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PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

About This Policy

Singapore Badminton School Private Limited – (“SBSPL”) – is committed to comply with the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2012 in protecting students and parents’ personal information that has been processed by SBSPL. This document informs you of the school’s policy and practices on data privacy matters, before you provide your personal data to the SBSPL. The word “You” or any derivation thereof, as used herein refers to owner of the personal data, which include both the student and the parent/legal guardian of the child.

Source of Your Personal Data

Most, if not all, of your personal data was obtained from you directly, either from the following sources or from any other information you provided and this may include:

• Enquiry Form;

• Various type of Application and/or Registration Forms;

• All other School and/or support services related Request Forms;

• Previous qualification related documents and/or certificates

In some instances, your personal data may have been obtained from external sources including, but not restricted to the following:

• From third parties such as previous educational institutions, law enforcement agencies and other government entities;

• Third party service providers and any other future third parties in relation or incidental to the above;

• Personal data which are available in the public domain.

Personal data which may be collected from cookies through the use of the SBSPL website is governed by the Privacy Policy that can be found at www.singaporebadmintonschool.com. Nonetheless, your rights remain unaffected.

What Personal Data Do We Process?

SBSPL needs to collect and process your child’s and your personal data for various badminton training lessons, registration of both local and overseas tournaments, and overseas training courses purposes. Generally, the personal data that we collect and process include but is not restricted to: Name, Identification number (NRIC), Passport number, Visa pass, Address, Contact numbers, Personal email address, Photo and images, Nationality, Student’s Gender, Date of birth, Previous qualifications, Parents’/guardian’s marital status, Emergency contact person(s) details, Billing- related information, Employment/occupation.

If the personal data is necessary to initiate any matter with SBSPL, and you refuse to provide the personal data to SBSPL, then SBSPL will not be able to proceed further with your matter.

Use of Text and Image

If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, please send your request to admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com.

Sensitive Personal Data

Some of the personal data that we collect and process may include what is defined as ‘sensitive personal data’ under the Act and these include, but not restricted to:

Race, religion, health, records of misconduct and disciplinary action, records of criminal offence, family court orders This sensitive information shall be treated carefully by SBSPL and will only be used for specific purposes. It will not be released to a third party without your explicit consent unless it is necessary to protect your vital interests or requested by government agencies.

How Do We Use Personal Data?

The purpose for which personal data is collected and further processed includes, but not restricted to the following:

• To process application for training courses;

• To manage and respond to enquiries;

• To maintain students’ personal details, academic and non-academic records;

• To maintain a student/class register;

• To provide the relevant administrative support, counselling and pastoral services;

• To manage the use of facilities such as Fitness Centre, Track and Fields and so on;

• To administer the training / course fee and other payment;

• To communicate with students/parents/guardians on any important announcements;

• To collect information for relevant authorities;

• To contact student’s next of kin in case of emergency;

• To comply with any regulatory, audit or security related requirements

• To pursue/collect any sums in arrears by our parents/guardians;

• For all and any other ancillary purposes relating to our provision of service e.g., the supply of badminton rackets, school T-shirts, or towels;

• Any other purposes related to the smooth running of SBSPL training courses.

Provision of Information

The provision of all information requested for in the relevant forms of SBSPL is mandatory, unless specified otherwise, in enabling us to process your application/request and offer our services to you. Should you fail to provide the said information, SBSPL may be unable to process your request and/or provide you with the relevant services.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

SBSPL will keep your personal data confidential unless you have given the written consent to such disclosure or it is within the ambit of permitted disclosures under prevailing laws / guidelines. SBSPL may disclose your information to the categories of third parties as listed below (not restricted to):

• The Ministry of Education, other relevant government departments/agencies, statutory authorities and industry regulators;

• The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) and its appointed agencies;

• Foreign embassies and their appointed agencies;

• The student’s sponsors including his/her parents/guardians;

• Professional or accreditation bodies; and

Third parties appointed by SBSPL to provide services to SBSPL such as auditors, lawyers, contractors, printing companies, travel agencies, training organiser and insurance companies.

Right to Access and Correct Personal Data

You have the right to access and correct your personal information held by the School under the Act. We will attempt to keep your records complete, accurate and up-to-date. If you have any reason to believe that your records with us are inaccurate, incomplete or not updated, please notify SBSPL in a timely manner. If you wish to request for access to, or to correct data held by SBSPL, or withdraw your consent to the data processing/use of your personal data by us, please forward your request to admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com.

Although, we only process your personal data for purposes as stated above, in the event that your personal data is being processed for other purposes (with your consent), you have the right to request us to stop such processing. You may exercise this right by email to admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com. However, if you choose not to provide and/or fail to supply us with such personal data (and/or decide not to give us consent to process your personal data, including explicit consent for sensitive personal data), we will not be able to perform the contract of enrolment or process your application for enrolment with us.

Accordingly, if you decide not to provide the mandatory information to us, it may necessarily mean that the Student Contract may have to be terminated or that an offer of a place of enrolment will not be made.

Amendments to This Policy

This Policy may be reviewed and amended from time to time. We will communicate such changes along with the updated Policy on the Singapore Badminton School Private Limited website: www.singaorebadmintonschool.com. and/or other appropriate communication means as may be determined by SBSPL. Parents and students are advised to visit the Singapore Badminton School Private Limited. website on a regular basis to check for any updates and changes on this Notice.

We also use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different pages of our website, and to help us make our website more useful to visitors. From time to time your personal information may be transferred to other to 3rd party agents or representatives for the purposes of system maintenance.

Use of Links

Throughout our Web pages, we provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to our web visitors. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organisations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers. Creating a text link from your website to our website does not require permission. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Be informed, you are the person best qualified to protect your own privacy.

If you have a Link you’d like us to consider adding to our website, please send an email to admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com with the subject “Link request.”

Use of Text and Images

If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, please send your request to admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com.

Accessibility

This Website is designed to be accessible to visitors with disabilities, and to comply with general guidelines concerning accessibility. We welcome your comments. If you have suggestions on how to make the Website more accessible, please contact us at admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com.

Children and Privacy

Subject to SBSPL registered students, for children who visit our website, special rules apply. We do not request personal information about children, such as first and last name or street address and city. When kids send email to us, their online contact information (email address) is not used to re-contact them and is not maintained in retrievable form.

Storage of your information

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.

Disclosure of your information

Authorised personnel within SBSPL will be able to access the information you provide to us. We may also disclose your information to other third parties who act for us for the purposes set out in the policy or for purposes approved by you.

Please note that countries outside Singapore may not always have the same strong data protection laws.

However, we will always take steps to ensure that your information is used by third parties in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Unless required or permitted to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.

IP addresses and cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is statistical data about users’ browsing actions and patterns, does not identify any individual. It is used to inform improvements to the website, for system administration, and to report aggregate information to third parties.

For the same reasons, we use cookies on our website. Cookies are small amounts of information that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser. They tell us when you have visited our site and where you have been. They do not identify you personally, just the presence of your browser.

Cookies make it easier for you to log on and use the site during future visits. They also enable us to provide you with a more personalised service. Should you wish to do so, your browser’s help section should be able to warn you before accepting cookies and how to filter or disable them, although in the latter case, you may not be able to use certain features on our site.

Security

We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Only authorised employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information. Please help us keep our records updated by informing us of any changes to your email address and other contact details.

Online Updates

If you share your personally identifying information via our website, this information will be used only to provide you with more targeted content. We may use your contact information to send further information about our organisation or to contact you when necessary. We may contact you by e-mail and/or SMS. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future by any of these means then you may always opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the “Opt-Out” section below.

Sending us an Email

You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a Web form that provides us this information.

We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer your questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programmes that may be of interest.

We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our website, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any parties outside SBSPL.

Opt-Out or Change Your Contact Information

Our website provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. You may choose to receive only specific communications or none at all. You may also update your contact information previously provided to us. You cannot remove yourself from our database, but you can prevent unwanted communication. Kindly write to us at admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com if you wish to opt-out or change your contact information.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may amend and update this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on the website or emails.

Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore, whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or other relevant country.

The confidentiality of your personal data is important and SBSPL has enhanced its processes to comply with the Personal Data Protection Act (2012) requirements. If you have any questions, please email to admin@singaporebadmintonschool.com.