Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies may be “session” cookies (deleted once you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (remain on your device for a set period or until manually deleted).

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• Essential cookies – Required for the core functionality of the website, such as page navigation, security, and access to secure areas.
• Performance and analytics cookies – Help us understand how visitors interact with thenextdubai.com (e.g., which articles are most read, how long visitors stay, and which pages generate errors) so we can improve our content and user experience. We use tools such as Google Analytics for this purpose.
• Functionality cookies – Remember choices you make (such as language or region) to provide a more personalized experience.
• Advertising and third-party cookies – Used by advertising partners, including Google AdSense, to deliver relevant ads, measure ad performance, and limit the number of times you see an ad. These cookies may track your browsing activity across other websites.

We work with third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense, to display advertisements on thenextdubai.com. As required by the Google AdSense Program Policies, we disclose that third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Website or other websites, and that Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on those visits.

• How Google uses data from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
• Opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings: adssettings.google.com
• Opt out of other vendors' advertising cookies: aboutads.info/choices, NAI opt-out tool, or youronlinechoices.eu for readers in the EU and UK.
• Opt out of Google Analytics measurement: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Other Third Parties

Cookies may also be set by the Meta Pixel, which we use to measure how our content performs on Facebook and Instagram, and by social platforms such as Instagram and YouTube when their posts or videos are embedded in our articles. These platforms act under their own privacy policies, and we have no access to or control over the cookies they set.

You can control and manage cookies in several ways:

• Our consent notice – Where consent is required in your country, you are shown a privacy notice on your first visit through which you can accept or refuse non-essential cookies and personalized advertising. Your choice is remembered, and you can change it at any time by clearing this site's cookies in your browser, after which the notice will appear again.
• Browser settings – Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies. Instructions vary by browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge), so check your browser's “Help” menu.
• Advertising opt-outs – Use the Google Ads Settings and industry opt-out links listed in the advertising section above to turn off personalized advertising.
• Device-level controls – On mobile devices, you can adjust ad-tracking permissions in your device settings.
• Contact us – Write to info@thenextdubai.com and we will action any request relating to cookies or advertising consent.

Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of thenextdubai.com and limit your access to certain features.

If you are reading from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, data protection law and Google's EU User Consent Policy require your consent before non-essential cookies are stored on your device or your data is used for personalized advertising.

Where that consent has not been given, advertising on this Website should be limited to non-personalized ads. Non-personalized ads still use a cookie for frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention, but are not based on an advertising profile built from your browsing history.

You may withdraw or change your consent at any time using the controls described above, or by contacting info@thenextdubai.com. Google publishes the list of advertising technology providers that may receive data at support.google.com/admanager/answer/9012903.

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal. Because there is no industry-standard approach to DNT signals yet, thenextdubai.com does not currently respond to them differently from other tracking requests.

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our advertising partners’ practices. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us at info@thenextdubai.com.