This privacy policy sets out how we use and protect any information that you give GMPA when visiting our website.
GMPA is committed to ensuring that your privacy is completely protected. All information you provide is handled with absolute confidentiality and in accordance with data protection legislation. We will never pass on any of the information you do not intent to provide to any other organisation without your explicit permission and you can be sure that no third parties will ever contact you as a result of your correspondence with us. We have implemented a number of physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.
Our Privacy Policy is intended to describe to you how and what data we collect, and how and why we use your personal data. It also describes options we provide for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data that we process.
If at any time you have questions about our practices or any of your rights described below, you may reach our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) and our dedicated team that supports this process by contacting us at privacy@gmpa.org.uk. This mailbox is actively monitored and managed so that we can deliver an experience that you can confidently trust.
GMPA cares about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal data and necessary information as it might be needed for us to deliver to you our services, websites and mobile applications (collectively, our “Services”).
Your personal data includes information such as:
Name
Address
Telephone number
Date of birth
Email address
Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.
We collect, store, and process the following types of information on our users so that we can provide the best possible experience when you utilise our services:
• Various contact information such as your name, address and email
• Demographic information such as your location, gender and age
*Username:
*Password: (crypto hashed, never stored in plain text)
*Email:
Registration date, last visited date,
When you are using Chat/ Comment on our website:
Name (when provided, if not provided data is anonymized)
Email
Phone
Message:
Address
Reason of selling
IP
Last visit time
Chat duration
Operating system and browser used
Web pages (on our site) browsed during an open chat
We receive email with following information.
Name *
Email *
Subject *
Message *
E-mail address
When you subscribe for our website (the newsletter software sends the emails to provide you with the best experience and deliver the messages on time)
To leave our mailing list, simply send email to unsubscribe@gmpa.org.uk. GMPA respects your privacy.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
The personal data is collected by you inputting the data to our website or using any assoicated service on the website by doing so you are granting us consent/the right to process that personal data in order to provide the service you have signed up to.
Note:
Please note additional data might also collected by Live chat software, Google analytics, Bing Analytics, Skype, IMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, WordPress as we use these services to deliver our services.
Providing your data is voluntary, however, due to the scope of our services and their specifics it is necessary in order to provide the services we offer.
The only reason we collect personal data is to provide the service you are signing up for.
Newsletter – to send you updates about our services, service updates and other information
Chat – to let you communicate with our staff to answer questions you may have and provide online support.
Helpdesk – to provide you with the support and answer any questions you may have regarding our services
What We Do With The information
• Internal record keeping.
• It is used in the report generation
• We use the information to improve our website and services.
• We may send promotional information about new services or special offers via the contact information you have provided.
We are using your data to provide you best experience when using our website and our services.
The data will be used for your authentication, debug, collect anonymous stats, and to deliver and to improve the services we provide.
Who will it be shared with?
We use processor services to ensure the highest possible quality of service. Your data can be transferred to the following categories (depending on what services you use):
Electronic payment processors
Accounting software
Google analytics
Software that supports the newsletter
Software that supports contact via chat
Support software
Hosting provider
When we use the services of entities located outside the EU. Your data may be transferred to a third country. We make sure that your data is safe.
You have the option of obtaining a copy of the data. To do this, contact us at privacy@gmpa.org.uk note that all GMPA data processor providers have been checked to be all GDPR-compliant.
The data will not be processed longer than the purpose for which it was collected.
If you have agreed, your data will be processed until you withdraw consent to their processing.
If you have created an account then your details will be processed until you delete your account.
If you have made any transactions with us then transaction data for existing legal provisions, the data will be processed in accordance with the applicable legal provisions, e.g. for accounting and tax purposes.
Chat – your data will be processed until you withdraw consent to their processing or delete your account
Google/ Bing analytics – kindly check their data retention duration
Email – as long as consent is not withdrawn (you can click “Unsubscribe” in each email)
If your data is processed on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect processing until you withdraw your consent.
Consent is provided by our users explicitly when proceeding an action or task (e.g. when they provide user data, contact us using contact forms, sign up to the newsletter, contact us via Chat ).
The only source of data we have is when a user explicitly provides it.
You can always contact us to privacy@gmpa.org.uk to withdraw any consent and/or to request to delete your account or provide you with the information.
In this Privacy Policy we inform our users about the use that will be made of their data
Our users can access all their data stored on GMPA website by:
If they have created a user account then by login into their account;
And/or by contacting us on email at privacy@gmpa.org.uk
If you want to change anything in your data just contact us at privacy@gmpa.org.uk, we’ll process all your rectification queries
If you want to have your account deleted just contact us at privacy@gmpa.org.uk, we’ll process your erasure query within the lawful timescales
We don’t process the data of our customers (and our customers end-users) except as detailed on this page
Our users may contact us anytime at privacy@gmpa.org.uk if they wish to get an export of their personal data as defined under GDPR
We handle all requests on this matter from our users. Our users may contact us anytime at privacy@gmpa.org.uk
The right to lodge a complaint
If you think that your data is being processed illegally, you have the right to file a complaint with ICO UK.
If you agree to receive the newsletter, the services used may collect your data regarding the activity on our site, e.g. visited subpages and the time of visiting them, and on this basis, we choose the time and content of the messages sent. You can unsubscribe from this service by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in each Newsletter message we send.
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you submit information to our database only to be accessible by those authorised with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting the work, or servicing you, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party links or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. One week before changes are applied
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
For more information/ deletion of your data with us please email at info (at) gmpa.org.uk
You can also visit us at Pakistani Community Centre 481 Stockport Road Manchester, UK M12 4NN