Privacy Policy (Overview)
Privacy policy
World Vision is a member of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and as such is required to operate within the stringent rules of the DMA's Code of Practice for Electronic Commerce, which was developed in consultation with the Office of Fair Trading and the Data Protection Register. The code is enforced by the independent Direct Marketing Authority.
World Vision follows the DMA's Code of Practice for e-commerce which sets high standards of consumer protection on the internet. We recognise that your personal privacy is a serious issue. This policy explains how we treat your personal information. By visiting the World Vision site you are consenting to the collection and use of your personal information unless you specify otherwise at the point of collection.
Personal data
World Vision respects your privacy. Our promise to you is that the information you give us will be treated in total confidence and will be stored and processed in accordance with your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) 2003.
We will use your personal information to provide you with the World Vision services or activities to which you’ve signed up and, from time to time, we would also like to send you information about other areas of our work which we think might be of interest to you. If at any time you would prefer not to receive this additional information from us, please do not hesitate to email us at info@worldvision.org.uk or write to Supporter Services, World Vision UK, World Vision House, Opal Drive, Fox Milne, Milton Keynes, MK15 0ZR
We will make every reasonable effort to ensure that appropriate security is in place to protect your personal details from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure. World Vision is compliant with the international Payment Card Industry standard for the secure processing of credit and debit card payments.
If you sponsor a child through World Vision, or are involved in some other World Vision activity which involves a personal link to our overseas programmes, elements of your personal data necessary to fulfil the activity (e.g. your name and address) will be shared with relevant World Vision offices in that country. Such countries may not have comparable Data Protection laws to the UK. We will ensure that the minimum amount of data necessary to fulfil the activity is transferred. The World Vision Partnership is committed to implementing appropriate procedures, internal controls and technical infrastructure to protect personal data in all of its offices.
We will never share your data with third parties for marketing purposes. Where we do use other organisations to carry out fundraising or communications activities and related administration on our behalf, we remain legally responsible for the handling of your data. Formal written contracts and agreements are put in place and their implementation monitored to ensure the continued security of your data.
Cookies
World Vision UK uses cookies in order to give you a better online experience. A cookie is a small file downloaded on to your computer when you access a website. Cookies allow a website to recognise users when they return to a site by opening doors to different content or services.
We also use cookies to monitor the performance of the website and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. This allows World Vision UK to look at things like the amount of visitors to the website or a specific page over a given period. In this way, data is collected anonymously and cannot be use to identify an individual. Like a key, a cookie itself does not contain information, but when it is read by your browser it can help a website improve the service delivered.
If you do not wish to have cookies installed on your computer or mobile device, it is possible to disable cookies from being applied to your device.
We also work with third party websites in order to enhance the information on our website for our supporters. These websites use their own cookies, however we have no control on how these are configured. You are still able to disable these from your internet browser.
For more information about cookies including disabling cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.