This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about individuals who are website users, IMF UK members.
Who we are?
The Indian Muslim Federation (UK) is the largest organisation of Indian Muslims in United Kingdom and has NGO status with United Nations. The Federation was founded in September 1969 by British Indian Muslims. It is the national organisation of British Indian Muslims. The Federation maintains contacts with the British and Indian Governments, United Nations and its specialised agencies and other governmental and non- governmental organisations. The main aim and objectives of the Federation is to promote educational, social and cultural activities by:
- Organising meetings, seminars and publishing Newsletter in order to exchange ideas and views of concern and plight of Indian Muslims:
- Promote social and cultural activities by involving Indian Muslims and other communities living in Britain;
- Promote education among Indian Muslims in Britain and India by scholarships and other support to poor students and families.
Our address is: Paul Shekleton House, 38 Trinity Close, Leytonstone, London E11 4RP
Our data protection officer is Irfan Mustafa contactable at
What do we collect?
We process data relating to those who become our member and well-wisher to receive information about our activities and function. Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) about you includes, but is not restricted to:
- Contact details including correspondence address
- Photographs
- CCTV footage
We may also collect, store and use information about you that falls into “special categories” of more sensitive personal data. This may include information about:
- Ethnicity
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with the following
Google. For further information
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their membership profile. All users can ask, update, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their membership number). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Why do we collect this data?
The purpose of processing this data is to allow us to contact the members informing them about our activities and community events. This may include:
Our lawful basis for using this data
We only collect and use personal information about you when the law allows us to. One of the following will apply:
- To comply with a legal obligation to maintain a governing board, for example the Equalities Act 2010;
- You have given us consent to use your personal data in a certain way;
- To protect your vital interests (or someone else’s vital interests).
We have legitimate interests in processing the personal data. Where you have provided us with consent to use your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time. We will make this clear when requesting your consent, and explain how you go about withdrawing consent if you wish to do so.
Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal information about you overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify the use of your data.
Who do we share your personal data with?
Your personal data will be retained in line with our retention policy, details of which are available on request.
We will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this notice. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with the law).
Your rights
How to access personal information we hold about you
Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that we hold about them.
If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you, we will:
- Give you a description of it
- Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for
- Explain where we got it from, if not from you
- Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with
- Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form
You may also have the right for your personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.
If you would like to make a request, please contact our data protection officer.
Your other rights regarding your data
Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe. You have the right to:
- Object to the use of your personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress
- Prevent your data being used to send direct marketing
- In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing
- Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.
Complaints
We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.
If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with data protection officer in the first instance.
Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:
- Report a concern online at ico.org.uk/concerns/
- Call 0303 123 1113
- Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Contact us
If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:
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