Effective Date: July 2, 2025 Last Updated: July 2, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Alabhar.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”), operated by Ahmed Alabhar, collects, uses, processes, and protects your personal data when you visit our website at https://alabhar.com/ (the “Website”).

We are deeply committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring transparency in our data practices. We strive to comply with applicable data protection laws, including the Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL No. 151 of 2020), the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (for visitors from the EEA or UK), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the CPRA (for California residents). By using our Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Who We Are

Alabhar.com is a strategic insight hub for business & technology leaders navigating complexity in public institutions and large enterprises, from the lens of an Arab professional. We deliver frameworks, articles, and tools at the intersection of systems thinking, digital transformation, and policy-aware innovation. Our aim is to provide valuable knowledge and, in the future, offer consulting services and digital products.

2. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information from and about users of our Website. This includes information that may be considered “personal data” or “personal information” under applicable laws.

a. Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us: This is information you directly give us when you interact with our Website.

  • Newsletter Subscription: When you subscribe to our free “Insight Letter,” we collect your email address. Your subscription signifies your explicit consent to receive communications from us.
  • Contact Forms: When you submit a query via our “Contact Us” form, we collect your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include in your message.
  • Future Digital Product Purchases (e.g., templates, courses, guidelines): If you purchase items from our Website in the future, we will collect information necessary to complete the transaction, which may include your name, email address, billing address, and payment information (e.g., credit card details). Payment information will be processed securely by third-party payment processors (see Section 4).
  • Future Consultancy Inquiries/Engagements: If you inquire about or engage our consulting services, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, organization name, job title, and specific details related to your project or needs.
  • Comments and Interactions: If you leave comments on our blog posts, we collect the data shown in the comments form (your name and email), and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Feedback/Surveys: Information you provide when participating in optional surveys or offering feedback.

b. Information We Collect Automatically (via Cookies and Tracking Technologies): When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and Browse actions. This typically includes:

  • Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our Website, such as pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, referral source, and navigation paths.
  • Technical Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen resolution, language settings, and other unique device identifiers.
  • Location Data: General geographical location inferred from your IP address.
  • Cookies: Small data files stored on your device. For more details, see our “Cookies Policy” section below.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, primarily to operate our Website, provide our current and future services, and enhance your experience. Our legal basis for processing your data depends on the specific context:

  • To Deliver Our “Insight Letter”: To send you our free newsletter containing articles, frameworks, and updates. (Legal Basis: Consent, based on your subscription).
  • To Respond to Inquiries and Provide Support: To communicate with you regarding your questions or comments submitted via contact forms. (Legal Basis: Legitimate Interests to respond to your queries, and Contractual Necessity if your query relates to a potential service agreement).
  • To Process Digital Product Purchases (Future): To manage your orders, process payments, deliver digital products, and provide customer support related to purchases. (Legal Basis: Contractual Necessity).
  • To Facilitate Consultancy Engagements (Future): To communicate about and deliver our consulting services. (Legal Basis: Contractual Necessity, and Legitimate Interests for initial outreach/management).
  • To Improve Our Website and Content: To analyze user behavior, identify popular topics, and optimize user experience, ensuring our content is relevant and valuable. (Legal Basis: Legitimate Interests, and Consent for analytics cookies).
  • For Analytics and Performance Monitoring: To track Website usage and performance using tools like Google Analytics to understand traffic patterns and content engagement. (Legal Basis: Consent, and Legitimate Interests – particularly if data is anonymized).
  • To Ensure Security and Prevent Fraud: To protect our Website and users from unauthorized access, spam, fraud, or other illegal activities. (Legal Basis: Legal Obligation, Legitimate Interests).
  • To Comply with Legal Obligations: To meet our legal and regulatory requirements, such as responding to lawful requests from public authorities. (Legal Basis: Legal Obligation).

4. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with the following categories of trusted third parties, only when necessary and in accordance with this Privacy Policy:

  • Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf. These may include:
    • Website Hosting: Our website is hosted on [Your specific hosting provider, e.g., SiteGround or WP Engine].
    • Email Marketing Services: We use [Your specific email marketing provider, e.g., Noptin] to manage our newsletter subscriptions and send email communications.
    • Analytics Services: Google Analytics helps us understand website traffic and user behavior. Google’s privacy policy is available on their website.
    • Payment Processors (Future): If you purchase digital products or services, your payment information will be securely processed by third-party payment gateways such as Stripe or PayPal. We do not directly store your full payment card details.
    • Spam Detection Services: Services like Akismet are used to filter spam from blog comments.
  • Legal Compliance and Protection: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you of any such transfer and choices you may have.

5. International Data Transfers

As an Egyptian entity providing insights globally, your data may be transferred to, and stored in, countries outside of Egypt, including the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or the United States, where our service providers may operate.

When we transfer your personal data internationally, we take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. These safeguards may include:

  • Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): For transfers from the EEA/UK where applicable.
  • Adequacy Decisions: Relying on countries deemed to have adequate data protection laws by relevant authorities.
  • Your Consent: Where appropriate and necessary for the transfer.

By using our Website, you acknowledge that your personal data may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries other than Egypt, which may have different data protection laws.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

  • Newsletter Subscribers: We retain your email address for as long as you remain subscribed to our “Insight Letter.” You can unsubscribe at any time via the link provided in our emails, and your email address will then be removed from our active mailing list.
  • Contact Form Submissions: We retain these records for a period of up to 12 months to manage inquiries, ensure service quality, and for our legitimate business interests, unless you specifically request earlier deletion.
  • Purchase Data (Future): Data related to purchases will be retained for a longer period due to legal (e.g., tax, consumer protection) and accounting obligations, typically for a minimum of 5-7 years as required by financial regulations.
  • Website Analytics Data: Data collected via analytics tools like Google Analytics is typically retained for up to 26 months, or as per the default settings of the service, often in an aggregated and anonymized form.
  • Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to allow us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 11. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws and may need to verify your identity to protect your data.

a. Under Egyptian PDPL:

  • Right to Access: To request access to your personal data that we hold.
  • Right to Rectification: To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): To request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances (e.g., when it’s no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected).
  • Right to Object to Processing: To object to the processing of your personal data for certain purposes (e.g., direct marketing).
  • Right to Restriction of Processing: To request the restriction of processing your data under certain conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability: To receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another controller.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your explicit consent to process your data (e.g., for newsletters), you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

b. Under GDPR (for EEA/UK Residents): You have the same rights as listed under Egyptian PDPL (Access, Rectification, Erasure, Object, Restriction, Data Portability, Withdraw Consent), plus:

  • Right to Lodge a Complaint: To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your rights have been violated.

c. Under CCPA/CPRA (for California Residents): You have certain rights concerning your personal information, including:

  • Right to Know: To request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources from which we collected it, the purposes for collecting or selling it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
  • Right to Delete: To request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: The right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information (as defined by CCPA/CPRA). Note: Alabhar.com does not sell your personal information.
  • Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information: To request correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: To limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

8. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include using SSL encryption for data transmission, securing our hosting environment, implementing access controls for data, conducting regular security audits, and staff training on data handling best practices. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is strictly intended for individuals who are 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at info@alabhar.com. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from individuals under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers promptly.

10. Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

11. Cookies Policy

Our Website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your Browse experience, analyze Website traffic, and understand user engagement.

  • What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
  • How We Use Cookies: We use cookies for:
    • Essential/Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for the basic functioning of our Website (e.g., maintaining user sessions, enabling contact forms, remembering your cookie preferences).
    • Analytical/Performance Cookies: To collect information about how visitors use our Website (e.g., pages visited, time spent). This helps us improve our Website’s performance and content. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose.
    • Functionality Cookies: To remember choices you make (e.g., language preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
    • Marketing/Targeting Cookies: (If applicable in the future) These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.
  • Third-Party Cookies: Some cookies are placed by third-party services integrated into our pages (e.g., embedded YouTube videos, social media share buttons, Google Analytics, future payment gateways). These third parties have their own privacy policies.
  • Managing Cookies: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Cookie Consent: We will present you with a cookie consent banner upon your first visit to our Website, allowing you to manage your cookie preferences and grant explicit consent for non-essential cookies.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us: