Privacy
This page says what donateforislam.org keeps about you, why, for how long, and how to have it removed. It covers this site only. Ummah Media Group LLC runs the site. The company's full policy is at ummah.city/privacy.html and applies here too.
What we keep, box by box
This site has three places where you can type. Each one is a choice you make. You can read the whole guide without using any of them.
| Where you are | What you give us | Where it goes | What we do with it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading the guide | Nothing you type. Your device sends its IP address and browser type, as it does to any website. | Our web server log and our visit counter. Both are below. | Count visits and keep the site working. |
| Newsletter box, "Stay in the loop" | Your email. We also keep the campaign tags on the link that brought you here, your IP address and your browser type. | A database that Ummah Media Group runs. | Send you one confirmation email, then write to you about curated giving opportunities. |
| Sign-up box, "Sign Up to Help" | Your email and the skill area you pick. We also keep the same campaign tags, your IP address and your browser type. | The same database. | Send you one confirmation email, then write to you about ways to help with that skill. |
| Name box, "Reserve your screen name" | The name you want, your email and the campaign tags. UmmahPass also records your IP address. | UmmahPass (ummahpass.io), our sign-in service. It runs the ummah.email waiting list. | Hold your place and notify you when @ummah.email launches. |
We use your email only to write to you about what you signed up for. We do not sell it. We do not give it to the charities we link to.
The newsletter box and the sign-up box each send one confirmation email from noreply@donateforislam.org. To stop misuse, the site sends at most 10 of these an hour in total. Over that limit, your details are still saved but no confirmation is sent. Nobody reads replies to that address. Write to salaam@ummah.city instead.
To stop misuse, the newsletter box and the sign-up box also keep a small counter for each IP address that used them. It holds the times of requests and nothing else.
How we count visits
We count visits with Matomo. It runs on our own servers, at analytics.ummahmediagroup.com. We turned its cookies off. It shortens your IP address before it stores it.
It counts page views, the buttons and links you press, which screen of the guide you reach, how long you stay, which charity card you open and how many seconds after you arrived. When you send a box, it counts that a box was sent. For the sign-up box it also counts the skill area you picked. It never receives your email or the name you want.
Our counter sends nothing about your visit to Google or Meta. The Ads section below explains the one place Google code can appear.
Like any web server, ours logs each request: the page asked for, the time, your IP address and your browser type. We keep these logs for 90 days.
Ads
Ads appear only on the home page. Muslim Ad Network serves them. Our company runs it. It serves them through an ad server called EPOM.
Where an ad loads, EPOM sets its own cookie and reads your device, browser and IP address to serve and measure the ad. Some paid ads carry a Google ad tag, which can set Google cookies. We do not control what Google does with data its own tag collects. You can block third-party cookies in your browser to limit this.
If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, the ad code does not load. Our server then sends a script that loads nothing and makes no request.
Cookies and browser storage
The code we wrote for this site sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. The ad code on the home page can set cookies and write to session storage, as the Ads section says.
Giving happens on the charity's site
This site has no payment form. When you tap a charity, you leave this site. The charity's own website, UmmahCauses or another giving site then takes your gift, your card details and your receipt under its own privacy policy and terms. Our company runs UmmahCauses. Its privacy page is at ummahcauses.org/privacy.
Our links carry the campaign tag donateforislam, so the other site can see that you came from us. We count a tap on a charity, with no cookie and without your name or email. We cannot tell from that whether you went on to give.
Other servers your browser asks
- Every page asks Bunny Fonts (fonts.bunny.net) for its fonts. Bunny sees your IP address. It sets no cookies.
- The home page asks UmmahPass (ummahpass.io) how many people are on the ummah.email waiting list. UmmahPass sees your IP address and browser type. The request carries nothing you typed.
- Every page sends its visit to our counter at analytics.ummahmediagroup.com.
- On the home page, the ad servers named in the Ads section.
How long we keep it
- Newsletter and sign-up details: until you ask us to remove them. We have no automatic delete date today.
- Waiting list details at UmmahPass: until you ask us to remove them. We have no automatic delete date today.
- The IP address counters for the two boxes: we have no schedule to delete them today.
- Visit counts and reports: for as long as we run the site. We have no end date to promise.
- Web server logs: 90 days.
Remove your data
Write to salaam@ummah.city from the email address you signed up with, or name the address to remove. This site has no mailbox of its own, so we use the company address.
A person on our team removes your details by hand, from our database and from UmmahPass if you used the name box. We confirm when it is done. Expect a few business days. Backup copies leave on our normal backup schedule.
You can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to correct it, the same way. To leave the newsletter, write to the same address.
This guide is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their details. If a child signed up, write to us and we remove it.
Who runs this site
Ummah Media Group LLC, a company registered in California, USA, runs donateforislam.org. Questions or requests: salaam@ummah.city.
When we change this page, we post it here with a new date. We will not use a change to start something the company policy says we never do. The terms of use for this site are on their own page.