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Privacy policy

Draft for legal review. This text is not final and must be checked by a lawyer before launch.

What we collect

  • Waitlist and newsletter: your email address, when and where you signed up, and when you confirmed or unsubscribed.
  • Listings you submit: the details of the listing and the email address of the person submitting it, which we use only to check the entry.
  • Messages to a business: if you use the message form on a provider’s page, your name, email address, optional phone number and message. We share it with that business so it can reply to you.
  • Contact clicks: we count how many people click a business’s contact buttons. The count is not linked to your name or email.
  • Analytics (only once we switch it on): if you say yes, anonymous visit counts through Plausible, which sets no cookies. If you say no or do nothing, it never loads. See Cookies.
  • Your cookie choice (only once analytics is switched on): a short record of what you chose, when, your country and a scrambled fingerprint of your network address (not the address), under a random number kept in your browser. It contains nothing that says who you are.
  • Email you send us: the messages themselves and your address.

How we use it

To send the newsletter you asked for, check and publish listings, pass your message to the business you chose, understand which stories and tools are useful, and reply to you. We do not sell your personal data.

How long we keep it

  • Waitlist sign-ups you never confirm: 30 days after we email you asking you to confirm. Confirmed members: until you unsubscribe. If you unsubscribe we keep your address only so that we do not email you again, unless you ask us to erase it.
  • Messages to a business: 12 months.
  • Records of cookie choices (only once analytics is switched on): 24 months.
  • The email address of a person who submitted a listing: 12 months after we review it. The listing itself stays published.
  • Backup copies are overwritten on a rolling schedule, so a record we have deleted can remain in an older backup for a limited time.

Your rights

You can unsubscribe at any time from any email, and ask us for a copy of your data or to erase it. This policy is being aligned with the UAE and Saudi personal data protection laws and India’s DPDP Act.

Contact: hello@gulftalky.com