Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
The Foundation for Mother & Child Health UK | Charity number: 1117795 | Company number: 05765489
Last updated: April 2026
1. Who We Are
The Foundation for Mother & Child Health UK ("FMCH UK", "we", "us", "our") is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee, based in England and Wales. We are the Data Controller for personal information collected through this website.
If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at info@fmch-uk.org.
2. What Personal Data We Collect
We only collect personal data that is necessary for us to operate our charity and respond to your enquiries. This may include:
•Your name and email address, when you contact us via our website enquiry form or by email
•Donation information (name, contact details, and payment reference), when you make a donation through our website
•Your IP address and browsing behaviour on our website, collected automatically via Wix and Google Analytics
•Any other information you choose to share with us in correspondence
We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as health information) through this website, and we do not operate an online store or collect payment card details directly — all donations are processed securely through Just Giving payment platform.
3. Our Legal Basis for Processing Your Data
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we must have a lawful basis for processing your personal data. We rely on the following:
•Consent — where you have actively provided your details to contact us or sign up for updates
•Legitimate interests — for website analytics that help us improve our site, where this does not override your rights
•Legal obligation — where we are required to retain records for regulatory or accounting purposes
•Contractual necessity — where processing is required to handle a donation you have made
4. How We Use Your Data
We use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:
•To respond to enquiries and communications you send us
•To process donations and send you a receipt or acknowledgement
•To send you updates about our work, where you have given your consent
•To analyse how our website is used, so we can improve it
•To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations as a registered charity
We will never sell your personal data to third parties, and we will never share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
5. Third-Party Services
Our website is hosted on Wix.com. Wix acts as a data processor on our behalf and stores website data on secure servers. You can read Wix's privacy policy at wix.com/about/privacy.
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymised data about browsing behaviour. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Donation payments made through our website are processed by Just Giving or its payment partners, which comply with PCI-DSS security standards. We do not store your payment card details.
6. Cookies
Our website uses cookies — small text files placed on your device — to help the site function and to collect analytics data. The types of cookies we use are:
•Essential cookies: required for the website to function correctly (set by Wix)
•Analytics cookies: used by Google Analytics to collect anonymised information about how visitors use our site
When you first visit our website, you will be asked to consent to non-essential cookies. You can withdraw or change your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings on our website. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings — visit www.aboutcookies.org for guidance.
7. How Long We Keep Your Data
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law:
•Enquiry correspondence: retained for up to 2 years
•Donation records: retained for 7 years in line with HMRC requirements for Gift Aid and financial records
•Website analytics data: retained in accordance with Google Analytics default retention settings (up to 26 months)
When data is no longer needed, it is securely deleted or anonymised.
8. Your Rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
•The right to access — you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
•The right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
•The right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your data, subject to legal obligations
•The right to restrict processing — you can ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances
•The right to data portability — you can request your data in a commonly used, machine-readable format
•The right to object — you can object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing
•The right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@fmch-uk.org. We will respond within one month.
9. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, please contact us in the first instance at info@fmch-uk.org and we will do our best to resolve the matter.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by calling 0303 123 1113.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
11. Contact Us
The Foundation for Mother & Child Health UK
Registered charity number: 1117795
Company number: 05765489
Email: info@fmch-uk.org
Website: www.fmch-uk.org