GS Documents Clearing Services L.L.C ("GSDC", "we") is a corporate services practice registered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This policy describes how we handle personal information received through this website and in the course of an engagement.
Information you provide directly: name, email address, phone number, and the contents of any enquiry or assessment form you submit.
Information collected in the course of an engagement: identity documents, corporate documents, and the supporting materials a mandate requires. These are collected under the engagement agreement, not through this website.
Technical information: standard server logs, and — where you have agreed to it, or where you are outside the regions whose law requires us to ask — Google Analytics. Analytics tells us which pages are read and which are ignored. It records pages viewed, approximate location at city level, device and browser, and whether you submitted an enquiry form or tapped a phone, email or WhatsApp link. It does not record what you typed into a form.
On the same basis we run the Meta (Facebook) pixel. Unlike analytics, this one is for advertising: it lets us show our own advertising on Facebook and Instagram to people who have visited this site, and tells us whether an enquiry followed. It records the same kind of technical information — pages viewed, device, approximate location — and whether you submitted a form or tapped a contact link. It does not record what you wrote. We do not sell it, and we run no other advertising trackers.
If you reached this site by clicking one of our advertisements, the advertising network adds an identifier to the link. We keep that identifier in your browser for up to ninety days, and if you then send us an enquiry we attach it to your record so that we can tell which advertising leads to real work. It identifies the click, not you: on its own it tells us nothing about who you are, and we do not use it to show you advertising or to build a profile. If you were shown a cookie choice and declined, it is not stored.
To respond to enquiries, to assess whether we can act, to perform an engagement, and to meet the legal obligations that attach to a licensed UAE practice — including anti-money-laundering checks where the law requires them.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with third parties except where an engagement requires it (a bank, a registry, a government authority) or where the law compels it.
The one exception is the website measurement described above: that technical information is processed by Google as our analytics and advertising provider and by Meta as our advertising provider. Where an enquiry followed one of our advertisements, we report the outcome of that enquiry back to Google against the click identifier, so that we can measure which advertising is worth running. If you were shown a cookie choice and declined, none of it is collected, and the site behaves identically. You can change that decision at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser, which makes the choice appear again.
Client files are held in the United Arab Emirates. Where a mandate involves an authority or institution in another jurisdiction, the documents that authority requires are transmitted to it as part of the engagement.
Enquiry correspondence that does not lead to an engagement is deleted within a reasonable period. Engagement files are retained for the period UAE law and our regulatory obligations require, and then destroyed.
You may ask what information we hold about you, ask for corrections, or ask for deletion where no legal retention obligation applies. Write to us at the address in the footer and we will respond.
This policy may be revised as the practice or the law changes. The date above reflects the current version.