About this site

Privacy


Who we are

Charityfacts.org is an initiative of Adrian Sargeant, the UK’s only Professor of Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising. The site is maintained by Sargeant Associates Ltd, a private limited company, whose registration number is 4309137.

Sargeant Associates Ltd is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom.

Why we may collect your data

You may at times be asked to supply personal information via the Charityfacts website. Personal information is anything which enables us to identify you in some way, such as your name and an email address. If you supply such information, we are legally bound by the Data Protection Act 1998 to ensure that such information is only used for the purpose for which it was requested and also to ensure that the data is held securely.


General

We may collect and record information in order for us to understand more about how our site is used and in turn to make sure that the site reflects your needs. In order to do this we may send cookies to your PC. A cookie will contain information that allows us to recognise that you have used the site before, but will not contain any other personal data. You can disable this function within your browser without affecting your navigation around the site.

Survey

Occasionally we may ask you to fill in questionnaires or surveys whilst on-line. The data collected by the questionnaire or survey will only be used for the purpose stated in the form. You may also be given the opportunity to add your address details to our databases so we can contact you in the future. We will only use this information to contact you if you expressly give us permission to do so.

Requests for information

If you make a request for further information via the Charityfacts website, the data will only be retained on the Web Servers as long as is necessary in order to respond to your query.

Who we share information with

Charityfacts and Sargeant Associates Ltd. do not rent or sell mailing details to any third party.

Access to your information

You may request a copy of any personal information which we have about you. Please email info@charityfacts.org or write to Adrian Sargeant, 5 Chapel Hill, Uffculme, Devon EX15 3AD. We do not make a charge for supplying this information and will reply within 40 days of receipt of your request. It will help us to locate your records more easily if you can tell us something about the nature of your contact with charityfacts.org

Notification of change of Privacy Policy

Any changes to this policy will be notified by a icon being placed on the charityfacts.org Home Page for 1 month after the change occurs.