The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level. Read More
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level. At a global level, the SBN acts as a focal point for engaging multinational businesses in nutrition activities such as making workplace nutrition commitments.Read More
The SUN Business Network (SBN) aims to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods to consumers, especially low-income consumers through activities at global and national levels. At a national level, the SBN convenes businesses, assesses technical, financial and other business support service needs for members, and advocates the role of business in addressing nutrition at country level.Read More
Emerging networks are in SUN Countries where the government has made a commitment to ending malnutrition through a multi-stakeholder approach and private sector companies have begun to mobilise their support for a multistakeholder, multisectoral approach to improving nutrition. Read More
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This policy explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, when we may share this data and how we keep it secure.
In this policy, your information is sometimes called “personal data”. We may also sometimes collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting and storing your personal data as “processing” such personal data. References to “you” and “your” are references to a user of our website.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a non-profit foundation, duly constituted under the laws of Switzerland, with the purpose of advancing nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. In this policy, “we”, “us”, “our” means GAIN.
GAIN’s registered office is: Rue Varembé 7, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland. GAIN is a data controller for the purpose of data protection legislation and we operate this website.
We may collect and store the following types of personal information about you when you use our website or by corresponding with us (for example, by e-mail). This includes information you provide when registering to use our website or sharing any data via our social media functions. The information given to us may include, but is not limited to:
We collect your personal data when you use our website, for example, when you contact us via our online contact forms. Depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media and messaging services such as Facebook and LinkedIn you might give us permission to access information from those accounts or services. We may also retain any messages you send us through our online contact forms.
Our processing of your personal information is necessary (i) for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us; (ii) in order to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject; or (iii) for the performance of contracts to which you may be a party to.
In relation to any processing of special categories of personal data, we will generally rely on obtaining specific consent from you at the time, unless there is otherwise a legal requirement for us to process such information.
Where our processing is based on the legitimate interest grounds described above, those legitimate interests are:
We use your information to:
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of data to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal data on our systems for as long as is necessary for purposes set out above, or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us periodically reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required.
Where we are permitted to send you direct marketing communications, we may retain your contact information necessary for this purpose, for as long as you do not unsubscribe from receiving the same from us. If you opt out from marketing communications, we will retain your information to enable us to respect your wishes to not be contacted for marketing purposes.
The personal information you provide to us may be shared with the following categories of companies if this is necessary to provide you with our services, respond to your enquiries or for any of the purposes described in this policy:
We may also share your personal information with:
Where you have agreed or we are otherwise entitled to contact you for marketing purposes, we may use your personal information to send you information about SBN and GAIN, the projects that we run and events. You can stop receiving marketing messages from us at any time by clicking the ‘Unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of any e-mail we send you or you can contact us at communications@gainhealth.org
We will action any opt out request from you without delay.
The information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, or for one of our service providers.
When we, or our permitted third parties, transfer your information outside the European Economic Area, we or they will impose obligations on the recipients of that data to protect your information to the standard required in the European Economic Area or otherwise require the recipient to subscribe to international frameworks intended to enable secure data sharing. In the case of transfers by us, we may also transfer your information where: (i) the transfer is to a country deemed to provide adequate protection of your information by the European Commission; or (ii) where you have consented to the transfer.
At any time, you have the right:
Any request from you for access to or a copy of your personal data must be in writing and we will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within one month in compliance with data protection legislation. We will comply with our legal obligations as regards your rights as a data subject.
We aim to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate at all times. To assist us in ensuring that your information is up to date, do let us know if any of your personal details change at the following e-mail address sbn@gainhealth.org
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You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. The “Help” or “Internet Settings” functions within your browser should tell you how. Please be aware that that if you select to refuse or restrict cookies this may impact on the functionality of our website. You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our site in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes; these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals.
We use information resulting from cookies in order to:
We also use cookie technology with our online job registration forms to ensure we maintain your confidentiality and security as you move through secure or password protected areas.
We do not carry out automated decision-making or profiling in relation to your personal information.
If you:
Please contact us using the ‘contact us’ link on our main website or at this e-mail address: dpo@gainhealth.org
If you have any concerns about our use of your information, you also have the right to make a complaint to the relevant supervisory authority, which regulates and supervises the use of your personal data in your country of residence (for UK residents the relevant supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office who are contactable via their helpline on 0303 123 1113).
Any changes we make to our policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our policy.
This policy was last updated on 7 November 2023.
