Privacy Policy For Service Providers And Suppliers

The following Privacy Policy provides an overview of how ITHRA (which includes ITHRA Dubai LLC and all of its subsidiaries and related companies, including ITHRA Dubai LLC (DIFC Branch) (“ITHRA DIFC”)) (together “we“, “us” “our” or “ITHRA“) collect, use and Process your Personal Data, and sets out your rights with respect to your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable data protection laws in the UAE, which, depending on the ITHRA entity, includes, but is not limited to, the DIFC Data Protection Law No. 5 of 2020 (the “DIFC Data Protection Law”).
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the following terms (and any other capitalised terms used in this Privacy Policy) are defined in accordance with the DIFC Data Protection Law:

1. WHO IS THE CONTROLLER OF PERSONAL DATA AND HOW CAN YOU CONTACT THEM

For the purposes of applicable data protection laws and regulations, an ITHRA entity will be the “Data Controller” processing your Personal Data. This means that we are responsible for determining the purposes and means of Processing your Personal Data. ITHRA is a property developer as well as a commercial and residential asset manager operating in the UAE (including the DIFC).

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or our processing of your Personal Data, please contact us at [email protected].

2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA AND SOURCES DO WE USE

Personal Data that we process in the context of our relationship with service providers/suppliers may be obtained either directly from the Data Subjects or indirectly from other sources, in particular – from the service providers/suppliers that Data Subjects represent or work for, from third parties, clients and other business contacts – by way of introduction, or from publicly available sources (e.g. Internet).

Categories of Personal Data may include but are not limited to:

3. WHAT DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR (PURPOSE OF PROCESSING) AND ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS

ITHRA processes Personal Data on the following legal grounds (depending on the applicable data protection laws and regulations):

4. WHO RECEIVES PERSONAL DATA AND WILL THE DATA BE TRANSFERRED TO A THIRD COUNTRY

For the above purposes and subject to applicable data protection laws and regulations, your Personal Data may be shared with recipients outside of ITHRA, such as other ITHRA suppliers and service providers including asset managers; real estate managers; accounting, IT, security and marketing service providers; professional advisers that perform services on our behalf, our clients (tenants, leaseholders) as well as with other third parties such as banks, insurers, pension providers and government, public and judicial authorities, as the case may be.

ITHRA has implemented reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect Personal Data collected in the course of employment relationship against unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, loss or destruction.

ITHRA may transfer Personal Data to countries located outside of the UAE. This may happen when ITHRA’s suppliers and/or service providers are based outside of the UAE or when ITHRA needs to transfer your Personal Data from ITHRA DIFC to one of the ITHRA group companies in the DIFC (or vice versa). ITHRA will adopt appropriate safeguards in accordance with the applicable data protection laws and regulations (including the DIFC Data Protection Law, where applicable) and take reasonable steps to ensure that your data privacy rights are respected. ITHRA will implement appropriate measures (such as standard contractual measures required under the DIFC Data Protection Law, where applicable, a copy of which you can obtain by contacting us) to ensure that the relevant third parties receiving your Personal Data provide an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data as required by applicable data protection laws and regulations.

5. FOR HOW LONG WILL MY PERSONAL DATA BE STORED

ITHRA will process and store your Personal Data for as long as it is necessary in order to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected including its contractual and statutory obligations and/or to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, reporting or internal policy requirements. It should be noted here that business relationship with ITHRA is a long-term obligation, which is set up on the basis of periods of years. If the data is no longer required in accordance with the above, it is deleted or anonymized.

6. DATA SUBJECT’S RIGHTS

Depending on the applicable data protection laws and regulations, a Data Subject has certain rights in relation to their Personal Data. These include the right, to access, rectify, and erase Personal Data related to them. If you have any questions about the type of Personal Data we hold about you or if you wish to request correction of your Personal Data that we hold about you, or exercise any other Data Subject right, please contact us using the details above.

You can withdraw consent granted to us for the processing of Personal Data at any time. The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based thereon before the withdrawal.

You have the right to restrict processing, the right to object and if applicable – the right to data portability.

While we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your request as soon as reasonably possible, we reserve the right to reject such access requests or to impose restrictions or requirements upon such requests if required or permitted by applicable law.

To the extent that the DIFC Data Protection Law applies to you as a Data Subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint before the DIFC Data Protection Commissioner (DIFC Data Protection Authority), should ITHRA violate the DIFC Data Protection Law whilst processing your Personal Data.

7. USE OF PERSONAL DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING

We may use your Personal Data for the purposes of marketing of our products and services to you.

You have the right to object to the Processing of your Personal Data for marketing purposes and we will provide you with the means to opt-out or unsubscribe to marketing communications.

8. ARE YOU OBLIGED TO PROVIDE THE PERSONAL DATA

Personal Data we process is necessary for us in order to enter a business contract and pursue a business relationship with our service providers/suppliers. Without this Personal Data, we may not be in a position to continue our business relationship with you.