Manza Privacy Policy

Last updated Sep 6th, 2024

This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit the Manza site and interact with our online features.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other relevant privacy policy or fair processing policy which we may provide on specific occasions, when we are collecting or processing your personal data so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other relevant notices and privacy policies, and it is not intended to override them.

Manza is the “controller” of your data under data protection laws for all products. If you would like to speak to us about how we handle your data, then you can reach us as per the below.

Our contact details

Name: Huzaifah Jeewa
Address: 203 Westgate, BD1 3AD
E-mail: [email protected]
Company information: Verge Labs Ltd (company number: 09192012).
Registered office address: 203 Westgate, Bradford, England, BD1 3AD

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, who are the UK regulators for data protection issues. You can find more information on this below, however, we would appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the Information Commissioner’s Office, to enable us to resolve the issue in the first instance.

The type of personal information we collect

We may collect and process the following information:

  • Your first name and last name
  • Your current occupation and organisation
  • Your email address
  • Your age
  • Your location (only up to a maximum of 100 metres)
  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Your time zone setting and location
  • Browser plug-in types and versions
  • Operating system and platform and other technology on the devices which you have used to access the Manza website
  • Usage data, which includes information about how you use our website, products and services
  • Marketing and communications data, which includes your preferences in receiving any form of marketing from us and our third parties, and logging your communication preferences

We may also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data under the law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

In this moment in time, we do not collect any information relating to your race or ethnicity, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and/or biometric data. Additionally, we do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

How we get the personal information and why we have it

When you visit the Manza site, we automatically collect information about your device. This includes, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, the time zone, and the cookies which you have installed on your device at the time of accessing our website.

As you browse through our website, we collect information on the pages which you have viewed whilst on the Manza site and the features which you have interacted with.

The above is information which is automatically collected through cookies. Cookies are data files placed on your device and commonly include identifiers which are anonymised. Cookies can gather and collect information on a user’s usage of the Manza website, enable the website to recognise when a user is an existing user when they return to the website at a later date, and provide additional security protocols, for example, such as a user login.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies : these cookies are required for the basic operation of the Manza website. These essential cookies are always enabled as our site will not work properly without them. You may switch off these cookies in your browser, but this may then not enable you to access all or parts of our website.
  • Analytical or performance cookies : these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors who access the Manza site and review how these visitors are using the site. This helps us improve the way our website works and provide you with a better service. These cookies are also used to estimate our audience size.
  • Functionality cookies : these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. These cookies also enable us to personalise our content for you, and fit the settings around your preferences.
  • Targeting cookies : these cookies serve the purpose of recording your visit to the Manza website, the specific pages which you have visited, and any links which you have followed. We use this information to ensure that our website and advertising is tailored to your relevant interests. We may also share this information with third parties for advertising purposes.

For more information on cookies and how to disable them, please click here.

Data is also automatically collected through web beacons, which is a feature and technique used on our website to review whether a user has accessed some content. You can find more information on this here. Log files also track certain actions occurring on the Manza website and collect data, including but not limited to the type of browser you are using, internet service provider, date and time stamps, and your IP address.

Our lawful bases for processing your information

The lawful bases which we operate from, as per Article 6 of the UK GDPR, is consent. We will only process your data when you have given us clear consent for us to process your data.
When we are processing your personal information in relation to our services, as emphasised above, we are the controller of your personal information. The lawful basis for us processing your information commences upon you filling in our relevant forms and agreeing to our privacy policy and terms of business.

You can find more information here.

What we do with your personal information

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
  • To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
  • To enable user-to-user communications. We may process your information if you choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
  • To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
  • To add a further layer of privacy, we anonymise this data to 100m, which gives you added privacy but does not affect the prayer time calculations which we provide you with. Moreover , we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know, otherwise your data will not be shared. They will only process your personal data on Manza’s sole instructions and they are subject to a duty of complete confidentiality.

