Privacy and data protection
How Grill to Chill International BBQ Expo collects and handles personal data, under the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and its implementing regulations.
What we collect
If you send an enquiry through this site we collect the name, email address, company and phone number you type into the form, the subject you select, your message, the page you sent it from, and the date and time.
We do not ask for, and ask you not to send, any sensitive personal data: health information, religious or political affiliation, biometric or genetic data, or payment card numbers.
Why we use it
To answer your enquiry and to continue that conversation about sponsorship, a booth reservation, media accreditation or attending the expo. That is the only purpose.
We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with sponsors or exhibitors, and we do not use it for unrelated marketing.
Our legal basis
Consent. The enquiry form will not submit without the consent checkbox, and ticking it is the consent we rely on. You can withdraw it at any time by emailing us, and withdrawing it does not affect anything we did while it was in force.
How long we keep it
Enquiries are kept for up to 24 months after the expo closes, which covers the planning cycle for the following edition, and are then deleted. If you ask us to delete yours sooner we will, unless we are required to keep it to meet a legal obligation.
Who can see it
The organising team, and the service providers who run our website hosting and email delivery on our behalf. Those providers process the data only on our instructions and cannot use it for their own purposes.
Personal data is stored on servers inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. If any transfer outside the Kingdom ever becomes necessary it will meet the conditions the PDPL sets for it.
Cookies and analytics
This site sets one cookie, and only after you answer the cookie banner: it records your answer so you are not asked again on every page.
Analytics is not loaded unless you accept it. If you decline, or simply never answer, no analytics script is requested and no analytics cookie is written. The chatbot, when it is switched on, keeps a random conversation id in your browser's session storage; it is not linked to you and it is discarded when you close the tab.
Your rights
Under the PDPL you have the right to be informed about how your data is used, to get a copy of it, to ask for it to be corrected or completed, to ask for it to be destroyed, and to withdraw your consent.
Write to us and we will respond. If you are not satisfied with our answer you can complain to the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), which supervises the PDPL.
Contacting us about your data
Email us with the word PDPL in the subject line and tell us what you would like us to do.
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