Privacy Policy
How we use your personal information
The information you give us will be stored on a database and may be used by us for the purpose of keeping you informed about news and developments of The Sick Children’s Trust. You can opt-out of receiving this marketing material by:
• E-mail marketing - by emailing info@sickchildrenstrust.org or by clicking on an email unsubscribe link at the bottom of the marketing message
• Postal marketing - by writing to the Database Administrator, The Sick Children’s Trust, 3rd Floor, Willow House, 17-23 Willow Place, London SW1P 1JH or by emailing info@sickchildrenstrust.org
We may also use your information to help us understand which communication tools and which appeals are working well and which are not so strong, to enable us to modify future activity across the organisation in order to help The Sick Children’s Trust be more effective in supporting families of sick children in hospital.
What will we disclose to third parties?
Upon registration for competitions on the website or on marketing material of any of our official campaign partners, you may, in some cases, be automatically opted-in to receive e-mail marketing, newsletters or promotions from said partner. If this is the case you may unsubscribe to receiving such marketing communication at any time by clicking on the e-mail unsubscribe link at the bottom of their e-mail marketing or by notifying the official campaign partner in writing.
We care about your details and unless you have agreed we will never share your phone number, postal address or email address. The Sick Children’s Trust will not share the contact details of under 18s.
We may permit selected third parties to use your information, to contact you about products, services or issues which may be of interest to you, only if you have given us permission to do so. If you do not wish to receive any such communications from us or third parties, you may opt out by notifying our Team at info@sickchildrenstrust.org
We may offer you the opportunity to sign up to a mailing list and/or newsletter, to participate in a survey or a competition, or to receive information by email about third parties' products and services, or any other products and services which we provide. If you sign up for any of these and subsequently change your mind, you may opt out by notifying our Team via info@sickchildrenstrust.org or +44 (0) 20 7931 8695, or by clicking on the 'unsubscribe' link at the end of every ecommunication you receive from us.
Website privacy policy
The below covers how The Sick Children’s Trust will use personal information that is collected when you use The Sick Children’s Trust website. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
What is collected
The Sick Children’s Trust website does not store or capture any personal information when someone visits it and is not registered. The system will log your IP address along with other information provided by your browser. This may include the name and version of the browser you are using, your operating system and any website address that referred you to The Sick Children’s Trust website. This information will only be used for producing anonymous website statistics and will be used to help us with the delivery of the services on the website.
However the system will record personal information if you:
• Provide information by filling in a form on our site
• Subscribe or register for services that require personal information to be given
• Complete surveys that we use for research purposes
Cookies
When you visit The Sick Children’s Trust website pages, a small text file called a 'cookie', is downloaded onto your computer. This is called a session cookie. This will only remain on your computer until you close your browser. This cookie is not used to identify you personally in any way. We will use this type of cookie to collect aggregated website statistics that allow us to understand how visitors use the site. All of the information collected will be anonymous and only used to help us improve the website and report to funders on usage.
A persistent cookie will be downloaded when you first visit the site. These remain in your browsers cookie store between sessions. This type of cookie will allow us to identify repeat visitors to the site.
You may opt to view the site without cookies by adjusting your browser's settings. If you do disable cookies some functions of the site may no longer work correctly.
For more information on cookies see the All About Cookies
website.
What we will do with your information
Any information that is collected by The Sick Children’s Trust from this website will only be used for monitoring purposes unless you have given us consent for your information to be used e.g. Providing us with your email address so we can contact you or registering for an event so that we can get back to you. We may, from time to time, send you relevant information about The Sick Children’s Trust and its work, although there will be an option for you to opt out of this at the registration stage.
We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The data controller is The Sick Children’s Trust and our registration number is: Z6096928.
Access to information
The Data Protection Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.