The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ) is committed to meet the customers' satisfaction and promote Special Economic Zones and Free zones as the preferred choice of investment, work and tourism. We therefore realise our obligation to protect the privacy rights of all our customers, who are visiting our website.

OPAZ's Security and Privacy policy addresses OPAZ’s practices related to information collection and usage of your personal information.

Information Collection & Usage:

OPAZ does not collect any personal information about you, when you visit OPAZ web site, unless otherwise specified or you choose to provide this information to us. However, upon your visit the following information are automatically collected and stored:

• The IP address, from which you access the Internet
• The date and time of your access to our website
• The pages you visited (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose the page)

OPAZ use this information solely for statistical and monitoring purposes and to help us identify which services are most or least interesting to our visitors, as well identifying website performance.

We may use third party consultants, tools or software for conducting statistical analysis; however please note that only certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who accessed our website, or pages most visited etc are collected. Such information does not identify you individually. OPAZ keeps all collected information confidential except where disclosure is enforced or required by law, or as part of requirement to protect the rights or properties of OPAZ.

Security of Transactions:

OPAZ has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security. Please be assured that this site has security measures in place to protect the information you provide us. We use encryption methods to protect all information, which is deemed to be sensitive, or any other data that should remain secure to meet OPAZ’s, federal or local legal requirements.

Links to third-party websites:

OPAZ's website may provide links to other web sites. However, we are not responsible for the following:

• Accuracy of the contents of these sites
• Their mechanisms for information collection and usage

If you connect to any other site through OPAZ’s website, you need to read its Security & Privacy Policy to determine its practices related to information collection and usage.

Security & Privacy Policy Changes:

OPAZ reserves the right to change this Security & Privacy Policy at any time. The amended version of the Security & Privacy Policy will be always published only on OPAZ's website.

Privacy intrusion:

If you doubt that your privacy is being compromised during the access of OPAZ website, do: 

• Close all tabs and windows you are browsing OPAZ's website with.
• Inform us through by email info@opaz.gov.om