{"id":4174,"date":"2025-07-23T08:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-roadtoqatar-prod-qc-01-h7hkbxhqb3byc8ew.qatarcentral-01.azurewebsites.net\/?page_id=4174"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:22:13","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/?page_id=4174","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":{"slug":"privacy-policy","component":[{"acf_fc_layout":"banner_section_2","connect_from":"","background_color":"#8a1538","breadcrumb":null,"emblem":"1","heading_en":"Privacy Policy","heading_ar":"Privacy Policy","desc_en":"","desc_ar":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"rich_text_1_section","emblem":"no","background_color":"","padding":40,"connect_from":"","heading_en":"","heading_ar":"","sub_heading_en":"","sub_heading_ar":"","content_en":"<strong>SC Privacy Policy<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>About this Policy<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The Supreme Committee for Delivery &amp; Legacy (<strong>SC<\/strong>, <strong>we<\/strong>, <strong>us<\/strong>) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. SC was established in the State of Qatar by Amiri Decision No. (27) of 2011 as amended by Amiri Decision No. (3) of 2014 and No.69 of 2024, and its principal place of business is at Al Bidda Tower, P.O. Box 62022, Doha, State of Qatar.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal information that we may collect about you, including when you attend any of our events; visit our Platforms; or otherwise interact with us or use our services. \u201cEvents\u201d, \u201cPlatforms\u201d, and other terms are defined in <strong>Annex A<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may provide further privacy notices to you at the point we collect your personal data, which will highlight any further information relating to our use of that personal data and, where applicable, provide you with the ability to opt in or out of selected uses. If you are a volunteer, a separate privacy notice will apply to you, and these can be found on the specific website for your programme.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>There may be additional or separate privacy policies that apply to you when you use one or more of our Platforms, or attend any of our Events. The terms of the same will be notified to you at the appropriate time.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>The information that we collect about you<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may collect and\/or process information about you when you engage with us, in particular, when you use our Platforms. Details of the personal data we process, the purposes for which we do so, and the third parties we share data with, are set out in this Privacy Policy.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may collect and\/or process the following categories of information about you:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Information that you provide to us<\/strong> \u25ba This includes information you provide when filling out application, registration or contact forms on our Platforms, and may include if you choose to do so, a photograph for the purposes only of personalising your account.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Platform and communication usage <\/strong>\u25ba Information that our Platforms collect about you, including details of your visits to the Platforms, your internet protocol (IP) address, domain name, browser version and operating system, traffic data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access. The Platforms may also download cookies to your device, as described in our separate Cookies Policy: <a href=\"https:\/\/roadtoqatar.qa\/en\/cookie-policy\">Road to Qatar<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Our correspondence<\/strong> \u25ba If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Your feedback<\/strong> \u25ba Information which you provide to us from time to time by completing surveys or polls, and which we use to help us improve our offerings.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may also receive information about you from third parties who are legally entitled to disclose that information. If you wish to know more about how these third parties handle your personal information, please contact them directly.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In general, we will not ask you to provide us with personal information about third parties. However, where you are registering an account on behalf of a third party, you confirm that you have obtained the consent of all relevant third parties to provide us with that information.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We do not collect personal data from persons under the age of 18 (<strong>Minors<\/strong>) without their legal guardian\u2019s consent. We take specific steps to protect the privacy of Minors who disclose their personal identifying information to us and we shall take all reasonable steps required of us to protect the rights of Minors and their privacy under applicable laws and regulations, including the laws of the State of Qatar.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>What we do with your information? <\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In this section, we set out the purposes for which we use personal data described in this Privacy Policy, and the \u201clegal grounds\u201d on which we rely to process your personal data for that purpose:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To communicate effectively with you and conduct our operations<\/strong> \u25ba To ensure that our Platforms function well and the Events run smoothly; to register and manage your accounts on the Platforms; to respond to your queries; to communicate and develop our relationship with you; and to carry out our obligations arising from any arrangements between you and us.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: contract performance, legitimate interests (to enable us to perform our obligations and provide our services to you)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To provide you with marketing materials <\/strong><strong>\u25ba<\/strong> To provide you with updates and offers, where you have chosen to receive these. We may use your information for marketing our own and our selected business partners\u2019 products, services, events and opportunities to you by post, email, SMS, phone, in-app marketing, and through social media channels. Where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or you may opt out by contacting us as set out in the \u201cMarketing\u201d section below.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: consent, legitimate interests (to keep you updated with news in relation to our products, services, events and opportunities)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>For research and development purposes<\/strong> \u25ba To analyse your personal information and use of our Platforms in order to better understand your preferences and requirements, so as to better develop and organise our products, services and events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (to allow us to improve our products, services and events)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To inform you of changes<\/strong> \u25ba To notify you about changes to our products, services and events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (to notify you about changes to our products, services and events)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To ensure Platform content is relevant<\/strong> \u25ba To provide you with a personalised browsing experience when using the Platforms, including by ensuring that content from our Platforms is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device. This may include passing your data to business partners, suppliers and\/or service providers.