Effective Date: 1st June 2025
Last Updated: 1st June 2025
At John R Harris & Partners (“we”, “our”, “us”), we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website: https://www.johnrharris.com.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.johnrharris.com.
John R Harris & Partners is a multidisciplinary architecture and engineering consultancy based in the United Arab Emirates.
2. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymised string (hash) derived from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images displayed on the website.
4. Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so you do not need to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when your browser is closed.
Upon logging in, several cookies will be set to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days; screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” will keep your login active for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only stores the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the source website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interaction with their content, including if you are logged in to those sites.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to allow for the automatic approval of any follow-up comments.
For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
8. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold. This does not include any data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To make such a request, please contact us at: dubai@johnrharris.com
9. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be reviewed by an automated spam detection service to ensure security and maintain site integrity.
10. Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the way your data is handled, please contact us at:
John R Harris & Partners
1308 Sidra Tower
Al Sufouh, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
