About.Irma developed on August 30, 2017 near the Cape Verde Islands from a tropical wave that had moved off the west African coast three days prior. Under favorable conditions, Irma rapidly intensified shortly after formation, becoming a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale within a mere 24 hours. It became a Category 3 Hurricane (and therefore a major hurricane) shortly afterward; however, the intensity fluctuated between Categories 2 and 3 for the next several days due to a series of eyewall replacement cycles On September 4, Irma resumed intensifying, becoming a Category 5 hurricane by early the next day. On September 6, Irma reached its peak intensity with 185 mph (295 km/h) winds, making it the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide so far in 2017. Another eyewall replacement cycle caused Irma to weaken back to a Category 4 hurricane, but the storm attained Category 5 status for a second time while making landfall in Cuba. After dropping to Category 3 intensity due to land interaction, the storm re-intensified to Category 4 as it crossed warm waters between Cuba and the Florida Keys before making landfall on Cudjoe Key with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h). Irma dropped back to Category 3 by the time it made a second Florida landfall on Marco Island. Irma weakened to a Category 2 hurricane later that day, the first time it weakened below major hurricane status in over a week, and eventually dissipated off the coast of New England. As of September 15, the hurricane has caused at least 82 deaths, including 43 in the Caribbean and 39 in the United States. Emergency teams on the ground are preparing to help families caught up in this potentially devastating storm. We are sending funds for key emergency supplies of clean drinking water, food and tarpaulins for shelter ready to distribute where needed. |
Irma Fundraiser Privacy policy
Your privacy is important to us. We want to ensure that we’re as transparent as possible in informing all our supporters how we capture data, store it, and most importantly, use it.
Irma Fundraiser is committed to protecting and securing the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. If at any point you want to know more about our policy, or are worried about your own details, or have ideas on how we can improve our practices, do let us know by contacting us via our contact page.
Importantly, Irma Fundraiser is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the “Privacy Act”) and the privacy provisions of other applicable legislation.
This privacy policy provides information about how we manage the personal information we collect, hold, use and disclose. In short, any personal information collected by us is covered by this policy, so it’s important to us that the following information is easy to understand. We will review this policy from time to time and always have this policy publically available throughout our websites.
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Your personal information
Definitions are important. “Personal information” is information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:
- whether the information is true or not; and
- whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
- the names, contact information (eg mailing address, phone number and email address), of our donors
- details of donors’ donation history, emails, letters and other interactions with Irma Fundraiser
- A donor’s employer details in regards to workplace giving
- the names, contact information and employment and academic history of potential staff or volunteers
- the names and email addresses of persons who subscribe to our emails.
How we collect personal information
There’s a number of ways we collect data. Irma Fundraiser usually collects your personal information directly from you when you provide it over through our website, by email or through an online form.
We use third parties to fundraiser on our behalf including telemarketing. These third parties will also collect your personal information directly from you when you provide it over the phone, through our website, in person or by email. This may also include workplace giving. Crucially, third party organisations are also bound by the Privacy Act and Privacy Principles.
If someone makes a donation on your behalf, and asks that you receive information about their gift, we will collect the personal information they provide about you.
Irma Fundraiser will not collect, hold, use or disclose sensitive information (including health information or criminal records) about you unless you give us your consent to do so, or where required by law.
If you wish, you can remain anonymous or use a pseudonym when you contact us and if you make a donation. We will respect your anonymity. If you choose not to provide us with your personal information, we may not, for example, be able to provide you with an official tax-deductible receipt or a letter of thanks, or assist you fully with your query or complaint.
Cookies, our website and your privacy
In order to understand how people arrive at the Irma Fundraiser website and related social media platforms and how they use it, we rely on cookies provided by third parties. This enables us to assess the effectiveness of our online advertisements. We may also use your browsing history on the Irma Fundraiser website to send related messages on our work and appeals. Cookies do not reveal personal information, such as your name, address, phone numbers or email address. You can adjust your browser to disable cookies, but this may restrict your ability to access certain areas of our website.
How we store personal information
Irma Fundraiser understands the importance of protecting your personal information from misuse, loss or unauthorised access or use and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is secure.
Irma Fundraiser holds your personal information securely through physical and electronic means. We have restricted physical access to our offices, hard copy files are stored in secure cabinets and store rooms, and staff are trained in our privacy procedures. We use security encrypted response forms to protect the personal and financial information you provide us over the Internet and secure online payment systems, our in-house IT system is secured with a firewall and anti-virus scanners, your information is stored in secure databases and only authorised staff have access to your information and only when it is required.,
Irma Fundraiser will destroy or de-identify your personal information when we no longer need it for the purpose for which it was collected, unless the law requires otherwise. If you send us your personal information when we don’t ask for it we will determine whether or not the information is related to one or more of our activities. If the information is not relevant to what we do, we may destroy or de-identify the personal information if it is lawful and reasonable to do so.
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information to carry out our charitable, aid and related activities. For example, we use your personal information to:
- process any donations you may send to us
- send to you information about Irma Fundraiser including newsletters, updates and information on appeals
- update you if we have information that may affect your support
- confirm who you are when you contact us
- keep you informed about our work including by mail, email, SMS or telephone
- respond to your questions, comments, compliments or complaints
- circulating questionnaires to improve our services
- analyse donor activity in order to improve our effectiveness including for quality assurance
- report on our activities including producing our Annual Report
Opting Out
If you wish to opt out of communications you are currently receiving, use any of the clear links that we provide in all our digital communication (like sms or email) or call the Irma Fundraiser contact page to send us an email.
Disclosing your Information
We respect that ‘who’ we share your information with is important to you.
In no instances do we sell your information onto other third parties. Irma Fundraiser does not use your data with third parties to undergo ‘wealth screening’ activities.
Irma Fundraiser will only use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act. This may include where use or disclosure is required by law, where we have your consent to the use or disclosure, or for the purpose for which it was collected or related purposes that you would reasonably expect Irma Fundraiser to use or disclose that personal information.
For any other circumstances where we need to disclose your personal information overseas, we will expressly inform you of the disclosure and obtain your consent.
Help us keep your information accurate
Irma Fundraiser aims to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate, complete, up-to-date, relevant and not misleading. However the accuracy of this information is largely dependent on the information you provide.
To assist us with this, please contact us if you are aware of any changes required to your personal information.
Even if you don’t contact us, if we are satisfied that, having regard to the reasons for which we hold your personal information, that personal information is inaccurate, incomplete, out-of-date, irrelevant or misleading, we may take reasonable steps to correct that information.
You can access your information
You have a right to access, update and correct personal information that Irma Fundraiser holds about you.
Requests for access to personal information should be made by email, post or phone using the details provided under the ‘Contacting us’ heading.
Before providing access to or correcting your personal information, we may also require you to verify your identity. In the unlikely event that we are unable to provide you with access to your personal information, we will provide you with written reasons for denying access.
Enquiries and complaints
We want to hear from you. Enquiries or concerns about privacy matters, including complaints about how Irma Fundraiser handles personal information and concerns that Irma Fundraiser has breached the Privacy Principles, should be made in writing as detailed below under the heading “Contacting us”. Irma Fundraiser will respond to all enquiries as quickly as possible. We normally have a very fast turn-around so if you’ve not heard back, feel free to call us.
If you would prefer to deal with us anonymously, you are not required to provide your personal information to us unless we are required by law to deal with individuals who have identified themselves or it is impractical for us to deal with individuals who have not identified themselves.