At the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (‘IICF’) we respect and protect the privacy of our supporters and charities we support. This privacy policy sets out how we use your personal information.
Policy last updated June 2024.
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation is a charity registered in the United States (no. 1163896) and a registered company limited by guarantee (no. 9617554). We understand that you are aware of and care about your personal privacy, and we take that seriously. We value our ability to provide you with information through our interactions, whether they are through our digital platforms, face to face or other ways you choose to engage with us.
This policy explains how we collect, use, protect and share your personal information that you provide, or that we receive through your interactions with the Foundation.
Your personal information will only be used by IICF , its suppliers, or IICF, a registered 501(c)3 charity in the United States, to process your requests and event registrations, and to provide you with information relating to our programmes such as volunteering and fundraising events. We will not pass on your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
IICF will review this policy annually and will place a notification on its website when any changes to the policy are made.
Personal information means any information by which you can be directly or indirectly identified. We may collect the following personal information:
If you register for IICF events or request information from the Foundation as a representative of your organisation, we may collect:
The information that we collect from you is to help us to support you and to deliver high-quality services to supporters and the charities we support.
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a legitimate reason, for instance:
A legitimate interest is when we have a charitable or organisational reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us. Please see ‘How to contact us’ below.
When you visit our website or engage with us on LinkedIn, we collect certain information or data about you automatically using tools like Google Analytics. We collect:
We collect information from you through digital and personal interactions with IICF:
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone, or post unless you have given your prior consent. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us via our website www.iicf.org.
We may use your personal information to:
If you make a donation or register for an event online, your card information is not held by IICF . It is collected by third party payment processors, who specialise in securely capturing and processing credit/ debit card transactions.
The accuracy of your information is important to us. If any information we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us and we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
If you no longer wish to receive direct marketing or other communications from IICF, You can change your preferences at any time by contacting us via our website www.iicf.org. You can also change your preferences or opt out of receiving emails IICF sends through Mail Chimp by clicking on the ‘update your preferences’ or ‘unsubscribe’ links at the bottom of each email.
Under the new General Data Protection Regulations, you have the right to request a copy of the information IICF holds about you. Unless the request is unusually complex, IICF will provide this information within one month at no cost.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable operational procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect and process.
Our website and LinkedIn page may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for two years (unless you ask for your information be deleted), or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations (for example the collection of Gift Aid).
We will not distribute or sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
IICF may pass your information to our third-party service providers and systems for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to process donations and event registrations). When we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service. We have contracts in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes.
IICF may transfer your personal information to a third party if it has a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of its supporters or suppliers. When this is required, we will take steps to ensure your privacy rights continue to be protected.
IICF may transfer your personal information to IICF divisions in the United States; for instance, to process your registration for events taking place in the United States, or to communicate updates regarding the Board of Directors. IICF divisions in the UK and Unites States have measures in place to ensure your data is kept secure.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information that we hold about you, please contact us via our website www.iicf.org or by post:
Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation
2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA
90067
USA
This policy was last updated in June 2024