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
|
|
- Performance of a contract (between you and STC Bank)
- Article 6(2) of the PDPL
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B)
- Creating an account
- Conducting CDD/KYC activities
- Using the services offered via the App
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- salary
- employment sector
- cash receipt
- cash expenditure patterns
- passcode
- Tax Residency Information
|
|
- 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
|
|
- 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
|
|
- Explicit consent
- Article 5 of the PDPL
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We are collecting personal data that may lead
to identifying an individual specifically, or that may
directly or indirectly make it possible to identify an individual, including
name, personal
identification number, addresses, contact numbers etc.
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: Jumada II 10, 1447 corresponding with December 1, 2025