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (to allow us to provide you with relevant content and services on the Websites)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To re-organise or make changes to our business<\/strong> \u25ba In the event that we undergo a re-organisation, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal data to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process for the purpose of analysing any proposed re-organisation. We may also need to transfer your personal data to that re-organised entity or third party after the reorganisation for them to use for the same purposes as set out in this policy.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (in order to allow us to change our business)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>In connection with legal or regulatory obligations<\/strong> \u25ba We may process your personal data to comply with our regulatory requirements, to dialogue with regulators, or to bring and defend claims, as applicable. This may include disclosing your personal data to third parties, the court service and\/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legal obligations, legal claims, legitimate interests (to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To ensure the safety and security of our operations, premises and events<\/strong> \u25ba To keep attendees of Events safe and secure, including by investigating, preventing or taking action in relation to actual or suspected illegal activities, fraud, emergency situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any persons or violations to our internal policies or terms of use; or to prevent the spread of viruses or infectious diseases.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legal obligations, legitimate interests (to prevent fraud and ensure physical, IT and network safety and security)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Sharing with third parties<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may share your personal information with third parties and affiliates for the purposes we explain in this Privacy Policy. These third parties include:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>our service providers, such as those which host the Platforms or other information technology systems, or who otherwise hold or process your personal information on our behalf;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>contractors, agents, or advisors (e.g. legal, financial, business or other advisors) that perform activities on our behalf;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Transport and Communications, so that they may carry out any checks required to ensure the safety and security of the Events;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>any local organising committees or other organisations or bodies that are responsible for hosting events in Qatar; and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>any organisation which takes over our operations, or relevant parts of them.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In exceptional circumstances, we may be under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation (including responding to requests from law enforcement authorities either within or outside of the State of Qatar) or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use, or the terms of other agreements that we are party to; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our partners, or other relevant third parties and affiliates. This includes exchanging information with other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The Platforms may contain links to other third party websites. If you follow a link to any of those third party websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your personal data. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to such third party websites.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Marketing<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>As mentioned, we may use your data, or permit selected third parties or affiliates to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post, email, SMS, phone, in-app marketing or through social media channels, provided that you give us consent for this (where consent is required by law).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>If, at any time after you have given us consent to do so, you no longer want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes, please get in touch with us using the details in the \u201cContacting us\u201d section below.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Profiling and automated decision making<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The advertisements and recommendations which we show you on our Platforms are chosen by analysing the personal information you provide to us, including information provided any submission you make on our Platforms, information you have provided about your preferences, your attendance at our Events, the way in which you interact with our Platforms, and previous advertisements which you have clicked on. To choose advertisements which are tailored and most likely to be of interest to you, we compile and analyse information received from all our users to gain a better understanding of your preferences from users similar to you.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Some of our deployed solutions may use AI or automated decision-making to personalise content, recommend actions, or support operational tasks. We ensure such technologies comply with ethical and legal standards, and human oversight is maintained where required.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Storage and security<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>All information you provide to us is stored on our subcontractors\u2019 secure servers and accessed and used subject to our security policies and standards. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Platforms, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for complying with any other security procedures that we notify you of. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>No data transmission over the Internet or website can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data in accordance with data protection legislative requirements.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>International transfer of your information<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Your personal information may be transferred to and\/or stored in Qatar, or at another a destination located outside of your country. Such data may also be processed by persons operating overseas who work for us, or by our affiliates or one of our third party service providers, including infrastructure providers, cloud computing platforms, content delivery networks, and analytics services that support the functionality, performance, or security of our solutions.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>This may include transfers to countries whose privacy laws may be of a lower standard than those in your country. In those cases, we will ensure that our arrangements with our service providers or other third parties are governed by appropriate safeguards or agreements. Where we are required by law to do so we will provide a copy of such safeguards.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Retention and deletion of your information<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Our retention periods for personal data are based on business needs and legal requirements. We retain personal data for as long as is necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which the information was collected, and any other permissible, related purpose.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Retention periods may vary between deployed solutions and will be defined by the nature of the service, relevant regulations, or the specific role of the user (e.g., volunteer, staff, customer, partner).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Your rights<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Where processing of your personal information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent as carried out before such withdrawal.