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Cookies used by this website
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We use YouTube to embed a selection of videos in our Thinking and campaign pages. The embedded videos do not set cookies themselves and can be played with no cookies set. However, if the 'Share' button is clicked YouTube will set cookies.
The VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie attempts to estimate your bandwidth and the use_hitbox and PREF cookies increment the 'views' counter on the YouTube video and stores session preferences. These cookies do not gather information that identifies a user.
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The ASP Session Cookie may be set as part of your online experience if using a site login to enable us to identify you. It only exists for the duration of the browsing session and is deleted afterwards.
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Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.
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This is used to track the number of visits to the website
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The NREUM cookie stores navigation start time as well as hash codes of the document location and referring page URLs.
Navigation start time is required to measure end user response time. The cookie is written when the current page unloads (i.e. as the next navigation begins).
The document location and referrer are used to validate that the start time refers to the page that was previously being viewed or refreshed (to avoid using an invalid start time from a different navigation)..
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How do we use your personal data?
We use your personal data to provide information to you or your organisation. We may also use your personal data to carry out research about our visitors' demographics, interests and behaviour. We do this to better understand our visitors. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated and anonymous basis.
When you give us personal data, that data may be sent electronically to servers anywhere in the world and may be used, stored and processed anywhere in the world.
Whenever and wherever we collect, process or use personal data, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely and in accordance with our privacy policy.
To whom might we disclose your personal data?
We may pass your personal data to anyone who needs the data in order to fulfil your request for our services or process any payment. Some of these may be located inside and outside the European Economic Area. We may pass your personal data to Grant Thornton member firms or to our data processors.
Except as set out above, we will not disclose your personal information unless we are obliged to do so or allowed to do so, by law, or where we need to do so in order to run our business (for instance where we outsource services or other people process data for us).
Direct Marketing
You may at any time request us to stop using your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you wish to do this, please contact us.
Links
Our website contains links to Grant Thornton member and correspondent firm websites, but this privacy policy applies only to personal data collected via websites operated by Grant Thornton in Saudi Arabia and includes http://www.grantthornton.sa and other associated pages for this website. It does not apply to specific member or correspondent firms practising under the Grant Thornton name. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these or other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our website, and to read the privacy policy of other sites that collect or use personal data.
Security
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any other network can be guaranteed as 100% secure, but we take appropriate steps to try to protect the security of your personal data.
Contacts
If you would like access to or a copy of the personal information we hold about you, to request a correction, or have any questions about how we may use it or to make a complaint, please contact the Data Protection Officer at the address shown below, or, email infor@sa.gt.com.
Complaints will be dealt with by the Data Protection Officer and will be responded to within 30 days at the latest.
If you are not satisfied with the way your complaint was handled, you may be able to refer your complaint to your local data protection regulator.
Registered office address: Al Mousa Commercial Complex, 7th Floor, Tower 4, Al Olaya Street, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Inaccuracies and Corrections
We would like to keep your personal data accurate and up to date. If you become aware of any errors or inaccuracies please let us know by contacting us at our registered office.
