INTRODUCTION

Academy of Safety and Emergency Care Sdn Bhd complies with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (Malaysia) and other applicable privacy legislation when dealing with personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person). 

This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. 

This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under applicable legislation, except to the extent permitted by law. 

In this policy, the Service is our service as described in our Purchaser Terms of Use. This Policy forms part of the Purchaser Terms of Use. 

We collect and maintain information that you enter on our Website or give us in any other way (collectively, “Personal Information”). You can choose not to provide certain information, but you may not be able to enjoy all the services provided by us. Personal Information we learn from you helps us to personalise and continually improve your online experience. Here are the types of Personal Information that we collect:


  • Personally Identifiable information e.g. name, photo, gender, date of birth, nationality, passport/identification card number and country of residence;
  • Contact information e.g. address (billing and shipping), email address and phone numbers;
  • Payment information e.g. credit or debit card information, including the name of cardholder, card number, card issuing bank, card issuing country, card expiry date and banking account details ;
  • Technical information e.g. IP address, time zone, device information; and
  • Behavioural information e.g. features you use on our Services, transaction information



CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We reserve the right to change, amend and/or vary may change this policy by uploading a revised policy onto our website, @ www.asec.com.my. The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy. These Terms were last updated on 1 February 2022.


WHO DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM

We collect personal information about you from you when you provide that personal information to us, including via the Service, the website and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any contact with us (e.g. telephone call or email), or when you buy or use our services and products.

If possible, we will collect personal information from you directly. Where we need to verify your identity (for example, if there are concerns around identity theft, or if you call into support and we need to authenticate your account), we may request that you provide us with government-issued identification information.


HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use your personal information:

  • to verify your identity
  • to personalise your experience when you use our Services and our communications when we contact you periodically to conduct performance improvement measures
  • to market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose)
  • to improve the services and develop new services for you
  • to undertake credit checks of you (if necessary)
  • to respond to communications from you, including a complaint
  • to conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis)
  • to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
  • for any other purpose authorised by you or applicable privacy legislation.

DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will not sell, rent, transfer or disclose any of your personal data to any third party without your consent. We may disclose your personal information to:

  • Human Resource Development Corporation (HRD Corp)
  • another company within our group
  • any business that supports our services and products, including any person that hosts or maintains any underlying IT system or data centre that we use to provide the Service, the website or other services and products
  • a credit reference agency for the purpose of credit checking you
  • other third parties (for anonymised statistical information)
  • a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority)
  • any other person authorised by applicable law (e.g. a law enforcement agency)
  • data centres and/or servers located within or outside your country for data storage purposes
  • storage facility and records management service providers
  • auditors, consultants, lawyers, accountants or other financial or professional advisers appointed in connection with our business on a strictly confidential basis, appointed by us to provide services to us; any party nominated or appointed by us either solely or jointly with other service providers, who provide services or conduct data processing on our behalf, or for data centralization and/or logistics purposes
  • any other person authorised by you.

HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • We keep your personal information for as long as the purposes for which the personal data was collected continues. This means your personal information will be destroyed or anonymised from our records and back-up systems in the event your personal data is no longer required for the said purposes.
  • Once you terminate your relationship with us, we generally will continue to store archived copies of your personal information for legitimate business purposes such as to defend a contractual claim or for audit purposes and to comply with the law, except when we receive a valid erasure request via [email protected].

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or another misuse.


ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Subject to applicable grounds for refusal set out in applicable law, you may have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold and to request a correction to ensure that the personal information you provide to us is correct, complete and accurate. Before you exercise this right, we may need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates. In respect of a request for correction, if we think the correction is reasonable and we are reasonably able to change the personal information, we will make the correction. If we do not make the correction, we will take reasonable steps to note the personal information that you requested the correction. If you want to exercise either of the above rights, email us at [email protected]. Your email should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request (e.g. the personal information, or the correction, that you are requesting).


INTERNET USE

While we take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk. If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal information. We use cookies (an alphanumeric identifier that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive so that we can recognise your browser) to monitor your use of the website. You may disable cookies by changing the settings on your browser, although this may mean that you cannot use all of the features of the website.


SECURITY

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information.


CONSENT

We or any third party engaged by us will obtain your consent and use your Personal Information at the time of collection, subject to certain legally prescribed circumstances where your consent is not required. Where required by law, we will obtain your express written consent when collecting your Personal Information, and we will get your explicit consent when processing your sensitive personal information. You may be asked to sign a form or tick a box. Generally, in using the website and our Services, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information in the ways described above (which may change from time to time) unless and until you inform us to the contrary or terminate your relationship with us.