Privacy policy
We believe you have a fundamental right to privacy on the web, and we work to protect your security online. This policy sets out how Greenpeace MENA on behalf of the alliance project “Ummah for Earth” uses and protects any information that you give when you visit this website. “Ummah for Earth” is collectively led by the organizations Greenpeace MENA, Islamic Relief Worldwide and IFEES/Eco-Islam (link to alliance page)
Privacy
This “Ummah for Earth” website (referred to as ‘website’) is managed by Stichting Greenpeace MENA, a foundation registered in the Netherlands under registration number: 72184981 (referred to as ‘we’) operating across countries in the Middle East & North Africa.
Stichting Greenpeace MENA is considered the ‘data controller’ within the meaning of the GDPR.
This policy applies to all pages hosted on this site and other services Greenpeace MENA runs. It does not apply to other registered Greenpeace organisations around the world or other organisations we may direct you to whose privacy policies may differ. You can find the privacy policy of other websites by clicking on “Privacy Statement” or “Privacy Policy” in the local language in the footer of their homepage.
By submitting your data to Greenpeace MENA, you are accepting this privacy policy and you consent to Greenpeace MENA collecting, storing and processing your information in the ways explained.
We show social networking sharing buttons and widgets from Facebook, Google, and Twitter on our website to enable you to easily share the “Ummah for Earth” campaign news with friends. These social networking sharing buttons and widgets come from web servers which may track your behavior on our website and may combine this with other information about you originating from other websites. You can install a browser add-on like “Disconnect” for Chrome and Firefox to disable them.
We also gather information automatically about website visitors to help us maintain and improve the design of our website. We use Google Analytics to gather this data and analyze it. You can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” to prevent information about your visits to our website being sent to Google Analytics.
1.How your data is collected
1.1 Who collects your data
Greenpeace MENA is responsible for all collection of your data. By providing your email address, you are taking action for the “Ummah for Earth” campaign and you also subscribe to Greenpeace MENA’s mailing list in order to receive updates by email. If you have provided data with a country of location outside of the Middle East & North Africa, when the “Ummah for Earth” campaign ends your data will be deleted from the database and that data will never get processed again from Greenpeace MENA, unless it will be made a requirement to retain it by law. If you have provided data with a country of location from the Middle East & North Africa, then after the end of the “Ummah for Earth” campaign you will continue to receive updates about Greenpeace MENA’s campaigns by email. The exercise of your rights, including unsubscribing, is always possible at any time.
Depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media and messaging services, you might give us permission to access information from those accounts or services. For example, if choosing to register for an activity using a ‘Sign up with Facebook’ link, Facebook may share information such as your name and email address with us. We also show social networking sharing buttons and widgets from Facebook, Google, and Twitter on our website to enable you to easily share the campaign and news with friends. These social networking sharing buttons and widgets come from web servers which may track your behaviour on our website and may combine this with other information about you originating from other websites. You can install a browser add-on like “Disconnect” for Chrome and Firefox to disable them.
1.2 What data we collect
In most circumstances, Greenpeace MENA will only ask for your name and contact details. Sometimes, we may ask for additional information where it may either help us in our campaigns or help us keep our communications relevant to you.
Greenpeace MENA will also collect information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address for monitoring and improving the effectiveness of our website services as well its security.
We may occasionally supplement your data with other publicly and commercially available information where it meets GDPR standards.
This may include information such as the characteristics of your local area to inform campaigning and requests for support. We may store relevant information about you that you voluntarily share with us.
We will only collect sensitive personal data where absolutely necessary and with your explicit consent. All data collected by Greenpeace MENA will be retained only for an appropriate length of time, defined by our legal requirements and operational needs, and will be securely archived or deleted after this time.
1.3 Cookies
Cookies are small files that are downloaded onto your computer (or your mobile phone) from websites that you visit. Cookies contain information that allows websites to recognise that you have used the site before.
We use cookies, like most websites, to help us provide you with the best experience when you visit our site. Some cookies are crucial to the smooth running of our website – for example our donation pages rely on them. Other cookies allow us to understand (by using tools like Google Analytics) how visitors are interacting with our website, so that we can improve it.
We also use cookies to ensure that any investments we make in online advertising are as cost-effective as possible, by tracking how well individual adverts perform. These cookies are issued by third party service providers that we have assessed as secure. From time to time, we will display adverts on other websites to people who have visited our website before, and the technology behind these adverts is also based on cookies. These cookies, as with all others we use, do not contain information that can personally identify you.
