Privacy Policy

We take your privacy very seriously, and this Privacy Policy explains the ways in which we collect, use, disclose, and protect information relating to our Site and Services.

We endeavour at all times to keep your data accurate and secure, and to honour your data preferences with regard to receipt of direct marketing e.g. postal communications, email, mobile messaging and telephone calls.

Our aim is to be responsible, relevant and secure when using your data.

If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact info@mahdaviawelfaresociety.org

Information We Collect Directly from You

We collect personal information in a number of different ways. These include email enquiry forms, which can be found on our contact us page, through data capture forms found on guide or report download pages, newsletter registration pages and through cookies. You can find out more about

 IP Addresses: 

We will log the IP address of any individual who registers via a webpage (contact us page, through data capture forms found on guide or report download pages, newsletter registration pages) and through cookies. This is to be able to fulfil subject access requests, calculate traffic usage, conversion rates per variant, investigate spam allegations, discrepancies in page statistics, as well as to ensure the security of the webpage, Services, and related data.

Cookies and Log Files:

Cookies are small amounts of data that are transferred to your web browser by a web server and are used to collect and store information about a user. The ways we use cookies include, but are not limited to: tracking which webpage variant a visitor has seen, monitoring traffi…

Data Capture Forms

We will send you information according to the preferences you submitted via our registration forms. If you would like to change these preferences at any point, please email us at info@mahdaviawelfaresociety.org

How We May Disclose Information We Collect from You

MWS will only share your information with Third Parties in accordance with your instructions or as necessary to provide you with a specific service or otherwise in accordance with applicable privacy legislation. As a general rule, unless permitted in this Privacy Policy, we do not and will not sell, rent, share, or disclose your Personal Information without first receiving your permission.

Your personal information will not be disclosed to state institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation. Before we release data on this basis, we will ensure that the information is being provided to a genuine and properly authorised investigation. If we are not satisfied that there are valid grounds for releasing the information, the Data Protection Act does not oblige us to do so. If we refuse to release the information, law enforcement agencies may obtain a court order requiring us to provide it.

Appeals

On occasion we may ask you for donations, appeals and suggestions about MWS activities and services related to offering (including updates to our service offering) and also offers where you have agreed to receive such communications. If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving communications from us, or you would like to change the channels that we use to contact you, please contact us at info@mahdaviawelfaresociety.org Additionally, you can unsubscribe from any or all of our communications by clicking the unsubscribe link that is available on all of our communications.

Please note we can only unsubscribe e-mail addresses we know about and not any forwarding or linked addresses from whose accounts a request may be received. To ensure you stop receiving our e-mails, please provide the original e-mail address you signed up with or all addresses you think we may hold.

User Contributions

You may also provide information to be published or displayed on public areas of the Site and/or Services, or transmitted to other users of the Site and/or Services (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Site with whom you may choose your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy and terms of use of any linked websites, as their policies and practices may differ from our own.

Subject Access Requests

You have the right to see what personal data we hold about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, please write to us: please email us at info@mahdaviawelfaresociety.org Alternatively, you can also write to us: MWS

MWS
40 Portland Avenue
Sidcup
DA15 9HA

Internet-based Transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using it to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international scale. This means, for instance, that data you pass to us may be processed outside the European Economic Area, although the data will always be held securely and in-line with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and consent to our processing of personal data in this way.

Security

We will strive to prevent unauthorized access to your Personal Information, however, no data transmission over the Internet, by wireless device or over the air is guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will continue to enhance security procedures as new technologies and procedures become available.

Please remember that you control what Personal Information you provide while using the Site and Services (such as the commenting facilities). Ultiately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your identification, passwords and/or any Personal Information in your possession for the use of the Site and/or Services.

Always be careful and responsible regarding your Personal Information. We are not responsible for, and cannot control, the use by others of any information, which you provide to them, and you should use caution in selecting the Personal Information you provide to others through the Site or Services.

Similarly, we cannot assume any responsibility for the content of any Personal Information or other information which you receive from other users through the Site or Services, and you release us from any and all liability in connection with the contents of any Personal Information or other information which you may receive using the Site or Services. We cannot guarantee, or assume any responsibility for verifying, the accuracy of the Personal Information or other information provided by any third party. You release us from any and all liability in connection with the use of such Personal Information or other information of others.

Amendments

Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. It was last updated in May 2018.