Privacy and data systems
The delivery program behind a PDPL operating model.
Privacy and data systemsPrivacy compliance service
Make PDPL compliance operational.
Limaz builds the data inventories, governance, rights and DPIA workflows, vendor controls, retention rules, and technical measures required to run a PDPL compliance program.
What Limaz delivers
- A data inventory with purposes, systems, sharing, and accountable owners
- Rights, consent, DPIA, and breach workflows that teams can operate
- Vendor, processor, and cross-border control requirements
- Retention, deletion, classification, and handling rules
- A prioritized technical-control implementation backlog
- Test results, evidence structure, training, and handover material
Controller and processor responsibilities
Organizations must know whether they determine purposes and means (controller) or process on behalf of another party (processor). That distinction drives contracts, inventories, and operational duties.
Banks, fintechs, healthcare providers, and employers often act as controllers for customer or employee data and as processors for partners. The operating model has to name both roles where they exist.
How Limaz builds a PDPL operating model
01
Inventory what you process
Record personal data, purposes, systems, sharing, and Arabic records where operations are bilingual.
02
Name owners
Who decides, who executes rights requests, who handles vendors, who owns incidents.
03
Design the workflows
Consent, access and deletion requests, DPIA, and breach paths that staff can actually run.
04
Connect classification
Handling rules and labeling so privacy policy matches how data moves.
05
Implement technical measures
Access, retention, deletion, vendor constraints, and evidence in the systems that hold the data.
06
Handover
Training and operating routines so the program does not die after the project.
Related Limaz pages
Data classification
Levels, ownership, and handling rules used in daily work.
Data classificationNCA CCC
Cloud cybersecurity controls for providers and tenants.
NCA CCCQuestions
The Personal Data Protection Law is Saudi Arabia's primary personal-data law. Official texts and implementing regulations are published by the competent authorities, including SDAIA. Use those texts, not a vendor page, as the source of truth.
A PDPL operating model assigns data inventories, owners, request workflows, processor controls, classification rules, and technical measures to daily operations.
Obligations can apply based on processing of personal data of individuals in the Kingdom, not only on where a company is incorporated.
No. They share themes (inventory, rights, processors, security) but they are different legal regimes. Do not copy a GDPR program into KSA and call it PDPL compliance.
Last reviewed: Sep 12, 2026
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