Earth is the Home We Share
Registered Charity No. 1113505
COMPASSION DIRECT UK CHANGES LIVES
CDUK change children's lives abroad with water, workshops, wind power, goats, gardens, education & development.
We provide environmentally sustainable solutions & self help projects in the developing world.
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT CDUK?
- We consult with local people who advise us on their needs for a sustainable future.
- We work directly with people & organisations avoiding unnecessary expenses.
- We consider the environmental impact of our work & plant trees to reduce CO2 emissions.
- We provide environmentally friendly solutions such as biogas cookers & windmills where appropriate.
- We encourage people to help themselves by providing practical, sustainable, self help projects.
- We are professional volunteers & have low overheads so your money goes where it is most needed avoiding expensive buildings, salaries & administrative costs.
In 2023 we built a sewing workshop cooperative to help HIV mothers make a living, they were dying, leaving homeless orphans. WE NEED 6 MORE SEWING MACHINES AS DEMAND IS SO GREAT can you help, make a donation?
HOW YOU CAN HELP MOTHERS & CHILDREN WITH HIV IN A RWANDAN VILLAGE & SYRIAN REFUGEES?
NEW CAMPAIGNS
- YOU CAN SEND 2 KILO PACKAGES OF "SEWING STRIPS" UNWANTED DUVET COVERS OR SHEETS TO RWANDA FOR WOMEN TO USE TO PRACTICE SEWING WHILE THEY LEARN A TRADE? Go to our Sewing Strip pages
- YOU CAN HELP US TO RESTART A FOOD PROGRAMME AT THE VILLAGE SCHOOL THAT CLOSED DURING COVID, LEAVING 150 CHILDREN HUNGRY, BY MAKE A STANDING ORDER OF £5 A MONTH. WE NEED ONLY 100 PEOPLE TO ENABLE US TO FEED 150 DAILY. OR YOU CAN FUNDRAISE FOR US?
- KNIT FOR KIDS AT A SYRIAN REFUGEE CAMP & SET UP OR JOIN A SEWING GROUP- go to our Knit for Kids page
- YOU CAN SHOP ON LINE VIA EASY FUNDRAISING, we automatically get between 1-4% of your purchases at no extra cost to you, please sign up, it's an easy way to donate to us that wont cost you a penny. ALMOST 8000 ONLINE STORES PARTICIPATE except Amazon. it costs you no more & your privacy is not compromised. Click the link or scan the QR code & start to help children.
How will your donations be used?
£5 will buy pencils & stationary for a school or sewing patterns
£10 will buy 10 yards of dress material
£25 will buy material, scissors, cottons
£25 will buy a bike
£50 will provide two cutting tables
£50 will buy a bike and tools for a man to be come a gardener
£150 will provide a sewing machine to teach a woman a trade
£250 to set up & buy chickens for a safe chicken pen
£500 to buy a herd of goats
£600 a month will run a food programme feeding 150 malnourished children
£2000 will sink a village well
£10,000 will begin to set up an orphanage
£15,000 will furnish an orphanage
£20,000 with run the orphanages for a year
YOUR DONATION WILL MAKE REAL CHANGES TO THE LIVES OF DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE
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CDUK have provided wells, fruit trees, a woman & child development centre, school buildings, vegetable gardens, wind turbines, educational materials, rainwater harvesting tanks, industrial sewing machines & workshops, latrine doors, goat herds, libraries & we send hand knitted clothing to refugees in Syria & dresses & shorts made from recycled materials by our volunteers to poor rural areas.
Photos: 1. 4 new sewing machines at the Sewing Workshop for mothers with HIV. 2. A Sewing Workshop in Argentina for single mothers without work. 3. Bishop Enock rejoicing when they finished installing 2 water harvesting tanks at the village school. Previously they had to go 7 miles for clean water.
FUND A FOOD PROGRAMME DONATE £5 A MONTH
We need 100 wonderful people to make a Standing Order of £5 a month to help us realise our dream of getting 200 children each year out of the cycle of poverty.
Go to our Donations page to download a Standing Order form.
