The last update to our Privacy Policy was posted on 07 Dec 2021.
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Thank you for examining our Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy governs our online educational mobile application and website, including all modifications, enhancements or updates thereto (“Platform”) as operated by Aureus Group Pte Ltd, its subsidiaries, affiliates and parent companies (“Aureus”, “we”, “our” or “us”). Terms used herein shall, unless otherwise defined, bear the same meanings as in our Terms of Use, which may be found at Terms of Use.
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Your privacy is especially important to us, and we are committed to maintaining your trust. Accordingly, we have developed this Privacy Policy for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, and process your personal data, in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore (“PDPA”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand what we do. If you do not understand any aspects of our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at pdpa@aureusacademy.com. For the avoidance of doubt, we will not share your personally identifiable information except as provided herein.

By accessing or using our Platform, you shall be deemed to have accepted to be legally bound by and consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy either in your individual capacity or as a parent or legal guardian. Your continued use of our Platform after any changes to this Privacy Policy, whether reviewed by you, shall constitute your consent and acceptance of the revised terms. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use our Platform.

If you are a child or minor below the age of 18 years, please inform and seek the consent of your parent or legal guardian before you provide your personal data to us. If you are a parent or legal guardian and you have reason to believe your child or ward has provided us with their personal data without your consent, please contact us to remove, destroy or delete their personal data.

• 1. Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Data

• We may collect the following personal data from you:
• Your account information. We collect your identification number (NRIC, FIN, or passport), address, date of birth, email address and telephone number, as well as service-related information such as bank and credit card details when you register with us. You may provide us with the telephone numbers in your mobile address book, including those of both users and your other contacts. You confirm that you are authorised to provide us with such numbers;
• Device and connection information. We collect device-specific information when you access or use our Platform. This includes information such as the hardware model, operating system information, browser information, IP address, mobile network information including phone number and device identifiers;
• Usage and log information. We collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information when you use our Platform. This includes information about your activity (such as how you use our Platform, how you interact with other users using our, etc), log files, and diagnostic, crash and performance logs and reports;
• Your attendance records and usage of our Platform. We collect your attendance records, progress, and completion of our online lessons, seminars, webinars, events, or service offerings.
• Your usage of our Platform. To improve our performance and for quality and training purposes, we may retain records of your voice, likeness, and image (e.g., in the form of photographs or video and audio recordings) while you use our Platform;
• Voluntarily provided information. We collect voluntarily provided information to us, such as when you register with us or post or share any content on the Platform;
• Your messages. When you message us or other users on the Platform, we retain your messages (including your note or recording of a call to us, email, or letter you sent us or other records of contact with us, chats, photos, videos, voice messages and files) on our servers in the ordinary course of providing our services to you. To improve performance and deliver messages more efficiently, such as real-time market data, we may retain such content on our servers for a longer period;
• Customer support and feedback. We collect copies of your messages and how to contact you to provide customer support when you contact us with queries or provide feedback to us on your use of our Platform;
• Transactional information. If you pay for our services, we may receive information and confirmations, such as payment receipts, including from app stores or other third parties processing your payment;
• Information others provide about you. We may receive information that other people provide to us, which may include information about you. For example, when other users you know use our Platform, they may provide your telephone number from their mobile address book (just as you may provide theirs);
• Third-Party providers. We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customise, support and market our Platform. These providers may provide us information about you in certain circumstances; and
• Third-Party services. We may allow you to use our Platform in connection with third-party services. Please note that when you use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.
• We may collect, use and/or disclose your personal data for the following purposes:
  
• setting up your registered user account and profile on the Platform;
  
• to provide and improve our Platform, including informing you of any change or updates to our Platform;
  
• to organise the data to allow you to view, manage your information, or to help you visualise your data;
  
• for targeted online marketing;
  
• for accounting, billing, and verification purposes;
  
• to contact you regarding any complaints, feedback, queries, requests, claims or disputes;
  
• to facilitate investigations into or to take action regarding any suspicious or illegal activity on the Platform;
  
• for internal review, business improvement, and quality and training purposes;
  
• for internal administrative and management purposes;
  
• where required by any act, statute, law, or regulation, rules, directives, or by the order of a government authority or a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction;
  
• such other purposes as consented to by you; and
  
• any other purpose reasonably related to the aforesaid.
  