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal data is accurate. In order to assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal data that you have provided to us by contacting us as set out in the \u201cContacting Us\u201d section below.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Under certain conditions, you may have the right to require us to:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>provide you with a copy of information that you have provided to us;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>update any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold (please see paragraph 2 above);<\/li>\r\n \t<li>delete any personal data we no longer have a lawful ground to use;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>where processing is based on consent, to withdraw your consent so that we stop that particular processing (see paragraph 5 above in relation to marketing);<\/li>\r\n \t<li>to ask us to transmit the personal data you have provided to us and we still hold about you to a third party electronically;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>object to any processing based on the legitimate interests ground unless our reasons for undertaking that processing outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights; and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>restrict how we use your information whilst a complaint is being investigated.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Your exercise of these rights is subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g. the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g., the maintenance of legal privilege).\u00a0 If you exercise any of these rights, please contact us (details in the \u201cContacting Us\u201d section below). We will check your entitlement and respond in most cases within a month.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the appropriate data protection authority in Qatar at the Ministry of Transport and Communications if you consider that the processing of your personal information infringes applicable law. In Qatar this is the competent department at the Ministry of Transport and Communications. In the UK it is the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office, and a list of supervisory authorities in the EU can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/edpb.europa.eu\/about-edpb\/about-edpb\/members_en\">https:\/\/edpb.europa.eu\/about-edpb\/about-edpb\/members_en<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Changes to this policy<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted to the Platform(s) and are also available if you contact us. Please check back frequently to see any changes. If we change this Privacy Policy or our Cookies Policy, we will update the date it was last changed below. If these changes are material, we will indicate this clearly on our Platform(s).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Contacting us<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>If you have any questions, contact us at privacy@sc.qa or through our data request portal at www.sc.qa\/privacy.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>ANNEX A<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Definitions<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In this Privacy Policy, the following words shall have the following meanings:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>App<\/strong> means any application that we may use alongside our Platforms, or to promote or assist with the organisation of any Event.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Events<\/strong> means any event hosted, organised, or in any way supported by SC, details of which can be found at www.roadtoqatar.qa, and <strong>Event<\/strong> means any one of these Events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>\u201cPlatform\u201d <\/strong>means any digital system, website, mobile application, API, portal, tool, or software developed, maintained, or supported by the SC or its affiliates, or any event local organising committee which SC forms part of where SC is the data controller, including www.sc.qa, www.roadtoqatar.qa, any App, or any other platform now or in the future.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","content_ar":"<strong>SC Privacy Policy<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>About this Policy<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The Supreme Committee for Delivery &amp; Legacy (<strong>SC<\/strong>, <strong>we<\/strong>, <strong>us<\/strong>) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. SC was established in the State of Qatar by Amiri Decision No. (27) of 2011 as amended by Amiri Decision No. (3) of 2014 and No.69 of 2024, and its principal place of business is at Al Bidda Tower, P.O. Box 62022, Doha, State of Qatar.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal information that we may collect about you, including when you attend any of our events; visit our Platforms; or otherwise interact with us or use our services. \u201cEvents\u201d, \u201cPlatforms\u201d, and other terms are defined in <strong>Annex A<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may provide further privacy notices to you at the point we collect your personal data, which will highlight any further information relating to our use of that personal data and, where applicable, provide you with the ability to opt in or out of selected uses. If you are a volunteer, a separate privacy notice will apply to you, and these can be found on the specific website for your programme.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>There may be additional or separate privacy policies that apply to you when you use one or more of our Platforms, or attend any of our Events. The terms of the same will be notified to you at the appropriate time.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>The information that we collect about you<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may collect and\/or process information about you when you engage with us, in particular, when you use our Platforms. Details of the personal data we process, the purposes for which we do so, and the third parties we share data with, are set out in this Privacy Policy.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may collect and\/or process the following categories of information about you:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Information that you provide to us<\/strong> \u25ba This includes information you provide when filling out application, registration or contact forms on our Platforms, and may include if you choose to do so, a photograph for the purposes only of personalising your account.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Platform and communication usage <\/strong>\u25ba Information that our Platforms collect about you, including details of your visits to the Platforms, your internet protocol (IP) address, domain name, browser version and operating system, traffic data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access. The Platforms may also download cookies to your device, as described in our separate Cookies Policy: <a href=\"https:\/\/roadtoqatar.qa\/en\/cookie-policy\">Road to Qatar<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Our correspondence<\/strong> \u25ba If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Your feedback<\/strong> \u25ba Information which you provide to us from time to time by completing surveys or polls, and which we use to help us improve our offerings.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may also receive information about you from third parties who are legally entitled to disclose that information. If you wish to know more about how these third parties handle your personal information, please contact them directly.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In general, we will not ask you to provide us with personal information about third parties. However, where you are registering an account on behalf of a third party, you confirm that you have obtained the consent of all relevant third parties to provide us with that information.