YOUR DONATION WILL HELP CDUK RESTART A FOOD PROGRAMME at a church school in the rural village of Nyagacyamo, eastern Rwanda where families are trapped in a cycle of poverty & Mothers are dying of HIV leaving orphans dependent upon goodwill because there are no orphanages.
CDUK is run by professional volunteers, the charity has low overheads, around 90% of your donation will feed the children. With Gift Aid we claim tax & add 25% to your donation.
Pre-Covid 19 160 children attended school until a USA funded food programme ran out in 2021, now these children starve & receive no education. A free daily meal was a family’s incentive to send children to be educated, it kept children alive & took pressure off the families.
More than 60 of the children attended school free as they were orphans of HIV mothers & depended on the daily meal for life. Since Covid many have died of starvation & there are now more orphans than ever!
Pastor Phillipe ran the school, he told our chairman Ros it “closed when the food programme ran out because without the daily meal students drifted away, if we had funds for food, we could restart this valuable opportunity immediately & the children would return”.
FUND A FOOD PROGRAMME DONATE £5 A MONTH
Before Covid 19 in 2020, our chairman Ros, was researching projects & visited this once thriving church School & community centre with Bishop Enock from the Church of God’s People in Kigali. CDUK decided to help with fundamental self-help projects. In late 2020 we funded two Water Harvesting Tanks so that the school did not have to travel 7 miles for clean water. We also pledged to build a sewing workshop to help mothers with HIV learn a trade to support their children. (We completed the Sewing Workshop in 2023). We hope to provide a well for the village.
COVID STRUCK
Bishop Enock died suddenly at the age of 51 from throat cancer therefore the link with the USA provider was broken & the food programme ended. Gradually pupils drifted away, the school had died & the children starved. The building stands used for Church services, before it was a community hub, much potential has been lost!
This was the situation that our chairman discovered in 2023 when she visited to equip & inspect the new sewing cooperative workshop, we had funded, built behind the Church for the use of HIV mothers. The Sewing workshop run by volunteers is thriving! In time many lives will be saved. But the church school needs funds!
Please help us to help this village with a proven practical project. DONATE £5 A MONTH TO FUND A FOOD PROGRAMME
FUND A FOOD PROGRAMME DONATE £5 A MONTH
If CDUK are able to fund a food programme at the Church School we can help to get more than 200 children out of poverty annually. They will grow to be useful members of their society.
BY finding 100 people who care enough to make a standing order of £5 a month we can support this village by educating & feeding their children. What a legacy! You can be part of this and know that you helped a child to learn & contribute to a better global future.
Helping people to help themselves in their native homes discourages the need to emigrate, so your donation can also help in a small way to prevent dangerous boat crossing over the channel.
Imagine the frustration of seeing your children hungry every day & knowing that you are unable to find work to earn & feed your family!
Imagine seeing your children getting thinner, weaker & unhealthy & not being in a position to be able to make a difference. The frustration can build up into angry violence & destroy lives further.
Education provides stability in life, & can never be taken away. By being well-educated you increase your chances of a better future in a competitive world & can contribute to your family & community.
Education provides financial security, as well as providing essential skills & can take village children & their families out of the circle of poverty.
Education promotes equality, social mobility & allows self-dependency.
By joining our Special 100 wonderful people, and making a Standing Order of £5 a month you will help us to realise our dream of getting many children educated & out of the cycle of poverty. Go to our Donations page to download a Standing Order form. Thank you for caring enough to wish to help.
YOUR DONATION CAN WILL SAVE LIVES & MAKE THIS PROJECT POSSIBLE.
WORKING IN RWANDA
A donation, fundraising or a Standing Order of £5 a month can help CDUK to provide a food programme at the school to feed 150 children a day with the only meal they have.
Your donation could provide much neded sewing machines so that more women can be taught to sew and make a living to support their children.
In a rural area of Eastern Rwanda in Gatsibo Province is a Church supporting many poor villagers of different faiths including 100's of women with HIV who are dying because they have no food to take with their free medication, Ros - our Chairman, met 70 women during her research visit in March 2020. The women had HIV due to the legacy of the Genocide of 1994.
