Personal Data Protection Policy

The DIFC Centre of Excellence is established in the Dubai International Financial Center to obtain the protection for members provided by the DIFC Data protection Law 2007 (the Law) and the Data Protection Regulations (Regulations) established under the Law. The DIFC Centre of Excellence is committed to protecting the privacy of partners and non partners and ensuring the security of personal data we collect and maintain. We strive to apply best practice in the management of personal information whilst conducting our organisational activities in such a way as to better serve our clients and the community.

Under the Law, Personal Data means any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his/her biological, physical, biometric, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

Your rights

Under the law you have:

• The right of access to, and rectification, erasure or blocking of, your Personal Data, where the Processing of it does not comply with the Law;
• The right to be informed of , and on reasonable grounds, to object to, the processing of your Personal Data; and
• The right to make complaints, on reasonable grounds, to the Commissioner of Data Protection regarding our processing of Personal Data (and the Commissioner may issue orders regarding your complaint as he sees fit).

Our obligations

• We have an obligation to keep records of our Personal Data processing and inform the Commissioner of Data Protection of our processing operations.
• We must comply with any direction issued by the Commissioner.

Web Site Information

DIFC Centre of Excellence 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.

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 Centre of Excellence 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.