Our privacy policy
Time Out Abu Dhabi always promises to serve its audience with integrity and honesty. The same is true for what we publish online. Time Out Abu Dhabi has developed this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and to disclose our information-gathering and -sharing practices for www.timeoutabudhabi.com (the "site"). By visiting the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. Our site will develop and evolve over time, and this policy may change to reflect that.


The Time Out Abu Dhabi privacy promise
We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. We are also committed to the following: (1) We will not pass on any individual user details unless we have your prior consent; and (2) if we don’t have your consent to pass on individual user details, we will only give advertisers aggregate statistics about the number of users and their traffic patterns.


Personal information
Time Out Abu Dhabi does not require you to provide any personal information in order to access the site. However, if you choose to fill out any reader surveys or participate in a contest, you will be asked to supply some information about yourself, including your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.

Time Out Abu Dhabi does keep track of the number of visitors to the site, the pages they visit and how long they stay. In addition, Time Out Abu Dhabi collects information from visitors who click on banner advertisements so that we are able to measure interest in the various areas of our site and inform advertisers as to how many visitors have seen or clicked on their advertising banners. Time Out Abu Dhabi also uses demographic and preference information to allow advertising banners on our site to be targeted, in the aggregate, to the readers for whom they are most pertinent.

We collect these kinds of personal information for four main reasons: (1) to help us continually improve the service we offer; (2) to sell advertising space on the site to appropriate advertisers; (3) to introduce willing users to companies associated with Time Out Abu Dhabi; and (4) to e-mail users with details of offers and competitions (for as long as they wish to receive such information). Time Out Abu Dhabi discloses this information to advertisers.


Your right to decide how your personal information is used
Areas of our site that request personal information contain a box that, if checked, will enable Time Out Abu Dhabi to contact you for internal marketing purposes (e.g., to send you information about special events, discounts and offers). If you don’t want your information to be used for any of these purposes, you should not check the box. If we ever request that you volunteer additional information, such as financial data or age—in an online survey, for example—your response will always be voluntary. In addition, there will always be a box for you to check if you choose to enable us to disclose such information to a third party.


Third-party disclosure of personal information

1. Links to other sites: Our site contains links to other sites that are not under our control, even though some of them may feature the Time Out Abu Dhabi logo through a marketing agreement with us. Time Out Abu Dhabi cannot be held responsible for the privacy policies of other companies. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit on the Internet.

2. On occasion, Time Out Abu Dhabi sponsors special promotions, sweepstakes and contests that are hosted by partner websites, which may require that your browser accept cookies.

3. Magazine subscriptions: Time Out Abu Dhabi subscriptions are managed by The Information & Technology Publishing Co. Ltd, publishers of Time Out Abu Dhabi. Time Out Abu Dhabi sometimes makes the names and addresses of our magazine subscribers available to carefully screened organisations outside Time Out Abu Dhabi whose products and activities might prove interesting to you. If you do not wish to receive mailings from such organizations, please let us know by writing to us at Time Out Abu Dhabi, PO Box 500024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

4. Required disclosures: Time Out Abu Dhabi cooperates with all law-enforcement inquiries and reserves the right to disclose personally identifying or aggregate information in connection with a subpoena or other court-sanctioned demand for such information.