What we collect, why, and what you can do about it

This site and the Tawasul programmes handle information about people at an early and consequential point in their careers. The commitments below describe how that is handled.

Status

Draft pending legal review

Draft for review. This text describes how the product is designed to handle personal data and has not yet been approved by legal counsel. It must be reviewed against the UAE Personal Data Protection Law before this site goes live.

What we collect

Data, and the purpose it is collected for

We collect what a defined purpose requires. We do not collect data speculatively in case it becomes useful later.

Enquiry details: Name, email, organisation and phone where you provide it, plus what you wrote — used solely to respond to your enquiry.
Assessment results: Used to build your talent profile, establish a development baseline and recommend suitable pathways.
Learning and portfolio records: Used to evidence capability, and shared with employers only with your consent.
Mentoring interactions: Scheduling and structured feedback, used to match, support and review mentoring relationships.
Employment outcomes: Placement, probation, retention and progression data, used for impact measurement and reported in aggregate.
Website analytics: Privacy-first and consent-gated. We measure whether pages do their job, not who you are.

Your rights

What you can ask us to do

See what we hold about you
Correct anything that is wrong
Withdraw consent for evidence shared with employers
Ask us to delete your profile
Ask how an AI-supported recommendation about you was reached
Object to a decision and have it reviewed by a person

Sharing and retention

Who sees your data, and for how long

Evidence is shared with a named employer only with your consent, and you can see what was shared and withdraw it for future sharing. Academic partners see outcomes for their own students where a partnership agreement provides for it. We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for advertising.

Enquiry records are kept while the enquiry is active and for a limited period afterwards. Participant records are kept for the duration of your relationship with Tawasul and for the period required to report longitudinal outcomes — after which they are deleted or irreversibly aggregated.

How automated systems are used

AI supports career exploration, learning, coaching, matching and insight. High-impact decisions retain human oversight. Recommendations can be explained to the person they concern. Models and assessments are checked for bias, because a matching system trained on historical hiring would reproduce the network advantage this organisation exists to reduce.

Questions about your data

Ask, and we will answer specifically

Data questions go to a named owner rather than a general inbox.