Privacy policy
OvichNews Media collects and holds information about you as a legitimate interest as defined under the General Data Protection Regulations. This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information that we collect about you. It also informs you of your rights and our responsibilities in the processing of your personal information under the General Data Protection Regulations.
Who we are
Ovichnews Media is a news organisation registered in the USA and is registered as a company limited by guarantee in Delaware
Ovichnews Media is headquartered in USA 244 Madison avenue: Suit 1269 New York
If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”), Ovichnews Media (UK) is the controller of your personal data for the purposes of EU data protection law.
Unless indicated otherwise, this Privacy Policy does not apply to third party products or services or the practices of companies that we do not own or control, including other companies you might interact with on or through our work.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or our processing of your personal information, please contact:
244 Madison avenue +121 337 581 91Suit 1269New York: NY 10016
Notification of change of privacy policy
We may update this privacy statement from time to time. To keep up to date with changes, please periodically visit this section of our website.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect information about you whenever you interact with us.
We may collect information about you when you directly interact with us. For example, when you contact Ovichnews Media regarding our activities, register as a supporter, send or receive information, engage with our social media or make an investment with us, you may provide us with your personal information.We may also receive information about you when you interact with third parties with whom we work and give them permission to share your information with us.We may supplement what we know about you with information that is available to the public. For example, in order to ensure that our communication with you is relevant and tailored to your background and interests, we may collect information about you from publiclyavailable sources either directly or through third-party subscription services or service providers. See ‘How will we combine and analyze the information we collect about you?We may collect aggregated or anonymous information when you visit our website or interact with our content. For example, we may collect information about the services you use and how you use them, like when you watch a video on YouTube, visit our website or view and interact with our content. Please see the “Cookies” section below for more detail.THE TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
About you
Name;Adress;Email address;Telephone number;Contact preferences;Bank account details for setting up a regular direct debit;Credit card details for processing credit card payments;Employer details for processing a payroll gift;Taxpayer status for claiming Gift Aid;Date of birth, age, and/or gender, where appropriate (e.g. for event enrollment).About your use of our website
If you visit our website, we may record information about:
The areas of the website you visitThe amount of time you spend on the siteWhether you are new to the site, or have visited it beforeHow you came to our website for example, through an email link or a search engineThe type of device and browser you useWe do this by using cookies, which you can learn more about in this document.
About your interactions with us
We may also collect and process information about your interactions with us, including details about our contacts with you through email, SMS, post, on the phone or in person (i.e., the date, time, and method of contact), details about investments you make to us, events or activities that you register for or attend and any other support you provide to us. We may also collect and record any other relevant information you share with us about yourself, including your interests or your affiliations with other charities, community groups, your employer or a corporate partner.
Your financial information
Any financial information will be communicated and collected via email or other means of communication with Ovichnews media's management.
Sensitive personal information
Under data protection law, certain categories of personal information are classed as “sensitive personal data”, including and information regarding your health, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions. We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal data about you.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use your information in a number of ways, including:
To provide you with information about our work or our activities;To invite you to participate in interactive features on our website;To fundraise in accordance with our internal procedures;For administrative purposes.For internal record keeping relating to any investments, feedback, or complaints;To invite you to participate in surveys or research;To contact you where you have been identified as a contact person for an organization, such as a school (if we obtain your contact details in this way, we will only use them to contact you in your capacity as a representative of that organization);To analyze and improve the content and operation of our website;To analyze and improve our internal business processes;To analyze the personal information that we collect about you and use publicly-available information to better understand your interests, preferences and level of potential investments so that we can contact you in the most appropriate way and to ensure that we do not send you unwanted communications;To tailor advertising that is presented to you on the internet according to your interests, preferences and other characteristics (as described below);To direct advertisements and other communications to other people who may have similar interests or other characteristics to yours (as described below);To assess your personal information for the purposes of credit risk reduction or fraud prevention;Where we are required by law to disclose or otherwise use your information.In particular, we may contact you for marketing purposes by email or text message if you have agreed to be contacted in this manner. We may also send you service communications via email or text.
