THE POLE POLE FOUNDATION
30 years protecting gorillas in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Photo: The Earthshot Prize
Privacy Policy
What type of information do we collect?
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us with in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet - login, email address, password, computer and connection information.
We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (for example name, email, password), comments, feedback, reviews, recommendations and personal profile.
How do we collect information?
We collect the information that you provide us with.
Why do we collect such personal information?
We collect non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:
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To be able to contact our visitors and users with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages.
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we may use to provide and improve our services.
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How do we store, use, share and disclose our site visitors’ personal information?
Our charity is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to stay in touch with you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
How do we communicate with our site visitors?
We may contact you to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our charity, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce applicable national laws, and any agreement that we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you by email, telephone, text message or postal mail.
How do we use cookies?
In general, the cookies which are initially placed on your Wix website may be categorised as essential cookies. A good source of information about cookies can be found here at
How can our site visitors withdraw their consent?
If you don’t want us to process your data any more, please contact us at info@polepolefoundation.org
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at info@polepolefoundation.org
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September 2021, UK