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Privacy policy

Last updated: November 2026

This privacy policy explains what personal data Stichting Effectief Altruïsme Nederland ("EAN", "we") collects, why, who we share it with and what rights you have. It covers effectiefaltruisme.nl and all its subdomains, such as office.effectiefaltruisme.nl, and our activities, such as events, the EA Fellowship and our co-working office.

1. Who we are

Stichting Effectief Altruïsme Nederland is responsible for processing your personal data (the "controller" under the GDPR).

  • Chamber of Commerce (KvK) 67780903, RSIN 857171367
  • Registered address: Dorpsstraat 40, 3481 EL Harmelen
  • Postal address: Van Diemenstraat 92, 1013 CN Amsterdam
  • Email: info@effectiefaltruisme.nl

If you have a question about this policy or your data, email us at info@effectiefaltruisme.nl.

2. What data we collect

Data you give us

  • Signing up for events. Your name, email address and answers to any questions on the sign-up form. Our events are on Luma and Meetup.
  • Applying for the EA Fellowship and other programmes. Your name, email address, background, motivation and other answers on the application form. Afterwards we ask for feedback.
  • Our co-working office. Your name, email address, your work or studies, your LinkedIn profile if you share it, and when you book a desk or check in.
  • Calls with our team. If you book a call (for example a career call or a virtual coffee), your name, email address and what you tell us. We keep short notes so we can help you better later.
  • Volunteering and vacancies. The details in your application.
  • Newsletter. Your email address and, if you give it, your name.
  • Donations. Your name, your bank account or PayPal details, the amount and, if you want a confirmation, your email address. We never see card details: they stay with the payment provider.
  • Contact. Whatever you send us by email, WhatsApp or a form.

Special category data. We don't ask about your health, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or political views. If you choose to share such data, for example a dietary requirement or an accessibility need for an event, we only use it for that purpose and only with your consent.

Data we collect when you visit the website. See section 5 on cookies.

  • Processing your sign-up for an event, the EA Fellowship or the office, and keeping you informed: performing our agreement with you
  • Assessing applications for selective programmes: performing our agreement with you
  • Asking for feedback and evaluating and improving our programmes: legitimate interest
  • Notes from calls with our team: legitimate interest
  • Answering your questions: legitimate interest
  • Sending the newsletter: consent
  • Processing and confirming donations: performing our agreement with you
  • Keeping our accounts, including for the Dutch tax authority and our ANBI status: legal obligation
  • Statistics on how the website is used: consent (analytics cookies)
  • Measuring and improving our ads: consent (marketing cookies)

Legitimate interest. Our interest is to run our activities well, learn what works and help people in a targeted way. We only rely on it where your interests and rights don't outweigh that interest. You can always object (see section 8).

We never sell your data, and we don't make decisions about you by automated means alone.

4. Who we share data with

We work with service providers that process data on our behalf. We only give them what they need for their task.

  • Events: Luma, Meetup
  • Forms and programme admin: Airtable, Typeform, Google Workspace (Google Forms, Gmail, Drive)
  • Booking calls: Calendly
  • Newsletter: Mailchimp
  • Website: Vercel (hosting and anonymous visitor statistics), Sanity (website content)
  • Statistics and advertising (only with your consent): Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Getsitecontrol, Google Ads, Meta
  • Donations and accounting: PayPal, Triodos Bank, Exact

We also share data where the law requires it, for example with the Dutch tax authority.

Partners. If we run an event with a partner, or a partner's event comes about through us, such as an EAGx conference, we may share sign-up data with that partner, only where the event needs it and we say so on the sign-up form.

Outside the EU. Some of these providers are based in the United States. We only use providers certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or that use the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

On your first visit we ask which cookies you allow. You can change your choice at any time via "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.

  • Necessary. Needed for the website to work, for example to remember your cookie choice. We don't ask consent for these.
  • Analytics (only with consent). Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity show us how visitors use the website: which pages they view, where they come from and where they drop off. Clarity can also record how you scroll and click on a page. Anything you type into forms is masked. Getsitecontrol sometimes shows a short question or pop-up and remembers whether you've seen it.
  • Marketing (only with consent). Google Ads and the Meta pixel measure whether our ads work and help show them to people likely to be interested. To do this, Google and Meta may link your visit to your account with them.

We also use Vercel Web Analytics. It counts visits without cookies and without being able to identify you.

6. How long we keep data

  • Sign-ups for events, the EA Fellowship and other programmes: 5 years after you last took part, so we can invite you to follow-up activities and evaluate our programmes
  • Office data: up to 2 years after your last visit
  • Notes from calls and other contact: 5 years after the last contact
  • Newsletter: until you unsubscribe
  • Donations and other financial records: 7 years, as the law requires
  • Google Analytics data: at most 14 months

After that we delete or anonymise the data.

7. Security

We protect your data with appropriate technical and organisational measures. Only staff and volunteers who need it for their work can access it.

8. Your rights

You have the right to:

  • access your data;
  • have inaccurate data corrected;
  • have your data deleted;
  • restrict how your data is used;
  • object to processing based on legitimate interest;
  • receive your data in a common file format (portability);
  • withdraw your consent. This applies from then on, not retroactively.

Email us at info@effectiefaltruisme.nl. We'll respond within one month. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, the Dutch data protection authority.

9. Changes

We update this policy when the way we work changes. The date at the top shows when it was last updated. If we make big changes, we'll let you know, for example in the newsletter.