Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026
 

DAPHNE DIGITAL CONSULTANCY FZCO (“Daphne Consulting”, “Daphne”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly, lawfully and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, interact with our advertising, or submit an application for a career opportunity.

Depending on your location, your personal information may also be protected by local data protection laws, including applicable data protection legislation in the United Arab Emirates, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”).

1. Who We Are

This website is operated by:

DAPHNE DIGITAL CONSULTANCY FZCO
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC)
Unit no: RET-R5-001 Detached Retail R5
Plot No: JLT-PH2-RET-R5
JLT, Dubai
United Arab Emirates

TRN: 100213870700003
Email: info@daphneconsulting.com

DAPHNE DIGITAL CONSULTANCY FZCO is the controller responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly to us and information generated when you interact with our website.

Information you provide to us

When you contact us through our website, we may collect:

• Name

• Email address

• Phone number

• Company name

• The content of your message

• Other information you choose to provide
   

When you apply for a career opportunity, we may collect:

• Name

• Email address

• Phone number

• CV or résumé

• LinkedIn profile

• Cover letter

• Education and professional experience

• Other information you choose to provide as part of your application
   

Please avoid providing sensitive or special-category personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for your enquiry or application.

Information collected automatically

When you visit or interact with our website, we may collect technical and usage information through cookies and similar technologies, subject to your applicable cookie preferences.

This may include:

• IP address

• Device and browser information

• Pages viewed

• Approximate location

• Referring website or advertising source

• Website interactions

• Information about how you arrived at and used our website

• Advertising campaign and conversion information

Depending on your cookie preferences, this information may be processed through services including Google Analytics, Google Ads / Google Tag, Meta Pixel and LinkedIn Insight Tag.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to enquiries submitted through our website

• Communicate with prospective clients, partners and other individuals who contact us

• Discuss or provide information about our consulting services

• Evaluate job applications

• Manage recruitment processes

• Operate, maintain and secure our website

• Understand how visitors use our website

• Measure website and advertising performance

• Attribute enquiries and conversions to marketing campaigns

• Improve our website, services and communications

• Maintain appropriate business records

• Establish, exercise or defend legal claims

• Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

Information submitted through our contact form is used to respond to your enquiry and manage related business communications.

We do not automatically add individuals who contact us through the website to email marketing or newsletter lists.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the EU GDPR, UK GDPR or another law requiring a legal basis applies, we process personal information on one or more of the following grounds, depending on the activity:

Taking steps at your request or performing a contract

We may process information where it is necessary to respond to a request concerning our services, take steps before entering into a contract, or perform contractual obligations.

Legitimate interests

We may process information where necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

Such interests may include:

• Responding to business enquiries

• Operating and securing our website

• Managing business relationships

• Improving our services and website

• Protecting or establishing legal rights

Legal obligations

We may process information where necessary to comply with applicable legal or regulatory requirements.

Consent

Where required, including for certain non-essential cookies, online advertising technologies or other specific processing activities, we rely on your consent.

You can withdraw your consent at any time through the relevant cookie settings or by contacting us where appropriate. Withdrawal does not affect processing that lawfully took place before consent was withdrawn.

5. Recruitment and Career Applications

Information submitted through our careers section is used to evaluate your suitability for the role for which you applied and to communicate with you regarding the recruitment process.

Once the relevant recruitment process has concluded, we will delete or securely dispose of application information when it is no longer reasonably required, subject to applicable legal, regulatory or administrative retention requirements.

If we believe your profile may be suitable for future opportunities, we may separately ask for your permission to retain your information in our candidate pool.

We will only retain your application for this additional purpose where there is an appropriate legal basis to do so.

Where retention is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting info@daphneconsulting.com.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies for website functionality, security, analytics and advertising measurement.

These may include technologies provided by:

• Wix

• Google Analytics

• Google Ads / Google Tag

• Meta Pixel

• LinkedIn Insight Tag

Cookies and similar technologies may fall into the following categories.

Essential Cookies

These are required for the website to operate correctly, remain secure or provide functionality requested by the user.

Analytics Cookies

These help us understand how visitors use our website, which pages are visited and how users interact with the site.

Marketing and Advertising Technologies

These may be used to:

• Measure advertising performance

• Understand how visitors arrive at our website

• Attribute enquiries and other interactions to advertising campaigns

• Create or use advertising audiences

• Measure advertising conversions

Where consent is required by applicable law, non-essential cookies and similar technologies will not be activated until the required consent has been obtained.

You may accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies through the cookie controls made available on our website, and you may subsequently change or withdraw your choices.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings.

7. Third-Party Service Providers

We use third-party providers in connection with the operation, security, analytics and marketing of our website.

These may include:

• Wix, for website infrastructure and hosting;

• Google, for analytics and advertising measurement;

• Meta, for advertising measurement and audience functionality;

• LinkedIn, for advertising measurement and website insights;

• IT, security and technical service providers; and

• Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.

Depending on the nature of the service, a provider may process information on our behalf or may act as an independent controller for certain processing activities.

Their processing may also be subject to their own privacy terms.

We do not sell your personal information.

8. Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share personal information where reasonably necessary with:

• Website, cloud and technology providers

• Analytics and advertising providers

• Professional advisers

• Contractors supporting our business operations

• Regulatory, governmental or law-enforcement authorities where required by law

• Parties involved in a corporate transaction such as a restructuring, merger or acquisition, subject to appropriate safeguards

We only share personal information where there is an appropriate purpose and legal basis for doing so.

9. International Data Transfers

DAPHNE DIGITAL CONSULTANCY FZCO is based in the United Arab Emirates, and some of our service providers operate globally.

Your personal information may therefore be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you are located.

Where applicable data protection law restricts international transfers, we take steps designed to ensure that an appropriate transfer mechanism or safeguard is used.

Depending on the circumstances, these measures may include:

• Transfers to jurisdictions recognised as providing adequate protection;

• Standard contractual clauses or other approved contractual safeguards;

• Other transfer mechanisms permitted under applicable law; or

• An applicable legal derogation where permitted.

For personal information protected by the EU GDPR or UK GDPR, we seek to use an appropriate safeguard where personal data is transferred internationally and such a safeguard is legally required.

10. How Long We Keep Your Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and to satisfy applicable legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements.

Relevant factors may include:

• The nature of the information

• The purpose for which it was collected

• The duration of a business or recruitment relationship

• Legal limitation periods

• Legal or regulatory retention requirements

When information is no longer required, we will delete it, anonymise it or otherwise securely dispose of it where reasonably practicable.

Cookie and analytics retention periods may vary according to our settings and the practices of the relevant provider.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• Request access to your personal information

• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information

• Request deletion of your information

• Request restriction of processing

• Object to certain processing

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

• Request portability of certain personal information

• Obtain information about certain international transfers

• Lodge a complaint with an applicable data protection authority

These rights are subject to the conditions and exceptions provided under applicable law.

If the EU GDPR applies to you, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority in the European Economic Area.

If the UK GDPR applies to you, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

We encourage you to contact us first if you have a concern so that we have an opportunity to address it.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us at:

info@daphneconsulting.com

We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and respond to your request.

12. Automated Decision-Making

We do not use information submitted through our contact or careers forms to make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects about individuals solely by automated means.

13. Data Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, loss or destruction.

However, no method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

14. Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are intended primarily for businesses and professionals and are not directed at children.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through this website.

15. External Links

Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

We do not control and are not responsible for those third parties’ privacy practices. We recommend reviewing their privacy information before providing them with personal information.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, technologies, processing activities or legal obligations.

The latest version will be published on this page together with the applicable “Last updated” date.

17. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy, our use of personal information or a privacy request, please contact:

DAPHNE DIGITAL CONSULTANCY FZCO
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC)
Unit no: RET-R5-001 Detached Retail R5
Plot No: JLT-PH2-RET-R5
JLT, Dubai
United Arab Emirates

TRN: 100213870700003
Email: info@daphneconsulting.com