The Company only collects information wherever it is essential and only where it is relevant to our operations so as to be able to provide You with the best experience and service. The Company shall not collect, use or disclose Your personal information unless You give consent to us for the collection, use or disclosure of Your personal information. The Company promises to only collect and use personal information as mentioned below:
The items so collected shall constitute “Personal Data“, which is defined under the Personal Data Protection Act of Singapore (the “PDPA“) to mean any data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data or from that data and other information to which an organisation has or is likely to have access. Personal Data collected by the Company shall be subject to complete protection by the Company in accordance with applicable law.
Generally, the Company will collect Personal Data when You:
When You browse our Site, You generally do so anonymously. You will not be required to provide any personal details while browsing the Site.
The Company collects Personal Data in two ways. The first is when You provide us with information while using the Site, including filling out forms or contacting the Company using the given contact details. The second is when You browse the Site, where technical non-identifiable data is collected. You should ensure that all Personal Data that You submit to us is complete, accurate, true and correct. Failure on Your part to submit this information accurately may result in our inability to provide You with the best possible experience while using our Site and any of our products.
Browsing the Site will not require You to provide any personal details, so no sensitive Personal Data is automatically collected. You will remain anonymous and You will remain unidentified until You choose to register an account or make an enquiry by leaving Your details on the Site. The Company will protect Your Personal Data in strict accordance with applicable laws, including in accordance with the provisions of the PDPA. Nevertheless, You acknowledge and agree that communications through the Internet are not entirely secure and that any information transferred to the Company is done so at Your own risk. The Company does not warrant or guarantee that the information You provide will not be accessed, copied, used, or disposed of in breach of its security measures, and You agree not to hold us liable or responsible for any loss or damage resulting therefrom. In the event of such a breach, the Company will, as far as reasonably possible, promptly notify all affected persons, including You. Unless required by law or a Court order or direction, or unless as relevant for the purpose stated:
By accepting these conditions, and by continuing to use the Site, You agree and accept that all information provided by You will be true and will be kept up to date during Your continuing use of the Site.
You agree to provide up to date, accurate and correct personal information details, as requested by the Company. You agree that the Company shall not be liable for the misuse of any such details unless the misuse is as a result of the Company’s actions or proven gross negligence.
By using the Site, You represent that You are at least the age of 18 years old, or You have given us Your consent to allow any of Your minor dependents to use the Site as the case may be. The Company strongly encourages parents and guardians to supervise the online activities of their minor children and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent minors from disclosing their name, address, and other personally identifiable information online without parental permission. Although the Site are not intended for use by minors, the Company respects the privacy of minors who may inadvertently use the internet or the mobile application.
The Company will endeavour to ensure that the Personal Data collected is safely stored. The Company will protect all information by:
The Company may use Your Personal Data for the purposes below if we deem it necessary to do so for its legitimate interests. If You are not satisfied by this, You have the right to object in certain circumstances (see the section headed “Data Protection Rights” below).
Generally, the Company may use Your information for:
B. Additional Purposes:
In addition, where permitted by applicable law, the Company may also collect and use data collected from You for:
The Company is committed in its endeavour to comply with applicable law governing the protection of Personal Data. However, in exceptional circumstances, if the Company is required by law or by a court order or direction to disclose personal information, we will do so.
The Company will take reasonable steps to protect Your Personal Data against unauthorised disclosure. Subject to the provisions of applicable law, the Personal Data will be used only for the purposes stated in the section headed “Collection and Use of Data” above or to the following third parties, wherever located:
Persons who have subscribed for our updates on the Site (“Subscribers“) Note:
This section applies to all Subscribers:
As part of the signing-up process that is available to Subscribers on the Site, certain information, including Personal Data or sensitive personal information is collected from the Subscribers.
All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all Subscribers, and all Subscribers are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Data or sensitive personal information to the Company, failing which they are required to leave the Site immediately.
The Company will communicate with the Subscribers through e-mail. The Subscribers can change their e-mail address by re-subscribing and sending an e-mail to enquiry@paragoncapital.sg for the deletion of previous e-mail.
All of the Company’s employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal data or information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every Subscribers’ Personal Data or sensitive personal information.
To the extent necessary to provide Subscribers with our services, the Company may provide their Personal Data to third party contractors who work on behalf of or with us to provide Subscribers with our services, to help us communicate with Subscribers or to maintain the Site. Generally, these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information, however certain contractors who provide services on the Site, including the providers of online communications services, may use and disclose the personal information collected in connection with the provision of these services in accordance with their own privacy policies. In such circumstances, You consent to us disclosing Your personal information to contractors, solely for the intended purposes only.
Subscribers may choose to unsubscribe from marketing communications that they receive from the Company or manage their preferences via the links provided at the end of every such e-mail and/or promotional communication.
If You have voluntarily provided Your Personal Data to us for any of the purposes stated above, You hereby consent to such collection and use of such information by us.
Collection, use and disclosure of information which has been designated as Personal Data under the PDPA requires Your express consent. By affirming Your assent to this Privacy Policy, You provide Your consent to such use, collection and disclosure as required under applicable law. Our services may be unavailable to You in the event such consent through an e-mail is not given.
