Middle East News FZ LLC (“MEN”) recognizes the importance of privacy and the protection of personal data in the digital age. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use user data when they browse MEN’s sites and/or use MEN’s digital and mobile services.
Key Definitions for the Privacy Notice:
We, “we”, “our company” refer to Middle East News FZ LLC.
You, “you”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using MEN’s sites and services.
“Sites” refer to any website and web service operated by us at https://www.alarabiya.net
Under data protection legislation, we are obligated to provide you with the information listed in this privacy notice. It is important that you read this notice, along with any other notices we may provide you case by case when collecting and processing your personal data.
All information in this notice applies to you unless otherwise stated based on your residency.
Users Located in the European Union
If you are located in the European Union, the processing of your personal data may be subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Any reviews for users located in the EU will also apply to you.
Users Located in California
If you are located in California, the processing of your personal data may be subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”), and the California Privacy Rights Act. Any reviews for users located in California will also apply to you.
Changes to Your Personal Data
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Contents
1. Who are we?
Middle East News FZ LLC (“MEN”) processes your personal data while you use its sites and/or digital and mobile services.
Contact details for MEN:
Address: Dubai Media City, Building 3, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Phone: +9714 391 9999
Email: [email protected]
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, you can contact us using the details provided in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
If you are located in the European Union and have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise rights under EU data protection laws, you can contact our EU representative using the contact details provided in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
2. What personal data do we collect about you?
Personal data is any information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons. We may collect, use, store, and transfer specific types of personal data, including:
– Identity data: name, date of birth, gender
– Contact details: email address, phone number
– Location data: geographic information about your device’s location linked to a time identifier
– Marketing and communications data: user preferences regarding receiving information about our sites
– Digital data: user social media accounts, sub-identifiers (any collection of data that describes and provides information about other data), internet identifiers, such as IP addresses, cookie identifiers, and other information collected when you visit our site. For more information on cookies, please read the cookie notice on our sites.
3. How do we collect your personal data?
We collect your personal data when you subscribe to our sites. We may also use technologies such as JavaScript, cookies, web beacons, local shared objects, and similar information to collect your personal information while browsing. These technologies are used for measurement and analysis, as well as to improve our services and provide content tailored to your interests. Please note that we may allow third parties to place their cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to gather information through our services.
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Why do we collect and process your personal data?
We collect and process your personal data for the following purposes:
– When it is necessary to perform a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, particularly:
– Providing the services you request from us; allowing you to use online forms and surveys, including MEN services that do not require any form of registration; permitting you to subscribe to certain services, such as newsletters, information feeds, and SMS updates, or creating an account, in which case we will request personal data such as your name and email address or phone number; enabling information sharing; allowing you to fully benefit from the sharing features we provide, such as participating in viewer forums and second-screen shared viewing platforms; allowing you to create a publicly visible MEN profile, which may include – if you choose – your name and image; merging personal data from one service with information from other MEN services to facilitate sharing with people you know.
– Conducting financial transactions; storing transaction records; ensuring that your subscription to our services has been paid; complying with legal or regulatory obligations in this regard.
– When it is necessary for the legitimate interests of our business, particularly:
– Maintaining and improving our services; understanding how you use MEN services and performing other functions; developing new services and offerings.
– Customizing services according to your needs and interests; providing you with personalized content – such as advertisements and related services; allowing us to know more about you so we can provide you with more of what you want – more programs, more exclusives, more information, more competitions, and a better user experience; understanding more complex matters such as the advertisements you will find most useful or the services and information that are most relevant to you, providing a better and more valuable experience of our digital properties.
– Communicating with you; allowing you to contact the MEN group; recording details of our exchanges; helping to resolve any issues you may encounter; sending promotional offers and direct marketing; informing you about our services, such as notifying you of upcoming program information or improvements to our digital properties; contacting you to participate in competitions and engage in various programs.
– Creating and maintaining a reliable and safer environment; investigating and reporting or preventing fraud or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities; protecting the rights of MEN Group or your rights, property, or the safety and security of our services; enforcing terms of service or other applicable agreements; verifying your identity.
– Detecting and preventing fraud and online breaches when we implement certain monitoring or tracking devices involving the processing of personal data.
– When it is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person.
– When it is necessary to comply with any applicable laws or regulations, or in response to legal requests for information from the government or through legal proceedings; fulfilling any other purpose disclosed to you concerning our services; contacting you to resolve disputes and provide assistance with our services.
– When you give us your consent to process your personal data. For example, when we offer you registration for our services and creating an account, or subscribing to our newsletter or marketing messages, or when we request following any relevant action to allow you to accept or refuse the expected data processing; if you accept, you will be entitled to withdraw your consent at any time. However, in some cases, choosing not to share your personal data or withdrawing your consent may limit your access to our services or features. For example, it may not be possible for you to access certain parts of the sites or services, and we may not be able to address your inquiries without providing the relevant information.
