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Privacy & cookies

Welcome to Donaco’s privacy notice (“Notice”).
 

Donaco Ltd (“we“, “our”, “us” or “Donaco”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Notice explains how we handle your personal data when you use our platform: https://www.donaco.co  (regardless of where you visit it from) and the Donaco Widget (as defined below), including all features and functionalities, website, and user interfaces, and all content and software associated with the service that may be offered from time to time through (collectively  the “Service”.)

As you may recall from reading our Terms and Conditions, Donaco offers a novel and innovative method to fundraise and engage with potential donors by embedding a button in the page of sites (news, corporates, blogs, etc…) that suggests charities to donors (the “Donaco Widget”)

 

 

1. Important information and who we are


Purpose of this Notice

This Notice aims to give you information on how Donaco Ltd. collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter or use our Service.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this Notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
 

Controller

Donaco Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal data.

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Notice. If you have any questions about this Notice, including any request to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

 

Contact details

Name or title of data privacy manager: Michael Moses

Donaco Ltd.

The Argyll Club
North Audley Street, London W1K 6WE

Email address: info@donaco.co
 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes

This version was last updated in October 2019.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

This site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

 

 

2.The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.

  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and any content you have accessed together with any other details of products or services you have purchased from us.

  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the our site.

  • Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

  • Usage Data includes information about how you use the Service.

  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
     

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate information about your visit to our site to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

 

 

3. How is your personal data collected?

 

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

    • create an account on our site;

    • subscribe to the Service;

    • engage with the Donaco Widget;

    • request marketing to be sent to you; or

    • provide us with feedback.
       

  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.
     

  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

    • Technical Data from the following parties:

      • analytics providers such as Google based outside of the EU;

    • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Stripe and PayPal based inside the EU.

    • Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

 

 

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will 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 or regulatory obligation.
     

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by using the contact form available on our website.
 

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
 

Please note that to enable us to improve the content that you see through the Donaco Widget, we may use your (anonymized) interaction and browsing behavior data. These insights enable Coronado optimize the way in which we deliver our content and help us make marketing decisions so that we can ensure our messages are relevant to our audiences. This can be done both on our site and on those of third parties.
 

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need further information about the specific legal ground(s) we are relying on to process your personal data.

Cookies

Donaco LTD (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on its website and widget (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

For more information about the use of cookies while visiting our sites, please email info@donaco.co

 

What are Cookies

A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognise and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive or tablet or mobile device. When you visit our sites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

 

How we use Cookies

We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our site, including:

  • Keeping you signed in

  • Understanding how you use our site

  • As part of payment processing

In the next section, we explain in more detail how we use cookies and similar technology on our sites and apps for a number of purposes.

 

The Cookies we set

We use two types of cookies, which we describe in this section.

  • Essential – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site (often called session cookies – these expire when a browser is closed) and process a payment through Stripe.

  • Analytical/performance cookies.They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it in an aggregate and anonymised way. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Our site uses Google Analytics and cookies associated with that service. Google Analytics is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution. Information on these cookies can be found on the Google Analytics Webpage.

If we introduce additional cookies to improve your experience of our Site, we will update the list above accordingly. Please check back frequently to see any such updates or changes. By continuing to use our Site after such changes have been posted, we’ll assume that you agree to our use of the additional cookies.

 

Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

To disable Google Analytics, please opt out by clicking this link. Their Privacy Policy can be found here.

 

More information

If you would like to find out more about privacy, cookies and their use on the internet, you may find the following links useful:

  • Microsoft cookies guide

  • All About Cookies

  • The Information Commissioner’s Office

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However, if you are still looking for more information, please do not hesitate to contact us via info@donaco.co

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