Privacy notice
This notice explains how Dar al-Zahra (UK) uses your personal information when you use this website. We have written it in plain English.
Draft for the trustees to approve.
Prepared on 14 October 2026. This is not yet the charity’s official privacy notice.
Who we are
Dar al-Zahra (UK) is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1180740. We are responsible for the personal information you give us through this website.
You can contact us at Info@daralzahra.co.uk.
What we collect
We only collect what you choose to give us.
- Contact form
- Your name, your email address and your message.
- Email list
- Your email address, when you sign up to our subscriber email list for Dar al-Zahra (UK) updates.
- Souk Marketplace sign-up
- Your email address, when you sign up to sell with us.
- Gift Aid declaration
- Your full name and address. You give these on the Gift Aid form, which another provider hosts for us.
- Other services
- When you press a button to register, give or book a place, you leave this website and use another organisation’s service, such as an online form, Zoom, PayPal, LaunchGood or a ticket seller. That organisation collects your details under its own privacy notice.
Why we use it
- To reply to you
- We use your name, email address and message to answer your question.
- To send you updates
- We use your email address to send updates about Dar al-Zahra (UK), if you asked us to.
- To claim Gift Aid
- We use your declaration to claim Gift Aid on your donations.
- To contact sellers
- We use your email address to get in touch about the Souk Marketplace, if you signed up to sell with us.
Our lawful basis
The law says we must have a good reason, called a lawful basis, to use your information.
- Replying to your message
- Legitimate interests. It is in your interest and ours that we answer you.
- Our email list
- Your consent. You can take it back at any time.
- Gift Aid
- Legal obligation. We must keep records of Gift Aid declarations to support our claims.
Who handles your information
We use trusted providers to run this website and our email list. We call them our email and website providers. They handle your information only to provide these services to us.
How long we keep it
- Messages
- For as long as we need to deal with your message.
- Email list
- Until you ask us to remove you.
- Gift Aid declarations
- For as long as the law requires us to keep them.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us for a copy of your information, to ask us to correct it, to ask us to delete it, to ask us to limit how we use it, and to object to how we use it. You can also ask for your information in a form you can move to another organisation.
Where we use your information because you agreed, you can take that agreement back at any time.
To use any of these rights, email Info@daralzahra.co.uk.
Cookies
This website does not use advertising or analytics cookies.
The video on our home page does not load until you press play. When you do, it plays from YouTube, which may collect information and use its own cookies.
If you are unhappy
Please tell us first, so that we can put things right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator.
Changes to this notice
We will update this notice if the way we use your information changes.
Contact us
Ask us anything about our courses, events or giving.