your privacy

Mxogyny (Community Interest Company No. 12297121) is committed to protecting your personal information and privacy in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). 

this Privacy Policy describes what data we collect from you and how we store it, as well as your rights in relation to any personal information we hold about you. by using our website or signing up to our mailing list, you agree to your personal information being collected and used in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. you may request to view or change the data we hold, or withdraw your consent entirely, at any time.

changes to our privacy policy

we regularly review our policies and may update this Privacy Policy from time to time on our website. 

what information do we collect?

we request personal information from you when you subscribe to our emails, make a purchase on our online store or become a paid member of our community. 

financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services provider, Stripe, via Squarespace. their privacy policies can be found here and here.

if you sign up as a paid member of our community, we will collect personal information from you in accordance with Patreon’s privacy policy.

cookies

a cookie is a small text file. we use cookies to improve your experience of our website and to help us understand the parts of the website that users are visiting, including which pages users visit when they follow links in our emails. cookies mean that our website will remember you from visit to visit. 

when someone visits the Mxogyny website we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. we do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to various parts of the site. this information is processed in a way which does not identify anyone. we do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. 

how do we collect your data?

you directly provide Mxogyny with most of the data we collect. we collect and process data in the following ways:

when you give information to us directly — for example, when you purchase something on our website, interact with us on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, sign up to our mailing list, become a paid Patreon member, apply for a position, register for an event, make a donation to us, contact us or otherwise provide us with personal information.

when you use our website — we collect information about how people use our website and the pages that they visit through cookies and Google Analytics insights.

from public sources — we may use personal information that is available publicly, for example, we may use contact details available on public sources (including from publicly available social media posts) when organising a fundraising event.

how will we use your data?

how we use your information largely depends on the reason you have provided it to us. We may use your information in the following ways:

• to provide you with services, products or information you have requested.

• to provide further information about our work, services, activities or products.

• to further our charitable aims, including fundraising activities.

• to invite voluntary participation in research or surveys.

• to register and administer your participation in events for which you have registered.

• to analyse and improve our work, services, activities, products or information (including our website) or for our internal records.

• to use IP addresses and monitor website use to identify locations, block disruptive use, record website traffic or personalise the way information is presented to you.

• to process your application for a job or volunteer role with us; and

• for fraud prevention, credit risk reduction or otherwise as required by law or regulation.

we may analyse your data for research purposes to improve our services, or to try to understand your preferences in order to contact you in the most appropriate and relevant way.

how do we store your data?

we may hold your data in several different ways depending on how you provide it. personal information you provide to us through our website is held by our provider, Squarespace, in accordance with their privacy policy. personal information you provide to us when becoming a paid member is stored on Patreon in accordance with their privacy policy. 

we will generally treat any consent that you give us as lasting no more than 36 months (3 years) from the date you give your consent, or from the date of your last interaction with us. Once this time period expires, we will either delete your data by removing you from our mailing list or gain your consent to continue providing our services to you.

marketing

we may contact you for marketing purposes by email if you have agreed to be contacted in this manner. it is your choice as to whether you want to receive information about our work, how we raise funds and the ways you can get involved. 

you may opt out of our marketing emails at any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the end of our marketing emails or by emailing us at mxogyny@gmail.com.

we will not use your information for marketing purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted for such purposes. 

what are your data protection rights?

data protection laws give you a number of rights as set out below. If you would like to exercise any of your rights, please email us at mxogyny@gmail.com.

• access your personal information: you may request access to a copy of your personal information. All requests for access to personal information should be made to us in writing.

• withdraw consent: if you have given us consent to use your personal information to send you communications, you can withdraw your consent at any time.

• rectification: you may ask us to rectify and update any inaccurate information we hold about you or to complete any information that is incomplete.

• erasure: you may ask us to delete your personal information. 

• portability: you may ask us to send the personal information that we hold about you to another organisation.

• restriction: you can ask us to restrict the personal information we use about you where you have asked for it to be erased or where you have objected to our use of it.

• object: you may object to our processing of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. in this event, please contact us, providing details of your objection.

if you are unhappy with our use of your personal data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. they can be contacted at 0303 123 1113 or at www.ico.org.uk.

we would encourage you to contact us in the first instance so we can attempt to resolve any concerns.