The RCRC is committed to protect your privacy and process your personal data in accordance with the NDMO’s Personal Data Protection Interim Regulation.
This privacy notice lists all the potential information collected about you and explains how it is collected, how it is used and kept secure.
1- Information submitted to Riyadh Open Data website
A- When you register for an account on the Riyadh Open Data (ROD) website, you are asked to provide your email address, a username and a password. You will also be given an opportunity to sign up for the ROD newsletter.
B- The information you provide will be used to create and administer your account for the ROD and to provide you with your log on credentials to access your ROD account. Where you provide your consent for us to do so, your email address will be used to send you the ROD newsletter, but only where you have signed up for it.
C- Your username is publicly viewable.
Your email address is only accessible to the RCRC and our third-party web developers.
Your password is not viewable by anyone.
D- Should you wish to change your account settings you can do so using the Edit Profile page of the site. From this page you can change your username, password and email address. You also have the option to opt in or out of receiving the ROD newsletter or delete your account all together.
E- The RCRC does not rent or sell personally identifiable information (e.g., information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc., or other information that identifies or could lead to the identification of a user as a particular person), nor would the RCRC exchange or trade such information with third-parties without a user’s explicit permission. The RCRC does not disclose credit card or other personally identifiable financial information other than as necessary to complete a credit card or other financial transaction, or upon explicit permission from the applicable user.
2- Information collected using third party service
In order to improve the content and usability of the portal, the RCRC collects automatically several categories of information from users, using a third-party service ─ Google Analytics ─, including:
1. The apparent Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of your Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) and/or your computer, if your computer has an IP address assigned directly to it.
2. The apparent Fully Qualified Domain Name (“Domain Name”) of your Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) and/or your computer, if your computer has a domain name assigned directly to it.
3. The type of browser (such as, for example Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) used and the operating system resident on a user’s computer.
4. The date and time a user visited the site.
5. The web pages accessed at the site, as well as any applications used and forms data.
6. The Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the site which a user visited prior to ROD website (if detectable), if such user did not connect directly to ROD website.
The RCRC uses this information to identify site performance needs, to ensure compatibility with the technology used by ROD’s visitors, and to generally improve the portal and the accessibility of the datasets. In order to accomplish those goals, from time to time, the RCRC may conduct statistical analysis of the data it collects.
The RCRC does not collect data for commercial or marketing purposes and does not sell, exchange, or otherwise distribute the data collected by ROD website for commercial or marketing purposes.