Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy: Animal Lottery Foundation CIC

Last Updated: 9th April 2026

1. Introduction

Animal Lottery Foundation CIC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website and sign up for our communications.

2. The Data We Collect

Currently, we only collect minimal personal data provided directly by you:

  • Identity Data: Name.

  • Contact Data: Email address, business or personal address, telephone number.

  • Technical Data: IP address and basic cookie information (if your website platform uses them automatically).

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your information for the following purposes and legal bases:

  • Communications & Newsletters: To send you updates and information about our mission.
  • Legal Basis: Consent (which you provide by signing up).
  • Proactive Outreach & Business Development: To contact individuals at their place of work to discuss potential partnership opportunities.
  • Legal Basis: Legitimate Interests. We have a legitimate interest in seeking support for our CIC’s mission, provided it does not override your personal privacy rights.
  • Administrative Responses: To respond to inquiries or requests for information.
  • Legal Basis: Contractual Necessity or Legitimate Interests.

4. Data Sharing and Transfers

We do not sell or rent your data to third parties. We may share your data with trusted service providers who help us run our website or email marketing, or who are contracted by us to provide our services. Any third party provider will be contractually obligated to keep your data secure.

5. Data Retention

We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, or until you ask us to delete it.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under UK data protection laws, you have the right to:

  • Access: Request a copy of the data we hold about you.

  • Correction: Ask us to fix inaccurate info.

  • Erasure: Ask us to delete your data (“the right to be forgotten”).

  • Object/Restrict: Limit how we use your data.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

  • Email: hello@animallotteryfoundation.com
  • Registered Office: Animal Lottery Foundation CIC, The Stables, St George’s Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 2SU.

8. Cookies and Local Storage

Our website is designed to be privacy-friendly. We do not use any non-essential cookies, such as those used for advertising, tracking, or third-party analytics (e.g., Google Analytics or Meta Pixel).

  • Strictly Necessary Technologies: We use “strictly necessary” cookies and local storage provided by our website platform (WordPress and Elementor). These are essential for the technical operation of the site, such as ensuring pages load correctly and maintaining security.

  • No Consent Required: Under UK GDPR and PECR, these functional technologies do not require your prior consent because they do not track your behavior across the web or identify you for marketing purposes.

  • Your Control: You can set your browser to block these cookies, but parts of our website may not function correctly as a result.