Islamic Human Rights Commission Online Privacy Policy
September 2005

IHRC is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We use the information we collect about you to help us understand more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications about IHRC that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise. The ‘personally identifiable information’ is information that enables us to identify you, such as your email address, name, title, and address.

Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

This policy will let you know:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you
2. How your information is used
3. Who is collecting your information
4. With whom your information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information
6. How you can access, update or delete your information
7. How IHRC treats your personal information
8. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information

1. What personally identifiable information does IHRC collect from me?

Like many websites, IHRC uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service.

A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard disk through your web-browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.

We use two types of cookies on our website:

• per session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies file of your browser until you leave the site; and
• persistent cookies, which remain in the cookies file of your browser for longer (although how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie) . These cookies are used to store state information between visits to a site.

We use persistent cookies to provide services such as "My Account " so that you do not have to log-in repeatedly between visits.

If you do not wish to receive cookies you can easily modify your web browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled, and so in order to enjoy the IHRC’s site to the full, we recommend that you leave them switched on.

For instructions on how to stop cookies being installed on your browser, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

2. How does IHRC use my information?

IHRC uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise.

3. Who is collecting your information?

When you are on the IHRC’s website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with IHRC alone unless stated otherwise. For example, when you are using our secure online donation pages, if you are going through to a partner company, all pages will be clearly marked so that you are aware of that.

4. With whom does IHRC share your information?

As a general rule, IHRC will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission. When you are using our secure online donation pages you might be going through to a partner company and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information is provided so that the transaction can take place.

5. What are my choices regarding, collection, use and distribution of my information?

If you indicated that you are interested in receiving regular information about IHRC’s campaign work or emergencies appeals we will send you communications regarding IHRC’s work and activities, either electronically or otherwise.

IHRC does not sell or rent user information to anyone. From time to time, we agree with other likeminded organisations to write to some of each other’s supporters, for the mutual benefit of both.

6. What is IHRC’s policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

The accuracy of your individual identifying information is important to IHRC. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that IHRC maintains about you. In the meantime, if you change email address or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at info@ihrc.org.uk, or write to the Online Privacy Officer, PO Box 598, Wembley, HA9 7XH with the details.

7. How does IHRC protect my personal identifiable information?

IHRC is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the individual identifying information that you provide to us.

8. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

When you give IHRC personal information that information may be stored and processed outside of the UK and we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, IHRC cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

September 2005