Privacy Policy
CURE International UK respects and protects the privacy of its donors.
Information about donations is treated with strict confidentiality. CURE International UK does not lend, exchange, rent, or sell our donor list to other organisations or businesses or any other third party.
The personal information donors provide when making an online donation is protected and will not be disclosed to any third parties.
Some donors prefer anonymity. CURE respects completely the wishes of contributors who prefer that their donation remain confidential.
Employees of CURE International UK who have access to donor identifiable information in connection with processing donations are required to keep the information confidential.
Periodically donors will receive newsletters and requests for contributions if they have opted-in to do so. Donors have the option to be removed from the mailing list by contacting the CURE International UK office at uk.info@cure.org or 0207 304 4784.
How do we collect your personal information?
We collect personal information about you when you interact with us (e.g. by phone, post or online), enquire about our activities, make a donation, participate in an event, volunteer with us, visit our website or otherwise provide us with your personal information.
What personal information do we collect?
Personal information we collect about you may include your name, postal address, email address, phone numbers, credit or debit card details, and whether you are a tax payer so that we can claim Gift Aid.
How do we use personal information?
We use the personal information collected from supporters for a number of purposes, including:
For administration purposes, i.e to contact you regarding services/events/information you have requested or enquired about;
To process donations we have received from you, including processing Gift Aid;
To keep a record of our relationship with you
To contact you with information about CURE news and events
To analyse and improve our work, services, activities, products or information (including our website) or for our internal records
Comply with financial regulations and the law
When you use our secure online donation or payment pages, you will be directed to a specialist supplier company, who will receive your credit or debit card details and contact information to process the transaction. We do not retain your credit or debit card details.
Do we provide information to other parties?
We will never sell your data to any third party. We will not share your details with other charities for marketing purposes.
We will only share information with other organisations where we have your permission to do so in accordance with this Privacy Policy, where it is necessary for a legitimate reason connected with the services we offer or where it is required by law or regulation.
Sometimes, we may need to share your information with a small number of trusted partners (service providers, agents and affiliated companies) for the purposes outlined above. Where we use third parties, we require them to adhere to appropriate controls to protect personal information.
Opt-In, Opt-Out or Change Your Contact Information
In compliance with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, CURE International UK now operates an Opt-In Communication Policy. This means we will only contact those that have opted in to receiving such communications. You cannot remove yourself from our database, but you can prevent unwanted communication. Opt-out requests can be submitted via email to uk.info@cure.org.
Website Privacy Policy
We have created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. We do not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website.
Reading or Downloading
We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet, the date and time you access our site, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked to our site.
We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
Sending us an Email
You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a Web form that provides us this information. We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer your questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programmes that may be of interest if you have opted-in to do so.
We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties.
If you sign up for one of our email lists, we will only send you the kinds of information you have requested. We won’t share your name or email address with any outside parties.
Security
All information provided to CURE International is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of CURE International. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.
Use of Links
Throughout our web pages, we provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organisations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers.
Creating a text link from your website to our site does not require permission. If you have a link you’d like us to consider adding to our website, please send an email to uk.info@cure.org with the subject “Link request.”
Accessibility
This website is designed to be accessible to visitors with disabilities. We welcome your comments. If you have suggestions on how to make the site more accessible, please contact us at uk.info@cure.org.
Questions About Our Policies
We may update our policies from time to time. We encourage our supporters to frequently check this page for any changes and to stay informed about how we are helping to protect your personal information we collect.
If there are any significant changes in the way that we treat your personal information we will contact you and we will place a prominent notice on our website.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at:
CURE International UK
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London, WC2A3PE
0207 304 4784