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Privacy Policy 

Disclaimer 

The data collected on the platform will be processed in order to analyse the activities carried out by users on the platform. The objective of the mapping is to facilitate the identification of the potential benefits of the initiative and of the key figures who have distinguished themselves for greater participation and who may be involved in future activities. 

Applicable Law 

The application of these Terms and Conditions is governed by Saudi law. 

Any dispute concerning these Terms and Conditions (including those concerning the Courts of Saudi Arabia application, interpretation and effectiveness thereof) shall be submitted to, being the exclusive jurisdiction). 

Any requests for clarification of these Terms and Conditions may be sent to: 

innovation@acwapower.com 

IP management and content ownership 

Property 

The proposal of a Contribution by the user takes place by filling in the submission form of the campaigns, accessible by clicking on the "Start" button on the platform here. If the User doesn’t fill-in all the mandatory fields of the submission form, the ideas cannot be sent and, therefore, cannot be qualified as such. The compilation of the fields is therefore to be considered mandatory for the purposes of the effective proposition and requires that the information be as comprehensive as possible, in order to effectively understand and evaluate the Idea itself. The User has the right to propose Contributions without any limit in terms of quantity.

The contributions presented must be original and shall not be protected by a trademark and/or patent belonging to others. 

Users guarantee the ownership of the Contribution and, therefore, participation in the campaigns will take place under the personal responsibility of the User. 

The User accepts that the proposed Idea will be subject to a preliminary assessment by the respective evaluation team.

The publication of the Idea entails the possibility for Users to view the informative content related to the Contribution. 

The User accepts that the Ideas are evaluated based on evaluation criteria established by ACWA Power. Ideas that will be positively evaluated can be developed as envisaged in the campaigns. The User agrees to potentially be directly involved in the presentation of the Idea in the manner provided for by the campaigns and in the preparation of the related documentation. The User also accepts that if ACWA Power decides to invest in the proposed Idea, the development and testing of the Idea may be delegated to the User who proposed the Idea and/or to other resources selected within ACWA Power. In any case, ACWA Power undertakes to progressively inform the User who has proposed the Idea about its evolution.

IP Management 

The Platform is completely subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of Saudi Arabia and to the legislation on copyright and intellectual property. In particular, in relation to the Contributions proposed by the User, it accepts the following conditions: 

- the Users must provide an explanation - to the best of her/his knowledge - of any protections of the proposed Contributions, be it total or partial; 

- the Contributions proposed by the User, if not protected by intellectual property, could be developed independently by third parties, including ACWA Power, without affecting the User rights; 

- in the absence of intellectual property rights attributable to all or part of the Contributions, the User understands that the information and documents contained in the Contributions are not subject to confidentiality obligations; 

- any additional information presented by the Users to ACWA Power may in any case be protected by subsequent confidentiality agreements to be signed between ACWA Power and users. 

Confidentiality 

For the User, any unauthorized reproduction of the contents on the platform [here] is prohibited. It is not allowed to sell, license, distribute, copy, modify, republish or use the content of the Platform in any other way. Any partial or total representation, modification, reproduction, distortion, by the User, of all or part of the Platform and its contents, by any means, in the absence of written authorization of ACWA Power, may proceed to close the User’ account, with the possibility of considering further actions to protect ACWA Power.

On the basis of specific regulation of the initiative, it is foreseen that the proposed Ideas are public and therefore visible to registered Users such as idea evaluators, jury members and ACWA Power Innovation team. The registered Users are obliged to keep the Ideas strictly confidential, must commit not to disclose, copy, reproduce and / or distribute, by any means, directly or indirectly, the information published by other Users. 

All personal information provided by the User and contained on the Platform will be collected by ACWA Power and used in accordance with the Privacy Policy.  

Limit responsibility 

In no event will ACWA Power be liable to users for any damages, including without limitation any lost profits, lost savings or other indirect special, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use such Platform even if ACWA Power or an authorized ACWA Power dealer has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party. Some countries or states do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, as such limitation or exclusion may not apply to users. 

Termination 

ACWA Power shall have the right to terminate the engagement in relation to the Initiative for convenience by providing a written 15 days termination notice in advance.