Privacy Policy
Website: mimarinteriors.com
Company: MIMAR Interiors (“MIMAR”, “we”, “us”, “our”)
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal data when you use our website, contact us, or subscribe to our communications. It is written for our Middle East operations and audience (including the UAE, Qatar, and Egypt), and is also designed to meet GDPR standards for visitors from the EEA/UK.
1) Contact details
MIMAR Interiors
Email: info@mimarinteriors.com
Locations: Dubai (UAE), Doha (Qatar), Cairo (Egypt)
For privacy requests, contact us using the email above and include enough information to identify you and your request.
2) What data do we collect
We may collect personal data in the following ways:
A) Information you provide
- Contact requests: name, email address, subject, and message content when you contact us through the website.
- Newsletter subscription: email address (and any other details you submit in the subscription form).
B) Information collected automatically
- Technical data: IP address, browser type, device identifiers, operating system, language, and approximate location derived from IP.
- Usage data: pages viewed, time spent, clicks, referral source, and related website activity.
- Cookies and similar technologies: described in Section 8.
3) How we use your data
We use personal data for the following purposes:
- To respond to enquiries and communicate with you.
- To provide our newsletter and updates when you subscribe.
- To operate and secure the website, including troubleshooting and preventing abuse.
- To improve our services and understand website performance (where enabled).
- To comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests.
4) Legal bases for processing (GDPR and regional alignment)
Where GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases:
- Consent: for newsletter subscriptions and non-essential cookies (where implemented).
- Contract / pre-contract steps: where you request proposals, services, or information leading to a contract.
- Legitimate interests: to respond to enquiries, run our business, secure the website, and improve services, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights.
- Legal obligation: when required by applicable law.
In Middle East jurisdictions, we process personal data in accordance with applicable local requirements and recognized privacy principles (lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, and security).
5) Who we share data with
We do not sell personal data.
We may share personal data with:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers (including the hosting platform used to run this website).
- Email and communications providers used to deliver newsletters and manage communications (if applicable).
- Professional advisers (legal, insurance, and audit) as needed.
- Regulators, courts, or law enforcement where required by law.
Service providers who process personal data on our behalf are required to protect it and only use it under our instructions.
6) International transfers
Because we operate across Dubai, Doha, and Cairo, your personal data may be processed or accessed in multiple countries.
If you are located in the EEA/UK, and personal data is transferred outside the EEA/UK, we use appropriate safeguards such as:
- Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), and/or
- other approved transfer mechanisms under GDPR.
You can request more information about safeguards by emailing us.
7) Data retention
We keep personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described:
- Enquiries and contact requests: typically up to 12 months after the last interaction, unless longer retention is required for a business need or legal reason.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent, plus a limited period to maintain suppression records (so we honor opt-outs).
- Technical logs: typically 30 to 90 days unless needed for security, fraud prevention, or system integrity.
8) Cookies and tracking technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to support:
- Strictly necessary cookies (security and core site functionality)
- Preference cookies (remembering selections, if enabled)
- Analytics cookies (measuring traffic and usage, if enabled)
- Marketing / social cookies (if enabled)
Where required, non-essential cookies should be used only after you provide consent through a cookie banner or settings panel. You can also control cookies through your browser settings.
Third-party platforms: Our website may link to third-party social networks (such as Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn). Those platforms process personal data under their own privacy policies.
9) Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal data, including:
- Access to the personal data we hold about you
- Correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Deletion (in certain cases)
- Restriction of processing (in certain cases)
- Objection to processing based on legitimate interests (where applicable)
- Data portability (in certain cases)
- Withdrawal of consent at any time (for processing based on consent)
To exercise your rights, email info@mimarinteriors.com.
10) Security
We apply reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data. While we work to safeguard your information, no online transmission or storage system can be guaranteed fully secure.
11) Children
This website is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
12) Updates to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page and the Effective date will be revised.