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Privacy Policy

1.  Commitment to privacy

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At the Singaporean Society of Lifestyle Medicine (SGLM), we take your privacy seriously. When dealing with your personal information we observe our obligations under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), as well other relevant legislation. This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal data.

 

2.  Types of information collected

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The types of personal information we collect include:

  • contact details (name, address, telephone numbers, email, etc);

  • letter and email details;

  • professional and educational details; and

  • credit card and/or bank account details.

 

3.  Reasons for collecting information

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We use your information for the following purposes:

  • for the immediate reason for which you have provided it to us (for example, to enable us to process your request, payment, registration, subscription, etc);

  • to maintain contact with you about our work, to report to you about our work, or to encourage you to learn about what we do; and

  • any other purpose directly related to our work and for which you have provided consent (where it is reasonably required by law).

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We do not share your personal information with any third-party, aside for safe payment and registration purposes.

 

 

4.  How information is collected

 

We collect information from you directly, through the website forms or through other contact modes that may include:

  • face to face contact;

  • electronically including through our website and online surveys;

  • via social media messages or conversation;

  • during phone calls or online meetings;

  • voice or image recordings;

  • whilst delivering and administering services; and

  • from forms, coupons and other correspondence (both in writing and electronically).

 

5.  How your information is used

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We only use your personal and sensitive information for the reason we collect it as set out above and for the purpose(s) for which it was collected, or as otherwise permitted by law.

We will not disclose the above information that we collect to affiliates or third parties without your consent.


 

7.  Securing your information

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We take reasonable steps to ensure the security of personal and sensitive information we hold and to protect it against loss, misuse or unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure. It is our policy to destroy personal information once there is no longer a legal or business need for us to retain it.

 

8.  Cookies

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When you visit our website a record of your visit is logged. The following data is supplied by your browser:

  • Your IP address and/or domain name;

  • Your operating system (type of browser and platform);

  • The date, time and length of your visit to the website; and

  • The resources you accessed and the documents you downloaded.

This information is used to compile statistical information about the use of our website. It is not used for any other purpose. If you do not want ‘cookies’ to be used please adjust your browser settings to disable them.

 

9.  Links to other websites

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Our website may contain links to third party websites, and third party websites may also have links to our website.

Our privacy policy does not apply to external links or other websites.

The operators of other websites may collect your personal information.

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any website you link to from our website.

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6.  Questions about privacy policy

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If you have any questions or requests regarding our privacy policy, please write to info@lifestylemedicine.org.sg. We will respond within 7 business days.

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