Privacy Policy
Welcome to Abdulaziz Bin Ali Law Firm’s privacy policy.
Abdulaziz Bin Ali Law Firm respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Abdulaziz Bin Ali Law Firm collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter or purchase a service.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
WHO WE ARE
Abdulaziz Ahmed Musa Ali Law Firm (“Abdulaziz Bin Ali Law Firm”) is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Abdulaziz Bin Ali Law Firm”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.
CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager in the following ways:
Full name of legal entity: Abdulaziz Ahmed Musa Ali Law Firm
Email address: info@binali-lawfirm.com
Postal address: King Faisal Road. 3739 Wasel 34423, Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Telephone number: +966(0)11 827 4233
License from MOJ: : 233/33
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on December 2024.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. By clicking on those links or enabling those connections , you may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and do not disclose or share your personal data with them. Therefore, we are not responsible for any contents on those websites, nor for their privacy statements, or for any problems that may arise from using them. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes family names, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender
- Contact Data includes billing address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious, or intellectual beliefs, political opinions, trade union membership, health status , or genetic and biometric data).Additionally, we do not collect information about criminal convictions and offences, nor do we collect any information that indicates whether your parents are known or unknown.
IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, , such collection of personal data is mandatory for the following reason:
if you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
- instruct us to provide a service;
- subscribe to our service or publications;
- request marketing to be sent to you;
- give us feedback or contact us.
- Indirect interactions: we also obtain some personal data indirectly from the following sources:
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- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies for the purpose of enhancing user experience and website functionality.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
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- Technical Data from the following parties:
(a) analytics providers such as Google; and
(b) search information providers,to track users’ movements around the website, analyze trends and administer the website. - Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services,to track users’ movements around the website, analyze trends and administer the website.
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources, to provide you with the services you request, and to improve our offerings.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
We rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data.
| Purpose/activity | Legal bases for processing |
| To provide our service | (1) In fulfilment of a contractual obligation; (2) As necessary for our legitimate interest to grow business |
| To manage our relationship with data subject | (1) In fulfilment of a contractual obligation; (2) As necessary for our legitimate interest to develop business |
For Marketing Purpose We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. | (1) Your explicit consent (2) As necessary for our legitimate interests in studying how customers use our products/services, enhance customers experience and to grow our business |
For Third-Party Marketing Purpose We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes. | (1) Your explicit consent |
Using Cookies to improve our site and service Cookies are small text files, containing data about your general internet usage which are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalized service. In particular we use Google Analytics and similar products to track visitors to our website. | (1) Your explicit consent. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. (2) As necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our site updated and functioned, to develop our business |
| To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and conditions | (1) Legal requirement (2) Your explicit consent |
OPTING OUT
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences OR by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
CHANGE OF PURPOSE
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data if we have obtained your consent (where necessary) or if and as required or allowed under applicable law, such as to protect your vital interests, or for our own legitimate interests, except where such interests are overridden by your own rights or interests.
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data regularly with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table Purposes for which we will use your personal data above.
- External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
- Specific third parties listed in the table Purposes for which we will use your personal data above
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Many of our external third parties are based outside of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that where we use certain service providers, we may enter into an agreement with standard contractual clauses issued by the competent authority Arabia, or transfer your personal data in pursuant to another valid mechanism under Personal Data Protection Law in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, such as the bidding common rules which we establish to give personal data the same protection it The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , or transferring the personal data to entities which obtain a certificate of approval issued by a body licensed by the competent authority in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We may conduct risk assessment before cross-border transferring of personal data when required by law.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
7. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. DATA RETENTION
Personal data is stored inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the servers at our headquarter and we use administrative, organizational, and technological means of protection to prevent non-authorized entry and reduce cyber risks.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Data will be destructed upon the lapse of retention period; such destruction will be in a safe manner by which data cannot be accessed or restored.
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. The key rights which may be available are summarised below:
- Being informed
- Access and correction
- Destruction
- Withdraw consent
- Objecting and restricting
- Complaints
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
NO FEE USUALLY REQUIRED
Unless otherwise stipulated by the law, you will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may refuse to act on request if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.
WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month (30 days). Occasionally it could take us longer than a month (30 days) if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests, and the extension period does not exceed an additional a month (30 days). In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10. GLOSSARY
LAWFUL BASIS
Your explicit consent means your direct and explicit consent in any form that clearly indicates your acceptance of the processing of your personal data, including written or verbal consent or electronic means. You can withdraw your consent at any time without affecting processing operations carried out based on other legal bases.
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.
EXTERNAL THIRD PARTIES
- Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services based in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services, inside and outside The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Government regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Be informed. You are entitled to be informed how we collect your personal data, legal basis for collection and processing, how such data is processed, stored, destroyed, and to whom it will be disclosed. You can access all details through the Privacy Policy or contact us using the information mentioned above.
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. Nevertheless, we may refuse to act on request if your request adversely affect the rights of others, such as intellectual property rights. We may provide the personal date you request in a commonly used electronic format.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need supporting documents or evidence to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
- If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.
- Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
- Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
- You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Complaint where you have any concerns, or if we do not comply with the Personal Data Protection Law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, you can file a complaint to info@binali-lawfirm.com. If you are not satisfied with how we process your complaint, or if we fail to respond within the specified time (30 days in general and 30 days extensible), you can file a complaint to Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA).