Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 1 August 2026

1. About This Privacy Policy

propfinderuae.com respects the privacy of its readers, contributors, business partners and website visitors.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect and share personal information when you visit https://propfinderuae.com/, which we refer to in this policy as the “Website.”

It also applies when you:

  • subscribe to our newsletters;
  • contact us through a form or email;
  • create an account;
  • comment on an article, where comments are enabled;
  • submit an article, press release or guest contribution;
  • enquire about advertising or commercial partnerships;
  • participate in a survey, event or promotion; or
  • otherwise interact with our content and services.

We’ve written this to be read, not just filed. Where a privacy policy is usually dense and defensive, we’ve kept the language plain so you can actually understand what happens to your information and the choices available to you.

By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. Where your consent is legally required, we will request it separately and clearly.

2. Who We Are

propfinderuae.com is a professional real estate publishing platform covering property news, market developments, community information, investment insights, industry commentary and expert contributions relating to the United Arab Emirates and other relevant markets.

The Website is operated by:

  • Legal company name: Prop Finder UAE
  • Registered address: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Country of establishment: United Arab Emirates
  • Privacy contact: Privacy Team
  • Privacy email: info@propfinderuae.com
  • General enquiries: info@propfinderuae.com

For the purposes of the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) and other applicable data-protection law, Prop Finder UAE is the controller of personal information collected through the Website, meaning we decide why and how it is processed.

3. The Short Version

The main points of this policy are:

  • You can read our publicly available content without creating an account.
  • We collect personal information when you voluntarily contact us, subscribe, register or submit content.
  • We automatically collect limited technical information when you use the Website.
  • We may use cookies for essential functions, analytics, personalisation and advertising.
  • We do not sell your personal information in exchange for money.
  • We may share information with trusted providers that help us operate the Website.
  • Contributors should expect approved author information to be published with their articles.
  • You may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict the use of your information.
  • You can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

The sections below explain these points in detail.

4. Our Privacy Principles

A few principles guide everything in this policy:

  • We collect only what we need. We only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
  • We keep information accurate. We take reasonable steps to keep personal information accurate and up to date. If you believe information we hold is inaccurate, please contact us so we can correct it.
  • We protect your information using appropriate technical and organisational measures, and we’re transparent about how it’s used.
  • Your privacy never influences our journalism. See our Editorial Independence commitment in Section 11.

5. What Is Personal Information?

Personal information is information relating to an identified or identifiable person.

Depending on the circumstances, it may include your name, email address, telephone number, IP address, account details, professional biography, photograph, online identifiers, communication history, or information that can be combined with other details to identify you.

Information that has been permanently anonymised and can no longer reasonably identify an individual is not treated as personal information under this policy.

6. Information You Give Us

We collect information that you choose to provide when interacting with propfinderuae.com.

Contact and enquiry information

When you contact us, we may collect your name, email address, telephone number, company name, job title, the subject of your enquiry, your message, and any files or information you attach. We use this to understand and respond to your request.

Newsletter information

When you subscribe to a newsletter or alert, we may collect your name, email address, areas of interest, language or location preferences, and communication preferences. You can unsubscribe at any time through the link provided in each marketing email.

Account information

If the Website allows users or contributors to create accounts, we may collect your name, email address, username, encrypted password, profile information, account preferences and account activity. You are responsible for keeping your login details secure.

Comments and reader contributions

If comments or reader submissions are enabled, we may collect your display name, email address, the comment or submission itself, your IP address and moderation information. Comments may be screened for spam, abuse or inappropriate content before or after publication.

7. Contributor and Author Information

If you pitch, write or submit content to propfinderuae.com, we may collect information needed to assess, edit, publish and manage your contribution.

This may include your full name, contact details, employer or company, professional title, biography, headshot, areas of expertise, qualifications or professional experience, social media or professional profile links, website address, writing samples, article drafts, supporting sources, conflicts-of-interest disclosures, editorial correspondence, revision history, invoicing information where applicable, and identity or authorship verification information.

If your contribution is accepted, some of this information may be made publicly available to establish authorship and help readers understand your background and expertise. Published information may include your name, photograph, professional title, company, biography, credentials, areas of expertise, and approved website or social links.

We may edit biographies for clarity, accuracy, length and consistency without materially changing their meaning. Submitting content does not guarantee publication.

8. Information We Collect Automatically

When you visit the Website, we and our authorised providers may automatically collect technical and usage information.

This may include your IP address; approximate location at country or city level; browser type and version; device type; operating system; language setting; screen size; referral source; pages viewed; links clicked; search queries entered on the Website; date and time of access; time spent on pages; download activity; advertisement interactions; cookie identifiers; error reports; and website performance information.

