Privacy Notice

Last updated 7 October 2026

In short: we contact construction companies in the Gulf about our website, company-profile and video services, using business contact details that companies publish themselves. You can stop this at any time at designbyathar.com/unsubscribe or by replying "unsubscribe" to any email.

Who we are

Athar ("we") is a web design studio based in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. We trade as designbyathar.com. Contact: hello@designbyathar.com.

What we collect

Business contact details of construction and contracting companies: company name, business email address, business phone number, website address, city and country, and publicly visible information about the company such as its Google rating and the type of website it has.

We collect this from sources the company has made public: its own website, Google Maps and Google Business Profile listings, and public business directories. We do not collect personal data about individuals beyond a name and job title where it appears on a business website, and we do not collect financial, identity or sensitive data of any kind.

Why we use it

To introduce our services to companies we believe could benefit from them, by email and occasionally by WhatsApp or phone, and to reply to companies that contact us. We do not sell, rent or share these details with anyone else, and we do not use them for any other purpose.

Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in marketing business services to businesses, balanced against the minimal impact on the recipient, with a simple way to opt out in every message. Where the law of a recipient's country requires consent for commercial messages, we rely on the recipient's reply to our first message as that consent and stop if none is given.

This website

designbyathar.com sets no cookies and shows no advertising. It remembers your language choice in your own browser. We count visits with privacy-friendly analytics that use no cookies and do not identify or follow individual visitors. If you write to us by email or WhatsApp, we use your message and contact details only to reply and to work with you.

How long we keep it

Contact details of companies that do not reply are deleted within 12 months of our last message. Details of companies that ask us to stop are kept only on a suppression list, so that we never contact them again. Details of clients are kept for as long as we work together and as required by Bahraini law afterwards.

Your rights

Where the data is stored

On our own systems and with the email service providers we use to send and receive mail. Those providers process the data on our instructions and do not use it for their own purposes.

Changes

If this notice changes, the new version is published on this page with a new date.