PRIVACY POLICY

WHEN YOU ACCESS THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OTHER SITE OPERATED BY EK ONLINE MARKETING PTE. LTD., WHICH INCLUDES ALL ITS DIVISIONS, SUBSIDIARIES, AND RELATED COMPANIES (COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS EK ONLINE MARKETING PTE. LTD. SITES), YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. THE TERM ‘USER’ ENCOMPASSES BOTH VISITORS AND MEMBERS. ‘YOU’ REFERS TO YOU, WHETHER YOU ARE A VISITOR OR A MEMBER.

THIS POLICY OUTLINES THE METHODS OF INFORMATION GATHERING, UTILIZATION, AND DISTRIBUTION PRACTICES OF EK ONLINE MARKETING PTE. LTD., ALONG WITH ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS THE COMPANY). IT IS APPLICABLE TO THE COMPANY’S COLLECTION, UTILIZATION, STORAGE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ON ITS EK ONLINE MARKETING PTE. LTD. SITES.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS EMBEDDED WITHIN AND IS GOVERNED BY THE TERMS OF USE OF EK ONLINE MARKETING PTE. LTD.. YOUR SUSTAINED USE OF THE SERVICE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THESE TERMS. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO REFRAIN FROM PROVIDING ANY INFORMATION OR UTILIZING ANY OF THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THE WEBSITES MENTIONED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Personal Information Collected on this Website.

Visitors. We don’t gather personal information such as your name, address, phone number, email address, gender, and age. However, we do collect semi-identifying or pseudo-identifying information. This is essential for our system to provide you with relevant information in response to your requests and for marketing purposes. The personal information collected remains under your ownership, but by using this site, you give the COMPANY the permission to use that information for the disclosed purposes below.

No Information Collected from Children

EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Sites are designed for general audiences and aim to be utilized by adults. The COMPANY doesn’t knowingly solicit, gather, or attract personal data from or about children. EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Sites are not aimed at children, and the COMPANY has no intention of collecting any personally identifiable information from users under the age of 13. The safety of children is of paramount importance to the COMPANY, and it strongly advises parents to review this Privacy Policy and understand its terms and conditions, ensuring that EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Sites are used exclusively by individuals aged 13 and over.

How We May Use Your Personal Information

The COMPANY might utilize your personal data to deliver the services requested, inclusive of services that showcase personalized content and advertisements. We reserve the right to disclose, transfer, sell or lease your personally identifying information to third-party businesses and to other entities affiliated with the COMPANY. Furthermore, we may collaborate with other businesses to offer opportunities to our Members. This implies that we may use personal information to extend promotional offers to Members via email advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, online banner advertising, and package inserts, among other methods (collectively referred to as Promotions). Third-party businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, such as lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression, and validation. We may also leverage such information to enhance content and for feedback purposes. The COMPANY might also utilize personal information for auditing, research, and analysis to enhance our technologies and services. We may also disclose personal information to the necessary extent if the COMPANY is sold, acquired, or in other situations deemed necessary or suitable.

Legal Proceedings

The COMPANY may reveal your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order, when required by law, or, at our sole discretion, where we believe it necessary to safeguard any individual or the public or to prevent the infringement of the COMPANY’s or any third party’s rights.

SECURITY

The COMPANY employs industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our reasonable control. While we make good faith efforts to store the information collected on EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Sites in a secure operating environment that isn’t accessible to the public, we can’t guarantee complete security. Furthermore, while we strive to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we can’t guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party hackers from illegally obtaining this information.

Email and Unsubscribe Policy

The COMPANY does not gather your email address. We don’t have control over third-party businesses that maintain separate databases from the COMPANY. Hence, if you register for any services on a third-party website not controlled by the COMPANY, as a result of following an affiliate link from one of our sites, you’ll need to unsubscribe from each source individually, if desired.

