Privacy Policy - Amriteswari Society, Singapore

Introduction

This Privacy Policy aims to help you understand the information we collect, why we collect it and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information that we may obtain in the course of serving you. Obtaining this information is important to our efforts to provide a good level of service to you, and we also appreciate that you expect us to treat this information in accordance with applicable laws.

This Privacy Policy informs the kind of information we may collect from you, the purposes for which we use the information, the circumstances in which we may share the information and how we try to safeguard the information to protect your privacy. By using this website, you agree to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

What personal information do we collect?

The personal information we collect about you mainly comes from forms and materials you submit to to us when you register for talks, events, subscribe to newsletters, services with us. We may also collect information about your transactions and experiences with relating to the products and services we may provide from time to time.

The information we collect about you may include:

Your name, address and other contact details;
Your age, occupation and marital status;
A head and shoulders photo shot; and
A personal identifier such as, depending on your country of residence, your identity card and/or passport.

When you provide data about yourself to us, you are deemed to have consented to our collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing this website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

However, you are not required to supply any of the personal information that we may request. But, failure to do so may result in our being unable to provide services to you. While we make every effort to ensure that all information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date, you can help us considerably in this regard by promptly notifying us if there are any changes to your personal information.

How do we use the personal information?

If you do provide personal information to us, we may use the personal information for the following purposes:

(a) administering and managing our relationship with you, including dealing with any requests or inquiries which you may have and providing services to you;

(b) update you the details of services and products which we sell in our website.

(d) facilitating our operations and managing our Society’s needs;

(e) meeting any legal, governmental or regulatory requirements; and

(f) such other purposes as permitted by applicable law or with your consent.

All personal information provided to us will be kept confidential. However, we may be required to share your personal information with our offices, affiliated, third party service providers, agents and/or our affiliates or related corporations, and/or other third parties, whether located in Singapore or outside of Singapore, where it is necessary to carry out the purposes set out above. In these circumstances, we will share your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Before sharing your personal data, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that the transfer of your personal data is subject to appropriate safeguards.

If you cease to be a member of the Society we will continue to treat your personal information, to the extent we retain it, as described in this Privacy Policy.

Cookies

By using our Web site with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies you consent to our use of cookies and other tools to provide the services and products available on the site.

Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your Web browser when you visit our Web site. Cookies allow your browser to remember some specific information which the Web server can later retrieve and use. We do not use cookies to store any personal information that could be read or understood by others. When you quit your browser, some cookies are stored in your computer’s memory, while some expire or disappear.

Cookies are used primarily for administrative purposes, to improve your experience with our Web site. Examples of this may include include the use of cookies:

To improve site security by “authenticating” you (i.e., verify that you are who you say you are) when you sign-in to our site.
To keep track of your specified preferences such as language, time zone and timeouts after periods of inactivity.
To allow you to navigate our sites more easily by “remembering” your identity so that you do not have to input your password multiple times as you move between pages or services

In addition to administrative uses, we may also use cookies in one or more of the following ways:

To conduct research and analytics to improve our Web site and our services and products. This includes compiling statistical information concerning, among other things, the frequency of your use of our Web site, the pages visited and the length of each visit.
To display advertisements when you visit Web sites of third parties with whom we have marketing relationships and to help us gauge the effectiveness of our advertising efforts. These parties may gather information concerning your use of other Web sites and provide us with de-identified information about you (such as demographic information or the names of sites where you have been shown ads) which we may use to provide you with more relevant and useful advertising.

To learn more about what cookies are set on your computer as you browse the Web and how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Third Party Links

Our website may contain links to third party websites whose data protection practices may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the content and privacy policies of these third party websites and we encourage you to find out, read and understand their data protection practices and privacy policies before using the third party websites.

This website is owned by Amriteswari Society. It is protected by copyright and database right. No form of distribution or making available to the public (whether in print or electronic form) of any of this website’s content is allowed without our prior written consent. The website provides general information and examples only – please speak to the Society before deciding how best to resource any of your needs.

Your use of this website will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore and any disputes will be decided only by the courts of Singapore. If you have any queries with regard to this website please contact us as described below.

Contact Us

We may occasionally contact you by post, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., with details of services and products that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to be contacted in this way, if you wish to exercise your rights of correction and access, or if you require further information regarding our privacy policies and practices in the above-referenced regions, please contact us at:

at 6341-7701 or amrita@amma.org.sg

Changes

This Privacy Policy provides a general statement of the ways in which we protect your personal information. This policy may be changed from time to time to reflect changes in our practices concerning the collection and use of personal information. The revised policy will be effective immediately upon posting to our Web site. This version of the Privacy Policy is effective from September 29, 2018.