Privacy and cookies statement | Intelligent Giving

			Privacy and cookies statement Introduction INTELLIGENT GIVING IS an independent not-for-profit organization whose aim is to encourage the public to become more engaged in the voluntary sector and increase the ease and confidence with which it gives to charity. We respect the privacy of visitors to our site and strive to provide you with an enjoyable, and personalised experience. We recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. That is why we have put a policy in place to protect such personal information. Please read on for more details about our privacy practices.


			From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions, message boards and Intelligent Giving membership. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Intelligent Giving and its internet service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information Intelligent Giving will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice. Visitor Information During the course of any visit to intelligentgiving.com, the pages you see, along with a tiny file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking for the cookie left there on the last visit. Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our volunteering page, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight volunteering information on your second and subsequent visits. What are ‘cookies’? A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server - the computer that operates a web site. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tells a web site when the user has returned. Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the intelligentgiving.com features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse intelligentgiving.com anonymously until you want to register for intelligentgiving.com services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org. How do we use your information? When you supply any personal information to intelligentgiving.com (e.g. for competitions, or intelligentgiving.com membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. In general, any information you provide to Intelligent Giving will only be used within Intelligent Giving and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to intelligentgiving.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on intelligentgiving.com, Intelligent Giving can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of intelligentgiving.com membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as an intelligentgiving.com member. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other intelligentgiving.com services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We promise that, unless you give your express permission to the contrary, we will never use your personal information for any other purpose than to contact you about your account or about content on the intelligentgiving.com site. We take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used. Disclaimer We link to a wide variety of other sites and we display advertisements from third parties on our site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites and third party advertisers, nor for the way in which information about their users is treated. In particular, unless expressly stated, we are not agents for these sites or advertisers nor are we authorised to make representations on their behalf. Passwords In order to bring you more personalised services, we may ask you to establish one or more passwords to gain access to certain services or sections in the intelligentgiving.com web site. You are solely responsible for the control and use of each password you create. Other information You should note that if our business (or any part of it) is sold or transferred at any time, the information we hold may form part of the assets transferred although will still only be used in accordance with this policy. You are entitled 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. For quality control and training purposes, we may monitor or record your communications with us. Back to top