Privacy policy
This policy explains what personal data Musajil (musajil.com) collects, why, how long we keep it, which cookies the site uses, including advertising cookies from Google, and the choices you have. It is written to meet Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
1. Data we collect
- Messages you send us through the contact form: name, e-mail, optional mobile number, the page concerned and your message.
- Business submissions through “Add your business”: the business details you enter, photos you upload, and the contact name, e-mail and phone of the person submitting.
- Advertising enquiries: business name, contact person, phone, e-mail, city, category, budget range and message.
- Technical data collected automatically when you browse: IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, time of visit and the referring page, through server logs and the analytics and advertising services listed below.
We do not ask for sensitive personal data, and the site is not directed at children under 13.
2. How we use it
- To answer your message and to review, publish or correct business pages.
- To reply to advertising enquiries and run the advertising you ask for.
- To keep the site secure (spam and abuse prevention) and working.
- To understand, in aggregate, which pages are used, so we can improve them.
- To show advertising that keeps the site free (see section 4).
We do not sell personal data. Business details that you submit for publication (name, address, business phone, website, hours, photos) become public on the business page; the submitter’s own contact details are not published.
3. Cookies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Musajil uses:
- Necessary cookies: your language choice (
pll_language), a session cookie, and security cookies set by forms and reCAPTCHA. - Analytics cookies: Google Analytics, to count visits and see how pages are used.
- Advertising and measurement cookies: Google AdSense and the Meta (Facebook) pixel.
- Embedded services: maps and videos from Google may set their own cookies when they load.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may stop forms or the language choice from working.
4. Advertising and Google
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Musajil and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.
- How Google uses information from sites that use its services is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Sponsored places on Musajil are always labelled as sponsored.
5. Sharing
We share personal data only with service providers that run the site for us (hosting, e-mail, analytics, advertising, spam protection), under their own privacy terms, or when the law requires it. Some providers process data outside Saudi Arabia; we use them only for the purposes above.
6. How long we keep data
- Contact messages: up to 24 months.
- Business submissions that are rejected: up to 12 months; published pages: while the business is listed.
- Advertising enquiries: up to 24 months.
- Server logs: up to 90 days.
7. Your rights
Under the PDPL you may ask to be informed about the data we hold on you, get a copy of it, correct it, or have it deleted, and you may withdraw consent at any time. Send your request through the contact page and choose “Request about my personal data”. We answer within 30 days.
8. Security
The site uses HTTPS, form protection and restricted administrator access. No method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure, but we work to protect your data.
9. Links to other sites
Business pages and flyers link to websites we do not control. Their privacy practices are their own.
10. Changes
We may update this policy; the date below shows the latest version.