Privacy Policy

UNSD Information Technology Pte Ltd (AsiaVerify) cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and users and is fully committed to protecting their personal information and using it properly in compliance with data privacy laws. This policy describes how we may collect and use personal information, and the rights and choices available to our visitors and users regarding such information.

We encourage you to read this policy and make sure you understand it before you access or use any of our services.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].

1. Compliance

This AsiaVerify Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we (UNSD Information Technology Pte. Ltd., together with its affiliated partners worldwide and other trusted organisations we work with to provide products and services to you) collect and use information pertaining to each of our unregistered visitors and registered users, including subscribers and/or members (each, a “Visitor” or “User” (respectively), or “you”), in connection with their access to and use of AsiaVerify’s websites (including www.asiaverify.com and any of its subdomains, the “Website”), mobile applications (“Mobile Apps”), and related services (collectively, the “Services”).

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with a clear explanation of when, why and how we collect, store and use your personal information, as well as an explanation of your statutory rights. This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you might have under applicable data privacy laws.

Read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your personal information, before you access or use any of our Services. If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave this website, application or service, and avoid or discontinue all use of any of our Services.

2.Collection and Use of information

2.1 Visitor and User information

We collect two types of information regarding our Visitors and Users:

a) Individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or may with reasonable efforts cause the identification of an individual, or maybe of private or sensitive nature (“Personal Information”). The Personal Information collected by us mainly consists of contact details (e.g., e-mail address or phone number), billing details (name, physical billing address, payment method and transaction details), which are only collected from Users, details regarding a browsing or usage session (IP address, Geo-location and/or device unique identifier), details regarding connected third party accounts (such as the e-mail or username for a connected Google, LinkedIn or Facebook account), correspondences (including those via our website or email), and any other Personal Information provided to us by Visitors and/or Users through their access to and/or use of the Services. For the avoidance of doubt, any Non-personal Information that is connected or linked to Personal Information (for example, in order to improve the Services we offer) is deemed and treated by us as Personal Information, as long as such connection or linkage exists.

b) Un-identified and non-identifiable information pertaining to a Visitor or un-identified User, which may be made available to us, or collected automatically via his/her use of the Services (“Non-personal Information”). Such Non-personal Information does not enable us to identify the Visitor or User from whom it was collected. The Non-personal Information collected by us mainly consists of technical and aggregated usage information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc.

You may refuse to provide us with personal information, and you may object to our collection of information, however, this may impact your ability to use or benefit from our site, platforms, apps, products, and/or services, and our ability to provide you with support or assistance.

You must not provide us with the personal information about another person unless you have first obtained that person’s prior consent to do so and you have told them their personal information will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy (including where to find it).

2.2 Methods we use to collect such information

We collect information through your use of the Services. When you visit or use our Services, including when you browse the Website or register a User Account, edit your User information and/or download and use any information from our Website, we are aware of it and will usually gather, collect and record such uses, sessions and related information, either independently or with the help of third-party services as detailed in Section ‎8 below, including through the use of “cookies” and other tracking technologies, as further detailed in Section ‎6 below.

We collect information which you provide us voluntarily. For example, we collect the Personal Information you provide us when you register to our Services; when you sign in to our Services via third party services such as Facebook or Google; when you submit or upload such Personal Information as you use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., AsiaVerify support tickets, emails).

We also collect information from third party sources as described in Section 4 below.

2.3 Purposes of collecting such information

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

i.To provide and operate the Services;

ii. To further develop, customize and improve our Services, based on Visitors’ and Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;

iii. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

v. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section ‎7 below);

vi.To facilitate, sponsor and offer certain contests, giveaways, events and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners and grant prizes and benefits;

vii. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;

viii. To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities; and

viiii. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 2 where we are satisfied that:

vv. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have, or

vvi. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests that we have as a business (for example, to maintain and improve our Services by identifying user trends and the effectiveness of campaigns and identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate, and that respects your privacy rights.

3. Storage of information

AsiaVerify Visitors’ and Users’ Personal Information may be maintained, processed and stored by AsiaVerify and our authorized affiliates, partners, and service providers in the United States of America, Europe and other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Services and/or as may be required by law (as further explained below).

AsiaVerify affiliates, partners, and service providers that store or process your Personal Information on AsiaVerify’s behalf are each contractually committed to keeping it protected and secured, in accordance with industry standards and regardless of any lesser legal requirements which may apply in their jurisdiction.

Upon request, AsiaVerify will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. You may access, correct, or request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting our Data Protection Officer. We will respond to your request within a timeframe imposed by local laws or a reasonable timeframe.

AsiaVerify’s data storage providers are contractually committed to protecting and securing your data.

4. Sharing personal information with third parties

4.1 Third party services

AsiaVerify has partnered with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own. These include hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and cyber security services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution and monitoring services, session recording and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service(s)”).

Such Third Party Services may receive or otherwise have access to our Visitors’ and Users’ Personal Information, in its entirety or in part – depending on each of their particular roles and purposes in facilitating and enhancing our Services and business, and may only use it for such purposes.

