Privacy Policy

When Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK processes your personal data, we will do so on the legal basis of “Contract” or “Consent”, depending on the situation.

When you make a donation, or set up a direct debit, we will process your data under the legal basis of “Contract”. As we must process your personal data in order to complete your donation, we do not require your consent to begin processing. However, your data will be securely deleted 6 years once the payment process has finished. For direct marketing, such as sending you emails or letters, making phone calls etc., we will only ever process your data using the legal basis of “Consent”. This means we will only ever contact you with your express consent and we will no longer do so if you ever choose to withdraw your consent. For further details regarding direct marketing, please see the section titled “People who sign up to receive the Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK direct marketing”

We may also use “Legitimate Interest” as a legal basis for contacting you. We will only use this basis if we have to get in touch with you, but cannot do so using any other legal basis. We will also never send you any electronic direct marketing using Legitimate Interest. If we do decide to use Legitimate Interest as a basis for contacting you, we will carry out a “Legitimate Interest Assessment” to ensure that us contacting you is lawful and does not infringe on your rights.

When you visit Ayngaranuk.org, just as when you visit most websites, a Cookie is placed on your computer. Cookies are small text files that help ensure that the website works correctly and more efficiently. It also provides us with standard information regarding how you used the website through the third-party service Google Analytics. This information is completely anonymised meaning that it is impossible to determine the identities of who is visiting our website.

This website (including this privacy notice) contains a number of links to external websites. This privacy notice does not cover those websites and Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK is not responsible for the content of those websites.

When you make a donation to Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK, either online or by using one of our pledge cards, we will take the following information as required to complete the donation:

• Name and Title
• Billing Address
• Email Address & Telephone Number
• Debit/Credit Card Details
• Declaration of Tax Payer Status (for those including Gift Aid in their donation)

This data will be shared with our payment provider, “Blackbaud Merchant Services”, only for the purposes for processing the payment.
If you agree to include Gift Aid with your donation, your details will be shared with HM Revenue and Customs only for the purposes of verifying taxpayer status and reclaiming tax on our behalf.
When you make a donation, we will also ask you if you would like to sign up to receive Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK direct marketing. For information regarding this, please see the section below titled “People who sign up to receive Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK direct marketing”.

Once the payment process is complete, the information that we have taken will be destroyed after 6 years.

Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK will never share this data with anyone beyond our payment provider Blackbaud Merchant Services, and HM Revenue and Customs.

Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK will never contact you without your express consent. When we ask for your consent, we will make it clear how we will contact you (via email, telephone, post etc.) and what we will be contacting you about. In general, Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK will be likely to contact you about

• Direct Marketing (Newsletters, Campaigns, Fundraising requests etc.)
• Invitations to Events
• Market Research Surveys

Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK promises to never share your data with other organisations for marketing or fundraising purposes. However, we will share your data with the companies Microsoft, MailerLite and Blackbaud only for the purposes of securely processing and storing your data. As Microsoft and Blackbaud are organisations based in the United States, we may transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) when we store your data on their systems. All three companies are covered by the US – E.U. Privacy Shield Framework, which ensures your data remains private and secure outside of the EEA.

Should Ayngaran Life Science Foundation change the third parties which it works with for the purposes of data storage and processing, our privacy policy will be updated accordingly

In addition to using your personal data to contact you, your data will be used for the purposes of analysing our marketing campaigns, preparing for and analysing Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK events, and maintaining records of your consent.

Your data will be held for these purposes indefinitely or until you withdraw your consent.

Consent can be withdrawn or changed at any time. To do so, please contact info@ayngaranuk.org and we will ensure your data is appropriately altered/destroyed with immediate effect. Alternatively, you can withdraw consent at any time by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of any marketing email you receive from us.

Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK will never contact you without your express consent. When we ask for your consent, we will make it clear how we will contact you (via email, telephone, post etc.) and what we will be contacting you about. In general, Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK will be likely to contact you about:

• Direct Marketing (Newsletters, Campaigns, Fundraising requests etc.)
• Invitations to Events
• Market Research Surveys

Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK promises to never share your data with other organisations for marketing or fundraising purposes. However, we will share your data with the companies Microsoft, MailerLite, Think Digital and Blackbaud only for the purposes of securely processing and storing your data. As Microsoft and Blackbaud are organisations based in the United States, we may transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) when we store your data on their systems. All three companies are covered by the US – E.U. Privacy Shield Framework, which ensures your data remains private and secure outside of the EEA.