A Pastor at the Church had formed an HIV support group, the woman told Ros that there were many more women who could not attend nor could their children go to the school as they were too ill to travel & had no decent clothes & were ashamed.
Some of the women who work on the land tried to help the others & said that they saved a tiny amount each week for coffins so that they could be decently buried. This is their immediate future without food or work as they are unable to take their medication without eating, so they know that if they go hungry, they will die very soon & their children will have to fend for themselves.
CDUK were committed to provide a sewing workshop/cooperative for these women so that they are able to make & sell clothes at the market, provide food for themselves &their families & survive.
IN MARCH 2023 CDUK BUILT A SEWING COOPERATIVE AS WE HAD PROMISED BUT we could only afford 4 machines and need 6 more for the 100's of women who want to learn to save their lives and live to support their children. Can you help?
We run the workshop using solar power to reduce the impact on the environment & overhead costs of maintaining the project. We will be planting fruit trees around the building for shade & sustenance. CAN YOU DONATE TO BUY A TREE?
We hope the HIV mothers will not need the coffins so soon as they will be able to eat, take their medication, earn a living & look after their children safely. Please help us to achieve this goal.
In 2020 the Church also hosted a school with a food programme where more than 150 children received a daily meal & often, that was all the children had to eat in a week. At least 60 of the children attended school free because they were orphans or had mothers with HIV, who were unable to get work as no one would work with them & so they & their children went hungry due to lack of income & the mothers soon died leaving orphans.
There are no orphanages in this area and orphans have to depend upon the food programme at the Church or the good will of a poor rural community.
Go to our page to make a standing order of £5 a month, we only need 100 generous people to start the programme again!
In the summer of 2020 CDUK provided the Church School with two water harvesting tanks to support the Church Food Programme & supply clean water for food preparation & better hygiene. Many thousands of young children a year die as a result of polluted water. Previously the Church collected fresh water in tanks by bike from many miles away for cooking & used rain water from muddy puddles or polluted streams for washing.
CDUK wants to sink a well near the Church for village use by people of all faiths. Currently the only clean water has to be collected & paid for at a government water source seven miles away at approximately the equivalent of one penny per litre
Volunteers have been making dresses for the girls from unwanted pillow cases and Bermuda shorts for the boys from recycled materials, they have held fundraising events to raise the money for postage to the project.
For more information on dress & shorts patterns & how you can get involved go to our page on Pillowcase Dresses. People are also being asked to donate good quality unwanted duvets & sheets to send out to the sewing workshop as Sewing Strips so that the women who are learning to sew can practice on less expensive materials. Send them in maximum 2 kilo packs, see separate pages for more details.
Watch a video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ixTGbzjWPP6N250ob13AvgP8H5YC3AOj/view?usp=sharing
PILLOWCASE DRESSES & BERMUDA SHORTS
Pillowcase Dresses & Bermuda shorts for African children
CDUK encourages recycling to conserve the earths depleted resources. . Click on the link to find out more. To send dresses made from unwanted cotton pillowslips and Bermuda shorts for boys from recycled curtain material and bed linen.
Learn MoreDONATIONS & STANDING ORDERS
Earth is the home we share
But, we can do nothing without your help & appreciate your support.
To make a quick donation of £5 text CDUK to 70970 now or text CDUK to 70191 to donate £10 or whatever you can afford.
Better still make a monthly contribution by standing order and help us to plan ahead.
WE ARE URGENTLY REQUESTING 100 + PEOPLE TO MAKE STANDING ORDERS SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO RESTART A FOOD PROGRAMME AT A CHURCH SCHOOL IN RWANDA.
Download a Standing Order form now from
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dT2IFbw_Pdaxc3M0zwfiG_HTfY6axpcQ/view?usp=sharing
If you would like to make a regular donation to CDUK or a one off donation you can make it grow by 25% by signing up for Gift Aid, download a Gift Aid form below or leave your full name & address with permission for Gift Aid on the donation form.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rUrd5qAd97YIPgWw8BsByutc208G2sfI/view?usp=sharing
SEWING STRIPS
THERE ARE NO ORPHANAGES IN THIS RURAL AREA, BUT MANY ORPHANS OF HIV MOTHERS.!
