Privacy Policy

ınxen is a platform for economic and business information and analysis, focused on the Gulf states and Iraq, and is registered in the United States of America.

ınxen is responsible, as controller, for determining the purposes and means of the processing of personal data within the scope of the services described in this policy.

Website: https://www.inxen.news

Privacy email: editor@inxen.news

You can contact us at this address with questions about your personal data or to exercise your rights in relation to it.

ınxen applies the relevant data protection requirements within the scope of application of the applicable laws, including the laws of the United States and of the United Arab Emirates, and any other legislation that applies to its activities or to the processing of its users' data.

First: browsing the site. You can browse the public content of ınxen without creating an account or giving your name or email address.

When you visit the site, the hosting and protection provider receives certain technical information necessary to provide and protect the service, which may include:

Internet Protocol (IP) address.

Browser and device type.

The page requested.

The date and time of the request.

Technical data necessary to detect misuse and protect the site.

This data is used to operate the site, secure its connections, and deal with faults and unlawful activity.

Second: site usage analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used, including the most-read pages, the countries visitors come from, device types and traffic sources.

The service may use cookies and similar technologies, and may also process the IP address to derive an approximate geographic location.

We view analytics reports in aggregate, and we do not use them to try to identify individual readers.

Google Analytics is currently loaded without a prior consent banner, and you can disable it in the ways set out in Section 05.

Third: the Ask ınxen service. When you use Ask ınxen, we keep the text of your question, the answer given and any rating you send, in order to review the quality of answers, check their accuracy, correct errors and improve the service.

We do not store the IP address with the question. Instead, we use a one-way digital fingerprint derived from the address using a hashing technique with an added random value, in order to limit automated requests and misuse of the service.

Please do not enter sensitive personal information, trade secrets or confidential information in the questions.

The text of questions may be processed by the artificial-intelligence and semantic-search providers listed in Section 04, to the extent necessary to provide the service.

Fourth: the daily brief. When you subscribe to the daily brief, we keep the following information:

Your email address.

The language you chose.

Subscription status: pending confirmation, confirmed, or cancelled.

The time of changes to the subscription status.

We use a double opt-in mechanism. We do not start sending the brief until the confirmation link sent to your email address has been used.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in the emails.

Fifth: the “Follow” feature and alerts. The “Follow” feature lets you follow updates related to a country, company, fund, project or indicator published on ınxen.

When you use this feature, we keep the following data:

Your email address.

The language you chose.

The list of entities you have chosen to follow, up to a maximum of 20 entities.

Your subscription status: pending confirmation, confirmed, or cancelled.

The date and time of each change to the subscription status or follow list.

The feature works by email only, and does not require creating an account or a password.

Confirmation and consent: when you ask to follow, we send you a message to confirm that you own the email address and that you consent to receiving alerts. We do not send follow digests until confirmation is complete.

Separation between services: we keep the follow list separate from the list of daily brief subscribers, in terms of purpose and subscription management. We do not use a subscription to one of the two services to add the reader automatically to the other.

Managing what you follow: follow emails contain a private link that lets you change the entities you follow or stop following, without creating an account.

This link should be treated as a private means of managing your subscription, and should not be shared with others.

We use follow data to manage the subscription, deliver the alerts requested and protect the service from misuse. We do not use your follow list to create advertising profiles or to send unsolicited marketing offers.

Follow data is shared with service providers only to the extent necessary to store it, manage the subscription, and send and confirm messages.

Some of this data may be processed outside the United Arab Emirates or outside your country of residence, in accordance with the legal safeguards set out in this policy.

Sixth: messages you send us. If you contact the editorial team by email or WhatsApp, we may keep your message and the contact details you provide, in order to reply to you, handle your enquiry, or follow up on an editorial correction you reported.

We do not ask for sensitive health or financial data, or government identity document numbers, in order to use the services described, and we do not intentionally collect such information.

We use personal data for the following specific purposes:

Operating the services: delivering the site's pages, managing databases, and ensuring the continuity and security of the service.

