Privacy policy
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION (“IPAF”)
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
At IPAF we are committed to protecting your privacy while providing a personalised and valuable service. Collecting personal information is necessary if we are to satisfy the expectations and requirements of the website users (for instance, by communicating with them and providing an interactive service). This statement is made in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (see section 17 of our Terms and Conditions “Governing Law and Jurisdiction” [at tab ‘legal’]) in order to alert users to IPAF’s data processing practices which apply to your data. If you have any queries about this statement please send it/them to our email: info@arabicfiction.org
HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
We will obtain personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, register with us, (as and when, and if, such a service is made available), make a donation to us or otherwise provide us with personal information. We may also receive information about you from third parties, for example from a colleague or friend who wants to tell you about the website.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
The types of information collected might include your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number and credit/debit card details. Please see also ‘YOUR CONSENT’ below.
HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION?
We will use your information:
- to provide you with the services, products or information you have requested, and/or
- for administration purposes in providing or improving our services including the website and/or
- to further our not for profit purposes
We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organisations and agents for the above purposes.
We may share your information with other organisations which are supportive of our aims and objectives. When you provide your details you will be asked if you do not want this to happen.
You can change your mind about the consents you give (or are deemed to give by reason of this policy statement) at any time by contacting us at our postal or email address :
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction
C/O Colman Getty
28 Windmill Street
London
W1T 2JJ
Email: info@arabicfiction.org
DO WE USE COOKIES ?
A ‘cookie’ is a small piece of information sent from our website to your computer and stored on your hard drive to help us identify you quickly when you next visit. A ‘cookie’ allows us to personalise the website to your requirements and avoid lengthy registration and/or personalisation.
We currently use or anticipate we will use cookies in [how many ] area[s] of our site – specifically in any discussion area to identify that a user is logged on [and in any shop area we may introduce to identify the contents of your shopping basket]. Instructions as to how to turn cookies on or off in your internet browser appear at section 18 of the Terms and Conditions.
We use cookies to provide accurate monitoring reports to help us understand our users’ interests and preferences, ensuring the website is as user friendly as possible.
ANALYSING WEBSITE ACTIVITY
Our website uses [Google Analytics] a service provided by [Google Inc] that uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use this site. The cookie will generate information about your use of our website, and this along with your IP address will be stored on servers in the [United States of America] by [Google Inc]. This information may be transferred to third parties by [Google Inc] when required to do so by law, or when such third parties process the information on their behalf. Your IP address will not be associated with any other data held by [Google Inc].
If you do not agree to the processing of data about you by [Google Inc] in the manner and for the purposes set out above, you can select the ‘disable cookies’ option on your browser – see section 18 of the Terms and Conditions.
HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is collected for use.
WILL WE DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?
As indicated above we may pass your information to our service providers, agents and associated organisations, and, unless you indicate you do not consent, to other organisations which may share or be supportive of our objectives.
If you contact us with an opinion about this website or its contents we reserve the right to publish your opinion on the website unless you request that we do not.
We may also disclose your information if required to do so by law and in accordance with directions given to us by the relevant legal provision or authority in order to carry out this requirement.
YOUR CONSENT
By providing us with your personal data, you do consent to the collection and use of the information comprising that data as long as we do so in accordance with this privacy policy statement.
If we ask you to provide us with sensitive personal data (such as information about your health) we will ask for your specific consent and give you specific additional information about our proposed use of this data at the point we ask for it.
RIGHT OF ACCESS
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in it corrected.
CHANGES
If your personal details change, please help us to keep your information up to date by notifying us at the address set out in the section ‘HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION?’.
We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement. If we do so, we will post notice of the change on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.
We remind you of your right to change or withdraw your consent by contacting us at the address set out in the section ‘HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION’
