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What Amnesty International's terms say

B privacy grade · amnesty.org · News & reference

Amnesty International's terms of service and privacy policy have 21 rated points: 0 serious, 3 bad, 4 worth knowing and 14 good. 20 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 1 only once you have an account.

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Bad 3

  • A secure, anonymized record of your data may be kept for analytical purposes after the data retention period ends

    The service may keep a secure, anonymized record of users' data for analytical purposes even after the data retention period

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  • You are being tracked via social media cookies/pixels

    The service uses third party tracking pixels to track social media conversion

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  • Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world

    Amnesty International may share your data with its global membership organizations anywhere in the world

    While Amnesty International (UK) may share your data to be processed in its other global sections, these are held to the EU standards for data sharing and processing by contractual agreements (https://edit.tosdr.org/points/4557).

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Worth knowing 4

  • Critical changes to the terms are made without user involvement

    The service makes critical changes to its terms without user involvement

    There is nothing mentioned in ToS about making changes or informing users about changes, nor the date when the last changes were made, nor an archive of old versions.

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  • This service informs you that its Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party services

    The service informs users that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites

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  • The terms for this service are translated into different languages

    The Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement for this website are translated into three languages

    The Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic and so is the entire website. Since the website provides no other service than (written) information, it will only be used by people who understand one of the available languages, who will thus also understand the legal documents.

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  • Third parties are involved in operating the service

    Third parties are involved in operating the Amnesty International website

    Amnesty International uses third parties for hosting its website, processing online payments and applications for employment, recruiting potential supporters and managing online actions and related communications.

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Good 13

  • The terms for this service are easy to read

    The Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement for the service are easy to read

    The documents are written in understandable, less legal terms and structured well. Additionally, the documents are kept reasonably short.

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  • Information is provided about what kind of personal information is collected

    The service provides details about what kinds of personal information they collect

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  • You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data

    You can request access and deletion of personal data

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  • The service reviews its Privacy Policy on a regular basis

    The service reviews its privacy policy on a regular basis

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  • Personal information that is shared outside its jurisdiction is processed according to the original jurisdiction’s data protection standards

    If Amnesty International shares personal information outside the EU, it is processed to an EU standard

    Amnesty International Limited (UK) sometimes shares personal information, e.g. of potential members, with other membership organizations of its movement. When it does, arrangements are in place to ensure that the recipient processes that personal information to an EU standard.

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  • You can access most of the pages on the service's website without revealing any personal information

    Users can access most of the pages on the service's website without revealing any personal information

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  • A list of all cookies used by the service is provided

    The service provides a complete list of all cookies set by its website

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  • The service will resist legal requests for your information where reasonably possible

    The service will resist legal requests for user information where reasonably possible

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  • Your information is only shared with third parties when given specific consent

    This service only shares user information with third parties when given specific consent

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  • Information is provided about how your personal data is collected

    The service provides information about how they collect personal data

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  • The data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes

    The service's data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes

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  • A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data

    The service provides a complaint mechanism for the handling of personal data

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  • Information is provided about how your personal data is used

    The service provides information about how they intend to use your personal data

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With an account

If you have a Amnesty International account

Good 1

  • You can opt out of receiving promotional communications

    You can opt out of promotional communications

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The documents

Ratings by ToS;DR volunteers; they can lag behind the current terms. Not legal advice.