Data Privacy Policy

Azal Consulting FZE Privacy Policy

Azal Advisors is part of Azal Consulting FZE, an establishment in the Umm Al Quwain Free Trade Zone Authority with license number 6595, with its principal place of business at 103-104 Al Shumookh Business Center, UAQ Free Trade Zone Authority, United Arab Emirates.

‘Azal Consulting FZE’, ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’ is to be interpreted accordingly.

This privacy policy explains how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Introduction
1. We are committed to protecting any personal information we receive.
2. Personal information relating to you that either identifies you or from which you can be identified is called personal data (‘Personal Data’)
3. This privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy’) tells you about the Personal Data that Azal Consulting FZE may collect or receive, through the website azaladvisors.com; how we handle or process such Personal Data; and who we may share it with. It also provides information about the legal basis on which we process your Personal Data; how long we hold it for; and information on certain legal rights you have in relation to your Personal Data.
What Personal Data do we collect?
1. The Personal Data about you that we collect and use includes the following:
  1. name, address, phone; email and other contact details that you provide to us, for example if you make an enquiry about our services;
  2. information you provide about yourself, when you submit a comment to us;
  3. any Personal Data contained in correspondence between you and us, which we may retain on file;
  4. information obtained through ‘cookies’ or other tracking technology, including your IP address, when you browse this Website (see below) as well as any other Personal Data that you may provide to us from time to time.
How we collect Personal Data
1. You directly provide us with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
  1. provide your details as an Azal Consulting FZE client, prospective or current;
  2. sign up to receive information from us; and / or
  3. through your relationship and communications with us from time to time.
2. In some cases, your Personal Data may be supplemented by information that we collect from public sources, including searches via search engines, sector-specific newsletters, and public registers.
How we use Personal Data
1. Other than as stated above, we may use your Personal Data for one or more of the following purposes:
  1. to provide our services;
  2. to update you as one of our clients or contacts with news about Azal Advisors or its services;
  3. to deal with any comments, enquiries or requests that you submit to us;
  4. to enforce and/or defend any of our legal claims or rights; and/or
  5. for any other purpose required by applicable law, regulation, the order of any court or regulatory authority.
How we store your data
1. Your data is stored on our host’s servers (Bluehost) in Provo, Utah (USA), in encrypted format.
2. Data is kept for a period of 36 months from its collection. After this period, data is deleted from the servers.
3. We also endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect Personal Data from external threats such as malicious software or hacking. However, please be aware that there are always inherent risks in sending information by public networks or using public computers and we cannot 100% guarantee the security of all data sent to us (including Personal Data).
Marketing
1. We may, from time to time, send you information, analysis and / or commentary on relevant events that we believe may be of interest. If you have agreed to receive these communications, you may always opt out at a later date.
2. You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email info@azaladvisors.com.
Your data protection rights
1. We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
  1. The right to access – You have the right to request Azal Consulting FZE for copies of your personal data.
  2. The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  3. The right to erasure – You have the right to request us to erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  4. The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  5. The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  6. The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
2. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email info@azaladvisors.com
The lawful grounds on which we collect and process your Personal Data
1. Azal Consulting FZE will process your Personal Data for the above purposes relying on one or more of the following lawful grounds:
  1. where we agree to provide any goods or services to you, in order to take any pre-contract steps at your request and/or to perform our contractual obligations to you;
  2. where we need to use your Personal Data for legitimate purposes relevant to Azal Consulting FZE being able to efficiently and effectively provide services to clients and to manage our business affairs. We will always seek to pursue these legitimate interests in a way that does not unduly infringe on your other legal rights and freedoms and, in particular, your right of privacy;
  3. where you have freely provided your consent for particular purposes, such as to receive electronic direct marketing in the future; and/or
  4. where we need to collect, process or hold your Personal Data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Our Legal Obligations regarding your data
1. We collect and process your Personal Data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (‘GDPR’).
Disclosing your Personal Data to third parties
1. We may need to disclose your Personal Data to certain third party organisations who are handling that data only on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions under contract (called ‘data processors’) in the following circumstances:
  1. companies and/or organisations that act as our service providers (e.g. consultants, IT suppliers, data hosting companies and identity checking service providers) or our professional advisers;
  2. companies and/or organisations who assist us in processing and/or otherwise fulfilling transactions that you enter into with us (e.g. payment processors). In relation to these data processors, we will make sure that they act only in accordance with our instructions and that adequate safeguards are put in place by them to protect your Personal Data in accordance with Data Protection Law.
2. We may also disclose your Personal Data to and/or obtain certain Personal Data about you from third party service providers. These third parties will make their own determination as to how they process your Personal Data and for what purpose(s) (and are therefore called ‘data controllers’) and will handle your Personal Data in accordance with their own chosen procedures and you should check the relevant privacy policies of these companies or organisations to understand how they may use your Personal Data. Since these controller organisations are acting outside of our control, we have no responsibility for their data processing practices.
3. Other than as described above, we will treat your Personal Data as private and will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties without you knowing about it. The exceptions are in relation to legal proceedings or where we are legally required to do so and cannot tell you. In all cases we always aim to ensure as far as possible that your Personal Data is only used by third parties for lawful purposes and in compliance applicable Data Protection Law.
Cookies
1. We use cookies on our Website.
2. For more information, please see the Azal Consulting FZE cookie policy which forms part of our Website terms and conditions here: https://www.azaladvisors.com/terms-and-conditions.
Changes to our privacy policy
1. We keep our privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 10 January 2020.
Contact
1. If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to make a further request relating to how we use your Personal Data as described above, please contact info@azaladvisors.com