Privacy & Security
Your support, your privacy and your trust is of utmost importance to giving-aid. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. By visiting this giving-aid website you are accepting the practices described in this policy.
How do we collect personal information?
Information is collected using a variety of methods. You will be asked to provide your personal information when making a donation, or requesting information or updates through our website, e-mail, direct mail or telephone communications.
What do we collect?
giving aid does not collect any personal information other than information that is knowingly and willingly given. This personal data includes a record of your interactions with us and is stored in-house on our database to enable us to keep our supporters informed of giving-aid’s work and how donations are used. Through our interaction with you we may gather a range of contact details include emails, mobile, postal address and landline numbers.
Why do we collect your personal information?
giving aid does not collect any personal information other than information that is knowingly and willingly given. This personal data includes a record of your interactions with us and is stored in-house on our database to enable us to keep our supporters informed of giving aid’s work and how donations are used. Through our interaction with you we may gather a range of contact details include emails, mobile, postal address and landline numbers.
Cookies
Like many other sites, giving-aid.com uses cookies, which are small text files that can help websites improve their services to users. Our cookies help us improve the speed and security of the site and to measure the behaviour of our visitors so we can improve our site and your experience of it. Cookies also allow you the user to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information without your express permission
- Collect any sensitive information without your express permission
- Pass data to advertising/marketing networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
You are always free to decline our cookies. To do this, you can modify your web browser to refuse cookies, or to let you know when you receive new cookies. Please remember that if you decline cookies from giving-aid.com it may affect your experience of the website. Find out how to manage the cookies stored on your computer at
There are some third party cookies in use on the giving aid website. Each of these providers has its own policy relating to its use of cookies:
Social media
If you connect with giving aid using social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook, we will receive data about you as per the Social Media sites terms and conditions. Please refer to the site for further information.
Do we share your information?
We respect your privacy and will not sell or give your details to other organisations for marketing purposes.
How can I be sure my privacy is protected?
giving-aid will treat your details with the utmost care and in accordance with the Irish Data Protection Act 1988/2003 and the ePrivacy regulations 2011. We also comply with the Personal Data Security Breach Code of Practice.
giving aid will always endeavour to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. We are committed to investing in technology to provide security for your information, including working with leading suppliers of secure payment services. Our donor database and datacentre complies with the ISO 27000 Security Standard.
Corrections and complaints
Corrections can be made by filling out this contact form.
In the event that you wish to raise a concern with regard to any data giving aid may hold on you, you may raise this with giving-aid’s data protection officer by using this form or in writing to: