Information & policies
Privacy
How participant data will be handled, with the decisions and unfinished sections visible.
- Document version
- 2026-10-04-draft
- Decisions recorded
This draft records organizer decisions. The final policy and Arabic wording are awaiting review; this draft has no effective date.
View this dated draftWho is responsible
Organizer decision — draft wording
The Research Principles Club is responsible for participant data.
The policy framework is Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
The current website
Organizer decision — draft wording
Public contact and participation forms are closed and do not accept or store personal information. The organizer describes current visit analytics as cookieless and anonymous, provided by Vercel.
Retention decisions
Organizer decision — draft wording
Registrations and abstracts are deleted one year after the conference.
The certificate verification record — name, certificate number and date — is kept for two years so certificates can remain verifiable.
Privacy & data requests
Organizer decision — draft wording
Email contact@msrc2027.com with the topic “Privacy & data requests”. Our privacy lead responds within 30 days.
Photography & recording
Organizer decision — draft wording
The event is photographed and recorded. The registration page states this clearly.
Publishing photographs & recordings
Placeholder — wording pending
Placeholder — final wording and publication review pending. The legal basis for publishing identifiable photographs and recordings has not been finalized in this draft.
Data use & legal bases
Placeholder — wording pending
Placeholder — final wording is pending for account and participation data, authorship, payments, reviews, advisory assessment, attendance, certificates and surveys. Purposes, legal bases and institutional approvals still need review before these workflows open.
Service providers & data locations
Placeholder — wording pending
Placeholder — service-provider processing, logging, data locations and any transfers await documented review and final wording.
Retention implementation
Placeholder — wording pending
Placeholder — the start of the certificate record’s two-year period, any other retention rules, and deletion across files, exports, logs and backups still need final wording and implementation review.
Request handling & rights
Placeholder — wording pending
Placeholder — the verified request procedure, applicable rights, exceptions and removal process await final wording and approval.