Privacy Policy | We Collect Data In Accordance With The PDPA

DATA PROTECTION POLICY

We at Matsushita Greatwall Corporation Private Limited (“MGC”) take our responsibilities under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (the “PDPA”) seriously. We also recognise the importance of the personal data you have entrusted to us and believe that it is our responsibility to properly manage, protect and process your personal data.

This Data Protection Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and/or disclose the personal data you have provided to us, as well as to assist you in making an informed decision before providing us with any of your personal data.

If you, at any time, have any queries on this policy or any other queries in relation to how we may manage, protect and/or process your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Officer (the “DPO”) at:

Name: Liong Weiwen, Alec

DID: +65 63610767

Email: alecliong@mgc.com.sg

1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PDPA
1. 1.1 “Personal data” is defined under the PDPA to mean data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data, or from that data and other information to which an organisation has or is likely to have access. Common examples of personal data could include names, identification numbers, contact information, financial records, credit card information, photographs, and video images.
2. 1.2 We will collect your personal data in accordance with the PDPA. In general, before we collect any personal data from you, we will notify you of the purposes for which your personal data may be collected, used and/or disclosed, as well as obtain your consent for the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data for the intended purposes.
3. 1.3 Your personal data may also be collected, used or disclosed if we have assessed that to do so would be in our legitimate interests and beneficial to the public. Before doing so, we will take steps to ensure that any adverse effects that might arise for you have already been identified and eliminated, reduced or mitigated.
2 PURPOSES FOR COLLECTION, USE & DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
1. 2.1 The personal data which we collect from you may be collected, used and/or disclosed for the following purposes:
  1. (a) facilitating, processing, dealing with, administering, and/or managing your purchase of our products ;
  2. (b) processing and/or administering any product-related inquiries, consultations, negotiations, orders, deliveries, warranties or providing customer support in relation to the purchase of our products;
  3. (c) processing and/or administering requests for access and/or correction of your personal data;
  4. (d) to manage, operate, provide and/or administer your use of and/or access to any of our e-commerce platforms, such as remembering your account preferences, purchase history and making of payments online;
  5. (e) administering and/or managing the use of facilities such as the facilities within MGC’s premises (e.g. showrooms and offices), including but not limited to keeping records of visits to our premises and CCTV recordings;
  6. (f) processing your registration and/or participation for seminars, roadshows, exhibitions, and other events organised or co-organised by MGC;
  7. (g) carrying out your instructions or responding to any enquiry given by (or purported to be given by) you or on your behalf;
  8. (h) conducting customer due diligence or other screening and personal identification processes in accordance with all laws, regulations or risk management procedures that may be required by law or that may have been put in place by us;
  9. (i) to prevent or investigate any fraud, unlawful activity or omission or misconduct, whether or not there is any suspicion of the aforementioned;
  10. (j) complying with or as required by any applicable law, governmental or regulatory requirements of any relevant jurisdiction, including meeting the requirements to make disclosure under the requirements of any law binding on us and/or for the purposes of any guidelines issued by regulatory or other authorities, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, with which we are expected to comply;
  11. (k) complying with or as required by any request or direction of any governmental authority, or responding to requests for information from public agencies, ministries, statutory boards or other similar authorities. For the avoidance of doubt, this means that we may/will disclose your personal data to the aforementioned parties upon their request or direction;
  12. (l) storing, hosting, backing up (whether for disaster recovery or otherwise) of your personal data, whether within or outside Singapore;
  13. (m) administering security matters and/or arrangements;
  14. (n) conducting research, analysis and development activities (including but not limited to data analytics, surveys and/or profiling) to improve our products and services in order to enhance your relationship with us or for your benefit; and (collectively, the “Purposes”).
2. 2.2 In order to conduct our business operations more smoothly, we may also be disclosing the personal data you have provided to us to our third party service providers, agents and/or our affiliates or related corporations, which may be sited outside of Singapore, for one or more of the above-stated Purposes. This is because such third party service providers, agents and/or affiliates or related corporations would be processing your personal data on our behalf for one or more of the above-stated Purposes.
3 SPECIFIC ISSUES FOR THE DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD PARTIES
1. 3.1 We respect the confidentiality of the personal data you have provided to us.
2. 3.2 In that regard, we will not disclose any of your personal data to any third parties without first obtaining your express consent permitting us to do so. However, please note that we may disclose your personal data to third parties without first obtaining your consent in certain situations, including, without limitation, the following:
  1. (a) cases in which the disclosure is required based on the applicable laws and/or regulations;
  2. (b) cases in which the purpose of such disclosure is clearly in your interests, and if consent cannot be obtained in a timely way, provided that we shall, as soon as may be practicable, notify you of the disclosure and the purposes of the disclosure;
