The Gulf Research Center, with its principal place of business at 19 Rayat Al-Itehad Street, Jeddah 21443, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ("GRC"), has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.grc.net (the “site”). Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information which allows us to tailor the user experience to your needs. GRC will endeavour to protect and keep private all collected information. This Privacy Statement sets out amongst other things the information which we collect from you, the purpose of the collection of information, how long GRC will hold such information and your rights with respect to such information.

“Cookies” are small text files stored on your computer and sent to your computer when you enter the GRC website. Cookies allow our server to identify your computer and record which areas of the GRC website you have visited and for how long. Cookies allow GRC’s server to recognise repeat users, facilitate access to pages on this site and allow us to compile accurate data to improve our site and related services.

Our site’s registration form - allowing access to various services and certain parts of the GRC site - requires you to provide us with contact information (like name and email address) and demographic information (like address or age or gender). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send you information about GRC. The customer’s contact information is also used to contact you when necessary. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We may use this data to tailor the visitor’s experience at our site, showing them content according to their preferences.

GRC will not disclose collected information to third parties except where required by law or other court order.

This site contains links to other sites. GRC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. You should familiarise yourself with the privacy statements of such linked sites.

Some of the content on the GRC website is syndicated from other partners and therefore we are not responsible for the content such partners produce. However, we will accept complaints about this content and raise them with the appropriate partners.

This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, GRC may not be held responsible for any breach of the security measures including but not limited to any hacking incident which leads to this information being compromised.

This site gives you the option of removing your information from our database in order not to receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
To make use of these options visit My Account.

This site gives you the option to change and modify information previously provided about yourself.
To make use of these options visit My Account.

GRC will hold personal information collected upon registration for as long as you use our services and in all other cases the information collected will be held for only as long as necessary to carry out the purposes described above.

Access to your personal information shall be restricted to those employees who need the information to perform their duties. GRC employees are bound to follow strict security and privacy practices.

You are entitled to make a request for a copy of the personal information which GRC holds about you and we may charge a fee for complying with this request. You may also request GRC to cease using such information or destroy the same. GRC can be contacted at the address below.

GRC reserves the right to change this privacy statement and such changes shall take effect immediately upon notice being given. Such notice may be given by posting changes on this site and continued use of this site after the changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can fill in the Feedback form on the GRC website or contact GRC at:

Gulf Research Center
19 Rayat Al-Itehad Street
P. O. Box 10501, Jeddah 21443
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tel: +966 2 651 8888
Fax: +966 2 653 0953

The terms of this privacy statement shall be governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in respect of any dispute regarding this privacy statement.