Note that while our Services may contain links to other websites or services, we are not responsible for such websites’ or services’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third-party websites and services.

4.2 Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties

Where permitted by local data protection laws, AsiaVerify may disclose or otherwise allow others access to your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.

4.3 Protecting Rights and Safety

AsiaVerify may share your Personal Information with others if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of AsiaVerify, any of our Users, any Users-of-Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

4.4 Social Media Features and Framed Pages

Our Services include certain Social Media features and widgets, single sign on features, such as the “Facebook Connect” or “Google Sign-in”, the “Facebook Like” button, the “Share this” button or other interactive mini-programs (“Social Media Features”). These Social Media Features may collect information such as your IP address or which page you are visiting on our Website, and may set a cookie to enable them to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these third parties’ Social Media Features are governed by their policies and not ours.

In addition, our Services may enable you to share your Personal Information with third parties directly, such as via page framing techniques to serve content to or from Third Party Services or other parties, while preserving the look and feel of our Website and Services (“Frames”). Please be aware that if you choose to interact or share any Personal Information via such Frames, you are in fact providing it to these third parties and not to us, and such interactions and sharing too are governed by such third parties’ policies and not ours.

5. Data retention and security

We may retain your Personal Information for as long as your User Account is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.

We may continue to retain such Personal Information even after you deactivate your User Account and/or cease to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.

We maintain a data retention policy that we apply to information in our care. Where your Personal Information is no longer required we will ensure it is securely deleted.

We have implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures.

We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly seek new ways and Third Party Services to further enhance the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors’ and Users’ privacy.

Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by AsiaVerify, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information or any other User Content you upload, publish or otherwise share with AsiaVerify or anyone else.

We, therefore, encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and User Website and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive information of which you believe disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.

If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us at [email protected].

6. Use of cookies and other tracking technologies

AsiaVerify, together with its marketing, analytics and technology partners, uses certain monitoring and tracking technologies (such as cookies, pixels, tags and scripts). These technologies are used in order to maintain, provide and improve our Services on an ongoing basis, and in order to provide our Visitors and our Users with a better experience. For example, thanks to these technologies, we are able to maintain and keep track of our Visitor’s and Users’ preferences and authenticated sessions, to better secure our Services, identify technical issues, user trends and effectiveness of campaigns, and monitor and improve the overall performance of our Services. Please note that Third Party Services placing cookies or utilizing other tracking technologies through our Services may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. Such practices are not covered by our Privacy Policy and we do not have any control over them.

Cookies: In order for some of these technologies to work properly, a small data file (“cookie”) must be downloaded and stored on your device. By default, we use several persistent cookies for purposes of the session and user authentication, security, keeping the User’s preferences, monitoring the performance of our services and marketing campaigns, and generally providing and improving our services. If you want to delete or block any cookies, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.

Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies or tracking technologies may prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our Services, or may otherwise adversely affect your user experience.

Behavioural Targeting/Re-Targeting: Certain Third Party Services and ad networks may display advertising on our Website or manage our advertising on other websites. Such parties may use certain tracking technologies to collect certain information about your activities on the Services and different third party Services to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests and preferences. You may opt out of receiving targeted ads from certain advertisers and ad networks. Please note this does not opt you out of receiving all advertising and that your opt-out will only be in relation to the specific advertising. You will continue to receive advertising for which you have not opted out.

User Data Supplementation: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you. Where we obtain your Personal Information from these third parties, we ensure that such parties are contractually committed to informing you that your Personal Information will be disclosed to us and we take steps to ensure the accuracy of your Personal Information before using it. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.

7. Communications from AsiaVerify

We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail, text messages, direct text messages, marketing calls and similar forms of communication from AsiaVerify or our partners (acting on AsiaVerify’s behalf) through such means.

If you do not wish to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify AsiaVerify at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.

We take steps to limit the promotional content we send you to a reasonable and proportionate level and to send you information that we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on your information.

We may also contact you with important information regarding our Services, or your use thereof. For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance; reply to your support ticket or e-mail, or notify you of material changes in our Services.

8. Your rights

It is imperative that you have control over your Personal Information. AsiaVerify is taking steps to enable you to access, receive a copy of, update, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information.

Before disclosing the requested Personal Information, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law (e.g., if your request is unfounded or excessive).

You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection however we recommend that you contact us first.

If you are an AsiaVerify Visitor or User, and you wish to receive a copy, access and/or request us to make corrections to the Personal Information that you have stored with us or wish to request a list of what Personal Information (if any) pertaining to you we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, please contact us by emailing to [email protected].

We will make all reasonable efforts to honour your request promptly (unless we require further information from you in order to fulfil your request), subject to legal and other permissible considerations. We take every privacy complaint seriously and will make all reasonable efforts to resolving your complaint promptly.

9. Updates and Interpretation

We may update this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law, and to reflect changes to our information collection, usage and storage practices. If we make any changes that we deem as “material” (in our sole good faith discretion), we will notify you prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you, with respect to our Website, Mobile site and other Services.