Comprehensive Privacy Policy
At Future Visions, we are dedicated to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices concerning the collection, use, and protection of data when you visit our website about the Dubai Museum of the Future.
This policy applies to information we collect through our website, in email, text, or other electronic communications. By accessing or using our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use our website. This policy is effective as of March 1, 2025.
Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:
Personal Information:
This may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline when you voluntarily provide it to us, such as when you register for an account, subscribe to our newsletter, or submit feedback about the Museum of the Future experience.
Usage Information:
Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website. This helps us understand which aspects of our Museum of the Future content are most engaging to visitors.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type, which helps us optimize our content for different devices and improve your browsing experience.
How We Collect Your Information
We use different methods to collect information from and about you, including:
Direct Interactions:
Information you provide when filling in forms on our website, subscribing to our service, requesting marketing material, providing feedback, or contacting us with inquiries about the Dubai Museum of the Future.
Automated Technologies:
As you navigate through our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. Please refer to our separate Cookies Policy for more information about how we use cookies.
Third-Party Sources:
We may receive information about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies or from third parties including, for example, business partners, subcontractors in technical services, and analytics providers.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:
- To present our website and its contents to you in the most effective way, showcasing the Dubai Museum of the Future's innovative exhibits and architecture.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us related to the museum experience.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, such as registering for virtual events related to the Museum of the Future.
- To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
- To improve our website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website, such as virtual tours of the Museum of the Future.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Special Features Specific to Museum of the Future Content
As Future Visions is dedicated to showcasing the Dubai Museum of the Future, we have implemented several specialized features on our website that may collect additional information:
Virtual Tour Data:
When you engage with our virtual tour features of the Museum of the Future, we may collect data about which exhibits most interest you, how long you spend viewing different areas, and your interaction patterns. This information helps us improve the virtual experience and develop more relevant content about the museum.
Interactive Exhibit Feedback:
We collect anonymized feedback and interaction data when you engage with our interactive digital recreations of museum exhibits. This helps us understand which aspects of the museum most resonate with our audience and allows us to enhance these features.
User-Generated Content:
If you choose to submit content to our website, such as comments, reviews of your visit to the Museum of the Future, or participation in discussions about futuristic technologies featured in the museum, we collect and store this information to foster community engagement around the museum experience.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates to help provide consistent and enhanced services related to the Dubai Museum of the Future.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Future Visions, our customers, or others.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.
UAE Data Protection Considerations
As our website primarily features content about the Dubai Museum of the Future, we adhere to relevant UAE data protection standards. The United Arab Emirates has established data protection regulations, particularly in free zones such as the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), which have comprehensive data protection laws modeled after international standards.
We are committed to processing your data in accordance with these regulations where applicable, including:
- Processing personal data fairly, lawfully, and transparently
- Collecting data for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes
- Ensuring data is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary
- Maintaining accurate and up-to-date data
- Storing data for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected
- Processing data in a manner that ensures appropriate security
Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:
Right to Access:
You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and check we are lawfully processing it.
Right to Rectification:
You can request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
Right to Erasure:
You can request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Right to Restrict Processing:
You can request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you.
Right to Data Portability:
You can request the transfer of your personal information to another party in certain formats, if technically feasible.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us.
Museum-Specific Data Collection for Research and Development
As part of our mission to showcase the Dubai Museum of the Future and its futuristic concepts, we may collect aggregated, anonymized data about visitor interactions with our content. This information helps both our website and potentially the museum itself in developing more engaging exhibits and digital experiences.
This research-oriented data collection includes: