Last updated: July 13, 2026
The Short Media (“TSM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit https://theshortmedia.com, contact us, submit a form, or engage with our marketing, creator, advertising, and short-form content services.
1. Who We Are
The Short Media is a short-form content, TikTok marketing, creator, influencer, UGC, TikTok Shop, TikTok Live, and paid media growth partner serving brands across the UAE, GCC, USA, UK, and other markets.
Website: https://theshortmedia.com
Email: connect@theshortmedia.com
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following information:
- Contact information: name, company name, job title, email address, phone number, country, and communication details.
- Business inquiry information: campaign goals, service interests, brand details, budget range if voluntarily provided, timelines, and project requirements.
- Website and analytics information: IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring URLs, approximate location, cookies, pixels, and similar tracking technologies.
- Communication information: messages you send through website forms, email, WhatsApp, social media, LinkedIn, or other communication channels.
- Service delivery information: campaign briefs, creator/influencer details, content requirements, approvals, reports, and operational information needed to deliver agreed services.
3. How We Collect Information
We may collect information when you:
- Visit or browse our website.
- Submit a contact, inquiry, consultation, or lead form.
- Contact us by email, phone, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, social media, or other channels.
- Request information about our services, proposals, pricing, or campaigns.
- Engage with our advertising, social content, newsletters, events, or marketing campaigns.
- Work with us as a client, creator, contractor, partner, or vendor.
4. How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to inquiries and communicate with you.
- Assess your brand, campaign, or service requirements.
- Prepare proposals, recommendations, reports, and service plans.
- Deliver, manage, and improve our short-form content, creator, influencer, UGC, TikTok, paid media, and related services.
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and systems.
- Analyze website traffic, campaign performance, and marketing effectiveness.
- Send relevant business communications, updates, or marketing messages where permitted.
- Prevent fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, and security incidents.
- Comply with applicable legal, contractual, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.
5. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, and similar technologies to understand website usage, improve user experience, measure marketing performance, and support advertising or retargeting activity.
These technologies may be provided by third-party platforms such as Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or other analytics, advertising, CRM, hosting, security, and website service providers. These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect website functionality or analytics accuracy.
6. Lead Forms and Business Communications
If you submit a lead form or contact request, we use the information you provide to respond, qualify your inquiry, understand your requirements, and communicate about relevant TSM services. We may keep records of these communications for follow-up, relationship management, service quality, and compliance purposes.
7. Creator, Partner, and Client Information
If you work with us as a client, creator, influencer, vendor, or partner, we may process information needed to manage briefs, approvals, campaign delivery, content production, reporting, payments, contracts, and ongoing business operations.
8. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information as a standalone product. We may share information when necessary with:
- TSM team members, contractors, consultants, and authorized representatives.
- Technology providers, hosting providers, analytics tools, CRM systems, email and communication platforms, advertising platforms, and business software providers.
- Creators, influencers, production partners, or campaign partners where needed for service delivery.
- Clients, vendors, or partners where disclosure is necessary for agreed campaign operations.
- Professional advisers such as legal, accounting, tax, insurance, or compliance advisers.
- Authorities, regulators, courts, or other parties where required by law or to protect rights, safety, and security.
9. International Transfers
Because TSM works with brands, creators, platforms, tools, and service providers across different countries, your information may be processed or stored outside your country of residence, including in the UAE, India, the United States, Europe, or other locations where our providers operate. Where required, we take reasonable steps to protect personal information in line with applicable privacy requirements.
10. Data Retention
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to manage inquiries, provide services, maintain business records, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and protect our legitimate business interests.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the relationship, legal requirements, and operational needs.
11. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no website, email, or online transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
12. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, restriction of, or portability of your personal information. You may also object to certain processing or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
To make a privacy request, contact us at connect@theshortmedia.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
13. Marketing Communications
If you receive marketing communications from us, you may opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe option where available or by contacting us at connect@theshortmedia.com. We may still send non-marketing communications related to active inquiries, services, transactions, or legal matters.
14. Third-Party Links and Platforms
Our website or communications may link to third-party websites, social media platforms, creator platforms, advertising platforms, payment providers, or other services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party services. Please review their privacy policies before providing information to them.
15. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for business users and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.
16. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when it was most recently revised. Changes become effective when posted on this page unless otherwise stated.
17. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal information, contact us at:
The Short Media
Website: https://theshortmedia.com
Email: connect@theshortmedia.com