It is the policy of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) to respect the privacy of our web site users. Whenever and wherever possible, DIFC will treat the information about you received through your use of this web site with utmost care and confidentiality. DIFC uses the information provided by you to measure the use of this web site and to improve its content and for the purposes described hereunder. Below is an outline of the information that the DIFC gathers, how it is used, and how you can "opt-out":

Whenever you request a page through your browser, navigation and click stream data such as:

• your IP address,
• browser and version,
• operating system,
• date and time and
• the site from which you have linked to this site

are stored in a log file and/or database. Any search terms that you enter into the DIFC site search are also logged. This information cannot be used to identify specific individuals, and is only used for:

• web site and system administration,
• research and development,
• anonymous user analysis, and
• to provide accurate statistics to advertisers in the form of aggregated data.

This information, including the email addresses collected, is kept on a secure dedicated server hosted by DIFC as well as servers within DIFC offices.

The email addresses collected from subscriptions to DIFC newsletters are not sold or disclosed to any third parties. These addresses will only be used by our business to send out DIFC communications (for example, DIFC newsletters). You will not receive any mailings you did not request.

When a contest/sweepstakes/survey is run on this web site you may be asked to supply some personally identifying information like your name, email address and/or phone number. This information will only be used to notify winners of the contest/sweepstakes. Non-identifying information may be analyzed, aggregated and presented to third-parties to provide an overview of the demographics of our web site visitors.

When a survey appears on the DIFC web site, information is collected, compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. DIFC may share this aggregated data with advertisers or its business partners.

The information collected during the registration process is used to:

• contact applicants,
• customize content based upon user preferences,
• display member status, and display the date of a member's last visit, and
• any data collected will be used by DIFC and its agents. DIFC hereby reserves the right to transfer any data collected in the event of an acquisition, full or partial, of the company or its assets.