Last updated : 05th April 2023 ( Version 2.0 )

When you browse our website, and send you data about you, for example, by emailing us, you trust us with your information. We understand this is a huge responsibility, and we work hard to protect your information and put you in control.

This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand what information we collect and why we collect it, as well as how we may process your personal data. Note that this notice may be subject to modification or updating from time to time. So please follow it regularly to see the updates.

This notice explains how we may process your personal data. This Notice may be amended or updated from time to time, so please check it regularly for updates.

This notice is issued by ALMOUNTAKHAB on behalf of itself, its subsidiaries and its affiliates (together, “ALMOUNTAKHAB”, “we”, “us” and “our”) and is addressed to individuals outside our organisation with whom we interact, including visitors to our websites, users of our Apps, and other users of our services (together, “you”).

This notice may be amended or updated from time to time to reflect changes in our practices with respect to the processing of personal data, or changes in applicable law. We encourage you to read this notice carefully, and to regularly check this page to review any changes we might make in accordance with the terms of this Notice.

Collection of Personal Data

We may collect or obtain Personal Data about you: directly from you (e.g., where you contact us); when you make your Personal Data public (e.g., if you make a public post about us on social media); when you download, install, or use any of our Apps; when you visit our Sites; or when you interact with any third party content or advertising on a Site or in an App.

We may collect Personal Data about you from the following sources:

  • Data you provide: We may obtain your Personal Data when you provide it to us (e.g., where you contact us via email).
  • Data you make public: We may obtain your Personal Data that you manifestly choose to make public, including via social media.
  • App data: We may obtain your Personal Data when you download or use any of our Apps.
  • Site data: We may obtain your Personal Data when you visit any of our Sites or use any features or resources available on or through a Site.
  • Content and advertising information: If you choose to interact with any third party content or advertising on a Site or in an App, we may receive Personal Data about you from the relevant third party.
  • Third party information: We may collect or obtain your Personal Data from third parties who provide it to us (e.g., credit reference agencies; law enforcement authorities; etc.).

Categories of Personal Data we may Process

We may Process the following categories of Personal Data about you:

  • Personal details: name.
  • Contact details: correspondence address.
  • Consent records: records of any consents you may have given, together with the date and time, means of consent and any related information (e.g., the subject matter of the consent).
  • Content and advertising data: records of your interactions with our online advertising and content, records of advertising and content displayed on pages.
  • Views and opinions: any views and opinions that you express and/or choose to send to us, or publicly post about us on social media platforms.

Purposes for which we may Process your Personal Data

The purposes for which we may Process Personal Data, subject to applicable law, include:

  • Provision of services to you: providing our Sites, Apps, or services to you; providing you with services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request; and communicating with you in relation to those services.
  • Journalistic purposes: Creation, selection and rendering of content and media in audio, video, print, online, broadcast and other formats, in connection with news, current affairs, education and entertainment purposes; news gathering purposes; and editorial purposes.
  • Our Sites and Apps: operating and managing our Sites and our Apps; providing content to you; displaying advertising and other information to you; communicating and interacting with you via our Sites and our Apps; and notifying you of changes to any of our Sites, our Apps, or our services.
  • Communications: communicating with you by sending to you news items and other information in which you may be interested, subject to ensuring that such communications are provided to you in compliance with applicable law; maintaining and updating your contact information where appropriate; and obtaining your prior, opt-in consent where required.
  • Legal proceedings: establishing, exercising and defending legal rights.
  • Legal compliance: compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations under applicable law.
  • Improving our Sites, Apps, services: identifying issues with our Sites, our Apps, or our services; planning improvements to our Sites, our Apps, or our services; and creating new Sites, Apps, or services.

Disclosure of Personal Data to third parties

We may disclose your Personal Data to:

  • legal and regulatory authorities, upon request, or for the purposes of reporting any actual or suspected breach of applicable law or regulation;
  • third party Processors;
  • any relevant party, law enforcement agency or court, to the extent necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal rights;
  • any relevant party for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security;
  • any relevant third party provider, where our Sites and our Apps use third party advertising, plugins or content. If you choose to interact with any such advertising, plugins or content, your Personal Data may be shared with the relevant third party provider. We recommend that you review that third party’s privacy policy before interacting with its advertising, plugins or content.

If we engage a third-party Processor to Process your Personal Data, the Processor will be subject to binding contractual obligations to:

  • only Process the Personal Data in accordance with our prior written instructions;
  • (ii) use measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the Personal Data; together with any additional requirements under applicable law.

Data security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures designed to protect your Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure, unauthorised access, and other unlawful or unauthorised forms of Processing, in accordance with applicable law.

Because the internet is an open system, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will implement all reasonable measures to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us using the internet – any such transmission is at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring that any Personal Data that you send to us are sent securely.

