AME Info privacy policy
This Privacy Policy sets out the policy of AME Info FZ LLC of PO Box 502100, Al Thuraya Tower 1, 20th Floor,
AME Info keeps log files that include your IP address for statistic and logging of abuse purpose only. Log files are under no circumstances shared with any third party except if required by law or court order by a competent court.
From time to time though we may invite you to supply personal information in order for us to authenticate your identity or to provide you with services from or in connection with the Website. In order to deliver such services, AME Info (or a third party on AME Info's behalf, which may be located in Dubai or Canada) will need to process and store your personal information, and may need or want to transfer it to third parties. By providing your personal information to AME Info (whether by signing up to the AME Info newsletter, updating and adding your company details to the database, applying for a job or other subscriptions on the AME Info Site or in connection with accessing and/or using other services offered on our website), you consent to such processing (by or on behalf of AME Info) in connection with such services and for any other purposes to which you consent at the time you provide the information or as provided in this Privacy Policy, and in particular you agree that:
1. AME Info (or a third party on its behalf) can store and process your contact details and personal information if provided including: full name, e-mail, gender, company name and address, city, country, IP address, phone number, fax number, birth date, nationality, primary role, corporate website, number of employees and industry in a database;
2. AME Info may use your personal information to send you information about issues AME Info finds or believes to be relevant to you, including third party information (however the sender will always be AME Info for easy identification);
3. AME Info may contact you via email if its terms change, if authorities demand it, or when services are added, updated or modified;
4. you can manually request to be deleted from our database and all information held about you by AME Info will be removed;
5. AME Info may use, store, transfer and process your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and or any other purposes to which you consent at the time you provide the information; and
6. if you choose to contact a company or organisation through AME Info or the Website, AME Info is entitled to disclose any of your information or details that it holds (including your IP address) to that company or organisation.
You can however, remove yourself from any of the AME Info mailing lists, commercial messages or info messages by following the instructions at the end of each email sent to you by AME Info or that are otherwise notified or made available to you. Any mailing lists or other personal information that we store and/or hold will in no way be shared, sold or in any other way revealed to any third parties other than (i) as specifically provided in this Privacy Policy or for a purpose that is made known to you at the time when you provide your personal information; or (ii) if required by law or court order by a competent court.
Cookies
When you visit an Emap website(s), Emap uses “cookie” technology to try make that experience simple, personalised and meaningful. Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer or any similar device you use to access the internet e.g. smart phone, tablet or other mobile device when you visit a website and which store and sometimes track information about your use of the website. A number of cookies Emap use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the website and will last for longer.
Emap use cookies to:
• create a specific log-in session for a visitor to an Emap website in order that page requests by that visitor are delivered in an effective, secure and consistent manner;
• recognise when a visitor to an Emap website has visited before; this means we can identify the number of unique visitors we receive to the website and allows us to make sure we have enough capacity for the number of users that we get;
• customise elements of the promotional layout and/or content of the pages of the website;
• store your product selections to the shopping basket;
• collect statistical information about how our visitors use the website(s) so that we can improve the website(s) and learn which parts are most popular to visitors; and
• Gather information through our advertising partners, about the pages on the Emap website(s) that you visit, and also other information about other websites that you visit, so as to place you in an “interest segment”. This information is collected, in an anonymous form but may include information such as about the county and city you are in, together with the name of your internet service provider. This information is then used to serve interest-based advertisements which it is believed will be targeted to your interests. For more information about this type of interest based advertising, and about how to turn this feature off please visit www.youronlinechoices.co.uk or follow the link to the website of our advertising partners shown below. Without these cookies, advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and to your interests
Some of the cookies used by Emap websites are set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser. Please note however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on an Emap website(s) you may not be able to take full advantage of the website(s) if you do so.
a) Our cookies
We have described the main cookies we use and what we use these for below:
b) Third party cookies
Certain cookies are either set by third parties on the Website or these are set by us using the third parties cookie code. More information about cookies placed by third parties and how to restrict or block their cookies can be accessed by following the link to their website.
In addition to cookies, tracking gifs may be set by us or third parties in respect of your use of the Site. Tracking gifs are small image files within the content of our site or the body of our newsletters so we or third parties can understand which parts of the website are visited or whether particular content is of interest.
Email and Communication Services - Member account, password and security
If a particular service offered on the Website or any other AME Info owned web site requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing AME Info with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You then will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. You must not disclose your password to any third party. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account.
You agree to notify AME Info immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. AME Info will not be liable for any loss or damages that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by AME Info or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.
Use of Your Information
AME may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- administering your Website account(s) and otherwise in connection with any service for which you have provided your information, including any email alerts, transactions with us, downloads you make from the Website and uploads you provide to the Website and competitions and promotions that you take part in;
- responding to any enquiry you make;
- subject to your consent, sending you newsletters and/or alerts and information regarding AME Info or any third party's future services (in all formats to which you have consented eg post, email, text); and
- for generating aggregated statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the AME Info Website(s) and other services and developing AME Info's marketing plans.
AME Info may also disclose your information as follows:
- if you have given your consent for AME Info to do so, to other selected organisations to enable them to contact you or send you information by post, telephone and/or email;
- to any service providers, sub-contractors and agents appointed by AME Info to perform the above functions on its behalf and in accordance with its instructions;
- to Emap Limited (
- to the third party who is the originator of a White Paper that you have downloaded from AME Info's White Paper Library (and to equivalent third parties in connection with any similar or equivalent service offered by this Website);
- in connection with the jobs section of this Website (www.jobs.ameinfo.com, and to which further Terms apply in connection with use of the same), to a recruiter (i) that has downloaded your CV (which you have uploaded and made available to the Website); and (ii) where you have replied to a job listing that has been advertised by such recruiter on the Website;
- to third parties selected by AME Info as part of aggregated and anonymised statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the AME Info Website(s);
- to such individuals and/or bodies as necessary to ensure AME Info compliance with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request;
- (where you post material that does or may constitute a criminal offence, breach the rights of a third party, give rise to a civil action or breach the Website's Terms of Use and as otherwise necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of AME Info and its customers), to any relevant authority or third party requiring AME Info to disclose the identity of or locate anyone posting such material on an AME Info FZ LLC / Emap Limited website; and
- to any individual making a subject information request to AME Info.
If you do not register with us, AME Info Jobs will retain and store your personal details solely to administer and process your online application and to respond to any enquiries
(a) you may make regarding your job application or
(b) any recruitment agent or potential employer might make about your job application. Subject to receiving your consent, we will not disclose your personal details to any third parties or use it for any other purpose.
In the event that AME Info is acquired by or merges with another company, your personal information may be passed to the purchasing/merging company amongst the transferred business assets. This will enable your relationship to continue with the relevant AME Info business despite the change of ownership. Your personal information may also be passed (on a confidential basis) to companies with whom AME Info is negotiating such a sale/merger as part of the verification exercise carried out on AME Info by the third party.
Updated and changes
If we decide to change the terms of our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy, the homepage of the Website, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently.
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire any of AME Info's services, you may correct, or update your preferences, by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail.
Discussion Forum, blogs and comments
If you use the discussion forum, blog or comment field on this Website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, blogs or comments, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Furthermore, in some circumstances AME Info may display some of your personal information (name data) when you post material to a discussion forum, blog or comment field to allow users to identify each other.
Third party websites
This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by AME Info FZ LLC. Please be aware that AME Info FZ LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Website
Third party advertiser
The ads appearing on this Website are delivered to users by 24/7 Real Media, AME Info's advertising partner. We share Website usage information about users with 24/7 Real Media for the purpose of targeting our banner advertisements on this Website.
24/7 Real Media uses cookies and clear GIFs on this Website, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this Website. The information that 24/7 Real Media collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable.
For more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please click here.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Send content to a colleague
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a colleague about this Website or a specific article or service, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. AME Info will store this information, but solely for the purpose of sending the one-time invitation.
If you have any questions about security or privacy on our website, please contact us individually or as per the below contact details:
AME Info FZ LLC
Al
Dubai Media City
Phone: +971(4)3902700 • Facsimile: +971(4)3908015