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We do not collect personal data from persons under the age of 18 (<strong>Minors<\/strong>) without their legal guardian\u2019s consent. We take specific steps to protect the privacy of Minors who disclose their personal identifying information to us and we shall take all reasonable steps required of us to protect the rights of Minors and their privacy under applicable laws and regulations, including the laws of the State of Qatar.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>What we do with your information? <\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In this section, we set out the purposes for which we use personal data described in this Privacy Policy, and the \u201clegal grounds\u201d on which we rely to process your personal data for that purpose:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To communicate effectively with you and conduct our operations<\/strong> \u25ba To ensure that our Platforms function well and the Events run smoothly; to register and manage your accounts on the Platforms; to respond to your queries; to communicate and develop our relationship with you; and to carry out our obligations arising from any arrangements between you and us.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: contract performance, legitimate interests (to enable us to perform our obligations and provide our services to you)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To provide you with marketing materials <\/strong><strong>\u25ba<\/strong> To provide you with updates and offers, where you have chosen to receive these. We may use your information for marketing our own and our selected business partners\u2019 products, services, events and opportunities to you by post, email, SMS, phone, in-app marketing, and through social media channels. Where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or you may opt out by contacting us as set out in the \u201cMarketing\u201d section below.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: consent, legitimate interests (to keep you updated with news in relation to our products, services, events and opportunities)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>For research and development purposes<\/strong> \u25ba To analyse your personal information and use of our Platforms in order to better understand your preferences and requirements, so as to better develop and organise our products, services and events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (to allow us to improve our products, services and events)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To inform you of changes<\/strong> \u25ba To notify you about changes to our products, services and events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (to notify you about changes to our products, services and events)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To ensure Platform content is relevant<\/strong> \u25ba To provide you with a personalised browsing experience when using the Platforms, including by ensuring that content from our Platforms is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device. This may include passing your data to business partners, suppliers and\/or service providers.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (to allow us to provide you with relevant content and services on the Websites)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To re-organise or make changes to our business<\/strong> \u25ba In the event that we undergo a re-organisation, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal data to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process for the purpose of analysing any proposed re-organisation. We may also need to transfer your personal data to that re-organised entity or third party after the reorganisation for them to use for the same purposes as set out in this policy.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legitimate interests (in order to allow us to change our business)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>In connection with legal or regulatory obligations<\/strong> \u25ba We may process your personal data to comply with our regulatory requirements, to dialogue with regulators, or to bring and defend claims, as applicable. This may include disclosing your personal data to third parties, the court service and\/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legal obligations, legal claims, legitimate interests (to cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>To ensure the safety and security of our operations, premises and events<\/strong> \u25ba To keep attendees of Events safe and secure, including by investigating, preventing or taking action in relation to actual or suspected illegal activities, fraud, emergency situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any persons or violations to our internal policies or terms of use; or to prevent the spread of viruses or infectious diseases.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lawful bases<\/em>: legal obligations, legitimate interests (to prevent fraud and ensure physical, IT and network safety and security)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Sharing with third parties<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We may share your personal information with third parties and affiliates for the purposes we explain in this Privacy Policy. These third parties include:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>our service providers, such as those which host the Platforms or other information technology systems, or who otherwise hold or process your personal information on our behalf;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>contractors, agents, or advisors (e.g. legal, financial, business or other advisors) that perform activities on our behalf;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Transport and Communications, so that they may carry out any checks required to ensure the safety and security of the Events;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>any local organising committees or other organisations or bodies that are responsible for hosting events in Qatar; and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>any organisation which takes over our operations, or relevant parts of them.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In exceptional circumstances, we may be under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation (including responding to requests from law enforcement authorities either within or outside of the State of Qatar) or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use, or the terms of other agreements that we are party to; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our partners, or other relevant third parties and affiliates. This includes exchanging information with other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The Platforms may contain links to other third party websites. If you follow a link to any of those third party websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your personal data. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to such third party websites.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Marketing<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>As mentioned, we may use your data, or permit selected third parties or affiliates to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post, email, SMS, phone, in-app marketing or through social media channels, provided that you give us consent for this (where consent is required by law).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>If, at any time after you have given us consent to do so, you no longer want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes, please get in touch with us using the details in the \u201cContacting us\u201d section below.