Privacy

Your privacy is important to Shadespace. Please read through the following before providing us with any of your personal data. Your continued use of our website constitutes your acknowledgement and understanding of, and agreement with, our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy.

APPLICATION

This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected, used, disclosed (including transferred out of Singapore), and otherwise processed (collectively, “processed”) by our website. Such personal data will be processed in accordance with the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”), its associated regulations and subsidiary legislation, and guidelines issued by the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”). Jurisdictions outside of Singapore may have different local data protection standards.

PERSONAL DATA

The types of personal data we collect from you include but is not limited to:

– Your name;
– Mailing address(es);
– Telephone number(s);
– Email address(es);
– Date of birth;
– Gender;
– Nationality;
– Answers you provide to security questions (e.g. mother’s maiden name, pet’s name);
– Payment information and transaction details;
– Aggregated site statistics data;
– Any other information you choose to provide to us, or that we may collect about you through your interactions with our website.

Your personal data is collected when you:

– Visit our website with a cookies-enabled browser [or (if applicable) register a user account with our website];
– Request services from us such as subscribing to our mailing lists for post or phone updates;
– Fill in any forms on our website;
– Submit a CV, job application, or any comment, question or feedback to us, or contact or correspond with us in any way;
– Make purchases of goods or services through our website.

Your personal data will be used for the following purposes:

To facilitate your access to our website [or (if applicable) the creation of your user account with our website];
To evaluate your website preferences and for the maintenance of the website;
To evaluate and manage your online job application (if applicable);
To send you updates via email, post or telephone where appropriate;
To answer your queries, respond to your comments and feedback, or provide you with assistance in any other way;
To facilitate online purchases of goods and services; and
Our related entities, including subsidiaries;
Third-party service providers (such as subcontractors, agents or network operators) who are employed to perform business and administrative functions;
Third party businesses with whom we collaborate;
Government bodies; and
Your personal data may be transferred out of Singapore from time to time. Such transfers will be carried out in accordance with the PDPA. Third parties, with the exception of Government bodies and other public agencies, are subject to data protection obligations and may only use your personal data to perform the necessary functions.
To identify the causes of problems arising at web servers and to resolve these problems;
To improve the contents of the website;
To customize the content of the website and our emails to suit your individual interests or purposes and selectively display best-matched pages to you;
To utilize your browsing history on the website for demographic research; and
To obtain static data of web visitors and aggregated website visitation statistics which are anonymous in nature.
We do not sell or trade your personal data to external parties. We may, however, also disclose or transfer personal data as otherwise permitted or required by law, including for compliance with regulations on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism.

You may reject our use of cookies by configuring your browser to disable the use of cookies. However, you may no longer be able to receive services or personalized features of the website which rely on the use of cookies.

WEBSITE COOKIES

When you visit our website, we may assign your web browser one or more website cookies. Cookies are small text files used to enhance your shopping experience, including, but not limited to, maintaining current login, and providing a unique identifier for website statistics.

We may use cookies and web-beacons on the website for the following purposes:

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The website may contain links to other third party websites and microsites, whose privacy practices may differ from those of ours. If you submit personal data to any of those sites, your personal data is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website you visit. By clicking on or activating such links and leaving our website, we can no longer exercise control over any personal data which you give to any other entity after leaving our website. Any access to such other third party websites is therefore entirely at your own risk.

OPTING-OUT / WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT / RETENTION OF DATA

If you would like to unsubscribe from our newsletter, detailed instructions are provided at the bottom of all emails sent out. If you would like to unsubscribe from any of our other mailing lists, or to withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data, please write to our Data Protection Officer at hello@shadespace.com.sg

Your personal data will be retained for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it is collected or for business or legal purposes, or in accordance with applicable laws. Your personal data may also continue to be retained on our databases to the extent permitted by law.

SECURITY

We take reasonable precautions to protect your information and process it securely. Shadespace is a secured site with an approved SSL Cert. Other measures include, but are not limited to passwords, firewalls, and other standardized industry practices. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or electronic storage, is 100% secure and we cannot be held liable for any loss you may suffer for unauthorized access or loss of any data provided to our website.

Nevertheless, we strive to protect the security of your information, and are constantly reviewing and enhancing our information security measures. We may, but are not obliged to, post a notice on our website if a security breach occurs, or send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances.

AMENDMENTS

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. The Effective Date stated below indicates the last time this Privacy Policy was materially revised. You are encouraged to review this page periodically to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

Updated: 1st Jan 2023

CONTACT US

All other questions on our use of your personal data should be addressed to our Data Protection Officer, whom you may contact at hello@shadespace.com.sg