Privacy Policy – LIT UAE

Effective Date: 20/10/2024
Last Updated: 08/04/2026

Lit UAE (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations of the United Arab Emirates. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share and protect your personal data when you visit or interact with lituae.com and any related pages, forms, directories, newsletters, or services operated by Lit UAE.

By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Lit UAE is a UAE-focused website and directory providing content, recommendations, listings, guides, and related digital services about restaurants, cafes, activities, attractions, and places to visit in the UAE.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal data is handled, you may contact us at:

Website: https://lituae.com/contact-us/

2. Personal Data We Collect

Depending on how you use our website, we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

Identity data: such as your name.
Contact data: such as your email address, phone number, or other details you submit through contact forms or listing enquiries.
Account or submission data: information you provide when submitting a listing, enquiry, comment, review, or other user-generated content.
Technical data: such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referral source, and website usage information.
Marketing and communications data: your preferences relating to newsletters, promotional messages, or updates from us.
Cookies and analytics data: information collected through cookies, analytics tools, and similar technologies.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We may collect personal data in the following ways:

When you contact us through forms, email, or other communication channels.
When you subscribe to a newsletter or marketing update.
When you submit a listing, business information, event information, or other content to the website.
When you browse our website, through cookies, server logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
When you interact with embedded content, maps, social media widgets, or third-party tools on our website.

4. Why We Use Your Personal Data

We use personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so and for legitimate website and business purposes, including:

To operate, maintain, and improve our website and services.
To respond to your enquiries, requests, or submissions.
To publish, manage, or update listings and related content you submit.
To send newsletters or marketing communications where you have opted in or where otherwise permitted by law.
To analyse website traffic, improve user experience, and understand audience interests.
To detect, prevent, or investigate fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity.
To comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, and administrative obligations in the UAE.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

Where required under applicable UAE law, we process personal data on one or more of the following bases:

Your consent.
The performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering into a contract.
Compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Our legitimate interests in operating, protecting, and improving Lit UAE, provided such interests do not override your rights.

Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time, subject to any lawful basis that may continue to apply.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies to:

keep the website functioning properly;
remember preferences and settings;
measure traffic and performance;
understand user behaviour and improve content;
support advertising and remarketing, where applicable.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that some parts of the website may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

If we use advertising services such as Google AdSense or similar ad technology providers, those providers may use cookies or similar technologies to serve and measure ads in accordance with their own privacy policies.

7. Third-Party Services

We may use trusted third-party service providers to operate our website and services, including providers for:

website hosting and security;
analytics;
email newsletter delivery;
maps and location services;
social media embeds;
spam prevention and form processing;
advertising and monetisation.

These third parties may process limited personal data on our behalf or as independent controllers in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable law.

8. Sharing of Personal Data

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your personal data only where necessary and lawful, including with:

service providers supporting the operation of our website and business;
professional advisers, where necessary;
government authorities, regulators, law enforcement bodies, or courts where required by law or lawful request;
a buyer, investor, successor, or affiliate in connection with a business transaction, restructuring, or asset transfer, subject to appropriate safeguards.

9. User-Submitted Listings, Reviews and Content

If you submit business details, listing information, reviews, comments, or other content to Lit UAE, we may publish the information you provide on the website where relevant to the purpose of the submission.

You are responsible for ensuring that any information you submit is accurate, lawful, and does not infringe the rights of any third party. We reserve the right to edit, reject, remove, or moderate submissions at our discretion.

10. International Transfers

Your personal data may be stored or processed in the UAE or in other countries where our service providers operate. Where personal data is transferred outside the UAE, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that such transfers are handled in accordance with applicable UAE legal requirements and appropriate safeguards.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to satisfy legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, security, dispute-resolution, and operational requirements.

When personal data is no longer required, we will delete it, anonymise it, or securely store it only where continued retention is required by law or justified for a lawful purpose.

12. Data Security

We take reasonable technical, organisational, and administrative measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no website, server, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for keeping any passwords, account credentials, or access details confidential where applicable.

13. Your Rights

Subject to applicable UAE law, you may have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

request access to your personal data;
request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
request deletion of personal data in certain circumstances;
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
object to certain processing, where applicable;
request restriction of processing in certain cases;
request data transfer where applicable and technically feasible.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details listed in this Privacy Policy. We may request information to verify your identity before processing your request.

14. Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter or agree to receive promotional communications, we may send you updates, features, offers, or content related to Lit UAE. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us directly.

We will not use your personal data for direct marketing in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable UAE law.

15. Children’s Privacy

Lit UAE is not intended for children unless expressly stated otherwise. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children in violation of applicable law. If you believe that a child has provided personal data to us without proper authorisation, please contact us so we can take appropriate steps.

16. External Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, maps, booking platforms, and other external services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of those third-party websites or services. You should review their privacy policies before providing them with your personal data.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, technology, legal requirements, or business operations. Any updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Your continued use of Lit UAE after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy to the extent permitted by law.

18. Contact Us

If you have any questions, requests, or complaints relating to this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal data, please contact us at:

Lit UAE
Website: https://lituae.com