Welcome to Milkywire! Thanks for stopping by our Terms of Use section. It contains important information, so please have a careful read-through and make sure you understand it all.
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern the relationship between Milkywire AB, org. ID No. 559156-8018, having its registered address at Sveavägen 49, 113 59 Stockholm (“Milkywire", "we", "us" and “our”), and any individual or legal entity who uses any of Milkywire’s products and/or services offered on or enabled through Milkywire’s impact platform, including but not limited to, our website, API solutions, other integrated solutions, and an Impact Portal (collectively the “Services”). All uses of "you" and “your” refers to you as a user of the Services. These Terms govern your access to and use of our Services, and apply to all visitors, account holders and others who access and use the Services.
These Terms are personal to you, and cannot be sublicensed, assigned or otherwise transferred by you to another party without our prior written consent. By engaging in any of our Services, you accept and agree to the Privacy policy and Cookie policy, which is incorporated into and a part of these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, or any parts of it, you may not access or use the Services.
If you use the Services on behalf of a legal entity, then “you” includes you and that legal entity, you warrant that you are authorized to bind the legal entity to these Terms, and you accept these Terms on behalf of that legal entity.
The Milkywire impact platform allows you to make monetary donations (individually referred to as “Contribution” and collectively as the “Contributions”) to curated impact funds, portfolios of high quality initiatives that contribute to climate and environmental action (“Impact Funds”), focusing on solutions beyond immediate value chain mitigation. Contributions to Impact Funds can be made online through our website (milkywire.com), our API(s), and other integration solutions.
The Services also include the possibility for eligible Milkywire users to access a portal, through which you can receive updates, reports and similar impact data on Contributions made to selected Impact Funds, as well as access to other features offered by Milkywire in relation to the Services ("Impact Portal”).
For avoidance of doubt, Milkywire does not provide any legal, financial, tax or other professional advice. In addition, Milkywire is not a financial institution, broker, creditor, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or other form of charity.
You agree to use our Services only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not infringe upon the rights of, or restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of, our Services. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
Using our Services to engage in any form of illegal or fraudulent activity;
Interfering with or disrupting the integrity or performance of our Services or the data contained therein;
Attempting to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt our Services, or any servers, computer systems or databases associated with our Services;
Making unauthorized copies, modifying, adapting, creating derivative works of, or reverse engineering the Services, including any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied by the Services;
Duplicating, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling or decoding the Services or attempting to do any of the same;
Distributing, licensing, transferring, selling any part of the Services or offering for sale any information obtained from the Services.
Using, reproducing or removing any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name, slogan, logo, image, or other proprietary notation displayed on or through the Services
Using the Services, without our written consent, for any commercial or unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial advertisement or solicitation;
Using our Services to knowingly transmit any data, viruses, trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;
Using our Services in any way that violates applicable laws, regulations or codes of conduct.
Contributions are made directly to a registered nonprofit fund partner organization (the "Fund Partner"), who handles and expends the Contributions to vetted initiatives that are part of the Impact Funds. The Impact Funds are a collaboration between Milkywire and the Fund Partner, developed to efficiently support high-impactful initiatives that contribute to climate and environmental action. The Fund Partner (currently WRLD Foundation and Stiftelsen WRLD Foundation) retains discretion and control over the Contributions and strives to ensure that your Contributions goes to the selected Impact Fund(s) you wish to support.
We leverage a vast network of experts and a robust fund management process for quality and scientific rigor.
Milkywire AB Reg. No. (559156-8018) ("Milkywire", "we", "us", "our") is the Controller in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (”GDPR”). This Privacy Policy (the ”Policy") provides information on how we handle Personal Data when you communicate with us, use the Services or visit our website www.milkywire.com.
The information in this Policy covers Personal Data Processing for which Milkywire is the Controller. As a Controller we are responsible for the Processing for which we decide the purpose of ("the why") and the means for the Processing (what methods, what personal data and for how long it is stored). The Policy does not describe how we Process Personal Data in the role of a Processor - i.e. when we process Personal Data on behalf of our customers
The intended recipient of the information provided in this Policy is:
Users of the Services
Potential customers
Customers
Employees of potential customers
Employees of existing customers
Visitors of our website
"Applicable Law" refers to the legislation applicable to the processing of Personal Data, including the GDPR, supplementary national legislation, as well as practices, guidelines and recommendations issued by a national or EU supervisory authority.
"Controller" is the company/organisation that decides for what purposes and in what way personal data is to be processed and is responsible for the Processing of Personal Data in accordance with Applicable Law.
"Data Subject" is the living, natural person whose Personal Data is being processed.
"Personal Data" is all information relating, directly or indirectly, to an identifiable natural person.
"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal data, e.g. storage, modification, reading, handover and similar.
"Processor" is the company/organisation that processes personal data on behalf of the Controller and can therefore only process the Personal Data according to the instructions of the Controller and the Applicable Law.
Access - You always have the right to receive information about the Processing of data that concerns you. We only provide information if we have been able to verify that it is you that are requesting the information.
Rectification - If you find that the Personal Data we process about you is incorrect, let us know and we will fix it!
Erasure - Do you want us to completely forget about you? You have the right to be forgotten and request deletion of your Personal Data when the Processing is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. If we are required to retain your information under applicable law or a contract that we have entered with you, we will ensure that it is processed only for the specific purpose set forth in such applicable law or contract. We will thereafter erase the information as soon as possible.
Objections - Do you disagree with our assessment that a legitimate interest for Processing your Personal Data overrides your interest in protecting your privacy? Don’t worry - in such case, we will review our legitimate interest assessment. Of course, we add your objection to the balance and make a new assessment to see if we can still justify our Processing of your Personal Data. If you object to direct marketing, we will immediately delete your personal information without making an assessment.
Restriction - You can also ask us to restrict our Processing of your Personal Data
Whilst we are Processing a request from you for any of your other rights;
If, instead of requesting erasure, you want us to limit the Processing of Personal Data for a specific purpose. For example, if you do not want us to send advertising to you in the future, we still need to save your name in order to know that we should not contact you; or
In cases where we no longer need the information in relation to the purpose for which it was collected, provided that you do not have an interest in retaining it to make a legal claim.
Data portability - We may provide you with the data that you have submitted to us or that we have received from you in connection with a contract that we have entered with you. You will receive your information in a commonly used and machine-readable format that you can transfer to another personal data manager.
Withdraw consent - If you have given consent to one or several specific processing(s) of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and thus ask us to terminate the Processing immediately. Please note that you can only withdraw your consent for future processing of Personal Data and not for Processing that has already taken place.
Right to file a complaint - You have the right to submit a complaint to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection. More information about our obligations and your rights can be found at https://www.imy.se/You can contact the authority via e-mail at: imy@imy.se.
How you use your rights
Please contact us directly at legal@milkywire.com if you wish to exercise any of your rights related to our processing of your personal data.
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Learn more about our impact funds and how partnering with us can advance your commitment to global sustainability.