How do we collect your information?
We collect information from you in a number of ways, for example when you:
- Make a donation
We won’t collect or record your personal information unless you choose to give it to us.
What do we do with your personal information?
We use the information you give us in the following ways:
- To make sure we have an accurate record of all the donations we receive
- To find out more about you and the people who are visiting our website, donating.
How we protect your personal details
We protect the privacy of everyone using our website and comply with the United Kingdom Data Protection Act, 1998. The Act includes strict rules on the storage and disclosure of the information you give us and is designed to prevent unauthorised access or loss of your information.
Read the Data Protection Act
We use secure server software (SSL) to encrypt any financial information you send when you donate or buy something. This software encrypts all your personal data so that these details cannot be accessed as they are transferred to us over the internet.
Cookies
Information we collect
Like many websites we use cookies to improve your experience with us, we use them in the following ways:
- We use styling cookies to remember your preferences for page format, text size and other display preferences
- We use cookies to remember your needs for media player functions
- We also use session cookies to remember information when you make a donation, purchase a Gift of Sight or sign up to our campaign.
We also use cookies to gather information about what our users are doing on our website. We do this to understand how people use our website and how to improve our service. The analytical data we gather to do this is always anonymous.
You can turn off cookies at any time, if you do you may notice that the site does not work as well and you may not be able to use every service.
Turning off cookies
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. The help function of your web browser will tell you how.
By using the Medis Charitable Trust websites you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described.