Privacy Policy

48percent.org is committed to ensuring the privacy of everyone. This policy represents our commitment as an organisation to your right to privacy and gives you an explanation about how we use your information and your rights concerning that information.

48percent.org is the data controller to whom this policy refers.

What types of information do we collect and how?

The type and amount of information we receive and store depends on how you use our website. You can access most of the pages on our website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information.

Our web servers use cookies and collect anonymous logs during user visits to our website. This provides us with valuable information for improving them in the future.

We collect personal information in the following ways:

When you contact us through the contact form or directly through email
When you make a donation to us as well as when we make a donation to you

We collect the following types of personal information, should you choose to provide it:

Contact person information
If applicable: Company name
Address
Email address
Phone number
Financial data

How do we use the information collected?

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

To update you on our campaigns and activities
To ask you to donate
To process donations that we receive from you
To improve our websites
To fulfill any legal obligations

Legal basis of processing

Data protection law requires us to have a legal justification to process your personal information. We use the following depending on the type of data and the type of processing:

To fulfill a contractual obligation

If you donate to us or express an interest in joining our movement we will process the personal data you provided to process that donation or action your membership request.

Legal obligation

We will process your personal information to fulfill any legal obligations placed upon us, for example because of tax law obligations. We will also process your personal information if lawfully required to do so by a legal authority or a court of law.

Legitimate interest

We may send you emails about how we run our projects. You can always choose to unsubscribe from these emails.

Security

We take security measures to ensure that we keep your information secure, accurate and up to date.

Retention period for data

We only hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the purposes outlined above. We remove personal data from our systems once it is no longer required, in line with our guidelines on how long important information must remain accessible for future use or reference, as well as when and how data can be destroyed when it is no longer needed.

Access to and your rights over your personal information

With regard to the processing of your personal data, you have the following rights:

To be informed how your data is being processed
To access your data
To rectify any data that is inaccurate
To instruct us to delete your data
To restrict our processing of your data at any time.
To object to your data being stored (which includes contacting you via email). All our email communications to you will contain an unsubscribe link.

Cookies and tracking

Internet privacy is important to us. Therefore we do not use third-party tracking cookies on our website. Instead to be able to measure website performance we use software from Piwik Pro. This software is hosted on a safe EU cloud and won’t create or store any cookies on your browsers. Also, nothing will be stored on your devices that could track you around the internet. The data is completely anonymous and therefore has minimal impact on your privacy.