Terms of Use
These Terms of Use (the “Agreement”) constitute the agreement between you, the end user (“you”, “your”) and Qiddiya Investment Company, registered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with our office located at Riyadh Digital City, MU04 – 10 th Floor, Prince Turki Bin Abdulaziz, Al Awwal Road, Al Nakheel District, Riyadh 12382-6651 (hereinafter referred to as "we", "us", "our", or “QIC” ) in relation to our use of the website Qiddiya.com and related webpages (our “Website”), regardless of the manner in which you access or use the Website.
1. Accepting this Agreement:
If you want to use this Website, you must carefully read this Agreement, because it constitutes a written
contract between you and us and it affects your legal rights and obligations. Each time you access and/or
use the Website, you agree to be bound by and comply with this Agreement. Do not use the Website if
you do not agree to all of the terms of this Agreement.
2. Privacy:
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Notice, available at https://qiddiya.com/privacy-notice/ and in accordance with our Cookies Policy, available at https://qiddiya.com/cookie-policy/. By using our Website, you agree to such processing of your information.
3. Description of the Services and Limitations:
Our Services.
We own and operate an information platform, including our Website, that allows users to obtain information related to Qiddiya (the “Services”). From time to time we may provide additional Services, including (without limitation) providing online communication tools to help you contact our support team, providing a page for you to submit employment applications to us and providing a page for you to register as a vendor with us. Our Services continue to grow and change. Please refer to our Website for further information about the Services we provide.
Limitations of our Services.
We do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any
information provided by any third party. We do not: (i) guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or
usefulness of any information on the Website or available through the Service or any other venue, or (ii)
adopt, endorse or accept responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement
made by any party that appears on the Website or through the Service or any other venue. Under no
circumstances will we (or any of our officers, directors, investors, subsidiaries, agents, assignees,
representatives, advertisers, marketing partners, licensors, independent contractors, recruiters, corporate
partners, resellers, or employees, hereinafter “Affiliates”) be responsible for any loss or damage resulting
from your reliance on information or other content posted on the Website or transmitted to or by any
user of the Website, Service, or any other venue.
To the maximum extent permissible under applicable law, you hereby irrevocably waive any right you may
have to bring a claim against us, and we and our Affiliates expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for
any damage, suits, claims, and/or disputes that have arisen or may arise, whether known or unknown,
therefrom.
4. Your Account:
Creating your Account.
To create an account on our Website, such as for our careers portal or vendor
registration, you must provide your account details and create a unique password, which you will then use to log in (“User ID”). When creating an Account, you agree to: (i) provide true, accurate, current and complete information as requested (together with User ID, the “Account Information”) and (ii) promptly maintain and update such Account Information (as applicable) to keep it true, accurate, current and complete at all times. If the Account Information you provided is untrue, inaccurate, misleading or outdated, we have the right to suspend or terminate your access to, or use of, your Account immediately with or without notice. By creating an Account, you represent that the individual acting on behalf of the business organisation has the authority to bind the business organisation.
a. You, as the creator of your Account and Account Information, are solely responsible for your
Account and Account Information. If an Account violates any part of this Agreement, we may
immediately, temporarily, or permanently ban such an Account or change the Account
Information associated with such Account, with or without notice.
b. Please note that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your
Account and password at all times, and you agree to notify us if your password is lost, stolen,
or disclosed to an unauthorized third party, or otherwise may have been compromised. To the
maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you will be deemed as the person who uses
the Account, and any acts made by the Account will be deemed as your acts. You are solely
responsible for all activities that occur under your Account no matter who actually uses the
Account, and we are not responsible for any misuse or use of your Account, including without
limitation in the event that your password is stolen or revealed to a third party and/or used
for transactions. You agree to immediately notify us of any misuse of your Account or any
other breach of security in relation to your use of the Site that is known to you. You agree to
accept all risks of misuse of and unauthorized access to your Account and to hold us and our
affiliates harmless from and against any misuse of your Account or your Account Information,
including, but not limited to, improper or unauthorized use by someone to whom you
revealed your password.Retrieving your Account.
If you request to retrieve your Account when your access to the Website is
denied due to the loss of Account Information or forgotten password, you are required to provide certain
information according to the account retrieval process which we in our sole discretion implement on the
Site, and to ensure that all such information is legitimate, truthful and valid. Your Account may not be
retrieved if the information or documentation provided by you fails our security
5. Your Use of Our Website:
Access to and Use of the Website.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you
to have access to our Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our
Website through your internet connection are aware of this Agreement, and that they comply with it.Licence Grant to User.
Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, we hereby grant to you, a
worldwide, revocable (in the circumstances set out in this Agreement), royalty-free, non-assignable, non-
sub-licensable, non-transferrable, and non-exclusive licence to use the Website (the “Website Licence”).
The Website Licence is granted to you for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the Website
in accordance with this Agreement. As set forth below, the Website Licence does not provide you with
title to or ownership of the Website (or any component thereof or rights therein), but only a limited
licence to use the Website in accordance with this Agreement and subject to the use restrictions
described herein.Acceptable Use Restrictions.
Your use of our Website is subject to this Agreement and applicable laws
and regulations. You shall not:
- Use our Website if you are not fully able and legally competent to agree to this Agreement;
- Use our Website unless in compliance with applicable laws and this Agreement;
- Provide untrue, inaccurate, outdated or incomplete information about yourself or your use of the Services;
- Modify, translate, adapt, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, or create any derivative works
based on our Website (or any portion thereof), including any files, documentation or tables or
determine or attempt to determine any source code, methods, techniques or algorithms
embodied in the Website or any derivative works thereof;
- Distribute, licence, transfer or sell, in whole or in part, any of the Website or any derivative works
thereof;
- Infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the
Website;
- Market, lease or rent the Website (or any part thereof) for a fee or charge, or use the Website to
advertise or perform any commercial solicitation;
- Interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Website (or any part
thereof), disrupt any networks connected to the Website (or any part thereof), or bypass any
measures we use or may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website (or any part thereof);
- Use automated scripts to collect information from or interact with the Website (or any part
thereof) in any way;
- Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your
affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you upload,
post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available emanates from us or our Website;
- Use the Website (or any part thereof) in a manner that may create a conflict of interest or
undermine the purposes of the Website;
- Collect or harvest any information or data from the Website or our systems or attempt to
decipher any transmissions to or from the servers; or
- Use the Website (or any part thereof) to upload, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make
available in any way:o Files that contain viruses or other material that is malicious or harmful;
o Defamatory, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory material;
o Any content that would constitute or encourage a criminal offence; or
o Content that, in our sole judgment, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits
any other person from using the Website, or which may expose us or our users
to any harm or liability of any type.You understand, acknowledge, and agree that any violation of the foregoing provisions may in our sole
discretion and judgment lead to us to terminate our business relationship with you and/or may subject
you to criminal liability and/or liability for damages, costs, expenses, or fees (including attorney’s fees)
incurred by QIC in enforcing its rights against you under this Agreement.
6. Confidential Information:
For the purposes of these Terms of Use, “Confidential Information” means our non-public, confidential,
secret or proprietary material and information that has been or may be, directly or indirectly, disclosed to
you or which you come into the possession or knowledge of, whether in verbal, written, graphic,
electronic or other form, in connection with or as a result of entering into these Terms of Use and using
our Services.
You will maintain the confidentiality of all Confidential Information we may provide you or which you
receive as a result of your use of the Services and will not release, disclose, use, make available or copy
any such Confidential Information without our prior written consent. You may disclose Confidential
Information to employees, agents or subcontractors on a need-to-know basis only. You will take
reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality of such Confidential Information. Excluded from this
obligation of confidentiality is Confidential Information which:
- is known or becomes known to you directly or indirectly from a third-party source not having an
obligation of confidentiality to us;
- becomes publicly known or otherwise ceases to be secret, proprietary or confidential, except
through your breach of these Terms of Use;
- is independently developed by you; or
- is required to be disclosed by a government authority or by law, provided that you give us
reasonable prior written notice sufficient to permit us to contest such disclosure.
7. Updates to our Website; Availability:
We aim to update our Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. We may remove
material from our Website at our own discretion and without giving any notice. We do not promise to
ensure that the Website remains available or that the material on the Website is kept up to date.
8. Linking:
Linking to Third Party Sites.
The Website may provide links to other websites operated by third
parties who may not be related to, affiliated with or endorsed by us. These links are provided for your
information only. Third party platforms are not governed by this Agreement but by other agreements or
policies that may differ from this Agreement. In visiting any third party platforms, whether linked to the
Website or otherwise, you do so at your own risk and you assume all responsibility in that regard. We
make no representations or warranties regarding, and do not endorse, any third party platforms or any
content in such platforms. We encourage you to review the terms of use of each third party platform
visited before using those platforms.Linking to our Website.
