Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines how Media City Qatar collects, uses, and protects the information you provide when using this website.

Media City Qatar is committed to safeguarding your privacy. If we request any personally identifiable information while you use this website, rest assured that it will be used only in accordance with this privacy statement.

We may collect the following information:

• Personal identification information (name, email address, phone numbers, etc.)
• Company identification information (organization name, registration data, etc.)
• IP address; your device, browser, and operating system; your location, pages visited, and the duration of your stay on our Platform
• Demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
• Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

In addition, Media City Qatar collects the following from logged-in users on our website:

• All information you provide about anything you post on our website, such as tenders, opportunities, services, events, etc.

You directly provide Media City Qatar with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Create an account on our website
• Register for an event
• Request a service
• Add an opportunity
• Add a tender
• Add an event
• Add a service
• Fill out a form, registering your interest in events or services
• Fill out an email subscription form
• Fill out a contact form
• Request information or email an inquiry to us
• Make a submission on any matter requiring public consultation
• Participate in any survey or other similar exercise undertaken by us
• File a complaint
• Use the chatbot feature
• Use or view our website using your browser’s cookies
• Send personal data to Media City Qatar by any other means

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping
• We may use the information to improve our products and services
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax, or mail
• We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests
• We may provide your information to our third-party partners for marketing or promotional purposes
• Recruit new employees
• Comply with legal regulations
• Legitimately pursue our activities
• Send our email newsletter to you as well as other emails that might be of interest
• We will never sell your information

If you agree, Media City Qatar will share your data with the following partners to facilitate the provision of relevant services:

• Government and regulatory bodies or entities in and outside of Media City Qatar
• Other businesses and third parties (such as our service providers, IT hosting and maintenance providers, and other contractors), which we engage to help us run our business, for example, to provide services to you
• Analytics, technology, and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website
• Other entities or bodies as may be required by law
• Any other parties to whom you authorize us to release your data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: please refer to your legal rights below for further information.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We use your personal information to support our marketing practices, including to:

• Share with you our latest news and updates
• Promote our services and those of our partners/ third parties where we think they may be of interest to you
• Send you promotional offers from us and third parties
• Promote events we are hosting or attending
• Invite you to attend our events or an event hosted by one of our partners
• Promote additional services

We may also use your personal information to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and develop our marketing strategy.

You have the right, at any time, to request that Media City Qatar refrain from contacting you for marketing purposes and/or refrain from providing your data to other entities.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe button provided in the email or by sending an email to info@mediacity.qa

We share the personal information described above with third parties that provide us with marketing and/or advertising services. We also share such information with third parties with whom we co-sponsor events, with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances
• You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you

Please contact us at info@mediacity.qa if you wish to make a request.

Our website contains links to other websites. The Media City Qatar Privacy Policy applies only to the Media City Qatar website. If you click on a link to another website, you are advised to read their privacy policy carefully.

We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory, or operational requirements. We will provide notice of any such changes (including when they will take effect) in accordance with laws and regulations. To see when this Privacy Policy was last updated, please see the "Last Updated" section below.

This Privacy Policy was last updated in May 2023.