Who we are
The Joining Forces website, found at https://joining-forces.org, including all information and materials contained on it, is managed by Plan Ltd, Dukes Court, Block A, Duke Street, Woking, Surrey GU21 5BH, UK (“Plan Ltd“).
To contact us, please write to the address above or call us on +44 (0) 1483 755155.
The website is managed by Plan Ltd (acting as secretariat) on behalf of Joining Forces, an alliance of the 6 largest international NGOs, comprising: Child Fund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages, Terred des Hommes and World Vision.
What personal data we collect
The type and amount of information we receive and store depends on how you use the Website. You can access most of the pages on the Website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. Our web servers collect anonymous logs during user visits to the Website. This information may be used to create aggregate statistics about how the Website is used (see our Cookies Notice below for more information about this).
We do not collect personal information (such as your name, e-mail address, professional role, organisation) on the Website unless you choose to provide it. For example, where you express an interest in subscribing to Joining Forces’ email updates.
By subscribing to our email updates, you have provided us with your consent to process your personal data and send you marketing information.
How do we use information collected?
Where you have provided your consent for your personal information to be processed by Plan International, it will be done in a secure environment and only used in connection with the purposes for which it is submitted. At Plan International, we process personal data in order to send you email updates about the work of Joining Forces, marketing information or as necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.
Sharing of your personal information
The information you provide will not be sold or shared with third parties.
Opting out of receiving messages from Joining Forces
We will hold your personal information for as long as you continue to subscribe to our Joining Forces mailing list. Any e-mail we send you will enable you to opt out of receiving further e-mails from us. If you choose to unsubscribe from receiving further emails, we will stop sending you any communications and we will remove your personal information from our system. You can unsubscribe by contacting michael.vysin@plan.de.
Your rights under the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation
The collection and use of personal information on this site is in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). More information can be found at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Access to your personal information
You have rights of access to personal information that we hold about you, to correct or delete that information or, in some circumstances, to object to our processing of your information, under data privacy law. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have any questions about this policy, please contact michael.vysin@plan.de.
Cookies
A cookie is a text-only piece of information that a website transfers to your web browser so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will normally contain the name of the Internet domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Plan Ltd uses cookies and analysis software for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. For example, measuring how many people are using each page of the website and for how long so that we can try to improve the quality of our website.
This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you.
By using our Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. To prevent the download of cookies, or otherwise control how cookies are used on your computer, please read the help information supplied with your Internet browser software, go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or read further instructions below.
Embedded content from other websites
This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos from third-party sites such as YouTube or Vimeo). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Plan Ltd does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.
Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Joining Forces.
Plan Ltd will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Plan Ltd nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. See Google’s Analytics overview for further information.
Disabling and enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this Website.
To disable cookies if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer: Click on ‘Tools’ in the top menu, then on Internet Options, then on the tab marked ‘Privacy’; Move the slider to the position corresponding to the level of cookie acceptance/denial acceptable to you.
To remove existing cookies if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer: Click on ‘Tools’ in the top menu, then on Internet Options; In the section marked ‘Browsing History’, click on ‘Delete…’; In the section marked ‘Cookies’ click on ‘Delete cookies’; Click on ‘Yes’ or hit the ‘Enter’ key.
To disable cookies in other browsers see the links below:
Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities in their settings, please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ facility.
Find more detailed information on disabling cookies here: www.aboutcookies.org.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Joining Forces.
Plan Ltd will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Plan Ltd nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. See Google’s Analytics overview for further information.