Compliance

Gulf requirements, handled.

Personal data handled in line with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021).

Interviews in English, with Arabic in final testing. Hindi and Urdu on request.

01

Licensed local telephony.

Gulf fieldwork is dialled over licensed UAE trunks with registered caller ID, so respondents see a local number from a named research company — not an unknown international one.

SMRC — Systematic Market Research Consultancyon caller ID · Gulf fieldwork
02

Consent on every call.

The moderator introduces itself and records explicit, informed consent at the start of every interview.

03

Purpose-bound.

Recordings and transcripts are used only for the stated research purpose and retained only within project scope. Anonymisation and deletion on request.