What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal Data
We may collect Personal Data from you in the course of our business, including through your use of our Sites, when you contact or request information from us, when you engage our services or as a result of your relationship with one or more of our staff and customers.
Depending on the nature of your interaction with us, the Personal Data that we may collect includes:
- Unique identifiers (e.g. full name, National Registration Identification Card (“NRIC”) number, Foreign Identification Number (“FIN”), personal mobile telephone number;
- Employment details (e.g. occupation, directorships and other positions held, employment history, salary, and/or benefits);
- Contact information (e.g. residential address, email address and/or telephone number);
- Financial information (e.g. account numbers and/or banking transactions);
- Technical information (e.g. information from your visits to our website or applications or in relation to materials and communications we send to you electronically);
- Personal opinions made known to us (e.g. feedback or responses to surveys);
- Any other information relating to you or any individuals which you have provided us in any forms you may have submitted to us, or via other forms of interaction with you.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We use “cookies” to collect information about your online activity on our website. A cookie is a small text file created by the website that is stored in your computer to provide a way for the website to recognise you and keep track of your preferences. The cookie makes it convenient for you such that you do not have to retype the same information again when you revisit the website or in filling electronic forms.
Most cookies we use are “session cookies”, which will be deleted automatically from the hard disk of your computer at the end of the session.
You may choose not to accept cookies by turning off this feature in your web browser. Note that by doing so, you may not be able to use some of the features and functions in our web applications.
Use and Processing of Information
Generally, the purposes for which the Firm collects, uses and discloses personal data include:
- Providing updates and other communications on development relating to the firm
- To send administrative email notifications (regarding security, support and/or maintenance notices)
- To improve our services and communications to you and the quality of your interaction with our Sites, include auditing and monitoring its use.
- Send promotional communications, such as providing you with information about products and services, features, surveys, newsletters, offers, promotions, contests, and events
- Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose. As a result, our collection and processing of your information is based in different contexts upon your consent, our need to perform a contract, our obligations under law, and/or our legitimate interest in conducting our business.
Share of Information
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this policy, we disclose information in the following situations:
- Affiliates and Acquisitions: We may share information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control). If another company acquires, or plans to acquire, our company, business, or our assets, we will also share information with that company, including at the negotiation stage.
- Other Disclosures with Your Consent: We may ask if you would like us to share your information with other unaffiliated third parties who are not described elsewhere in this policy.
- Other Disclosures without Your Consent: We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information in order to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies, or to comply with your request for the shipment of products to or the provision of services by a third party intermediary.
- Service Providers: We share your information with service providers. Among other things service providers help us to administer our website, provide technical support, process payments, etc.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Additional information
Where there is a need to transfer your personal data to another country outside Singapore, we will ensure that the standard of data protection in the recipient country is comparable to that of Singapore’s PDPA. If this is not so, we will enter into a contractual agreement with the receiving party to accord similar levels of data protection as those in Singapore.
How we protect your data
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of unauthorized access to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
Changes to this Data Privacy Notice
We may update this Data Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the latest Notice on our website. Please visit our website periodically to note any changes.
Changes to this Notice take effect when they are posted on our website.