This website also uses Google Analytics Advertising Features to enable us to better understand the interests of our audience and to tailor our communications to be more relevant to you. You can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” to prevent information about your visits to our website being sent to Google Analytics.
You may see Greenpeace listed in locations such as in search results or on the Google Display Network.
If you do not wish to see these adverts, you can:
- opt out of Google’s use of cookies through Google’s Ads Settings
- refuse the use of cookies by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
All browsers allow you to control which cookies you accept and which you delete. You will usually find these settings under the ‘Preferences’ or ‘Tools’ menu of your browser. For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
2.How your data is kept secure
We will never sell your data to any other organisation. We also never share or swap your data with another organisation.
We do employ some third parties to process data such as to handle donation payments or fundraise for us. In all these cases these third parties only have access to the data they need to handle the process and do not have permission to use it for any other purposes. We may also share anonymised (or ‘hashed’) versions of your data with partners such as social media providers for the purposes of helping achieve our campaigning and fundraising aims, by delivering personalised content to existing supporters and identifying similar audiences. You may opt out of such data sharing at any time by contacting us using the details at the bottom of this policy.
Within Greenpeace MENA, only those authorised to process your data can access your data. We work hard to ensure our staff and volunteers can only see the data they need to perform their tasks. All our staff are trained to understand data protection and what they need to do to keep your data secure.
3.How we use your data
If you subscribe through the form of the website, you will be receiving updates and alerts by email, instant messaging, push notifications or telephone, according to the contact data you have provided through the form. These will be to inform you of the progress of the Ummah for Earth campaign, to suggest that you participate in future online or offline activities related to the campaign, or to support the allies of this campaign (subscribe to their newsletter, join their events and activities etc.). You are always free to accept or reject all or part of these proposals.
After the end of the “Ummah for Earth” campaign if your country of location is within the Middle East & North Africa region, Greenpeace MENA will continue to send you updates and alerts by email, instant messaging, push notifications or telephone, according to the contact data you have provided through the form.
After the end of the “Ummah for Earth” campaign, if your country of location is outside the Middle East & North Africa region, your data will be deleted from the database and that data will never get processed again from Greenpeace MENA, unless it will be made a requirement to retain them by law.
We may use your data to analyze and refine our advertising, campaigning and other operations to increase our effectiveness and lower our costs. In order to ensure our communication with you is relevant, timely and will ultimately provide a better experience for you, we may also build up a profile of you based on the interactions you have had with Greenpeace MENA. Such profiling may include details of your past engagement with Greenpeace MENA together with information gathered from sources detailed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, and may be carried out either by Greenpeace MENA or by a trusted partner. For example, in deciding who to email about inviting them to an online teach-in in Arabic language, we might look at which supporters have responded to similar invitations in the past and which supporters live in Arab speaking countries. This enables Greenpeace MENA to most effectively target relevant information and appropriate requests for support. This does not affect any of your rights or limit you in how you can get involved with the campaign. You may opt out of profiling at any time by contacting us using the details at the bottom of this policy.
4. How you can change the way Greenpeace MENA communicates with you or unsubscribe
The first time you sign up for the “Ummah for Earth” campaign, you are choosing what type of data you wish to make available for contact. We will not make any changes unless you change them yourself, or contact us to change them on your behalf.
You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time through the unsubscribe link at the end of all our emails, and stop seeing any social media advertising through settings on those sites.
You can also change your mind on how you would like us to contact you or tell us that you would no longer like to hear from us through our preference form, by calling +9611398296 or emailing us via the contact form.
5.How to find out more or make a complaint
Should you have any questions on the processing of your personal data or if you would like to know which personal data are processed, or you would like to alter, delete or block some of the information processed concerning you, please contact the webmaster at: [email protected]
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you and how we process it. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please send us an email at: [email protected].
For further information with respect to this privacy notice please contact us on +9611398296 or write to us at [email protected] or Berytech Building, Technology Pole, 7th floor, Damascus Road, Mathaf, Beirut, Lebanon for the attention of the webmaster.
You are responsible for ensuring that the information you give us is accurate and up to date and you must tell us if anything changes as soon as possible. If you provide information on behalf of another person you will need to direct them to this Privacy Notice. If we require that person’s consent, we will require you to confirm that you have obtained such consent.
We are obliged to request proof of identity before access is given.
6.Changes to this policy
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. The amended version will be published on our website and any significant changes will be communicated to supporters either on the website or directly.
This will replace any previous privacy policy wording and all conditions and terms of use will be in force from the date of publication.
Last updated: 6 of October 2020