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1.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES Protecting
your privacy is very important to us. We have accordingly developed
this Privacy Policy to protect your personal information and keep it
confidential. We endeavor to comply with laws of other countries but
cannot and do not warrant that we do. We do everything we reasonably
can to protect your rights of privacy on systems and the Website
controlled by us, but we are not liable for any unauthorized or
unlawful disclosures of your personal and confidential information
made by third parties who are not subject to our control, for
example advertisers and websites that have links to our Website. You
should take note that the information and privacy practices of our
business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we
provide hyperlinks, may be different from ours.
We
categorize information about you (collectively referred to as
"Personal Information") as follows:
(a)
Profiling Information: Information which you provide when you
register for a Service, which may include some or all of the
following: - Information about your personal identity such as
gender, marital status, age etc.; - Your financial information
such as your banking details and any information relating to your
income and lifestyle levels; and - Your contact details such as
your physical addresses, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers
and the like. (b) Payment and Account Information: Your
account history with us including (without limitation) all billing
information and communications, payment history etc. We maintain
this in encrypted form on secure servers. (c) Service
Usage: Information about your navigation using our Services, for
example the URLs of websites, which you visit and from which you
request downloads. (d) Log information: Information such
as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language,
date and time of request. (e) Transactional Information:
Transactional history (other than banking details) about your
e-commerce activities. (f) Correspondence Information:
Content, information about your correspondents, and the
destination/origin of communications between you and any other
person using our Services, which include email communications, blog, chat room and discussion board
communications, instant message communications, experts forum
communications, faxmail communications,
membership of mailing lists etc. (g) User IDs: Your
usernames, passwords, email addresses and other security-related
information used by you in relation to our Services. (h) Stored Information: Data either created
by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our
servers such as image files, documents etc.
We only
collect your Personal Information to conduct our business and to
enable us to deliver and improve our Services. We do not for any
reason whatsoever sell your Personal Information to any third party
or otherwise trade on it.
We will only disclose your
Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If we
want to use it for any other purpose, we will obtain your prior
written consent. If you decline to submit personal information to
us, then we will unfortunately not be in a position to provide the
Services to you. Any of your information which you provide when you
use certain Services and are to an open, public environment or forum
including (without limitation) any blog,
community or discussion board, is not confidential, does not
constitute Personal Information, and is not subject to protection
under Privacy Policy.
Since such public environments are accessible by third
parties, it is possible that third parties may collect and collate
and use such information for their own purposes. You should
accordingly be careful when deciding to share any of your Personal
Information in such public environments. Information, which is
disclosed publicly, is also shared with our affiliates, third party
service providers, sponsors of competitions etc. unless expressly
stated otherwise. We are not liable to you or any third party for
any damages that you or any third party may suffer howsoever arising
from your disclosure of Personal Information in any public
environment. You accordingly disclose information in a public
environment at your own risk.
2. RIGHT TO
COLLECT By accepting the Terms of Service you agree that we
may collect and store your Personal Information as long as you use
our Services subject to the limitations set out in this Privacy
Policy. 2.1 We collect your Profiling and Account Information
for the following reasons: (a) We need
your identity details, contact details, banking information and
account history to manage our relationship with you and provide
Services to you. We will only disclose this information as provided
below. (b) We use certain of your information in an aggregated
form to compile statistical and demographical profiles for our
business and marketing activities. We may disclose such information
about you, provided that the information is in an aggregated form
that is not capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as
to identify you. 2.2 We collect and store your Service Usage and
Transactional Information to: (a)
determine and verify the Service Charges payable by you and to
administer our relationship with you. (b) comply with any statutory or regulatory
requirement. (c) compile statistical
and demographical profiles about you for our business and marketing
activities and to customise our Services
to you. While we are entitled to use such information about you for
our own internal business purposes without limitation, we will only
disclose it in an aggregated form which is not capable of being used
or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you; and (d) monitor your use of our Services for
the purposes of ensuring compliance with our Terms of
Service. 2.3 We collect and store your Correspondence Information
and Personal Identifiers to: (a) comply
with our obligations under law; and (b) monitor your use of our
Services in order to ensure your compliance with our Terms of
Service. Any Personal Information which we collect and which we
may use in an aggregated format ensuring you are not individually
identified is our property. We may use it, in our sole discretion
and without any compensation to you, for any legitimate purpose
including (without limitation) the commercial sale thereof to third
parties. Sometime we use "cookies" so that we can provide you
with more customised information when you
return to our website. "Cookies" are used to store user preferences
and to track user trends, so as to enhance your interactive
experience and generally improve our Services to you. You can set
your browser to notify you when you are sent a "cookie", giving you
the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do accept a
"cookie", you thereby agree to our use of any Personal Information
collected by us using that Cookie. You may update your Profiling
Information at any time on the website. You acknowledge and
agree that in the interests of improving personalisation and Service efficiency, we may,
under controlled and secure circumstances, share your Personal
Information with our affiliates (an entity which is our subsidiary
or holding company or a subsidiary of our holding company or an
entity which controls, is controlled by or is under common control
with us).
3. GENERAL EXCEPTIONS If we are required
to intercept, disclose, monitor and/or store your Personal
Information: (a) by law; (b) to conduct our business; (c)
to secure our systems; or (d) to enforce our own rights, we
will do so in the manner as prescribed by law.
Such
interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage may take place
without your knowledge. In that case, we will not be liable to you
or any third party for any damages howsoever arising from such
interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage. In order to ensure
that all our Users comply with the Terms of Service, we may monitor
your Personal Information to the extent that this may be required to
determine compliance and/or to identify instances of non-compliance.
To ensure that the security and integrity of our Services are
safeguarded, we may monitor your Personal Information. This
monitoring may include (without limitation) the filtering of
incoming and outgoing electronic data messages to identify, limit
and/or prevent the transmission of spam, viruses and/or unlawful,
defamatory, obscene or otherwise undesirable material or content. We
may under certain circumstances procure an element of the Services
from a third party service provider. To the extent that it may be
necessary, and solely for the purposes of providing the Service to
you, you agree that we may disclose to such third party any of your
Personal Information that may be necessary for the procurement of
services from the third party. |