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Who can access your data?
For the aforementioned purposes, we will grant access to your personal data to authorized MEN Group employees and MEN Group members who need to know it to process it on our behalf, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or have their contracts terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
In addition, we may need to transfer or allow access to the following approved third parties:
– Vendors and service providers we contract with to process personal data or perform MEN services on our behalf (based on our instructions and in accordance with our privacy notice and appropriate confidentiality and security measures).
– Private parties who take over our business (or who are having significant discussions regarding the potential with new (prospective) owners of the business or company), in this regard, if ownership of all or a substantial part of our business changes or if the company undergoes a reorganization or any other transfer between MEN Group entities, you acknowledge that we may need to transfer your personal data to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any financial audit process for the purpose of analyzing any proposed sale to the third party or reorganization, and we may also need to transfer your personal data to that reorganized entity or third party after the sale or reorganization for purposes similar to those outlined in this notice.
– Our media representatives.
– Legal advisors, witnesses, experts, judicial and quasi-judicial authorities to protect us from harm to MEN Group’s rights or our users or the public as required by law or permitted, and other third parties to enforce applicable terms of service, including investigating potential violations.
– Administrative or judicial authorities in order to meet the requirements of any law, regulation, or enforceable legal proceeding.
We may also aggregate and anonymize data and provide it to approved third parties and partners – such as advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may publicly share information to display trends regarding the overall usage of our services.
6. Where may your personal data be stored or transferred?
MEN Group is a multinational group with subsidiaries, partners, and contractors in many countries around the world. This means that it may be necessary to process your personal data in countries where data protection laws may be less than the standards in your home country.
We process and store your personal information on our devices and servers located in the United Arab Emirates, and we use service providers that may be located in different locations, such as Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In such cases, we will take measures to ensure that your personal data receives an appropriate level of protection.
If you are located in the European Union and your personal data is transferred to a service provider for processing in any country outside the European Economic Area that is not recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data, we ensure that appropriate safeguards (such as contractual obligations) are provided under applicable data protection law.
If you need more information about data transfers, please contact us using the details provided.
7. How do we ensure the security of your personal data?
We maintain appropriate security measures from technical, electronic, organizational, procedural, and security aspects, including governance models, to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, unauthorized use, unauthorized modification, unauthorized disclosure, or destruction of personal data.
Websites:
– SSL Certificates
– IWS DNS (Route 53)
Please note that the security of data transmission over the Internet or through a website cannot be guaranteed against breaches. Moreover, you should also take appropriate measures to protect your personal data, particularly by keeping your password secure and confidential. If you are aware of or have reason to believe that your account credentials have been lost or stolen or used in unauthorized ways, please contact us using the details provided in the “How to contact us” section below.
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If we are aware or have reason to believe that your personal data has been compromised, we will promptly notify the affected users of the breach if it occurs in accordance with applicable laws.
8. How long do we retain your personal data?
We will keep your personal data only for the period necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned in this privacy notice. Our retention periods depend on business needs and any information no longer required will be either irreversibly de-identified or destroyed.
Your personal data collected through our sites will be retained as long as your account is active or as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was initially collected. If you deactivate your account, we will retain your data for 2 years, starting from the date of deactivation. Please note that we may also retain your personal data for longer periods if necessary to comply with our legal obligations or to protect our legitimate interests.
9. Do we collect and process children’s data?
To subscribe to MEN services and provide us with your personal information, you must be 18 years old or older to meet the minimum age requirement in the relevant jurisdiction.
Individuals under the age of 18 or the minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction may also use MEN services if they have obtained parental or legal guardian consent. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a minor under the age of 18 or below the minimum age specified by law and we have not been provided with parental or legal guardian consent, we will delete that information immediately.
10. What are your rights?
If you are located in the European Union, you have the following rights regarding your personal data under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
– The right to access: You have the right to access your personal data. You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. There are instances where your request may be denied, for example, if making the information available to you would disclose personal data about another person, or if we are legally prohibited from disclosing such information.
– The right to rectification: Our goal is to maintain the accuracy of your personal data and to keep it updated. You have the right to request rectification of any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you, although we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
– The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data if there is no reason for us to continue processing it. You also have the right to request that we delete your personal data if you successfully exercise your right to object to processing, or if we have processed your data unlawfully, or if we have to delete your personal data to comply with the law. However, please note that it may not always be possible to comply with your request to delete it for specific legal reasons which we will notify you of, as applicable, at the time of your request.
– The right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data when we rely on legitimate interests (or the interests of a third party) and there is something in your particular situation that makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts your rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate reasons that override your rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object when we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
– The right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request that we suspend the processing of your personal data in the following cases: (a) if you want us to establish the accuracy of the data, (b) when our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to delete it (c) when you need us to retain the data even if we no longer need it because you need it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or (d) if you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have legitimate grounds that override your rights and freedoms in using it.
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The right to data portability: You have the right to request the
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