We use this information to keep the Website functioning, maintain security, prevent spam and abuse, understand how readers use our content, identify popular or useful topics, improve navigation and performance, and diagnose technical problems.

Technical information may sometimes be considered personal information under applicable law, even where it does not directly reveal your name.

9. Information We Receive From Other Sources

We may receive information from third parties where lawful and relevant to our services. These may include analytics providers, advertising partners, email delivery services, social media platforms, payment processors, event partners, security providers, identity or account-login providers, public professional profiles, company representatives, contributors, public records and business directories.

If you use a third-party account to sign in or interact with the Website, the provider may share information according to the permissions you approve and its own privacy policy.

10. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information for specific business, editorial, operational and legal purposes.

Operating the Website

To provide access to the Website, maintain user or contributor accounts, remember preferences, improve usability, provide requested services, troubleshoot technical issues and maintain website performance.

Responding to you

To answer questions, respond to complaints, provide support, manage correction requests, handle privacy enquiries and communicate about services you have requested.

Editorial and publishing activities

To review article pitches, assess expertise and suitability, verify authorship, fact-check claims, identify potential conflicts of interest, check for plagiarism or duplicate content, communicate editorial feedback, edit and schedule approved work, create author pages, attribute published content, maintain publication records, handle corrections or disputes, and promote published work through PropFinder channels.

Newsletters and marketing

Where permitted by law, to send newsletters, property-market updates, selected articles, industry reports, event invitations, contributor opportunities, service announcements and relevant commercial communications. Where consent is required, we will obtain it before sending promotional communications.

Analytics and improvement

To understand audience behaviour, measure article performance, analyse traffic sources, improve editorial planning and website design, evaluate newsletter engagement, develop new features and produce aggregated audience reports.

Advertising and commercial activities

If propfinderuae.com displays advertising or sponsored content, to deliver and manage advertisements, measure campaign performance, understand general audience interests, limit repeated advertising, process partnership enquiries, manage sponsored-content campaigns and prevent advertising fraud. Commercial arrangements do not give advertisers access to private contributor correspondence or other unrelated personal information.

Security and legal purposes

To secure the Website, identify fraudulent or suspicious activity, prevent spam and misuse, enforce our Terms and Conditions, protect our rights and those of our users, investigate complaints, comply with legal obligations, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

11. Editorial Independence

Protecting personal information never influences our editorial independence. Editorial decisions are made according to our publishing standards and are not affected by advertising relationships or personal information collected through the Website.

12. Legal Grounds for Using Your Information

The legal basis we rely on depends on the information involved and the purpose for which it is used.

Consent: when you subscribe to marketing communications, accept non-essential cookies, voluntarily submit information for a stated purpose, or agree to a specific optional service. You may withdraw consent at any time, which will not affect processing that lawfully occurred before your withdrawal.

Contractual necessity: where necessary to create or manage your account, provide a requested service, administer a contributor arrangement, process an agreed commercial service, or fulfil an agreement with you.

Legitimate interests: where reasonably necessary for interests such as running and improving the Website, reviewing editorial submissions, understanding our audience, preventing fraud, maintaining website security, keeping accurate business and editorial records, and communicating with existing contributors and partners, provided those interests do not unfairly override your privacy rights.

Legal obligations: where we must comply with applicable laws, regulatory obligations, court orders or lawful requests.

Protection of rights and safety: in limited circumstances, to protect the safety, rights or vital interests of an individual or the public.

13. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files placed on your browser or device. They help websites function, remember preferences and understand how visitors use them. propfinderuae.com may also use pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, software development kits and similar technologies.

Essential cookies are necessary for functions such as website security, session management, load balancing, account login, fraud prevention and remembering your privacy choices. The Website may not function properly if these are disabled.

Functional cookies may remember language, display preferences, location settings, saved content and account choices.

Analytics cookies help us understand how users reach the Website, which pages are visited, how readers interact with content, whether errors occur and how performance can be improved.

Advertising cookies, if we use advertising services, may help measure advertising performance, understand ad interactions, control advertising frequency, build general audience segments and show more relevant advertising.

Managing cookies: Where required, we will ask for permission before placing non-essential cookies. You may manage your choices through our cookie-consent tool, your browser settings, your device settings, or tools provided by relevant advertising platforms. Disabling certain cookies may affect parts of the Website.

14. Analytics

We may use analytics providers such as https://policies.google.com/privacy to understand how visitors use the Website. These services may process information including your IP address, browser and device details, pages viewed, engagement events, referral sources, and cookie or device identifiers. Where appropriate, we configure analytics services to limit unnecessary data collection and apply available privacy, consent and retention controls.

15. Advertising and Interest-Based Advertising

propfinderuae.com may work with advertising networks, agencies and measurement providers. These third parties may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about advertisements displayed, clicks and conversions, browser or device type, approximate location, pages visited, and advertising identifiers.

Interest-based advertising uses your activity or inferred interests to select advertising that may be more relevant to you. Where required by law, interest-based advertising will not be activated without the necessary consent.

You can limit interest-based advertising directly through:

  • Google Ad Settings, for Google-served ads
  • The Digital Advertising Alliance at aboutads.info
  • The Network Advertising Initiative at networkadvertising.org/choices

Opting out of personalised advertising does not remove advertising altogether. It generally means the advertisements you see will be less tailored to your activity or interests.

16. Email and Newsletter Tracking

Our newsletters may contain technologies that indicate whether an email was delivered, opened or clicked. We may use this to improve our newsletters, understand reader engagement, diagnose delivery issues and avoid sending irrelevant content. You can unsubscribe from promotional messages through the link included in each email, and we may retain a limited record of your opt-out so that we can respect your choice.

17. Social Media and Embedded Content

Our pages may contain embedded videos, social media posts, interactive maps, charts, sharing buttons or other third-party content. When embedded content loads, the third-party provider may collect information about your device and activity. Your interaction with those services is governed by the third party’s own terms and privacy policy.

We may maintain official profiles on platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and X. Information you provide directly to those platforms is also subject to their privacy practices. Please do not share sensitive personal information through public comments or social media posts.

18. Who We Share Information With

We share personal information only where there is a legitimate reason to do so.

Service providers that support hosting, cloud storage, website security, content management, analytics, email delivery, customer support, advertising, payment processing, plagiarism screening, spam detection, editorial workflow, document storage and technical maintenance. These providers may process information only as needed to perform their services and are expected to protect it appropriately.

Professional advisers such as legal advisers, accountants, auditors, insurers and other professional consultants.

Editorial and business partners if you take part in a jointly managed report, event, survey, promotion or sponsored initiative, relevant information may be shared with the partner where this has been disclosed to you or otherwise permitted by law.

Legal and regulatory authorities where required or permitted by applicable law, a court order, a regulator, law enforcement or another competent authority.

Business transfers if propfinderuae.com or its operating company is involved in a sale, merger, restructuring, financing or transfer of assets, personal information may be disclosed to advisers, prospective buyers or successor organisations subject to appropriate confidentiality and legal safeguards.

19. We Do Not Sell Personal Information

We do not sell identifiable personal information in the ordinary sense of exchanging it for money. Some privacy laws use broader definitions of “sale” or “sharing” that may include certain advertising technologies. Where such a law applies, we will provide the controls or disclosures it requires.

20. Third-Party Links

Our content may link to government websites, developers, real estate agencies, service providers, data sources, social networks, advertisers and other publications. Once you leave propfinderuae.com, the external website’s privacy practices apply. We do not control and are not responsible for how third-party websites collect or use information, and a link does not mean that we endorse the third party’s privacy practices.

21. International Data Transfers

Some of our providers may store or process personal information outside the United Arab Emirates or outside the country where you live, and privacy laws in those countries may differ from those in your jurisdiction. Where required, we take reasonable steps to protect information transferred internationally — including contractual data-protection obligations, approved transfer mechanisms, security reviews, access controls, encryption, and transfer to jurisdictions recognised as providing an appropriate level of protection. You may contact us for more information about safeguards relevant to your information.

22. How Long We Keep Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. The retention period may depend on the type of information, why it was collected, the duration of our relationship with you, legal or regulatory requirements, security needs, editorial recordkeeping, contractual obligations and applicable limitation periods.

For example: newsletter details may be retained until you unsubscribe; a limited suppression record may remain so we can respect your opt-out; account information may be retained while the account remains active; enquiries may be retained for as long as needed to address the matter; editorial communications may be kept to maintain an accurate publishing record; transaction records may be retained for the period required by law; and security logs may be stored for a limited period to detect and investigate misuse.

When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymise or securely restrict it.

23. Published Articles and Author Records

propfinderuae.com maintains an editorial archive. If your name, biography or article has been published, deleting your contributor account will not necessarily remove the published work or its authorship information.

We may retain published content and attribution where necessary to maintain the accuracy of the editorial record, preserve reader trust, identify the author of published material, comply with legal obligations, protect freedom of expression, resolve disputes, or serve a legitimate archival or public-interest purpose.

