GBI is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through our Website from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy.
By accessing the Website, you explicitly consent to the collection, use and storage of your personal information (“Personal Data”) as set out herein.
Which types of Personal Data GBI collects
Personal Data means any information that identify as an individual or relate to an identifiable individual, including, for example, full name, address, telephone number, ID document number, birthdate, email address, social media account ID.
We will collect and process the following information about you:
Information you give us.
This is information that you provide us through the Website or by corresponding with us by e-mail or otherwise. The information you give us may include your name, address, company name, e-mail address, phone number, CV, personal description, photograph or any other personal information;
Information about you we collect.
On each of your visit to the Website we will automatically collect the following information:
(a) technical information about the devices you use to access the Website on and related software, hardware and peripherals, including the Internet protocol address used to connect your device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
(b) information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (“URL”), clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, location data and any phone number used to call our customer service number;
Information we receive from other sources.
This is the information about you we receive, if you use any of the other websites we operate or other services we provide. Please note that we are working closely with a significant number of third parties including, for example, business partners, subcontractors on technical, payment and delivery services, banks, analytics and information providers, etc.
Cookies.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide user-friendly conditions for your visit and use of our Website.
How do we use your Personal Data
Your Personal Data may be processed only for legitimate business purposes such as:
→ Conducting research about the use of our Website;
→ Assessing and responding to your complaints, if any;
→ For markets research purposes;
→For our internal administrative purposes, including training of our staff;
→ Conducting investigations of suspicious, harmful or hack activities;
We will never sell your Personal Data to third parties. Should we want to use your Personal Data for a purpose beyond that for which it was originally provided, we will ask for your written consent or will seek to rely upon another valid legal ground to process your Personal Data strictly in accordance with the applicable laws.
We insistently ask you to refrain from sending us and disclosing any sensitive Personal Data (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership).
Disclosure of Personal Data
We may disclose your Personal Data for the following purposes:
→ To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
→ To our third-party services providers, to facilitate services they provide, such as website hosting, data analysis, payments processing, orders fulfilment, products distribution, infrastructure provision, IT services etc.;
→ To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture establishing, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of GBI business, assets or stock including cases of any bankruptcy or similar proceedings;
→ For other lawful reasons and purposes, including implementation of provisions of the present document; protecting our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or the same of our affiliates, you or other third parties and cooperation with law enforcement bodies;
→To respond to binding requests from official public and government authorities;
Where do we store your Personal Data?
We store your Personal Data with due care. We follow industry standard protecting measures against unauthorized access, unlawful interception or processing of Personal Data.
Your Personal Data may be stored and processed in any country where we have appropriate IT facilities or in which we engage services providers, and by using the services you understand that your data will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection rules different from those adopted in your country. Under certain circumstances courts, law enforcement bodies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in other countries may be entitled to get access to your Personal Data.
We comply with the storage limitation principles, keeping Personal Data no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
Unfortunately, the transmission of any information via the internet is not a completely secure and protected process. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee absolute security of your Personal Data transmitted to the Website, thus any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Data, we will use the strict procedures and security features preventing unauthorized access.
Your rights with regards to your Personal Data
Data protection laws grant individuals certain rights and entitlements, including the right to have access, to rectify, withdraw consent, erase, restrict, transport, and objection to the processing of their personal data (information). Individuals also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant information protection authority if they believe that their personal data (information) is not being processed in accordance with the requirements of the applicable laws.
At GBI, we are strongly committed to protect and promote your rights, which are set out below:
- Right of access
You have the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Data we hold. All requests for access to Personal Data should be made to info@gbi.ae.
- Right to rectification
You have the right to demand that we rectify incorrect your Personal Data. Requests for rectifications or supplements to Personal Data should be sent to info@gbi.ae. We will respond to your request to rectify or supplement your Personal Data within a reasonable time period.
- Right to withdraw consent
While processing of your Personal Data is always and indispensably based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent.
- Right to restrict processing
You may, as permitted by the laws, request that we stop processing your Personal Data at any time.
- Right to erasure
You have the right to request the erasure of your Personal Data at any time if you consider that we do not have the right to hold it. We may retain certain information about you as required by the applicable laws and for legitimate business purposes to the extent permitted by the laws.