Privacy & PDPA Policy

The Event Organiser(s), the Event Manager, their partners, sponsors, service providers, representatives and/or agents,
for the Event respect the privacy of all our customers and visitors, and are committed to safeguarding the personal
information you provide to us. Please read this Personal Data Protection Policy (“Policy”) to learn about how we use and
protect your personal information.

• Application of Policy

  This Policy is based on the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012 and all the associated regulations and
  guidelines which may from time to time be issued by the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore.
  By providing us with your personal information, whether via registering for our Event(s), using our website, through any
  other form of interaction or otherwise, you are deemed to have agreed to the terms of this Policy.

• Collection of Personal Data

  “Personal Data” refers to any data of an individual who can be identified from that data, or in combination with any
  other information.

  You may be requested to provide your Personal Data in relation to the Event, and depending on the nature of your
  interaction with us, this may include the following examples (including but not limited to):

  • Full name;
  • Business or residential address;
  • Copy of identity card or passport;
  • Payment details, including credit card and banking information; and/or
  • Contact details, including telephone number/s and/or email addresses.

  Where any Personal Data of a third party (e.g. information of your family members, employees, etc.) is provided by you
  for any particular purpose, you warrant and represent that the appropriate consent(s) have been obtained to provide us
  with such Personal Data.

   

  Cookies

  When you visit our website, we may assign your computer with one or more “cookies”. By accessing our website, you agree
  to receive these cookies on your device.

  A cookie is a small text file that contains information that can later be analysed by us to facilitate your access to
  our website, gather statistical data, and personalise your online experience. We may employ cookies in order for our
  server to recognise a return visitor as a unique user including, without limitation, monitoring information relating to
  how a visitor arrives at the website, what kind of browser a visitor is on, what operating system a visitor is using, a
  visitor’s IP address, and a visitor’s click stream information and time stamp (for example, which pages they have
  viewed, the time the pages were accessed and the time spent per web page).

  Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may choose to modify your browser settings to decline cookies. All
  web-browsers offer the option to refuse any cookie, and if you refuse our cookie then we do not gather any information
  on that visitor. If you choose not to accept our cookie(s) when you visit our website, you may be restricted from some
  of our interactive features and services, which may be rendered inoperable.

• Use of Personal Data Collected

  Any Personal Data provided by you to us may be disclosed, shared among ourselves and used for the following purposes
  (where relevant):

  • Process and respond to your requests and queries;
  • Send you information, updates, invitations and information in relation to the Event (including future editions) and
    any of our other products, services and events/activities;
  • Update our records;
  • Compile data and conduct statistical or demographic analysis;
  • Solicit and record your opinion/feedback via surveys and requests for feedback (if you consent to participating);
  • Send to insurance companies to process claims;
  • Comply with a court order, other legal processes or other legal requirements of any governmental authority
    (including detecting, investigating and preventing any crime, offence or breaches);
  • Maintain the safety and security of its premises with the use of security cameras;
  • Facilitate any proposed/actual business assignments or transfers in any of our rights/obligations in relation to
    your Personal Data;
  • Compliance with our internal policies/procedures and any applicable laws, rules and regulations, codes of practice,
    guidelines and any other legal purposes; and
  • Allow us to use your Personal Data in any other ways for which we have notified you and obtained your consent
    accordingly.

  We will not use, disclose or process your Personal Data for purposes which are not stated above or for which we have not
  obtained your consent. If we wish to use, disclose or process your Personal Data for another purpose not covered above,
  we will seek your prior consent.

• Disclosure of Personal Data

  All Personal Data held by us will be kept confidential, but we may, where such disclosure is necessary to satisfy the
  purpose, or a directly-related purpose for which the Personal Data was collected, provide such information to the
  following parties:

  • Any person or company who is acting for, jointly or on our behalf, in respect of the purpose or a directly-
    related purpose for which the Personal Data was provided;
  • Any financial institutions, charge or credit card issuing companies, credit bureau, or collection agencies necessary
    to establish and support the payment of any services due or requested; and
  • Any government authority in compliance with any applicable laws, rules and regulations, codes of practices,
    guidelines, court order, other legal processes or requirements.

• Rights of European Economic Area (EEA) residents

  • Access. You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we are processing about you. For
    your own privacy and security, at our discretion we may require you to prove your identity before
    providing the requested information.
  • Rectification. You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal information that we process
    about you rectified.
  • Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete personal information that we process about you,
    except we are not obliged to do so if we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to
    establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
  • Restriction. You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal information where you believe such data to
    be inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose
    unless we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish for us to delete
    it.
  • Portability. You have the right to obtain personal information we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format,
    and to transmit such data to another data controller, where this is (a) personal information which you have provided to
    us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you.
  • Objection. Where the legal justification for our processing of your personal information is our legitimate interest,
    you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your
    request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if
    we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.
  • Withdrawing Consent. If you have consented to our processing of your personal information, you have the right to
    withdraw your consent.

• Withdrawal of Consent

  Should you wish to withdraw your consent from receiving information and/or survey, you may send a request to the IMAS Secretariat at digital@imas.org.sg.

• Access and Correction of Personal Data

  If you wish to access, update or otherwise change or remove any information that you have provided to us, please contact
  us at digital@imas.org.sg.

• Accuracy of Personal Data

  We will keep all Personal Data collected as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary, taking into account its
  intended use and the interests of our customers and visitors. Where possible, we will validate the Personal Data
  provided by using generally accepted practices and guidelines.

• Protection of Personal Data

  We will use our best endeavours to protect your Personal Data against loss or theft, as well as any unauthorised access,
  disclosure, copying, use or modification with security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the Personal Data,
  regardless of the format in which it is held.

• Retention of Personal Data

  We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as the purposes for which such data is collected or used (as notified
  to you) continues, or where necessary, for our legal or business purposes.

• Changes to Policy

  We reserve the right to modify or change this Policy at any time and will place such amendments on this webpage. Your
  continued use of our webpage after any modification to this Policy shall constitute your acceptance of the amended
  Policy.

• Several Obligation

  Please note that our liability (if any) hereunder is several and each of the above party shall not be liable for the
  respective privacy breaches of the other party.

• Contact Us

  For any questions regarding this policy, or to withdraw consent, or to access and/or correct your Personal Data, please
  contact us at digital@imas.org.sg.