Use of GulfBarter.com is governed by our Privacy Policy, which is as follows:
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes how Al-Ameri International, or GulfBarter.com collects and uses the personal information you provide on our web site Gulfbarter.com and Mobile Software. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. By using, accessing or participating in the Service, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings set forth in the Terms of Use (located at GulfBarter.com/Terms-Of-Use). If you have questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us at info@GulfBarter.com.
We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time. If we do this, we will post a notice that we have made material changes to this Privacy Policy on the Site for at least 7 days before the changes are posted and will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date this policy was last revised. Any revisions to this Privacy Policy will become effective (i) on the effective date or (ii) the first time you access or use the Service after any such changes. If you do not agree to abide by this or any future Privacy Policy, do not use, access or participate in (or continue to use, access or participate in) the Service. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
When you use the Service you provide us with two types of information: (i) information you submit via the Service and (ii) information regarding your use of the Service collected by us as you interact with the Service.
When you enter the Site, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all GulfBarter visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. We also use persistent cookies to remember sign-in status, search preferences, and Space origination information so that you do not have to enter it again the next time you visit. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” directory. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide you certain features (e.g., customized search of barter deals) available on the Site. The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company, service providers is not covered by our privacy policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. We use Google Analytics to track application usage, performance, and availability. We do not tie the information gathered to our Users’ personally identifiable information.
Through the registration process you may provide us with your name, company affiliation, email address, telephone number, physical address, logo, products and services offering, requirements for barter trade and other information that may be requested during the registration process on the Site. If you wish to create an account that requires payment of a fee, or use services offered via the Site that require payment of a fee, a valid credit card number or other payment information may be required. By submitting your payment information, you authorize GulfBarter to access and use this information in order to provide you with and accept payment for the Service through a third party banking or merchant i.e. paypal.
When you use the Service you may submit information and content to your Profile, send messages, perform searches, submit reviews, and otherwise transmit information to other GulfBarter Users. We store this information and registration information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.
We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
If you use the Mobile Software, your location may be tracked on the mobile device on which the Mobile Software is installed. GulfBarter will not collect, transmit or otherwise use this information without your permission. We may use location data to provide you relevant search results for barter deals in your area. To opt out of location tracking, please change your settings at the device level.
We do not collect personally identifiable information from you to track you over time and across third party websites. As a result, we do not specifically respond to web browser Do Not Track ("DNT") signals.
GulfBarter does not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register for GulfBarter.com or send any information about you to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on GulfBarter.com. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a minor under 18, please contact us at info@GulfBarter.com.
Once you register with GulfBarter, you may create your Profile. Your Profile information, as well as your contact information, are displayed to other Users. We may occasionally use your contact information to send you notifications regarding new services offered by GulfBarter and its partners that we think you may find valuable. GulfBarter may also send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the Service. Generally, you may opt out of such emails by following the unsubscribe option included in each email, although GulfBarter reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications. GulfBarter provides push notifications for BarterMail, if any user have offered you barter deal against your posting, deal negotiation, and so on. To turn off push notifications, please edit your personal settings on your profile.
Profile information and your activity is used by GulfBarter primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the Service and to be presented to other Users. The amount of such information presented to other Users will depend on your relationship with those Users. If you register for the Service via a referral from a Professional, GulfBarter will inform the Professional when you register for the Service and begin browsing listings on the Service, and will provide the Professional with information regarding your barter listing. In some cases, other Users may be able to supplement your Profile or contribute information about your barter listing/offers, including by submitting comments and reviews. You consent to GulfBarter making such information available to other Users and the public. You may change the privacy settings of your profile through your account portal. Information from your Profile may be available to our third party service provider for search engines. This is primarily so that potential users may be able to find you.
GulfBarter may use non-identifiable aggregate data (based partly on IP addresses) collected through the Service to analyze Service usage and system performance. Such data may be used by GulfBarter and shared with third parties in any manner.
You may choose to provide information about you, your company or organization or, your listing to other Users and to the public by providing such information on public areas of the Site (“Public Information”). Public Information consists of information that is posted by you on areas of the Site accessible by other Users and/or the public, such as barter deal descriptions. Public information does not include information you submit to us but do not post on areas of the Site accessible by other Users and/or the public, such as billing and payment information (“Non-Public Information”).
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We share your Non-Public Information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is reasonably necessary to offer the Service, legally required or permitted by you. For example:
When you use the Service, certain information you post or share with third parties (including other Users), such as comments, reviews, barter listings or other information, may be shared with other Users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose confidential information in your Profile or when posting comments, reviews or other submissions, this information may become publicly available.
Your posting of Public Information to public areas of the Site constitutes your consent to share such Public Information publicly. Please be aware that Public Information will be accessible by both Users and the general public. Nothing in this Privacy Policy shall restrict GulfBarter right to use Public Information. To request removal of your personal information from public areas of the Site, please contact us. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
GulfBarter may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage Users to be aware when they leave the Site to read the privacy statements of other web sites that collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by GulfBarter via the Site.
You can log in to our site using sign-in services such as an Open ID provider ie. Google, facebook, twitter, passport. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Linked In Open ID provider give you the option to post information about your activities on this web site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
Our web site includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and widgets, such as the ShareThis button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Advertisements that appear on GulfBarter are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to Users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. GulfBarter does not have access to or control of the cookies or other technologies that may be used by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on GulfBarter unless you choose to share it with them. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by contacting us at info@GulfBarter.com. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by GulfBarter and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Users may modify or delete their Profile information by logging into their account. Removed information may persist in backup copies but will not be generally available to other Users. Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other Users (e.g., sending a message to another User) you generally cannot remove such communications from the Site. Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use (GulfBarter.com/Terms-Of-Use) and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
GulfBarter takes reasonable precautions to protect Users’ Non-Public Information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information, such as a credit card number on our order forms or transmit location data, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you have any questions about security please contact us.
By providing GulfBarter with your personal information, you consent to the collection, transfer and processing of your personal information and agree that your personal information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts or law enforcement in the State of Qatar according to the laws of Qatar.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or GulfBarter privacy practices in general, please contact us as provided for below. To have us correct any erroneous information, to discontinue receipt of certain types of communications or to ask us to delete any of your Non-Public Information we have stored that is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. We will respond to your request to access Non-Public Information within 30 days.
Email: info@GulfBarter.com
Address: QIIB Building 1st Floor Apartment No 2, Al-Rayyan Al-Jadeed, Doha, Qatar.
Tel: +974 5553 5413