If you have provided us with your postal address or telephone number, we may send you information about our work or other communications of the kinds described above by direct mail or contact you by telephone unless you have told us that you would prefer not to hear from us in this way. We provide information about how you can change your marketing preferences below.
HOW WE COMBINE AND ANALYZE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We strive to carefully manage the communications that we send you, to ensure that we are contacting you in the most appropriate way and that we are not sending you unwanted communications.
In order to do this, we may combine the information that we collect about you and analyze what we know
about your interests, preferences and level of potential engagement or investments. We may also use
statistical analysis to analyze this data and understand the likelihood that you will be interested in
or responsive to a campaign or message. We may use third party service providers to assist us in this
process. For more information on how we work with service providers, please see ‘How will we disclose
the information we have collected to outside parties?’.Where we have identified that you have the capacity or affinity to partner-up Ovalvich at a higher level,
we may collect additional information about you (see ‘the types of information we collect’) and combine
and analyze that information in a profile of you that will assist us in engaging with you in a more
personalized way.You can opt out of your data being combined and analyzed for marketing purposes by contacting us as
described below. However, this may mean that you stop receiving marketing communications from us more
generally.In accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies and procedures, we may
also use personal information to carry out due diligence on potential or actual investors. If you opt
out of analysis of your data for due diligence purposes, we may not be able to accept investments from
you.DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES
Ovichnews media may provide your information to our service providers. Subject to your communication
preferences and our internal policies and procedures, this would include providing your information to
third parties that work with us to deliver on our investments/employment purposes, and other entities
that act as fundraisers for ovichnews media provide us with marketing information and servicesWhere you have agreed to receive email or SMS marketing communications from us, we may provide your email
address or mobile phone number in an encrypted format to social media companies, such as Facebook,
Twitter or YouTube, or to digital advertising networks that are providing services to us, by displaying
our advertising to you on those social media platforms and other websites, as well as identifying
audiences with interests similar to yours. You can opt out of your data being used to display
advertising to you by contacting us as described below. However, this will not prevent our
advertisements being shown to you on a randomized basis or based on cookie data and may mean that you
stop receiving marketing communications from us more generally.We endeavor to enter into contracts with all of these service providers that require them to comply with
data protection laws and to ensure that they have appropriate controls in place to protect the security
of your information.We will never sell your details. Except as indicated below, we will only share your details with third
parties (who are not service providers working at our direction) if you ask us to. We will not make cold
telephone calls to members of the general public and, therefore, will not purchase your data in order to
do so.We may disclose your personal information if we are requested or required to do so by a regulator or law
enforcement or in order to enforce or apply our rights (including in relation to our website or other
applicable terms and conditions) or to protect Ovalvich, for example in cases of suspected fraud or
defamation, or in order to comply with any other applicable legal obligation.OUR LEGITIMATE INTERESTS IN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Privacy Policy takes into account several laws, including:
The Data Protection Act 1998The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, which came into force in the UK in May 2018 and
replace the Data Protection Act 1998. Generally, our processing of your personal information as
described in this policy is allowed by these laws because we have a legitimate need to carry out the
processing for the purposes described above. Some processing may also be necessary so that we can
perform a contract with you or because it is required by law. We only use your information to send
you marketing communications by email or text with your consent, and you can always opt out of
receipt of marketing communications by post or telephone as explained in this document.RECRUITMENT & STAFF
APPLICANTS
If you apply to work at the Ovichnews, we will use the information that you give us to process your
application, assess your suitability for the role and to monitor recruitment statistics. We may be
required to disclose information to someone outside Ovalvich – for example, if we need a reference, or
need to get a ‘disclosure’ from the Criminal Records Bureau. If this is the case, we will make sure that
