SaveTreez Privacy Policy

 

Protecting your privacy and personal data is very important to SaveTreez. At all times we will respect any personal information you share with us. This privacy statement describes how we use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.  It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this privacy statement Notice or as otherwise stated at the point of collection. This Notice is kept under regular review.

 

Website Third Parties

 

We use various third parties to coordinate and support a number of tree planting and reforestation projects, including charities and other organisations. These projects also have their own websites. This Notice applies to any third party website equally, unless otherwise specified.

 

Information about you

 

SaveTreez is the controller of the personal information that is collected through the Website or otherwise as set out below.

 

We collect your personal details that you give us by filling in the form on our website, making a payment, or communicating with us by email correspondence or letter. We will not share your information with project partners directly or with any third party partner organization without your express consent. Please note that your personal information may be used by technical third parties suppliers for payment and delivery service acknowledgements and analytics providers that use our website.

 

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

 

Name and contact details, including postcode, telephone number (optional), email address and, where applicable details of your organization; note that only third party technical payment suppliers will have access to your financial information, such as bank and/or credit/debit card details.

 

How we use your personal information

 

Your personal information, provided to us, may be used for the purposes specified in this Notice, including to process payments from you to plant trees; to deal with enquiries made by you; to satisfy legal obligations, and to ensure prevention of fraud, money laundering or misuse of services.

 

We may use your contact details to provide you with information about SaveTreez activities, which we consider, may be of interest to you. We will obtain your consent to contact you via email for such purposes. We issue the following promotional materials: information about tree planting and reforestation projects across the world, including how to support projects and updates on progress.

 

Social Media

 

Depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media messaging services like Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram you may receive targeted advertisements about SaveTreez through social media links on our Website.

 

Unless stated in this Notice, we do not share (unless we have your consent to do so), sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their own promotional purposes or campaigns.

 

Sharing and posting comments Third Party Charity Organizations

 

Please note that for our projects we use third party organizations – where we do this, we publish relevant tree planting activities on our social media platforms. Please note that inappropriate content may be removed and individuals who posted such content may be blocked from further interaction on these channels.

 

Security of Information and Data

 

We take the security of all the data we hold very seriously. We will only share personal data with others when we are legally permitted to do so. We take appropriate measures where possible to safeguard your personal information and to prevent the loss, destruction, misuse or alteration of it.

 

The personal information that we collect from you will be stored at a destination within the UK or European Economic Area (EEA). However, we use third party suppliers to process personal information on our behalf. Your personal information may therefore be transferred or stored outside, and/ or otherwise processed by contractors operating, outside, the UK or EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. The transmission of information via the Internet is never completely secure, and although we do our best to protect it, we cannot guarantee the security of personal information transmitted via the Internet.

 

We use third parties located in other countries to help support our business.  As a result, SaveTreez website information and data may be transferred outside the countries where we and our customers are located. This includes to countries outside the EEA and to countries that do not have laws that provide specific protection for personal data.  We have taken steps to ensure all personal data is provided with adequate protection and that all transfers of personal data outside the EU are done lawfully.

 

Legitimate Interests

 

Our legitimate interests include managing SaveTreez as a company to support and promote tree planting and reforestation projects across the world. Personal information may be collected and used if it is reasonably necessary to achieve a legitimate interest (as long as that processing is fair, balanced and does not unduly impact your rights). Those legitimate interests include the following: administration and operational management, responding to solicit enquires, providing information, and administering payments/donations.

 

Storage of Personal Information

 

We will only store your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. That length of time may vary depending on the reasons for which we are processing the personal information and whether we have a legal obligation to keep it for a certain amount of time. Once any legal requirement for retaining personal information or data has expired, personal information will be confidentially disposed of or permanently deleted.

 

Your rights

 

You have a number of legal rights in relation to our use of your personal information. These rights include:

 

1. Right to object – you have the right to object to processing where we are (i) relying on the legitimate interests as a legal basis, (ii) using your personal information for direct marketing or (iii) using your personal information for statistical purposes.

 

2. Right to withdraw consent – where we are using your personal information on the basis of your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

 

3. Right of access – you can ask for confirmation of what personal information we hold about you and request a copy of that personal information.

 

4. Right of erasure – in some cases, you can ask us to delete your personal information from our records (or to anonymise it). We may retain some limited personal information in order to ensure you are not contacted by us in the future.

 

5. Right of rectification – if you believe our records concerning you are inaccurate, you have the right to ask us to update them. You can ask us to check the personal information that we hold about you if you are unsure.

 

6. Right to restrict processing – in certain situations you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information if there is disagreement about its accuracy or legitimate usage.

 

Third Party Websites

 

Due to the collaborative nature of our work with tree planting activities, our website contains links to other sites, including those of third party delivery partners. This Notice does not cover those external websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. Please note the privacy policies of any external websites you visit via links on the SaveTreez website for these projects, and review how they collect, use and share personal information.