Crawls the web, in Saudi Arabia

Royal Decree No. M/19, Arts. 10, 15 publicly available source ground (9/2/1443H, 16 September 2021) · Read the law's page

• Do not assume Saudi personal data is outside the Personal Data Protection Law merely because it is publicly available; public availability, or having been collected from a publicly available source, is only a ground for collecting, repurposing, or disclosing it without the Data Subject's consent, not an exemption from the Law's other duties.

Royal Decree No. M/169 (14/8/1447H), Art. 12 and Implementing Regulation Art. 29, Copyright Law (published 13 February 2026) · Read the law's page

• Follow the licence terms that accompany software, applications and databases in Saudi Arabia, including terms that appear electronically on download, installation or use; a user who agrees to them is bound unless they are contrary to public order or morals.
• A licence term that waives a right the Copyright Law and its Regulation confer, or restricts a use the statutory exceptions allow, has no effect.

Royal Decree No. M/169 (14/8/1447H), Art. 26(4) and Implementing Regulation Art. 30, Copyright Law (published 13 February 2026) · Read the law's page

• Copy a work in Saudi Arabia to develop artificial intelligence products or algorithms only where the work was lawfully published, the copy was lawfully acquired and the copying goes no further than that purpose needs, and keep records of the type, source, purpose and date of each use to give to a competent authority hearing a dispute.
• Do not republish, distribute, make available or unnecessarily embed a work used for AI development in a final product without the rights holder's permission unless the work is in the public domain, and do not use it in a purely commercial framework unless the use is non-essential to the work or does not affect its normal exploitation.

Royal Decree No. M/169 (14/8/1447H), Art. 3(12), Copyright Law (published 13 February 2026) · Read the law's page

• Do not treat the data or materials in a Saudi database as protected merely because they are compiled: only a database that is original in the selection or arrangement of its contents is protected, the protection does not extend to the data or materials themselves, and the rights of authors in works the database contains are unaffected.

Royal Decree No. M/169 (14/8/1447H), Art. 47(5), Copyright Law (published 13 February 2026) · Read the law's page

• Do not circumvent, without justification, a technical protection measure that a rights holder uses to protect its rights in a work, performance, sound recording or broadcast programme; the offence carries imprisonment of up to one year and a fine of up to one million riyals, or either, without prejudice to any heavier penalty under another law.