This Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) relates to your use of the STC Bank mobile
application which offers financial services and other services available at: www.stcbank.com.sa (the “App”). The App is
made available to you by STC BANK, a mixed closed joint stock company incorporated and existing under
the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and registered in the commercial register in the city of
Riyadh under number 1010901344 and unified ID number 7010933328 having its place of business at 7252
King Khalid Rd – Al Asemah Dist. Ad Dir’iyah 13714 – 5260, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, licensed
by Councils of Ministers under decree 671 dated 12/11/1442H corresponding to 22/06/2021G, and under
the oversight and supervision of Saudi Central Bank (referred to in this Privacy Notice as
“STC Bank”, “we”, “us” and “our”).
We take your privacy seriously and want you to feel comfortable whenever you use the App. We process
your personal data (“Personal Data”) in accordance with the Saudi Arabia Cabinet
Decision No. 98/1443 On the Approval Of the Personal Data Protection Law and Royal Decree No. M148 of
05/09/1444 AH and the respective implementing regulations as amended from time to time (together the
“PDPL”), the Saudi Arabian Banking Control Law dated 22.2.1386H as amended from time
to time (the “Banking Law”) and the Law of Payment and its Services, promulgated by
Saudi Arabic Royal Decree No. M26/1443 dated 22/3/1443H and its implementing regulations as amended
from time to time (the “PSP Regulations” and jointly with the PDPL and the Banking
Law the “Applicable Laws”).
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What Personal Data we collect and for what purposes
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We collect the following types of Personal Data about you:
Purpose |
Types of Data Processed |
Provided by |
Legal Basis |
A)
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Downloading the App
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Creating an account on the App
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- full name mobile
- number national id
- residency cards
- passport number
- national address
- date and place of birth
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- Performance of a contract (between you and STC Bank)
- Article 6(2) of the PDPL
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B)
- Creating an account
- Conducting AML/KYC activities
- Using the services offered via the App
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- salary employment sector
- cash receipt
- cash expenditure patterns passcode
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- Performance of a contract (between you and STC Bank)
- Article 6(2) of the PDPL
- Explicit consent
- Article 5 of the PDPL
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C)
- Applying for a debt product
- Evaluating your credit profile
- Conducting risk assessments
- Assist with determining issuing amounts for debts any other product or liability
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- SIMAH score and credit performance data
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- You to us
- Saudi Credit Bureau (SIMAH) and any other relevant governmental body
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- Explicit consent
- Article 5 of the PDPL
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D)
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- transactions you carry out
- details of any bank accounts you transact to and from the App
- using the services offered via the App and purchasing goods or services available
on
the
App IP
- address localization data for the purposes of enabling browsing the App
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- Performance of a contract
- between you and STC Bank Article 6(2) of the PDPL
- Explicit consent
- Article 5 of the PDPL
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E)
- Marketing and/or direct sales of STC Bank’s products and/or services
- Sending advertising material
- Carrying out promotional activities
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- full name
- e-mail address
- mobile number
- account name on the App
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- Consent
- Article 5 of the PDPL
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You shall provide us only with Personal Data that are accurate, complete, up-to-date, and
relevant for the purpose for which they are collected. We will take reasonable steps to ensure
that your Personal Data are accurate, complete, up-to-date and relevant for the purpose for
which they are collected but we will not be responsible for any inaccuracy, incompleteness,
antiquity or irrelevance of the Personal Data if these are a consequence of your error or
omission.
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Mandatory and optional provision of Personal Data
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The provision of Personal Data under Section 1, letters A,B,C and D is mandatory to enable STC
Bank to provide the services described therein to you. Consequently, failure to provide
Personal Data for the purposes referred to in Section 1, letters A,B,C and D will make it
impossible for us to carry out the activities described therein.
The provision of Personal Data under Section 1, letter E is optional and failure to provide
such Personal Data will have no consequences other than make it impossible for us to carry out
the activities described therein.
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How we collect and process your Personal Data
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We collect and process Personal Data only when you specifically give it to us by registering on
and/or using the App or by the third parties mentioned in Section 1 above.
The Personal Data you provide will be processed in compliance with the Applicable Laws and, in
any case, in such a way as to guarantee the security and confidentiality of the same, to prevent
unauthorised disclosure or use, alteration or destruction. The Personal Data will be processed
on paper and/or via telematic means, also with the help of electronic and information means. We
will process your Personal Data in our own technological infrastructure and/or using the
technological infrastructure of third-party suppliers appointed as data processors. We process
Personal Data for the purposes set out in Section 1.
