Last updated: 27 August 2026
Build My Mosque respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal data when you visit buildmymosque.org**, contact us, enquire about a mosque project, or otherwise interact with our services.
For applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, the data controller is:
Build My Mosque
Email: sadaqah@buildmymosque.org(
Telephone: +44 7779998877
Build My Mosque is a UK-based platform that helps individuals and families identify and support mosque projects around the world as a form of Sadaqah Jariyah.
We act primarily as a facilitator and project management service. We help donors identify genuine mosque needs, connect with vetted charities and delivery partners, monitor project progress, and receive project updates and completion information.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, donations for mosque projects are made directly to the relevant charity or delivery partner. Build My Mosque does not ordinarily receive or process donors’ payment card or banking information for those donations.
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following information:
Information you provide to us
This may include:
* Your name;
* Email address;
* Telephone number;
* Country or general location;
* Details submitted through an enquiry or contact form;
* Information about the type of mosque project you are interested in;
* Your preferred project location or country;
* Your approximate project budget;
* Information about your intended Sadaqah Jariyah or dedication;
* Communications you send to us by email, telephone or other communication channels;
* Feedback, testimonials or other information you voluntarily provide; and
* Any other personal information you choose to provide when communicating with us.
Please avoid providing unnecessary sensitive personal information.
Information collected automatically
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
* IP address;
* Browser type and version;
* Device type;
* Operating system;
* Pages visited;
* Date and time of visits;
* Referring website or source;
* Website interaction and usage information; and
* Cookie or similar technology identifiers.
The exact information collected will depend on the website hosting, security, analytics, and cookie services enabled.
We may use your personal information to:
* Respond to enquiries;
* Understand your requirements for a mosque project;
* Identify suitable mosque projects and charity partners;
* Introduce or connect you with an appropriate registered charity or delivery partner;
* Coordinate and manage mosque projects;
* Provide project proposals, budgets, progress reports, photographs and completion information;
* Communicate with you throughout a project;
* Verify and monitor project delivery;
* Maintain appropriate administrative and project records;
* Improve our website, services and donor experience;
* Respond to complaints or concerns;
* Protect our website and organisation against fraud, abuse and security threats;
* Comply with legal and regulatory obligations; and
* Send you updates or marketing communications where you have consented to receive them or where otherwise permitted by law.
We will not sell your personal information to third parties.
Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing your personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Consent – where you have given us clear permission to use your information for a specific purpose, such as receiving marketing communications.
Contract or steps before entering into a contract– where processing is necessary to respond to your request or provide services that you have asked us to coordinate.
Legitimate interests – where processing is reasonably necessary for the operation, administration, security and improvement of Build My Mosque, provided that these interests do not override your privacy rights.
Our legitimate interests may include responding to enquiries, coordinating projects, maintaining records, improving our services and protecting the security and integrity of our website.
Legal obligation– where we need to process or retain information in order to comply with applicable laws or regulatory requirements.
If we rely on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
Because Build My Mosque facilitates mosque projects and Sadaqah Jariyah initiatives, information that you voluntarily provide may in some circumstances reveal or suggest information relating to religious beliefs.
We do not use your interaction with Build My Mosque to create profiles about your religious beliefs or for unrelated advertising purposes.
Where information qualifies as special category personal data under applicable data protection law, we will only process it where an appropriate legal condition applies, including explicit consent where required.
Please do not provide sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for your enquiry.
Build My Mosque’s current model is to connect donors with vetted charities and delivery partners.
Where you choose to support a mosque project, you may be directed to or provided with the details of a separate charity through which the donation is made.
The relevant charity or payment provider may collect information such as:
* Your name;
* Contact details;
* Billing information;
* Payment card information;
* Bank information;
* Donation amount; and
* Gift Aid information, where applicable.
When you provide payment or donation information directly to a charity or payment provider, that organisation will normally act as a separate data controller and its own privacy policy will apply.
