Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026.

This Privacy Policy explains how Aljaweea collects, uses and protects your personal data, and what rights you have over it. Aljaweea is the daily bilingual (English and Arabic) aerospace and aviation news publication; the publication is operated by Mena Alfadaya, the publishing company. In this policy, “Aljaweea”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Mena Alfadaya operating the Aljaweea publication.

This policy covers the website aljaweea.com and the ways you can contact us through it. It does not cover external websites we may link to; those have their own privacy policies.

1. Who we are (the data controller)

The data controller responsible for your personal data is:

Mena Alfadaya Media and Marketing Co (شركة مينا الفضائية للدعاية والتسويق), a single-person company registered in Kuwait — Commercial Registration No. 530702, Altujjar Tower, Abdulaziz Hamad Al Saqer Street, Mirqab, Kuwait. Operating the publication: Aljaweea (aljaweea.com)

For any question about this policy, or to exercise your rights over your personal data, you can contact us at: [email protected]

2. What personal data we collect

We collect personal data in two main ways: when you choose to contact us through one of our forms or email addresses, and automatically when you visit the website.

2.1 Data you give us when you contact us

The website offers several forms and contact channels. The personal data each one collects depends on its purpose, and we ask only for what we need:

• Submit a tip — your tip and, only if you choose to provide them, your name, email address and phone number. You may submit a tip anonymously by leaving those blank; if you do, we receive only the tip itself.
• Corrections and complaints — whether you are sending a correction or a complaint, the article concerned, a description of the issue and, only if you want a reply, your name and email address.
• Advertising enquiries — your name, company or organisation, work email, what you are interested in and, optionally, your phone number and a message.
• Work with us (job applications) — your name, email address, the role or area you are interested in and, optionally, your phone number, a cover note and a LinkedIn or portfolio link. The form does not take CVs; if your application goes forward, we ask for your CV by email.
• Partnership proposals — your name, organisation, work email, the type of partnership you propose, your proposal and, optionally, your phone number.
• Newsletter — your email address and the edition you choose (English or Arabic). See Section 2.3.
• Email — if you write to us directly at one of our published addresses, we receive whatever personal data you include in your message.

Our forms do not accept file uploads. If we need a document from you, for example a CV when a job application goes forward or a document that supports a tip, we ask you to send it by email, and we use it only for that purpose.

2.2 Data we collect automatically

When you visit the website, certain data is collected automatically through our hosting infrastructure and our analytics:

• Technical and usage data — for example, your IP address, browser type and device, the pages you view, the date and time of your visit, and the website or search that referred you. This data is used to operate the site securely and to understand, in aggregate, how readers use it.
• Security checks — our content-delivery and security provider, Cloudflare, checks traffic to the website to protect it from attacks and automated abuse. Our forms also use Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at technical signals from your browser and device to tell people from automated programs. Cloudflare also uses Turnstile signals to improve the service, as described in its Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
• Visit counts — we use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and measure how quickly pages load. It does not use cookies and does not identify individual readers.
• Cookies and similar technologies — see Section 8 below and our separate Cookie Policy.

Our forms do not store your IP address, and our newsletter system shortens IP addresses before it stores them.

We do not ask you to register an account, and we do not knowingly collect special categories of data (such as data revealing health, religion or political opinions). Please do not send us such information through our forms unless it is necessary — for example, in the substance of a news tip.

2.3 The newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address, the edition you choose (English or Arabic) and a record of your consent: the date and time you subscribed and the page you used. You are subscribed as soon as you send the form; we do not send a confirmation email.

The newsletter is sent through an email delivery provider that handles your address on our behalf and does not sell it.

Our newsletter emails let us see when an email is opened and which links are clicked, so that we know which stories interest our readers. If you do not want opens to be recorded, turn off automatic image loading in your email app.

Every newsletter contains an unsubscribe link. One click is enough, and we do not ask for a reason. We stop sending to you as soon as you unsubscribe.

3. Why we use your data, and our legal basis

Under data protection law, we must have a valid legal basis for each use of your personal data. The table below sets out what we do with your data and why we are allowed to.

Where we rely on legitimate interest, we have weighed our interest against your rights and freedoms, and we use the data only in ways you would reasonably expect. You can object to processing based on legitimate interest — see Section 7.

Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we did lawfully before you withdrew it.

A note on journalism: parts of our editorial work are, in some jurisdictions, subject to exemptions that recognise the public interest in journalism and freedom of expression. This policy is mainly about the data we collect from readers and people who contact us, not about our editorial sources or news content.

4. Who we share your data with

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for anyone else’s marketing, except for advertising as described in Section 8.

