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Terms of use and licence

These terms apply to the Secrets of Dubai digital book and to your use of thesecretsofdubai.com. At checkout you confirm that you accept them and our Refund policy. Our Privacy notice explains how we handle your information. Please read them before you pay.

Last updated 18 October 2026

Who we are

Secrets of Dubai is written and published, and this website is operated, by Branda Stock Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”). Contact us at support@thesecretsofdubai.com. Our company details are in the Legal notice at the end of these terms.

Who you buy from

You buy the book from Dodo Payments, our authorised reseller and merchant of record. Dodo Payments takes your payment, charges and pays any applicable tax, issues your receipt and processes any refund, under its own buyer terms. The Dodo Payments entity that sells to you is named at checkout and on your receipt. We never see or store your card details.

We publish the book and license it to you. We deliver the files, provide support and are responsible for the book itself. These terms govern your licence to use the book, our delivery and support, and your use of this website.

What you buy

A one-time purchase of the digital book Secrets of Dubai: Read This Before You Move, Sign or Pay, supplied as downloadable files: PDF and EPUB, in English and Arabic. The Arabic edition is a translation of the English. The files have no copy protection (DRM). It is not a subscription and nothing renews. Future editions and updates are not included. The book reflects information reviewed up to its research cut-off date of 27 September 2026.

Price and payment

The price is AED 79, including any applicable tax. The total is shown before you pay. You are charged in UAE dirhams (AED), and your card issuer may add its own currency-conversion or foreign-transaction fee. Your card statement shows the charge from Dodo Payments, beginning “DODOPAY”.

Delivery

As soon as your payment is confirmed you can download the book from the confirmation page. We also email your personal download links to the address you entered at checkout. If you cannot download the book, or the email has not arrived within a few minutes, check your spam folder and then write to us. We will send your links again.

Refunds and the 14-day money-back guarantee

The book is digital content that we deliver immediately. At checkout you ask for immediate access to the book and acknowledge that you lose any right to cancel or withdraw from the purchase as soon as the download is made available to you. This includes the 14-day cancellation right that applies in some countries, such as those of the EU and the UK; buyers there confirm it by ticking a box before the payment form opens. We confirm this in your order email.

• The book comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee, our own promise in addition to your legal rights: if the book is not for you, email us from the address you used at checkout within 14 days of purchase, with your order reference, and the full price is refunded through Dodo Payments. One refund per order; after a refund the download links stop working and your licence ends. We may refuse a refund where the guarantee is abused, for example repeated purchases and refunds of the same book or sharing of the files. The free sample chapter and the list of contents are also available before you buy.
• If a file is faulty, we will fix the problem or send you a working copy. A file is faulty if it will not open, is corrupted or incomplete, or is not the Secrets of Dubai digital edition described on this website.
• If you were charged twice for the same order, charged in error, or paid but never received access and we cannot deliver, the extra or undelivered payment is refunded.
• If we cannot fix a faulty file or supply a working copy within a reasonable time, you keep the remedies the law gives you. Any refund the law requires is made through Dodo Payments.

The Refund policy explains how to contact us. Nothing in these terms removes any right you have under the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.

Your licence to use the book

The book, including its text, tables, working sheets and cover, is © 2026 Branda Stock Ltd. It is protected by copyright law, including UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 38 of 2021 and the laws of other countries. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved.

When your payment is confirmed, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to download, read and print the book on devices you control, for your own personal reference. You may use the book and its working sheets when you make decisions about your own job, home or business. Unless the law expressly allows it, you may not:

• copy the book for others, or share the files or your download links;
• upload or post it to any website, file-sharing service, group, channel or chat;
• sell, resell, rent, lend or distribute it, or otherwise commercially exploit the book itself, for example by including it or its working sheets in a paid course, service, product or publication;
• remove or change copyright notices; or
• scrape or extract any part of it, or use any part of it to train, fine-tune or prompt artificial-intelligence systems.

If an order is refunded, a payment is reversed or charged back, or the files or links are shared in breach of this licence, we may disable the download links and your licence ends. You must then delete your copies. We may take action against any infringement.

About the content

The book gives general, educational information about working, renting, money and business in Dubai and the UAE. It is not legal, tax, financial, investment, immigration, employment or real-estate advice. It does not create a professional or adviser relationship, and it does not guarantee any outcome.