• We may disclose your personal data to our partners, service providers, contractors, select vendors and affiliates whom we have engaged to provide our services, to maintain the Platform or to protect the security or integrity of the Platform and our databases. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to us, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
• We may also share your personal data with our affiliates, subsidiaries and parent companies, industry regulators and other government organisations as required by local law and regulations, financial institutions, research institutions for market analysis purposes, or other third parties in our partner network who we work with to deliver our services. In some cases, the information will be encrypted, anonymised or aggregated, whereby all identifying information has been removed, such that the remaining data does not identify any person.
  
• Please refer to Clause 10 below for details on how you can contact us should you decide to withdraw your consent.
  

• 2. Confidentiality

• Save where expressly provided herein, we will not reveal to any person or company any personal data which may come to our knowledge hereunder and shall keep with complete secrecy the personal data provided by you and shall not use or attempt to use any such personal data in any manner without your permission. These restrictions shall cease to apply to information or knowledge which may come into the public domain other than as a result of any act or breach of this Privacy Policy by us.
  

• 3. Changing, Deleting, or Requesting Access to Your Personal Data

• You may review and change your personal data in your account settings. We will not be responsible for any modification of your personal data specified in your account.
  
• We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy and any applicable terms and conditions.
  
• You have a limited right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal data, please send an access request email to pdpa@aureusacademy.com. There may be a small charge for this service.
  
• We will take all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is accurate, complete, and up to date. If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example, if you change your email address or payment details, please let us know the correct details by changing your details in your account settings or sending an email to contact@aureusacademy.com. You may ask us, or we may ask you, to correct the information that you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information that is inaccurate.
  
• We may fulfil or reject your request in accordance with the PDPA. Please allow us a reasonable time to respond and/or effect any correction/request.
  

• 4. Protecting Your Personal Data

• The security of your personal information is important to us. Your account information is protected by a password chosen by you. It is important that you protect against unauthorised access to your account and information by choosing your password carefully and keeping your password and computer or mobile device secure by signing out after using our Platform.
  
• You should also take appropriate measures to keep your information, software, and equipment secure. This includes clearing your browser cookies and cache before and after using any services on the Platform.
  
• Where appropriate, we will take reasonable security safeguards to protect your personal data against loss or theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Please be aware that the sending of information via the internet is not completely secure and on occasion, such information can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee the security of data that you choose to send us electronically, and you send such information at your own risk. We do not accept liability for the security, authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of any transaction and other communications made through the Platform.
  
• Internet communications may be susceptible to interference or interception by third parties. Despite our best efforts, we make no warranties that the Platform is free of viruses or other unauthorised software.
  

• 5. Cookies

• When you access third-party services or webpages through the Platform, such third parties may use cookies in connection with their operations or your use of their services. Cookies may transmit information about you, such as your IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session. Please refer to the privacy policies of such third parties to learn how they use cookies.
  
• Third parties may also be able to associate the information they collect with other information they have about you from other sources. We do not have access to or control over the cookies that they use.
  

• 6. Special Information for EU Users (applicable to EU Data Subjects only)

• The processing of personal data of users in the European Union is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). This section summarises our grounds for processing personal information under the GDPR and the rights of EU users as relates to our handling of personal information.
  
• If you are a user in the EU, you can exercise the following rights with respect to our handling of your personal information:
  
• you have the right to request access to the information that we have about you and how we use that information.
  
• you also have the right to receive a copy of the information that we collect about you.
  
• if we have information about you that you believe is inaccurate, you have the right to request for your information to be corrected.
  
• you also have the right to restrict how we process the information about you. This means we are permitted to store the information but not further process it.
  
• you may also request that we:
  
• provide a detailed explanation regarding the information we have collected about you and how we use that information;
  
• provide a copy of the information that we have collected about you; and
  
• correct any inaccurate information that we have about you by either changing your account details within the app or contacting us at contact@aureusacademy.com.
  
• you have the right to delete your account.
  
• We retain user profile and other information for as long as you maintain your account. We retain transaction, location, usage, and other information for as long as is reasonably necessary for legal or business purposes in connection with regulatory, tax, insurance, or other requirements in the places in which we operate. We take steps to prevent access to or use of such information for any purpose other than compliance with these requirements or for purposes of safety, security and fraud prevention and detection.
  
• You may request deletion of your account at any time. We may retain certain information about you as required by law and for legitimate business purposes permitted by law. In certain circumstances, we may be unable to delete your account, such as if there is an outstanding credit on your account or an unresolved claim or dispute. Upon resolution of the issue preventing deletion, we will delete your account as described above.
  
