Privacy Policy
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 informationcollected 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.