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PRIVACY POLICY

Mahmoudifoundation.org (the “site) is owned and operated by The Mahmoudi Foundation. The Mahmoudi Foundation is the data controller and can be contacted at:

The Mahmoudi Foundation, (or “the Foundation”) is committed to protecting donor privacy. This Privacy Statement applies to the Foundation website, and governs the collection and usage, as well as donor information collected both online and offline. By using the Foundation websites, you consent to the data practices described in this Donor Privacy Statement.

This applies to all personal information provided to the Foundation. Personal information is defined as the name, address, telephone number, gift history, or any other information pertaining to a donor or potential donor. The Foundation collects personal information to use information about our donors and this Donor Privacy Statement describes how the Foundation collects, uses and shares such information.

Purpose

The purpose of this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is to inform users of our Site of the following:

  1. The personal data we will collect;
  2. Use of collected data;
  3. Who has access to the data collected;
  4. The rights of Site users; and
  5. The Site’s coolie policy.

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.

GDPR

For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “DPW”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the ODPR.

Consent

By using our Site users agree that they consent to:

  1. The conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.

When the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing which we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.


You can withdraw your consent by contacting the Data Protection Officer.

Legal Basis for Processing

We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.

We rely on the following legal bases to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:

  1. Users have provided their consent to the processing of their data for one or more specific purposes; and
  2. Processing of user personal data is necessary to a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of our official authority.


Data Collected in a Non-Automatic Way

We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:

  1. First and last name;
  2. Age;
  3. Date of birth;
  4. Sex;
  5. Email address;
  6. Phone number;
  7. Address; and
  8. Auto-fill data.

This data may be collected using the following, methods:

  1. Contact Form;
  2. Scholarship Application Form.
How We Use Personal Data

The Foundation collects and uses donor/personal information to operate the Foundation website and deliver the services you have requested. The Foundation also uses your donor/personal information to inform you of other activities or services available.

Your personal information may be used for these kinds of purposes:

  1. Distributing receipts and thanking donors for donations
  2. Informing donors about upcoming fundraising and other activities of the Foundation
  3. Internal analysis, such as research and analytics
  4. Donation statistics may be used for promotional and fundraising activities
  5. Record keeping
  6. Reporting to applicable government agencies as required by law
  7. Surveys, metrics, and other analytical purposes
  8. Other purposes related to the fundraising operations
  9. We do not sell, trade, or rent Donor Data
  10. We use data gathered for payment processors and other service providers only for the purposes described in this policy
  11. To comply with law, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government investigation or other legal requirements
  12. Prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law), such as to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing
  13. Protect and defend the rights or property of the Foundation, such as when disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit, or to enforce our agreements with you
  14. Protect the legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties or protect any individual’s or the public’s safety.
Who We Share Personal Data With

 Members: We may disclose user da. to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy

Other Disclosures: We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

If the law requires it;

If it is required for any legal proceeding;

To prove or protect our legal rights. and

If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another Site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.

How Long We Store Personal Data

We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement for our legitimate business purposes unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you

Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them)

Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as, for statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

How We Protect Your Personal Data

To protect your security, we use the strongest available browser encryption and store all of our data on servers in secure facilities. All data is only accessible to our foundation’s members. Our members are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would result in the termination.

While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

Your Rights as a User

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  1. Right to be informed;
  2. Right of access;
  3. Right to rectification;
  4. Right to erasure;
  5. Restrict processing;
  6. Right to data portability; and
  7. Right to object.
Children

We collect the personal data of children under 16 years of age. We only collect the personal data of children under 16 years of age with the express consent of their parents or guardians. This consent is collected as follows:

  1. A consent form in the application process for the Mahmoudi Scholarship.
How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data, and to whom we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights in the the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer through: [email protected]

Do Not Track Notice

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Site over time and across their party websites and therefore do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. 

How to Opt-Out of Data Collection, Use or Disclosure

In addition to the method(s) describes in the How to Acess, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data specified below: 

  1. You can opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing emails. You can opt-our by clicking “unsubscribe” on the bottom of any marketing email or updating your email preferences under “Your Account”
Cookie Policy

The Foundation websites use cookies to enhance your online experience. Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer’s hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using our website.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The cookie tells the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Foundation pages or register with the Foundation website, a cookie helps the website recall your specific information on subsequent visits and thereby simplifies the process of recording your personal information. When you return to the Foundation website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Foundation features that you customized.

You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.

We use the following types of cookies on our Site:

  1. Analytical Cookies: Analytical cookies allow us to improve the design and functionality of our Site by collecting data on how you access our Site, for example, data on the content you access, how long you stay on our Site, etc; and
  2. Third-Party Cookies: Third-Party cookies are created by a website other than ours. We may use third-party cookies to achieve the following purposes:
    • Google Analytics.

To learn more about cookies generally, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Modifications

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect my changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.

Complaints

Complaints If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority. You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority by contacting the

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, you can contact our privacy officer, Founding Members of The Mahmoudi Foundation at:
[email protected]
9826 E Cinnabar Avenue Scottsdale, AZ 85258