Shariah Board of America is a division of Rahmat-e-Alam Foundation (a non-profit 501 (c) (3) State of Illinois Registered organization). The following Terms and Conditions apply to how Shariah Board of America (and its partners and/or subsidiaries which can be other Islamic Organizations directly affiliated or not affiliated with Rahmat-e-Alam Foundation) collects and utilize information from its registered and unregistered users of its website. If you choose to register or submit your information to Shariah Board of America via this website (the “Shariah Board of America website”), you agree to the use of such data in accordance with this privacy statement and the Terms of Use set forth subsequently. Please note that the Shariah Board of America’s website may contain links to other websites, including and without limitation to, websites maintained by 3rd parties, which may not be governed by this privacy statement.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement, please direct your questions to the webmaster of the Shariah Board of America website using the Contact Us link. If you do not agree with any of our terms and conditions set forth here, please leave the website and do not register.
Collection of Information
As a visitor, you do not have to submit any personally identifiable information in order to use the Shariah Board of America website. Personally identifiable information is not collected via this website unless it is specifically and voluntarily provided by visitors for using our services such as Ask A Question etc. Such information may consist of, but is not limited to, your name, current job title, company address, email address and telephone and fax numbers etc. Any questions asked through this website in the Ask A Question section, the question itself and the answer or ruling rendered as a result by the muftis will become the property of Shariah Board of America. These Questions and Answers can then be utilized by the Shariah Board of America websites, its subsidiaries and other partner Islamic Organizations to share and display to their end users. As an example, if an end user has asked a question, once the question has been received and answered, it may be published to Shariah Board of America and further published to any or all of its subsidiaries and other Islamic Organizations directly affiliated or not affiliated with Rahmat-e-Alam Foundation. This is in order to share and reuse the Islamic knowledge across organizations and help and serve a bigger end user community. Creating an account and registering for receiving these free services is not necessary rather optional, a user should not register with our website and thus not provide us the opportunity to answer their questions by default, however if they choose to register with us, then this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use shall apply in full force and without any exception. By using our website to receive free services such as Ask A Question the end user absolves us from any or all fault.
As a general rule, sensitive information (e.g., data relating to race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, criminal record, physical or mental health, or sexual orientation) is not collected from visitors of the Shariah Board of America website. We will, if necessary, obtain visitors’ explicit consent to collect and use such information.
Utilization of Cookies
To ensure that the Shariah Board of America website is well managed, cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) are used on the Shariah Board of America website to collect aggregate data. Cookies may be used to track information and identify categories of visitors by items such as IP address, domain, browser type and pages visited. This information is used to analyze the number of visitors to different areas of this website to make sure that it is serving its purpose as a useful and effective information resource.
These cookies are not used to collect any personally identifiable information such as your name or e-mail address. Further, most browsers permit individuals to decline cookies, and this feature is not governed by Shariah Board of America.
Utilization of gathered Information
Personally identifiable information submitted via the Shariah Board of America website is used only for limited purposes. For example, when you register to gain access to ‘Ask Question’ section, access material for an online class, respond to a survey, or request future communications about specific areas of interest, the information that you submit may be used if contact with you becomes necessary. Furthermore, a personal profile will be established to better facilitate Shariah Board of America’s relationship with you. This relationship will benefit you by providing us information that would be of interest to you, responding to further requests from you, or to personalize your experience of this website. This type of relationship can be established by using our Contact Us link.
You may at any time request to be removed from e-mails or other communications generated in response to your registration on the Shariah Board of America website
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Personally identifiable information may be provided to 3rd party service providers for receiving services that a visitor has requested, such as processing payments or in connection with a third party service provider’s hosting or maintaining the Shariah Board of America website, but such information will not otherwise be shared with 3rd parties unless so disclosed at the point of collection. Personally identifiable information may be transmitted internationally to 3rd parties for the purposes identified above. This may include transfer to countries without data protection rules similar to those in effect in your country of residence. By providing information to the Shariah Board of America website, you are consenting to such transfers.
Where appropriate, personally identifiable information may be disclosed to law enforcement, regulatory or other government agencies, or 3rd parties where necessary or desirable to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests or for the purposes identified above.
Profile Maintenance
Registered users may review the personally identifiable information they have submitted to the Shariah Board of America website at the time they registered with this website and correct any inaccuracies by accessing their user profile. In their user profile, they may correct and update their details.
Registered users who have any problem accessing their profiles should contact the webmaster of the Shariah Board of America website using the contact us link. In all cases we will treat requests to access information or exchange information in accordance with applicable legal requirements. If a registered end user wants to remove their profile they should use the Contact Us link and request the webmaster to remove their profile.
Securing Information
We have in place reasonable standards of technology and operational security designed to protect all personally identifiable information provided by visitors via the Shariah Board of America website from unauthorized 3rd party access. However in case of an inadvertent and unavoidable leak of any such information Shariah Board of America shall not be held accountable or any fault shall not be associated with Shariah Board of America.
Termination of an Account
Shariah Board of America reserves a unanimous unequivocal right to remove a registered end user’s account from our website with or without cause and with or without any prior notice.
Changes made to this Privacy Policy
Shariah Board of America reserves the right to modify or amend this privacy statement at any time and for any reason with or without any notice to the end users. It is the end user’s responsibility to revisit and review the Privacy Policy periodically if they so please. Nothing contained herein creates or is intended to create a contract or agreement between the Shariah Board of America (its partners, subsidiaries directly or indirectly affiliated with Rahmat-e-Alam Foundation) and any user visiting the Shariah Board of America website or providing identifiable information of any kind.