We share personal data only with the service providers who help us run the company, website and respond to you, and only as far as they need it to do that work on our behalf. These providers act on our instructions under appropriate contracts. They include, by category:

• our website hosting provider, and Cloudflare, which delivers the website and protects it and our forms (see Section 2.2);
• our email and form-handling providers, who deliver the messages you send us to the right internal inbox, and the email delivery provider that sends our newsletter;
• our website analytics provider(s);
• our advertising partners, including Google, which serve ads on the website and may set cookies for that purpose (see Section 8);
• our cookie-consent management provider.
• any other software or service providers we use to operate the company, where handling your data is necessary for the service they provide to us.

We may also disclose personal data where we are legally required to do so — for example, to a court, regulator or public authority acting within its powers — or where necessary to protect our legal rights.

5. International transfers

We operate from Kuwait, and some of our service providers are located outside your country, including outside the European Economic Area (EEA). This means your personal data may be transferred to, and processed in, countries whose data-protection laws differ from those where you live.

Where we transfer personal data internationally and the law requires it, we put appropriate safeguards in place — for example, standard contractual clauses approved for that purpose, or transfers to countries recognised as providing an adequate level of protection.

6. How long we keep your data

We keep personal data only for as long as we need it for the purpose we collected it, and then we delete it or anonymise it. As a guide:

• Tips, corrections, complaints, advertising enquiries and partnership proposals — kept for as long as needed to handle the matter and for a reasonable period afterwards in case of follow-up, then deleted. We review and delete these messages once a year.
• Job applications — kept for up to two years, so that we can consider you for future roles. You can ask us to delete yours at any time by writing to [email protected].
• Newsletter subscriptions — kept while you are subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we keep only your email address and the fact that you unsubscribed, so that we do not email you again. You can ask us to delete that record as well.
• Website usage and analytics data — kept for the limited period set in our analytics configuration, after which it is aggregated or deleted.
• Data we must keep to meet a legal obligation — kept for as long as the law requires.

7. Your rights

Under the GDPR — and, in equivalent form, under the Saudi and UAE data-protection laws — you have the following rights over your personal data:

• The right to be informed — to know how we use your data; this policy is how we provide that.
• The right of access — to ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• The right to rectification — to have inaccurate data corrected and incomplete data completed.
• The right to erasure — to ask us to delete your data where there is no good reason for us to keep it (“the right to be forgotten”).
• The right to restrict processing — to ask us to pause our use of your data in certain circumstances.
• The right to data portability — to receive certain data you gave us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and to have it sent to another controller where technically feasible.
• The right to object — to object to processing based on our legitimate interests, and to object to any direct marketing at any time.
• The right to withdraw consent — where we rely on your consent, to withdraw it at any time, without affecting processing already carried out.
• Rights in relation to automated decision-making — we do not make decisions about you by solely automated means that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected] (see Section 9). Exercising your rights is free in normal circumstances, and we will respond within the time the law allows — under the GDPR, within one month (extendable for complex requests, in which case we will tell you).

The right to complain. If you believe we have not handled your personal data properly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority — in the EU, the authority in the country where you live, work or where the issue arose; in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA); and in the UAE, the UAE Data Office. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concern first.

8. Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to make the website work, to remember your preferences, to keep the site secure, to measure how the site is used and to show advertising. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, measurement and advertising cookies are used only with your consent; elsewhere they are on unless you refuse them in the cookie banner. Our newsletter emails use similar technology to record opens and clicks; see Section 2.3.

When you first visit, a consent banner lets you accept or refuse non-essential cookies. You can change your choice at any time through the Cookie Preferences control in the website footer.

We do not duplicate the full cookie list here. For the complete, up-to-date list of the cookies we use, what each one does and how long it lasts, please see our separate Cookie Policy, which is generated and kept current by our consent-management tool.

Advertising

Aljaweea is funded in part by advertising. We use Google AdSense to show ads on this website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and to other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Other third-party vendors and ad networks may also use cookies to serve ads on this website.

You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google by visiting Ads Settings. You can opt out of other third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices or, in Europe, at www.youronlinechoices.eu.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, advertising cookies are set only with your consent, given through the cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time through the Cookie Preferences control in the website footer.

To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

9. How to exercise your rights or contact us

For any question about this policy, or to exercise any of the rights in Section 7, please contact:

[email protected] Mena Alfadaya, Altujjar Tower, Abdulaziz Hamad Al Saqer Street, Mirqab, Kuwait

To help us respond quickly and protect your data, please tell us which right you want to exercise and give us enough information to identify you. We may need to verify your identity before we act, to make sure we do not disclose your data to the wrong person.

10. Children

The website is intended for a general, adult readership and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has given us personal data, please contact [email protected] and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time — for example, if we add a service or a new legal requirement applies. When we make a material change, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top and, where appropriate, bring the change to your attention. Please review this page periodically.