Privacy Policy

The below statement describes the privacy policy for using this website https://www.data.gov.bh.
This privacy policy applies to you, as a user of the domain available at https://www.data.gov.bh. The purpose of this policy is to provide you with information on how your personal data will be collected and processed by The Information and & eGovernment Authority concerned entity.

Respect for your personal data is a priority for the Information & eGovernment Authority.

As part of the use of this service, The Information & eGovernment Authority shall respect two essential principles:
  • You remain in control of your personal data.
  • Your data will be handled in a transparent, confidential, and secure way.

1. DEFINITIONS

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the GTCs, available here.

2. IDENTITY OF CONTROLLER

Legal notice: The CONTROLLER is the person who determines the means and purposes of personal data processing. The SUBCONTRACTOR is a person processing personal data on behalf of the CONTROLLER, who acts under the authority and direction of the CONTROLLER.

Your personal data is collected and processed by The Information & eGovernment Authority, which acts as the controller of the data. During this process, The Bahrain Open Data Portal collects data to promote transparency, enhance public access to information, and support data-driven decision-making.

The main purposes include:
  • Public Access: Providing citizens, researchers, and businesses with access to government data to foster transparency and accountability.
  • Research and Analysis: Enabling researchers and analysts to utilize the data for studies, reports, and insights that can benefit society.
  • Innovation and Development: Encouraging the development of new applications and services by providing developers with access to valuable datasets.
Data Processing: The collected data will undergo several processes, including:
  • Data Collection: Gathering data from various government sources, ensuring it is accurate and relevant.
  • Data Cleaning: Processing the data to eliminate errors, inconsistencies, and duplicates to ensure high quality.
  • Data Classification: Categorizing the data for easy access and retrieval, making it user-friendly for the public.
  • Data Publication: Making the data available on the Open Data Portal in formats that are accessible and usable by the public.
  • Regular Updates: Continuously updating the data to reflect the most current information and maintain its relevance.
Length of retention: Data collected by the Bahrain Open Data Portal will be retained for a specified period based on the following criteria:
  • Legal Requirements: Data will be retained in accordance with applicable laws and regulations governing public data.
  • Relevance and Usefulness: Data will be evaluated periodically to determine its ongoing relevance and usefulness to users.
  • Archiving: Once data becomes outdated but may still hold historical significance, it will be archived in a separate repository for long-term preservation.

This Privacy Policy is limited to data processing performed by The Information & eGovernment Authority as part of the exploitation of its DOMAIN.

3. DATA COLLECTION & PROCESSING

As part of the exploitation of its domain, The Information & eGovernment Authority will collect BENEFICIARIES’ personal data:
  • When you visit the DOMAIN.
  • When you use the functionalities and/or the SERVICES provided on the DOMAIN.
  • When you engage in exchanges with The Information & eGovernment Authority or with other BENEFICIARIES via the DOMAIN.
Regardless of the way personal data is collected, The Information & eGovernmentAuthority will inform you of:
  • (a) the purposes of processing,
  • (b) whether the responses sought are required or optional,
  • (c) possible consequences of failure to reply,
  • (d) data recipients,
  • (e) the existence of a right to access, modify and oppose the data processing.
The data that may be collected and processed by The Information & eGovernment Authority to accomplish the purposes described in this Privacy Policy includes:
  • Data for identification (first name, last name, postal, and e-mail addresses).
  • Data concerning the management and security of each account created from the DOMAIN (IDENTIFIERS, passwords, API keys).
  • Data concerning follow-up on commercial relationships: purchase order numbers, invoices, requests for information, and history of exchanges with departments; and
  • Connection data (IP addresses, connection logs).

4. PURPOSES OF PROCESSING

Your data is collected by The Information & eGovernment Authority to ensure:
  • The proper functioning and ongoing improvement of the DOMAIN and its functionalities.
  • Management of payments.
  • Transmission of newsletters.
  • Management of BENEFICIAIRIES, including commercial management, invoices and follow-up on customer relationships (e.g., customer satisfaction surveys).
  • Management of requests for rights of access, corrections, and opposition.
  • Management of overdue balances and litigation; and
  • Maintenance of statistics to improve the functioning of the DOMAIN and the quality of services it offers.

