Policies & Regulations

The General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) is committed to protecting personal data by applying the necessary administrative controls and technical measures in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations, policies, and decisions.

Therefore, the Privacy Policy and Notice help personal data subjects understand the nature and type of data that the GAMI collects and processes and the purpose
for which it is processed and collected.

It is important that personal data subjects are aware of their rights regarding their personal data in
accordance with the relevant regulations and how GAMI and its partners use their personal data.
Your use of GAMI’s website means that you are acknowledge and informed to what is stated in the Privacy Policy and Notice. We also encourage you to review the Privacy Policy and Notice for any updates made to it.

Contact Information
Department: Data Management Office.
E-mail address: DMO@gami.gov.sa

Last update date

The last update on the Privacy Policy and Notice was on 05/February/2025

What personal data is collected?

We collect the necessary personal data to carry out the GAMI tasks in accordance with its regulations, and it includes the following:

• Account Data: This includes the essential data to create an account or profile, such as name, personal identification number, addresses, contact numbers, and email address.
• Financial Data: This includes account number, bank name, and payment details.
• Human Resources Data and Operations: This includes job-related and educational data.
• Technical Data: This includes data collected through website logs, cookie technologies, or similar technologies, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet.
• Case Identification Data: This includes data about individuals benefiting from the services of the GAMI or its partners.
• Data Obtained from Other Parties to Complete GAMI Tasks and Procedures.
• Personal Data Provided to GAMI or its Partners.
• Data Related to Factories/Companies.
• Data Related to Investors.

The purpose of collecting personal data

In accordance with its regulations, GAMI collects personal data to provide services and meet the
requirements as well as respond to inquiries from beneficiaries of GAMI services while developing and improving the experience and ensuring the continuity of providing services with the required quality.

Methods of collecting the personal data

Some of the personal data we process is obtained either directly or indirectly using various methods, which include the following:

• Services: When registering on the GAMI official channels or those of its partners and using the products or services provided by the GAMI or its partners.
• Communication: When communicating with the GAMI or its partners through various electronic and non-electronic channels.
• Surveys: When conducting surveys, personal data may be collected and used for analysis, research, and the purpose of developing services provided by GAMI or its partners, as well as improving customer experience.
• We may request additional information to meet development requirements.
• Indirect Collection: Your personal data is collected indirectly through cookies when visiting GAMI’s website.
• Other Entities: As per regulations and legislation.

How do we use the personal data

GAMI uses personal data to provide its services in accordance to its regulations that includes but not
limited to the following:

• To ensure the provision of services by GAMI or its partners and fulfilling their requirements.
• To resolve inquiries and complaints from beneficiaries of GAMI services or its partners.
• To understand the preferences of beneficiaries and thereby improving services and customer
• experience.
• To analyze data and national statistics and create internal reports.
• To complete the internal procedures and internal operations within GAMI and external entities.

How do we store and destroy personal data

The personal data is securely stored in the GAMI databases by adhering to key national principles for protecting personal data within the geographical boundaries of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is to ensure the preservation of national sovereignty over this data unless there are cases of data transfer or processing outside the geographical boundaries of the Kingdom; provided that personal data is destroyed securely once the purpose of its collection is fulfilled, in a secure manner that prevents its loss, misuse, or unauthorized access, in accordance with relevant regulations and guidelines.

The personal data rights

Under personal data protection law and its regulations, the data subject have the following rights:

• The right to be informed about the legal basis and the purpose of the Collection of the
• Personal Data.
• The right to access the personal data held by GAMI, to review it.
• The right to request access to his personal data available in a legible and clear format.
• The right to request correcting, completing, or updating their Personal Data held by GAMI.
• The right to have the personal data destroyed unless there is a legal provision specifying a particular retention period or contractual requirements.
• The right to withdraw the consent for the processing of the personal data at any time unless there are legitimate purposes requiring otherwise

How do we share the personal data

Personal data is share for legitimate purposes based on legal grounds or a justified operational need aimed at serving the interests of the GAMI, without harming national interests, the activities of entities, individual privacy, or environmental safety.

We work closely with several trusted entities and partners with whom we may need to share your personal data, in accordance with regulations, including:

• Entities and companies within the military industries system.
• Financial entities.
• Entities that assist in managing our operations and providing services.
• Government entities related to the GAMI operations.

In all cases where we share your personal data, we implement all necessary technical, organizational, administrative, and security measures to protect your personal data. Only the minimum necessary data will be share to achieve the processing purposes outlined in the Privacy Policy and Notice, in compliance with legal foundations.

