Privacy Notice

This General Privacy Notice (hereafter the “Notice”) is maintained by Saudi Engines Manufacturing Company (MAKEEN), a company established under the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose headquarters are located in Dhahran, Eastern Province.

MAKEEN is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. MAKEEN will only collect and process personal data to the extent it is permitted to do so and with your consent (where required by applicable laws and regulations) and will process personal data in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner.

This Notice explains what personal data we collect, for what purpose, to whom we disclose the data, and for how long we keep it. Additionally, we describe your rights and how you can invoke them. By “personal data,” we mean any information through which we can identify you as an individual (e.g., name, telephone number, email, or other related information), including sensitive personal data.

Local requirements:

This Notice provides information regarding the uniform minimum standard for MAKEEN regarding the protection of Personal Data worldwide. Where local laws require stricter standards than those described in this Notice, the stricter standards prevail.

What personal data do we collect and process, and how do we collect your personal data?

The types of personal data that MAKEEN collects and processes will depend on the relationship we have with you, such as contact information or
other personal data you disclose in the course of your relationship with MAKEEN.

Automatically collected data. We use cookies to make this website easier and better to use to tailor our products and services to your interests, needs, and marketing purposes. Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored on your computer (or other devices) when you visit a site.
We will not use your contact information for product or promotional advertising unless you have specifically requested to receive product information.

If you provide us with personal data about other individuals, please ensure that they have given you consent to do so and that they are aware of our Notice.

For what purposes and legal bases do we use your personal data?

In order for us to provide you with our products and services, we need to process your personal data for the reasons set out in this Notice. Any personal data received by us will be used for the purposes indicated in this Notice or a separate notice provided to you. Except where permitted by law, we will not process your personal data in a manner that is inconsistent with the defined purpose for which it was collected.

Purposes of processing:

We will process your data for specific and limited purposes which are linked to a legal basis set out above. These purposes are:

For the performance of our agreement with you, such as to carry out the support and services under the commercial agreement that we concluded or will conclude with you on behalf of your company, for billing or invoicing, communicating with you in relation to the agreement, product delivery, processing orders, purchasing materials, supplies and equipment, completing supplier due diligence and customer screening processes, licensing agreements and non-disclosure agreements, etc.

To comply with legal obligations: monitoring and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements, communications relating to such obligations, and responding and complying with lawful requests by regulators and law enforcement.

For MAKEEN’s legitimate (business) purposes, such as to manage our internal client database in order to maintain contact with clients and prospects, to keep track of our financials and services, operating and expanding our business activities and services, developing and improving our services and products, to undertake market research, to improve the effectiveness of our marketing, to engage with third party contractors, suppliers, and business partners, to host promotional activities, webinars, and events, to offer our Online Services, to operate company policies and procedures, to maintain standards of safety and security in our systems and premises, to resolve disputes or manage inquiries and to enable MAKEEN to make corporate transactions.

To protect our rights: to protect our sites and business operations, including to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, or other misuse where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, or in cases of suspected fraud or situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party, or violations of our agreements or this Notice.

To communicate with you about MAKEEN’s products and activities: to provide newsletters or otherwise contact you about our products or services. We may send you marketing information based on information you have provided to us, products and services that you have previously purchased, or your use of any Online Services that you have registered (for example, documents or services that you have requested).

What do we do to protect your personal data?

MAKEEN has taken reasonable and appropriate technical, physical, and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access or disclosure, unlawful processing, accidental loss or damage, and unauthorized destruction, including appropriate measures such as applying access controls, providing security awareness and training for personnel, setting up security breach procedures, undertaking audits, and implementing controls around data integrity, storage and transmission, and disposal of data.

MAKEEN requires third-party service providers, who process personal data on its behalf, to implement similar security and confidentiality measures.

Cookies and tracking

Our websites use browser cookies, pixels, and other mechanisms to recognize you when you return to our website so that we can provide you with a customized experience. For more information about the use of cookies on our Site and how you can manage your cookie preferences, you can review our Cookie Policy.

Do-Not-Track Signals. Our Site does not respond to do-not-track signals. For more information about do-not-track signals, please click here. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed above (e.g., by disabling cookies) and set out in our Cookie Policy.

Storage and how long do we keep your personal data?

Your personal data is stored securely either at our headquarters or at a trusted cloud computing service provider. As required by law, we will only hold your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data is collected before making it non-identifiable (anonymous) or deleting it. We will securely dispose of such data in a manner that prevents access or retrieval, using secure data destruction methods.

This policy applies unless there is a contractual or legal requirement to retain data for a longer period (such as required by trade or tax regulations or to defend a legal claim).

How can you Contact Us?

If you have any questions about our Notice, have a complaint regarding the manner in which MAKEEN processes your personal data, or suspect that a personal data breach has occurred, please get in touch with us at info@MAKEEN-ksa.com and provide sufficient details for us to revert to you.

The Notice was last updated in March 2025.