You may reach out to STC Bank’s DPO to the address indicated in Section 9 below for any queries
related to collecting and processing your Personal Data.
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Protecting your Personal Data
The transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. We will do our best
to
protect your Personal Data while it is in our possession, however, we cannot guarantee the
security
of your data transmitted online or over the App.
We recognise industry standards and employ security safeguards to protect Personal Data from
unauthorised access and misuse.
All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. Any payment transactions will
be
protected and safeguarded by encryption.
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Sharing your Personal Data with third parties and cross-border transfers
We may share Personal Data with third party providers so they can provide you with certain services
through the App. Achieving this may require sharing Personal Data with external third party
providers on a regular basis, multiple times, or once, as required for one of the purposes set out
in Section [1]. We will require these third party providers to take steps to ensure that your
Personal Data is kept secure and used in accordance with this Privacy Notice. However, we shall not
be liable for any unauthorised use of your Personal Data by a third party provider.
The Personal Data may be communicated, exclusively for the purposes indicated in this Privacy
Notice, to the categories of subjects listed below:
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A)
persons, companies, associations or professional firms that provide services and activities
of assistance and consultancy to STC Bank, with particular but not exclusive reference to
accounting, administrative, legal, tax and financial matters;
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B)
companies that provide, on behalf of STC Bank, certain services related to the App and to
the management and execution of purchase orders through the App, with particular but not
exclusive reference to the analysis of Personal Data, the management of payment services, the
management, shipment and delivery of products purchased on the App, marketing activities, the
management of services provided through the App and their customisation in your favour;
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C)
in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of assets of STC Bank or
one of our affiliated companies, to the prospective buyer of the business and their
professional
advisers;
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D)
companies belonging to the same corporate group as STC Bank, with particular but not
exclusive
reference to activities of Personal Data analysis in aggregate and anonymised form, identity
management of user profiles on the App, profiling and profiled marketing in relation to
users
who
have given their consent to these activities;
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E)
subjects to whom the right to access the Personal Data is required by law, secondary
legislation,
a court order or by a regulatory authority of competent jurisdiction or if we believe that
such
disclosure is necessary, to protect, defend or enforce our rights. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and
credit
risk reduction; and
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F)
third party companies and clients with whom STC Bank collaborates as a business partner
(e.g. for the promotion of goods and services) including those third parties assisting us in
supplying our
services to you or perform certain functions on our behalf, including IT support services,
card
management services or professional services.
The Personal Data may be communicated, exclusively for the purposes indicated in this Privacy
Notice, to the categories of recipients listed above and having their registered offices in
the
Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia and acting, as the case may be, as data processors on behalf of
STC Bank or as separate data controllers, in this case providing you, under his/her own
responsibility, with appropriate information.
For the purposes of providing you with our payment services, the Personal Data may also be
communicated,
exclusively for the purposes indicated in this Privacy Notice, to the categories of recipients
listed above
and having their registered offices in countries outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (in this
case
in compliance with the provisions of the Applicable
Laws regarding data transfers and acting as data processors on behalf of STC Bank or as
autonomous
data controllers).
Your Personal Data will be stored on the servers available to STC Bank or to the persons in
charge
located
in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Should it become necessary for technical and/or operational
reasons to
use subjects
located outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or should it become necessary to transfer some of
the
collected Personal
Data to technical systems and services managed in the cloud and located outside the Kingdom of
Saudi
Arabia,
the processing will be regulated in compliance with the provisions of the Applicable Laws
regarding
data transfers.
This Privacy Notice only applies to Personal Data collected on the App. Although the App may
provide links to websites of third parties, such as banks, this Privacy Notice does not apply
to
any other application or website that you connect to from the App. We are not responsible for
the
content or practices of applications and websites operated by third parties that are linked to
or
from the
App and you should refer to the relevant privacy policies issued by such third parties.
