Privacy Policy

How do we collect and use your information?

Greater Good Charities is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We collect information from our users through donation forms and email subscription forms.

Greater Good Charities does not sell or rent your information to third parties. Sometimes our sites may contain links to third-party sites and services. These sites and services have their own privacy policies. If you follow a link to a third party, you should read the privacy policy shown on their site.

We use the data you provide to us for a variety of purposes. As an international nonprofit, GGC’s activities and interactions with Donors, Volunteers, and Recipients include fundraising, program advertising, grant-making, and numerous other forms of engagement. Ultimately, it is you working with us that makes all the good being done possible!

We collect personal data when you:

become a donor, register for participation in a GGC program or activity, or engage on our sites for other purposes;
contribute to fund and support Greater Good Charities as an organization;
attend our events;
enter our competitions and surveys;
post in our online community;
sign up for marketing communications;
use mobile devices to access our content;
access our sites, through cookies and other similar technology; and
by contacting us via email, social media, or similar technologies or when you mention us on social media.

What is the difference between personal data and personal identifiable information?

Depending on the circumstances in which these personal data are provided to us by you, they may include Personal Identifiable Information (PII). Personal Identifiable Information is usually a subset of the personal data you provide to us. For example, you may tell us you are a resident of a particular state. That information is specific to your state residency but not PII. However, your home address in that state would certainly be considered PII. As you read through the following Privacy Policy, keep in mind the difference between personal data and PII.

Personal Identifiable Information is any information about you by which you can be identified. This can include information such as:

your name, date of birth, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile number;

debit or credit card details;

information about your device (such as the IP address, which is a numerical code to identify your device that can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based); and information relating to your personal circumstances and how you use our sites and services.

Why do we collect and use personal data?

We use personal data, including PII, collected through our sites and other contact instances for a number of purposes, including the following:

To provide the services you sign up for, such as receiving and granting the donation you make. We also use the such data for related internal administrative purposes - such as our accounting and records - and to make you aware of any changes to our services.

To send marketing communications when we have your permission, or when permitted by law.

To personalize our services (for example, so you can sign in), remembering your settings, displaying personalized advertising as well as measuring how effective our online adverts are, recognizing you when you sign in on different devices and tailoring our marketing communications based on what you read on our sites.

To carry out marketing and donation analysis, for example we look at what you have viewed on our sites what products and services you have bought (including what you have looked at and what products or services you have bought, donated to or interacted with on our other sites) to better understand what your interests and preferences are, and to improve our marketing by making it more relevant to your interests and preferences. You can opt out from having your personal data used for marketing analysis by going into your account to the tab “Emails and marketing”.

To improve our marketing communications, we use a similar technology to cookies to confirm whether you have opened a marketing email or clicked on a link in the email.

For statistical purposes such as analyzing the performance of our sites and apps and to understand how visitors use them.

To respond to your queries and to resolve complaints.

For security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe and secure and used in line with our terms of use.

To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

With respect to the Greater Good Charities’ various Programs, program-specific data is collected in order to enable an individual’s program participation and to analyze and manage the success of the Program with our sponsors, partners and service providers.

Greater Good Charities utilizes third party services to store selected, non-sensitive donor, volunteer, and participant information. This never includes credit card information. In some cases, third party platforms analyze anonymized and aggregated data to improve their services.