
Personal Information Protection Policy
Sembcorp respects the privacy of your Personal Information and we do not collect information about you without your prior
knowledge.Sembcorp endeavours to do its utmost to treat your Personal Information with the utmost care and has implemented strict protocol to protect the confidentiality of your Personal Information.
This Personal Information Protection Policy sets out the principles and processes that Sembcorp has in place so as to meet the
requirements of the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) (Act 26 of 2012) and also reiterates that the submission of your Personal Information is voluntary.
Personal Information or Personal Data refers to any information about you from which you can be identified. Examples include your personal particulars, employment details, educational qualifications, billing
and payment details, and other information about your use of products, services, websites or for job applications.
By providing your Personal Information to Sembcorp, you hereby consent to Sembcorp sharing this information to other affiliates of Sembcorp for purposes of updating and enhancing their respective records and for Sembcorp and its affiliates to:
(a) collect, retain, use and disclose your Personal Information.
(b) contact you by telephone, facsimile and / or e-mail, and
(c) advise you of products and services which may be of interest to you.
Such Personal Information will also be needed and used by Sembcorp to better the services of Sembcorp and its business partners, for tracking and verifying compliance with Sembcorp policies, for meeting laws and / or for fulfilling editorial and feedback solicitation purposes.
Sembcorp may also share aggregate information about you with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. This Personal Information is used to customise Sembcorp's content and advertising to deliver a better experience to you. The use of your Personal Information for these purposes will be kept to the minimum required. Where necessary, Sembcorp and its affiliates may also use the information to resolve any disputes that may arise.
Sembcorp employees, affiliated companies or entities acting on behalf of Sembcorp with whom we share your Personal Information will be bound by this statement.
Other than those individuals and entities listed below, your Personal Information will not be revealed by Sembcorp to any external body, unless Sembcorp has your permission, or is under either a legal obligation or any other duty to do so. The information provided by you may be disclosed by Sembcorp to.
(a) regulatory authorities.
(b) lawyers / accountants / auditors or other advisors of Sembcorp.
(c) third party service providers.
(d) any agents acting on our behalf, and
(e) other retailers / business partners / credit information companies / bureaus for the purpose of credit evaluation and debt recovery/collection.
Additionally Sembcorp may, in the following situations, collect, use or disclose Personal Information without your consent.
The Personal Information is generally available to the public.
The Personal Information is necessary to render a service that the individual has applied for.
The Personal Information is required by law.
The Personal Information is for research or statistical purposes, and that the results of the research or statistical processing would lead to an aggregate or de-identified Personal Information and would not lead to identification of an individual by any reasonably foreseeable means.
The collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information is clearly in the individual's interest.
It is impracticable to obtain the individual's consent at the point of collection, use or disclosure, and if it were practicable for the individual to grant such consent, the individual would be likely to give it.
Legal, medical, or security reasons make it impossible or impractical for Sembcorp to seek the individual's consent. In an emergency that threatens the life, health or security of the individual or community.
Sembcorp uses industry standard practices to safeguard your Personal Information. Nonetheless, due to any limitation(s) in the current security technology, Sembcorp cannot always ensure that communications and identifiable Personal Information will
never be disclosed to third parties and Sembcorp does not promise that all communications and personal identifiable information received through its communication channels will always remain confidential.
The Personal Information which we are collecting is mandatory for us to be able to provide services to you. In the event that you fail and/or refuse to provide such Personal Information, we would be unable to assist you with your matter.
Respecting Your Choice
As the Do Not Call (DNC) provisions of the Personal Data Protection Act take effect with effect from 2 Jan 2014, organisations are generally not allowed to send marketing messages (via voice calls, SMS or fax messages) to Singapore telephone numbers registered with the national DNC Registry.
Sembcorp will abide by the DNC provisions, and in this regard refrain from sending any marketing messages if you have registered your Singapore telephone number on the relevant DNC registry, unless expressly allowed under the DNC provisions, applicable laws and regulations. In addition to our rights under such provisions, laws and regulations, do note that if you have given us consent to send you marketing messages, we may continue sending you marketing or any other messages until you withdraw your consent to Sembcorp, with by way of registration with the DNC Registry or otherwise notifying us of such withdrawal of consent.