• We may also retain certain information if necessary, for legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing users’ safety and security. For example, if we shut down a user’s account because of unsafe behaviour or security incidents, we may retain certain information about that account to prevent that user from opening a new account in the future.
  
• You have the right to object to our processing of personal data, including for marketing purposes based on profiling and/or automated decision making. We may continue to process your information notwithstanding the objection to the extent permitted under the GDPR.
  
• You also have the right to request that we transfer the personal data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  
• Users in the EU also have the right to file a complaint relating to our handling of your personal information. You may submit your questions, comments, or complaints to our Data Protection Officer. Please contact us at pdpa@aureusacademy.com.
  
• Users outside the EU may also request access, correction, deletion, or copies of their personal data.
  
• The GDPR requires that companies processing the personal data of EU users do so based on specific legal grounds. As described below, we process the information of EU users based on one or more of the grounds specified under the GDPR:
  
• If the processing is necessary to provide the services and features you request, we must collect and use certain information to provide our services. This includes (a) user profile information that is necessary to establish and maintain your account, including to verify your identity, enable communications with you, orders and accounts and to enable you to make payments, (b) transaction information, which is necessary to generate and maintain in connection with your use of our Platform and (c) usage information, which is necessary to maintain, optimise and enhance our services.
  
• We may process your personal information, including disclosing data with law enforcement authorities in case of threats to the safety of users or of others.
  
• We collect and use personal information to the extent necessary for our legitimate interests which include collecting and using information:
  
• to maintain and enhance our user’s safety and security. For example, we may collect background check information (where permitted by law) to prevent unsafe users from providing services through our apps. We also use personal information to prevent the use of our services by users who have engaged in inappropriate or dangerous behaviour, such as by retaining information of banned users to prevent their use of our Platform;
  
• to prevent, detect and combat fraud in connection with the use of our Platform. For example, we use user profile, location, device, and usage information, to identify and prevent circumstances when users attempt to defraud us or other users;
  
• to inform law enforcement officials regarding criminal acts or threats to public safety;
  
• to provide customer support;
  
• to optimise our Platform and develop new services;
  
• for research and analytical purposes. This includes analysing usage trends to improve the user experience and enhance the safety and security of our Platform;
  
• for direct marketing purposes. This includes analysing data to identify trends and tailor marketing messages to user needs; and
  
• to enforce our Terms of Use.
  
• We collect and use personal information to the extent necessary for the interests of other persons or the general public. This includes sharing information in connection with legal or insurance claims, to protect the rights and safety of others. We may also process personal information when necessary in regard to the substantial public interest, on the basis of applicable laws.
  
• We are subject to the legal requirements in the jurisdictions in which we operate that require us to collect, process, disclose and retain your personal data. We use your information to comply with such laws to the extent they apply to your use of the Platform.
  
• We may share your information with law enforcement, or requests by third parties pursuant to legal processes.
  
• We may collect and use information based on your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time. If you revoke your consent, you will not be able to use any service or feature that requires the collection or use of the information we collected or used based on consent.
  
• We rely on consent in connection with data collections or uses that are necessary to enhance the user experience, to enable optional services or features, or to communicate with you.
  

• 7. Third-Party Websites

• Our Platform may contain links to websites operated by third parties, such as our business partners. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our website. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Platform, and we encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of such third-party websites. You should check the applicable terms, conditions, and policies of the third-party website to determine how they will handle any Personal Data they collect from you.
  

• 8. Security Measures

• The security and confidentiality of your Personal Data are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect user-information from unauthorised access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect and impenetrable, and no data transmissions over the web can be guaranteed to be fully secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and do so at your own risk.
  

• 9. Changes to Privacy Policy

• The terms of this Privacy Policy may be revised, changed, and updated from time to time to ensure it is consistent with our business requirements, industry trends and/or changes in legal or regulatory requirements. All changes will be posted within the Platform, and your continued access or use of the Platform after such changes have been posted will constitute your agreement to the modified Privacy Policy and all the changes. We, therefore, encourage you to read this Privacy Policy each time you access and use the Platform.
  

• 10. Contacts

• If you wish to revoke your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data, or if you have any comments, concerns or questions about this Privacy Policy, our policies and practices, please contact us at pdpa@aureusacademy.com.
  

• 11. General

• By accessing or using the Platform, you are deemed to have also accepted our Terms of Use.