You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information You submit to us, such as Your contact information provided as part of account registration. If Your personal information changes, You may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by making the change on Your account page or by contacting us at enquiry@paragoncapital.sg. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. If You provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete), or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by You is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, we may, at our sole discretion, discontinue the provision of our services to You. There may be circumstances where we will not correct, delete or update Your Personal Data, including (i) where the Personal Data is opinion data that is kept solely for evaluative purpose; and (ii) the Personal Data is in documents related to a prosecution if all proceedings relating to the prosecution have not been completed.
If You wish to cancel Your account or request that we no longer use Your information to provide You services, contact us through enquiry@paragoncapital.sg. We will retain Your information for as long as Your account with the Services is active and as needed to provide You the services. We shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force. After a period of time, Your data may be anonymised and aggregated, and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our services effectively, but our use of the anonymised data will be solely for analytic purposes. Please note that Your withdrawal of consent, or cancellation of account may result in us being unable to provide You with our services or to terminate any existing relationship we may have with You.
If You wish to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding the services, You may do so via Your e-mail and/or account.
This Privacy Policy applies to services that are owned and operated by us. We do not exercise control over the websites displayed as search results or links from within its services. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on the Your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from You, for which we are not responsible or liable. Accordingly, we do not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor do we guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by us of the website, the website’s provider, or the information on the website. If You decide to visit a third party website linked to our Site, You do this entirely at Your own risk. We encourage the You to read the privacy policies of that third party website.
We do not collect information about the visitors of the Site from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations, save and except for the purposes of registration as an User (the collection, use, storage and disclosure of which each User must agree to in order for us to effectively render the services).
We maintain a strict “No-Spam” policy, which means that we do not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give Your e-mail address to a third party without Your consent.
Personal Data collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy may be transferred, stored, or processed outside of Singapore. We will comply with our obligations under the 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 our possession or control during the transfer. We will take appropriate steps 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 us during Your use of the Site. You may at any time inform us that You wish to withdraw Your consent to such transfer, storage, or processing of Your Personal Data. There are appropriate safeguards applied by the Company on the Personal Data collected, recorded and used in any mode, whether on paper, online or any other media are in line with our data protection obligations. The Personal Data is protected by controls designed to minimise loss or damage through accident, negligence or deliberate actions. The Company’s employees also protect sensitive and personal information when storing or transferring information electronically and undertake annual training on this. Our security controls are aligned to industry standards and good practice; providing a control environment that effectively manages risks to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Personal Data. Note to residents of the European Union (EU) Whenever the Company needs to transfer Your Personal Data out of the EU, we will require Your explicit consent. Please contact the Company if You want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring Your Personal Data out of the EU.
You have the following data protection rights:
Please contact the Company at enquiry@paragoncapital.sg if You wish to exercise any of Your rights above. Furthermore, if You believe, that Your Personal Data may have been, or may imminently be in danger of being breached, or if You have reason to believe that such data may, for some reason, soon be breached please immediately contact the Company. The Company may need to request specific information from You to help us confirm Your identity and ensure Your Right to Access Your Personal Data (or to exercise any of Your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. The Company will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one (1) month. Occasionally it may take longer than that if the request is particularly complex or You have made a number of requests. In this case, the Company will notify You and keep You updated.
When You interact with us on our Site, You understand and accept that the Company uses “Cookies“, where a small data file is sent to Your browser to store and track certain anonymous information such as number of users, frequency of use and the number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the Site (“Aggregate Information“) about You when You use the Site. Your Personal Data is not at risk in any way due to the implementation of the Cookies. You can accept or delete cookies. For security reasons, You may wish to deactivate the storing of cookies or adjust Your browser to inform You before the cookies are stored on Your computer. However, please note that if You do erase or block the cookies, You may not be able to utilise some features on the Site. In such situations, we shall not be held liable for any loss or damage resulting from Your inability to use those features. The Company may also collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your Internet Service Provider allocates an IP address to your computer in order for it to access the Internet. The IP address is considered to be non-personal information and it may be dynamic (changing every time you connect to the Internet) or it may be static (unique to your computer). The Company collects your IP address in order to facilitate its administration and improvement of the Platforms. The information derived from your IP address can help the Company diagnose server problems, report aggregate information, and determine the fastest route from your computer to the Platforms.
Our Site may include certain social media features, such as the Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn buttons and widgets. These features may collect Your IP address, which page You are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the third party website providing such features.
The Company may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. As always, if You object to any of the changes to our terms, and You no longer wish to use the services, You may contact us at enquiry@paragoncapital.sg. Unless stated otherwise, the Company’s current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about You and/or Your account. If You use the Site; or access the Site after a notice of changes has been sent to You, or published on the Site, You hereby provide Your consent to the changed terms.
Should You have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Company’s information collection, use and disclosure practices, or if You would like to access, correct, amend or delete any Personal Data the Company may have about You, register a complaint, or simply want more information, please contact the Company at:
We will use reasonable efforts to respond promptly to any requests, questions or concerns, which You may have regarding our use of Your Personal Data.