Your support can help to prevent this!
We have more than 200 women with HIV in the village who want to learn to sew but they need to practice & sewing material is too expensive to use. As they have never sewn before they will need plenty of practice before their items are ready for sale.
WHAT YOU CAN DO!
Get together with friends & collect unwanted cotton sheets & duvet covers to make Sewing Strips to send to our Rwandan Sewing Project! Organise a coffee morning or small event to help pay for the postage of parcels
Cut off the hemmed edges of the sheets & the seems & fastening edges of the duvets - they can't be used for practise & are unnecessary weight to post. Please do not send artificial fibres they are not easy to use for practice.
Cut the clean material into Sewing Strips about a meter wide.
Make up a secure parcel of just under 2 kilos & post to the Church in Kigali - capital of Rwanda. they will deliver parcels to the village where they go once a month. Address below.
Parcels over 2 kilos are considered to be commercial & taxes will be charged or they will not be delivered. When you go to the post office with the parcel you will have to declare the contents. Please declare the items as Sewing Strips so that they are allowed into the country.
It would be helpful if you could let Ros know if you decide to send a parcel so that the Church can look forward to the parcel ! compassiondirectuk@gmail.com
REMEMBER - DECLARE THAT THE CONTENTS ARE SEWING STRIPS FOR EDUCATION.
Send the parcel to
THE CHURCH OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN RWANDA
BP6595
KIGALI
RWANDA
2 Kilos will cost around £20 to post, so, you may wish to hold a coffee morning or other small fundraising event to raise the money for the postage. If you need leaflets, write to Ros at compassiondirectuk@gmail.com and she will send what you need, For more information and to keep in touch Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thisearthisourhome
We strongly advise that you do not post more than 2 boxes at the same time as they may be considered a commercial enterprise.
SHOP & SAVE LIVES
THE IDEAL WAY TO HELP CHARITY DURING A COST OF LIVING CRISIS
You could be helping to feed a child in Africa on a food programme & give them a chance through education to contribute usefully to the world.
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YOU SHOP ONLINE, BIG BRANDS DONATE UP TO 4% TO COMPASSION DIRECT UK.
Click on the link to sign up to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/cause/compassion-direct-uk/
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SHOP ONLINE FROM 7000 BRANDS - Every time you shop, online brands donate to CDUK, we receive between 1-4% paid directly into our bank account! EASY!
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/cause/compassion-direct-uk/
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KNIT FOR KIDS
Amazing donation of jumpers all from one special lady in Stratford upon Avon
EARTH IS THE HOME WE SHARE - KNITTING GROUPSAll your knitting will be sent by container to a refugee camp in Syria.
Knitting groups enable you to meet new people & have fun sharing a favorite craft.
A CDUK knitting group makes your experience worthwhile as you get that feeling that comes from helping others, knowing that you are doing something useful. Even if you don’t know the person who is receiving your home made garment, knowing that it is out there in the world is a great feeling.
Joining a knitting group is sociable activity & if you are new to knitting it is a great way to pick up new ideas, share patterns & have someone to help you through any difficult projects or explain a new technique. For knitters of all skill levels, joining a group is a wonderful way to make time for your hobby.
In the past we have sent to Ukraine, Palestine, France & Greece.
Take or post your knitting to Chris who lives in Kineton, near Warwick she collects & packs our shipments.
Faith Cottage
5 Bridge Street
Kineton
Warwick
CV35 OHP
Phone: 07981 667534
Below are a few tips on getting a knitting group started in your area:-
FINDING MEMBERS
- Send an email or phone friends telling them you want to start a new group & suggesting a time and place to meet up. Tell them a bit about the work of CDUK and where some of their knitting can be sent if they wish.
- Not all your knitting has to go to CDUK projects, family and friends are important too.