we tell you beforehand.INTERNATIONAL ROLES
When recruiting for a post based in another country, Ovichnews will sometimes need to transfer your
personal information to that country to progress the recruitment. It may be that that country does not
provide the same level of data protection as in the European Economic Area.UNSUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
If you are unsuccessful in your job application, we will hold your personal information for 12 months
after we’ve finished recruiting the post you applied for. After this date, we will destroy or delete
your information.If you begin employment with us, we will put together a file about you for Human Resources purposes. We
will keep the information in this file secure, and will only use it for matters that apply directly to
your employment. Once you stop working for us, we will keep this file according to our record retention
guidelines. You can contact us to find out more about this.COOKIES
TYPES OF COOKIES:
There are two broad types of cookies – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:
First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer, and
are often used to recognize your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as
you browse the site. Basically, these are our cookies.Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator, and can be used
by the service provider to recognize your computer when you visit other web sites. Third party cookies
are most commonly used for web site analytics or advertising purposes.In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically
removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer
until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached. We use both session and persistent
cookies.CATEGORIES OF COOKIES WE USE:
Strictly necessary cookies:These cookies are essential for the user to move around the website and
to use its features, e.g. shopping baskets and e-billing.Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how the user makes use of the site,
e.g. which pages the user visits most. These cookies do not collect information that identifies the
user.Functionality cookies:These cookies remember choices made by or attributes of the user and enhance
the features and content you experience during your visit to our website, e.g. language, appeals
visited or user’s location. This cookie is also used to remember a user’s preferences for a font
size, or customizable parts of a web page.Targeting or advertising cookies: These cookies collect information about the users’ browsing
habits. This may also include your use of social media sites, e.g. Facebook, etc. or how you
interact with our website which then shows you relevant content elsewhere on the internet. NB. These
may also be used to choose the advertisements that are displayed to you on our website and other
websites.
We have assessed our cookies based on the ICC Cookie Guide. The majority of our
cookies fall into the first two categories. However, we may also use cookies on our webpages which
are in categories 3 and 4.Cookies are small files, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a device when you access
certain websites or emails, including Ovalvich’s website. Cookies allow a website to recognize your
device. For more information see:http://www.allaboutcookies.orgWHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT USING COOKIES?
We may collect some, or all, of the information available from cookies when you visit our website,
depending on how you use it. We monitor how people use our website so we can improve it. We collect this
information anonymously.However, you can choose to use our website anonymously without giving us any information. Please see
‘Changing your cookie preferences’ below.If you visit our website, we may use cookies to record information about:the areas of the website you visit;the amount of time you spend on the site;whether you are new to the site, or have visited it before;the country, region, city and/or borough associated with your IP address or device;how you came to our website – for example, through an email link or a search engine;the type of device and browser you use;how you use the website and the quality of your experience – for example we may track your bandwidth
when viewing videos;how you interact with our group and sign up forms – for example what you select as your
communication preferences; andany error messages that you receive on the site.We use cookies to track how visitors come to our site. For example, we may use marketing or referring
tracking codes in internet addresses (URLs) to show us whether a visitor has come to our site via a link
on a referring website or in a specific piece of marketing and to give us insight into the effectiveness
of our marketing.Although not through cookies, we do measure the success of the emails we send – so we know what subject
lines and stories people liked the most. We receive this information anonymously and we do not share it.COOKIE CONSENT
By using our website, our social media pages (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), subscribing to our
services, with us/working with us, you agree that, unless you have set your computer’s browser to reject
them, we can place the types of cookies set out below on your device and use that data in accordance
with this policy.HOW DO YOU DISABLE COOKIES?
