How the Arabian Best of Best Awards collects, uses, protects and shares the personal data you entrust to us.
Last updated: 01 January 2026. The Arabian Best of Best Awards ("we", "us", "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This policy explains how we collect and use information when you interact with our website, nomination forms, gala registration, and related services.
The Arabian Best of Best Awards is a business recognition platform headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For privacy queries, please write to privacy@arabianawards.com.
We collect information you provide directly to us when submitting a nomination, registering for the gala, contacting us, subscribing to our communications or applying for sponsorship. This may include your name, job title, company, email, phone number, country, industry, supporting documents, photographs and any free text content you submit.
We also collect limited technical information automatically when you visit our website, including IP address, browser type, device, referring URL and the pages you view. This information is used to operate, secure and improve the website.
We use personal data to evaluate award nominations, communicate with shortlisted candidates and winners, manage gala attendance, send programme updates you have opted into, respond to enquiries, fulfil contractual obligations, ensure the security of our platform and comply with applicable law.
Where applicable, we process personal data on the basis of your consent, the performance of a contract with you (such as gala registration), our legitimate interests in operating an awards programme, and compliance with legal obligations.
We share personal data with our jury panel and audit advisors strictly for the purpose of evaluating nominations under confidentiality. We share data with service providers (such as hosting, email delivery, analytics, payments and event management) who process data on our behalf under contractual safeguards. We may publish the names, logos and award titles of winners in our marketing, press releases and gala materials.
Personal data may be processed in jurisdictions outside your country of residence. Where required, we put in place appropriate safeguards including standard contractual clauses.
We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy or as required by law. Unsuccessful nomination data is typically retained for two award cycles to inform jury benchmarking, after which it is anonymized or deleted.
Subject to applicable law, you have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, port and object to the processing of your personal data, and to withdraw consent. To exercise any of these rights, please write to privacy@arabianawards.com.
We use a small number of essential cookies to operate our website and analytics cookies to understand usage. You can control cookies via your browser settings. Disabling analytics cookies will not affect your ability to submit a nomination.
We use industry standard safeguards to protect personal data including encryption in transit, access controls and regular security reviews. No system is perfectly secure, and we encourage you not to share sensitive information in free text fields.
Our services are intended for adult business professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.
For any privacy related question or request, please contact privacy@arabianawards.com or use the form on our Contact page.