Privacy Policy

BAYNI is owned and operated by BAYNARY LLC, a Limited Liability Company (LLC) licensed and registered in Sharjah Media City (Shams Free Zone), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. References to “we”, “us” or “our” in this policy mean BAYNARY LLC.

We process personal data in accordance with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 (“PDPL”). Depending on the data involved, we act in one of two roles:

3.1 Account & identity data

Name, email address, phone number, nationality and date of birth. Date of birth is collected to verify that users are 18 years or older and to apply UAE Media Council rules for creators.

3.2 Biometric authentication

BAYNI may let you unlock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or fingerprint. Biometric authentication takes place entirely on your device, inside the device’s Secure Enclave (iOS) or Trusted Execution Environment (Android). The app only receives a pass/fail result from the operating system. Zero biometric data is transmitted to, or stored on, BAYNARY LLC servers.

3.3 Creator credentials

• UAE Media Council (UAEMC) Advertiser Permit;
• Commercial trade license or freelancer license;
• Tax Registration Number (TRN) for Value Added Tax (VAT) purposes under the UAE Federal Tax Authority (FTA).

3.4 Commercial inbox sync

You may optionally connect commercial messaging channels so that BAYNI can organise inbound brand deals. Each channel requires its own separate, granular consent, and you can connect or disconnect each one independently:

• Instagram direct messages (via the Instagram Graph API);
• WhatsApp Business messages (via the WhatsApp Business API);
• Gmail (via the Google Gmail API).

Exclusion Filters: you can blacklist personal and family contacts. Messages from excluded contacts are purged at our API gateway on arrival and are never stored, processed or displayed.

3.5 Telephony

When you place a call from BAYNI, the app hands the number to your device’s native phone dialer using the standard tel: URL scheme. The call is made by you, through your own carrier. BAYNI does not use VoIP, and does not listen to, record or transcribe phone calls, consistent with UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 on Combatting Rumours and Cybercrimes.

BAYNI’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

In particular, Gmail data accessed through Google APIs:

• is never used for advertisements, including personalised, retargeted or interest-based advertising;
• is never sold to data brokers or any other third party;
• is never used to train generalised AI or large language models (LLMs);
• is not read by humans unless you have given explicit permission for specific messages, it is necessary for security purposes (such as investigating abuse), to comply with applicable law, or the data has been aggregated and anonymised for internal operations.

Gmail data is used only to provide and improve the user-facing features of BAYNI that you have enabled, namely identifying and organising inbound commercial and brand-deal emails.

Data accessed through the Instagram Graph API and the WhatsApp Business API is used exclusively to display creator account metrics and to organise inbound business deals inside BAYNI. This data is never sold, licensed or transferred to advertising networks, data brokers or other ad-related services, and is handled in accordance with the Meta Platform Terms and Developer Policies.

BAYNI platform databases are hosted in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Transfers of personal data from the United Arab Emirates to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are carried out in accordance with Articles 22 and 23 of the UAE PDPL.

• Data in transit is protected with TLS 1.3 encryption.
• Data at rest is protected with AES-256 encryption.

For any privacy question or to exercise your rights under the UAE PDPL (access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection or portability), contact: