Our privacy policy
1. What personally identifiable information does Sightsavers collect from me?
Like many websites, Sightsavers (we) use cookies within the Gift of Sight website in order to provide you with a more personalised web service and experience.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard disk through your web-browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org .
We use two types of cookies on our website:
• per session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies file of your browser until you leave the site; and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookies file of your browser for longer (although how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie) . These cookies are used to store state information between visits to a site.
• We use persistent cookies to provide certain services, for example the log in area which will keep your previous addresses. We use these cookies so that you do not have to log-in repeatedly between visits.
We gather non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf using cookies embedded on our website and on our adverts on third party websites. We may also monitor which websites you have come from prior to entering the Gift of Sight site and which websites you move on to after leaving the site. We will use this information in order to assess the impact of any marketing in order to develop further adverts and campaigns.
If you do not wish to receive cookies you can easily modify your web browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled, and so in order to enjoy the Gift of Sight site to the full, we recommend that you leave them switched on.
Click here for instructions on how to stop cookies being installed on your browser
2. How does Sightsavers use my information?
Sightsavers uses the information we collect about you on the Gift of Sight website to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise.
3. Who is collecting your information?
When you are on the Gift of Sight website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Sightsavers alone unless stated otherwise.
4. With whom does Sightsavers share your information?
As a general rule, Sightsavers will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. When you are using our secure online donation pages you are going through to a partner company and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information is provided so that the transaction can take place.
5. What are my choices regarding, collection, use and distribution of my information?
If you indicated that you are interested in receiving regular information about Sightsavers work we will send you communications regarding this, either electronically or otherwise as indicated by you.
Sightsavers does not sell, rent or share user information with anyone. We may on occasion work with 3rd parties to contact our supporters about Sightsavers, however the 3rd party would be bound by a confidentiality agreement which would prevent them from using this information for any other purpose.
6. What is Sightsavers’s policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?
The accuracy of your individual identifying information is important to Sightsavers. If you change email address or any of the other information we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at info@sightsavers.ie or write to Supporter Care, Sightsavers, Grosvenor Hall, Bolnore Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 4BX with the details.
7. How does Sightsavers protect my personal details?
To protect the rights of everyone using our website, we comply to the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998. These are strict security procedures relating to the storage and disclosure of information that you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access or loss of such information. If you would like to find out more about this act, just click here For additional protection we also use secure server software (SSL) to encrypt financial information you send to us from our website. This encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name and address; so that your details cannot be read as they are transferred to us over the internet. While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this.