- Ask them to ask their friends
- Post a notice at your local knitting store, the library, church, or community notice board.
- Write to the community page of your local newspaper
- Post on your social network site – Face book, My Space or Tweet about it on Twitter
Kitted out for winter in Ukraine wearing hats & scarf from Warwickshire
- Pick a date, time and location for a getting to know you meeting
- Get everyone to introduce themselves & talk a bit about their knitting experience & maybe explain what they would like to get out of the group
- Maybe have an informal discussion about how you would all like the group to develop
- How often do you want to meet
- Where do you want to meet
- Do you want to rotate at different persons homes
- Do you want to develop a more formal meeting with talks and demonstrations
- Have a look on line for free knitting patterns, tips & ideas there is lots out there
- Ask friends for spare wool, many of us have the odd ball tucked away that we might never need.
- Get updates on our Face book page at www.facebook.com/thisearthisourhome please follow us to be kept up to date
- We can provide leaflets on our work in Europe, South America & Africa.
- Our Chairman - Ros, can give a zoom talk to your group about our work or you can find out more from our website. www.compassiondirectuk.org
- CDUK can provide a charity tin so that you can collect small donations from your members at each meeting. Although we are all volunteers at CDUK we still have to find money for printing, insurance, transportation etc. & for our projects.
- We can advise you on fundraising events.
VOLUNTEERING WITH CDUK
Raise funds, have fun, meet new people, do something wonderful today
"Be the change you want to see in the world" M Ghandi. Giving is not just about making a donation it is about helping to make a difference.
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Equipement, insurance & how we support you.
The boring but useful stuff! How do we support you?
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Setting up a Knitting Group
Knitting groups enable you to meet new people & have fun sharing a favorite craft.
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How do CDUK raise money -can you help?
“No one has ever become poor from giving.” – Anne Frank
Learn MorePROJECTS
EARTH IS THE HOME WE SHARE
CDUK's strapline is 'Earth is the Home we Share' this phrase underpins all our work.
Watch video "why people cross the channel in small boats to get to UK"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1saeEbno7gzUfrqVrdd89KzQX9sX09iu7/view?usp=sharing
We believe that everyone on this planet is interdependent & that we are all in some way interrelated. We live in a global economy, we eat foods from all over the world, we export & import goods & services; sea & air pollution is blown by winds, spread by tides, climate change & environmental degradation is a global challenge for us all, so in a nut shell.
Global challenges require global solutions, they require educated minds from all over the world to come together to make the vital decisions that are needed to sustainably maintain our planet for future generations.
Imagine that maybe one of the children from one of CDUK's international projects, e.g. the Kyebi Primary School in Ghana which our supporters funded, maybe will become someone who is part of this enormous & vital global decision making process when they are adult? Imagine the goodwill if that child remembers the assistance that was given at an early age by people in the UK who cared, to their school? What goes around comes around!
What is more when the UK aids developing countries it also creates a market for our own economy, do while we are helping others we are also helping ourselves.
We are all aware of the importance of education in the UK, please help us to facilitate education & environmental sustainability at our projects
Please go to our projects page to find out more
HISTORY OF CDUK
In 2002 Ros – our chairman, & founder, visited family in Quilmes, Buenos Aires in Argentina. She was horrified at the poverty & destitution she saw in parts of the city & its environs.
An educationalist – Daniel De Scala, visited Ros & asked for her help as he had heard that she had always worked for charities in the UK. He knew that people in the UK were very generous but that they did not know much about the poverty in South America & the awful economic crash that had occurred in Argentina in 200/2001 when the AR Peso was devalued by two thirds. Many thousands of people lost their jobs & their homes in the crash & became destitute consequently more shanty towns grew in many areas including Quilmes. They desperately needed help!
Daniel took Ros on a tour of the shanty towns – Villas, surrounding Quilmes. Ros agreed to try to help a Soup kitchen – Comador, that fed 130 destitute children twice a day – Luz Del Alma (Light of the Soul).
Ros wrote to friends, sending photos & asking for a donation of £5. When she returned to the UK some weeks later, she had to open a bank account for the generous donations that had arrived. One thing led to another, fundraising continued, Trustees were recruited & Compassion Direct UK, became registered in 2004 after a generous donation of £500 from Banbury Rotary Club.
Ros had semi-retired from being self-employed for some years after working for The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for many years as a Regional Manager. Shortly before her visit to Argentina she had intended to continue a part time Training business that had been part of her previous PR business. Somehow the training never got started because CDUK took over Ros’s life.
During this time CDUK raised money to build a security wall and gates at the Comador, built a homework room & sewing workshop for children and parents, a store room for dried food & recruited a group of local volunteers to maintain continued assistance & support to this project. As CDUK grew other projects followed &new directions were pursued.
Photos, man going to a stream for water in a shanty town, Argentina, children of mothers with HIV in Rwanda, who will soon be orphans, children living in a shanty town in winter, Argentina
POLICIES
WANT TO BE A TRUSTEE?
Because we are a small organisation, our trustees don't just make policy decisions round a table, we are a hands on organisation, we get down to grass roots & get involved in our local areas when we can.
Depending upon the time we have available & our personal skills, we do PR, admin, IT, applications for funds, plan strategy, or organise fundraising events, etc. working with other volunteers & local groups in the area. Working to our strengths & discussing what works with the chairman, other trustees & relevant volunteers.
HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT TAKE BEING A TRUSTEE?
Most importantly we agree what time we have available & plan our workload within the time we are able to give. You may only have 1 hour a week available but if you put your mind to it, it is amazing what can be achieved in an hour when working to a plan & within a team. 1 hour or 1 day a week we can find a way to make your time count. But we prefer it if you enjoy what you are doing with CDUK & that you have some fun along the way as well as job satisfaction.
CAN I WORK FROM HOME?
Our team work remotely & meet up on Zoom or Skype etc. & at the AGM once a year. We are too busy doing what needs to be done to call meetings all the time, but we do keep in touch regularly & chat online. Facebook & Twitter keeps us up to date as does the website. This is the new normal.
IS THERE A FINANCIAL LIABILITY IN BEING A TRUSTEE?
The Trustees have a policy of never promising what we can't afford to deliver. That means that if we don't have the cash in the bank we don't do the project. This way Trustees do not have to concern themselves that we might go overdrawn or get into debt for which they might be liable. We just don't do it! Then we can all relax!
We decide what we want to do, raise the money - if we don't already have it, & do the project. Neither do we promise to projects what we can't fulfil.
We prefer that you work with us for a short time as a volunteer before becoming a trustee. Then when you get the feel of the organisation we can talk over where you feel your strengths lie & how we can fit them to a role. All trustees work a minimum 6 months probationary period & while during that time their views will be taken into account they will not be allowed to vote until they have completed their probation. They can still be part of the debate and suggestions for change.
So, if you are interested in joining the team give our chairman a call on 07773470384 or fill in the contact box on this site & we can take it from there. We are all volunteers here at CDUK , join us!
OUR TRUSTEE TEAM
Ros Grant
Chair of Trustees
Ros is the founder of CDUK and CEO, she believes that we have the power to change the world we live in for the better and is a keen environmentalist.
Chris Cartwright
Trustee
Chris spent time in Africa which inspired her to do all she could to help people to help themselves. She is the main collection point for our Knit for Kids project.
Leandro Ghezzi
Trustee
Leo is Argentinean and has been with CDUK from the start. He advises us on South American culture and translates Spanish for us and updates our policy's, we can't stop him planting trees!.
CONTACT
- Dolgellau, Gwynedd. UK
- Registered charity number 1113505
- +44-07773470384 - Chairman of Trustees
- compassiondirectuk@gmail.com
- Mon-Fri - 08:00-19:00
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For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
By email: rosinargentina@yahoo.co.uk
By visiting this page on our website: https://www.compassiondirectuk.org
By phone number: +447773470384
By mail: Tan Y Mynydd, Uwch Y Maes, Dolgellau. LL40 1GA
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