JUST PEACE COALITION PRIVACY POLICY
About this policy
This privacy policy explains how The Just Peace Coalition collects, uses, and protects your personal information.
The Just Peace Coalition is a group of organisations and church denominations working together since summer 2025 to advocate for justice, peace and equality in Palestine and Israel.
This policy applies to the website: Home – Just Peace Coalition
For the Time to Act campaign, Embrace the Middle East (Charity No. 1076329) acts as the Data Controller on behalf of The Just Peace Coalition.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at: advocacy@embrace.org.
Our commitment to your privacy
We are committed to protecting your personal data and handling it responsibly, transparently, and in line with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
We will:
- Only use your data for legitimate purposes
- Keep your data secure
- Never sell your personal information
Purposes
The main reason we will use your personal information will be to help us effectively carry out our campaigning as a coalition and keep you updated on our activities. We will use your personal information to provide you with the services, or information you have requested, for administration purposes and to further our coalition aims, which may include fundraising activities.
Legal basis
Under General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) we need a lawful basis to collect and use your personal data. For the purposes of the campaign we do this on:
- The basis of an individual’s consent.
- It being a legitimate interest for us to do so.
Consent
Where you give us consent to process your data, we will always keep a clear record of how and when this consent was obtained. You can withdraw this consent for all channels and activities at any time by contacting us at advocacy@embrace.org clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails to be removed from our list.
Legitimate interests
The law allows personal data to be legally collected and used by an organisation if it is necessary for a legitimate business interest of the organisation – as long as its use is fair and balanced and does not unduly impact the rights of the individual concerned.
What are our legitimate interests?
- Personalisation to tailor and enhance the supporter experience in our communications.
- Analysis, targeting and segmentation to develop campaigning strategy and improve communication efficiency.
- Processing for research purposes.
- Responding to any solicited enquiry from any of our stakeholders.
- Delivery of requested products, resources or information packs.
- Providing ‘thank you’ communications and receipts.
- Maintaining ‘do not contact’ lists.
What information we collect
We may collect:
- Name
- Email address
- Postal address
- Opinions on campaign issues
- communications to and from yourself
How we use your information
We use your data to:
- Provide requested services
- Manage campaigns
- Communicate updates
- Support fundraising and engagement
Sensitive personal information
Under data protection law, certain categories of personal information are recognised as sensitive, including health information, race, religious beliefs, and political opinions (‘sensitive personal data’). In limited cases, we may collect sensitive personal data about you which might include links to churches or professional clerical title eg Rev.
How long will we keep your data?
We will keep personal data in line with our data retention policy. The length of time each category of data will be retained will vary on how long we need to process it, the reason it is collected, and in line with any statutory requirements.
After this point the data will either be deleted or rendered anonymous. We will retain your details as long as is necessary to communicate effectively with you about our campaigns.
Who will we share your data with?
We will never sell your personal information and will never share it with another organisation for their own marketing purposes.
However, there are a number of legitimate situations where we may share your information with coalition members and third parties whom we have contracted to fulfil specific services for us. This will include organisations such as email broadcasters who will send out our marketing materials on our behalf. In all these situations we ensure that we always have a written contractual agreement in place that will ensure that those organisations can only use the data provided for the specific purposes we direct them to do and that they have in place strict security requirements in order to protect your personal information.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- Access your data
- Correct your data
- Request deletion
- Object to processing
- Withdraw consent
Links
Our website may include links to websites run by other organisations. The Just Peace Coalition is not responsible for the privacy practices of other organisations’ websites so you should read their privacy policies carefully.
Cookies
We use cookies to give you a better online experience. A cookie is a small file downloaded on to your computer when you access a website. Cookies allow a website to recognise users when they return to a site by opening doors to different content or services. Like a key, a cookie itself does not contain information, but when it is read by your browser it can help a website improve the service delivered. For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Complaints
You can contact advocacy@embraceme.org
Changes to this policy
From time to time, we will make changes to this statement to keep it up to date and relevant. Please make sure you check regularly to see what’s changed.