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
To enhance your experience with AME Info, many of the AME Info web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store information about your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not reveal your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information, for example by registering on the Website. However, once you choose to furnish AME Info with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
AME Info uses cookies to understand Website usage and to improve the content and offerings on the Website. For example, AME Info uses cookies to personalize your experience (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Website), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to save articles and to build customized news feeds.
You are not obliged to accept cookies and you may amend your browser's settings to prevent it from accepting cookies. Please be aware though that if you disable cookies, certain services on this Website may not be available to you.
In addition:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the
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