We will consider requests relating to published personal information individually. Depending on the circumstances, we may correct inaccurate information, update a biography, remove unnecessary profile information, anonymise certain details, add a correction or clarification, or remove content where appropriate. Editorial correction requests should be sent to info@propfinderuae.com.

24. How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, misuse, unlawful disclosure, accidental loss, alteration and destruction. Measures may include HTTPS encryption, secure hosting, access controls, role-based permissions, password protection, system monitoring, software updates, backups, confidentiality obligations and service-provider reviews.

No website, database or internet transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. You should use a strong password, avoid sharing login credentials, and notify us if you suspect unauthorised access to your account.

25. Personal Data Breaches

If a personal data breach occurs, we will assess what happened, which information was affected, the likely consequences, the people potentially affected, and the steps required to contain and address the incident. Where required by applicable law, we will notify the UAE Data Office (or other relevant authority) and affected individuals.

We may also take steps to contain the breach, secure affected systems, investigate the cause, reduce potential harm, and prevent a similar incident from occurring again.

26. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have the right to request confirmation that we process your personal information; access the information we hold about you; correct incomplete or inaccurate information; request deletion of eligible information; restrict certain processing; object to certain uses of your information; withdraw consent; opt out of direct marketing; request a portable copy of eligible information; request information about data sharing; ask about international transfer safeguards; object to certain automated decisions; and submit a complaint to a competent data-protection authority.

These rights are not absolute. For example, we may need to retain information to comply with the law, establish or defend legal claims, prevent fraud, protect security, preserve an accurate editorial record, or exercise lawful journalistic or public-interest rights.

27. How to Exercise Your Rights

To make a privacy request, contact us using the details below:

Please include your name, the right you wish to exercise, the information or account concerned, enough detail for us to understand the request, and your preferred contact method.

We may need to verify your identity before providing, changing or deleting personal information, this helps prevent unauthorised access. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. If we need additional time or cannot fulfil part of your request, we will explain why where required.

28. Automated Processing and Recommendations

We may use limited automated systems to support spam filtering, fraud detection, website security, article recommendations, content classification, search functionality, advertising measurement and submission management.

We do not intend to make decisions that have significant legal or similarly serious effects on individuals solely through automated processing, unless this is lawful and appropriate safeguards are provided. Where applicable, you may have the right to request information about significant automated processing or ask for human review.

29. Artificial Intelligence and Editorial Technology

propfinderuae.com may use technology-assisted tools to support spelling and grammar review, transcription, content organisation, topic classification, duplicate-content detection, plagiarism screening, spam detection, search, moderation and editorial workflow. These tools support our team but do not replace editorial responsibility.

We do not intentionally submit confidential, sensitive or unnecessary personal information to external artificial-intelligence tools without an appropriate purpose and safeguards. Where a technology provider processes personal information on our behalf, we may assess what information it receives, why it is processed, how long it is retained, whether it is used to train external systems, who can access it, and what security measures apply.

We do not use artificial intelligence to make final editorial decisions, determine publication outcomes, or replace human editorial review. Final editorial judgement always stays with our human team.

30. Children’s Privacy

propfinderuae.com is intended for an adult and professional audience and is not designed for children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below the applicable legal age, and we encourage parents and guardians to stay involved in their children’s online activity.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information without proper permission, contact us at info@propfinderuae.com, and we will investigate and take appropriate action.

31. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers send “Do Not Track” signals. There is currently no universally accepted standard governing how all websites should respond to these signals, so the Website may not respond to them automatically. You can still manage cookies and advertising preferences through our cookie controls, your browser, your device settings, and relevant third-party opt-out tools.

32. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We believe trust begins with transparency. Whenever we introduce a new feature that changes how personal information is collected or used, we will update this Privacy Policy and, where appropriate, notify our users.

We may also update this policy to reflect changes to our services, new website features, changes in technology, or legal and regulatory developments. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. If a change materially affects how we use personal information, we may provide an additional notice through the Website, email or another appropriate method. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

33. Questions and Complaints

If you have a question or concern about how we handle personal information, please contact us first so that we can investigate and respond. You may also have the right to submit a complaint to the UAE Data Office, the national data-protection regulator — or to the authority responsible for your place of residence.

34. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests or complaints, contact:

We believe privacy is built on openness, accountability and respect. If you have questions about how we handle your information, we encourage you to contact us. We’re committed to responding clearly, fairly and as quickly as possible.

Third-Party Services We Use

The following list should include only the providers actually used by propfinderuae.com:

Please review this list whenever a new third-party service is introduced, or an existing provider is removed.