1 Introduction
Popular Human Rights Centre Bangladesh ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website or interact with us and tell you about your privacy rights.
As a human rights organization, we handle personal information with the utmost care and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the Digital Security Act and international standards for data protection.
2 What Data We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data
Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth, and gender.
Contact Data
Includes email address, telephone numbers, postal address, and social media handles.
Technical Data
Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Communications Data
Includes your preferences in receiving communications from us and your communication preferences.
3 How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To register you as a volunteer or supporter of our human rights initiatives
- To process donations and issue tax receipts where applicable
- To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
- To administer and protect our website and organization (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data)
- To deliver relevant website content and communications to you
- To use data analytics to improve our website, services, and outreach
4 Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, volunteers, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a legitimate need to know.
5 Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and applicable legal requirements.
6 Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
Right to Access
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request").
Right to Correction
Request correction of your personal data that we hold about you.
Right to Erasure
Request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to Object
Object to processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact info@humanrightsbd.org
This privacy policy was last updated on January 26, 2026 and may be updated periodically. We encourage you to review this page regularly for any changes.