Cookies
Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies on our Digital Platforms
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The Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (hereinafter “SAIP” or “we” or “us” or “our”) may use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technologies when you visit SAIP’s various websites, apps, and other digital platforms, as well as within our emails or ads. General and specific information applicable to our use of the relevant tracking technology in our digital platforms is set out on the front side of this Cookies Notice document. This Cookies Notice is to be read as an integral part of our Privacy Policy.
Types of Tracking Technologies
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Cookies: Cookies are small data files stored on your device sent by a web server to a web browser, allowing the server to uniquely identify the browser on each page.
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Pixels (also known as web beacons or clear gifs): Pixels are small electronic images embedded in a website, email, or advertisement that send information about your use to a server.
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Device Fingerprinting: Device Fingerprinting is the process of analyzing and combining data elements from your device’s browser, such as JavaScript objects and installed fonts, to create a “fingerprint” of your and uniquely identify your browser and device.
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Other Technologies: We may also use other forms of technology (such as, in apps, software development kits usually referred to as SDKs) which serve a similar purpose.
Purpose of Tracking Technologies
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We use tracking technologies in accordance with our Privacy Notice, including for purposes such as customizing our services and improving your experiences, remembering your preferences, supporting security features, tracking our conversations, verifying your location, and bringing you advertising (including on other services). The tracking technologies may be provided by third parties or by us. Tracking technologies may collect Personal Data, including Technical Data. We do not keep Personal Data collected by tracking technologies for longer than is necessary for processing such information, although third parties may have their own data practices.
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If you would like more information about our privacy practices, please consult our Privacy Policy. // A hyperlink to the privacy policy page on SAIP’s website is added here.
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We use or may use the following categories of cookies on our Digital Platforms in the future. When we talk about cookies in this Cookie Notice, the term includes other tracking technologies:
Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
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These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our Digital Platforms and use their features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as remembering your login details or other key preferences, cannot be provided.
Category 2: Performance Cookies
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These cookies collect information on how people use a Digital Platform. For example, some providers may use analytics cookies to help them understand how customers arrive at the Digital Platform, browse or use the Digital Platform, and highlight areas where they can improve areas such as navigation, experience, and marketing campaigns.
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These cookies are used to collect Technical Data such as the last visited website, the number of pages visited, whether or not email communications are opened, which parts of our Digital Platform or email communication are clicked on, and the length of time between clicks.
Category 3: Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember your choices, such as the country from which you visited the website, language, and search parameters. These can then provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and make the visits more tailored and pleasant. For example, if you went to pages relating to your home country on a previous visit, we might find this out from your cookie and tailor information on your second and subsequent visits.
Category 4: Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies
These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert and help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. The cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks. They remember the websites you visit and share that information with other parties, such as advertisers.
Category 5: Social Media Cookies
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These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or "like" button on our Digital Platforms or when you share what you’ve been doing on a Digital Platform on social media.
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These cookies collect information about your social media interaction with our Digital Platforms, such as whether or not you have an account with the social media site and whether you are logged into it when you interact with content on our Digital Platforms. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.
Tracking Technology Choice
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If you want to delete any cookies already on your device, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on locating the file or directory that stores cookies. You will need to instruct each browser separately if you use multiple browsers on your device. Your ability to limit cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. To learn more about cookies, please visit:
www.allaboutcookies.org, which contains further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.
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Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. However, there is no industry consensus on what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, unless and until the law is interpreted to require us to do so, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals.
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Certain technologies such as pixels generally cannot be disabled through browser settings. For information on exercising choice around analytics or advertising, please visit the Privacy Notice
Privacy Policy.
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Please note that by removing or disabling tracking technologies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Digital Platforms.
Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Cookies Notice, please contact us through:
The Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property Contact Us
Annex Cookies Type and Purpose
Digital Platform🔗︎
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Type of Cookies:
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Purpose
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User Analytics
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We use these cookies to monitor and assess how the Digital Platform is performing and where it can be improved. For example, we use these cookies to test different versions of our Digital Platform to learn about user preferences. We also use these cookies to analyze how people access and use our Digital Platform. For instance, we may obtain information about your device and how users engage with the Digital Platform or from email communications, including whether you opened or forwarded an email or clicked on any of its content.
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Operational and Security
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These cookies help us authenticate your account and recognize what type of user you are, so we can provide you with the Digital Platform accordingly.
Security cookies enable and support our security features and help us detect malicious or unauthorized activity. We also use cookies to combat fraud and other activity that violates our policies or otherwise degrades our ability to provide the Digital Platform. They also help us fight spam and phishing attacks
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Functions/ Preferences
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These cookies let us operate certain functions of the Digital Platform in line with the choices you make. These cookies enable us to remember you in-between visits. For example, when you continue to use or come back to the Digital Platform, we will recognize your username and remember your settings and content preferences. These cookies help us save users’ data temporarily, for example, trip plans, favorites, preferences, cart items, etc. Deleting these types of cookies will result in limited functionality of the Digital Platform.
