Privacy and ConfidentialityVisitors of the Portal and the beneficiaries of its services should review the terms and principles of privacy and confidentiality of information every now and then, in order to be updated and informed of any modifications to them, bearing in mind that the Portal Administration is not to be liable to announce any updates applied to these terms and principles. Using the Portal means that you have viewed and complied with these terms and principles, and the continuous recurrent modifications applied to them.

The security of Personal Information: The Privacy and Confidentiality document has been prepared to help the visitors and users understand the nature of data gathered from them when they visit the Portal and how to deal with it. The IT department takes the proper, appropriate procedures and measures to maintain the personal information which it has in a safe way guaranteeing its protection against loss or unlicensed access, or abuse, or unlicensed modification and disclosure.

Personal Information Gathering: Once the user visits the National Center for Waste Management Portal, its server registers the internet protocol (IP) of the user, and the date and time of the visit, and the URL address of any website from which links you to the Portal.

Most websites, once visited, put a small file on the hard disc of visitor's computer (browser). These files are called Cookies, which are text files. These text files contain information enabling the website which put it to retrieve it when necessity during the user's forthcoming visit to the website. The saved information includes:

• Remembering username and password.
• Saving page settings in case it was available at the Portal.
• Saving colors chosen by the user.
• Unavailability of voting more than once for the same user.

The browser (visitor) may not have to enter the password every time he/she visit the Portal, as its system will be able to detect it via cookies, or it could prevent the user from re-voting process if he/she had voted before, and so forth. Accordingly, the National Center for Waste Management Portal will use the information in the cookies for technical purposes related to it when visited more than once. Also, the Portal can change the information contained within the cookies or add new information whenever you visit the National Center for Waste Management.

If you sent us an email via the National Center for Waste Management portal providing us with personal data, we might share necessary data with other organizations or departments in order to serve you in a more effective way. We will not share your personal data with non-governmental organization unless it is licensed from concerned organization to perform specific governmental services. By Providing your personal information via the National Center for Waste Management Portal, means you fully on the storage, processing and use of such data by the Saudi authorities. We always preserve the right to disclose any information to the concerned organizations, when necessary, in order to abide by any law, system, or governmental request.

You are fully accountable for the validity and honesty of the information sent via this Portal.

Email Sending: When you inquire or request information about a specific service, or in case of providing additional information using any of the communication channels with The National Center for Waste Management, whether electronic or non-electronic such as inquiring about our website, we will use your email address to reply to your inquiries, Also it is possible to save your email address and message, and our response for quality control purposes, and we may also do so for legal and censoring purposes.