Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.explorearabic.org/.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you engage with us (e.g. sending us emails, filling out forms, contacting us via telephone or visiting or making an enquiry through the Website), you may provide Personal Information about yourself including your name and contact details (e.g. your address, email address and telephone number). If you consider purchasing from us, you may also provide us with various other necessary Personal Information (e.g. your bank details). Where you make use of our Site we may also collect information about your use of the Site (e.g. your IP address and choice of web browser). Some of this Personal Information is collected and processed so we can perform a contract with you, some for the purpose of legal compliance and some for the purposes of our legitimate business interests (namely to carry out and improve our business, analyse the use of our Site and services and support our staff and customers).
Feedback
Where you give feedback to or contact us we will only ever use your Personal Information to respond directly to you in relation to your feedback and/or comment.
Payments
We will use your Personal Information to provide you with the services you request from us.
User Sign-up
If you choose the opt in and sign up to our communications and/or marketing materials, we may collect data on your username, password, contact e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, demographics information, and personal interests. Unless you choose to opt out, or communicate the decision to discontinue by contacting us as described below, we will use your Personal Information to send you information which we think may interest you and keep you up to date as to developments relating to the facility operated by us which you have joined, signed-up to or subscribed to.
What we do with your personal information
We will only use your Personal Information in order to:
(a) supply the services you have requested and correspond with you,
(b) provide support to you in respect of these services,
(c) improve our Site and services
(d) for our internal business processes, including providing support to our staff,
(e) where relevant, process your application for employment.
(f) where you have explicitly consented at the time we collected your Personal Information or where we otherwise have a right to do so, we may also use your Personal Information to let you know about our services, and job openings that may be of interest to you and/or inform you about important changes or developments to our services, by post, telephone and e-mail.
(g) from time to time, we may also use your Personal Information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. This will only happen where you have opted-in to receive such communications.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Site.
We may also use the Personal Information to customise the Site according to your interests.
If you change your mind about us using your Personal Information in the ways described in this Policy, please let us know by contacting us.
You may also opt out of receiving marketing emails from us by following the instructions outlined in any marketing email you receive from us.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
In certain circumstances we may pass your Personal Information to carefully selected third parties. We will never pass your Personal Information for such purposes unless you have allowed us to do so or we have a lawful right to do so.
If after having given us permission to pass your Personal Information to third parties you change your mind you can opt out by contacting us as described below.
By submitting your Personal Information to us, you acknowledge that such third parties may receive and process your Personal Information. Explore Arabic asks all third parties to treat your Personal Information securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and we will take reasonable steps to enforce this. We will never sell your Personal Information.
In addition, it may be necessary to disclose your Personal Information if we are under a duty to disclose your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation, carry out an internal investigation, enforce our Terms and Conditions and any other agreement, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Explore Arabic and our customers, directors, employees or other personnel. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and prevention.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Transferring personal information outside of the EEA
The Personal Information you provide to us will be transferred to and stored on our servers, which sits within the EEA.
In processing your Personal Information, it will sometimes be necessary for us to transfer your Personal Information outside the European Economic Area (“EEA“) to our staff and our third party service providers. It may also be accessed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers or group companies. This includes people engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services to us.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy and the Data Protection Legislation when it is processed in, or otherwise accessed from, a location outside the EEA. This means that we will only transfer your Personal Information to third parties based outside the EEA if that party:
(a) is situated in a country that has been confirmed by the European Commission to provide adequate protection to Personal Information,
(b) has agreed (by way of written contract) to provide all protections to your Personal Information as required by the Data Protection Legislation or,
(c) we have your explicit consent to do so (such as where you have requested a service from one of our partners situated outside the EEA). Where any transfer takes place under a written contract, you have the right to request a copy of that contract and may do so by contacting us.
For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the UK is no longer a part of the EEA, references in this paragraph to the EEA shall mean the EEA and the UK.
Complaints
Should you have any queries or complaints in relation to how we use your Personal Information, please contact us using the details set out as described below.
Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these websites or their related policies. Please check these policies before you submit any Personal Information via these websites.
Our use of cookies
A cookie is a small file that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer. Cookies help us to analyse web traffic and identify which pages of our Site are being used. Our Site also uses cookies to respond to you as an individual so that it can tailor its operations to your needs by gathering and remembering information about your preferences as well as enabling you to login to your account. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then it is removed from our systems.
A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than information about how you use the Site and the Personal Information you choose to share with us (including Personal Information you automatically share with us by way of your browser settings).
To enable us to monitor and improve the Site, we gather certain aggregated information about you when you use it, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address, the URL you came from and go to and the parts of our Site you visit. We may aggregate statistics, traffic patterns and related site information and disclose such aggregate data to third parties for marketing, advertising or other promotional purposes but such aggregate data will not include any Personal Information.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
In particular, we use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas.
- Performance cookies. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from the web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor; all information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Site works.
- Functionality cookies. These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of the Site that you can customise. The information these cookies collect is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activities on other websites.
- Sharing cookies. These cookies allow you to interact with third party services . Information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
You will normally see a message on our Site before we store a cookie on your computer. We may also use banners and pop-ups from time to time to give you options around cookies use.
You can also manage cookie use via your browser settings (this will allow you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies) and your browser provider may ask you to confirm your settings. Note, however, that if you block all cookies (including essential cookies) via your browser settings you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.
You can also find more information about cookies generally here: www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please note that third party providers may also use cookies to assess the ways in which you make use of their websites and we have no control over these.
Changes to our privacy and cookies policy
Explore Arabic may amend this Policy at any time without notice. By continuing to use the Website and making use of our services you agree to the updated Policy. If you do not agree to any changes that we make, you should not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Site and/or our services. Any changes to this Policy will be posted on the Site.
Our contact and opting out
You can opt out of receiving various communications from us by contacting us through our contact us page.
If you have any questions (including relating to transfers of your Personal Information outside the EEA), please feel free to contact us by email at admin@explorearabic.org Alternatively, you may call our team on +447761496167.