Does a cookie banner have to be in Arabic?
No Saudi rule says in so many words that a cookie banner must be in Arabic. What the PDPL's Implementing Regulation does require is informed consent: each purpose explained before or when you ask (Article 11). A banner a visitor cannot read explains nothing, so for an Arabic-speaking audience an Arabic banner is how consent becomes informed in practice.
The record matters too. For each visitor, a website should be able to show what they were shown, including the purposes and categories in the language they saw them in, alongside when they chose and what they accepted or refused.
An Arabic banner is more than translated words: a mirrored, right-to-left layout, and clear everyday Arabic rather than formal legal language.
Read the full Saudi PDPL guideHow Arqam360 handles this
Arqam360's banner is written in Arabic, not machine-translated, laid out right to left with English beside it. On Salla and Zid installs, Arabic is the banner's default language. The free banner text tool has ready-to-copy Arabic and English wording for the banner, the preferences panel and the accept and reject buttons.
See how it worksSources
- 1.Personal Data Protection Law — official English text (SDAIA)
- 2.Implementing Regulation of the Personal Data Protection Law (SDAIA)
Last reviewed . Not legal advice.