Privacy Policy

  1. Who Are We?

 

Mahdi.org is an information website. You can contact us by email at info@mahdi.org.

 

  1. How to Reach Our Data Protection Officer?

 

To contact our Data Protection Officer regarding our processing of your personal data, please email info@mahdi.org.

 

  1. How Do We Notify You of Changes to this Policy?

 

We keep this Policy under regular review and place updates on www.mahdi.org. We will also provide notifications of material changes via email or other channels. If you keep using our website, you consent to the updated Privacy Policy.

 

  1. What Are Your Rights?

 

We recognise that your personal data belongs to you and we don’t wish to use it in ways that you don’t want us to.

 

You can control whether or not you receive marketing email from us by contacting us in respect of the same.

 

You can also exercise a variety of rights regarding our use of your data:

 

  • You can ask us for a copy of the information we have about you.
  • You can ask us to correct any incorrect data we have about you.
  • You can ask us to delete your data.
  • You can ask for your data in a common, machine-readable format.
  • You can object to any processing we do on the basis of legitimate interests (see below).
  • You can ask us to restrict the processing of your data.

 

To exercise any of the foregoing rights, please contact us, we’ll evaluate your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We will respond to your request within one month of receiving it.

 

  1. What Data Do We Collect?

 

We don’t receive any personal data about you other than what you provide us or what you have consented for others to forward to us, or data we can infer from your use of our services.

 

When you register with us we will collect contact information about you.

 

We also collect information about your use of our services, including your IP address, how much time you spend on the site, and what you do, like or view. We do this through the use of cookies. To read more about our use of cookies, please refer to our separate Cookies page.

 

By providing us with information about yourself and your legal matter, you authorise us to share this information with our professionals and their representatives.

 

  1. What Happens If You Don’t Want Us to Have Your Data?

 

You are not required to provide personal data to us. Note, however, that your failure to do so may affect our ability to provide the services you request such as our newsletter.

 

  1. How Do We Use Your Data?

 

We use your personal data to send you our newsletter which you sign up to, and to answer your questions that you send to us.

 

We use your data to drive our research and development and to better understand our users. We do this analysis using a variety of data sources, including log data (web traffic and services usage), email data (how you respond to emails we send you), survey data and customer service data.

 

  1. On What Legal Bases Do We Process Your Data?

 

We process your personal data for the effective provision of our services. We will only process your personal data if we have your consent and you can withdraw this consent at any time by opting out of receiving our communications. Sometimes it is necessary to process your data for us to comply with our legal obligations.

 

  1. How Are We Using Your Data Based on Our Legitimate Interests?

 

We may process your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests, provided that these uses aren’t outweighed by your rights or interests. What is a ‘legitimate interest’? It essentially means that we use your data in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our website and which doesn’t impact materially on your rights, freedom or interests.

 

For any uses we justify on the basis of legitimate interest, you have the right to opt out of such processing by writing to us.

 

  1. With Whom Are We Sharing Your Data?

 

We may disclose your data to our affiliated organisations and subsidiaries, and to service providers who render services to us or you on our behalf (all of which are contractually obligated to act only on our instructions and in accordance with applicable laws, including GDPR). We also may disclose your information if required by law, requested by law enforcement authorities or to enforce our legal rights.

 

  1. How Secure Is Your Data?

 

We know how much data security matters to all our customers. With this in mind we will treat your data with the utmost care and take all appropriate steps to protect it.

 

Access to your personal data is password-protected and backed up on a third party drive. We regularly monitor our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we carry out penetration testing to identify ways to further strengthen security.

 

  1. Where Are We Sending Your Data?

 

We store users’ personal data inside the UK. Some of our service providers and affiliated organisations may lie outside the UK. Therefore, sometimes we may transfer your data outside the UK. If we do, we ensure your data is processed only in countries that provide an adequate level of protection for your data or where the recipient provides appropriate safeguards.

 

  1. How Long Do We Keep Your Data?

 

We keep your personal data in an identifiable form for as long as we have a legitimate reason to use the data and as required by law.

 

  1. Third Party Links

    You may find links to third party websites on our site. The operators of those websites will apply their own privacy policies and you should check them before you use them or submit any data to them. We are not responsible for their policies or the way they use your data or cookies, and we will not be liable for any loss, damage or distress you may suffer of incur as a consequence.

 

This privacy policy was last updated in October 2024.