Privacy policy
Golden Key Real Estate · Licence No. 440
This privacy policy explains what personal information Golden Key Real Estate collects through its website, how we use it, who we share it with and the choices you have. It applies to our website in English at goldenkey.qa and in Arabic at goldenkey.qa/ar, and to the enquiries you send us from the website by form, WhatsApp, phone or email.
This policy was last updated on 7 November 2026.
Who is responsible for your information
Golden Key Real Estate (جولدن كي للعقارات) is a real-estate brokerage licensed in the State of Qatar. We decide how and why the personal information described in this policy is used, so we are responsible for it (the "controller" under Qatar's personal data law).
- Commercial Registration No. 88995
- Real-estate brokerage licence No. 440
- Office 602, Palm Tower B, West Bay, Doha, Qatar
- P.O. Box 42682, Doha
- Email: info@goldenkey.qa
All our contact details are at the end of this policy.
The information we collect
You do not need an account to use our website, and there are no logins or payments on it. You can look at every page without telling us who you are. We collect personal information in the following ways.
Enquiry forms. The forms on our home page, contact page, listing pages and project pages ask for:
- your name (required)
- your mobile number (required)
- your email address (optional)
- your message (optional)
With your form, the website also sends us the address of the page you sent it from, the reference of the listing or the name of the project you asked about, which form you used, and the campaign details described under "Cookies and similar technologies" below. Your enquiry is then recorded in our customer relationship management system (CRM), where our team handles it. If you have contacted us before with the same mobile number or email address, we may add the new enquiry to your existing record.
WhatsApp, phone and email. The WhatsApp, call and email buttons on our website open WhatsApp, your phone or your email app. We then receive what you send us in the usual way: your phone number, the name and profile details WhatsApp shows us, your messages, or your email address and email. A WhatsApp message started from a listing or a project may already contain the listing's reference or the project's name. Our team may record your enquiry in our CRM so that it can be followed up.
When we work with you. If you go on to view, rent, buy, sell or let a property through us, we will ask for the information the service needs, such as your requirements and budget and, for a contract, copies of identity documents. We will tell you what is needed at the time. That information is also covered by this policy.
Technical information. Like any website, our server receives your device's IP address and basic details about your browser when you open a page. We use the IP address briefly to protect the website from abuse, for example to limit how many forms can be sent from one connection. Our own counters of how often each listing is shown, opened and enquired about record totals only, with no IP address or other detail about you.
Analytics and advertising information. Google tools on our website collect information about your visit, such as the pages and listings you look at, the searches you make, which contact buttons you press and whether you sent a form, together with information about your device, your browser and your approximate location. This is explained under "Cookies and similar technologies" below.
Please do not put sensitive information we do not need in your message, such as health details, religious beliefs, identity card or passport numbers, or bank details.
How we use your information
We use your information to:
- reply to your enquiry and send you the details you asked for
- arrange and confirm viewings and meetings
- follow up on your enquiry and look for properties that match what you asked for
- prepare and complete a rental, sale or other deal, including its contract and paperwork
- keep a record of our dealings with you, so that whoever helps you next knows the history
- keep our website and systems working, secure and free from abuse
- understand how our website is used, so that we can improve it
- measure how well our advertising works and show our advertisements to people who may be interested in them
- meet our obligations under the laws of the State of Qatar and deal with any dispute
We send you marketing messages, such as properties you did not ask about, offers or news, only if you have agreed to receive them. Each such message will say that it comes from Golden Key Real Estate and how to stop receiving them, and you can tell us to stop at any time.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
Our legal basis under Qatari law
We handle personal information in line with Law No. 13 of 2016 on the Protection of Personal Data Privacy and the other laws of the State of Qatar. We rely on:
- Your consent. When you choose to send us an enquiry or contact us, you give us your details so that we can respond and help you. You can withdraw your consent at any time (see "Your rights" below).
- The lawful purposes of our business. Some uses are necessary for our lawful purposes as a real-estate brokerage, such as following up enquiries, keeping records, protecting our website, measuring our advertising and improving our services. We keep these uses proportionate, and you can object to them.
- Our legal obligations. We keep or share some information when the law requires it, for example under the rules for licensed brokers in Law No. 22 of 2017 regulating real estate brokerage, or when a court or a competent authority orders it.
Who we share your information with
We share personal information only as far as the purposes above need it:
- Our team. Your enquiry is seen by the team member who handles website enquiries, by the property consultant who helps you and by the managers who supervise them. Access to our CRM is limited according to each staff member's role.
- Property owners and landlords. To arrange a viewing or a deal, we give the owner, the landlord or their representative only the details that are needed, such as your name and, if a deal goes ahead, the details the contract requires. For an off-plan project, the same applies to the project's developer.
- Service providers. Companies that provide services to us, such as the hosting of our website and CRM, email and messaging, and Google's analytics and advertising tools. They may use the information only to provide their services, and Google also as its own policies describe (see below).
- Professional advisers, such as our lawyers and auditors, when we need their advice.
- Authorities. Government bodies, courts, the police and regulators, when the law requires it, or when it is needed to protect our rights or someone's safety.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files that a website or service saves in your browser. Our website's own code does not set cookies, but the Google tools we use do, and our website saves a few items in your browser's storage. Our website does not show a cookie banner: the Google tools run when you open a page. You can control them as explained under "How to control cookies and advertising" below.
Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Google Ads. Every page of our website loads Google Tag Manager, which runs Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads conversion tracking. They use cookies and similar technologies to:
- count visits and pages and show us how visitors use the website (Google Analytics)
- tell us when a visit led to a listing being viewed, a press of a WhatsApp, call or email button, or an enquiry form being sent, and whether that visit came from one of our Google advertisements (Google Ads conversion tracking)
- add visitors to our advertising audiences, so that our advertisements, for example for a property you looked at, can be shown to you later on other websites and apps (remarketing)
Google learns that a contact button was pressed, but not what you then say in a WhatsApp message, a call or an email. Some of these cookies can last up to two years unless you delete them. The information goes to Google, which uses it to provide these services to us and also for its own purposes, as it explains at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Campaign details sent with your enquiry. When you arrive from an advertisement or a tagged link, our website keeps in your browser, for 90 days, the details of that visit: Google's click identifier, the campaign tags in the link, the page you landed on and the website you came from. If you send an enquiry form during those 90 days, these details are sent with it and kept with your enquiry, so that we know which advertising works. We may later tell Google Ads which advertisement clicks led to enquiries or deals, using the click identifier only, not your name, mobile number or email address.
Advertising lists and enhanced conversions. We may give Google Ads a scrambled (hashed) copy of the mobile numbers and email addresses of people who have enquired with us, so that Google can show our advertisements to them, or leave them out, when they use Google's services. Google uses such lists under its Customer Match rules. When you send an enquiry form, Google's tag may also take the email address and mobile number you typed, scramble (hash) them and send the scrambled version to Google, so that Google can match your enquiry to an advertisement click (enhanced conversions).
Items saved in your browser. Our website saves these items in your own browser only. They are not sent to us, apart from the campaign details above when you send an enquiry:
- your language, your light or dark display setting, the unit used for sizes (square metres or square feet) and your shortlist of saved properties, kept until you clear them (stored as gk.prefs)
- the campaign details described above, kept for 90 days (stored as gk.attr)
- while your browser tab is open: your last search, whether you were using the map, and the listings you opened in the last 30 minutes, so that a repeated view is not counted twice; these are deleted when you close the tab
How to control cookies and advertising
You can:
- block or delete cookies and clear stored website data in your browser's settings; the website still works, but your shortlist and preferences will be lost
- use a private or incognito window, which deletes cookies and stored data when you close it
- stop Google Analytics from recording your visits with Google's browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- turn off personalised advertising from Google in My Ad Center at https://myadcenter.google.com
- limit ad tracking in your phone's privacy settings
Other websites and services
Our website links to services run by other companies, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok and Google Maps. When you use them, for example to message us on WhatsApp, their own privacy policies apply, and we do not control what they collect.
Some content on our pages comes from other providers: the maps use map images from OpenStreetMap, and some photos may be loaded directly from the service where they are stored, such as a property portal or the Unsplash photo library. These providers receive your IP address when your browser fetches that content.
Information stored outside Qatar
Some of our service providers keep information on servers outside Qatar. Google and WhatsApp, for example, process data in several countries, including the United States. Our website and CRM run on a rented server in Germany. We choose providers that protect information with appropriate security measures, and we transfer information only as the laws of the State of Qatar allow.
How long we keep your information
We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes in this policy:
- Enquiries that do not lead to a deal: up to three years after our last contact with you, so that we can help you again if you come back, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.
- Records of a rental, sale or other deal, including contracts: for as long as the laws of the State of Qatar require us to keep them, and as long as they are needed to deal with any claim.
- Items saved in your browser: as described under "Cookies and similar technologies".
- Analytics and advertising data held by Google: under Google's rules and the settings of our Google accounts.
When information is deleted from our systems, copies may stay in our backups for up to about two months until they are replaced.
How we protect your information
We use technical and organisational measures suited to the information we hold, including:
- encrypted (HTTPS) connections between your browser and our website
- access to our CRM only for authorised staff, each with their own login, and limited according to their role
- regular backups and checks of our systems
- protection of our forms against automated and abusive use
No system can be completely secure. If a breach of your personal information could cause you serious harm, we will tell you and the competent authority, as the law requires.
Your rights
Under Law No. 13 of 2016 you have the right to:
- withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information at any time
- object to a use of your information that is not necessary for its purpose, or is excessive, discriminatory, unfair or unlawful
- ask us to delete your information when its purpose has ended or there is no reason to keep it
- ask us to correct information that is wrong, with supporting evidence where needed
- be told whether we use your information and why
- be told if we have disclosed inaccurate information about you
- see your information and receive a copy of it
To use any of these rights, email info@goldenkey.qa with "Privacy request" in the subject, write to us, or speak to us at our office. So that we do not give your information to someone else, we may ask you to confirm who you are, for example by writing from the mobile number or email address you used with us. We may charge a fee for a copy of your information, no higher than the cost of providing it, as the law allows.
Withdrawing your consent does not affect what we did before, and we may have to keep some records when the law requires it. To stop marketing messages, tell your consultant or use the instructions in the message.
If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the National Cyber Security Agency, which oversees the protection of personal data in Qatar.
Children
Our website is for adults who want to rent, buy, sell or let property, and it is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you think a child has sent us their details, please contact us and we will delete them.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our website, our services or the law change. We will publish the new version on this page with the date it was updated, and we will make important changes clear on the website.
Law and courts
This policy is governed by the laws of the State of Qatar. The courts of Doha have jurisdiction over any dispute about it.
Contact us
For any question about this policy or your personal information, contact Golden Key Real Estate:
- Email: info@goldenkey.qa
- Mobile and WhatsApp: +974 7444 6104
- Landline: +974 4145 2373
- Office: Office 602, Palm Tower B, West Bay, Doha, Qatar, open Saturday to Thursday from 9am to 5:30pm and closed on Friday
- Post: P.O. Box 42682, Doha, Qatar

