DEKOREA WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Octagon Global Trading Pte
Ltd (Singapore Registered Company (UEN) 201412205M) is committed to
protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with any other
documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we
collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please
read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding
your personal data and how we will treat it.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
In order to provide a better service to you,
we may collect and process the following data about you:
· information
that you provide by filling in forms on our site https://dekorea.com.sg ("our site"). This
includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site,
subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We
may also ask you for information at other times, for example in connection with
a promotion or when you report a problem with our site;
· if you contact
us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
· we may also ask
you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not
have to respond to them;
· details of
transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your
orders;
· details of your
visits to our site and the resources that you access;
We only retain personal data for so long as
it is necessary. Data may be archived as long as the purpose for which the data
was used still exists.
USES MADE OF THE
INFORMATION
The purposes for which information may be
used by us include:
· ensuring that
content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for
your computer;
· providing you
with alerts, newsletter, education materials or information that you requested
or signed up to;
· carrying out
our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
· allowing you to
participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
· designing and
conducting surveys/questionnaires for client profiling/segmentation,
statistical analysis, improving and furthering the provision our products and
services;
· legal
proceedings, including collecting overdue amounts and seeking professional
advices;
· researching,
designing and launching services or products including seminars/events/forums;
· promoting and
marketing services and products subject to your exercise of the opt-out right.
· purposes
directly related or incidental to the above;
We intend to use your data in direct
marketing and we require your consent (which includes an indication of no
objection) for that purpose. By using our site, unless you tell us otherwise,
you agree that:
· your name,
contact details (including address, contact number, email address), products
and services information, transaction pattern and behaviour, background and
demographic data held by us from time to time may be used by us in direct
marketing;
· the following
classes of services, products and subjects may be marketed to you:
· services and
products related to our site and/or our affiliates (including marketing
affiliates programs we are a part of);
· reward, loyalty
or privileges programmes, promotional offers and related services;
· invitations to
events such as seminars/webinars/tele-seminars, conferences, live programs or
events;
· we may conduct
direct marketing via fax, email, direct mail, telephone and other means of
communication or send e-newsletters to you. You may choose not to receive
promotional materials, by simply telling us (see below for contact details),
and we will cease to do so, without charge.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR
INFORMATION
We will keep the personal data we hold
confidential but may provide information to:
· personnel,
agents, advisers, auditors, contractors, financial institutions, and service
providers in connection with our operations or services;
· our offices,
affiliates, business partners and counterparts (if any);
· persons under a
duty of confidentiality to us;
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY
AND RECORDING
You may be photographed, audio-recorded and
video-recorded at any event organized by DeKorea. By participating the event,
you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, video recording and
its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for
news, web casts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on web
sites, or for any other purpose(s) that DeKorea, its vendors, partners,
affiliates and/or representatives deems fit to use. You release DeKorea, its
officers and employees, and each and all persons involved from any liability
connected with the taking, recording, digitising, or publication of interviews,
photographs, computer images, video and/or or sound recordings.
By entering the event premises, you waive all
rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with
any exhibition, streaming, webcasting, televising, or other publication of
these materials, regardless of the purpose or sponsoring of such exhibiting,
broadcasting, webcasting, or other publication irrespective of whether a fee
for admission or sponsorship is charged. You also waive any right to inspect or
approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by DeKorea or the person or
entity designated to do so by DeKorea.
COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you
from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good
experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and
numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
· Strictly necessary
cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our
website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure
areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
· Analytical/performance
cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and
to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps
us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users
are finding what they are looking for easily.
· Functionality
cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website.
This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and
remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
· Targeting cookies. These cookies
record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you
have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the
advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share
this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including,
for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web
traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting
cookies.
We may use the following third party web
analytic services on the website. The service providers that administer these
services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to
help us analyse how visitors use the website. The information collected through
these means (including IP address) is disclosed to these service providers, who
use the information to evaluate use of the website. These analytic
services may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the
marketing materials of their own advertising network.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service
provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google's ability to use and
share information collected by Google Analytics is in accordance with their
policies: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
You can prevent Google's collection and
processing of data by using the Google Ads Settings page or downloading and
installing their browser plug-in (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
You block cookies by activating the setting
on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including
essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
SECURITY
All information you provide to us is stored
on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL
technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which
enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for
keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with
anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our
best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your
data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we
have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security
features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
CHANGES TO OUR
PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy
in the future will be posted on this page.
DATA TRANSFERS
We may hold your data on servers in
Singapore and any other territories as we see fit from time to time. We
may also transfer your data to our overseas offices or to any people
listed at Clause 3 above.
YOUR CONSENT AND
RIGHTS
By using our service, making an application
or visiting our website, you consent to the collection and use of your
information and other activities as outlined in this policy.
Under the Privacy Act (the "Act"), individuals
have the right:
· to check
whether we hold personal data about you and to access such data;
· to require us
to correct as soon as reasonably practicable any data relating to you that is
inaccurate;
· to ascertain
our policies and practices in relation to personal data and the kind of
personal data held by us; and
· to withdraw
your consent to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes and we
shall not use your personal data for marketing purposes after you communicate
your withdrawal of consent to us.
You may exercise your opt-out right by
notifying us if you wish to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal
data for direct marketing purposes. Please send requests to opt-out and for
access to data, correction of data, information regarding policies and
practices and kinds of data held, questions or complaints to: info@dekorea.com.sg
In accordance with the Act, we have the right
to and may charge a reasonable fee for processing any data access request.