Responsibilities of Open Data Users:
- Visitors and beneficiaries of the digital portal of the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing and its services should review the policy for using that data to know any updates made to it, and understand that all open data available on the Ministry's digital portal is informational.
- Reading the policy or using open data on the digital portal is an acknowledgment by the user of commitment to the provisions and conditions of the open data reuse policy.
- The Ministry allows portal users to view open data, and they have the right to use this data at their own responsibility, and this right is guaranteed to all beneficiaries free of charge.
- The open data user is responsible for reusing the data on the Ministry's digital portal, and reuse of this data should not result in any errors related to the content of the data, its source, and its date.
Ministry's Responsibility:
The Ministry does not guarantee the continued availability of this data in whole or in part. The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing:
- Is not responsible for any errors or missing data in the open data
- Is not responsible for intellectual products, studies, or reports based on this data
- Is not responsible for any harm or misuse suffered by any entity, individual, or any body as a result of using published data
- Does not assume any responsibility toward users of this data and any harm or loss they may suffer due to its reuse
Conditions for Reusing Open Data:
- The user should not distort the open data published on the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing's digital portal.
- Open data published on the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing's digital portal should not be used for political purposes or to support unlawful or criminal activity or in racist or discriminatory comments or incitement or negative influence on culture or equality or incitement or any irregular activity or in violation of the Kingdom's customs and traditions.
- The source of information that has been reused should be indicated by placing a link to the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing's digital portal to preserve the intellectual property of the data and its credibility and the accuracy of its sources.
- Reusing open data on the Ministry's digital portal is the user's responsibility, with the necessity of not making any errors when reusing this data related to the content of the data, its source, and its date.
- Data should not be used in a way that suggests that the user is an official entity or that they have been authorized to publish that data specifically.
- Reading the policy or using open data on the digital portal is an acknowledgment by the user of commitment to the provisions and conditions of the open data reuse policy.
License:
Open data issued from the Balady platform and published on the Saudi Open Data Platform are licensed under the Creative Commons License.
Related legislation:
- Open Data Policy: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
- Data Freedom Policy: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
- Digital Transactions System : Communications and Information Technology Commission
- Information Crime Prevention System : Communications and Information Technology Commission
- Basic Cybersecurity Controls : National Cybersecurity Authority
- National Data Governance Policy : Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
