PRIVACY POLICY

The Sumner Foundation respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Policy explains when and how we collect your personal data when you use our website, www.sumnerfoundation.org, and the rights you have over your own information.

 

When you use this site, you may be directed to the website of other members of the Sumner Group or links to third-party websites or applications. These websites will have their own Privacy Notices, which you should also look at.

 

If you have any questions in relation to this Policy or would like to exercise your rights under it, please contact info@sumnerfoundation.org.

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Who We Are

The Sumner Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (registration no. 1182635) and has its registered office at First Floor, 85 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7LT, United Kingdom. Further information and details of our registration with data protection supervisory authorities are provided below.

 

Privacy & Cookies

This site uses third-party website tracking technologies to provide and continually improve our services. We do not use this information to attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. For full details of the cookies used on our website, see our Cookies Notice by clicking on the blue thumbprint icon at the bottom left of our site. You can disable or delete some or all cookies in your browser settings, although this may affect some parts of the site’s functionality.

 

Data Collection

There are a number of areas on our website where you may provide personal data to the Sumner Foundation, including when you:

• register for email updates

• make a donation to The Sumner Foundation

• register to be involved in our campaigns

 

The information we collect will depend on the nature of your action, but may include name, email address, telephone number, country and language preference. When you make a donation through our website, we do not collect your financial information, but direct you to a payment provider to process your donation.

 

When you provide your information to us, we will only use the information for the purposes for which it is provided, for any compatible purposes and to fulfil our legal or regulatory obligations unless you have agreed for your data to be used for other purposes.

 

When will we send you marketing communications?

We will only contact you for marketing purposes (for example keep you up to date on our work based on your previous responses to our campaigns, or let you know of ways in which you can support that work) where we have your consent. Where you provide your consent to such communications, you can withdraw consent or change your preferences at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button on any marketing communication or by sending an email to info@sumnerfoundation.org expressing your preferences.

 

We never sell or share your information with entities outside The Sumner Foundation for their marketing purposes.

 

International transfers of data

In some cases, we may transfer your personal data to third-party service providers who are located outside your jurisdiction.

 

If you are in the European Union, and your personal data is transferred to a third-party service provider outside the European Economic Area (EEA), this will occur under a safeguard mechanism recognised by the European Commission as providing adequate protection for your personal data. 

 

Transfers of your data to other third parties outside the EEA, or to third parties outside any other jurisdiction in which you are located, will occur in accordance with local data protection laws.

 

Children’s data

Our website is not intended for use by children and we do not knowingly collect data on children.

 

How do we protect your data

We ensure that there are appropriate technical controls in place to protect your personal details. For example, our online forms are always encrypted and our network is protected and routinely monitored.

 

We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only accessible by appropriately trained staff, volunteers and contractors.

 

Where we use external companies to collect or process personal data on our behalf, we put a contract in place that sets out our expectations and requirements in relation to security of the data they access or process.  These organizations - referred to as "Data Processors" also have legal liability for the way in which your data is used, providing you with additional protection.

 

How long do we keep your data

We will only retain the data you provide to us through our website for as long as required by applicable laws or as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and in accordance with any consents provided. We will delete personal data at the end of this period unless we wish to use it for statistical purposes, in which case we will anonymize it, such that you could never be re-identified with it.

 

Your rights

You have the right to request details of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please make a request to info@thesumnerfoundation.org. We will provide this information to you without charge, unless requests are manifestly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, in which case we are entitled to charge an administration fee.

 

You also have a right to have inaccurate information we hold about you rectified or removed and a right, in some circumstances, to restrict or object to us processing your information, or to seek erasure of your data. If you believe we are not respecting your rights, you are entitled to make a complaint to a relevant supervisory authority.

 

The legal basis on which we hold and use your data will vary depending on the activity involved. In some cases, we might hold the data because it is needed to fulfil a contract or meet our legal obligations (i.e. a donation), in others because it is in The Sumner Foundation’s legitimate interest to do so, and in others, because you have consented to this use. We note that the legal basis on which we process your data will influence your specific rights.

 

Changes to this notice

We may make changes to this notice from time to time. We will always detail, at the end of this notice, the date it was last updated and you should check back from time to time.

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Date: 5 March 2026