• It reflects public information we reviewed up to the research cut-off of 27 September 2026. Laws, fees, procedures and practices change, and they depend on your employer, emirate, free zone, contract, nationality and circumstances. We do not update copies you have already bought.
• We take care with the content, but we do not promise that it is complete, current or suitable for your situation. Before you sign, pay or file anything, check the current position with the relevant authority and take advice from a qualified, licensed professional.
• Illustrative scenarios and composite cases use fictional people and assumed figures. Any resemblance to real people or businesses is unintended. Reported experiences are paraphrased from personal accounts that people published online and have not been verified. They are not findings about any person, company or authority.
• Secrets of Dubai is an independent publication and is not an official publication. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed, approved or sponsored by, the Government of Dubai, the UAE federal government or any authority. This includes the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE), the Dubai Land Department (DLD), RERA, Ejari, DEWA, the Federal Tax Authority (FTA), the Central Bank of the UAE, GDRFA Dubai and Dubai Police. Their names are used only to identify public sources. Other names and trademarks mentioned belong to their owners and are used only to identify them.
• Links to official and third-party websites are provided for convenience. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their content.

Using this website

You may use this website to learn about the book and to buy it. You must not:

• use it in a way that breaks the law or infringes anyone’s rights;
• copy, scrape or harvest its content or the sample chapter, including to train artificial-intelligence systems;
• try to gain unauthorised access to the website, our systems, or other people’s orders or download links, or introduce malicious code; or
• interfere with how the website works, including by overloading it or bypassing its security or consent features.

We provide the website as it is, and we may change, suspend or withdraw it. We are not responsible if it is unavailable for a period of time.

Our liability

We are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care. We are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable.

• The book is general information. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not responsible for the outcome of decisions you make, or decide not to make, in reliance on general information in it, whether about your job, tenancy, deposit, business, tax, banking or immigration matters.
• If you buy or use the book in the course of a business, then to the fullest extent the law allows we are not responsible for loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts or opportunity.
• If a file we supplied damages your device or other digital content because we did not use reasonable care, we will repair the damage or compensate you, as the law requires.
• Subject to the rest of this section and to the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim relating to the book or this website is limited to the amount you paid for the book.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for wilful misconduct or gross negligence. Nothing in them excludes or limits any other liability or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Complaints

If something goes wrong, email support@thesecretsofdubai.com from the address you used at checkout and include your order reference. We acknowledge complaints within 48 hours, use your order reference to track them, and aim to resolve them within 30 days. Please contact us before you dispute a charge with your bank. We can usually help faster.

Governing law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. So are any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, the book or this website, including non-contractual disputes and claims. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live. You may bring proceedings in the courts of that country, including the UAE courts if you live in the UAE, or in the courts of England and Wales. These terms contain no arbitration clause. Your payment contract with Dodo Payments is governed by its buyer terms.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example to reflect changes in the law or in how the book is sold. The version you accepted at checkout applies to your purchase. Changes apply to your use of the website from the date we post them here.

General

• To buy the book you must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding contract where you live.
• These terms, the Refund policy and the Privacy notice are the entire agreement between you and us about the book. They replace anything said before your purchase, but nothing limits liability for anything said fraudulently. Dodo Payments’ buyer terms separately govern the payment.
• If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
• If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to an organisation that takes over the book. Your rights are not affected. No one else has rights under these terms.
• These terms are written in English. If we publish a translation and it differs, the English version applies to the extent the law allows.

Legal notice

Secrets of Dubai is published, and thesecretsofdubai.com is operated, by Branda Stock Ltd, company number 516304516, registered office Hadvir 18, Hadera, Israel.

• Support, complaints, legal notices and copyright or content-removal requests: support@thesecretsofdubai.com. We act on removal requests promptly.
• Grievance contact: Customer Support Lead, at the same address. We acknowledge complaints within 48 hours and aim to resolve them within 30 days.
• Telephone: available on request by email. We provide support in writing so that every request has a record.
• Sales are made through our reseller and merchant of record, Dodo Payments, whose details appear at checkout and on your receipt. Branda Stock Ltd holds no UAE trade licence and has no establishment in the UAE.