Protecting the confidentiality of shared personal data
Some sections of the e-Portal and some categories of the e-services require entering personal data such as addresses and contact numbers. The Ministry of Education (MOE) believes in citizens’ personal data privacy and, accordingly, pledges to respect such privacy and confidentiality in the handling, sharing, and processing of such data via the various electronic channels, always and under all circumstances and conditions. To safeguard the privacy and protect the confidentiality of personal data, the MOE undertakes to make sure that permission for accessing, sharing, handling, and transferring such personal data is given only to the individuals who are duly authorized to process the data mentioned above.
In this respect, the MOE will assure granting the appropriate authority to personal data users applying the best and most appropriate standards and methods of protection and encryption of electronically shared data to avoid any contingent or unlawful/illegitimate incidents and risks leading to the destruction, loss, tampering, or disclosure of personal data.
Assuring the accuracy of personal data
The Ministry of Education may need to correct or delete some personal data entered online via electronic channels when such data may prove inaccurate or unnecessary. Moreover, MOE may sometimes be necessary to conduct periodic updates and verifications for essential personal data. When it is necessary to correct or delete some personal data, the MOE undertakes to notify all stakeholders, including owners of the personal data themselves or government agencies serving such beneficiaries, with such corrections or deletions.
Quality of Personal Data
The Ministry of Education seeks to assure the quality and accuracy of collected and processed personal data. It also seeks to make sure that the process of collecting such data is relevant to the service for which the data has been collected.
Benefiting from some of the data
Some non-personal data may be collected and saved by being directly imported (whether by computer or mobile phone) as part of the process of browsing the e-Portal or the systems linked to it. Such data may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser’s type and language, the pages visited, the time spent viewing a specific page, and the time and date of visit. Your data may be used for preparing some questionnaires, surveys, and reports. It may also be used to conduct some research and studies and frequent contacts with you when needed. Furthermore, the MOE shall have the right to share your personal data with the concerned authorities commensurate with the service of the government’s national trends aimed at building a knowledge-based society. Additionally, the MOE reserves the right to modify its user’s data privacy policy whenever such modification is deemed appropriate by the MOE.