How we identify and build profiles of potential donors, supporters and partners and increase our support
Our work is only made possible thanks to the generosity of our supporters. Supporters come to us in a variety of ways: some are inspired to take part in challenge events or donate to friends; others are inspired to donate after attending a fundraising event or meeting someone from the charity; some are introduced to us by friends and colleagues who are passionate about our work; others have directly benefited from the care they have received at the hospital and have kindly come forward to support our fundraising ambitions.
As a fundraising organisation, we consider the following to fall under legitimate interest:
As a fundraising organisation with limited resources, it is essential that we are as efficient in our fundraising efforts as we can be. We can only do that by developing a better understanding of our supporters and we achieve this in a number of ways:
This research helps us to understand more about you as an individual, and identify other potential supporters who are most likely to be interested in our work, so we can focus conversations we have with you about fundraising and volunteering in the most effective way, and ensure that we provide you with a positive and appropriate experience as a donor or potential donor.
We recognise, however, that there are important regulatory requirements protecting people’s privacy and so we want to be as clear and transparent as possible so you are comfortable with the way we use and care for your data. Here we’d like to highlight how we process and protect the information of supporters like you.
We may hold information relating to you or potential supporters from a number of sources. We use this information to research your potential to be a significant donor or volunteer fundraiser for CW+ and collect additional details relating to employment and any philanthropic activity. We may also estimate gift capacity based on visible assets, publicly disclosed earnings, shareholdings and property values, history of charitable giving and how connected you are to the charity in order to improve our understanding of our supporters, inform our fundraising strategy and target our communications more effectively.
Some of the information will be from information that you provide to us through correspondence and your supporter relationship. Most records contain:
Records may also contain details of your interactions with the charity, including:
We may also record, based on information provided by you, publicly available information or information from our partners such as financial information relating to you and your family, including:
We may use your personal information to:
To make the best use of the charity’s resources and to maintain the accuracy of the data listed above, we may undertake in-house research about you or other individuals who may have an affinity to our cause, but with whom we are not already in touch, from publicly available sources.
We only use reputable sources, where someone would expect their information may be read by the public. We avoid any data that we believe has not been lawfully or ethically obtained, and we do not use information sources which have not been made public.
Some examples of the types of resources (freely available or via a paid for subscription) used in the course of research, includes, but is not limited to:
Public Registers including Companies House, US Securities and Exchange Commission for US companies, Electoral Commission (Political Donations), Electoral Roll (Open Register), FCA (Financial Services Register), Charity Commission, Honours Lists, The Law Society, Land Registry, Sanctions lists.
Trade & Industry References or UK Reference Volumes including Professional directories, Who’s Who, Debrett’s People of Today, Debrett’s Peerage, City of London Livery Company information, fundsonline.org.uk; 360 GrantNav, Ethical Consumer, Corporate Watch.
Print and Broadcast Media including national and local newspapers (such as The Financial Times, The Evening Standard, The Telegraph, The Times and Sunday Times, City AM), Forbes, Crunchbase, magazines, rich lists.
Internet including general web searches, company and charity websites, online-only articles, information you have made available via public social media (such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, virtual giving pages).
In line with Charity Commission requirements and to meet money-laundering regulations, we follow a due diligence process to assess the financial soundness, credibility, reputation and ethical principles of donors who have made, or are likely to make, a significant donation to CW+. As part of this process, we will conduct research using the methods referenced above.
We may use trusted third parties, where data processing agreements are in place, to help us with our research and to ensure we maintain data accuracy. This may include asking the third party to analyse personal data we have, such as donations made to CW+, and to collate additional publicly available data to create a profile of your interests and preferences to assess whether particular donations or funding appeals may be of interest to you. We may also use this data to analyse and make an assessment of your ability and willingness to provide financial support (sometimes referred to as wealth screening, which in some cases automates some of this work, but decisions are never made solely on these results. The information is used to inform the careful considerations that are made in tailoring appropriate and relevant communications).
We may work with trusted third-party partners to undertake projects to identify supporters who have died or to update preferences such as mailing and telephone preferences, allowing us to suppress communications accordingly.
If you are attending a meeting or event, we may need to share some basic information about you with staff, Trustees or volunteer fundraisers who are helping us to fundraise on a voluntary basis. It is only shared with those who need to know the information for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, when they need to know it.
You will always have the right to opt out of this processing. If you would prefer us not to use your data in this way, please email us at fundraising@cwplus.org.uk or call us on 020 3315 6600.
We are committed to looking after your data carefully and we store your personal data on our secure systems and minimise its use.
We ensure we have appropriate data-processing agreements, or terms of reference, in place before sharing your personal data.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties under any circumstances.
You have the right to:
If you want to change whether or how you hear from us, or have any questions about the data we hold or how we long we hold it, please contact us at fundraising@cwplus.org.uk.
We will retain your data indefinitely in support of your lifelong relationship with CW+ or until you request us to do otherwise.
We will publish on our website any changes we make to this data protection statement and notify you by other communication channels where appropriate.
Where you exercise your right to erasure, we will continue to maintain a core set of personal data (name, unique identification number and date of birth) to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in future. We may also need to retain some financial records about you for statutory purposes (eg Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters).
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