Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.thepeoplesinc.org.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
1. Introduction
At PINC Interactive Pte. Ltd. (“PINC”), we respect the privacy and confidentiality of the personal data of our Clients, Associates and others with whom we interact within the course of providing our services. We are committed to implementing policies, practices and processes to safeguard the collection, use and disclosure of the personal data you provide us in compliance with the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2012.
We have developed this Data Privacy Notice to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, disclose, process, protect and retain your personal data that is in our possession.
2. How We Collect Your Personal Data
Personal data refers to any information that can uniquely identify an individual person (a) on its own or (b) when combined with other information. Under the PDPA, business contact information (e.g. full name, business address, business telephone number) is not considered personal data so long as it is used strictly for business-to-business (B2B) transactions.
We collect your personal data when you:
- Enter into an agreement or contract with us to provide you with our software-as-a-service.
- Enter into an agreement or contract with us to provide you with our consultancy and advisory services.
- Register for our community platform to interact with other users within the platform.
- Register for and enrol in any training courses and certification programmes that we conduct (including processing your applications under any government funding programmes that we are under).
- Respond to our electronic direct mails (EDMs) sent by us as part of our marketing or promotion campaigns through an authorised third party EDM service provider.
- Are referred to us for our services by one of our clients.
- Enquire about our range of training courses and services.
- Visit our website and leave behind your contact information through our contact form.
- Communicate with us via email or written correspondence.
3. Types of Personal Data We Collect About You
The types of personal data we collect about you include:
- First name
- Last name
- Company name (optional)
- Country/Region
- Street address
- Town/City (optional)
- Postal code
- Phone
- Email address
- Credit card
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We use the personal data you provide us for one or more of the following purposes:
- Enrolling you on our training programmes.
- Analyse your visits to our website.
- Provide our consultancy and advisory services.
- Conduct training courses and programmes that you have signed up for.
- Process account payables and receivables.
- Process billing, payment and other credit-related activities.
- Conduct direct marketing and lead generation activities by analysing and tracking our sales proposals, advertisements and EDMs at our events, conferences, seminars and workshops.
- Conduct joint marketing with other companies and service providers.
- Communicate with customers, members and website visitors.
- Respond to your inquiries and feedback to improve our quality of service.
- Analyse the use of our products, services or websites.
- Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts between you and us.
- Comply with or fulfil legal obligations and regulatory requirements.
5. Who We Disclose Your Personal Data To
We disclose some of the personal data you provide us to the following entities or organisations outside PINC in order to fulfil our services to you:
- Internal cross-platform within PINC.
- External educational regulators (e.g. Skillsfuture Singapore).
- External professional service providers (Book-keepers).
- EDM and email service vendors (e.g. Mailchimp).
- Cloud service providers (e.g. DigitalOcean).
Where required to do so by law, we may disclose your personal data to the relevant authorities or law enforcement agencies.
6. How We Manage the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data
6.1. Obtaining Consent
Before we collect, use or disclose your personal data, we will notify you of the purpose why we are doing so. We will obtain written confirmation from you on your expressed consent. We will not collect more personal data than is necessary for the stated purpose. We will seek fresh consent from you if the original purpose of collecting, using or disclosing your personal data has changed.
Under certain circumstances, we may assume deemed consent from you when you voluntarily provide your personal data for the stated purpose, e.g. when you apply for a job with us by sending in your resume/CV containing personal information.
We may rely on exceptions to the need for consent under the PDPA to collect, use or disclose your personal data under the following circumstances (only those relevant to PINC are included):
- The personal data is publicly available.
- The personal data is disclosed by a public agency or disclosed to a public agency.
- The personal data is necessary for any investigation or proceedings.
- The personal data is necessary for evaluative purposes (e.g. determining the suitability of a job applicant for the job applied for).
- The personal data is necessary to manage or terminate an employment relationship.
- The personal data is necessary for a business asset transaction.
