Privacy Policies

DTS has developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about how DTS will collect, hold, use, and disclose personal information of our customers or other individuals, how individuals can gain access to personal information held by us and how an individual may inquire about how we deal with personal information.

Collection of your personal information

We only collect your personal information where that personal information is necessary for one or more of our functions or activities. Depending on your relationship with us, this information may include, but is not limited to the following information:

Name
Address
Email address
Telephone number
Survey information
Information about your use of DTS Products or Services

When collecting this personal information, we will do so only by lawful and fair means and not in an unreasonably intrusive way.

Where it is reasonable and practicable to do so, we will only collect personal information about you directly and not from third parties. However, in some instances, this will not be practicable. If we collect personal information about you from a third party then we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you receive the information that we are obliged to make you aware of. This may involve us contacting you directly, or a third party discharging our obligations on our behalf.

Use and disclosure of your personal information

DTS collects, uses and discloses your personal information for a range of purposes. These purposes depend largely upon your relationship with us.

We will use personal information for the primary purpose for which it was collected. The primary purpose of collection is the main reason we collect your personal information in the first instance. For example, if you are a customer of DTS, the primary purpose may be to facilitate your purchase of an DTS Product or Service, or if you are a job applicant it may be to conduct the recruitment exercise to select DTS staff.

Generally speaking, DTS uses and discloses personal information for purposes such as:

to provide DTS Products and Services
to conduct educational research
to provide educational assessment

DTS sometimes contracts out various services associated with our functions and activities. This may involve the disclosure of your personal information to other persons and organisations, both within United Arab Emirates and overseas. In general these include disclosure (where necessary) within DTS and to service providers that assist us to provide DTS products or services such as insurance companies, credit providers and those that assist us in tailoring our products and services to our client needs.

Where DTS does disclose your personal information to other parties it has in place arrangements or understandings with those third parties to ensure that your personal information is handled in a manner consistent with our obligations under this privacy policy. Where appropriate, we will ensure that your personal information is de-identified before being used or destroyed or de-identified if it is no longer necessary that it be retained.

The types of persons and organisations to which may disclose your personal information include the following:

organisations with whom we have arrangements or agreements for the purpose of promoting our products or services and any agents used by us in administering such arrangements or agreements;
our agents, contractors and external advisers who carry on our functions and activities or who
payment systems operators;
other parties to whom we are authorised or required by law to disclose information.
schools, educational systems, psychologists, human resource practitioners and others who have contracted with DTS for the provision of its products and services. For example, if you are a candidate for an DTS scholarship test DTS will supply your test results to those schools to which you have applied for a scholarship.

Consent and sensitive information

We will only collect sensitive or health information from you or about you with your consent. By supplying sensitive or health information about yourself in writing you will be taken to have given your consent to our collection of that information.

In most instances, when we collect sensitive information directly from you, we will obtain your consent to use it for our various purposes. When we obtain such information from a third party we will usually enlist that third party to obtain consent on our behalf.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT

We may change our policies and update the Privacy Policy Statement from time to time. We may send you an updated Privacy Policy Statement using methods we choose from time to time, and may publish it on our website at www.dts.com.sa

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