Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Alfondia is a business platform operated by Bahloul Beauty LLC, a limited liability company registered in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected and used when you visit this website (alfondia.com and its Arabic-language pages) or use the Contact form.

Information We Collect

We do not require you to create an account, and browsing this site alone does not require you to provide any personal information. We collect information you choose to give us directly:

• Contact form submissions: the enquiry type you select, your name, your email address, and the message you write.
• Cookies and similar technologies: if you consent, information collected through Google Analytics 4, Meta Pixel, and the LinkedIn Insight Tag, as described in “Cookies, Analytics and Marketing” below.

We do not knowingly collect any other personal information through this website.

How We Use Information

We use Contact form submissions to respond to your enquiry and for related business communication — for example, following up about a possible introduction, a business delegation, or a general question about Alfondia. Where you consent to Analytics or Marketing cookies, we use the resulting information to understand how this website is used and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing.

Business Information and Confidentiality

Alfondia's core service involves connecting qualified GCC business demand with relevant European companies. Where an introduction is facilitated between two businesses, any sensitive commercial or technical information relevant to that opportunity is exchanged directly between the parties involved, not routed through or stored by Alfondia beyond what is needed to make the introduction. Alfondia does not publish, sell, or otherwise disclose business information shared with it for the purpose of an introduction, except to the specific relevant counterparty as part of that introduction.

Legal Grounds for Processing

Where applicable data-protection law (such as the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”) requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we rely on: your consent, for Analytics and Marketing cookies; our legitimate interest in operating this website and responding to business enquiries; and the steps necessary to respond to your enquiry at your request.

Cookies, Analytics and Marketing

This website uses a cookie consent mechanism that lets you accept all, reject non-essential tracking, or manage your preferences by category: Necessary, Analytics, and Marketing. Necessary technologies are always active and are required for the site to function; nothing in the Analytics or Marketing categories loads until you consent to it, and you can change your choice at any time using the “Cookie preferences” link in the footer.

• Google Analytics 4 (Analytics): if you consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use this website. Google acts as a data processor for this purpose; see Google's own privacy policy for how it handles this information.
• Meta Pixel (Marketing): if you consent, we use the Meta Pixel to help measure the effectiveness of our marketing. Meta acts as a data processor and, in some circumstances, an independent controller for this purpose; see Meta's own privacy policy for detail.
• LinkedIn Insight Tag (Marketing): if you consent, we use the LinkedIn Insight Tag for the same marketing-measurement purpose. LinkedIn acts as a data processor and, in some circumstances, an independent controller for this purpose; see LinkedIn's own privacy policy for detail.

Your consent choice is stored using your browser's local storage, not a cookie; the section above and the footer link let you review or change it at any time.

Third-Party Services

We use a small number of service providers to operate this website and process Contact form submissions:

• Cloudflare, which hosts this website and runs the code that receives Contact form submissions.
• Resend, a transactional email provider, intended to deliver the internal notification email generated by a Contact form submission once production email delivery is configured.
• Google Analytics 4, Meta Pixel, and the LinkedIn Insight Tag, described above, each loaded only with your consent.

We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with any party for their own independent marketing purposes.

Sharing of Information

We do not share Contact form submissions with any party other than the small number of service providers described above, needed to operate this website and respond to your enquiry. Where an introduction between businesses is facilitated, relevant business information is shared only with the specific counterparty involved, as described in “Business Information and Confidentiality” above.

International Data Transfers

Our service providers (Cloudflare, Resend, and — where you consent — Google, Meta, and LinkedIn) operate global infrastructure, so information may be processed in countries other than your own, including outside the United Arab Emirates or the European Economic Area. Where applicable law requires specific safeguards for such transfers, we rely on the safeguards each provider makes available as part of its own service.

Data Retention

We retain Contact form submissions and related correspondence only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to your enquiry and for legitimate business record-keeping, after which we take reasonable steps to delete or anonymize it. Information collected through Analytics or Marketing cookies is retained according to the default retention settings of the relevant provider (Google, Meta, or LinkedIn), for only as long as your consent for that category remains in effect.

Data Security

This website is served over HTTPS. Contact form submissions are validated and checked for obvious signs of abuse (such as automated spam) before being processed. Beyond this, we have not implemented, and do not claim, any specific security certification.

Your Rights

Depending on where you are located, you may have rights under applicable data-protection law to ask what information we hold about you, and to ask us to correct, delete, or restrict it. Where our processing relies on your consent — such as Analytics or Marketing cookies — you may withdraw that consent at any time using the “Cookie preferences” link in the footer, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before you withdrew it. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below.

Children

This website is intended for business use and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

External Links

This website may link to other websites that Alfondia does not operate. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and we encourage you to review their own privacy policies.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time; any changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.