Updated in December 2022

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and definitions

Interpretation

The following definitions shall have the meanings assigned to them, regardless of whether they appear singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
The website of the Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Hereinafter referred to as “Website”, “We”, or “our” herein) refers to GCDC, Riyadh, Diplomatic Quarter, KSA.
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country: Gulf countries
Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a mobile, or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service refers to the website.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person that processes the data on our behalf. It also refers to third-party companies or individuals to facilitate the service, provide the service on our behalf, perform services related to the service, or assist us in analyzing how the service is used.
Third-party social media service refers to any website or any social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to use the service.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Website refers to GCDC, accessible from GCDC.org
"You" means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Collecting and using your personal data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but not limited to:

Email address.
First name and last name.
Phone number.
Usage Data.

Usage Data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, service pages you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

Information from third parties social media services.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the company through your third-party social media service's account. If you choose to provide such information and personal data, during registration or otherwise, you are giving us permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use may include:

Cookies or browser cookies:

A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, so our service may use cookies.

Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear GIFs, pixel tags, and single-pixel GIFs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary/essential cookies:

Type: Session cookies.

Administered by: Gulf CDC

Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Cookies policy/notice acceptance cookies:

Type: Persistent cookies.

Administered by: Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control (GCDC)

Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.

Functionality cookies:

Type: Persistent cookies.

Administered by: Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control (GCDC)

Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember the choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more quality personal experience and avoid having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our cookies policy or the cookies section of our privacy policy.

Use of your Personal Data

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our service, including monitoring the usage of our service.
To manage your account: Manage your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that is available to you as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the service.
To contact you: to contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
To manage your requests: Attend and manage your requests to us.
For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, liquidation, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sales or transfers of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our service users are among the assets transferred.
For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our services, products, marketing, and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

With service providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, and contact you.
For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With affiliates: We may share your information with companies contracted with us, in which case we will require those companies to respect this privacy policy. Such contracted companies include any companies we have a relation with, of any nature, with them.
With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, pictures, and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.
With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of your personal data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our services, or when we are legally obligated to retain this data for a longer period.

Transfer of your personal data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at our offices and in any other affiliated places or cooperated or contracted with us, where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, and no transfer of your personal data will take place for an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Delete your personal data

You have the right to delete or request our assistance to delete the personal data that we have collected about you.

Our service may give you the ability to delete certain information about you from within the service.

You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by logging in to your account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of your Personal Data

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, it may be required that we disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

We may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation.
Protect and defend Our rights or property.
Prevent or investigate possible violations in connection with the service.
Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public.
Protect against legal liability.

Security of your personal data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to other websites

Our services may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Correctness of Data

You are solely responsible for the completeness, correctness, and authenticity of the data that you send through the website we will not be held accountable for anything.

In order for us to be able to help you protect your personal information, we recommend the following:

Contact us immediately when you think that someone has obtained your password, usage code, password, or any other confidential information.

Do not give out confidential information over the phone or the Internet unless you know the identity of the person or party receiving the information.

Use a secure browser when doing online transactions while closing unused applications on the network, and make sure your antivirus software is always up to date.

Privacy of other websites:

This website may contain electronic links to websites or portals that may use data protection and privacy methods that are different from the methods we use. We are not responsible for the contents and privacy methods of other sites. We advise you to refer to the privacy notices of these sites.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

E-mail: info@gcdc.org