We may share your personal information where necessary with:
UK-registered charities working with us;
Mosque project delivery partners;
Contractors and professional advisers;
Website hosting providers;
Email and communications service providers;
IT and cybersecurity providers;
Analytics providers;
Cloud storage or project management providers;
Regulators, government bodies or law enforcement authorities where legally required; and
Other organisations where disclosure is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.
We only share information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
For example, if you ask us to arrange a particular mosque project, we may need to provide your name, contact details and relevant project requirements to the charity responsible for delivering that project.
Third-party charities and other independent organisations may have their own privacy policies and may act as separate data controllers.
Build My Mosque supports mosque projects in countries around the world.
Although we aim to minimise the transfer of donor personal information outside the United Kingdom, there may be circumstances in which information needs to be shared with a project or service provider outside the UK.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards required by UK data protection law are in place.
Where possible, overseas project teams will receive only the information necessary to deliver and verify the relevant project.
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files stored on your device that can help websites function correctly, remember preferences, maintain security and understand how visitors use a website.
Cookies may include:
Strictly necessary cookies– required for the website to function properly or securely.
Analytics cookies– used to understand how visitors interact with our website and help us improve its performance.
Preference cookies – used to remember choices you make.
Third-party cookies – which may be placed by third-party services incorporated into the website.
Where required by law, non-essential cookies will not be activated until you have provided consent through our cookie consent mechanism.
You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences using the cookie settings available on the website or through your browser settings.
We may use analytics services to understand how visitors find and use Build My Mosque.
Analytics information may include information such as pages viewed, time spent on the website, approximate location, browser information, device type and referring websites.
Where analytics cookies or technologies require consent, they will only be used after you have provided the required consent.
Analytics information is used to improve website performance, usability, content and our services.
We may occasionally send information about Build My Mosque, available projects, completed mosque projects, appeals or related initiatives.
Where consent is required, we will only send electronic marketing communications after receiving your consent.
You can withdraw your consent or unsubscribe at any time by:
Using an unsubscribe option included in the communication, where available; or
Emailing sadaqah@buildmymosque.org
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
We may retain minimal information necessary to record that you have opted out so that we can respect your preference in the future.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
As a general guideline:
General enquiries may normally be retained for up to 24 months after our last communication;
Records relating to completed projects may be retained for up to six years after project completion, where necessary for administrative, legal or financial record-keeping purposes;
Marketing information will normally be retained until you unsubscribe or withdraw your consent;
Records of marketing opt-outs may be retained for as long as necessary to ensure that your preference is respected;
Technical logs may be retained for a shorter period appropriate to website security and administration; and
Cookie information will be retained according to the lifespan of the relevant cookie.
We may retain information for longer where required by law, necessary to resolve a dispute or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
When information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete or anonymise it.
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:
Unauthorised access;
Accidental loss;
Misuse;
Disclosure;
Alteration; and
Destruction.
These measures may include secure hosting, access controls, software updates, encryption where appropriate, secure passwords and limiting access to personal data to individuals who reasonably need it.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Our website may contain links to charities, partner organisations, social media platforms or other third-party websites.
When you follow a link to an external website, that organisation may collect and process information independently from Build My Mosque.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external organisation before providing personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law may give you the right to:
Access – request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Rectification – ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
Erasure – ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
Restriction – ask us to restrict how we use your information in certain circumstances.
Object – object to certain processing based on our legitimate interests or to direct marketing.
**Data portability** – ask us to transfer certain information to you or another organisation where the relevant legal requirements are satisfied.
Withdraw consent – withdraw your consent at any time where consent is the lawful basis for processing.
You will not normally be required to pay a fee to exercise these rights.
To exercise any of your rights, please contact:
Email: sadaqah@buildmymosque.org
Telephone: +44 7779998877
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
If you have concerns about how we handle your personal information, please contact us first so that we have an opportunity to address the matter.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the UK’s data protection regulator:
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:
Our services;
Our website;
The technologies we use;
Our charity and project partners; or
Applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
The most recent version will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how your personal information is handled, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact:
Build My Mosque
Email: sadaqah@buildmymosque.org
Telephone: +44 7779998877
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