Answers and review: providing answers through Ask ınxen, checking their quality and correcting errors.

The daily brief: sending the brief to people who have confirmed their subscription, in the language chosen.

Follows and alerts: sending at most one email digest a day to confirmed followers, and when the ınxen system records a change relating to what they follow, including:

The recording of a new value or the correction of a previous value.

A project moving from one announced stage to another.

The passing of an announced target date without its completion being confirmed in our records.

These messages are based on the information recorded in the system and include a link to the relevant page and the source, without additional editorial comment or marketing advertisement.

We do not guarantee that a message will be sent every day, and the absence of an alert does not confirm that no change has occurred outside the information recorded by us.

Communicating with readers: replying to enquiries, messages and correction requests.

Improving the site: analysing usage in aggregate to understand the performance of the service and improve the reading experience.

Security and compliance: preventing misuse, investigating security issues, and complying with relevant legal obligations.

Legal basis for processing data. Where the law requires a legal basis for processing to be identified, we rely, depending on the nature of the data and the purpose, on:

Consent: for sending the daily brief and optional alerts.

Legitimate interest: for operating and securing the site, preventing misuse, improving the quality of the services and analysing usage in aggregate, where the law permits the use of this basis and after taking the rights of individuals into account.

Provision of the requested service: for processing the data necessary to perform the service requested by the user, where this is an available legal basis.

Legal obligation: where applicable regulations require specific information to be retained or disclosed to a competent authority.

You may withdraw your consent to the brief or to alerts at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before its withdrawal.

We rely on a limited number of technical service providers to operate ınxen.

The parties in the current technical infrastructure include:

Cloudflare: website hosting, content delivery, protection and security.

Neon: database hosting.

Resend: sending the daily brief, follow and alert emails, and subscription confirmations.

Google Analytics: analysing site usage and measuring traffic.

Anthropic: processing questions and the retrieved records needed to prepare answers in Ask ınxen.

Voyage AI: converting the text of questions into numerical representations for semantic search and the retrieval of relevant information.

The types of data available to each provider differ according to the service it provides, and this list does not mean that every provider receives all readers' data.

We work to limit the data sent to each provider to what is necessary for it to perform its function, applying the contractual arrangements and protective measures required under applicable law.

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties, and we do not allow subscription lists to be used for independent marketing on behalf of other parties.

We may disclose specific data where we are legally obliged to do so, in response to a binding request from a competent authority, or to the extent necessary to protect rights and security, in accordance with the law.

ınxen does not use advertising cookies to create marketing profiles of readers.

The site may use:

Essential cookies: to support core functions and protect the site, including the session cookies needed for editors to sign in to the administration area.

Analytics cookies: through Google Analytics, to measure traffic and understand how the site is used.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. You can also use Google's official add-on to disable Google Analytics in the browser.

The site does not currently display a consent banner for analytics cookies. You can disable them as described above, and the site works fully without them.

ınxen is registered in the United States and relies on technical service providers that may process or store data in the United States and other countries.

As a result, some personal data may be transferred to countries whose data protection laws differ from those that apply in your country of residence.

Where there are legal restrictions on cross-border data transfers, we undertake to use the appropriate legal basis and the safeguards required for the transfer, depending on the country concerned and the nature of the processing.

These mechanisms may include appropriate contractual arrangements or other legally recognised safeguards, where they are required and applicable.

Consenting to receive the brief or alerts does not mean waiving the rights you have under data protection laws, and does not on its own replace any additional safeguards that the law requires for data transfers.

You can write to us to ask about the arrangements for transferring your personal data.

We do not keep personal data for longer than the purposes of processing or the relevant legal obligations require.

The daily brief: we keep subscription information for as long as the subscription continues. When it is cancelled, the emails stop, and a limited record may be kept to prevent the brief being sent again to an address that has unsubscribed.

The “Follow” feature: we keep the email address, language, list of entities, subscription status and the related changes for as long as the follow remains active.

When you stop following:

We stop scheduling new follow emails to the cancelled address.

