Privacy Policy

‘The Accelerator for GBV Prevention’ is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and anyone else about whom we process personal information. We believe you have the right to privacy on the web.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, use, store, process, and share your information in relation to this website. This Policy covers our treatment of information that is gathered by this website, including personally identifiable information.

For purposes of compliance with the law, the entity that is collecting your data is ‘The Accelerator for GBV Prevention’,

C/O Panorama Global
2101 4th Avenue
Suite 2100
Seattle, WA 98121 USA

Any data we collect will only be used in accordance with all applicable laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (GDPR) within the European Union (EU), the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) as implemented in EU member states, the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) within the United Kingdom (UK), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 in the UK, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Brazil General Personal Data Protection Law of 2018 (LGPD), the Data Protection Act 2019 as enacted by the Parliament of Kenya, the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation 2019 (NDPR), the South African Protection of Personal Information Act 2013 (POPIA), the provisions of India’s Information Technology Act 2000 (IT Act) as amended from time to time alongside India’s Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011 (SPDI Rules), and the Australia Privacy Act No. 119 1988 (Privacy Act).

1. The type of personal information we collect

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

• Email address that you provide to us for the purpose of registering interest about The GBV for Accelerator Prevention and Our Future Is Fearless (and any future) campaigns.
• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views.
• Any other information that you choose to send to us when you email us at codirectors@preventgbv.org to raise interest about becoming one of our partners.

2. How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• Contact Details (email address) – as necessary for contacting you in delivery of The GBV for Accelerator Prevention and Our Future Is Fearless (and any future) campaign & community updates
• Contact Details (email address) and other information that you provide to us when you email us at codirectors@preventgbv.org to raise interest about becoming one of our partners.
  We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
  • Technical Data – collected as you interact with our website, and used to develop an understanding of what users’ interests are, to help with the targeting of our web pages and campaign communications and advertisements.

Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Apart from set out in this policy, we will not sell, rent or share your personal data with third party organisations. However we may disclose your information to external suppliers and partners to provide certain services. All partners and suppliers will be screened to ensure they comply with legislation and where required data processing and confidentiality agreements will be in place.

3. On which legal basis do we process personal data ?

We use the information that you have given us in order to contact you in delivery of The GBV for Accelerator Prevention and Our Future Is Fearless (and any future) campaign & community updates. This may include contacting you for marketing purposes in relation to campaigns you have shown an interest in or about how to partner with us. Such data could also be used to compile user profiles used in the context of future campaigns.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (GDPR) within the European Union (EU), the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) as implemented in EU member states, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

• Your consent.

This applies where you have given us consent to the processing.

Typically, this will include where you have provided information to us in the course of engaging with our campaign.

It will also include where you have given us consent to send marketing information to you or have consented to the installation of cookies that might collect Technical data on your device. We will generally only collect Sensitive Personal Data with your explicit consent, whether this consent is collected by The Accelerator for GBV Prevention or our third party partners.

We will take active steps to collect your consent or to ensure our clients have collected it. Where you have given consent, you are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting The Accelerator for GBV Prevention.

4. Where we store your personal data

Your personal data will be stored on our systems within the European Economic Area (EEA).

Your personal data will be accessed by employees in the European Economic Area (EEA). For a full list of our service providers for data processing and cloud storage please contact dataprotection@preventgbv.org.

To help protect the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information, no matter which of our business operations are processing your data, we maintain the most appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personal information to those who need to know that information to provide services to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined above. This could include for storage purposes, for the administration of relevant contracts, to ensure that this information is used to target appropriate advertisements to you, and for our legal obligations. Such third parties could include:

• Our partners, for whom we conduct campaigns for, and who act as joint controllers with The Accelerator for GBV Prevention over personal data used for campaign purposes.
• Third party advertising providers, including those operating websites.
• Service providers, IT and system administration services.

6. Your legal rights

If you are a resident of the UK or the EU/EEA, you have rights under the GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act in relation to your personal data, upon request:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we or our Third Party Partners hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully. However, you may not have the right to exercise this if we are required to process your data for legal or contractual obligations.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Object to processing of your personal data where you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms, by contacting us to inform us of this.
• Withdraw your consent from any processing in the following situations:
  • From having campaigns or advertisements targeted at your interests. To exercise this, please use our website Cookie Banner.
  • The right to opt-out from marketing communications or newsletters we may send to you, by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button at the bottom of all our communications. You can also exercise this right by contacting us at [EMAIL].
  • From any cookies we use, even to those you have previously consented to, except for cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to function properly. For more information on this, please see the Cookies section above.

Please contact us at dataprotection@preventgbv.org if you wish to make a request.

7. Cookie Policy

We use cookies to allow us to personalise your visits to this site, keep track of your preferences and learn about the way you use the site.

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your computer when you visit our website and allows us to recognise you as a user. Typically, these contain two pieces of information: a site name and unique user ID. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. Cookies are essential to the effective operation of our website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier.

Cookies may also be set by the website you are visiting (first party cookies) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (third party cookies).

We will generally collect information through the following types of cookies:

• Essential Cookies: Cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around our websites or to provide certain basic features, including website security and collecting user consent for cookies (e.g. CloudFlare, Purpose consent cookies);
• Statistics: Cookies that monitor the popularity of sections of our website to generate web analytics and for compiling reports on website activity, which may or may not collect personal information (e.g. Google Analytics);
• Marketing: Cookies that track users and display advertisements relevant to them, and which may also collect information on what your viewing interests are on the basis of your pages viewed and your interaction with various content on different web pages (e.g. Facebook cookies).

We require you to accept or decline cookies by accepting or declining our Cookie Consent Notice when first accessing our website. By accepting and using our website you consent to our use of cookies as updated from time to time and the cookies we use will be stored on your device (unless this functionality is rejected or disabled by your browser).

Through cookies, we may also collect your Internet protocol (IP) address, device identifiers, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Internet or this website or websites associated with our third party partners. We may also collect data about your interests and preferences which we receive in relation to web pages you have viewed and your interactions with various web pages, as collected through our cookies and cookies installed by our third-party providers to track you online.

Storage Time

The cookies are stored for a period of 13 months maximum unless you clear your cache and the cookies themselves.

Opting Out of Cookies

You may access our Cookie Consent Notice to decline cookies at any time subsequently here.

You can manage the cookies stored on your device as well as stop cookies from being installed on your browser. For more information on how to manage cookies usage on your device, please let us refer you to information found on these topics on allaboutcookies.org, more specifically by clicking on the links below:

• Managing the Cookies Stored on Your Device;
• Stop Cookies from Being Installed on your Browser.
  Please note that if you prefer to block some or all of the cookies Purpose uses, you might lose some of our website’s functionality.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at dataprotection@preventgbv.org

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk