1. About this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice explains how we handle and protect your personal that we gather or you provide to us. This Privacy Notice may be changed from time to time as the need arises. All the changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective upon posting to this website without need of any other notice to you. The use of this website constitutes your acceptance of the privacy statements contained herein. We encourage you to frequently visit this Privacy Notice for updates.

2. Personal Data Defined

Personal data as used in this Privacy Notice shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

3. Scope and administration of this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice applies to our processing of the personal information we gather or use in connection with your relationship with us as a member, customer, shareholder, investor or business partner, when you use this website and our applications, our online advertisements and electronic communications. We will only use your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

4. Who is responsible for your personal data?

Philippine Business Council LLC(G) is responsible for the collection and use of Personal Data described in this Privacy Notice. However, our website and Mobile Apps may contain links to enable you to visit third-party websites and mobile applications for your convenience and information. Please note that we do not have any control over these third-party websites or mobile applications and will not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting these third-party sites. We suggest that you review their own privacy statements before providing any personal data to them. These third-party sites may send their own cookies to users, collect or solicit personal data. Please contact these entities directly if you have any question about the use of the information that they collect.

 

5. What data we collect and why

The information we collect from you at this website may include your name, home and work contact details, business title, email address, IP address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, nationality, payment information or transaction history with us as well as your reviews and opinions about our services.

We will process your Personal Data based on the performance of our agreement with you or in our legitimate business interests in providing services to you based on your request.

The personal data we collect may be used:

• to contact you in relation with your membership, business partnership, employment and our support-related activities;
• to provide you with information you have requested;
• for billing and collection purposes;
• to contact you in case we have announcements regarding this website or our mobile apps;
• to fulfil any other purpose for which you provided it;
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the data; or
• for any other purpose with your consent.

 

6. How we collect and receive personal data

6.1 We may collect and receive Personal Data directly from you or from your authorized representatives or persons who have been validly identified as being you, from third parties (e.g. your agent or our service providers) or the Personal Data of your relatives or others where you disclose the same on their behalf, when you:

1. use any of our services;
2. use or access our Website or Mobile Apps
3. communicate with us by email, telephone, in writing or through our customer services pages or social media channels; or
4. register, create or modify an online or in-app account, including your membership and personal or business account.

6.2 Your Personal Data may also be collected from publicly available sources through our Website or Mobile Apps and other channels including our hospitals and clinics and third party providers or our subcontractors where you have consented to providing your Personal Data to them or where we subcontract them to assist us in providing services to you.

6.3 Where you disclose Personal Data on behalf of another person, you undertake and will ensure that the individual whose Personal Data is supplied to us has authorized the disclosure, is informed of and consents to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice. If the disclosure is in relation to a child’s Personal Data, you should do only as the parent or legal guardian of that child and enter into relevant contracts on behalf of that child.

7. Disclosure and Transfer of Your Information

We may disclose your Personal Data to any member of our Group or to relevant third parties for any of the purposes mentioned in Section 5 above. However, we will take appropriate steps to protect the handling and processing of your personal data in accordance with the applicable laws. Our employees are authorized to access personal data only if necessary to serve the applicable purpose and to perform their jobs.

In some cases, we may be asked to disclose certain personal data pursuant to a court order, search warrant or law enforcement request or to protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our customers, our employees or others. We may also disclose your information in order to enforce our terms of use or to protect the rights or property and/or the personal safety of our staff and customers. In addition, we may disclose your information in order to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain, to respond to an emergency and/or in the event that we sell (or propose to sell) any membership interest, property or assets, we may disclose your information to the prospective buyer.

The personal data we receive will be held on our computers and systems in Qatar and may be accessed by or given to our staff, one of our affiliates or selected suppliers or service providers working in Qatar or outside of Qatar. By submitting your information to us, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing.

8. COOKIES

We also collect information through the use of cookies. “Cookies” are small files stored on your computer with the aid of your browser. It saves and retrieves information about your visit to this website – for example, how you entered our site, how you navigated through the site, and what information was of interest to you. Where you have given your consent to marketing cookies, we will deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. You may receive communication that can be informational, or commercial with messages being served in, but not limited to, search ads, display ads, banners, e-newsletters, emails, social media ads, and other electronic messaging, including on our website itself.

If you wish, you can prevent the storing of “cookies” on your computer through appropriate browser settings. To learn how to delete or disable cookies please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. Note however that this might restrict the performance and function of our website or applications.

9. Website Log Files

Log files give us a general picture of the number of visitors and which pages are viewed most often in our website. This information is not specific to an individual viewer and is only collected to assist us in the maintenance, administration and improvement of our website. This automatically collected data will not be linked to personal data.

10. How we ensure your privacy

Your personal data’s security is important to us. We will use industry standard tools and generally accepted techniques to protect your personal data against unauthorized disclosure. However, while we strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

11. How long will the data be stored

We will retain Personal Data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, the legal or business purposes of our company, or as required by relevant laws. When destroying Personal Data, we will take commercially reasonable and technically possible measures to make the personal information irrecoverable or irreproducible in accordance with the applicable laws.

12. Revocation of Consent and Access to Your Information

You may revoke your consent to your information being used by us. You may also request access, correction, restriction, or removal of the data that we process about you at any time by sending an email to info@philippinebusinesscouncil.com. We will promptly process your request, but you may continue to receive some communications from us while your request is being processed. Thereafter we may still communicate with you to respond to your new inquiries or in connection with services you have engaged.

Any question or other concerns about the interpretation of this Privacy Notice or regarding the use of your personal information should be directed to the same email address indicated above.