Privacy Notice
Thank you for visiting this website, a digital platform presented to you by Pleco Pilipinas Incorporated (Pleco Inc). Your privacy is important to us. As such, we provide this privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy’) to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by this platform. ‘Users’ are persons that use the Services.
By using the platform and submitting personal information through the platform, the user expressly consents to the collection, use, and disclosure of the user’s personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
I. Information we collect
The information that we collect from you may include the following:
Personal Data as required for certain services may include (but are not limited to)
Full name (Surname, First Name, Middle name)
Birthdate
Civil status
Gender
Billing or service address
Email address
Home contact number
Office contact number
Mobile number
Resume/CV
- IP Adress
II. How we use the information
We may use the Information for the following:
Provide and communicate with you about our services
Fulfill your requests regarding the services, including without limitation requests for newsletters and notifications
Respond to your inquiries
Communicate with you about other events, programs, or services that we believe may be of interest to you
Enforce the legal terms that govern your use of our platform and/or for the purposes for which you provided the Information
Provide technical support for the services
Prevent fraud or potentially illegal activities (including, without limitation, copyright infringement) on or through the platform
Protect the safety of our users
Perform analysis regarding how you use the platform or any part thereof
Serve as references for the various units of Pleco Inc., should the Information be necessary for the fulfillment of their lawful and legitimate objectives;
Update the information maintained in the databases of Pleco Inc. for its alumni network
Establish, exercise of defend legal claims
III. How we process the information
We collect, record, organize, store, update/modify, retrieve, consult, use, or consolidate your personal information during vacancy applications or inquiries for the reasons stated in section “II. How we use the information.”
IV. Information sharing and disclosure
We may disclose the Information in accordance with the purposes mentioned above as follows:
Conduct research and analytics
Provide customer, technical or operational support
Conduct or support marketing (such as email or advertising platforms)
Fulfil orders and user requests
Host our services and maintain databases
Investigate, prevent, or act (in our sole discretion) regarding potentially illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to any person, us, or the services, or violations of our policies, or the law; and
Otherwise support our services.
In response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena, a law enforcement or government agency's request or similar request.
With third parties in order to investigate, prevent, or act (in our sole discretion) regarding potentially illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to any person, us, or the Services, or violations of our policies, the law, or our Terms of Use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Services.
We may transfer some or all of your Information if we, or one of our business units, undergoes a business transition, like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part of our assets, or if a substantial portion of our or of a business unit's assets is sold or merged in this way.
When the processing of personal information is outsourced by us to a third party, the processing will be subject to written agreements between us and the third parties processing the data, in accordance with the requirements of the Data Privacy Act of 2012. These written agreements specify the rights and obligations of each party and will provide that the third party has adequate security measures in place and will only process the personal information on our specific written instructions.
V. Other important information about your privacy
Data Security – We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to help prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data security, and to correctly use the Information we collect online. These safeguards vary based on the sensitivity of the Information that we collect and store.
Complaints, Concerns and Questions – If you have any complaints, concerns, or questions regarding the processing of your personal information, please contact [email protected]
VI. Rights as the data subject
You, as the Data Subject, have rights under the Data Privacy Act, which include the following:
The right to access his/her personal information.
The right to make corrections to his/her personal information.
The right to object to the processing of his/her personal information.
The right to erasure or blocking of his/her personal information.
The right to be informed of the existence of processing of his/her personal information.
The right to damages.
The right to lodge a complaint before the National Privacy Commission.
VII. Updates and Effective Date
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about material changes by either sending an email message to the email address you most recently provided to us or by prominently posting a notice on our platform. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.
