Privacy Policy

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25th May 2018 and The Kidney Transplantation Turkey (KTT) is committed to protecting your personal data: Kidney Transplantation Turkey considers the privacy of its users to be a serious issue and this Privacy Policy will explain how The Foundation uses personal data collected from you when you use our website. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR-2018) Kidney Transplantation Turkey’s lawful basis for processing this information is Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR whereby consent must be given for the processing of an individual’s personal data for one or more specific purposes. In addition, The Foundation’s processing of special category data, such as health information is based on article 9(2)(a) which requires your consent which you have a right to withdraw at any time.

Kidney Transplantation Turkey collects your personal data for the following purposes:

• Compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations
• Finance, HR (including payroll) and Health and Safety
• Fulfilment and processing of requests for FNF’s services
• Applications for programmes, scholarships and grants
• Obtaining feedback from service users of the performance of FNF’s programmes and scholarships
• Conducting auditing and monitoring of transactions and engagement
• Marketing and customer service as well as the sending of marketing and non-marketing communications
• Updating our operational and technical functionality
• Performing business analysis, such as analytics, projections and identifying areas for operational improvement
• Carrying out research and development
• Enabling communications between staff and service users and keeping in touch

Kidney Transplantation Turkey collects and processes the following data:

• Personal identification information such as but not limited to, Name, DOB, NI number, email address, phone number, remuneration, IP address, headshots, social media details such as Twitter handle or LinkedIn profile and so on: any information that relates to an individual and makes them personally and uniquely identifiable. [Further details can be obtained at: https://www.gov.uk/personal-data-my-employer-can-keep-about-me]
• When you submit enquiries or feedback through one of our website forms, leave a comment, sign up for email newsletters or when you apply for a scholarship or programme. We collect your name, email address, telephone number and other information
• When you use our website, we collect:
  • Your IP address, and details of web browser and which version of it you used
  • Information on how you use our website and use cookies that will help us improve the website
• When you participate in any of our research projects we collect your name, contact and other details.
• When you attend an event or conference, we may collect images of you in films or photographs or, in respect of contributions you may make, audio recordings.
• When you contact us directly, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Demographic data about service users and staff including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) information covering the characteristics of protected classifications under the Equality Act 2010 including age, gender, ethnicity, and nationality

• Background checks and identity verification
• Marketing related activities
• HR and employment information such as work and education background. professional memberships and so on. This includes recruitment and payroll data, Health and Safety data and financial information such as payments and funding details
• Internet and network activity such as Cookie IDs and browser visits as well as device and online identifiers and related information, such as telephone number and email address
• Details of 3^rd parties such as applicant employer, sponsor, and donor details

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our web sites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. We do not use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. We will only gain such information if you have knowingly and willingly provided such information to us.

Cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org

7.1 How do we use cookies?

Kidney Transplantation Turkey uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on the web site, including:

• Keeping you signed in for online programmes
• Understanding how you use our web site
• Any further uses?

7.2 What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

• Functionality-Kidney Transplantation Turkey uses these cookies so that we recognise you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third party cookies are used.
• Advertising-Kidney Transplantation Turkey uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device and IP address. Kidney Transplantation Turkey sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
• Traffic log cookies- Kidney Transplantation Turkey uses these cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

7.3 How to manage your cookies

You can accept your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.