We may share your anonymised data with third party organisations for compliance purposes and/or external third parties purely for the purposes of improving our services. This includes but is not limited to improving your experience on the site, and ultimately providing the service which you have subscribed to, and communicate with you via formats such as emails and newsletters to keep you updated on our services. We will not share your data with third parties without your consent.

We will use your email address to notify you if your calendar stops working, if there are any updates that may break the continuity of your calendar, and if there are any updates/changes that will improve your overall experience. We are passionate about improving our services for our users across the globe, and will only use your data in order to achieve this, with your consent. In the event that you would prefer to not have your data used in this capacity, you can opt out of this before you generate your calendar. You may also opt out from any marketing related emails from us.

Manza also endeavours to comply with the requirements as set out under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) when processing your personal data. You can find more about GDPR here .

Sharing your personal information

We may from time to time, share your personal information with third parties to enable us to use your personal information for the purposes above, with the intention to improve our services for all our users across the globe. For instance, we may share the data with Google Analytics to help us understand and analyse how our customers use our Manza website.

You can read more about how Google uses your data here. Additionally, you can also opt-out of Google Analytics by clicking here.

As part of running our services, we may also need to share your personal information with third party data processors to help us manage our website content and continue to improve our security and marketing.

Our website may also include links to third-party websites, applications and plug-ins. Clicking on any third-party links or connections may allow such third parties to collect or share data about you. Manza does not control these third-party websites and we are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit on the internet.

We will require all third-party entities and/or individuals to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit third-party service providers to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

If at any event or reason we are required to transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to your personal data by ensuring reasonably sufficient safeguards are in place. For example, we will only transfer your personal data to countries that are deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for any personal data processing.

Finally, as part of our legal and compliance obligations, we may also share your data with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a search warrant, to respond to a subpoena or other lawful requests for information in our control. Additionally, we may share your information to also protect our rights.

If you fail to provide your personal data

There may be instances that we need to collect your personal data as a matter of law, or under the terms of contract which we have with you. If you fail to provide that data, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you in order to provide our services. In this case, we may have to cancel any arrangement which we have with you.

What we do to protect your personal information

We take your privacy seriously, and we therefore work towards ensuring your personal information is protected, secured and safe regardless of where it is stored. The Manza website uses SSL encryption software to protect any data which you enter onto our site at all times.

In the unlikely event that your personal data is breached, we will act seriously and swiftly, and inform you of this breach within approximately 72 hours and engage in necessary actions required under General Data Protection Regulation and European Union law.

Marketing

We want to provide you with choices regarding how your personal data is used, especially around marketing and advertising. We may use the information which you provide to us to form a view on what we think you may need or want, or what may be of potential interest to you. This is how we decide and form a tailored view on which products and services may be relevant for you.

We may also use your information to keep you updated about our services. For example, through a newsletter. You may opt-out of receiving such correspondence at any time.

Opting out of our emails

If you would prefer to not receive our correspondences and just subscribe to our calendar, you can opt-out of receiving emails from us using the ‘unsubscribe’ link on the bottom of our emails.

You can also block our correspondences on your email account or simply ask us to remove you from our mailing list.

Data retention

We will hold on to your data as long as you have opted in with us. If you would prefer for us to not hold on to your data, you can opt out by contacting us.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us, at Manza, for copies of your personal information which we hold.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate in any shape or form. In addition, you also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase any of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to totally restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to totally object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information which you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
  • You are not required to pay any financial charges for exercising your rights with Manza. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
  • Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at [email protected].

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) if you are unhappy with how Manza has used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

Changes to our privacy policy

We may update our privacy policy to maintain our compliance with laws and regulations.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason, but that reason is compatible with the original purpose of which Manza collected your data under.

If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose of which Manza initially collected your data, then please contact us at any time.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose which deviates from the original purpose under which we collected your data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Furthermore, we may at times process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Contact Manza

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, then please contact us on [email protected].

As above, you also have the right to complain to regulatory bodies like the Information Commissioner’s Office and we have provided the contact details above.