Your legal rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have a number of rights regarding the Processing of your Relevant Personal Data, including:

  • the right not to provide your Personal Data to us, however, please note that we may be unable to provide you with the full benefit of our Sites, our Apps, or our services, if you do not provide us with your Personal Data;
  • the right to request access to, or copies of, your Relevant Personal Data, together with information regarding the nature, Processing and disclosure of those Relevant Personal Data;
  • the right to request rectification of any inaccuracies in your Relevant Personal Data;
  • the right to request, on legitimate grounds: erasure of your Relevant Personal Data; or restriction of Processing of your Relevant Personal Data;
  • where we Process your Relevant Personal Data on the basis of your consent, the right to withdraw that consent opt-out 
  • the right to lodge complaints with a Data Protection Authority regarding the Processing of your Relevant Personal Data by us or on our behalf.

To exercise one or more of these rights, or to ask a question about these rights or any other provision of this Notice, or about our Processing of your Personal Data, please use the contact details provided below.

Please note that we may require proof of your identity before we can give effect to these rights; and where your request requires the establishment of additional facts (e.g., a determination of whether any Processing is non-compliant with applicable law) we will investigate your request reasonably promptly, before deciding what action to take.

Cookies and similar technologies

When you visit a Site or use an App we may place Cookies onto your device, or read Cookies already on your device, subject always to obtaining your consent, where required, in accordance with applicable law.

We use Cookies to record information about your device, your browser and, in some cases, your preferences and browsing habits. We may Process your Personal Data through Cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with our Cookie Policy.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads, also, Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads.

External links

Our website contains links to other external sites, and also uses sites and services that analyze visitor statistics, and we are not responsible for the privacy policy of those sites or their contents, or for the way they collect information, and by visiting our site, you acknowledge our right to use these services.

Some websites may change their address or stop working for a temporary or permanent period, and we, for our part, will try to delete or amend these links as much as possible.

Direct marketing

We may Process your Personal Data to contact you with information regarding services that may be of interest to you. You may unsubscribe for free at any time.

You may unsubscribe from our promotional email list at any time by simply clicking on the unsubscribe link (opt-out) included in every email we send. After you unsubscribe (opt out), we will not send you further promotional emails, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any services you have requested.

This site uses Google Adsense ads, and these ads may cause a cookie file (cookies and web beacons) to collect simple, non-personal information about the visitor such as the type of browser and date … knowing that it does not cause any harm to your computer, and is only found to improve the service and performance.

Third-Party Services

Some Almountakhab Services contain links to third-party websites, resources, vendors and advertisers. These third parties are not Almountakhab Services. Additionally, Almountakhab Services may be available to you through third-party digital properties such as Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). We do not control (and are not responsible for) third party content or privacy practices. These third parties may independently collect and solicit information about you and affect your data preferences when you access the Almountakhab Services on third-party digital properties. Any personal information you provide to them is not covered by this Privacy Policy. These third parties have their own policies and practices about data, which may include what information they share with us, your rights and choices on their services and devices. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with their privacy policies and terms of use.

Contact details

If you have any comments, questions or concerns about any of the information in this Notice, or any other issues relating to the Processing of Personal Data carried out by us, or on our behalf, please contact us:

  • 42 Bis, Av Madagascar, Rabat - Morocco
  • You may contact us by using our online form.

Definitions

  • “App” means any application made available by us (including where we make such applications available via third party stores or marketplaces, or by any other means).
  • “Adequate Jurisdiction” a jurisdiction that has been formally designated by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Data.
  • “Cookie” means a small file that is placed on your device when you visit a website (including our Sites). In this Notice, a reference to a “Cookie” includes analogous technologies such as web beacons and clear GIFs.
  • “Controller” means the entity that decides how and why Personal Data are Processed. In many jurisdictions, the Controller has primary responsibility for complying with applicable data protection laws.
  • “Data Protection Authority” means an independent public authority that is legally tasked with overseeing compliance with applicable data protection laws.
  • “Personal Data” means information that is about any individual, or from which any individual is directly or indirectly identifiable, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that individual.
  • “Process”, “Processing” or “Processed” means anything that is done with any Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
  • “Processor” means any person or entity that Processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller (other than employees of the Controller).
  • “Relevant Personal Data” means Personal Data in respect of which we are the Controller. It expressly does not include Personal Data of which we are not the Controller.
  • “Sensitive Personal Data” means Personal Data about race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, any actual or alleged criminal offences or penalties, national identification number, or any other information that may be deemed to be sensitive under applicable law.
  • “Standard Contractual Clauses” means template transfer clauses adopted by the European Commission or adopted by a Data Protection Authority and approved by the European Commission.
  • “Site” means any website operated, or maintained, by us or on our behalf.