Privacy and cookie policy | The Guardian Foundation It's your choice When we make The Guardian Foundation available to you online, we use cookies and similar technologies to help us to do this. Some are necessary to help our website work properly and can't be switched off, and some are optional but support The Guardian Foundation and your experience in other ways. You can find out more in our privacy policy and cookie policy, and manage the choices available to you at any time by going to Manage Cookies at the bottom of any page. Are you happy to accept cookies? To manage your cookie choices now, including how to opt out where our partners rely on legitimate interests to use your information, click on Manage my cookies. 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The Guardian Foundation is an independent charity with a focus on increasing access to the media.  This privacy policy is separate to how we use personal data collected via theguardian.com website. For information on how personal data is used on theguardian.com website, please read the privacy policy here and the cookie policy here.  We think carefully about our use of personal data, and below you can find the details of what we do to protect your privacy. This policy covers, among other topics:  Information about your rights, the choices available to you, and our obligations in the UK and the European Union. Transparency about how we collect and use your personal data, including when and how it is shared  Information on how we protect your personal data  Information on how we will facilitate your rights and respond to your questions Find out more about how we manage your personal data below. Contents About this privacy policy  Who we are  The types of personal data we collect about you  How we collect personal data  How we use your personal data  Personal data that we receive about you from other organisations  Children’s personal data  Security of your personal data When we share your personal data  International data transfers  How long we keep your personal data  How we may contact you  Cookies and similar technologies Your privacy and data protection rights  Contact us for information about how we use your personal data  Changes to this privacy policy About this privacy policy  This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share and transfer your personal data when you use the services provided on our site or interact with us. This privacy policy also explains your data privacy rights.  Personal data is any information about you by which you can be identified or be identifiable. This can include information such as: Your name, date of birth, gender, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile number, financial details, such as payment cards you use to purchase products or support us.  Information about your device (such as the IP address, which is a numerical code to identify your device that can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based).  Information relating to how you use and interact with our site and services. Information relating to your personal circumstances. Sometimes our site may contain links to sites and services that are not part of the The Guardian Foundation offering. These sites and services have their own privacy policies. If you follow a link to these non-Guardian Foundation sites and apps, you should read the privacy policy shown on their site. Who we are  The Guardian Foundation, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU is the data controller in respect of personal data that we collect from you. This means that we are responsible for our use of your personal data. If you want to contact us directly, you can find our contact details in the “Contact us for information about how we use your personal data ” section below.  The types of personal data we collect about you  We collect your personal data when you visit our site, engage in services, contribute to The Guardian Foundation or when you interact with us. We will only collect your personal data in line with applicable laws. We collect your personal data in various ways:  Directly from you, when you sign up for our services and when you browse our site.  Personal data we generate about you, e.g. personal data we use to authenticate you, or personal data we generate about you in the form of your IP address or your preferences.  Personal data we collect from third parties, e.g. personal data that helps us to combat fraud or which we collect, with your permission, when you interact with your social media accounts.  Below you will find more information about the categories of personal data we collect across our charitable programmes and use of our site. Behind the Headlines  We collect the following personal data when you visit our Education Centre, register your interest in  Behind the Headlines through our online registration form, or when you contact us directly. Your contact details, such as name, address, email address, phone number. Your organisation and job role. Details relating to your visit to the Education Centre or a Guardian Foundation event, such as dates, other visitor information, and special requirements. NewsWise  We collect the following personal data when you register your interest with the NewsWise programme in any capacity, including as a teacher, volunteer, or for a family event. This may be through our online registration form or when you contact us directly via phone or email. Your contact details, such as name, email address, phone number. Your organisation and job title and information about your role, or your academic institution and details of your studies e.g. degree area and year of graduation. Details relating to visits to schools, such as dates and any special requirements that you choose to provide to us to enable us to support attendance. GNM Archive  We collect the following personal data when you contribute to the archive or contact us directly about our archive collections or arrange to visit the reading room: Your contact details, such as name, email address, phone number. Details relating to your visit to the GNM archive, such as dates, other visitor information and special requirements. Personal Interview records for the GNM archive. Personal data we generate about you When you use our sites we may use cookies or similar technology to collect or generate extra data, including: Your IP address - a numerical code to identify your device, together with the country, region or city where you are based. Your geolocation data - your IP address can be used to find information about the latitude, longitude, altitude of your device, its direction of travel, your GPS data and data about connection with local Wi-Fi equipment. Information on how you interact with our services. Your browsing history of the content you have visited on our sites, including how you were referred to our sites via other websites. Details of your computer, mobile, TV, tablet or other devices, for example, the unique device ID, mobile advertising ID, unique vendor or advertising ID and browsers used to access our content. Identifiers derived from those cookies or similar technologies, your device, or generated based on the data described above. We will not collect special categories of data from you - such as personal data concerning your race, political opinions, religion, health or sexual orientation - unless you have chosen to provide that type of personal data to us.  Personal data when you post comments about The Guardian Foundation on other social media sites If you have mentioned The Guardian Foundation in posts on social media sites, then we may collect your social media handles.  How we collect personal data  We collect personal data when you: Are a beneficiary of the Guardian Foundation. Participate for example in Behind the Headlines, Newswise or GNM Archive activities. Pay for a product or service. Attend our events. Participate in surveys or interviews. Use mobile devices to access our content. Access and interact with our site Send out marketing communications. Contact us via email, social media, or similar technologies or when you mention us on social media. We also collect personal data through cookies and other similar technologies. For more details on how we use cookies, please refer to section “Cookies and similar technologies” below.  How we use your personal data  We use personal data collected through our site only when we have a valid reason and the legal grounds to do so. We determine the legal grounds based on the purposes for which we have collected your personal data.  Legal grounds for using your personal data  The legal ground may be one of the following: Consent: We will use your personal data where we have asked for your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. We will rely on consent to:  To send email communications and newsletters to you. You can decide not to receive these communications and may withdraw your consent at any time by replying to the email or, if available, by clicking ‘unsubscribe’. To place non-essential cookies, or other similar technology. We provide more details of how we use cookies in this policy. You can withdraw your consent to us placing these cookies at any time through our Privacy Settings. Performance of a contract with you (or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract with you): We will use your personal data if we need to in order to perform a contract with you. For example, where you have signed up to or registered your interest in becoming involved in one of our programmes or attending our events. Compliance with law: In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal data, for example to retain records of transactions as required by financial regulations. Our legitimate interest: We may process your personal data where it is necessary for our legitimate interests in a way that might be expected as part of running The Guardian Foundation and in a way which does not materially impact your rights and freedoms.  For example, it is in our legitimate interest for us to understand our beneficiaries, promote our programmes and operate our site efficiently and  to analyse what content has been viewed on our site, so that we can understand how it is used. Examples of when we rely on our legitimate interests to use your personal data include: To contact you in relation to programmes you are involved in or have registered an interest in. To display Guardian Foundation content on Vimeo. We process personal data so that business customers can access this video player and we can understand how users interact with our content. When we analyse what content has been viewed on our site, so that we can understand how they are used and improve our content. For internal administrative purposes related to when you use our services - such as our accounting and records - and to make you aware of any changes to our services. To collect and log IP addresses to improve the website and monitor website usage. To personalise our serv…