Last updated: 02/12/2024
Riyadh Schools Group (“Riyadh Schools Group,” “we,” the “Foundation”) is a non-profit organization that aims to encourage learning and develop leadership skills among youth for a better future in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To achieve these goals, the Foundation focuses its efforts on empowering Saudi youth through the design of programs and the establishment of partnerships based on three main pillars: education and technology, culture and arts, and entrepreneurship.
The Foundation provides its services through its website (rsg.org.sa) and the associated sub-sites (collectively referred to as the ‘website’), which includes all other pages found on the homepage of Riyadh Schools Group.
The Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the highest standards of data protection, as specified in the Personal Data Protection Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA PDPL”).
This Privacy Policy outlines all the information that helps you understand how we use your personal data, such as your name, email address, and other contact information, reflecting our commitment to your privacy and the protection of your personal data. It is important to note that this Privacy Policy applies to all data processing activities carried out by the Foundation concerning the data collected during your browsing of the Riyadh Schools Group website.
Personal data is information that enables you to be identified. It includes things like your name, date of birth, and your email address. For example, your email address will identify you because no one else will have the same email address as you. These are just a few examples of what your data is.
We collect any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual, such as names, contact details, identification numbers, or online identifiers.
We collect various types of personal data to provide and improve our services, including but not limited to:
Identity Information:
Demographic Information:
Educational Background:
Employment History:
Personal Attributes:
Digital Presence:
Other Identifiable Information:
We have this personal information because:
We use your data so that we can do the following:
Purpose we use your data for | Applicable good reasons |
To provide you with our services. |
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To improve our website and service offerings. | It is in our legitimate interests to improve our website and service offerings. |
To enhance our customer service. | It is in our legitimate interests to enhance our customer service. |
To administer contests, promotions, surveys, or other site features. |
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To send you periodic emails on various subjects, including marketing and advertisements. | We will only send you such emails if you consent to receive them. |
To ensure legal and regulatory compliance | To meet legal obligations, such as tax reporting or responding to law enforcement requests. |
We will only send you adverts and marketing materials when you have said we can do so. This will include adverts and promotions from our contest sponsors and promotional marketing partners that we think may be of interest to you.
However, if you say yes and later change your mind, you can ask that we stop sending you adverts and marketing materials. Should you change your mind, the email containing the advertisement will include an ‘Unsubscribe’ button so that you can cease receiving such data. Furthermore, you can also email us and ask us to stop sending you adverts at the email address contained at the bottom of this policy.
We Won’t Do Anything We’re Not Allowed to Do with Your Data
We will always be transparent with you about how we use your data and explain why we use it.
Our Use of Cookies and Similar Tools
A cookie is a small piece of technology stored on your computer, tablet, or phone whenever you visit a website. We use cookies on our website.
We use the following types of cookies on our website:
We use cookies for various purposes, including:
Protecting personal data is essential. We do not want other people or companies to see your data if you do not want them to. We treat your data as being equally important to you and we protect your personal data and aim to preserve your individual rights, prevent harm, and ensure ethical handling of your information.
We have a range of tools and features in place that will help keep your data secure. This includes physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to ensure that your data is safeguarded. We will obtain clear and explicit consent from you before collecting, using, or sharing personal data, except where legal exemptions apply. We use the personal data necessary for the intended purpose, and only for legitimate reasons. We will implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or loss. This may include encryption, access control, and regular security audits as per the PDPL.
We do things to make sure that other people can’t see your data without your permission. We work hard to protect your data. It is one of the most important things we do. Only you should know your password with us. Make sure that nobody else knows it. Check that no one can see your password when you type it.
We will do our best to protect your data. We’ll always do what the law says we must do to keep your data safe. Unfortunately, even where we do our best, information on the Internet can never be totally safe. For these reasons, we cannot promise that your data will always be safe. If someone breaks into our office, our computers, or our databases and gets hold of your data, we will let you know where the law tells us to. We’ll always do our best to help you with any relevant problems.
Disclosure of Your Information
We are dedicated to safeguarding your personal information. We will not sell, rent, or share your data with third parties without your explicit consent, except as necessary for the purposes of this challenge. Disclosure of your personal information may occur if required by law or in response to a valid legal request, as permitted by the PDPL.
Sharing Your Data
We sometimes need to share your data with other people or companies. Here are some examples:
Data Transfer
We only share your data with other companies and people when we know they protect it in the same way that we do.
It is important that you know where we send your data. We will send it to people and companies that are in Saudi Arabia or other countries around the world. Whenever we do need to transfer your data, we will make sure that it is protected. In some circumstances, the law will dictate that we need to take extra steps to protect your data before we can do this. These steps may include:
If You Are Under 18
We try our best to make sure that we are not collecting personal data from people who are under 18 years old. If you are under 18, please speak to your parents or guardians about using our services before signing up. We need to make sure that your parents or guardians are happy for us to collect your personal data before we can provide you with our services.
If you are a parent or guardian of someone under 18 who has provided us with personal data, please contact us at the email address contained at the end of this policy.
Know Your Rights
We will honor your rights where these are set out in the law. In some situations, the law might say that you can ask us lots of things about your data.
Where the applicable laws allow you to ask, we might still be unable to do these things. For example, if you ask us to destroy all of your data, we can’t do that straight away. We must keep some of your data for three years from when you ask us to destroy it. This is because there are laws that tell us we have to do this to keep you safe. We will always explain to you if something like this happens. We’ll never consciously try to hide what we do with your data.
How Long We Can Keep Your Data
We need to keep your data while you use our products or services. However, we may need to keep your data for longer if the law says we have to. So even if you ask us to destroy your data, we may not be able to do that straight away.
When we no longer need your information, and the law says we do not need it, we delete it from our systems.
Sometimes, we are required to make changes to our privacy policy. This could be because the law changes or a new law is introduced which changes how we are required to handle data. The date this policy was last updated can be found at the beginning of the policy. We will also tell you whenever we are required to make changes to this policy.
If you have any questions regarding your data, please email us at: [email protected]
By using the Riyadh Schools Group website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to this privacy policy and consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described herein.
Complaint or Objection Filing Method
If you have any concerns or believe we are not complying with the Personal Data Protection Law, you may file a complaint with the Data Protection Officer (DPO) at: [email protected].
If you are dissatisfied with how we process your complaint or if we fail to respond within 30 days, you may escalate your complaint to the Competent Authority, which is the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA).
SDAIA Address
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Website
Saudi Data & AI Authority (sdaia.gov.sa)
National Data Governance Platform “DGP” (dgp.sdaia.gov.sa)