Access to and Correction of Personal Information
You may, at any time, requests details of your Personal Information
that Sembcorp has collected from you, or information relating to the
Sembcorp's use and disclosure of your Personal Information.
Sembcorp has the discretion to decide whether to provide the requested
information and the terms on which the said information is provided to
you. Sembcorp has the discretion to refuse to provide the requested
information in the following situations.
Information requested would reveal Personal Information that cannot
be disclosed by Sembcorp on the grounds of public policy, legal,
security or commercial proprietary reasons.
The request would be too costly for Sembcorp to comply with, or
The request is frivolous or vexatious.
If you would like a copy of your personal data being held by Sembcorp,
please contact our Data Protection Officer, at the contact particulars
set out below. The following administrative charges shall be
applicable.
(a) If you are requesting for information on your personal data held
by Sembcorp, the fees chargeable for the request is S$ 80.00.
(b) If you are requesting for information on your personal data by
Sembcorp as well as a copy of such data, the fees chargeable for the
request is S$ 160.00.
We will need 30 working days to process your request for access to
your personal data.
You may also, at any time, contact Sembcorp's Data Protection Officer
(DPO), to amend your Personal Information on the basis that the
Personal Information collected or maintained by Sembcorp is inaccurate
or incomplete.
Satisfactory evidence (in the sole discretion of Sembcorp) must be
provided to prove the inaccuracy or incompleteness of the Personal
Information. Sembcorp will correct its records after the request has
been verified and approved.
Record Retention
Your Personal Information will not be kept longer than necessary or as
permitted by applicable laws. In addition, your Personal Information
that we possess will be destroyed if you apply to deregister your
records or as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention
no longer serves the purpose for which the personal data was
collected, and is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes.
Please contact Sembcorp Power DPO for more details about the retention
period, the purpose of data retention and how we will destroy the
personal data once the retention period is over.
Amendments
Sembcorp reserves the right to amend its data protection policy and
the information it has published in relation to the said policy from
time to time. While Sembcorp takes reasonable care to ensure that
information published about its said policy is up-to-date, Sembcorp
does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such information.
Additionally, we will review our policy from time to time and may
amend our Data Protection Policy at any time by posting a revised
version on our Website. You will be deemed to have knowledge of and
agreed to the amended Privacy Policy if, after revision, you continue
to use the Website, the Apps or our Services.
We advise that you may wish to regularly review our Privacy Policy to
keep up to date with any revisions that may from time to time take
place. We may revise our Policy for reasons such as keeping pace with
regulatory changes or improving the services we provide to our
customers.
Opting Out
To keep you in control of your Personal Information and the
communications sent to you, you may opt out of the following services:
(a) receiving communications from Sembcorp and our affiliates about
new features, products or services, and
(b) receiving communications about offers from third-party companies
that offer a product or a service that Sembcorp thinks would be of
value to you. If you object to any of the above services for any
reason, you may stop that service via the following communication
channels:
Withdrawal of Your Consent
(a) The consent that you provide for the collection, use and
disclosure of your personal data will remain valid until such time
it is being withdrawn by you in writing. You may withdraw consent
and request us to stop collecting, using and/or disclosing your
personal data for any or all of the purposes listed above by
submitting your request in writing or via email to our Data
Protection Officer at the contact details provided above.
(b) Upon receipt of your written request to withdraw your consent,
we may require reasonable time (depending on the complexity of the
request and its impact on our relationship with you) for your
request to be processed and for us to notify you of the consequences
of us acceding to the same, including any legal consequences which
may affect your rights and liabilities to us. In general, we shall
seek to process your request within ten (10) business days of
receiving it.
(c) Whilst we respect your decision to withdraw your consent, please
note that depending on the nature and scope of your request, we may
not be in a position to continue providing our services to you and
we shall, in such circumstances, notify you before completing the
processing of your request. Should you decide to cancel your
withdrawal of consent, please inform us in writing in the manner
described in paragraph (a) above.
(d) Please note that withdrawing consent does not affect our right
to continue to collect, use and disclose personal data where such
collection, use and disclose without consent is permitted or
required under applicable laws.
Protection of Personal Data
(a) To safeguard your personal data from unauthorised access,
collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or
similar risks, we have introduced appropriate administrative,
physical and technical measures such as up-to-date antivirus
protection, encryption, use of privacy filters, and disclosing
personal data both internally and to our authorised third party
service providers and agents only on a need-to-know basis.
