Our privacy and cookie policies.
At The Power of Nutrition, we know our work for children, really is your work for children. None of what we do at The Power of Nutrition is possible without you. Preservation of your privacy is important to us and we are committed to letting you know how we use your personal information and to only use your data responsibly. Please read this policy carefully; by providing us with your personal information, you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with this policy. Occasionally, we may make changes to this policy so do remember to check back from time to time.
If you have any questions on this policy, please call our team on 0203 1413 900 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, or email us at info@powerofnutrition.org
The Power of Nutrition is a registered charity in England & Wales (1160373) and a registered company in England and Wales (09288843).
Information is critical to ensuring we can be there for children around the world. It helps us operate as efficiently as possible and to make sure our interactions with you are timely, relevant and tailored for you. To do this, we may collect information about you in the following ways:
From other information that is available to the public to help us understand more about you and ensure our communications are tailored to you. To do this, we may use information from publicly available sources such as Companies House, or information published in the media, as well as that which is commercially available through third-party subscriptions. By understanding more about you, and how you might be interested in supporting us, means we can help make our work for children as cost-effective as possible.
Depending on how you interact with us, the information that we collect may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone or mobile number, your contact preferences, bank details, taxpayer status (to understand if we can claim Gift Aid), the date or year of your birth.
We may also collect information about the donations you make to us or events that you may register for or participate in, and details from any interactions with our Team.
We may also gather information that is publicly available to build up a better picture of you and your interests, as well as behavioural data on digital platforms so we can consider how best to ask for your support.
To do this we use desk research and third-party subscriptions to help us understand things such as the demographic information associated with your postcode, an estimate of your age, information about directorships and shareholdings, employment and earnings as well as your charitable interests and giving history. We do this to make sure our communications to you are appropriate and tailored – something we know means a lot to our supporters.
We may sometimes use third party supplies to support us in this work– to understand more about this please see the section below, “Who we share your information with”.
We will ask for your consent before we use your information for certain purposes, such as sending you emails about fundraising opportunities. We may also use your information where we have a legitimate interest in order to carry out our activities, examples include:
So, we can let you know the latest news about our work for children and share with you how else you can help, we may contact you by direct mail, and by telephone, email or SMS, where you have agreed to be contacted. You can change how you hear from us at any time simply by getting in touch with our Team.
When you enter information into a form on our website and start but don’t complete a form we may send you an email to check and see if there is any help we can give or any problems you encountered.
If you would prefer us not to analyse your information or combine it with publicly available information, you can let us know by contacting our team.
We may share your information with partners, agents or service providers to allow them to perform services on our behalf or to help us understand our supporters more effectively. These partners will only act under our instruction and will not use your information for their own purposes
We always have contracts in place with our suppliers, which require them to comply with UK’s law on data protection and to have systems and processes to protect the security of your information. We promise to always keep your details safe and we’ll never sell or swap your information with any other organisation.
If you don’t want to see targeted advertising from us on social media, please refer to the instructions provided by the website or app, for example on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google.
We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of The Power of Nutrition, our websites or our visitors and for other lawful purposes.
Some examples of the organisations with which we may share your data:
We make sure that appropriate physical, technical and human controls are in place to ensure we take good care of your information.
However, the transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure and as a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, The Power of Nutrition cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your data, we make every effort to try to ensure its security both on our systems and while in transit between our systems and our partners who work on our behalf.
All staff who have access to your personal data understand the importance of keeping your information safe and secure at all times and are given training to support them in this.
We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites even if you access them using links from our websites and recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit.
We ensure that additional controls are in place for financial, sensitive and special categories of information, meeting regulatory and legal requirements for managing these types of information.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, and meet any legal or regulatory requirement. This is so that we can provide the services or information you have requested, to administer your relationship with us, to ensure we don’t communicate with you if you’ve asked us not to and to comply with the law.
We may keep information relating to gifts in wills indefinitely so that we can administer these gifts and communicate appropriately with the families of those leaving The Power of Nutrition a legacy.
You have the right to object to your data being processed by us and can do so by contacting our Team at The Power of Nutrition, 114-118 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5AA, by email at info@powerofnutrition.org or by phone on 0203 1413 900.
You can request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like to do so, please send a description of the information you would like as well as approved proof of identity to the Team at The Power of Nutrition, 114-118 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5AA.
You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we manage your data with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
We always want you to be happy with the communication you receive from us. If you want to change how you hear from us, or update your details, simply get in touch with our Team. You can call them on 0203 1413 900 or email info@powerofnutrition.org (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm).
You can also change the way we contact you by using the opt-out/unsubscribe link in an email from us.
Where you tell us that no longer want to hear from us for marketing purposes, please be aware that we may still contact you for administration purposes such as about any donations you make and Gift Aid, or providing you with the information you’ve requested or in helping resolve a query.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Analytical/performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. The analytical cookies expire once the browser session is completed. Functionality cookies will expire after 10 years.
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If you are under 18, please make sure that you obtain your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information via our website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information. Also, if you do use our sites to obtain information about fundraising or supporting the work of The Power of Nutrition, please let an adult know.
Some of our external third parties are based outside the UK so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.
This information was last updated in May 2022. From time to time, we may make changes to the information on this page so you may wish to check back from time to time. The amended information will apply from the date it is posted on the site and will govern the way in which we collect and use personal information from then on.
