Privacy Policy and Beneficiary Data:

Based on Jouf University's keenness to respect the privacy of its users, including students, faculty members and employees, the university is always keen to use the latest practices related to privacy policies to ensure the security of users' information from inside and outside the university in order to achieve the maximum benefit from the university's services without affecting the confidentiality and privacy of users' data according to the following standards:

• This statement applies to our Blackboard websites, as well as to the electronic portals and the technical support system for the services we provide to individuals directly.
• We share personal information with support service providers who help us provide our products and services. We also share personal information with partners from within the university in certain cases, but in no case can any user data be shared with any party not authorized to view beneficiary data
• Sharing data with our partners in managing the Blackboard system according to their privacy policy, which can be referred to through their privacy statement
• We do not use or disclose student information for behavioral targeting of advertisements to students.
• We do not intentionally collect any personal information and all personal information collected and used is done in an automated manner to implement the electronic services provided to the beneficiaries of the university's employees only.
• We use a variety of physical, technological and administrative security safeguards designed specifically to protect personal information. Through the university's systems or through the tools provided by partners providing technical services and technical support services.
• No information or data of university employees may be transferred to any party outside the country.
• ("Blackboard") complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information received from the European Economic Area ("EEA") and the United Kingdom. Blackboard has acknowledged its commitment to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Purpose Limitation, Access Rights, Recourse and Enforcement and Liability ("Principles"). In the event of any conflict between the policies in this Statement and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Principles will prevail
• We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Al Jouf University has implemented all necessary physical, electronic and administrative procedures to help protect and secure personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
• Every time you submit information through the University’s web pages, there will be an explanation of why we need that information. In general, we need your contact details to respond to any enquiry, but we may ask you if we can use these details for subsequent communications in connection with the University’s business.
• Your personal data will be held securely on the University’s servers and deleted when no longer required. If we need to send any data to your home address, we may provide these details to the postal service in order to fulfil your request but we will not share your contact details with any other third parties.
• If you contact the University by email, we keep a record of that correspondence for the purpose of administering the University’s business. We do not add any email addresses received in this way to any mailing databases, and again, we do not provide them to third parties.

Data we collect about you

• Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. It does not include data that has been removed from the identity (anonymous data).
• It is necessary that you register with us in order to access the Deanship’s electronic services. However, we may collect, use, store and transfer certain information from interactive features such as contact and registration forms and online surveys, which may include different types of personal data about you
• Identity data includes first name, last name, username, civil registry, academic number, courses registered and academic level
• Contact data includes email address and telephone numbers.

We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as such data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. If we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your ancestry, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and biometrics), nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data

We need to collect personal data in accordance with the University’s rules and regulations and in accordance with the law, and if you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to carry out the requested service, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.