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Profiling and automated decision making<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The advertisements and recommendations which we show you on our Platforms are chosen by analysing the personal information you provide to us, including information provided any submission you make on our Platforms, information you have provided about your preferences, your attendance at our Events, the way in which you interact with our Platforms, and previous advertisements which you have clicked on. To choose advertisements which are tailored and most likely to be of interest to you, we compile and analyse information received from all our users to gain a better understanding of your preferences from users similar to you.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Some of our deployed solutions may use AI or automated decision-making to personalise content, recommend actions, or support operational tasks. We ensure such technologies comply with ethical and legal standards, and human oversight is maintained where required.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Storage and security<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>All information you provide to us is stored on our subcontractors\u2019 secure servers and accessed and used subject to our security policies and standards. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Platforms, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for complying with any other security procedures that we notify you of. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>No data transmission over the Internet or website can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data in accordance with data protection legislative requirements.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>International transfer of your information<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Your personal information may be transferred to and\/or stored in Qatar, or at another a destination located outside of your country. Such data may also be processed by persons operating overseas who work for us, or by our affiliates or one of our third party service providers, including infrastructure providers, cloud computing platforms, content delivery networks, and analytics services that support the functionality, performance, or security of our solutions.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>This may include transfers to countries whose privacy laws may be of a lower standard than those in your country. In those cases, we will ensure that our arrangements with our service providers or other third parties are governed by appropriate safeguards or agreements. Where we are required by law to do so we will provide a copy of such safeguards.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Retention and deletion of your information<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Our retention periods for personal data are based on business needs and legal requirements. We retain personal data for as long as is necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which the information was collected, and any other permissible, related purpose.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Retention periods may vary between deployed solutions and will be defined by the nature of the service, relevant regulations, or the specific role of the user (e.g., volunteer, staff, customer, partner).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Your rights<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Where processing of your personal information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent as carried out before such withdrawal.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal data is accurate. In order to assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal data that you have provided to us by contacting us as set out in the \u201cContacting Us\u201d section below.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Under certain conditions, you may have the right to require us to:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>provide you with a copy of information that you have provided to us;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>update any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold (please see paragraph 2 above);<\/li>\r\n \t<li>delete any personal data we no longer have a lawful ground to use;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>where processing is based on consent, to withdraw your consent so that we stop that particular processing (see paragraph 5 above in relation to marketing);<\/li>\r\n \t<li>to ask us to transmit the personal data you have provided to us and we still hold about you to a third party electronically;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>object to any processing based on the legitimate interests ground unless our reasons for undertaking that processing outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights; and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>restrict how we use your information whilst a complaint is being investigated.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Your exercise of these rights is subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g. the prevention or detection of crime) and our interests (e.g., the maintenance of legal privilege).\u00a0 If you exercise any of these rights, please contact us (details in the \u201cContacting Us\u201d section below). We will check your entitlement and respond in most cases within a month.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the appropriate data protection authority in Qatar at the Ministry of Transport and Communications if you consider that the processing of your personal information infringes applicable law. In Qatar this is the competent department at the Ministry of Transport and Communications. In the UK it is the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office, and a list of supervisory authorities in the EU can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/edpb.europa.eu\/about-edpb\/about-edpb\/members_en\">https:\/\/edpb.europa.eu\/about-edpb\/about-edpb\/members_en<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Changes to this policy<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted to the Platform(s) and are also available if you contact us. Please check back frequently to see any changes. If we change this Privacy Policy or our Cookies Policy, we will update the date it was last changed below. If these changes are material, we will indicate this clearly on our Platform(s).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Contacting us<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>If you have any questions, contact us at privacy@sc.qa or through our data request portal at www.sc.qa\/privacy.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>ANNEX A<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Definitions<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In this Privacy Policy, the following words shall have the following meanings:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>App<\/strong> means any application that we may use alongside our Platforms, or to promote or assist with the organisation of any Event.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Events<\/strong> means any event hosted, organised, or in any way supported by SC, details of which can be found at www.roadtoqatar.qa, and <strong>Event<\/strong> means any one of these Events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>\u201cPlatform\u201d <\/strong>means any digital system, website, mobile application, API, portal, tool, or software developed, maintained, or supported by the SC or its affiliates, or any event local organising committee which SC forms part of where SC is the data controller, including www.sc.qa, www.roadtoqatar.qa, any App, or any other platform now or in the future.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4174\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pra.roadtoqatar.qa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}