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Introduction

King Fahd Causeway Authority is an organization of legal personality established under the Agreement signed between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Bahrain on 13/4/1406 AH ratified by the Royal Decree No. R/9 on 2/5/1406 AH and the Amiri Decree No. 4 of the year 1986 dated 19/5/1406 AH.



Scope of Notice

This Web-Privacy Notice (“Notice”) explains how we may collect and use information that KFCA, its related corporations and/ or associated companies (“KFCA“) obtains about you, and your rights in relation to that information.
Please read this Notice to understand how we will collect, use, and process your personal data and the rights you have in relation to your personal data. This Notice may be amended from time to time. Please visit this page if you want to stay up to date, as we will post any changes in our approach to data privacy here.
By providing your explicit consent and/ or by your provision of information to us, you acknowledge the terms of this Notice and the use / disclosure/storage/transfer and or processing of your personal data as set out in this Notice.
This Notice applies to our processing of personal data in relation to the provision of any of our products and/or services, including but not limited to:

  • when you request information from us;
  • when you engage our services and/or purchase our products;
  • as a result of your relationship with one or more of our brokers;
  • where you apply for a job or work placement; and
  • your use of our websites (including our associated sites) and online services (including our mobile apps, if any).


3. How Your Personal Data is Collected

For the purposes of this Notice, Personal Data includes Sensitive Personal Data.


3.1. Directly

We generally collect your personal data directly from you when you are one of our customers. When you enter a contract with us, you will be asked to provide personal data. This information is likely to include your name, address, date of birth, email address, phone number, and financial information (this is not an exhaustive list).

We may also collect personal data from you when you make transactions or otherwise interact with us, for example by contacting our customer service personnel or reporting a problem on our website. The categories and range of personal data we collect, and hold will vary from customer to customer. However, our notice is to collect only the personal data necessary for provisioning of services to you.



3.2. Business Contacts and Suppliers

We collect certain limited personal data about our business contacts, including subcontractors and individuals associated with our suppliers and subcontractors, and service providers (including professional advisors and individuals associated with our service providers). Personal data collected in this context usually includes (but may not exclusively be limited to) name, employer name, contact title, phone, email, and other business contact details.



3.3. Careers and Recruitment

If you apply for a job or work placement you may need to provide information about your education, employment, nationality, immigration status and state of health. Your application will constitute your express consent to our use of this information to assess your application and to allow us to carry out both recruitment analytics and any monitoring activities which may be required of us under applicable law as an employer. We may also carry out screening checks (including reference, background, directorship, financial probity, identity, eligibility to work, vocational suitability and criminal record checks) and consider you for other positions. We may disclose your personal data (including diversity and equal opportunities data) to academic institutions, recruiters, screening check providers, health service providers, professional and trade associations, law enforcement agencies, recruitment analytics and diversity research providers, referees, and your current and previous employers. We may also collect your personal data from these parties in some circumstances. Without your personal data we may not be able to progress considering you for positions with us.



3.4. Visitors to Our Offices and Facilities

We have security measures in place at our offices and facilities, including CCTV and building access controls. There are signs in our premises showing that CCTV is in operation. The images captured are securely stored and only accessed on a need-to-know basis (e.g., to investigate an incident). CCTV recordings are typically automatically overwritten after a defined period unless an issue is identified that requires investigation (such as a theft). Our visitor records are securely stored and only accessible on a need-to-know basis (e.g., to investigate an incident). In some cases, we require visitors to our offices or facilities to scan biometrics (e.g., thumbprints) at reception or security guard house and keep a record of the same for. Such records are securely stored and only accessible on a need-to-know basis (e.g., to investigate an incident).



3.5. Automatically

When you use our online services or visit our website, we may collect the following information from you automatically:

  • Details of visits made to our website such as the volume of traffic received, logs (including, the internet protocol (IP) address and location of the device connecting to the online services and other identifiers about the device and the nature of the visit) and the resources accessed.
  • Details of your information (including personal data) shall be collected by us through the request made by you through our WhatsApp platform or any other social media platform.
  • We use cookies to collect certain personal data. For further information on Cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy.

The information shall be processed only in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations to provide services availed or requested by you.



3.6. Marketing

We (and permitted third parties) may contact you for direct marketing purposes via social media, direct messages, post, telephone, email and SMS/MMS.
This marketing may relate to:

  • Products and services we (or permitted third parties) feel may interest you.
  • Information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already used or inquired about;
  • Upcoming events, promotions, and new products and/or services or other opportunities as well as.
  • Those of selected third parties; and
  • If you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, you may click on the unsubscribe link on any marketing communication that you receive from us.

For clarity, any telephone calls that you make to us may be recorded for training or security purposes and may be stored and used to verify your instructions to us.



4. Purpose and Use of Personal Data

 We may use/process your personal data in the following circumstances: 

  • Performance of a contract with you;
  • To comply with KFCA’s legal or regulatory obligations;
  • To process your job application;
  • To provide our services including this website to You.
  • To provide and improved experience when you avail our services and products;
  • To notify you about changes to the products and/or services that we offer and (where you have indicated your consent) to directly market these products and/or services to you;
  • Research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our products and services;
  • As part of our efforts to keep our products and/or services safe and secure;
  • To analyze your credit risk (if applicable);
  • To handle payment and collection processes to and from customers;
  • For anti-money laundering and identity verification purposes.


5. Who Do We Share Your Personal Data With

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:


5.1. Regulatory bodies

We may disclose your personal data:

  • to regulators and law enforcement agencies (including those responsible for enforcing anti-money laundering legislations);
  • in response to an inquiry from a government agency;
  • to data protection regulatory authorities; and
  • to other regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over our activities.


5.2. Service providers

We may disclose your personal data to authorized third party service providers who require access to such information for the purpose of providing specific services to Us. These third parties will generally only be able to access your data to provide us with their services and will not be able to use it for their own purposes. During provision of services to Us, these authorized third parties may store your personal data in servers located on their premises inside or outside the territorial limits of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). You hereby provide your express consent for transfer of your personal data including sensitive personal data (if any) outside KSA for the said purpose.



5.3. Professional advisors and Auditors

We may disclose your personal data to professional advisors (such as legal advisors, consultants and accountants) or auditors for the purpose of providing professional services to us.



5.4. Replacement Providers

In the event we sell or buy any business assets, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. If KFCA or substantially all its assets are acquired by a third party, personal data held by us about our clients will be one of the transferred assets.



6. How We Protect Your Personal Data

We care about protecting your information and put in place appropriate measures that are designed to prevent unauthorized access to, and misuse of, your personal data. These include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. 

We do this by having in place a range of appropriate technical and organizational measures, for example, the protection of passwords using industry standard encryption, measures to preserve system security and prevent unauthorized access and back-up systems to prevent accidental or malicious loss of data.



7. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

We will not keep your personal data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which we have collected it, unless we believe that the law or other regulation requires us to retain it. In determining the appropriate retention period for different types of personal data, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data in question, as well as the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of that personal data, the purposes for which we need to process it.

Once we have determined that we no longer need to hold your personal data, we will delete it from our systems or render it inaccessible/unusable by KFCA or its third parties, with due regard to protection of privacy of the said personal data. 

If you wish to access, rectify or delete your data, please contact us on dmo@kfca.sa. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event within one month (subject to any extensions to which we are lawfully entitled) of receipt of your request. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues which you raise.

You may also withdraw your consent previously provided by writing to us on dmo@kfca.sa. Please note, that should you withdraw your consent, it may hamper our ability to provide services to you and may result in complete cessation of all services to You. KFCA or any of its authorized third parties will not be liable for any losses suffered by You as a result of the same.