Privacy Policy

Introduction – who are we

This website is owned and operated by Corporate Publishing International (CPI) of Grosvenor Business Tower, Office 804, PO Box 13700, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

For over two decades, CPI has published magazines and guides, organised events and run successful marketing campaigns across the GCC.

From an initial start with B2B IT titles, it has grown its range to include industry, oil & gas, construction and finance. For the last five years, it has also published in the consumer space, bringing globally important brands to the regional market.

Privately owned by its founder, Dominic De Sousa, CPI has grown organically from a single title to its current stable of over 25 titles, over 20 web portals, over a dozen awards ceremonies and numerous B2B events and conferences. Aggressive expansion plans mean more will follow in the next two years.
CPI has enjoyed several long term partnerships with leading global brands – IDG and BBC Worldwide. All of these major players chose CPI over competing publishers because of our innovation and understanding of the regional market.



The Purpose of this Policy - Your Consent

Respecting the privacy of our customers and ensuring the confidentiality of customer information is critical to CPI. The purpose of this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) is to ensure that we interact with all of our customers in line with current legislation and in accordance with their wishes.  This Policy sets out below what types of personal data may be collected about you, how we may process and use it, and who we may share it with.
By using this Website and/ or submitting your personal data, you agree to the transfer, storing and processing activities described in this Policy. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.


Personal Details

CPI and its suppliers may collect, process and use your personal data (including your name, postal address, email address, telephone, mobile and fax numbers). We will do so to contact you regarding the services you have requested and/or to offer services to you, and/or to provide the services you have requested. This includes re-registration/renewal notifications, payment processing, surveys on improving our service to you and/or invitations to exhibitions, seminars and shows. CPI may employ trusted third party specialists to process your data on our behalf in order to deliver the products and services to you in a more efficient manner.
This personal data is stored on a secure central server. If you consent to receive offerings from third party organisations, this personal data remains with CPI who will send the third party offerings.  Except as set forth below with regard to the provision of free resources, at no time will your personal data be transferred to such third party organisations.  Finally, as stated above, your personal data may be transferred to and stored by third party specialists engaged by CPI to assist in the provision of the content and services you request. Such vendors may be located inside or outside of the Middle East. In all cases, we will only transfer your data outside the Middle East to those countries that ensure at least adequate levels of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.

From time to time CPI may invite you to register in order to receive such offerings as magazines, email newsletters, enter competitions, and receive goods or services from CPI. This may require you to confirm personal data such as your name, email address, and mailing address postcodes. This information is mandatory and is required by CPI for security purposes, and enables CPI to supply a reasonable level of services to users and our advertisers.  We may also ask for information such as job function, job title, industry sector, company/ name and country. During registration, you will also be asked to choose a user name and password for future access to the relevant Website(s).

In order to provide you with free resources such as white papers and expert analysis, we may share your personal data and/or business information with third party organisations we partner with. You may receive offers that CPI believes will be of interest to you from any of CPI sites.  However, CPI offers you the chance to opt out of receiving additional information from our network. You have the absolute right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. Whilst we give details in this Policy in relation to opting out, we want to make clear that you can at any time exercise this right by contacting us by post or email at the address set out at the foot of this Policy.


Opting in/ Opting out

CPI offers you the opportunity to opt in to receive marketing information from carefully selected third party organisations. CPI will ensure that the contact you receive will be from reputable organisations. You may opt out at any time from receiving further such information by notifying us by post. CPI offers you the opportunity to opt out of receiving information from CPI about other products/services that CPI offers.

CPI cannot accept any responsibility for use by third parties of data that you have consented to being passed on.


Disclosure of Information

If the business of operating this Website is sold, the relevant customer lists and other personal data of our subscribers and users will be transferred to the new owner. This will be done in accordance with current legislation.

We may disclose your personal data if we are under a duty to disclose your personal data as a result of a court order or any other legal obligation, any subpoena or legal process or as otherwise required by law, or if we believe it necessary to prevent or take action regarding illegal activities or violations of our policies.


Changing your details and unsubscribing

At all times as a recipient of a CPI product and/or service or a CPI product and/or service you will have the opportunity to amend your contact details and/or to modify your opt-in/opt-out choices. We will not actually delete your record from the applicable database(s) as we would no longer be able to identify you, which could lead to you receiving information from us in the future. To action any of these requests please contact the relevant customer care department of the product/service you subscribe to. 

If you submit your email address to sign up for any of our online offerings including our newsletter(s) on the website, then you can unsubscribe at any time by either contacting, as applicable, CPI directly or via the unsubscribe facility included in communications sent to you.


Anonymous information about your use of the Website

In order that we can monitor and improve the Website, we may gather certain information about you when you use it, including details of your domain name and IP address, operating system, browser, version, cookie details (see below) and the website that you visited prior to our Website. CPI may make anonymous use of this information to help diagnose faults, manage our systems and gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information will be stripped of all details that could identify you personally.   


Other Links

Please be aware that our Website may link to other web sites which may be accessed through our Website. This statement does not extend to sites that are linked to CPI sites. You should refer to those sites for further details about their use of your personal information. We are not responsible for the data policies, content or security of these linked web sites.


Changes to the Policy

CPI reviews its privacy and data protection policy periodically. We reserve the right to modify our privacy and data protection policy at any time without notice. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page.


Contact Us

If you have any comments or queries in connection with our privacy policy, please contact us.
We can be contacted at: 
Grosvenor Business Tower, Office 804
Tecom, PO Box 13700
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel: +971 4 440 9100
Fax: +971 4 447 2409