Should Ayngaran Life Science Foundation change the third parties which it works with for the purposes of data storage and processing, our privacy policy will be updated accordingly.

In addition to using your personal data to contact you, your data will be used for the purposes of analysing our marketing campaigns, preparing for and analysing Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK events, and maintaining records of your consent.

Your data will be held for these purposes indefinitely or until you withdraw your consent.

Consent can be withdrawn or changed at any time. To do so, please contact info@ayngaranuk.org and we will ensure your data is appropriately altered/destroyed with immediate effect. Alternatively, you can withdraw consent at any time by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of any marketing email you receive from us.

If you attend a Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK event, we may ask you for a donation or if you would like to sign up to receive Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK direct marketing (or both). If we do so, we will first ask for your express consent before proceeding. If you make a donation to Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK, please see the above section entitled “People who make a donation to Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK” to see how we will use the information you provide us. If you sign up to receive direct marketing, please see the above section entitled “People who sign up to receive Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK direct marketing” to see how we will use the information you provide us.

There may be photography and video recordings taken at Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK events for our benefit. These images may be used:

• In future publications and presentations
• Promotional Videos
• Digital and Social Media Channels

These images will be used at any time, normally within a 5-year period. Please note that our website and digital channels may be seen throughout the world, and not just in the United Kingdom, where UK law applies. If you are going to be attending a Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK event and do not with your images to be used in this way, please make your wishes known to a Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK member of staff on the day, or contact us at info@ayngaranuk.org.

If you have signed up to be a Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK Ambassador, or have recently made a large donation to Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK (£1,000+), we may share your data with Ayngaran Life Science Foundation India so that our founder, Sasi Krishnasamy, can get in touch with you about our work. This data will be shared securely only with those people needed to help Sasi Krishnasamy stay in touch with you. It will only be used for this purpose, and Ayngaran Life Science Foundation India will destroy their copy of your data after they have contacted you.

If you do not wish to hear from Sasi Krishnasamy, please let us know at info@ayngaranuk.org, and we will ensure your details are not shared with Ayngaran Life Science Foundation India.

We use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards in order to ensure that your data is kept secure and limit information access to a need-to-know basis.

If you use a credit or debit card to make a donation to us, this information is passed securely to our payment provider. This is done in accordance with industry standards and your details are not stored on our website.

However, please be aware that there are always inherent risks in sending information by public networks or using public computers and we cannot 100% guarantee the security of data (including personal information) disclosed or transmitted over public networks.

Ayngaran Life Science Foundation UK promises to never share your data with other organisations for marketing or fundraising purposes. However, we will share your data with the companies Microsoft, CloudAlly, MailerLite and Blackbaud only (where applicable) for the purposes of securely processing and storing your data. As Microsoft, and Blackbaud are organisations based in the United States, we may transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) when we store your data on their systems. Both companies are covered by the US – E.U. Privacy Shield Framework, which ensures your data remains private and secure outside of the EEA.

Should Ayngaran Life Science Foundation change the third parties which it works with for the purposes of data storage and processing, our privacy policy will be updated accordingly.

You have the right to request a copy of all the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some, or all, of your personal information, please contact us at info@ayngaranuk.org. We will endeavour to provide you with this information in one month. Additionally, you have the Right to Portability: if you wish, any data that you request from us can be provided in a portable, electronic format.

You have the Right to Rectification. If any of your data is incorrect or out-of-date, please get in touch with use at info@ayngaranuk.org, and we will ensure your data is updated.

You have the Right to Restrict Processing. If you desire, you can demand that we immediately stop processing your data. In this instance, we will continue to store your data, however we will not do anything with it.

You have the Right to Withdraw Consent and the Right to Erasure. If you wish to withdraw consent for us contacting you, or if you wish for us to erase all the data we hold about you, please get in touch with us info@ayngaranuk.org and we will comply with your request in a secure manner.

We may make changes to this privacy policy in the future. If we do so, updates will be posted to the website and, where appropriate, through email.

MAyngaran Life Science Foundation UK makes an effort to go beyond the data protection standard required for an organisation of its size and as such we take complaints seriously. If you feel that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, please contact us at info@ayngaranuk.org.