Privacy Policy

Last updated: Sun 18 September 2022

Kwanda Ltd ("Kwanda"; "we"), situated in The United Kingdom, provides services to our website visitors ("you"). Our services include activities related to fundraising and re-distribution. We process personal data during the undertaking of these Services.

Kwanda deems careful handling of personal data to be paramount. Therefore, personal data is carefully processed and secured. We adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation (the "Rules") when processing. This Privacy Statement relates to personal information collected by, or under the control of Kwanda, under the Rules.

In this Privacy Statement, we summarise what personal data we collect and use and for what purpose. We advise you to read our Privacy Statement carefully. This Privacy Statement applies to our website, kwanda.co and communications.

Use of Personal Data

By using our Services, you may share your data with us. We exclusively collect and use the personal data you provide or your organisation. Kwanda will not use your data for purposes other than you or your organisation have permitted us.

Types of Data Collected

  • When using our Services, we may collect the following information about you:
  • Personal identification data: name, surname; organisation;
  • Contact information data: email;
  • Other provided data: IP address, social media accounts, feedback and other communication.

Purposes of Processing

Kwanda generally processes personal data for the following purposes:

  • Logging in and verifying/authenticating users of the Service;
  • Communication between Kwanda and website visitors;
  • Monitoring and auditing the Service;
  • Analysing statistics and optimising the Service.

We collect your personal data based on legitimate service interests or consent. If the processing is based on consent, it can be withdrawn at any time by emailing us at support@kwanda.co.

Data Storage

In principle, we only keep your data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, for which your data have been collected. As a general rule, we store the data of our website visitors for 12 months.

Your Rights

You have the right to request access to the information we have about you. You can do this by contacting us directly. We will make sure to provide you with a copy of the data we process about you in a machine-readable format. We may need to verify your identity to comply with your request.

If you believe that the information we have about you is incorrect, you can contact us to update the information to ensure it is accurate. You also have the right to object to specific data processing operations, such as direct marketing. If you wish for us to delete information about you, you can communicate it to us.

You can contact us at any time with these requests, and we will respond in a timely manner applicable to the Rules. If unsatisfied with our reply, you may refer your complaint to the relevant supervisory authority.

Provision to Third Parties

We may sometimes share your personal data with third parties. However, in principle, we will not provide the data you have provided to other parties if you have not permitted us to do so unless the law requires this.

Data Transfers

We may transfer your data outside the European Economic Area to fulfil the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Statement.

Whenever this happens, we ensure that personal data is transferred securely. We ensure that the party is subject to the US for transfers to the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement. In addition, we may transfer your data to countries recognised by the European Commission to provide an adequate data protection level for other transfers.

Cookies and Analytics

On our website, we make use of functional cookies. These cookies are saved for the duration of the (browser) session. Additionally, when you use our service, your IP address is automatically saved in the log files of our web server. This is necessary to allow us to manage and secure the Services properly. We do not use your IP address to follow and register your behaviour online. Typically, we cannot link your IP address to your name, address or other identifying information, except when you actively provide us with such information and continue using the same IP address. Of course, you can always refuse the cookies.

User Data you provide may be kept for statistical analyses, including via Google Analytics. These statistics are used to optimise our Services. Wherever possible, we make this data pseudonymised.

Security

We take security measures to limit misuse of and unauthorised access to personal data. In particular, we take the following measures:

  • Logical access control, use of passwords and possibly a second factor;
  • Encryption of data;
  • Pseudonymising data;
  • Securing data during the exchange of it, making use of the HTTPS protocol;
  • Purpose-bound access limitations;
  • Control of acknowledged authorisations.

Third-Party Websites

This statement does not apply to third-party websites that are visited from our Service through links. We cannot guarantee that these third parties will handle your personal data safely and reliably. Therefore, we advise you to read these websites' Privacy Statements before using them.

If you have questions, please send us an email at support@kwanda.co

Last updated: Sun 18 September 2022