Effective date as of 28 October 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Democracy in Colour (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit and use our website, democracyincolour.org (the “Website”), and the services provided through it. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently.
1. Consent
By using our Website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information in a few ways: directly from you, and automatically as you navigate the Website.
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
This is personal information you give us when interacting with the Website, which may include:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number (e.g., when you sign up for a newsletter, fill out a contact form, or create an account).
- Demographic/Survey Information: Information related to your background, opinions, or interests, especially if you participate in surveys, polls, or community forums related to our content.
- Correspondence: Records of any communication you have with us, such as emails or feedback submissions.
- Donation Information: If you make a donation, we collect payment information and billing details. (Note: We do not store full credit card details. Payment processing is handled by a secure third-party processor, Stripe, and their privacy policy governs their use of your data.)
B. Information Collected Automatically (Usage Data)
When you access the Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and visit using technologies like cookies and server log files:
- Log Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, date/time stamps, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Small data files stored on your device that help us remember you and your preferences. We use cookies for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement around the Website, and gathering demographic information.
- Analytics Data: Information about how you use the Website, such as the pages you view, the links you click, and the time you spend on each page. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide and Maintain the Website: Operating and ensuring the functionality of our services.
- To Personalise Your Experience: Understanding how you use the Website to improve content and features, and to present relevant Democracy in Colour information.
- To Communicate with You: Responding to your inquiries, sending you newsletters, updates, or other information relating to the Website and our mission.
- To Process Donations: Completing transactions for any donations you make.
- To Improve Our Content: Analysing user engagement to develop new features, services, and functionality, particularly for our content.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: Identifying and preventing fraudulent or malicious activity.
- To Enforce Legal Terms: Complying with and enforcing applicable legal requirements, agreements, and policies.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:
- With Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, and email delivery. These providers are bound by confidentiality obligations and may only use your personal information for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- For Legal Reasons: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation, (b) protect and defend our rights or property, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or (d) protect against legal liability.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
5. Third-Party Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
6. Your Data Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access/Right to Know: You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction/Rectification: You may request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Deletion/Erasure: You may request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.
- Object to Processing/Opt-Out: You may object to the processing of your personal information for certain purposes (e.g., direct marketing).
- Opting Out of Cookies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Website.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 9.
7. Security
We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no internet transmission is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or through our Website.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” at the top of this Policy, and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Democracy in Colour
Email: info@democracyincolour.org