligation to only use your information in accordance with our instructions and for no other purposes.

 

7 - How long we keep your information for

As a general rule, we will hold your information for a period of ‘current plus two-years’ from the end of your relationship with the charity . If you have told us you plan to leave us a gift in your will we may keep your information on our system for longer. In some circumstances, we may hold your data for a shorter period of time. If you would like to know how long we will hold any specific information, then please contact info@kentwish.co.uk  and we can provide further details.

 

9 - Your Rights

9.1 Your data rights

 

The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) stipulates that you have the following rights. We are happy to explain how we can help you with any requests around these rights or explain them in more detail for you.

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• Information Right – the right to receive the information contained in this policy and our data collection forms about the way we process your personal data.

• Personal Data Access Right – the right to know that we are processing your personal data and, in most circumstances, to have a copy of the personal data of yours that we hold. You can also ask for certain other details such as what purpose we process your data for and how long we hold it.

• Personal Data Correction Right – You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate data or complete incomplete data that we hold on you.

• Personal Data Erasure Right – Known as the Right to be forgotten. In certain circumstances you may request that we erase your personal data held by us.

• Personal Data Restriction Right – You have the right to restrict the way we process your personal data in certain circumstances, for example if: you contest the accuracy of the data, if our processing is unlawful, to pursue legal claims, where we are relying on legitimate interests to process data.

• Data Processing Objection Right – You have the right to object to us processing your data for (i) direct marketing purposes (ii) scientific or historical research or statistical purposes and (iii) purposes of profiling related to direct marketing or based on our legitimate interests or on the performance of a task in the public interest

• Data Portability Right – you have the right to receive a copy of certain personal data or to have it transferred to another organisation in some circumstances

 

9.2 Right to Withdraw Consent at any time

Where we use your personal information based on your prior consent, or where you have given us permission to send you marketing communications by email, mobile messaging and by direct message on social media, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting marketing@makeawish.org.uk.

 

10. Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we handle your personal data, please contact us so we can resolve the issue, where possible.  You also have the right to lodge a complaint about any use of your information with the Information Commissioners Office, the UK data protection regulator.

 

11. How we keep your information secure

We take appropriate measures to ensure data is held confidentially and with integrity in our systems. Our employees and volunteers are trained in the correct procedures for managing and handling data and our processes are regularly reviewed. We protect your data in a range of ways including password protected computers. Any details not password protected will be shredded. We believe that we have taken all technical and organisational steps reasonably necessary to ensure that any personal information under our control is held securely and in accordance with applicable law and this Policy. However, please note that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to us via the internet.

 

12. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in how we use your information. You may wish to check this policy each time you provide us with your information. Where appropriate, we will provide you with notice of any significant changes to how we use your information.

 

13. Contacting us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy and how we use your information, you can contact us by writing to us at: Kent Wish Foundation, 185 Talmead Road, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 6FE

 

You can also get in touch by emailing us at: info@kentwish.co.uk