Your browser will have cookie management abilities in the preferences settings, enabling you to delete or
block Ovichnews website cookies. Some common browsers are linked below:Internet Explorer cookie managementFirefox cookie managementChrome cookie managementSafari cookie managementFind more detailed information on disabling cookies from aboutcookies.org or from the help function in
your browser.WEBSITE ANALYTICS
Our website currently uses two analytics services:
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses
“cookies”, which (as discussed above) are text files placed on your computer, to help the website
analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the
website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the
United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the
website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services
relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third
parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on
Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You
may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please
note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using
this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the
purposes set out above. For more details, please read Google’s Analytics overview. You can always
opt-out of Google Analytics cookies by Google’s opt-out tool.HubSpot analytics services. HubSpot uses “cookies”, which help the website analyze how users use the
site. HubSpot uses the information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling
reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website
activity and internet usage.HubSpot may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or
where such third parties process the information on HubSpot’s behalf. You may refuse the use of
cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you
do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by HubSpot in the manner
and for the purposes set out above. For more details, please read HubSpot’s Privacy Policy.OTHER THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
You may notice some other cookies that are not related to the Ovalvich’s website whilst visiting
www.ovalvich.comSome of our pages may contain embedded content such as a
YouTube video, Twitter feed, Facebook likes. You may receive cookies delivered from these websites, but
as Ovalvich does not govern the publication of third-party cookies, please visit the relevant sites to
understand more about their cookies and privacy statements.If you do not want cookies to be stored on your PC it is possible to disable this function without
affecting your navigation around the site.PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your information
secure, accurate and up to date, and that we only keep it as long as is reasonable and necessary.Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the
transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure. We do our best to protect
personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to our website, so
any transmission is at the user’s own risk. However, any payment card details (such as credit or debit
cards) we receive on our website are passed securely to our payment processing provider according to the
Payment Card Industry Security Standards.For financial and technical reasons, we may, on occasion, need to use the services of a service provider
outside the European Economic Area (EEA) – this may include a country which does not have the same level
of data protection as in the United Kingdom. However, unless they are located in a country which has
been assessed by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data,
we will only use a service provider outside the EEA on the basis of an agreement with the service
provider, designed to protect your data, in the appropriate form approved for this purpose by the
European Commission. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is processed
securely and in accordance with this Privacy PolicyEMAILS TERMS OF USE
Emails aren’t always secure, and they may be intercepted or changed after they’ve been sent. Ovichnews
doesn’t accept liability if this happens. Please do not send Ovichnews any financial data through email.The contents of emails reflect their author’s views and not necessarily those of Ovalvich.
CHILDREN’S DATA
When you register with us, you are stating that you are 16 years of age or over, or are a minor acting
with parental consent. You agree that any information you provide to us about yourself upon registration
or at any time is true.CONFIDENTIALITY
We cannot be held responsible for the privacy of data collected by websites not owned or managed by
Ovichnews, including those linked through our website.YOUR RIGHTS
ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may request a copy of the personal information relating to you, which is kept on file by Ovichnews.
We will not charge you for this.CONTROLLING YOUR PREFERENCES
We strive to make it clear and easy for you to choose how you hear from us. If you do not wish for us to
use your personal data for marketing purposes (as outlined above) you can use the relevant box on the
form that we use to collect your data to indicate your preference.You can also change any of your marketing preferences at any time (including telling us that you don’t
want us to contact you for marketing purposes) by:Indicating that you do not wish to receive our marketing emails by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link
in at the end of our emails;sking us to stop sending you marketing texts by sending us an “optout” text message, following the
instructions we provide you in the marketing texts you receive from us;Contacting us by post at the address provided above.Entering your details on the Fundraising Preference Service (FPS) website and choosing ‘Ovichnews.
If you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, we may maintain
your details on a suppression list to help ensure that we do not continue to contact you for
marketing purposes. However, we may still need to contact you for administrative purposes, including
(but not limited to):Processing an investment that you have made and any related investment portfolio;Providing you with the information you need in order to participate in an activity or event for
which you have registered andExplaining and apologizing where we have made a mistake.UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
If your contact details have changed, or you think any information we have about you is incorrect or
incomplete, please update or correct the information we hold about you by contacting us, as explained
above.RAISING COMPLAINTS OR CONCERNS
You can make a complaint or raise a concern about how we process your personal data by contacting us. In
some circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data or to stop us
from continuing to make active use of personal data that we retain in our records.If you are not happy with how we have handled your complaint, you can contact the Office of the
Information Commissioner, which oversees the protection of personal data in the UK, or the Fundraising
Regulator, which is responsible for overseeing fundraising activities carried out by charities in the
UK.Alternatively, you may choose to contact either the Information Commissioner or the Fundraising Regulator
directly about your complaint, regardless of whether you have raised it with us first.