Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines the privacy practices of www.isghmatrimonial.org, (“ISGH Matrimonial Website”), a media channel of Islamic Center of Islamic Society of Greater Houston (‘ISGH’) a charitable, religious, social and educational tax-exempt nonprofit (collectively, “ISGH Matrimonial Website”, “ISGH”, “we”, “our” or “us”). ISGH Matrimonial Website service is created and operated for the convenience of natural members of ISGH (i.e. Muslims residing in Greater Houston area), its officers and employees, as a part of the religious and social services. Whenever you access ISGH Matrimonial Website, either as a casual visitor or actively submit information to it as a website member, you are acknowledging to have read, understood and agreed to the terms of this Privacy Policy and to our linked Terms of Use. Please read them carefully before using ISGH Matrimonial Website. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please do not use ISGH Matrimonial Website.

This Privacy Policy applies to personally identifiable information (“PII”) collected from users such as you during the course of our work through ISGH Matrimonial Website. This online Privacy Policy does not apply to information you may have given or will give us offline, by phone, text or in person. The term ‘users’ used in this Privacy Policy refers to consumers of products, services, features, and content available on or through ISGH Matrimonial Website (collectively, “the Content”). This Privacy Policy will inform you about the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours is collected through ISGH Matrimonial Website, for what purpose, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data
  3. The security procedures in place to protect your personally identifiable
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in your personally identifiable

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

.Generally, we do not collect PII from general visitors of ISGH Matrimonial Website. However, when you as a user sign-up to set up a member account and complete the personal profile, we collect, store, and make use of your personal information. We only have access to and collect personal information that you voluntarily provide us directly through ISGH Matrimonial Website or via email or other direct contacts from you, and the information we obtain as a result of background checks in appropriate cases as stated below. PII we collect includes but is not limited to, full name, user name, password, email address, phone number, mailing address, photos, age, drivers’ license or government issued photo identification, to enable us to allow you to set up a member account and a profile which can be used to have full access to services offered by us.

We do not request or collect through ISGH Matrimonial Website health related or financial information. We do not collect information about you from third party sources, such as public records or entities, or private organizations, except in cases when we at our sole discretion perform background checks or verify information you provide. We do not knowingly collect personal data or information from minors.

When you make a payment to subscribe for membership account on our website, we request you to provide your full name, phone, email address, billing address, and credit card information. The credit card information is sent directly from your browser to the third-party service provider we use to manage credit card processing, and such information may be stored and used for both billing and payment services by such third party service providers. We do not in receive your credit card information, but we may receive information about the transaction such as the date and time it occurred. The service provider is not permitted to use the information you provide except for the sole purpose of completing credit card processing for that specific transaction on our behalf. Your membership account will only be activated by us upon receipt of your website membership dues.

Any information we collect through ISGH Matrimonial Website will be kept private and confidential and is for our operational use. The information we collect from you allows you to set up a membership account with us and create personal profile which enables you to use our website to its full capability. We will use your PII to fulfill your requests for the matrimonial service. We also use your PII to communicate with you or your authorized representative about your requests. When your personal profile matches with another person who has signed up for finding suitable candidates for marriage (i.e. other members), we will share your personal information with that person and share that person’s personal information with you, but only with prior written consent of both parties.

We will also use your PII to communicate with you to provide transactional information. It is our policy not to send unsolicited emails to you via the email address that you provide to us. We may, from time to time, contact you to discuss business relevant to your membership and, we will contact you to respond to inquiries that you may send to us. We will only use your personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy.

ISGH Matrimonial Website does not utilize session or persistent ‘electronic cookies’ for personalization or tracking purposes when you visit them. We do not use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server or to administer our website.

We will not sell, trade, or rent personal information to any third party. We will not share or disclose your PII to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy. We will only disclose your PII, as permitted by law, and when necessary, to conduct our operational activities, to third parties who perform a business function or professional function for us, and to regulatory agencies in connection with the regulation of our work. We reserve the right to disclose your PII, when we are required by law, or when it is determined that disclosure is necessary to protect or defend our legal rights, property or safety, or those of our users or the general public, to law enforcement or regulatory agencies, or to judicial courts of competent jurisdiction to comply with the orders or legal processes served on or otherwise required of us.

When visiting ISGH Matrimonial Website, users who do not wish to share their PII for registering, subscribing to our service membership, setting up personal profile can still access ISGH Matrimonial Website home page and certain other parts of our website for the valuable information they provide.

Your Access to and Control of Your information:

You may access at any time your membership profile on our website with your user name and password, and you will be able to edit or update certain parts of your personally identifiable information, while other parts of personal information you edit, update or delete will be subject to our review and approval. You may also deactivate cancel your membership account on website by going to your account settings at any time. You may opt out of any future contacts from us by contacting us via email address: info@isghmatrimonial.org. You also have the option of doing the following at any time by contacting us via email:

  • Learn about what data we have about you, if
  • Change/correct any data we have about
  • Request us delete any data we have about
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your

Security

We take precautions to protect from loss, and unlawful use or disclosure of your PII. When you submit your PII via ISGH Matrimonial Website, it is protected both online and offline. Whenever we collect PII (e.g. your name and email address) that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way using SSL. You can verify this by the appearance of a, “lock” icon in the address bar, and the text, “https” at the beginning of the address of ISGH Matrimonial Website page.

While we use encryption to protect your PII online, we also protect it offline. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with the state and federal regulations. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g. ISGH matrimonial team members and IT group that manages the website) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The information technology systems including computers/servers and applications in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. We dispose of PII either by erasing from our systems, or depersonalizing it, or otherwise modifying it to make it unreadable or indecipherable.

Although we implement reasonable security measures to protect users’ PII information from loss, and unlawful use or disclosure, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and that you assume the sole risk and responsibility of any security breaches, without recourse against us. We do not undertake any obligation to retain your data for any particular length of time and anticipate retaining your PII for as long as necessary to comply with operational requirements, and legal and regulatory obligations.

External Links

ISGH Matrimonial Website contains links to external websites. These links include services of the third parties we use to support the information and services we provide. These links do not fall under the domain of ISGH Matrimonial Website and this Privacy Policy does not apply to the websites of those third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We strongly recommend that you review their policies prior to use. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk and responsibility, without recourse against us.

Amendments

We may amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to periodically read it carefully. We reserve the option to amend, update or modify it, at our sole discretion, and at any time by electronic notice provided on our website. Your continued use of ISGH Matrimonial Website after policy updates and amendments are posted will be deemed your consent to such changed terms.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of our website, you should contact us immediately via email at info@isghmatrimonial.org  or by mail at ISGH Matrimonial Services, 3110 Eastside St, Houston, TX 77098. Please reference this Privacy Policy in your subject line.