This policy covers the localforge.ai website only. Data inside systems we build for clients is governed by the contract for that engagement — in on-premise and air-gapped deployments that data never reaches us at all.
Who is responsible
- Legal entity
- Localforge AI For Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Research & Consultancies
- Arabic name
- لوكال فورج للاستشارات والدراسات في مجال الإبتكار والذكاء الاصطناعي
- Licence
- Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) — trade licence 1642691
- Register
- Commercial Register 2904711
- Location
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Contact
- support@localforge.ai
What we collect
We do not run accounts, logins, comment forms or newsletters on this site. There is nothing to sign up for, so we hold no customer database from it. What the site does collect falls into four categories.
| Source | Data | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics (PostHog, EU region) | Pages viewed, time on page, referring site, approximate location derived from IP, device and browser type, and clicks on our published email addresses | To understand which pages are useful and whether people find a reason to contact us |
| Hosting (Cloudflare Pages) | Standard server and edge logs, including IP address, user agent and requested URL | To deliver the site and defend it against abuse |
| Web fonts (Google Fonts) | Your IP address and user agent are disclosed to Google when your browser fetches the typefaces | Typography. See the section below if you would rather this did not happen |
| Email you send us | Your address, your name if you give it, and whatever you write | To answer you, and to keep a record of business correspondence |
Cookies and analytics
Our analytics provider is PostHog, configured to store and process data in its European Union region. It sets a cookie and a localStorage entry so that repeat visits within a browser can be recognised as the same visitor. It is not configured to build a profile of you as an identified person, and we do not upload customer lists to it.
How to opt out
- Do Not Track. If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, our analytics script is never loaded at all. We check this before anything else runs. Most browsers expose this in privacy settings.
- Block the script or the cookies. Any content blocker, or clearing site data for localforge.ai, ends the collection. The site is fully functional without it.
- Fonts. Blocking third-party requests to
fonts.googleapis.comandfonts.gstatic.comwill stop that disclosure; the site falls back to system typefaces.
What we do not do
- We do not sell, rent or trade personal data.
- We do not run advertising, ad networks or retargeting pixels.
- We do not use anything collected here to train AI models.
- We do not attempt to identify individual visitors from analytics data.
Who else sees the data
Only the service providers that make the site work: our analytics provider, our hosting and network provider, the font service named above, and our email provider (Google Workspace, which hosts our @localforge.ai mailboxes). Each processes data on our behalf under its own terms. We disclose data to no one else unless a UAE authority compels it by law, or unless it becomes necessary to establish or defend a legal claim.
Where data is processed
We are established in the United Arab Emirates. Our analytics data is held in the European Union. Hosting is delivered through a global content network, so requests are served from the point of presence nearest you. Email is processed on Google Workspace infrastructure. Some of this necessarily involves transferring data across borders; we rely on the contractual protections offered by each provider.
How long we keep it
Analytics data is retained for as long as our provider account holds it, and is deleted on request. Hosting logs are short-lived and controlled by our hosting provider. Business correspondence is kept for as long as the relationship and our record-keeping obligations require — for a licensed UAE entity that generally means several years after the last transaction.
Your rights
Under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021), and under the GDPR if you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can ask us to:
- confirm what personal data of yours we hold, and give you a copy;
- correct anything inaccurate;
- delete it, where we have no overriding obligation to keep it;
- stop processing it, including stopping analytics collection;
- explain the basis on which we process it.
Write to support@localforge.ai. We answer within thirty days. There is no charge. If you are not satisfied with our answer you may complain to the UAE Data Office, or to your local supervisory authority if you are in the EU or UK.
Children
This is a business-to-business site. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will update the effective date at the top and, where the change affects data already collected, say so plainly here rather than quietly revising the text.