Donation Terms

3.1. One-off donation

You choose an amount and pay it once. The payment is taken straight away and is not repeated.

3.2. Monthly donation

The amount you choose is taken automatically every month from the payment method you used for the first payment, until you cancel. Each monthly payment is a separate donation. Section 7 explains how to cancel.

3.3. Currency and amounts

Donations through the website are accepted in euro only. The minimum is EUR 1 and the maximum for a single payment is EUR 10,000. If you would like to give more, write to the Foundation and it will arrange a bank transfer with you to the account given in section 1.

4.1. Payment provider

Payments on the website are handled by Stripe. The Foundation's payment services are provided by Stripe Payments Europe, Limited, of Dublin, Ireland. When you have chosen an amount you are taken to a payment page run by Stripe, you enter your details there, and you return to the BottleChallenge website once the payment is complete.

The recipient of your donation is the Foundation, which holds the Stripe account. The Foundation does not collect donations through a crowdfunding platform or any other intermediary. Stripe pays the money into the Foundation's bank account.

4.2. Payment security

You enter your card details on Stripe's own page, which meets the PCI DSS security standard for payment cards. Your full card number never reaches BottleChallenge systems and the Foundation has no access to it. Your bank may ask you to confirm the payment, for example in its app. This is required by the rules on strong customer authentication.

4.3. Currency conversion

The amount is charged in euro. If your card is in another currency, your bank or card issuer converts the amount at its own rate and may add its own charge. The Foundation has no say in that conversion or that charge.

4.4. Processing fee

Stripe charges a fee on each payment and deducts it before passing the money to the Foundation. The Foundation therefore receives your donation less that fee. The Foundation adds no charge of its own and deducts nothing from your donation for administration.

4.5. Payment methods

On the payment page you can pay by card or with Stripe Link. Link is a Stripe service that lets you save your card details for later payments, and using it is subject to Stripe's terms. On some devices Stripe may also offer Apple Pay or Google Pay; these are ways of paying with a card stored in your phone's wallet.

You cannot donate by direct debit or bank transfer through the website. You can make a transfer to the Foundation's account in section 1 directly from your own bank.

6.1. Poland

The Foundation is a foundation entered in the National Court Register (KRS). Whether you can deduct a donation from your income depends on your own tax position and on meeting the conditions set out in the Polish income tax acts. Among other things, those acts require a donation of money to be evidenced by proof of payment into the recipient's payment account. If the deduction matters to you, you can donate by bank transfer to the Foundation's account in section 1.

The Foundation does not give tax advice. If in doubt, please ask a tax adviser.

6.2. Other EU countries

The rules on deducting donations to an organisation in another EU country differ from country to country. Some countries recognise such donations under certain conditions. Your tax office or a tax adviser in your country can tell you more.

6.3. Countries outside the EU

Outside the European Union, whether a deduction is possible depends on the law of your country.

6.4. Receipts

After the payment Stripe sends a confirmation to the email address you entered on the payment page. On request the Foundation issues a confirmation that it has received your donation, which you can use for tax purposes. Please send the request to [email protected]. It can be dealt with fastest if it gives the date and amount of the payment and the email address you used.

7.1. When payments are taken

A monthly donation is taken automatically each month, on or around the same day of the month as your first payment.

7.2. Cancelling

You can cancel a monthly donation at any time, without any fee and without giving a reason. Just write to [email protected]. The website does not currently have a page where you can stop the payments yourself.

Cancellation takes effect before the next scheduled payment. Payments taken before then are covered by the refund rules in section 8.

7.3. Changing the amount

To change the amount, cancel your existing monthly donation as described in section 7.2 and set up a new one for the amount you want.

8.1. General rule

A donation is a voluntary gift and is not normally refunded. The Foundation refunds a donation in the situations listed in section 8.2 and considers any other request on its merits.

8.2. When the Foundation refunds a donation

1. You were charged more than once for the same donation.
2. The amount taken was different from the amount you chose.
3. The payment was made without the consent of the holder of the card or account.
4. A technical error led to a payment you did not intend to make.

8.3. How to ask for a refund

Send your request to [email protected] within 30 days of the payment, giving:

• your name and the email address used for the payment;
• the date and amount of the payment;
• the reason for your request.

The Foundation pays an approved refund within 14 working days, to the card or account the payment came from.

10.1. What data is collected

On the payment page Stripe asks for your card details, email address, the cardholder's name and country, and in some countries a postcode. In its Stripe account the Foundation can see the amount and date of the payment, whether it is a one-off or monthly donation, the email address, the name given for the card, the country, the card brand and its last four digits. The Foundation never receives your full card number.

The BottleChallenge server does not store any record of donations and does not link them to an account in the app.

Stripe provides payment services to the Foundation. For its own purposes, such as preventing fraud and meeting its legal obligations, Stripe acts as a separate controller under its own privacy policy.

10.2. What the Foundation uses the data for

The Foundation uses donors' data only to:

• accept and account for the donation and issue a confirmation;
• thank you for your donation;
• send you news about the project, if you have asked for it;
• meet its obligations under accounting and tax law.

The Foundation keeps donation records for 5 years from the end of the year in which the donation was made.

10.3. What the Foundation does not do

The Foundation does not sell donors' data and does not pass it to anyone else for marketing. Apart from Stripe, data goes to other parties only where the law requires it. The Foundation does not send donors unsolicited marketing and does not make public that you have donated without your consent.

10.4. Your rights

You have the rights described in the Privacy Policy, including the right to access, correct and delete your data. Requests can be sent to [email protected].