The Muslim Vote is the trading name of TMV Civic Engagement Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number: 15508383) with registered office address Blackthorn House St Pauls Square, Suite 2a, Birmingham, England, B3 1RL.
This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit The Muslim Vote website and share your personal information with us.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other relevant privacy policy or fair processing policy which we may provide on specific occasions, when we are collecting or processing your personal data so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other relevant notices and privacy policies, and it is not intended to override them.
The Muslim Vote is the “controller” of your data under data protection laws for all products. If you would like to speak to us about how we handle your data, then you can reach us as per the below.
Name: TMV Civic Engagement Limited
Email: [email protected]
Address: Blackthorn House St Pauls Square, Suite 2a, Birmingham, England, B3 1RL
Company information: company number 15508383
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, who are the UK regulators for data protection issues.
You can find more information on this below, however, we would appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the Information Commissioner’s Office, to enable us to resolve the issue in the first instance.
We may collect and process the following information:
We may also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data under the law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
In this moment in time, we do not collect any information relating to your race or ethnicity, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and/or biometric data. Additionally, we do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
When you visit The Muslim Vote site, we automatically collect information about your device. This includes, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, the time zone, and the cookies which you have installed on your device at the time of accessing our website.
As you browse through our website, we collect information on the pages which you have viewed whilst on The Muslim Vote site and the features which you have interacted with.
The above is information which is automatically collected through cookies. Cookies are data files placed on your device and commonly include identifiers which are anonymised. Cookies can gather and collect information on a user’s usage of The Muslim Vote website, enable the website to recognise when a user is an existing user when they return to the website at a later date, and provide additional security protocols, for example, such as a user login.
We use the following cookies:
For more information on cookies and how to disable them, please click here.
Data is also automatically collected through web beacons, which is a feature and technique used on our website to review whether a user has accessed some content. You can find more information on this here.
Log files also track certain actions occurring on The Muslim Vote website and collect data, including but not limited to the type of browser you are using, internet service provider, date and time stamps, and your IP address.
The lawful bases which we operate from, as per Article 6 of the UK GDPR, is consent. The Muslim Vote will only use, share and process your data with your express consent.
When we are processing your personal information in relation to our services, as emphasised above, we are the controller of your personal information. The lawful basis for us processing your information commences upon you filling in our relevant forms and agreeing to our privacy policy and terms of business.
You can find more information here.
We will only use your personal data in compliance with what the relevant law allows us to. We are not an organisation that acts ultra vires and are dedicated to processing the data you consent to us using to help empower Muslim political voices.
We use the data which you provide to facilitate the following:
The above is a non-exhaustive list of activities which The Muslim Vote would partake in for the purposes of progressing the organisation’s strategies.
For obvious reasons, we will be extremely cautious about sharing your data externally, though like any other organisations there will be times where we may share your anonymised data with third party organisations for compliance purposes and/or external third parties purely for the purposes of improving our services. This includes but is not limited to improving your experience on the site, and ultimately providing the service which you have subscribed to, and communicate with you via formats such as emails and newsletters to keep you updated on our services.
The Muslim Vote endeavours to comply with the requirements as set out under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) when processing your personal data. You can find more about GDPR here.
We may from time to time, share your personal information with third parties to enable us to use your personal information for the purposes above, with the intention to improve our services for all our users across the globe. For instance, we may share the data with [Google Analytics] to help us understand and analyse how our customers use our The Muslim Vote website.
You can read more about how Google uses your data here. Additionally, you can also opt-out of Google Analytics by clicking here.
As part of running our services, we may also need to share your personal information with third party data processors to help us manage our website content and continue to improve our security and marketing.
Our website may also include links to third-party websites, applications and plug-ins. Clicking on any third-party links or connections may allow such third parties to collect or share data about you. The Muslim Vote does not control these third-party websites and we are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit on the internet.
We will require all third-party entities and/or individuals to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit third-party service providers to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
If at any event or reason we are required to transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to your personal data by ensuring reasonably sufficient safeguards are in place. For example, we will only transfer your personal data to countries that are deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for any personal data processing.
Finally, as part of our legal and compliance obligations, we may also share your data with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a search warrant, to respond to a subpoena or other lawful requests for information in our control. Additionally, we may share your information to also protect our rights.
There may be instances that we need to collect your personal data as a matter of law, or under the terms of contract which we have with you. If you fail to provide that data, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you in order to provide our services. In this case, we may have to cancel any arrangement which we have with you.
We take your privacy seriously, and we therefore work towards ensuring your personal information is protected, secured and safe regardless of where it is stored. The Muslim Vote website uses SSL encryption software to protect any data which you enter onto our site at all times.
In the unlikely event that your personal data is breached, we will act seriously and swiftly, and inform you of this breach within approximately 72 hours and engage in necessary actions required under General Data Protection Regulation and European Union law.
We want to provide you with choices regarding how your personal data is used, especially around marketing and advertising. We may use the information which you provide to us to form a view on what we think you may need or want, or what may be of potential interest to you. This is how we decide and form a tailored view on which products and services may be relevant for you.
We may also use your information to keep you updated about our services. For example, through a newsletter. You may opt-out of receiving such correspondence at any time.
If you would prefer to not receive our correspondences and just subscribe to our calendar, you can opt-out of receiving emails from us using the ‘unsubscribe’ link on the bottom of our emails.
You can also block our correspondences on your email account or simply ask us to remove you from our mailing list.
We will hold on to your data as long as you have opted in with us. If you would prefer for us to not hold on to your data, you can opt out by contacting us.
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
You are not required to pay any financial charges for exercising your rights with The Muslim Vote. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to make a request.
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at [email protected].
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) if you are unhappy with how The Muslim Vote has used your data.
The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
We may update our privacy policy to maintain our compliance with laws and regulations.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason, but that reason is compatible with the original purpose of which The Muslim Vote collected your data under.
If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose of which The Muslim Vote initially collected your data, then please contact us at any time.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose which deviates from the original purpose under which we collected your data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Furthermore, we may at times process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, then please contact us on [email protected]
As above, you also have the right to complain to regulatory bodies like the Information Commissioner’s Office and we have provided the contact details above.