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Privacy Policy
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General Principles:
Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We have developed this Privacy
Policy to protect your personal information and keep it confidential. We do everything
we reasonably can to protect your rights of privacy on systems and websites 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 Site.
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 also cannot warrant the security of the information,
which you transmit to us. We categorize information about you (collectively referred
to as "Personal Information") as follows:
Profiling Information: Information which you provide when you Subscribe or
register for a Service
• Information about your personal identity such as race, gender, marital status,
religion, 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.
Service Usage: Information about your navigation using our Services, for
example the URLs of websites, which you visit and from which you request downloads.
Log information: Information such as your web request, IP address, browser
type, browser language, date and time of request.
Transactional Information: Transactional history (other than banking details)
about your e-commerce activities.
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.
User IDs: Your usernames, passwords, email addresses and other security-related
information used by you in relation to our Services.
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 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 our Services in an unencrypted
manner and/or to an open, public environment or forum including (without limitation)
any blog, chat room, albums, community, classifieds 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 (as defined in clause
14 above) 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.
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Right to collect:
By accepting the Terms you agree that we may collect and store your Personal Information
as long as you Subscribe to or use our Services subject to the limitations set out
in this Privacy Policy.
We collect your Profiling and Account Information for the following reasons:
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 for in clause 27.3 below.
• 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.
We collect and store your Service Usage and Transactional Information to:
determine and verify the Service Charges payable by you and to administer our relationship
with you;
• comply with any statutory or regulatory requirement;
• compile statistical and demographical profiles about you for our business and
marketing activities and to customize 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 a non-aggregated form which is not capable
of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you; and
• monitor your use of our Services for the purposes of ensuring compliance with
our User Rules.
We collect and store your Correspondence Information and Personal Identifiers to:
• comply with our obligations under clause 27.3 below; and
• monitor your use of our Services in order to ensure your compliance with our User
Rules as provided for in clause 27.3 below.
We will only disclose Correspondence Information and Personal Identifiers under
clause 27.3 below. We may scan your Stored Information to ensure that you comply
with clause 27.3 below.
Any Personal Information which we collect and which we may use in an aggregated
format 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.
Some of our own websites use "cookies" so that we can provide you with more customized
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 by using the personalize function.
You acknowledge and agree that in the interests of improving personalization 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).
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General exceptions:
If we are required to intercept, disclose, monitor and/or store your Personal Information:
• by law;
• to conduct our business;
• to secure our systems; or
• to enforce our own rights, we will do so in the manner as prescribed by legislation.
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 (as defined in the clause 14 above) howsoever arising from such interception,
disclosure, monitoring and storage.
In order to ensure that all our Users comply with the User Rules, 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 for example we may use third party advertising companies
to serve advertisements when you visit our Website. 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. These companies
may also use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services of interest to you. More information about this practice
and your choices about not having this information used by these companies would
be available with the respective third parties.
In addition to the general limitation in the Terms, we will not be liable to you
or any other third party for any damages (as defined in the clause 14 above) suffered
by you or any other third party howsoever arising from the disclosure of your Personal
Information. Your only remedy under such circumstances will be to end this agreement.
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