Privacy & Data Protection Policy

Statement

This privacy and data protection policy comply with the Register of Societies Act Singapore, Singapore’s PDPA 2012, and other relevant rules and regulations in Singapore.

Section 1 – What do we do with your information?

Members personal information during membership enrollment such as name, address, phone number and email address are kept confidential.

When you browse our society website we may also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

Email marketing: With your permission, we may send you emails about our society news, events and program updates.

Section 2 – Consents

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information as a member or friend of society to receive periodic updates from us, we imply that you consent us on collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at info@nepalesesociety.org.sg / nss@nepalesesociety.org.sg or mailing us at:

10 Anson Road,
#10-11 International Plaza
Singapore 079903

Section 3 – Disclosure

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so.

Section 4 – Nepalese Society

Our society information is hosted on NepaleseSociety.org.sg. This is the online platform that allows us to communicate our objectives, events, programs as a service to our members, partners and friends.

Your data is stored through society’s online data storage, databases and the general. We store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

Payment:

If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your membership subscription or renewal or purchase of any event-specific tickets, then society stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Section 5 – Third-party Services

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

As an example, if you are located in Malaysia and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in Singapore, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under Singapore legislation.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Data and Privacy Policy.

Links

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

Section 6 – Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Nepalese Society to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).

_Nepalese Society_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits

_Nepalese Society_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional

storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

Section 7 – Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in Singapore or in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

Section 8 – Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time in accordance with Singapore PDPA and other prevailing acts in Singapore, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Questions and Contact Information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have or may have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Compliance Officer at info@nepalesesociety.org.sg or by mail at Nepalese Society, Singapore.

Office of Nepalese Society Secretariat

10 Anson Road,
#10-11 International Plaza
Singapore 079903