Personal data transfer outside the Kingdom
According to the regulations, the personal data will be securely stored and processed within the
geographical borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to ensure the preservation of the national
sovereignty of this data, unless it comes under the cases of transferring or processing data outside the geographical borders of the Kingdom as outlined in Article (29) of the Saudi personal data protection law.

Legal basis for collecting and processing the personal data:

The personal data is collected and processed based on the consent unless there is another legal basis.

The Data Subject Rights

Data subject can exercise his/her rights by communicating with Personal Data Protection Officer (Data Management Office via email : dmo@gami.gov.sa

Complaints and inquiries

If there are any inquiry, complaint, or observation about the Privacy Policy and Notice, you can contact
the Data Management Office at GAMI via the Contact Us  via email: DMO@gami.gov.sa
You will receive a response within thirty days without delay, and this period may be extended if
unexpected or unusual effort is required, or if multiple requests are submitted by you, provided that the
extension does not exceed an additional thirty days.

This electronic portal of the General Authority for Military Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (referred to as the "GAMI Portal" or "the Portal") is available for your personal use, and your access and use of this portal is subject to these terms of use and the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Your access to and use of this portal constitutes your unconditional acceptance of these terms of use, whether you are a registered user or not, and such acceptance is effective from the date of your first use of this portal.

As is clear from the portal's vision and message, one of its primary objectives is to enhance communication with the public and provide a diverse range of information and services that help enrich visitors' and users' experience with the Authority. The use of the portal includes several terms and conditions that are subject to continuous updates and changes as needed, and any modification or update to any of these terms and conditions becomes effective immediately upon adoption by the portal's management. This requires you to continually review the terms of use and disclaimers to know about any updates made to them, as your continued use of this portal means your full understanding and acceptance of any modifications made to the terms and conditions of its use. Note that these terms and conditions include proprietary rights, and the portal's management is not obligated to announce any updates made to these terms.

Restrictions on Use

By using the General Authority for Military Industries portal, you acknowledge and agree to refrain from the following:

• Providing or downloading files containing software, materials, data, or other information that is not owned by you or for which you do not have a license.

• Using this portal in any way to send any unwanted commercial email or any abusive use of the General Authority for Military Industries portal.

• Providing or downloading files on this portal containing viruses or corrupted data.

• Publishing, advertising, distributing, or disseminating material or information that is defamatory, illegal, pornographic, or violates Islamic teachings or public morals or any unlawful material or information using this portal in any way to send any unwanted commercial email or any abusive use of the General Authority for Military Industries portal.

• Subscribing, through the General Authority for Military Industries portal, to any illegal or unauthorized activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• Posting, on the General Authority for Military Industries portal, any product or service that puts us in violation of any law or system applicable in any field.

• Using any means, program, or procedure to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the General Authority for Military Industries portal.

• Taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionate burden on the infrastructure of the General Authority for Military Industries portal.

Links to GAMI

Except as provided below, you are prohibited from transferring, copying, or creating electronic links to the General Authority for Military Industries portal or any of its contents, or displaying any of them in a frame.

Links to the General Authority for Military Industries portal may be placed on any other sites that do not conflict with the objectives, general direction, policies, and frameworks of the electronic portal of the General Authority for Military Industries.

Under no circumstances does the General Authority for Military Industries participate in or is associated with any trademarks, logos, trade names, service marks, or other means used or appearing on websites linked to this portal or any of its contents.

The General Authority for Military Industries reserves its full rights to stop and prevent any connection in any form from any site containing inappropriate, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, unacceptable, illegal, or any content, names, materials, or information that violates any law or infringes on intellectual property rights or privacy or publicity rights.

The General Authority for Military Industries reserves the right to disable any unauthorized links in any form, and we assume no responsibility for the contents available on any other sites accessed through this portal or accessed from it.

Links from GAMI

Links to other portals and/or websites are provided for the convenience of the visitor, and we are not responsible for the contents or credibility of the portals and/or websites to which we are linked, and we do not endorse their contents. Thus, the use of any of these links to access those sites or portals is entirely at your own risk. We aim to replace broken electronic links with other sites, and since we have no control over these links, we do not guarantee that they will work permanently.

Protection from Viruses

We make every effort to check and test the contents of this portal at every stage of production, and we advise you to always run antivirus software on all materials downloaded from the internet. We are not liable for any loss, interruption, or damage to your data, computer, or any browsing device that may occur when connecting to this portal or using material from this portal.

