Use and Disclaimer

This portal of the Business and Trade Company Limited – WATCO (referred to herein as “WATCO Portal” or “Portal”) is available for your personal use. Your access to and use of this portal is subject to these Terms and Conditions of Use and the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Your access to and use of this portal constitutes your unconditional acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use, whether you are a registered user or not. This acceptance is effective from the date of your first use of this portal.

As is evident from the portal’s vision and mission, one of its most important objectives is to increase communication with the public and provide a diverse range of information and services that help enrich the way visitors and browsers interact with WATCO.

Use of the portal includes a number of terms and conditions that are subject to continuous updates and changes as needed. Any amendment or update to any of these terms and conditions becomes effective immediately upon approval by the portal administration. This requires you to regularly review the Terms of Use and Disclaimer to be aware of any updates. Your continued use of this portal means that you have read and fully accept any amendments to the Terms and Conditions of Use. Please note that these terms and conditions include proprietary rights, and the portal management is not required to announce any updates to these terms.

Using Links to the WATCO Portal: Except as provided below, it is prohibited to copy, copy, link to, or frame any of the WATCO Portal’s content.

Links to the WATCO Portal may be placed on any other website whose purpose and general orientation do not conflict with the purpose, policies, and framework of the WATCO Portal.

WATCO is not in any way associated with or affiliated with any trademarks, logos, service insignia, or other means used or appearing on websites linked to this Portal or any of its contents.

WATCO reserves the right to suspend or disable any links of any kind from any website containing inappropriate, obscene, infringing, vulgar, pornographic, indecent, objectionable, or unlawful topics, names, material, or information that violates any law or infringes any intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or publicity rights.

WATCO reserves the right to disable any unauthorized link in any form and assumes no responsibility for the contents available on any other site accessed through or from this Portal.

The online services provided by the WATCO portal and the information provided on various government departments and entities are provided solely to facilitate manual procedures. You hereby acknowledge your full awareness that online communications may be subject to interference or interception by third parties, that the portal does not replace information provided by official bodies, and that administrative requests and procedures may be made directly before the competent authorities. Accordingly, access to this portal is at your own risk, and we shall not be liable in any way for any loss or damage of any kind you may incur as a result of your use of or visit to the portal, or your reliance on any statement, opinion, or advertisement on the portal, or as a result of any delay in operation, communication failure, internet access problems, equipment or software malfunctions, or the behavior or ideas of any person accessing this portal. You hereby acknowledge and agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for any damage or loss that may occur as a result of your access to or use of this portal is to refrain from using or accessing it, or to discontinue such use.

Links to other portals and/or websites are provided for the convenience of the visitor. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the portals and/or websites to which we link, and we do not endorse their content. Therefore, using any of these links to access these websites or portals is entirely at your own risk. While we aim to replace broken links to other websites, and since we have no control over these links, we do not guarantee that these links will always work.

The WATCO Portal and the services, information, materials, and functionality available on or accessible through the Portal are provided for your personal use “as is” and “as available” without any representation, promises, or warranties of any kind. We cannot guarantee or assume liability for any interruptions, errors, or omissions that may arise from the use of this Portal, its contents, or any website linked to it, whether with or without our knowledge.

Any communications or information that a user may transmit through this Portal shall not be subject to ownership or confidentiality rights. Any use or interactive use of this Portal does not, and is not intended to, grant the user any rights, licenses, or privileges of any kind. WATCO’s waiver of any right granted to it under these Terms in any place or event shall not, in any way, constitute an automatic and permanent waiver of any rights in any other place or event.

You hereby agree not to take any action against Watco or any of its management and to indemnify and hold it harmless from liability, as well as any entities, employees or agents who are responsible for managing, maintaining, updating or providing the Watco Portal, from all obligations and liability.