Privacy Policy for Our Website

Who are we

We are Killearn Malawi Group whose aims are to prevent and / or provide relief of poverty, and to advance health and education in Malawi. Killearn Malawi Group is a registered Scottish Charity (SC043555). The registered address is 43 Allan Road, Killearn, Glasgow, G63 9QF.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you use our website, when you contact us about making a donation, or if you have registered as a Friend to receive our newsletters.

What type of information is collected from you?

The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a donation online your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below.

How is your information used?

We may use your information to:

  • process a donation that you have made;
  • send you communications about our activities which you have requested;
  • Claim gift aid.
  • We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations (for example the collection of Gift Aid). We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity.

    Who has access to your information?

    We will not sell your information to third parties.We will not share your information with third parties unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.

    When you are using our secure online donation pages, your donation is processed by a third party payment processor, who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.

    Your choices

    You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive communications from us about the work we do for the people in Malawi then you can tell us by email at info@killearnmalawigroup.org.

    How you can access and update your information

    The accuracy of your information is important to us. If you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at: info@killearnmalawigroup.org, or write to us at: 43 Allan Road, Killearn, Glasgow, G63 9QF

    You have the right to ask for a copy of the information Killearn Malawi Group holds about you.

    When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely.

    Links to other websites

    Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

    In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party.

    Review of this Policy

    We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in May 2018 with reference to the General Data Protection Regulation 25 May 2018.