The National CEO Program Team, the Sultanate of Oman ("we") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand the practices regarding your personal data and how such data will be treated.
By visiting http://www.ceo.om you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For the purpose of this policy, the data controller is The National CEO Program Team in the Sultanate of Oman.
1. Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
1.1. Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site www.ceo.om (our site) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, apply to the National CEO Program or any other program that may be introduced from time to time, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, personal description on your professional and educational background and photograph and personal identification documents.
1.2. Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
- Technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform,
- Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number,
- Information filled in the application for the purpose of applying to the National CEO Program which will be used for the selection and shortlisting purposes. Your personal information will be available only to authorised staff of the National CEO Program team and who have the need to know such information. It will not be available for public inspection,
- Records needed to support government functions are retained for record-keeping or filing systems in accordance with established records disposition authorisations approved by the Omani Government,
- Keep the required records in line with laws and regulations stipulated in the Sultanate with regards to documents and records maintenance. Records transmitted to this site will be identified, managed, protected, and retained as long as they are needed to meet historical, administrative, fiscal, or legal requirements.
1.3. Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
2. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site services.
3. Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
3.1. Information you give to us. We will use this information:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, services that you request from us;
- to provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
3.2. Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about services that may interest you or them.
3.3. Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
4. Disclosure of your information
Though we will make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose your personal information when required by law under good faith where such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, or a court order, or legal process served in relation to the National CEO Program website, or to protect the rights property, or safety of the National CEO Program team and candidates, or others.
5. Where we store your personal data
By submitting your personal data, you agree to the transfer, storing or processing of your personal data in a jurisdiction without an adequate level of protection as defined by the international data protection rules and privacy standards. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) reference number / password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this reference number / password confidential. We ask you not to share the reference number / password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
6. Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for pure commercial purposes. We will endeavour to inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by sending us an email at info@ceo.om.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
7. Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
8. Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@ceo.om.