6.2. Withdrawal of Consent
If you wish to withdraw consent, you should give us reasonable advance notice. We will advise you of the likely consequences of your withdrawal of consent, e.g. without your personal contact information; we may not be able to inform you of future services offered by us.
Your request for withdrawal of consent can take the form of an email or letter to us or through the “Unsubscribe” feature in an online service.
6.3. Use of Cookies
We use “cookies” to collect information about your online activity on our website. A cookie is a small text file created by the website stored on your computer to allow the website to recognise you and keep track of your preferences. The cookie makes it convenient for you such that you do not have to retype the same information again when you revisit the website or in filling out electronic forms.
Most cookies we use are “session cookies”, which will be deleted automatically from your computer’s hard disk at the end of the session.
You may choose not to accept cookies by turning off this feature in your web browser. Note that you may not be able to use some of the features and functions in our web applications by doing so.
6.4. Third-Party Consent
We do not get consent on behalf of another individual. We only get consent from the individual who will be dealing directly with us.
7. How We Ensure the Accuracy of Your Personal Data
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data we collect about you is accurate, complete, not misleading and kept up-to-date.
From time to time, we may do a data verification exercise for you to update us on any changes to the personal data we hold about you. If we are in an ongoing relationship with you, it is important that you update us on any changes to your personal data (such as a change in your mailing address).
8. How We Protect Your Personal Data
We have implemented appropriate information security and technical measures to protect the personal data we hold about you against loss, misuse, destruction, unauthorised alteration/modification, access, disclosure, or similar risks.
We have also put in place reasonable and appropriate organisational measures to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data and will only share your data with authorised persons on a ‘need to know’ basis.
When we engage third-party data processors to process personal data on our behalf, we will ensure that they provide sufficient guarantees to us to have implemented the necessary organisational and technical security measures and have taken reasonable steps to comply with these measures.
9. How We Retain Your Personal Data
We have a document retention policy that keeps track of the retention schedules of the personal data you provide us, in paper or electronic forms. We will not retain any of your personal data when it is no longer needed for business or legal purposes.
We will dispose of or destroy such documents containing your personal data in a proper and secure manner when the retention limit is reached.
10. How You Can Access and Make Corrections to Your Personal Data
You may write to us to find out how we have been using or disclosing your personal data over the past one year. Before we accede to your request, we may need to verify your identity by checking your NRIC or other legal identification documents. We will respond to your request as soon as possible, or within 30 days from the date, we receive your request. If we are unable to do so within 30 days, we will let you know and give you an estimate of how much longer we require. We may also charge you a reasonable fee for the cost involved in processing your access request.
If you find that the personal data we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or not up-to-date, you may ask us to correct the data. Where we are satisfied on reasonable grounds that a correction should be made, we will correct the data as soon as possible or within 30 days from the date we receive your request.
11. Transfer of Personal Data
Where there is a need to transfer your personal data to another country outside Singapore, we will ensure that the standard of data protection in the recipient country is comparable to that of Singapore’s PDPA. If this is not so, we will enter into a contractual agreement with the receiving party to accord similar levels of data protection as those in Singapore.
12. Mandatory Data Breach Notification
In the unlikely event that we suffer a data breach is pertaining to unauthorised access or disclosure of personal data being stored or processed by us, we will meet the PDPA’s breach notification timelines and requirements to perform the needful, including but not limited to informing relevant authorities and affected individuals, based on the Significant Harm or Significant Scale definitions as set out by the PDPA.
13. Contacting Us
If you have any queries or feedback regarding this Notice or any complaints about how we manage your personal data, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at dpo@thepeoplesinc.org.
Any query or complaint should include at least the following details:
- Your full name and contact information.
- Brief description of your query or complaint.
We treat such queries and feedback seriously and will deal with them confidentially and within a reasonable time.
14. Changes to this Data Privacy Notice
We may update this Data Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the latest Notice on our website. Please visit our website periodically to note any changes.
Changes to this Notice take effect when they are posted on our website
Last updated: April 1, 2022