  3. (c) cases in which the disclosure is necessary to respond to an emergency that threatens the life, health or safety of yourself or another individual;
  4. (d) cases in which there are reasonable grounds to believe that the health or safety of yourself or another individual will be seriously affected and consent for the disclosure of the data cannot be obtained in a timely way, provided that we shall, as soon as may be practicable, notify you of the disclosure and the purposes of the disclosure;
  5. (e) cases in which the disclosure is necessary for any investigation or proceedings;
  6. (f) cases in which the personal data is disclosed to any officer of a prescribed law enforcement agency, upon production of written authorisation signed by the head or director of that law enforcement agency or a person of a similar rank, certifying that the personal data is necessary for the purposes of the functions or duties of the officer; and/or
  7. (g) cases in which the disclosure is to a public agency and such disclosure is necessary in the public interest.
3. 3.3 The instances listed above in paragraph 3.2 are not intended to be exhaustive. For an exhaustive list of exceptions, you are encouraged to peruse the First and Second Schedules of the PDPA which is publicly available at https://sso.agc.gov.sg/.
4. 3.4 In all other instances of disclosure of personal data to third parties with your express consent, we will endeavor to provide adequate supervision over the handling and administration of your personal data by such third parties, as well as to provide for adequate forms of protection over such personal data.
5. 3.5 Where personal data is transferred by us to any third parties outside of Singapore, we will ensure that such transfers are compliant with the requirements under the PDPA. In this regard, we will take such necessary measures to ensure that such overseas recipients are bound by legally enforceable obligations to ensure that these overseas recipients provide a standard of protection to the personal data so transferred that is comparable to the protection under the PDPA.
4 PERSONAL DATA OF THIRD PARTY INDIVIDUALS
1. 4.1 We understand that you may provide us with personal data of a third party individual in certain cases, such as to facilitate the delivery of the products you have purchased on behalf of that third party individual. By providing us with such personal data, you hereby represent and warrant to us that you are validly acting on behalf of the third party individual and that you have obtained their consent to disclose their personal data to us for the purposes which we will be collecting and using their personal data.
5 REQUEST FOR ACCESS AND/OR CORRECTION OF PERSONAL DATA You may request to access and/or correct the personal data currently in our possession at any time by submitting your request through the following methods:
1. (a) Singapore telephone number : +65 62698155
2. (b) E-mail : kingkoil@mgc.com.sg
3. (c) Office address : 13 Sungei Kadut Way, Matsushita House, Singapore 728792
6 REQUEST TO WITHDRAW CONSENT
1. 6.1 You may withdraw your consent for the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data in our possession or under our control at any time by submitting your request to the contact details listed below at paragraph 8.2.
2. 6.2 We will process your request within a reasonable time from such a request for withdrawal of consent being made, and will thereafter refrain from collecting, using and/or disclosing your personal data in the manner stated in your request.
7 ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL DATA
1. 7.1 We will take appropriate measures to keep your personal data accurate, complete and updated.
2. 7.2 We will also take commercially reasonable efforts to take appropriate precautions and preventive measures to ensure that your personal data is adequately protected and secured. Appropriate security arrangements will be taken to prevent any unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, leakage, loss, damage and/or alteration of your personal data. However, we cannot assume responsibility for any unauthorised use of your personal data by third parties which are wholly attributable to factors beyond our control.
3. 7.3 We will also take commercially reasonably efforts to ensure that the personal data in our possession or under our control is destroyed and/or anonymised as soon as it is reasonable to assume that (i) the purpose for which that personal data was collected is no longer being served by the retention of such personal data; and (ii) retention is no longer necessary for any other legal or business purposes.
8 COMPLAINT PROCESS
1. 8.1 If you have any complaint or grievance regarding about how we are handling your personal data or about how we are complying with the PDPA, we welcome you to contact us with your complaint or grievance.
2. 8.2 Please contact us through one of the following methods with your complaint or grievance:
  1. (a) Singapore telephone number: +65 63610767.
  2. (b) E-mail: alecliong@mgc.com.sg. Attention it to the “Data Protection Officer”.
  3. (c) Office address: 13 Sungei Kadut Way, Matsushita House, Singapore 728792. Attention it to the “Data Protection Officer”.
3. 8.3 Where it is an email or a letter through which you are submitting a complaint, your indication at the subject header that it is a PDPA complaint would assist us in attending to your complaint speedily by passing it on to the relevant staff in MGC to handle. For example, you could insert the subject header as “PDPA Complaint”.
4. 8.4 We will certainly strive to deal with any complaint or grievance that you may have speedily and fairly.
9 UPDATES ON DATA PROTECTION POLICY
1. 9.1 As part of our efforts to ensure that we properly manage, protect and process your personal data, we will be reviewing our policies, procedures and processes from time to time.
2. 9.2 We reserve the right to amend the terms of this Data Protection Policy at our absolute discretion. Any amended Data Protection Policy will be posted on our website and can be viewed at https://www.kingkoil.com.sg/ .
3. 9.3 You are encouraged to visit the above website from time to time to ensure that you are well informed of our latest policies in relation to personal data protection.

Last Updated on 28 March 2022