Stripey Stork Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Stripey Stork collects, uses, and protects your personal data in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. 

Last updated: July 2025

Stripey Stork is the ‘data controller’ of the personal data you provide to us. Our registered office is: 

Stripey Stork 
51a Albert Road North 
Reigate 
Surrey 
RH2 9EL 

We are responsible for ensuring your data is used in compliance with applicable data protection laws. We will usually collect basic personal data about you such as your name, postal address, telephone number, email address, PayPal username (if you have made a purchase from our online shop) and your bank/credit/debit card details if you are supporting us financially (these are processed via third parties and not stored by us). Sometimes we will collect other information about you such as your date of birth and gender. We will always make it clear when we collect such data and explain why we need it. 

We collect your personal data in connection with specific activities, such as making a purchase from our online shop, campaign updates, newsletter requests, feedback, donations, competition entries, information you provide in public forums on our sites and applications. The information is either needed to fulfil your request or to enable us to provide you with a more personalised service. You don’t have to disclose any of this information to browse our sites. However, if you choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services. 

 

Sometimes, with your explicit consent, we will use your personal data to send you information about our work or activities you have requested or expressed an interest in. On other occasions, we may process your data: 

  • To fulfil a contract (e.g., purchases from our online shop or Gift Aid claims) 
  • Where required by law 
  • Where it is in our legitimate interests, provided your rights and freedoms are not overridden 

Our legitimate interests include providing updates on our appeals, services, fundraising activities, newsletters, competitions, and events. We will always consider your rights and ensure they are not infringed upon. 

Purpose 

Legal Basis 

Processing purchases or donations 

Performance of a contract 

Sending newsletters and updates 

Consent or legitimate interest 

Claiming Gift Aid 

Legal obligation 

Volunteer communications 

Performance of a contract / legitimate interest 

Website tracking and improvement 

Legitimate interest / consent (for cookies) 

Event registration with partners 

Consent 

We will also hold information about your details so that we can respect your preferences for being contacted by us. We collect your personal information in a number of ways: 

  1. a) When you provide it to us directly.
    b) When you provide permission to other organisations to share it with us (including Facebook, Twitter and PayPal).
    c) When we collect it as you use our websites i.e. via cookies or apps. We combine the information from these sources with the information you provide to us directly. 

When you volunteer with Stripey Stork, we will keep you up to date with the work that we are doing and events we are involved with. We will also let you know of any changes that might affect you volunteering with us and which you need to be aware of. We will only use your information for volunteering purposes and only while you remain a volunteer. By agreeing to volunteer with Stripey Stork, you are agreeing to us sending you emails about volunteering and your volunteer role. We will on occasion share your email address with other Stripey Stork volunteers, for example, to coordinate event attendance. 

All the personal data we process is processed by our staff in the UK.  
However, for IT hosting and maintenance purposes, your information may be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where this occurs, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), such as the use of standard contractual clauses or reliance on adequacy decisions. If you would like to change the way you hear from us or no longer wish to receive direct marketing communications from then please email info@stripeystork.org.uk. 

We only disclose information to third parties or individuals when obliged to by law, for purposes of national security, taxation and criminal investigations and the following: 

  1. a) If you have agreed that we may do so.
    b) When we use other companies to provide services on our behalf, e.g. processing, mailing or delivering orders, answering customers’ questions about products or services, sending mail and emails, customer analysis, assessment and profiling, when using auditors/advisors or processing credit/debit card payments.
    c) If we receive a complaint about any content you have posted or transmitted to or from one of our sites, to enforce or apply our Terms & Conditions or if we believe that we need to do so to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of Stripey Stork, our websites or our visitors and for other lawful purposes. 
    d) If we merge with another organisation to form a new entity, information may be transferred to the new entity. We may disclose aggregate statistics about our site visitors, supporters, customers and sales to describe our services and operations to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics won’t include any personally identifying 
    e) If we run an event in partnership with other named organisations, for example Run Reigate, your details may need to be shared. We will be very clear what will happen to your data when you register.  

We will never sell or rent your personal information to other organisations. 

hen making an online donation you will be directed through to the site of the specific donation platform. 

If you are making a credit or debit card donation/payment, this will be processed by Stripe or Paypal which processes card transactions on our behalf. The site utilises a number of security features, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, for all transactions. Information provided to Stripe and Paypal will be processed only for the purposes of enabling the donation transaction to take place. Stripe and Paypal also have their own privacy policies. 

Read Stripe’s privacy policy 

Read Paypal’s privacy policy 

If you have made a Gift Aid declaration, we will disclose the information you have provided as part of the declaration to HMRC for the purpose of reclaiming gift aid on your donation(s). 

We hold your information only as long as necessary for each purpose we use it. For example, we will keep data regarding any online purchases made with us for six years in case there is a breach of contract claim. 

If you decide not to support Stripey Stork any more or request that we have no further contact with you, we will keep some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future and to ensure that we don’t accidentally duplicate information. 

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights: 

  1. a) Right to be informed – Transparency over how we use your personal information.
    b) Right of access – Request a copy of the information we hold about you, which will be provided to you within one month.
    c) Right to rectification – Update or amend the information we hold about you if it is wrong. 
    d) Right to restrict processing – Ask us to stop using your information. 
    e) Right to erasure (right to be forgotten) – Ask us to remove your personal information from our records. 
    f) Right to Object – Object to the processing of your information in certain circumstances. 
    g) Right to data portability – Obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes. 
    h) Rights related to automated decision-making including profiling – Not be subject to a decision when it is based on automated processing. 

For more on your rights, visit the Information Commissioner’s Office (Information Commissioner’s Office). 

Remember, you can change the way you hear from us or withdraw your permission for us to processing your personal data at any time by contacting us at info@stripeystork.org.uk. 

If you wish to talk through anything in our privacy policy, please contact us. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer who will investigate the matter. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Fundraising Regulator or the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). If you have any queries about your data, our General Manager can be contacted by writing to: 

Chief Executive Officer, Stripey Stork, 51a Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9EL 

Or by emailing info@stripeystork.org.uk