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PRIVACY POLICY 

The purpose of this privacy policy is to set out the manner and purposes for which Assure Financial Pte Ltd (AFPL) will obtain and process your personal information. By using this website, you are aware and consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the way we describe in this policy and our Terms and Conditions.

Obtaining Your Personal Information 

We may obtain personal information about you when you register to use this website, input information within this website or when you provide feedback (including anonymous feedback) about our products or services.

Processing Your Personal Information

We collect and process data that you provide for specific purposes. You will be asked to provide information about yourself when you use certain site facilities, in order to complete your request or transaction. This may include personal information such as your name, email addresses, mailing address and telephone number. We use this data to provide you with the information, products or services that you request from us and to communicate with you. We may keep a record of any contacts you have with us. We may use the information that you provide for record keeping, statistical or research purposes.

We only retain this information where required to do so by law; for the length of time needed to provide the service or information you have requested (including any retention period specified by law or by government policy), or for the length of time that you choose to store information or permit us to contact you if you have registered with our website.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer. A cookie often includes an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies do not damage your computer. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but to protect your privacy your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. You do not have to accept cookies. You can decide if you want to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.

If you would rather not allow our storage or access to cookies that may contain your aggregate information then you should make appropriate arrangements to deactivate the cookie function on your web browser. Further information regarding the use of cookies, including their deactivation can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org. This website is run by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and provides guidance to users on how to turn off cookies.

AFPL analyzes customer statistics, sales, traffic patterns and related site information. In order to facilitate this, where possible, our web server may automatically recognize the domain name and email address of users of this website, by using cookies. We also use cookies to operate the shopping cart system in our online trading platforms.

We may also collect the domain name and email addresses of visitors to this website and those that communicate with us via email. We may also collect other aggregate information, e.g. information about the pages users access or visit and the transactions they perform there and any other information volunteered by the user, such as survey information and/or site registrations. We can also identify the web browser that the user is using and the way in which the user has accessed our website, e.g. via a particular hyperlink or link contained within a marketing email.

The information we collect in this way is used for internal review and improvement purposes, e.g. to improve and/or customize the content, and/or layout of our websites for our users or each individual user. This information is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Transfer, Storage, & Retention Of Information

Information collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy may be transferred, stored, or processed outside of Singapore. AFPL will comply with its obligations under the Singapore's PDPA and Personal Data Protection Regulations 2014 in relation to personal data transferred, stored, or processed outside Singapore for as long as the data remains in AFPL's possession or control during the transfer. AFPL will take appropriate steps to ascertain whether, and to ensure that, the recipient of the personal data who is located outside Singapore is legally obliged to provide to the personal data a comparable a standard of protection. However, if data needs to be transferred to or stored or processed in countries that have less stringent personal data protection laws than Singapore in order to provide you with the services you request, you are deemed to consent to such transfer, storage, or processing in providing your personal data to AFPL during your use of the Website. You may at any time inform AFPL that you wish to withdraw your consent to such transfer, storage, or processing of your personal data.

AFPL will retain all information collected for as long as you continue to use the Website or AFPL's services. If you are a member and terminate your AssureAsia.com account, AFPL will retain the information, including personal data, collected during your membership for as long as reasonably necessary for any business or legal purpose for AFPL's internal usages.

Data Protection And Information Security

We follow strict security procedures for obtaining, processing and storing the personal information with which we have been entrusted.

We will not disclose or make your personal information available to a third party (otherwise than where indicated within this privacy policy) without your consent.

You can help to protect your personal information by ensuring that you keep your login password secure. We also recommend that you log out of your account once you have completed your transaction or enquiry, especially if you are using a shared computer.

We will also correct or delete any inaccurate information that we are holding about you that is brought to our attention.

Link to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other third-party websites with whom we have a relationship. However, we are not responsible for these websites and their privacy practices. We therefore suggest that you read the privacy policy statements on any website that you visit from a link on this site, as their policies and procedures may differ from our own.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change this privacy policy we will post the changes here. However, if we intend to make material changes to the way we use your personal information, we will seek your consent before doing so.

Updated 25 May 2018

 


Assureasia.com (Registered in Singapore as a business) is not currently licensed, approved, registered or otherwise regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore or any other applicable regulator in Singapore or otherwise in respect of any of its activities, nor does it hold itself out as being so licensed, approved, registered or otherwise regulated.

Assureasia.com does not and does not hold itself out to be carrying on any activities which would require them to be so licensed, approved, registered or otherwise regulated (including but not limited to regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289) of Singapore and financial advisory services under the Financial Advisors Act (Cap. 110) of Singapore).