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Underage users and users lacking legal capacity
STC Bank encourages parents to monitor their children's use of the Internet for safe and
filtered
use of its content, including through the use of parental control tools. Besides ensuring an
online environment suitable for minors, these tools can prevent the disclosure of personal
data
by children or young people who do not have their parents' consent. With regard to the
collection
and processing of personal data, STC Bank does not process personal data of subjects under 15
years
of age. Creating an account on the App is, therefore, only permitted to users who have reached
the
age
of majority or to users who are at least 15 years old. STC Bank, moreover, encourages the
creation
of
an account on the App of parents of registered users who are minors: in this way, parents have
the
opportunity to keep abreast of the initiatives that STC Bank makes available to their
children,
and
to check their compliance with their own expectations and educational models and paths. STC
Bank
urges
all users who are under the age of 15 not to communicate their personal data, under any
circumstance,
and reserves the right to exclude from the App any user who has concealed their under-age or
who
has
communicated their personal data despite being aged less than 15.
Legal guardians of subjects under 15 years of age or of subjects
lacking legal capacity shall exercise data subjects’ rights set out in the Applicable Laws and
this
Privacy Notice on their behalf.
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Data retention period
The Personal Data collected for the processing purpose indicated in Section 1
above shall be retained for the time necessary for the pursuit of such purposes
and thereafter, and in any case for the permitted time under the Applicable Law
from the achievement of the respective purposes as required by the Applicable Laws,
except in case of extraordinary necessity of STC Bank to keep the Personal Data further
in order to defend its rights, also in relation to disputes
existing at the time of the request or upon indication of public authorities or as otherwise
permitted by the Applicable Laws.
The Personal Data collected for the processing purpose indicated in Section 1 letter E above shall
be retained until the withdrawal of the relevant consent or until you expressly request the deletion
of such Personal Data, which shall be deleted or anonymized in accordance with our internal
policies, part of which is requesting third party providers to provide destruction confirmation,
which confirms that Personal Data has been securely and permanently destroyed in accordance with
agreed standards. and in any case for the permitted time under the Applicable Law from the last
purchase made, except in case of extraordinary necessity of STC Bank to keep the Personal Data
further in order to defend its rights, also in relation to disputes existing at the time of the
request or upon indication of public authorities or as otherwise permitted by the Applicable Laws.
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Changes to this Privacy Notice
Any changes we may make to this Privacy Notice in the future will be posted on the App and,
where
appropriate, notified to you.
By continuing to use the App you will be deemed to accept the changes to this Privacy Notice.
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Contact
Your personal data processing controller is STC Bank. You can contact STC Bank at any time by mail
or e-mail at DPO@stcbank.com.sa. If you have any questions regarding this
Privacy Notice, please
include it in the email subject to enable our DPO to contact you. We shall review and respond to
your questions within a maximum period of (30) days and may be extended for a similar period, which
you will be notified of in advance, stating the reasons for such extension if implementing the
request requires any additional effort
STC Bank has appointed its own Data Protection Officer (also known as the "DPO"), who may be
contacted for matters relating to the processing of your data. By writing to DPO@stcbank.com.sa you
may also exercise the rights indicated under Section 10 below
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Your rights
Unless otherwise permitted by the Applicable Laws, we hereby remind you that you have the
following
rights:
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to the extent that consent was given for any processing of Personal Data, the right to
withdraw your consent at any time by selecting the appropriate option in the App or sending an
e-mail to our contacts above;
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the right to obtain information in relation to the purposes and legal basis for which your
Personal Data is processed;
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the right to obtain correction of inaccurate, incomplete and/or outdated Personal Data
relating to you;
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the right to obtain that the Personal Data concerning you is only kept without any other use
of the Personal Data in the following cases: (a) you contest the accuracy of the Personal Data,
for the period necessary to allow us to verify the accuracy of such Personal Data; (b) the
Personal Data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and (c)
you object to the processing and are awaiting verification as to whether the legitimate grounds
of the data controller for processing prevail over those of the data subject;
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the right to obtain the cessation of processing in cases where your Personal Data is
processed for marketing purposes; and
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the right to receive in a readable and clear format, a copy of the Personal Data provided to
STC Bank.
If you are not satisfied with the results of our complaint handling, or if you believe that your
Personal Data is being processed unlawfully or for an unlawful purpose, you may file a complaint
with the Saudi Central bank. You can view the instruction on how to complaint or
objection through
submit a
submitting an individual rights request.
Please note that in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia you have the right to turn to the national authority
(SDAIA / NDMO) to assert your rights in relation to the processing of your Personal Dat, and the
right to claim compensation for financial or moral damages under the violations stipulated in the
PDPL.
Furthermore, by writing to the address DPO@stcbank.com.sa you may exercise the rights set forth under
this Section.
Amendment date: Shawwal 24, 1446 corresponding with April 22, 2025