Privacy Policy

We want everyone who supports us to feel confident and comfortable with how personal information will be looked after and used. We are committed to being completely transparent about what information of yours we collect and what we do with it.

This Privacy Statement sets out how we collect, store and use your personal information. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to Sharks Foundation USA, processing it in accordance with what is described in this privacy statement.

What information do we collect?

This will depend on the nature of your interaction with Sharks Foundation USA, but is likely to include some of the following information. This information may be collected from post, digital sources such as our website or social media sites, telephone or SMS.

  • Name

  • Postal address

  • Email addresses

  • Telephone number

  • Contact preferences

  • Gender

  • Date of birth

  • Information about how people support us

  • Information that is publicly available

  • Tax payer status

  • Bank details – where you are entering into an agreement to make a regular donation or payment to Sharks Foundation USA, we may need your bank details. Where we ask you to make a payment on our website the charity does not record this information and it is not stored on our systems.

What do we do with the information you supply?

We use the information you supply to:

  • Fulfil and administer orders for goods, services and events

  • Administer donations

  • Communicate with you about the work of the charity, its fundraising and other areas that we think may be of interest to you (unless you have told us you do not wish to hear from us).

Who do we share information with?

We are committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure and will never sell or swap your information with other charities or organisations.

Examples of organisations we may share your data with include:

To process donations:

Stripe

To communicate with you and keep you up to date with our work:

Square Space (website host), HubSpot .

Personal data may be transferred to Sharks Foundation USA affiliates for the purposes set out in this policy, including to affiliates situated in countries outside the USA which may not provide levels of data protection that are as high as those which apply within the USA.  Sharks Foundation USA, works to ensure that its affiliates comply with USA standards of data protection but cannot guarantee that such standards will always be adhered to.

We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is lawful and necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of Sharks Foundation USA,and our stakeholders and for other lawful purposes.

Consent

We will make it clear on webpages or documents when we are asking for your consent to hold your information. We will ensure that you are fully informed on what we do with your information, with whom it may be shared and for how long it will be kept, this is in line with the requirements of the General Data Protection Legislation.

You can update your contact preferences at any time by contacting the Sharks Foundation USA at sharksfoundationusa@gmail.com.

Legitimate Interest

Supporters who have been active within the past 3 years (either by participating in one of our fundraising events or campaigns or volunteering with Sharks Foundation USA,) are considered to have a legitimate interest in Sharks Foundation USA, These supporters will be informed of similar future events unless they choose to opt out or update their preferences.

Why we may ask for your personal information

We may ask you to supply personal information via the website, when you complete a registration form or make a donation. Personal information is anything that enables us to identify you in some way, such as your name and contact information, including an email address. If you supply us with this information, we are legally bound by the General Data Protection Regulation legislation to ensure that we only use this information for the purpose for which it was requested and that all such data is stored and processed securely.

How to change the way we contact you

The personal information we collect from you is used to provide you with information, services or products you have requested and for administration purposes.

At any time, you can request change to how we contact you and what for – or to request that we do not contact you further. To update your contact  preferences please email sharksfoundationusa@gmail.com.

Links to other websites and social media sites

If our website contains links to other websites of interest and we enable you to share information through social networking sites such as Instagram, once you have used these links to leave our site, please note that we do not have any control over other webpages.  Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and consequently such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.

Personal information on this website

To protect the privacy of the people we work with, photographs and names used on this website are not necessarily those of the actual people concerned.

Changes to this privacy policy

Sharks Foundation USA will review this privacy policy periodically.  If we change this privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, and may place notices on other pages of the website, so that you are aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times.