Personal Data Protection Policy
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English Learning Global places a high value on doing our part to keep
your personal information safe and protect your privacy. Our policy is
based on Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012. It is a policy on
what we do with the information and the measures we use to ensure that
your personal information is not misused. This privacy policy applies to
information collected at the Centres, by I Can Read® Singapore’s
Headquarters and via the I Can Read® Asia and I Can Read® Recruitment
Portal websites. References to ‘I Can Read®’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’
herein refer to Total English Learning Global Pte Ltd, its subsidiaries
and affiliates, associates, business partners, agents and/or employees
and references to ‘Personal Data’ refer to any data or information about
you or your child/ward from which you or your child/ward can be
identified either (a) from that data; or (b) from that data and other
information to which we have or are likely to have access.
1. Personal Data and the Collection of Personal Data
Personal Data which you may have provided to us include:
a. name, telephone number(s), mailing address, email address and any
other information relating to you or your child/ward which you have
provided us in any forms you may have submitted to us, or in other forms
of interaction with you;
b. information about your use of I Can
Read® Singapore’s website and services, including cookies and IP
address, but only to the extent that I Can Read® may identify you from
such information; and
c. information about your usage of and
interaction with our website and/or services including computer and
connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page
views, and traffic to and from our website.
I Can Read® generally collects your or your child/ward’s Personal Data in the following ways:
a. when you submit forms relating to any of our products or services;
b. when you respond to our request for additional Personal Data;
c. when you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list;
d. when you request that we contact you;
e. when you are contacted by, and respond to, our marketing representatives and agents;
f. when you respond to our surveys, promotions and other initiatives;
g. when you submit your Personal Data to us for any other reason.
2. Purposes for the Collection, Use and Disclosure
I Can Read® may use, disclose or process Personal Data collected for
the purposes for which the Personal Data was collected unless consent
for such use is withdrawn in accordance with applicable law or if you
have otherwise indicated to us, that you do not consent to the use of
such Personal Data.
The Personal Data may be collected, use and/or disclosed for the following purposes:
a. Verifying, updating and maintaining student records;
b. Administration, audit, emergency purposes;
c. Provide information about our services and programmes;
d. Reference check or other screening activities in accordance with legal or regulatory obligations;
e. Evaluate suitability for enrolment;
f. Investigate any possible fraud, misconduct, unlawful action or omission;
g. Photographs and videos taken by the Centre in all activities to be
used in all marketing/publicity materials, social media, website and/or
electronic media;
h. Any other purposes which we may inform you of
in writing from time to time, but for which we will seek your separate
consent.
3. Disclosure of Personal Data and Transfer to Third Parties
We will take steps to protect Personal Data against unauthorized
disclosure. We may disclose aggregated demographic information to third
parties such as full time teachers, staff, service provider whom we
engage to manage our operational processes, partners and/or advertisers.
This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any
individual person.
4. Third party Website
Our websites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are
not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of any other site that collects personally
identifiable information.
5. Use of Cookies
We use "cookies" on our websites. A cookie is a piece of data stored on
a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site
and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies can enable us to track
and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information on our site.
I Can Read ® may use an
independent company to measure and analyse the Internet usage across I
Can Read® websites. We may use the company's services to collect the
following core information on the usage of our web sites, including:
a. The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on I Can Read® websites;
b. The number of unique visitors to I Can Read® websites;
c. How long these unique visitors (on average) spend on when they do visit I Can Read® websites; and
d. Common entry and exit points into I Can Read® websites.
6. Withdrawal, Access and Correction of Your Personal Data
You may access and request for opt out, correction or updating of your
Personal Data at any time. You can do the following at any time by
contacting us via the centre your child/ward is enroled in or via the
email address, phone number and website/Facebook page links provided:
a. Check data we have about you, if any;
b. Change/correct any data we have about you;
c. Have us delete any data we have about you;
d. Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
7. Retention of Personal Data
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as the purpose for
which such data is collected or used continues, or where necessary for
our legal or business purposes. Thereafter, we will delete or destroy
the Personal Data, or remove the means by which the data can be
associated with you.
8. Security, Accuracy of Personal Data and Governing Law
This Privacy Policy shall be governed in all respects by the laws of
Singapore. We will take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect your
Personal Data in our possession from unauthorised access, collection,
use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks.
9. Updates on our Privacy Policy
We may revise this Policy from time to time without any prior notice. You may determine if any such revision has taken place by referring to the date on which this Policy was last updated. Your continued use of our services constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of such changes and the latest Policy as updated.
Last updated: 01/09/2019
10. Contact Information
If you (a) have any questions about this Policy; (b) would like to
withdraw your consent to any use of your Personal Data; or (c) would
like to obtain access to or make corrections to your Personal Data
records, you may contact our Data Protection Officers at:
I Can Read Singapore Head Office
80 Changi Road #04-20 Centropod, Singapore 419715
Ph: (65) 6484 1271
Fax: (65) 6484 0395
Email: dataprivacy@icanread.asia