Privacy Policy

Introduction


Your privacy is very important to us and we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We will use your information to manage the business relationship between you and AFNIC. By accessing any part of the Website or providing any information to us you agree to the use and transfer of your information on the terms set out in this Privacy Policy.

We reserve all the rights amend or add this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion and you agree to revisit this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of the changes made or any addition to the existing policy. By continuing to access or use the Website you will be agreeing to any such changes.


No Warranties

AFNIC does not warrant that this site www.afnic.ae or the components including hosted server are free of harmful computer programs including virus or malicious codes which is contaminating or destructive. You have sole responsibility for ensuring adequate protection and back up of data and/or equipment and for undertaking reasonable and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses or other destructive properties.

AFNIC makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, functionality or performance of any third party software /gateways that may be used in connection with the site. Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and not covered by our privacy policy. AFNIC or its representations do not accept any responsibilities for such third party websites.


Information we collect from you and how we use it.

We collect relevant personal information in order to provide you with the product or service you have requested, as an administrative requirement, and to service and maintain your policy.

All personal information supplied by you will be treated in confidence and will be held in our database systems or with our agents and will not be disclosed to any third parties except where your permission has been received or as per the law.

We may pass your personal information to other companies for processing on our behalf but will ensure that it is kept securely and only used for the purposes for which it was provided.

We may use the information to improve our products and services.

We may periodically send promotional email/SMS about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address /Mobile number which you have provided.


How is your information protected?

We collect your Credit Card/Debit Card details over a secure link using recognized industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology which encrypts and ensures data protection over the web. If you are not able to verify this by checking a lock symbol in the status bar, we advise you to not continue further and contact AFNIC.

At any point of time during your visit to our website and while transacting online, we do not store your debit card, credit card details in our website, database or with any of our service providers database. Your debit card /Credit card will be processed by an authorized payment gateway supplied and protected by the bank.

AFNIC will never ask for sensitive information such as credit card number, passwords etc. via email or SMS or through any website link. So please be careful while dealing such requests. You can contact us at any time for clarifications


Use of cookies in our website

Cookies are messages that a Web server transmits to a Web browser so that the Web server can keep track of the user's activity on a specific Web site. The message that the Web server conveys to the browser is in the form of an HTTP header that consists of a text-only string. The text is entered into the memory of the browser. The browser in turn stores the cookie information on the hard drive so when the browser is closed and reopened at a later date the cookie information is still available.

Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and cannot harm a user's computer system. You can find out more about the way cookies work on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

The cookies used on this Site do not include any information that others could read and understand about you such as your name or any account or policy number. They contain no personal information about you. Most Internet browsers feature option to turn off the cookie function. However, this will restrict the services you can use.