This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how Charity Investment Fund (“Charity Investment Fund,” “our,” “we,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you in accordance to General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (“GDPR”). This Privacy Policy applies when you use https://charityinvestmentfund.org (the “Site”), contact our customer service team, engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our Site or sending you a notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Information You Provide to Us: We collect information you provide directly to us when you browse our Site. The types of information we may collect include: your name, email address, username, location and any other information you choose to provide.

Information We Collect Automatically Through the Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technology: When you visit the Company’s website, we obtain certain information by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons, web server logs, and other technologies. A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected device to identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon”, also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, links web pages to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server.

We may use these automated technologies to collect information about your equipment, browsing actions, and usage patterns. The information we obtain in this manner may include: your device IP address, identifiers associated with your devices, types of devices connected to our services, web browser characteristics, device characteristics, language preferences, referring/exit pages, clickstream data and dates and times of visits to our Site.

The information we collect through cookies and similar technologies helps us (1) remember your information so you will not have to re-enter it; (2) understand how you use and interact with our website; (3) measure the usability of our website and the effectiveness of our communications; and (4) otherwise manage and enhance our website, and (5) help ensure it is working properly.

Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies or how to restrict or disable certain types of cookies.

These are cookies which are essential in order to send a communication via an electronic communication network or to provide a service specifically requested by the user, for which these cookies allow the user to be identified during the session: in other words, these are cookies that are essential for the functioning of the site or necessary to carry out activities requested by the user. Without the use of such cookies, navigation on the Site and certain operations requested by the user could not be carried out or would be less secure.

Considering the purposes for which technical cookies are used, their storage in the user’s device does not require the user’s prior consent.

Equal to the technical cookies mentioned above, which therefore do not require express consent for their use, they are also “performance cookies” when used directly by the site manager (so-called “first-party” or “proprietary” cookies) for collect information in aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the site itself – or, where they are provided by third parties, if suitable tools are adopted to reduce their identifying power (for example, by masking significant portions of the address IP) – and “functionality cookies”, which allow the user to navigate according to a series of selected criteria (for example, the language, the products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided to the same.

For analytics cookies, the Data Controller uses a mechanism to irreversibly encrypt the IP address (the address assigned to the user’s device which is necessary to browse the Internet), and additional data, in order to derecognize the user.

The purpose of these cookies is solely to improve the functionalities of the Site.

Certain third-party services, websites, or applications you use, or navigate to from our Services may have separate user terms and privacy policies that are independent of this Policy. This includes, for example, websites owned and operated by our customers or partners. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party services or applications. We recommend carefully reviewing the user terms and privacy statement of each third-party service, website, and/or application prior to use.

The data collected through cookies will be stored according to their nature: session cookies expire when the user closes the browser.

Such data will be processed exclusively within the scope of:
i) analyzing trends;
ii) administering the Site; to count users who have visited our Site and collect other types of information including insights about visitors’ browsing habits on the Site; iii) gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole;
iv) to learn what parts of our Site are most popular and what kind of features and functionalities our visitors like to see. Data deriving from the use of cookies may also be communicated to:
i) public security entities and other public and private entities for the fulfillment of obligations established by law, including of a fiscal, administrative, financial and similar nature;
ii) third parties, suppliers of products and/or services.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the “GDPR”), gives natural persons, individual companies and/or the self- employed specific rights, including the right to have their personal data held by the Data Controller recognized and how said data are used (right of access), the right to have their data updated, rectified or, if there is an interest, supplemented, as well as have their data erased, anonymised or to obtain the restriction of the processing. Data subjects may, at any time, withdraw consent, if given, to cookies being saved on their device, and to the processing of personal data resulting from the use of the cookies, according to the terms indicated above. The Data Controller points out that the withdrawal of consent will only take effect for the processing that follows it.

The Data Controller will process the information collected for the period strictly necessary to pursue the predetermined purposes.

At the end of this storage period, the information collected will be erased or kept in a manner that does not allow for the identification of the user (e.g. irreversible anonymisation), unless further processing is necessary for one of the following reasons: i) to settle pre-litigation and/or litigation started before the end of the storage period; ii) to continue investigations/inspections of internal control functions and/or external authorities started before the end of the storage period; iii) to follow up requests from Italian and/or foreign public authorities received by/notified to the Data Controller before the end of the storage period.

Charity Investment Fund operates and engages service providers in various jurisdictions. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction. By using our Site, you acknowledge and agree to such transfers and processing from country not belonging to European Union or to European Economic Area (so-called Third Countries) to Europe and viceversa, recognized by the European Commission as having an adequate level of protection of personal data or by other contractual guarantees according to GDPR. Further information can be requested by writing to info@charityinvestmentfund.org.

We store other personal data for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and based on (i) the length of time we need to retain the information to achieve the business or commercial purpose for which it was obtained, (ii) any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, (iii) internal operational needs, and (iv) any need for the information based on any actual or anticipated investigation or litigation.

Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to receive your data in a portable format, the right to ask that your personal data be corrected or erased, and the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@charityinvestmentfund.org.

If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside.