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• General privacy statement
• Transaction security

General Privacy Statement

World Vision is committed to protecting your privacy. We want to provide a safe and secure experience on the 40 Hour Famine website. The information you provide remains private and is only used for the purposes outlined below. The identity of anyone who contacts us through this website is kept confidential to World Vision of New Zealand. We don't rent, sell or exchange our contact lists.

Your information
This site’s registration and donation forms require you to provide us contact information. This information is used to register new Famine participants and groups, process donations, provide receipts, send relevant and timely information about the World Vision 40 Hour Famine, and to get in touch with participants, group organisers and sponsors from time to time.

Updating your personal information
Please contact the Famine team through the website or on 0800 FAMINE (326463) to update your information. This includes updating your password or the email address you entered into the website.

Communication options
If at any stage you feel that you are receiving communications from us that you would prefer not to receive, please contact us through the website, call us on 0800 FAMINE (326463), or email use at nzfamine@worldvision.org.nz and let us know. We do not wish to send communications to you that you do not want to receive!

 

Transaction Security

This site uses security encryption wherever your financial details are required. The security we use between your browser and our website is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). To confirm that your browser supports SSL security, you should see padlock on the top left or right of your browser. This bar may not be visible depending on your settings, or if the window encrypted is a popup.

Credit card donations made on this site are processed in real time using a payment express gateway. For more information about payment express please visit their website.

Any financial information collected from donation forms is used strictly for the transaction specified in the form submitted. Information about the transaction is kept for processing and reasons of website functionality. Your full credit card details will not be stored at any time.

This site will settle all credit card transactions in New Zealand Dollars. This charge will be converted by your bank into your local currency. The rate of the conversion will depend on your bank's policy and exchange rates. The transaction may not immediately appear on your account depending on the amount of time required by your bank to process the transaction.