Financial Information

At present, we do not collect Financial Information, but there might be instances where we gather details such as credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other associated information, such as the expiry date of the credit card (referred to as ‘Financial Information’). If this Financial Information is provided to us, it will be encrypted and safeguarded with SSL encryption software. We utilize the Financial Information for processing and completing a purchase transaction with a third party using a link you clicked on, and the Financial Information will only be revealed to third parties as required to finalize the purchase transaction. This information will not be sold or distributed to third parties in any manner.

Anonymous Information

We log anonymous data such as traffic logs, number of visits or clicks on a specific page, pages viewed or links to our site. We use IP addresses and cookies to gather website statistics and store IP addresses on our server in case a EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Site becomes corrupted and we need to identify the cause of this corruption. This anonymous data is aggregated for the purpose of managing, maintaining, and reporting on the use of our EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Sites. We may share this anonymous data with third parties for the limited purpose of reporting on the use of a EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Site, or to comply with applicable law. We do not rent, sell or share any anonymous data collected on this website with third parties for marketing purposes. None of this anonymous data is linked to personally-identifiable information, and we make no attempt to link IP addresses to the individuals who visit this site.

Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Info Collected Using Technology

We currently use cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain Internet-related information about a person with information about the person in our database.

third party advertising companies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our EK EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Site and sites upon which we advertise. These third-party advertising companies use information about your visits to our EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Sites and the sites upon which we advertise, to serve COMPANY ads to you. In the course of our advertisements being served to you, these companies may place or recognize their own unique third-party cookies on your browser. In addition, we may use Web beacons, provided by some of our third-party advertising companies, to help manage our online advertising. These Web beacons allow us to recognise a browser’s cookie when a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to our website.

  • Cookies. Cookies are small chunks of data created by a web server, delivered through a web browser, and stored on your computer. They provide a means for websites that you visit to keep track of your online patterns and preferences, as well as identify you as a return visitor. Cookies make the personalization of your web experiences possible, so that you do not need to re-enter your information from scratch upon each visit to a given website.
  • Web Beacons. A web beacon is programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page, but can also be used to transfer an individual’s unique user identification (often in the form of a cookie) to a database and associate the individual with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows us to track certain websites an individual visits online. Web beacons are used to determine products or services an individual may be interested in, and to track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes.
  • Usage Tracking and Log Files. The COMPANY tracks information related to the web pages viewed by you, as well as the hyperlinks clicked by you while visiting our websites. Log files are used to track and monitor usage.
  • IP Address. We collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to help diagnose problems with our server. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. Your IP address is also used to help identify you during a particular session and to gather broad demographic data.

Links to External Websites

Our emails and websites may contain links to external websites not owned or operated by the COMPANY (Linked Sites). You will be taken to external websites if you click on these links. Your information may be passed from the COMPANY’s database to the external website, and/or external database, for your convenience (e.g. your information may be used to pre-fill a form at a destination website). You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Linked Sites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such Linked Sites. Consequently, the operators of Linked Sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the EK Online Marketing PTE. LTD. Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies on the Linked Sites. THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THE ACTIONS OF, PRIVACY PRACTICES OF, OR INFORMATION CONTAINED ON OR COLLECTED VIA LINKED SITES.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS’ PRIVACY RIGHTS

Companies that collect personally identifiable information from California residents and disclose such information to third parties (including affiliated entities) for marketing purposes must, in response to a request by a consumer, either (1) provide a list detailing the categories of information shared and the entities to which such information was provided, or (2) provide a mechanism by which a consumer may opt-out of having their information shared with Third Parties. We have elected the second option and you may request to opt-out of any personal information being shared by emailing the following address: mailto:info@ekonlinemarketing.com. In accordance with California Civil Code Sec. 1789.3, California resident users are entitled to know that they may file grievances and complaints with California Department of Consumer Affairs, 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834; or by phone at 916-445-1254 or 800-952-5210; or by email to dca@dca.ca.gov.

Some of the web search services offered here are provided by CodeFuel and are powered by CodeFuel’s search partners. For details on the web search services’ data collection, please visit http://www.codefuel.com/legal/end_user_privacy_policy, and the privacy policy of the applicable search provider, both of which may be updated from time to time and at any successor locations.