You may link to our Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal,
is non-deceptive and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a
link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where
none exists. You must not establish a link to our Website in any website that is not owned by you. Our
Website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Website
other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
9. Termination:
If you have violated any term of this Agreement, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to
immediately suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Website with or without notice.
In any event, we also reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of
the Website for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.
10. Intellectual Property Rights:
You acknowledge and agree that all copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the
Website content, software and all HTML and other code contained in our Website shall remain at all times
vested in QIC and/or its licensors and is protected by copyright and intellectual property and other laws.
All intellectual property rights are reserved.
The Website and its contents are copyright-protected material and the copyright is owned by QIC unless
stated otherwise. Without limiting the foregoing, copying the above listed materials to any other server or
location for publication, reproduction or distribution is expressly prohibited. Generally speaking,
trademarks appearing on the Website are either owned by QIC or QIC has obtained limited permission
from the trademark owner to use the trademark on the Website. Any other third party trademarks remain
the property of their respective owners.
If you wish to obtain permission to make use of any of the copyrights, trademarks or other rights or
material that may be displayed on the Website from time to time, please contact us at dataoffice@qiddiya.com. We shall not be responsible for seeking any additional authorization required for thirdparty use of any trademark not owned by or licensed to QIC for such use.
Your unauthorized use of intellectual property rights owned by QIC or its licensors may violate copyright,
trademark, privacy, publicity, communications, and other laws which may result in personal liability for
you, as well as potential criminal liability.
11. Disclaimers; Limitation of Liability
You accept that our Website is offered on an “as-is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent
permitted under applicable law, QIC and its Affiliates disclaim all warranties, express or implied (whether
by statute, common law or the law of equity), including without limitation implied warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, performance or suitability for your intended use, title and
non-infringement as to the Website, including all information, content and materials contained therein.
QIC takes reasonable precaution and care in relation to our Website but we do not warrant that the
provision of the Website or material displayed on it will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, timely,
secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that this Website is free of software viruses or bugs
or other defects. We do not ensure that the information on this Website is correct and we do not warrant
its completeness or accuracy. To the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to Section 11.2, QIC
disclaims any liability for any perceived false, misleading, incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise defective
content or misstatements or misrepresentations made by any users of the Website or any other venue.
Users do hereby represent, understand and agree to hold QIC and its Affiliates harmless for any
misstatements and/or misrepresentations made by or on behalf of them on this Website or in any other
venue. Content is provided for informational purposes only, and QIC is not responsible for any reliance
upon or use of the content by you or other users, or by any third party, which is accessed at your own
discretion and risk.
11.1. Subject to Section 11.2, we accept no liability for any loss of income or revenue, loss of business,
loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, waste of management or office time
(in each case whether direct or indirect) or for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind
however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even
if foreseeable. To the extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability to you for all and
any damages, losses or causes of action arising, by reason of or in connection with your use of our site
(whether contractual, tortious or otherwise), shall be limited to SAR 100.
11.2. Nothing in this Agreement limits or excludes our liability: (i) for death or personal injury caused by
our negligence; (ii) for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (iii) in any way that is not permitted
under applicable law.
You agree that where a breach of this Agreement will cause irreparable injury to QIC for which monetary
damages would not be an adequate remedy and QIC shall be entitled to equitable relief in addition to any
remedies it may have hereunder or at law without a bond, other security or proof of damages.
12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use (and any contractual and non-contractual rights or obligations arising out of or in
connection with it) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, and the courts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any
disputes or claims arising in connection with these Terms of Use.
13. General Provisions
Variation.
We reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time. Any changes we make to
this Agreement will be posted on this page and where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. We
recommend that you review this Agreement from time to time as any changes we make will be
binding on you.Severability.
If any provision in this Agreement is ruled invalid, unlawful, void or unenforceable
by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be removed from this Agreement without
it affecting the rest of the Agreement and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will
continue to be valid and enforceable.Security.
We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You
are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer program and platform to
access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.No Waiver.
No failure or delay by you or us in exercising any rights or remedies under this
Agreement will operate as a waiver of that or any other right or remedy.No Partnership or Joint Venture.
This Agreement shall not be construed as creating a
partnership, joint venture, franchise or agency relationship between you and us.Language.
In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the English and the Arabic
versions of this Agreement, the English version shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.