(b) You should be aware, however, that no method of transmission
over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely
secure. While security cannot be guaranteed, we strive to protect
the security of your information and are constantly reviewing and
enhancing our information security measures.
Accuracy of Personal Data
We generally rely on personal data provided by you (or your authorised
representative). In order to ensure that your personal data is
current, complete and accurate, please update us if there are changes
to your personal data by informing our Data Protection Officer in
writing or via email at the contact details provided above.
Transfer of Personal Data outside of Singapore
We generally do not transfer your personal data to countries outside
of Singapore. However, if we do so, we will obtain your consent for
the transfer to be made and we will take steps to ensure that your
personal data continues to receive a standard of protection that is at
least comparable to that provided under the PDPA.
For more information about PDPA, please visit the Personal Data
Protection Commission's website at pdpc.gov
Privacy Policy
Use Of Data Collected
In addition to the uses set out in the PIPC, we may, in order for us
to market products and services which are of special interest and
relevance to you, analyse and rely on your overall interaction with us
(such as but not limited to your shopping behaviour in e-shops, your
use of loyalty programmes, your ratings and reviews of products, your
contact history with our customer service, your clicks/ opening
results, your surfing behaviour (web tracking), the newsletter types
you are subscribed to, your participation in promotions or events,
your interactions with us and your use of personal data, what rights
you have and how you can achieve satisfactory privacy settings.
Social Networks
Our website and mobile or web-based applications may provide you with
social plug-ins from various social networks (such as Facebook and
Twitter). If you choose to interact with a social network, your
activity on our website or via our mobile or web-based applications
will also be made available to social networks such as Facebook and
Twitter.
If you are logged in on one of the social networks during the visit of
one of our websites or mobile or web-based applications, the social
network might add this information to your profile. If you are
interacting with one of the social plug-ins, this information will be
transferred to the social network. In case you do not wish such a data
transfer, please log off on your social network before you enter one
of our websites or mobile or web-based applications.
We cannot influence this data collection and data transfer via the
social plug-ins. Please read the privacy policies of those social
networks for detailed information about the collection and transfer of
personal data, what rights you have and how you can achieve
satisfactory privacy settings.
Geo-location Services
Our website and mobile or web-based applications may offer
location-enabled services, such as Google Maps and Bing Maps. If you
use those mobile or web-based applications, they may receive
information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a
mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a
location. You are always asked if the geo-location service can be
activated and you can also object to this geo-location service.
Web Analytics by Google Analytics
Our website and mobile or web-based applications may contain web
analytic services provided by Google Analytics. This means that when
you visit our website or use any mobile or web-based applications, a
cookie will be stored on your computer or mobile device, except when
your browser settings do not allow for such cookies.
This further means that when you visit our website or use any mobile
or web-based applications, the personal data described above -
including the 'click-stream data', the data from 'web beacons and
tracking links' and information stored in Google Analytics' cookies -
will be sent to Google Analytics for analysis for and on behalf of us.
Please note that if you have created an online profile at our website
or mobile or web-based application and if you are logged on in this
profile, a unique number identifying this profile will also be sent to
Google Analytics in order to be able to match the web analytics data
to this profile.
Google Analytics acts as our agent, which means that we solely
determine the purposes for which the data is being used. You can find
out more about the relationships between Google Analytics and us in
the Google Analytics' privacy policy.
If you do not wish information about your behaviour at our website or
any mobile or web-based applications being collected and assessed by
Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser
add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js,
analytics.js, and dc.js) to not send your site visit information to
Google Analytics. The browser add-on is available for most modern
browsers. The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on does not prevent
information from being sent to the website itself or in other ways to
web analytics services.
Retargeting Technologies
Our website and mobile or web-based applications may use retargeting
technologies within the internet. This enables us to show our
visitors, who were already interested in our shop and our products,
advertisement from us on partner websites.
We also work with other companies who use tracking technologies to
serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These
companies may collect non-personally identifiable information about
your visits to our websites or mobile or web-based applications and
your interaction with our communications, including advertising.
Retargeting technologies analyse your cookies and display
advertisement based on your past surfing behaviour. For further
information on cookies, please refer to paragraph 1 of this Policy.
We do not store any personal data about you with this technology.