Privacy Statement

Greenwich Peninsula Islamic Centre · Last updated 7 June 2025

1. Our commitment to your privacy

The Greenwich Peninsula Islamic Centre ("we", "us", "our") is a charitable trust committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, use and share your personal data when you visit our website, use our online services, donate, or otherwise interact with us. Our registration with the Charity Commission for England and Wales is in progress.

This statement is written in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Who we are

• Name: Greenwich Peninsula Islamic Centre
• Charity number: pending
• Contact for privacy matters: [email protected]

3. The information we collect about you

We may collect and process the following types of personal data:

• Personal identifiers: your name, title and contact details (e-mail address, postal address, phone number).
• Demographic information: your date of birth and gender, where relevant for specific services (for example, youth programmes).
• Financial information: bank account and payment card details for processing donations and Gift Aid. We do not store full card details; these are processed securely by our third-party payment processors.
• Special category data: as a religious organisation, we may process information related to your religious beliefs (for example, through your participation in specific religious events or educational programmes). We will only process this data with your explicit consent or where it is a necessary part of the services you have requested.
• Technical data: information about your use of our website and online services, including your IP address, browser type and browsing patterns. This is collected through cookies and similar technologies.
• Communications: records of your correspondence with us, whether by e-mail, post or phone.
• Marketing and communication preferences: your preferences for receiving communications from us.

4. How we collect your personal information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your identity, contact and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • make a donation online;
  • register for an event;
  • subscribe to our publications;
  • request marketing to be sent to you.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
  • financial data from our third-party payment processors;
  • contact, financial and transaction data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
• Anonymous donations. We also collect funds through cash donations placed in sealed and secure donation boxes located at the Centre. No personal data is collected when you make an anonymous cash donation. The policies governing the transparent handling of these funds are set out in our Terms of Service.

5. How we use your personal information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To provide our services to you: this includes registering you for events, processing donations, and providing educational or community services.
• To manage our relationship with you: this includes sending you information about our activities, fundraising appeals and other news. We will only send you marketing communications if you have opted in to receive them.
• To comply with our legal obligations: this includes our duties as a charity to the Charity Commission and for financial auditing and Gift Aid purposes.
• For our legitimate interests: this includes administering our website, ensuring the security of our online services, and internal record-keeping.

6. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. Access to your personal data is limited to those employees, volunteers and third-party service providers who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

7. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

8. Your legal rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access: you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification: you have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate.
• Your right to erasure: you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing: you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing: you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability: you have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in section 2.

9. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and allows us to improve it. At present the site sets only the cookies it needs to work: a session cookie and your language preference. It does not use advertising or analytics cookies. If that changes, this statement will say so.

10. Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may update this privacy statement from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy statement on this page.

11. How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at the contact details above. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.