MA’ARIJ is committed to protecting you and your family’s personal information when you are using MA’ARIJ services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through MA’ARIJ website.

In order to provide you with the full range of MA’ARIJ services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:

  • What information MA’ARIJ may collect about you;
  • How MA’ARIJ will use information we collect about you;
  • When MA’ARIJ may use your details to contact you;
  • Whether MA’ARIJ will disclose your details to anyone else;
  • Your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
  • The use of cookies on MA’ARIJ website and how you can reject these cookies.

As set out above, MA’ARIJ is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information.
The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

What information will MA’ARIJ collect about me?
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any MA’ARIJ website, such as newsletters, competitions, etc… We may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable MA’ARIJ and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.

Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.

MA’ARIJ also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

When will MA’ARIJ contact me?
MA’ARIJ may contact you:

  • In relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that MA’ARIJ can deliver the services to you;
  • Where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
  • In relation to any contribution you have made to MA’ARIJ web site.
  • To invite you to participate in surveys about MA’ARIJ services (participation is always voluntary); and
  • For marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this.

Local pages will give you detailed information about how MA’ARIJ will contact you in relation to specific services.

Will MA’ARIJ share my personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). Generally, we will only use your information within MA’ARIJ. However, sometimes MA’ARIJ uses third parties to process your information. MA’ARIJ will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and MA’ARIJ will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

How long will MA’ARIJ keep my personal information?
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with MA’ARIJ corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long).

Where you contribute to MA’ARIJ web site MA’ARIJ will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.

Changes to MA’ARIJ
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to MA’ARIJ website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

Cookies Policy – Information MA’ARIJ collects from you
a. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a “device”) browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of MA’ARIJ web site features. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

During the course of any visit to MA’ARIJ web site the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

b. How does MA’ARIJ use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.

MA’ARIJ also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to MA’ARIJ sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. MA’ARIJ use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users.

MA’ARIJ strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes. Certain other areas of MA’ARIJ web site may use cookies for a specific reason – for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.