Privacy

Privacy notice

This notice explains how GIFT International (“we”) uses personal information collected through this website. We are the data controller. Registered with The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland NIC104617.

If you have a question about your data, email giftinternational@gmail.com and mark it for the attention of the Chair.

What we collect and why

Donations

Online donations are processed by Stripe. Stripe collects your payment details, name, email and billing address. We never see or store your full card details. We receive a record of your donation so we can thank you and keep accounts. Lawful basis: contract (processing your donation) and legal obligation (financial records).

Gift Aid declarations

If you add Gift Aid, we collect your name, home address and postcode with your declaration. This is stored with your donation record at Stripe and emailed to our charity inbox. HMRC requires us to keep Gift Aid records for at least six years after the end of the accounting period in which the donation was made. We share them with HMRC only when we claim. Lawful basis: legal obligation.

Contact and interest forms

When you contact us, or register interest in a supporters’ trip or fundraiser, we collect your name, email address and message. These are sent to us by email through our email provider, Resend. We use them only to reply to you, and we delete correspondence when it is no longer needed. Lawful basis: legitimate interests (responding to your enquiry).

Spam protection

Our forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a person, not a bot, is sending the form. Turnstile processes limited technical information, such as your IP address and browser characteristics, for this purpose only.

Website analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. It does not use cookies, does not track you across sites and does not identify you personally.

Cookies

This website does not set advertising or tracking cookies. When you use the donation checkout, Stripe sets the cookies it needs to process the payment securely and prevent fraud.

Who we share information with

We use the services named above (Stripe, Resend and Cloudflare) to run this website. They process data on our behalf under their own data protection terms, and some may process data outside the UK under appropriate safeguards. We never sell or swap your information, and we never use it for marketing without your permission.

Photographs and safeguarding

Photos on this website are used with permission. We never publish the names of children, and we do not give the location of a child beyond the community or region.

Your rights

You have the right to ask for a copy of your personal information, to ask us to correct or delete it, and to object to or restrict how we use it. To exercise these rights, email giftinternational@gmail.com. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Last updated: November 2026.