PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated 25 August 2026

This Privacy Notice for Stichting Binaa & Hiwar ("we," "us," or "our") describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:

• Visit our website at https://binaahiwar.nl, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice;
• Use the Binaa wa Hiwar Center website — a trilingual (Arabic, English, Dutch) community website for Stichting Binaa & Hiwar, a non-profit foundation in Leusden, the Netherlands. The site presents the foundation's five strategic paths — educational, da'wah, social, cultural and media — and the activities within each, and lets visitors contact the foundation or join its community groups. Visitors can browse freely; no account is required;
• Engage with us in other related ways, including at any of our events.

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at info@binaahiwar.nl.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

What personal information do we process? When you contact us through our website, we process the name and email address you provide, together with the content of your message and, optionally, the path you tell us you are interested in.

Do we process sensitive personal information? No. We do not process special-category data such as racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.

Do we collect information from third parties? No. We only receive information you give us directly.

How do we process your information? Solely to respond to your enquiry and to direct you to the activity or group you have asked about.

With whom do we share personal information? With Cloudflare, which hosts this website, and Resend, which delivers our contact-form emails. We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information.

What are your rights? Because you are in the European Economic Area, the GDPR gives you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our activities, or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information we collect may include:

• names;
• email addresses;
• the content of the message you send us;
• optionally, the strategic path you indicate you are interested in.

Sensitive information. We do not process sensitive information.

We do not offer user accounts, and no registration or login is required to use this website. We do not process payments or donations through this website.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We process your information to respond to your enquiry and to direct you to the relevant activity or group.

We process the personal information you send us for the following reasons:

• To respond to your enquiry. We use your name and email address to reply to the message you have sent us.
• To direct you to the right activity or group. Where you have asked about a particular path or activity, we use your message to point you to the relevant programme or community group.
• To comply with our legal obligations, where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• To save or protect a person's vital interests, for example to prevent harm.

We do not use your information for marketing or promotional communications, we do not profile you, and we do not make automated decisions about you.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. We may rely on the following legal bases:

• Consent. We process your information because you have given us permission to do so, by ticking the consent box on our contact form. You can withdraw your consent at any time — see section 10.
• Performance of a contract. We may process your personal information where necessary to provide the services you have requested, or to take steps at your request before doing so.
• Legal obligations. We may process your information where necessary for compliance with our legal obligations.
• Vital interests. We may process your information where necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In Short: We share information only with the service providers that operate this website and deliver our email.

We may share your data with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have data processing agreements in place with these providers. The third parties we share personal information with are:

• Cloudflare, Inc. — website hosting and content delivery (Cloudflare Pages). Cloudflare processes requests to this website, including IP addresses, for delivery and security purposes.
• Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.) — email delivery. Messages submitted through our contact form are transmitted to info@binaahiwar.nl via Resend.

We may also need to share your personal information in the following situation:

• Business transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, transfer of foundation assets, or reorganisation.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We do not share your information with advertisers, data brokers, or analytics providers.

WhatsApp. Our website links to community groups hosted on WhatsApp. If you choose to join one, that takes place on WhatsApp's own platform and is governed by the privacy policy of WhatsApp Ireland Limited (Meta). We do not export, store, or process phone numbers from those groups on this website.

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We use only strictly necessary and functional storage. We do not use analytics or advertising technologies.

We use a small number of technologies that store information in your browser:

• Security cookies set by Cloudflare (such as __cf_bm), which protect this website against automated abuse. These are strictly necessary for the operation of the site.
• A local storage entry recording your language preference (Arabic, English or Dutch), so the site opens in your chosen language on your next visit. This is a functional preference and contains no personal information.

We do not use analytics tools, advertising technologies, retargeting pixels, or third-party trackers, and we do not permit third parties to use tracking technologies on our Services for advertising purposes.

Most web browsers accept cookies by default. You can usually set your browser to remove or reject cookies. If you do so, certain features of this website may not function as intended.

6. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?

In Short: Yes. Our service providers are located in the United States, and we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses to protect your data.

Our website is hosted by Cloudflare, and our contact-form email is delivered by Resend. Both are established in the United States, and your information may therefore be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States as well as in other countries where these providers operate infrastructure.

The United States may not have data protection laws as comprehensive as those in the European Economic Area. Where personal information is transferred outside the EEA, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, which are included in our data processing agreements with these providers, together with the supplementary measures those providers apply.

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We keep your information only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it, or, if this is not possible (for example because it has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through appropriate organisational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the personal information we process. These include encrypted connections (HTTPS) across the whole website, restricted access to the mailbox that receives contact-form messages, and storage of access credentials in a password manager protected by two-factor authentication.

However, despite our safeguards, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk.

9. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age through this website.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. Our website is intended for a general audience; the foundation's in-person activities for young people are arranged separately with parents and guardians.

If we learn that personal information from a user under 18 years of age has been collected through this website, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete it from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from a child under 18, please contact us at info@binaahiwar.nl.

10. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: In the European Economic Area, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information.

Under the GDPR you have the right (i) to request access to and obtain a copy of your personal information; (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) where applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.

You can make such a request by contacting us using the details in section 13, or through our contact form at binaahiwar.nl/contact.html. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws, normally within one month.

Withdrawing your consent. Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw it at any time by contacting us. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before its withdrawal.

Lodging a complaint

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we can try to put it right. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.

In the Netherlands, this is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens:

If you are located elsewhere in the EEA, you may complain to your Member State data protection authority. If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

11. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature you can activate to signal your preference not to have your online browsing activities monitored. No uniform technology standard for recognising and implementing DNT signals has been finalised. We do not track your browsing activity in any case, so there is nothing for a DNT signal to disable. If a standard is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.

12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently.

13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact us by email at info@binaahiwar.nl, through our contact form, or by post at:

14. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, to correct inaccuracies, or to delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.

To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please visit binaahiwar.nl/contact.html or email info@binaahiwar.nl.

This Privacy Notice was prepared using Termly's Privacy Policy Generator and adapted by Stichting Binaa & Hiwar to reflect the actual data practices of this website.