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Privacy policy
By using this Portal, the User acknowledges and undertakes as follows:
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Not to use the Portal to infringe any third party intellectual property rights, and in the event of this occurrence, the User shall be fully responsible for any liability arising from such infringement.
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Not to provide or download files, works, marks, signals, data, or other information that is not owned by the User or for which the User does not have a license.
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Not to provide or upload files on this Portal that contain viruses or corrupt data
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Not to publish, advertise, distribute, or circulate any materials or information, which is defamatory, violates regulations, is indecent, obscene, violates public morals, or any illegal materials or information through the Portal.
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Not to use any means, software, or procedure to interfere or attempt to interfere with the Portal's correct operation.
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Not to take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately huge load on the Portal structure.
The right to examine, amend or rectify personal data:
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Any user who provides SAIP with his personal information has the right to examine, amend or rectify his personal information.
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The User may modify his personal information through the designated service on the Portal and to the permitted extent with SAIP approval.
Communication:
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The User agrees that all SAIP notices or educational and promotional messages shall be sent to the User, whether in soft or hard copies, or published on SAIP website or via SMS or any other means determined by SAIP and shall come into effect as of the date of sending or publishing them on the service website.
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The User shall contact the technical support number indicated on SAIP website in the event of any issue or defect in the service or an inquiry or suggestion to improve service.
The User shall follow the instructions provided by the technical support to address the issue.
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No correspondences received from SAIP shall be considered unless the User receives a notification, whether in hard or soft copy, confirming the receipt of the correspondences or notifications.
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The User shall notify SAIP of any change or modification to his address or information. Any instructions or correspondence shall be considered to be notified to and received by the User in the event of his failure to provide such notification.
Collection and Use of Online Information:
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The servers operating the Portal automatically capture your IP address when you visit the Portal (your IP address is the number of your computer, which allows other devices connected to the internet to determine the destination of its outgoing data, and collect some Information, e.g., browser type and search engine, while you remain anonymous.
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SAIP use of your Internet protocol helps us diagnose problems in our servers, and to conduct the necessary statistics on the use of the Portal (traffic and the language of the computer you use). We do not allow any party other than the technical team of SAIP Portal to have access to your IP.
Personal Information Protection:
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The User’s personal information will only be accessible by SAIP employees who require access to it and are authorized for this purpose. Such information will not be available to the public without the User’s consent. No such information may be exchanged, circulated or sold to any third party without the User’s prior consent. Access to this information is only allowed to qualified and professional persons who provide SAIP services that are consistent with your transactions on the Portal.
SAIP Rights:
This Portal belongs to the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property. All contents of the Portal, including software and information are fully protected under the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You may not sell, license, lease, modify, copy, reproduce, upload, advertise, transfer, distribute, display publicly or edit or create works derived from any materials or contents of this Portal for public or commercial purposes, without obtaining the prior written consent of the Portal administration. It is strictly prohibited to modify any of the contents of the Portal. Any graphics and images on this Portal are protected by regulations, and may not be reproduced or exploited in any way, without the prior written consent of the Portal administration.
Disclaimer:
Some information in the Portal may change. Therefore, SAIP bears no responsibility for any liability or consequences that may result from making use of any information on the Portal, including:
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Information accuracy and correctness.
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Effectiveness of non-breach.
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Continuity or validity.
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Appropriateness of the Portal contents.
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The Portal or server is free of viruses or harmful components
Limitation of Liability:
The use of this Portal shall be at the User’s own risk. SAIP shall not be responsible in any way for any loss or damage of any kind that may be incurred to you as a result of the User’s use, visit, or reliance on any statement, opinion, or advertisement on the Portal, or any delay in operation, connection failures, internet access issues, equipment or software malfunctions, or the behavior or thoughts of any person having access to this Portal. Therefore, the User acknowledges and agrees that the exclusive and only way to remedy any damage or loss that may occur as a result of his access to or use of this online Portal is to refrain from using or accessing it, discontinue doing so or to request assistance from SAIP technical support.
Jurisdiction:
The User undertakes to submit to the judicial authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in connection with all claims and disputes arising from the use of this Portal.
Waiver of Claims:
The Portal, including all information, services, materials and functions thereof, or that can be accessed through the Portal, provides use “as is” and “as available” without any declaration, promises or guarantees of any kind. SAIP disclaims any guarantee or responsibility for any interruptions, errors or violations that may arise from the use of this Portal or its contents or any site linked to it, whether with or without its knowledge.
Indemnity:
The User acknowledges not to demand compensation from SAIP or to take any action against it or any of its departments, parties, employees, or agents responsible for managing, maintaining, updating or providing the Portal. SAIP disclaims any obligations or responsibilities that may arise for any breach by you of the terms and conditions of use, or any regulations in force, whether in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or in your place of residence.
Termination of Use:
SAIP may, at its discretion, terminate, restrict or suspend your right to access and use the Portal without notice and for any reason, including violating the terms and conditions of use or any illegal or harmful behavior to third parties. In the event of termination, you will not be authorized to access this Portal.
Modification:
We reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions of this Policy, if necessary and as appropriate.
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