Privacy Notice

At DIRT, we care about your privacy.

This notice explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and the choices you have. If anything here is unclear, please ask us. We would rather explain than leave you wondering.

We may update this notice from time to time, so do look back occasionally. The date at the foot tells you when we last did.

Who are we?

We are DIRT, the foundation for the regeneration of earth, a charity working to turn fashion into a climate solution through biodynamic farming.

We are registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, charity number 1199510. We are also a company limited by guarantee, company number 13032859. Our registered address is 42 Manchester Street, London, England, W1U 7LW.

We are the data controller for the information described here, which simply means we decide how and why your information is used.

Any question about this notice can be sent to us at hi@dirt.charity, or written to us at the address above.

How do we collect your information?

We collect information directly from you, when you subscribe to hear from us, make a donation, fill in a form, come to one of our gatherings, or get in touch.

We also receive information from the providers who handle donations for us.

What information do we collect?

  • Your name and title, your email address, and where relevant your postal address and telephone number.

  • A record of your relationship with us: donations you have made, letters and emails between us, and gatherings you have come to.

  • Your preferences for hearing from us.

  • Photographs taken at our gatherings.

How do we use your information?

We use it to:

  • send you our newsletter and other updates you have asked for, with your consent;

  • process and keep a record of your donation, which charity, company and tax law require us to do;

  • answer your questions, organise our gatherings, and keep in touch with you about our work.

Who has access to your information?

We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not share it for anyone else's marketing.

We share it only where we need to, and only with providers who are required to look after it.

When you make a donation, it is processed by Donorbox, PayPal or Stripe, third-party providers who specialise in handling payments securely. Your card details go to them and are not held by us.

When you subscribe to our newsletter, we use a third-party provider, [X], to deliver it. Your name and email address are shared with them for that purpose. You can read their privacy notice on their website.

We also share information where the law requires us to.

Does your information leave the UK?

Some of our providers are based outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States. Where your information travels outside the UK, we take steps to make sure it stays protected to the standard UK law requires.

How long do we keep it?

Only as long as we need it, or as long as the law requires.

  • We keep records of donations for six years from the end of the financial year they relate to.

  • We keep your details on our mailing list until you unsubscribe, and then we remove them.

  • Everything else we keep only while we need it, and then delete or securely destroy.

Photographs

We share images of the farmers, growers, guests and partners we work with. Before we publish a photograph in which you can be recognised, we ask your permission. If you come to one of our gatherings, we tell you beforehand that photographs will be taken and may be shared. If you ever want an image of yourself taken down, tell us and we will remove it.

Cookies

Our website does not use cookies.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites, run by other organisations. This notice applies only to ours, so we encourage you to read the privacy notices of the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for how those sites handle your information, even where you reach them through a link from us.

If you came to our website from another site, we cannot be responsible for how that site handles your information either, and we would encourage you to read its privacy notice.

Keeping your information safe

We store your information securely and only let those who need it see it. We take proper technical and organisational steps to protect it from loss, misuse and unauthorised access.

Where you send us information over the internet, please know that no transmission can ever be guaranteed completely secure. Once it reaches us, we look after it carefully.

Your choices and your rights

You can unsubscribe from our emails whenever you like, using the link at the bottom of any message.

You also have the right to:

  • ask what information we hold about you, and ask for a copy;

  • ask us to correct anything wrong or incomplete;

  • ask us to delete your information;

  • ask us to limit how we use it;

  • receive your information in a portable format;

  • object to how we use it, including for marketing;

  • withdraw your consent at any time.

To do any of these, email us at hi@dirt.charity.

Complaints

If you are worried about how we have handled your information, please tell us at hi@dirt.charity. Our CEO looks at every complaint and will come back to you. We keep a record of what we receive and how we resolve it.

You are also free to raise it with the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk at any point, whether or not you have spoken to us first.

Contact us

For anything to do with this notice, email us at hi@dirt.charity, or write to us at DIRT, 42 Manchester Street, London, England, W1U 7LW.

Last updated: July 2026