UAE Preferred Privacy Policy

The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (“UAE Embassy,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) provides this privacy policy to help you understand how we may collect, use, and share your personal information (the “Privacy Policy”).

SCOPE

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information processed by us for the purposes set out below on uaepreferred.com, and the services available thereon (collectively, the “Services”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The categories of personal information we collect depend on how you interact with us, our Services, and the requirements of applicable law. We primarily collect information that you provide to us or that we obtain automatically when you use our Services.

Information You Provide to Us Directly

We may collect personal information that you provide to us in your communications to us, such as: your contact details (e.g. name, email address, and title), education information, professional or employment-related information. and any further information relating directly or indirectly to you which you may provide to us, e.g. in newsletter sign-up forms or messages via our website .

Information Collected Indirectly

We may collect information about you indirectly when you use our Services, such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, online identifiers, or other similar identifiers (e.g. browser or device information), user settings, internet or other electronic network activity information (including interactions with our Services or use of certain online tools), commercial information (including records of Services considered or other purchasing histories or tendencies), location information (including approximate location as derived from IP address or, as applicable, as otherwise allowed via your consent through the device’s operating system), and Internet service provider, primarily for purposes such as analytics, security, targeted advertising, and otherwise providing more streamlined/optimized, personalized, or relevant features and functionality on the Services. This information is collected via various technologies, such as pixels or cookies, or server logs. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how people are using our Services. To find out more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please click here. Google Analytics has its own cookies that it uses to track and aggregate this information. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Services by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your information for various legitimate purposes, such as:

  • Carrying out our Services, such as providing access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of our Services, and answering requests for customer or technical support or otherwise corresponding with you;
  • Improving our Services, including by measuring interest and engagement in our Services and developing or refining new or current Services;
  • Providing you with marketing or promotional materials, where permitted by applicable law;
  • Research and development (including marketing research);
  • Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
  • Internal operations, including ensuring internal quality control and safety, troubleshooting, debugging to identify and repair errors or issues with our Services, auditing relating to interactions, transactions, and other compliance activities, data analysis, testing, statistical and survey purposes;
  • Authenticating and verifying individual identities;
  • Complying with our legal obligations or otherwise establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims and enforcing our agreements, policies, and intellectual property rights;
  • De-identifying your information or aggregating your information with other information for purposes of analytics, marketing, or other legitimate business purposes; and
  • Any purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or as otherwise permitted by you or under applicable law.

HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We disclose your information to third parties to assist with the business purposes set forth above.

Disclosures to Provide our Services

The categories of third parties with whom we may share your information include the following:

  • Service Providers. We may share your personal information with our third-party service providers who use that information to help us to provide our Services. This includes service providers that provide us with IT support, cloud hosting, customer service, analytics, targeting advertising technologies, professional services (such as legal and accounting professionals) and related services.

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Disclosures to Protect Us or Others

We may access, preserve, and disclose any information we store that is associated with you to external parties if we, in good faith, believe doing so is required or appropriate to comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety; enforce our policies or contracts; collect amounts owed to us; or assist with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual illegal activity.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND RIGHTS

The privacy choices you may have about your personal information are further described below.

  • Email Communications. You can use an “unsubscribe” (or similar) link found at the bottom of a marketing email or by contacting us using the details in CONTACT US below to opt out of receiving future emails. Note that you will continue to receive transactional or administrative emails regarding the Services.
  • Do Not Track.” Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.
  • Targeted Advertising. We use pixels, cookies and related tracking technologies to serve ads for goods or services that may be of interest to you, to personalize your experience on our Services, or to serve ads on third party websites including by retargeting you based on your actions on our Services. You may stop or restrict the placement of third-party cookie technologies on your device or remove them by adjusting your preferences as your device permits.
  • More broadly, the online advertising industry also provides websites from which you may opt out of receiving targeted ads from data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these and learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy by visiting for example the Network Advertising Initiative and the Digital Advertising Alliance. Please note you must separately opt out in each browser and on each device.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We take reasonable steps to ensure that your information is treated securely. Given the nature of information security, there is no guarantee that such safeguards will always be successful. We take reasonable steps to ensure that our third-party service providers and partners have appropriate safeguards as well. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept liability for loss, corruption or unauthorized disclosure, access, acquisition or misuse of personal information.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

All information processed by us will be processed and stored in the U.S. or the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”). When you provide personal information to us from outside of the U.S. or the UAE, please be aware that we will receive and process it in the U.S. or the UAE and that U.S. data protection laws may be different from those of your country of residence..

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We store the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Services are not directed to children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information to us without your consent, you may contact us as described below in CONTACT US. If we become aware that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of applicable law, we will delete any personal information we have collected, unless we have a legal obligation to keep it.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. If there are any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will take reasonable steps to notify you to the extent required by applicable law.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at uae-preferred@uaeembassy-usa.org.