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Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is fully committed to protecting your personal information and using it in the ways that you want and expect us to.
We are also committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other relevant legislation.
This Privacy Policy sets out how and why we obtain, use and protect personal data. ‘Personal data’, means any information we hold about you if we can link it to you in any way. The policy also explains the control you have over your personal data and the procedures we have in place to protect it.
This policy applies to personal data we collect through our events, communications, website, email, SMS, in person, post and by telephone.
MAP never sells or exchanges our supporters’ information with other organisations.
We take responsibility for the personal information we collect about you, and we aim to be transparent about how we handle it and give you control over it.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Our registered Company Number is 3038352. Our Charity Registration Number is 1045315.
Our registered address is 33a Islington Park Street, London N1 1QB.
MAP works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.
MAP’s vision is of a future where all Palestinians can access an effective, sustainable and locally-led system of health care and the full realisation of their rights to health and dignity.
Through our offices in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Lebanon and London, we work with trusted and experienced local partners to achieve this vision.
At MAP we are committed to protecting your privacy, and handling your personal information in the right way and as you would expect it to be handled:
This policy applies to the personal data we hold and use about people who support our work. This includes:
We collect two kinds of information:
If you use a credit or debit card to donate to us, your card details are processed through third parties’ payment providers who comply with the Payment Card Industry Security Standards. This means that your card information is never captured or stored by MAP or its card payment provider.
The law on data protection names six legitimate ways for organisations to collect and process personal data. Of those six, we consider three of them can be applied to MAP’s operations.
Wherever possible, we will ask for explicit consent to send marketing information. For example, online donors will be asked if they want to be updated on MAP’s activities with a choice of post, email, telephone and text being offered. Anyone can change their consent at anytime by emailing us at [email protected] or calling +44 (0)20 7226 4114.
In specific situations, we may process data to pursue our legitimate interests in ways that might reasonably be expected, and which do not materially impact people’s rights, freedoms or interests. MAP’s use of legitimate interest includes sending direct marketing information by post, to keep our supporters updated on MAP’s projects, fundraising activities and appeals. We will only do this where we have reason to believe that this information will be of interest.
When we use your information we will always consider if it is fair and balanced to do so, and if it is within a supporter's reasonable expectations. We will balance your rights and our legitimate interests to make sure that we use your personal information in ways which are not unfair or unduly intrusive.
You have the right to object to our processing of your information and can withdraw consent to marketing communications at any time by emailing us at [email protected] or calling +44 (0)20 7226 4114.
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data.
For example, if you have added Gift Aid to a donation we must process some information for HMRC and hold this for seven years.
MAP uses personal information of supporters to:
We may use publicly available data, profiling tools and wealth screening data, as well as any information that you may have already provided to MAP, to help us create a more personal and informed approach in the way we communicate with you. Please contact [email protected] or call us on 020 7226 4114 if you wish to opt-out of your data being used for these purposes
MAP never sells or exchanges our supporter's information with other organisations.
We will only share your information if:
Information about supporters is stored by MAP in the UK whenever possible. If we transfer the data abroad (for example when we make use of services provided by internet companies) we will ensure that it remains properly protected.
We only keep your information for as long as we need to, to be able to use it for the reasons given in this privacy policy.
We are committed to protecting your personal information. We use appropriate technical and organisational measures, including encryption, to protect personal information and privacy, and we review them regularly. We protect your information using a combination of physical and IT security controls, including access controls that restrict and manage the way that information and data is processed, managed and handled. We also make sure that our staff are adequately trained in protecting personal information.
Our procedures mean that we may sometimes ask for proof of identity – for example to check that we are speaking to the owner of that personal information.
In the unlikely event of a security breach that compromises our protection of personal information, and we need to let you know about it, we will do so.
Contact us at [email protected] or call us on 020 7226 4114, if you'd like to:
You have a number of rights under data protection legislation:
If you have any concerns about the way your data is being used or if you’d like to make a complaint please contact us at [email protected] or on 020 7226 4114.
If your complaint is not dealt with to your satisfaction you can raise this with the Information Commissioner's Office via their website or on 0303 123 1113.
To help ensure our communications with you are relevant, we analyse geographic, demographic and other key characteristics and behaviours relating to you; as well as your previous responses to our marketing communications. This helps us to personalise and improve your supporter experience with MAP and minimise wastage. Some of this analysis is based on data provided by you and some of this is provided by external organisations.
We only want to send communications that are of genuine interest and relevant to you. You are in control of how we use your personal information for marketing and fundraising purposes. If we contact you by email, every message we send will include a link to opt out of receiving future messages.
You may come across MAP naturally on Facebook through your own networks, or you might be presented with a promoted advert from us. We use targeted advertising on Facebook which allows people who are interested in our work to connect with us and become a supporter. We do this to inform, educate and engage new potential supporters. We may provide your email address, mobile number and address to Facebook, so they can determine whether you are a registered account holder with them. Our adverts may then appear when you access Facebook. Facebook deletes the data that we provide them in an encrypted format if it does not match with an account, however we want to remind our supporters and users that information shared by you or your contacts on timelines, on our page, or in private messages may be used and sold by Facebook for commercial purposes.
We operate a number of social media pages (including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram). Although this policy covers how we will use any data collected from those pages it does not cover how the providers of social media websites will use your information. Please ensure you read the privacy policy of the social media website before sharing data, and make use of the privacy setting and reporting mechanisms to control how your data is used.
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Like many websites, MAP uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service.
Cookies help us identify which bits of our website people are using, and help us do work on those sections of the website to improve the user experience. We also use cookies to help show content on our site which is relevant to you and your interests, for example if on a previous visit you went to our pages about emergencies, festivals or events, we might find this out from your cookie and show you other information on our website related to emergencies, festivals or events on subsequent visits.
Information supplied in cookies also allows us to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns for MAP. This enables us to ensure any money we spend on digital marketing gives us a good return on investment.
Cookies are used to enable us to improve services for you through, for example:
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by the MAP website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the MAP website.
This privacy policy may change from time to time. For example, we will continue to update it to reflect new legal requirements.
If we make any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information, we’ll make this clear on our website or by contacting you directly.