Privacy Policy

Welcome to the privacy policy of Recipes for Wellbeing

Recipes for Wellbeing is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy tells you about our online collection and use of data.

Recipes for Wellbeing respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website located at recipesforwellbeing.org (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important information and who we are

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Recipes for Wellbeing collects and processes your personal data through your use of our Websites, including any data you may provide when you help us make a difference by Donations. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller

When we mention “Recipes for Wellbeing”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy, we are referring to Recipes for Wellbeing.

Recipes for Wellbeing is the controller and responsible for this website.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.

Contact details

Full name of legal entity: Recipes for Wellbeing
Postal address: 8 Rue des Savoises (c/o euforia), 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Email address: info@recipesforwellbeing.org

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, and store personal data about you as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, username.
  • Contact Data such as e-mail address.

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • Request information to be sent to you;
    • Give us some feedback.

We may also receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

  • Social networks providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
  • Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data from providers of technical and payment.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our website, we collect information as shown in the comment form, in addition to their IP address and the web browser’s user-agent string to facilitate the detection of spam.

An anonymous string generated from your email address (aka hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. Gravatar’s privacy policy can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been approved, your profile image will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images on our website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors can download and extract any location data from the website images.

Contact form

If you decide to contact us through our contact form, we will collect your name and email address so we can get back to your inquiry.

3. Purposes for which we collect data about you

We use your personal data to interact with you in different ways:

  • Provide you with our internal communication based on your consent.
  • Fundraise, based on your consent.
  • Reach a contractual agreement.

4. Data security and retention

Please be aware that some areas of our Website may not function if your web browser does not accept cookies.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We share data with the below parties:

  • Service payment providers, such as Stripe.
  • Online form service providers, such as Typeform.
  • Non-profit organisations with whom we have partnerships.

5. Cookies

Cookies are little pieces of information that can help identify your browser and that can store information for future visits, e.g. your language preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Example of cookies

  • If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in the cookies. Cookies are used for your comfort to ensure you do not have to add your details again next time you leave a comment. These cookies are valid for one year.
  • If you have an account and log into our website, a temporary cookie will be set to determine whether your browser accept cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is eliminated when you close the browser.
  • When you log in, different cookies will be set to save your log-in details and your screen viewing options. Session cookies are valid for two days only, whereas the cookies for the screen viewing options are valid for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your access will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the session cookies will be removed.
  • If you edit or publish a post, another cookie will be saved on your browser. This cookie does not include personal data, but only the ID of the post you have edited or published. It expires after one day.

By using our Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. If you want to restrict or block any of the above cookies, you should do this through the web browser settings for each browser you use and on each device you use to access the internet. The procedures for controlling or deleting cookies differ from browser to browser. If necessary, use the help function on your browser or click on one of the links below to go directly to the manual for your browser.

Embedded content

Posts on our website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, blog posts). The content embedded from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor visited the other website.

These websites may collect personal data, use cookies, integrate other third-party trackers, and monitor the interaction with those, including the tracking of your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are connected to those websites.

6. Disclosures of your personal data

We store your personal data in the EU, which ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data according to the EU Commission. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its relative meta-data are stored permanently. This is how we can recognise and automatically approve future comments of yours instead of keeping them on hold for approval. For users who register on our Website (if relevant), we also store personal information saved on your user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their user ID which cannot be changed). The Website administrator can also view and edit this information.

7. Your legal rights

Subject to our legal rights, you have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).
  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest
  • Request restriction of processing of your personal data. Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. ·
  • Lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner or with the data protection supervisory authority of the EU Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
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