Cookie Policy

1. What the website stores

Two items are preferences. oai_lang records whether you chose Arabic or English; oai_theme records whether you chose the light or dark display. Both live in your browser's local storage, are used for nothing beyond showing the site the way you set it, and persist until you clear them.

A third is a short-lived rate-limit record created when you submit the contact form. Its only job is to stop the form being flooded with repeated submissions, and it expires on its own shortly afterwards.

A fourth, oai_consent, records your answer to the analytics banner — allow or decline — so we do not ask again.

2. Analytics, only with your consent

If you allow analytics, the site loads Google Analytics 4, a service of Google LLC. It sets cookies named _ga and _ga_<id> that give your browser a random identifier for up to two years, and it reports which pages you open, roughly where you are (from a truncated IP address), your device and browser, and the site that referred you. We use this only to see which pages are useful.

Nothing loads and no such cookie is set before you choose "Accept all" or allow the Statistics category under "Manage cookies"; choosing "Reject all" keeps the site exactly as it is. Google processes this data on its own servers, which may be outside the Kingdom; the Privacy Policy describes that transfer.

3. What the website does not use

There are no advertising cookies, no social-media pixels, and no cross-site tracking on oai.sa, and we do not build profiles of visitors. Analytics runs only after your consent, as described above.

The Rushd platform is separate from this website: it uses only the essential session and authentication storage needed to keep users signed in, as described in the Rushd Cookie Policy.

4. Managing what is stored

To change or withdraw your consent, use the Cookie settings button at the top of this page: it reopens the consent dialog with your current choices. You can also delete these items at any time through your browser's settings for cookies and site data; the site keeps working, your language and theme return to their defaults, and the banner appears again so you can decide afresh.

5. If this ever changes

Should we introduce other cookies or similar technologies in the future, we will update this policy before they go live and obtain consent where the law requires it.

6. Contact

Questions about this policy: info@oai.sa.