Privacy policy.

The Reef-World Foundation (registered charity 1157096) respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, share, and use personal information about you and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information that we collect when you visit https://reef-world.org.

If you have any queries regarding any aspect of this policy, please contact info@reef-world.org.

Marketing communications

You have the right to opt out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you. To opt out of other forms of marketing (such as postal marketing or telemarketing), please contact us using the contact details provided above.

Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided above. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Information that we collect automatically

When you visit our Website or use our software, we may collect certain information automatically from your device.

Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our Website or software, including the pages accessed and links clicked.

Collecting this information enables us to better understand our visitors and software users, where they come from, and what content on our Website or software is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Website to our visitors.

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology (collectively, “Cookies”). For further information about the types of cookies we use and why and how you can control cookies, please see our cookie notice.

Website visits

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace and Google, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Web form

When you submit information to this website via a webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Mail to provide email notifications to the staff team.

Comments

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages, which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

General

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you wish to raise a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us to have the matter investigated at info@reef-world.org.