Legal
Privacy notice
Draft — for review by Gulf Marcom's legal counsel before launch, including alignment with Bahrain's Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
What we collect
Forms on this site (contact, RISE+ application, newsletter) collect the details you enter — name, company, email, phone and your message — solely so we can respond and, where you subscribe, send you The Gulf Marcom Brief.
Newsletter
Newsletter subscriptions are processed by Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.). You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email.
Cookies and similar storage
Everything this site stores on your device falls into one of four groups. Only the first runs without asking you.
- Strictly necessary — remembers the cookie choice you make below, carries the security check that protects forms and sign-in on every page, and keeps Gulf Marcom staff signed in to the content hub. Always on: without it the site cannot honour your own preference, and forms could be submitted in your name from another site. The security check lasts for the browser session; your cookie choice stays until you clear your browser data; a staff sign-in lasts 30 days.
- Functional — small first-party conveniences. Threading your conversation with the assistant so it does not restart on every page, keeping the header button consistent as you browse, and your best score in the game at /play. No third parties and no tracking; switch it off and these simply do not persist. The first two last only as long as the tab is open; the game score stays until you clear it.
- Analytics — Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity, so we can see which pages are read and where the site is confusing people. Aggregated, and never sold. The longest-lived of these lasts two years; most expire within a day.
- Marketing — the LinkedIn Insight Tag, to tell whether a campaign brought you here. Only offered when a campaign is actually configured. What we set ourselves lasts about three months; what LinkedIn sets on its own domain is covered below.
The last three do not load until you accept them. The scripts are not placed on the page at all, so they cannot set a cookie or make a request — declining costs you nothing, not even the download. There is a “Reject non-essential” button beside “Accept all”, and you can change your mind whenever you like: .
Where a third party sets a cookie on its own domain — Microsoft and LinkedIn both do — its lifetime is theirs to set and theirs to publish. Those are also the cookies we cannot delete for you if you withdraw consent; your browser settings can. Everything we set ourselves, we remove.
The assistant
Conversations with Marcom, our website assistant, may be processed by Anthropic's Claude API to generate responses. Please don't share sensitive personal information in the chat.
Contact
Questions or requests about your data: info@gulfmarcom.com · +973 1722 6262.