The Barakat Trust and Barakat Culture CIC are committed to ensuring that your personal information is used properly and is kept securely. This Privacy Policy explains how we will collect and use your personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested and pressing 'Submit', you are consenting to the processing of your information by The Barakat Trust, Barakat Culture CIC and its agents in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Any personal information that you provide to The Barakat Trust, Barakat Culture CIC or our trusted suppliers is controlled by The Barakat Trust.
The Barakat Trust is a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commissioner for England and Wales with charity number 1136842. Barakat Culture CIC is a Community Interest Company registered in England with company number 10494344. Our office is at The Barakat Trust, C/O NYLA, 39 Thurloe Street, London SW7 2LQ.
If you have any queries about the information we hold about you, please contact the Barakat Trust's Web Master, who you may write to at the address above or via email to info@barakat.org.
When you visit, register, sign up for membership or donate on the website or otherwise, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. You may also provide personal information to us when you contact us by email, telephone or letter. We may collect information about you from documents that are available to the public, such as the electoral register, or from third parties such as credit reference agencies. When you provide personal information to us or we collect personal information from other sources, we will treat that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We will use personal information provided by you or gathered by The Barakat Trust, Barakat Culture CIC or our trusted suppliers for the following purposes:
The Barakat Trust and Barakat Culture CIC may share your personal information with third parties in the following ways:
In some circumstances we may transfer your personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), where data protection safeguards are not as high as they are in the UK. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. If this occurs we will ensure that adequate procedures are put into place to protect your personal information.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
A cookie is a piece of information that is held on the hard drive of your computer which records how you have used a website. Cookies allow website operators to accumulate useful information, such as whether the computer (and sometimes its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
We use cookies to monitor how people use our website in order to help us to provide you with a better service. Cookies make it easier for you to log on and use the website during future visits. They also allow us to personalise the content of the website for you.
Specifically, we use the following cookies on our website:
If you do not want cookies downloaded onto your machine, you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However, you may not be able to use some of the features on our website without cookies.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will ask for confirmation of identity before we disclose any personal information and may charge a £10 administration fee to process the request. Please address requests to Web Master, The Barakat Trust, C/O NYLA, 39 Thurloe Street, London SW7 2LQ or by emailing us at info@barakat.org.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your personal information) if we intend to use your personal information for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by making the relevant selection on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us in writing at The Barakat Trust, C/O NYLA, 39 Thurloe Street, London SW7 2LQ or by emailing us at info@barakat.org. We will offer you the option to opt out of any further marketing communication in all marketing email correspondence that we send to you.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please ensure that you check the Privacy Policy regularly for updates.