Claims Waiver

The portal of the General Authority for Military Industries, Services, Information, Materials, and Job Opportunities, and any accessible content through the portal, are provided for personal use "as is" and "as available" without any endorsement, promises, or guarantees of any kind. We cannot ensure or be responsible for any interruptions, errors, or violations that may arise from using this portal, its contents, or any linked websites, whether with or without our knowledge.

Any communications or information the user sends through this portal will not be owned or guaranteed to remain confidential, and any interactive use of this portal does not guarantee any rights, licenses, or privileges of any kind to the user. Moreover, the General Authority for Military Industries’ waiver of any rights specified in these terms in any place or occasion does not mean a permanent or automatic waiver of any rights in other places or occasions.

Limitation of Liability

The electronic services provided by the portal of the General Authority for Military Industries through the internet and the information about various government departments and agencies are provided only to facilitate manual procedures. Thus, you acknowledge fully that internet communications may be subject to intervention or interception by third parties, and the portal does not replace the information available through official sources. 

Administrative requests and procedures can be taken directly to the competent authorities. Therefore, resorting to this portal remains at your own responsibility, and we are not liable for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from your use or visit to the portal or reliance on any statement, opinion, or advertisement on the portal or any issues arising from delays in operation, connection failures, access problems, equipment or software malfunctions, or the behavior or ideas of any person accessing this portal. 

By agreeing to these terms, you acknowledge and agree that your exclusive and only recourse to remedy any damage or loss resulting from your use or visit to this portal is to refrain from using or accessing it or from continuing to do so.

Compensation

By agreeing to these terms, you waive any action against the General Authority for Military Industries and release it from liability, as well as any parties, employees, or agents responsible for managing, maintaining, updating, or providing the portal, from all obligations and responsibilities that may arise in connection with any claim resulting from any breach by the user of the terms of use or any applicable laws, whether in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the place where you reside.

Termination of Use

We may, at our absolute discretion, terminate, restrict, or suspend your right to access and use the portal without notice and for any reason, including any violation of the terms of use or any other behavior that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be illegal or harmful to others. In case of termination, you will not be allowed to access this portal.

Intellectual Property Rights

This portal is technically managed by the Information Technology Department, which is a department under the General Authority for Military Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All the materials available on this portal, including visual and software materials (the contents), are protected under copyright, trademarks, and other forms of intellectual property rights. Since one of the main objectives of the portal is to increase awareness and enrich the culture of its users and visitors, only personal and non-profit use of the portal's content and any information published on it is allowed, with the necessity of referring to the General Authority for Military Industries portal as the source of that content and information.

On the other hand, it is strictly prohibited to sell, license, lease, modify, copy, reproduce, reprint, download, advertise, transfer, distribute, display publicly, edit, or create derivative works from any materials or contents of this portal for the public or for commercial purposes without obtaining prior written consent from the General Authority for Military Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Any modification of any content on the portal is strictly prohibited. The drawings and images on this portal are protected by copyright, and they cannot be reproduced or exploited in any way without prior written consent from the General Authority for Military Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Judicial Reference

By using this portal, you agree to exclusively submit to the judicial authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia regarding all claims and disputes arising from your use of this portal, knowing that the Arabic language will be the official language used to resolve any disputes arising from your use of the portal or any of its contents.

General Terms and Conditions

• All materials and information available on the portal are educational and not for profit. 

• The Arabic language is the primary language for using the portal and benefiting from all published materials on it, and the translation of any of these materials aims to provide an additional service. Therefore, the interpretive translation cannot be relied upon in interpreting any dispute about the content of the portal.

• All regulations and laws published on the portal, whether specific to the General Authority for Military Industries or other entities, may be subject to translation to interpret their meanings for the purpose of increasing their benefits. However, the Arabic text of all these regulations and laws is the basic reference, and therefore, no reliance can be placed on its interpretive translation to derive any information or details.

• The portal includes several channels and electronic sharing tools such as forums, opinion polls, comments on everything published, blogs, voting systems, visitor comments, personal subscriptions, and 24-hour free phone services. 

• The portal management has set a number of standards and restrictions for using all electronic sharing channels to ensure the highest desired benefit from the principle of electronic sharing, and your use of these channels constitutes a permanent agreement to the standards and restrictions specific to their use.

• The General Authority has the full right to delete or not publish any comments or posts by portal users that the portal management deems inappropriate.

