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Elaboration and Developing Privacy Policy Guideline – Objectives

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halaprivacy.com
Athif Mohammed
Published: November 18, 2025
Updated: December 23, 2025

Overview

Elaboration and Developing Privacy Policy Guideline – Objectives explains how the Guideline supports compliance with the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) by guiding entities in developing effective privacy policies.

It clarifies the Guideline’s role in supporting legal implementation, promoting best practices, enabling privacy policy development, supporting Data Subject rights (DSR), and protecting personal data privacy.

SDAIA's Official Text

The text below reproduces official PDPL law, regulation, or guideline issued by the Saudi Data & AI Authority, verified against the original SDAIA source. No changes or reinterpretation applied.

Objective

This guideline aims at:

Supporting entities in implementing the Law provisions.

Encouraging entities to adopt best practices, ensuring Personal Data privacy and protection.

Providing guidance on developing content and design of privacy policy.

Helping Data Subjects to exercise their rights stipulated in the Law.

Protecting Data Subjects' privacy.

Plain-Language Explanation

The explanation below is provided to help you understand the SDAIA’s legal text and does not replace or override the official PDPL law, regulation, or guideline.

1. Supporting Legal Compliance

This objective explains that the Guideline is intended to support entities in implementing the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law and its Implementing Regulations. It does so by translating legal requirements related to privacy policies into practical guidance that entities can apply when drafting, publishing, and maintaining their privacy policies.

2. Promoting Best Practices

This objective emphasizes the promotion of best practices that ensure the privacy and protection of Personal Data. The Guideline encourages entities to go beyond minimum compliance by adopting structured, transparent, and accountable approaches to privacy policy development and personal data handling.

3. Guiding Privacy Policy Content and Design

This objective focuses on providing entities with clear guidance on both the content and the design of privacy policies. It ensures that privacy policies include all required information under the Law, are logically structured, and are presented in a manner that is clear, accessible, and understandable to Data Subjects.

4. Enabling Data Subject Rights (DSR)

This objective clarifies that the Guideline supports Data Subjects in exercising their rights stipulated under the Law. By ensuring that privacy policies clearly explain rights, procedures, and contact mechanisms, entities enable Data Subjects to understand and effectively exercise those rights.

5. Protecting Data Subject Privacy

This objective reinforces the overarching purpose of safeguarding Data Subjects’ privacy. It highlights that properly developed privacy policies are a key mechanism for protecting Personal Data by ensuring transparency, lawful processing, and respect for Data Subject rights throughout the data lifecycle.

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