Privacy Policy

MP Foundation is a UK-registered Charity (1188588) that aims to alleviate the suffering of the least fortunate in Southeast Asia. As well as responding to emergencies.

MP Foundation promotes sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities from all backgrounds regardless of religion, race or gender.

Under article 6 of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there are six lawful grounds for processing data, of which the following are more relevant to MP Foundation's activities:

• Consent: where an individual has given us clear consent to process personal data e.g. when we have obtained your consent to contact you by email, phone or SMS.
• Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract we have with an individual e.g. contracts of employment we have staff or in some cases contractual arrangements with volunteers.
• Legal obligation: the processing is necessary for us to comply with the law e.g. we are legally required to hold donor transaction details for Gift Aid and accounting/tax purposes.
• Legitimate interest: the processing is necessary to achieve a legitimate interest e.g. if you donate £500 towards a Water Well, we have the permanent plaque engraved with your name on it and to report back to you.

Personal Information is collected from you when interacting with MP Foundation, for example this could be when you:

• Support our work by donating
• Inform us of your fundraising activities
• Make an enquiry
• Request information from our support team regarding our projects
• Share your feedback
• Make a complaint
• Sign up for an event
• Register as a volunteer
• Apply for a job
• Visit any of our premises which has CCTV surveillance
• Contact us or become involved with us in any other way

When you communicate with us we may collect personal information. This may include your name, address, email address, telephone numbers, bank account details and whether or not you are a UK tax payer, so we can claim Gift Aid, images on film (e.g. CCTV images). Other personal details may be collected, based on the services sought from MP Foundation.

We mainly will use your information for the following purposes:

• Providing you information about our activities and services
• Keeping you updated of our fundraising campaigns and events
• Responding to your enquiries and complaints
• Providing you with services, products or information you have requested
• Processing your donations
• Sending you a receipt to confirm your donation
• Processing Gift Aid donations
• Process a job or volunteering application
• Staff administration
• Prevention of crime through CCTV monitoring
• Complying with our legal obligations, policies and procedures
• Administering records

We will not sell your details to any third parties, but we may sometimes share your information with our trusted service providers who are authorised to act on our behalf and partner organisations who work on our behalf or whom we work with in partnership to deliver our projects.

We may also use companies to deliver services and process your data on our behalf, including the delivery of postal mail, sending emails and text messages, processing card details and analysing stakeholder trends to assist us in offering better services to our supporters.

We ensure that there are appropriate technical controls in place to protect your personal details. For example, our online forms are always encrypted and our network is protected and routinely monitored.

We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only accessible by appropriately trained staff and volunteers.

While we do not actively collect information from children under 18s, we appreciate that our supporters are of all ages. Where appropriate, we will always ask for consent from a parent or guardian to collect information about children.

All Muslim Charity events will have clear rules on whether or not children can take part, and the collection of data will be managed in accordance with each individual event, with appropriate safeguards in place.

MP Foundation uses cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability and for marketing purposes.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies. Google's privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

You can request access to any information we hold about you by contacting our support team at MP Foundation. Your personal preferences and keeping your data accurate is of utmost importance to us.

If at any stage you do not want to hear from us or want to update your details you can write, email or call us. Any email we send you will contain information about how to unsubscribe from email marketing communications.