• If you have any questions or opinions about privacy and disclaimer terms, you can contact the portal management through the contact form on the "Contact Us" page.

Related Links:

• Electronic Transactions System.

• Anti-Cybercrime System.

• Basic Cybersecurity Controls.

• National Data Governance Policies.

The information included on the agency's website is general information and is provided for guidance purposes only. GAMI works to update and maintain it regularly. However, it does not provide any explicit or implicit statements or commitments regarding the completeness, accuracy, reliability, or suitability of the information related to the services or relevant drawings on the agency's website for any purpose. Therefore, any reliance on this information is solely at your own risk, and GAMI is not responsible in any way for any losses or damages that may result from your use of this information, even if indirect or consequential. GAMI is also not responsible for any data loss or loss of profits resulting from the use of its website.

GAMI provides access to other websites not under its control through its website. Therefore, GAMI has no control over the content of these sites and disclaims any responsibility for their content. The presence of any links on GAMI’s website does not necessarily mean that GAMI endorses or agrees with the views expressed on these sites.

GAMI has made every effort to maintain its website in good and easy working condition.

However, the General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) does not assume any responsibility for any technical malfunctions of the website, and it will not be subject to any claims resulting from the temporary unavailability of GAMI’s website due to technical problems beyond its control.

What does freedom of information mean?

A set of provisions and procedures that regulate the exercise of the right to access public information related to the authority's activities and promote the principles of transparency and freedom to exchange such information.

Key Principles of Freedom of Information

The General Authority for Military Industries relies on the following principles of freedom of information:

1. Transparency: Individuals have the right to know information related to the authority's activities in order to promote transparency, integrity, and accountability.

2. Necessity and proportionality: Any restrictions on accessing or obtaining protected information received, produced, or dealt with by the authority must be clearly and explicitly justified.

3. Disclosure as the default for public information: Any individual has the right to access public information that is not protected, regardless of their interest in such information, without being subject to legal liability related to this right.

4. Equality: All requests for access to or obtaining public information must be treated equally without discrimination.

Individual rights regarding access to or acquisition of public information:
 

1. The right to access and obtain any unprotected information classified as "public" by the authority.

2. The right to know the reason for denying access to or obtaining the requested information.

3. The right to appeal a decision to deny a request to access or obtain the requested information.

Which information can the public request and/or obtain?

This policy applies to all requests for access to public information - unprotected and classified as "public" - produced by GAMI.

These provisions do not apply to protected information such as:

• Information whose disclosure would harm the interests or rights of the Kingdom.

• Military and security information.

• Information and documents obtained through an agreement with another country and classified as protected.

• Investigations, inspections, and monitoring related to a crime, violation, or threat.

• Information that includes recommendations, proposals, or consultations for issuing legislation or government decisions that have not yet been issued.

• Commercial, financial, or economic information that, if disclosed, would result in illegal profit or loss avoidance.

• Scientific or technical research or rights containing an intellectual property right that revealing it would infringe on a moral right.

• Information related to competitions, tenders, and auctions whose disclosure would undermine fair competition.

• Information that is confidential or personal under another system, or requires certain procedural measures to access or obtain it.

To submit requests, fill out the "Public Information Request Form" 

Related Policies and Regulations:

National data governance policies issued by the National Data Management Office

The General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) is committed to providing information and services that are of interest to its beneficiaries and stakeholders, using the best available technologies through its website.

Accordingly, some standards have been established, which constitute the covenant between GAMI and the beneficiaries of this website, as follows:

GAMI's Commitments:

GAMI seeks to provide the best possible services to users of this website, whether individuals or organizations, and this covenant specifies the most important commitments of GAMI on its website, which include:

• Continuity: GAMI strives to provide the latest technologies and specifications to ensure the continuity of the website's operation 24/7.

• Privacy and confidentiality of information: GAMI respects the confidentiality of the information of users of its website, and confidentiality is one of GAMI's top priorities. GAMI makes every effort to provide information and services through the website in accordance with this consideration.

• Providing mechanisms for communication and participation: GAMI is committed to processing and responding to all inquiries, complaints, or suggestions through the available communication channels on this website.

Beneficiaries' commitments:

Beneficiaries of this website are responsible for a number of obligations and standards in order to achieve the goals of this website, including:

• Terms of use: Beneficiaries must review and comply with the terms of use.

• User information: Beneficiaries of the website commit to providing accurate and correct information if requested.