Cookies and Privacy Policy
Raising Futures Kenya takes your privacy extremely seriously and is committed to ensuring that any data we hold on you is kept safely and securely. We will not divulge your details to anybody who is not directly connected with our work for any purposes and we will never disclose your data to a third party without your express consent.
This privacy policy applies to Raising Futures Kenya (a UK charity registered in England & Wales number 1181670), trading as Vision Africa Give a Child a Future (a UK charity registered in England & Wales number 1091198; Kenya NGO registration no: OP.218/051/2003/0378/3014) and tells you how we collect, store and use any information on this website www.raisingfutureskenya.org.uk and what that could mean for you.
How we use your data
Postal address
We use your postal address to thank you for your donation(s) and update you about the projects you support, where we don’t have an email address or you unsubscribed from our email communications. We may also send you a Christmas card and copy of our annual impact report.
Telephone number
We use your telephone number to provide information, including fundraising and marketing if we have consent from you to do so. We will not contact you by telephone if you are registered on the Telephone Preferential Service (TPS) unless we have a specific opt-in from you for us to contact you by telephone or the call is of administrative nature. We will not use your number to send SMS.
Email address
We only send you emails, including our newsletter, if you have given us your consent. You can unsubscribe to our emails at any time, by using the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of all our emails, or by getting in touch with our UK Director on vic@raisingfutureskenya.org.uk
Third parties
Raising Futures Kenya will not sell, trade or rent your personal contact details to any organisation. We do use third-party financial institutions to process our donations. They receive the card number and other personal information only to verify and process transactions securely. We do not allow for any third parties to sell, trade or rent this data or use it for anything other than what they are contracted to do, or store the data over a long-term period.
Research
We carry out research using publicly available information and expressed interests which allows our fundraising team to communicate with supporters in an individual and tailored way relating to their interests. This allows us to reduce the amount of unwanted or irrelevant communications sent to our donors.
How we store your information
Raising Futures Kenya stores all information relating to individuals in a secure online cloud or on our secure online database. No personal information is stored on staff computers or external hard drives unless necessary. When this is required additional password protection is used to protect this information.
Your rights
If you do wish to exercise any of your rights, as listed below please write to us at vic@raisingfutureskenya.org.uk
- Access to your personal information;
- Objection to processing of your personal information;
- Objection to automated decision-making and profiling;
- Restriction of processing of your personal information;
- Your personal data portability;
- Rectification of your personal information; and
- Erasure of your personal information
If you make a request relating to any of your rights listed above, we will consider each request in accordance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations. No administration fee will be charged for for considering and/or complying with such a request unless the request is deemed to be excessive in nature.
Upon successful verification of your identity you are entitled to obtain the following information about your own personal information:
- The purposes of the collection, processing, use and storage of your personal data. The source(s) of the personal information, if it was not obtained from you.
- The categories of personal data stored about you.
- The recipients or categories of recipients to whom your personal data has been or may be transmitted, along with the location of those recipients.
- The envisaged period of storage for your personal data or the rationale for determining the storage period.
- The use of any automated decision-making and/or profiling.
You can make the above request by emailing vic@raisingfutureskenya.org.uk
Get in touch.
We strive to be transparent and open and of course we couldn’t carry out our vital work without the financial backing of our supporters. If you wish to discuss any of this further, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
Cookie Policy
Our web site uses site specific, non personally identifiable cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
If you continue to use our site, we will assume you are happy to accept cookies. If not you should stop browsing.
Our use of cookies
The Raising Futures Kenya website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of our website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Raising Futures Kenya.
We will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Raising Futures Kenya nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
We also use cookies in other parts of our site to enhance your browsing experience but not to store any form of personal information.
www.aboutcookies.org or This cookie guide are good places to look for more information about cookies (links open a new window/tab).
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.