The Information & eGovernment Authority will also use this data as needed for legal and regulatory purposes.

5. CONSENT

When you open your DOMAIN, you will complete a variety of forms and provide personal data.

By providing The Information & eGovernment Authority with your personal data, you expressly consent to have such data collected and processed by The Information & eGovernment Authority for the purposes described in each support of data collections.

As a BENEFICIARY, you consent to have your connection data to the DOMAIN collected to facilitate your navigation.

6. DATA RECIPIENTS

Your personal data will not be communicated, exchanged, sold, or leased without your express prior consent, pursuant to the applicable legal and regulatory provisions.

7. DURATION OF DATA RETENTION

The Information & eGovernment Authority attempts to ensure that the data it collects is retained in a manner that allows your identification only for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes for which such data has been collected and processed.

However, data establishing proof of a right or contract or data retained to comply with a legal obligation can be kept on file in accordance with the limitation’s periods of applicable law.

Finally, with regard to the cookies indicated in Article 10 of this Privacy Policy, the information stored on your computer, or any other element used to identify you for purposes of audience statistics shall not be retained beyond a period of thirteen (13) months. After this deadline has elapsed, raw data associated with an IDENTIFIER is either suppressed or rendered anonymous.

8. YOUR RIGHTS

You have a right to access, correct, update, lock, or delete personal data concerning you that is inaccurate, incomplete, mistaken, out-of-date, or whose collection, use, communication, or retention is prohibited. Provided there are legitimate grounds to do so, you can also object to any personal data about you that The Information & eGovernment Authority processes.

When making a request for the correction, deletion, updating, or locking of data processed by The Information & eGovernment Authority through their DOMAINS, please send an email to the address appearing on each DOMAIN (Statistics@iga.gov.bh). The Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) is the controller of processing the personal data collected about you via data.gov.bh.

Authority contacts information:

The Information & eGovernment Authority – Building no. 1088, Road no. 4025, Block no.840 - Isa Town - Kingdom of Bahrain.
Postal mail: P.O Box 33305, Kingdom of Bahrain.

The Government Services Contact Center: (+973) 8000 8001, stating your identity and the reason you are requesting such action.

9. CONNECTION DATA AND COOKIES

On its DOMAIN, The Information & eGovernment Authority makes use of connection data (date, time, Internet address, IP address of the visitor’s computer, page consulted) and cookies (small files registered in your computer), making it possible to identify you, store your queries, and make use of the DOMAIN’s metrics and audience statistics, particularly with regard to the pages consulted.

While navigating on the DOMAIN, you accept The Information & eGovernment Authority’s installation of these “technical” cookies for the sole purpose of enabling or facilitating electronic communication between your terminal equipment and the DOMAIN, facilitating management and navigation on the site.

Our access to information stored in your terminal equipment, or the registering of information therein, will only be done:
  • To enable or facilitate electronic communication; or
  • As necessary for the provision of our online communication service at your express request.

You may, as with other data, exercise your right of access to this connection data by submitting a request to statistics@iga.gov.bh. The Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) is the controller of processing the personal data collected about you via data.gov.bh.

If your browser allows it, you can deactivate these cookies at any time by following the procedure indicated by the browser. However, such deactivation may have the effect of slowing down and or disrupting your access to the DOMAIN. Each USER navigating on a DOMAIN should consult the privacy policy published by The Information & eGovernment Authority to determine the purposes and implications of such use.

10. SOCIAL NETWORKS

You have the option of clicking on the icons dedicated to the social networks like X, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and/or LinkedIn appearing on the DOMAIN.

Any personal information that you may designate as public and accessible from your X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, profiles shall be accessible to The Information & eGovernment Authority, and the USER expressly authorizes this access.

If you wish to challenge The Information & eGovernment Authority’s access to personal information designated as public and accessible from a link between your profiles and the applicable social network, you must use the applicable social network functions to limit such access to your data.

11. SECURITY

The Information & eGovernment Authority takes necessary precautions to preserve data security based on the nature of your data and the risks posed by our processing. The Information & eGovernment Authority takes precautions to prevent the data from being impaired, damaged, or subject to unauthorized access. The measures taken include physical protection of our premises, authentication procedures for USERS with personal and secure access using confidential identifiers and passwords, logging of connections, and encryption of certain data.