We delete the list of followed entities and the related details from the active follow records within 30 days.

Where necessary, we keep a limited record containing the email address and the unsubscribed status, to prevent unintended re-subscription or sending.

You may also ask for the cancellation record to be deleted, subject to any legal obligations that require specific data to be retained.

Questions and ratings: we keep Ask ınxen questions and their ratings for quality review, without linking them to the original IP address or to a user account.

Analytics data: subject to the retention period set in the Google Analytics account settings.

Messages and correspondence: we keep them to the extent necessary to handle requests, corrections and related obligations.

Some technical copies or logs may remain with service providers or in backups for limited additional periods, in accordance with the applicable retention policies and technical procedures, and these copies are not used to reactivate a cancelled subscription.

Depending on the applicable law and where you live, you may have the following rights:

To know the types of personal data we collect and the purposes for which they are used.

To request access to your personal data and to obtain a copy of it.

To request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

To request the deletion of personal data, subject to legal exceptions.

To request the restriction of processing, or to object to it, in the cases provided for by law.

To withdraw consent to processing that is based on your consent.

To request the portability of your data where this right is legally available.

To lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.

Managing subscriptions. You can unsubscribe from the daily brief using the link in its emails.

You can change the entities you follow, or cancel the “Follow” feature, through the private link in follow emails.

Cancelling one of the two services does not automatically cancel the other if you subscribed to them separately.

Making a privacy request. Write to us at:

editor@inxen.news

We may ask for limited information to verify that the request is made by the data subject or by a person legally authorised to represent them.

We aim to reply within 30 days of receiving the request, or within any shorter or longer period set by applicable law. If the nature of the request requires the period to be extended in accordance with the law, we will explain this where appropriate.

We do not charge fees for exercising rights that the law requires to be available free of charge, and we do not discriminate against users for exercising their legal rights.

We apply technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or unlawful loss.

The measures used include encrypted connections over HTTPS, restricted access to systems and databases, and the use of random tokens dedicated to the links associated with subscriptions.

No method of transmitting or storing information guarantees absolute protection.

In the event of a security incident affecting personal data, we take the necessary steps to assess, contain and deal with it, and we notify the competent authorities or the persons affected where the law requires it.

ınxen is an economic and professional information service, and is not directed at children under the age of 16.

We do not intentionally collect their personal data through the subscription and follow services.

If we learn that a child's data has been collected in a manner that does not comply with the law, we take the necessary steps to delete it or deal with it as the applicable rules require.

A parent or guardian can contact us at the email address given in this policy.

Users in the United Arab Emirates. We observe the provisions of Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data, where it applies to the processing activities we carry out, including the rules on the lawfulness of processing, the rights of data subjects and the transfer of data outside the country.

Users in the United States of America. Residents of some states, including California, may have additional rights to know, correct and delete personal data, and to object to its sale or sharing for certain advertising purposes, where the relevant legislation applies to ınxen.

We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-site behavioural advertising, in accordance with the practices described in this policy.

We handle privacy requests in accordance with the applicable legal requirements, including the verification mechanisms and the exceptions provided for by law.

Users in the European Union and the United Kingdom. Where processing activities are subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation or the UK data protection regime, we apply the relevant requirements on the legal basis, transparency, individuals' rights and international data transfers.

Users in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Where the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law applies to the processing of data of persons within the Kingdom, we observe the requirements it sets, including the rights relating to personal data and the rules on its transfer outside the Kingdom.

No provision of this policy shall be interpreted as a waiver by the user of rights that the law does not allow to be waived.

We may update this policy when the services of ınxen, the methods of processing data or the legal requirements change.

We publish the updated version on this page, stating the date of the last update.

If we make a material change to the way subscribers' data is used, we will give appropriate notice to those affected by the change, and ask for fresh consent if the law requires it.

For questions about the privacy policy, or to request access to, correction or deletion of your data, or to object to the way it is processed, please contact:

ınxen — Privacy

Email: editor@inxen.news

Website: https://www.inxen.news

Privacy policy: https://www.inxen.news/privacy