3. The Purposes For Which We Collect, Use And Disclose Your Personal Data
3.1. We will/may collect, use, disclose and/or process your personal data for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) administering, processing and/or dealing with any transactions between you and the Company and/or any of its related corporations including but not limited to any application by you for employment or work with the Company;
(b) recruiting, assessing and/or matching you with/for potential positions or assignments with third party organisations (or our customers), and/or dealing with matters related thereto such as offering you a placement of work or job with such third party organisations (or our customers) or referring you for employment to a third party organisation (or our customer);
(c) administering, managing and/or dealing with the provision of work or job placement services to you. This includes us sharing your personal data with our customers or third party organisations, for your potential placement or employment opportunities with those customers/third party organisations who are seeking employees or workers, or to the organisation to which you have been assigned to work;
(d) carrying out your instructions or responding to any enquiry given by (or purported to be given by) you or on your behalf;
(e) administering, facilitating, processing and/or dealing in any matters relating to your use of any of the Company’s or its related corporations’ websites, any functionalities on the websites or any transactions or activities carried out by you on or through any of the Company’s or its related corporations’ websites, such as but not limited to live social media feeds;
(f) monitoring, processing and/or tracking your use of any of the Company’s or its related corporations’ websites in order to provide you with a seamless experience, facilitating or administering your use of any of the Company’s or its related corporations’ websites, and/or to assist us in improving your experience in using any of the Company’s or its related corporations’ websites;
(g) contacting you or communicating with you via phone/voice call, text message and/or fax message, email and/or postal mail for the purposes of administering your use of any of the Company’s or its related corporations’ website or any transactions you have with us, or for the provision of our services to you. You acknowledge and agree that such communication by us could be by way of the mailing of correspondence, documents or notices to you, which could involve disclosure of certain personal data about you to bring about delivery of the same as well as on the external cover of envelopes/mail packages;
(h) carrying out due diligence or other screening activities (including background checks) in accordance with legal or regulatory obligations applicable to us (whether Singapore or non-Singapore), the requirements or guidelines of governmental authorities which we determine are applicable to us (whether Singapore or non-Singapore), and/or our risk management procedures that may be required by law (whether Singapore or non-Singapore) or that may have been put in place by us;
(i) to prevent or investigate any fraud, unlawful activity or omission or misconduct, whether or not there is any suspicion of the aforementioned; dealing with conflict of interests; or dealing with and/or investigating complaints;
(j) creating reports with respect to our transactions with you, and/or producing statistics and research of such transactions for internal and/or statutory reporting and/or record-keeping requirements for us or our related corporation(s);
(k) complying with or as required by any applicable law, governmental or regulatory requirements of any jurisdiction applicable to us or our related corporations, including meeting the requirements to make disclosure under the requirements of any law binding on us or our related corporations, and/or for the purposes of any guidelines issued by regulatory or other authorities (whether of Singapore or a non-Singapore country), with which we or our related corporations are expected to comply;
(l) complying with or as required by any request or direction of any governmental authority (whether Singapore or non-Singapore) which we are expected to comply with; or responding to requests for information from public agencies, ministries, statutory boards or other similar authorities. For the avoidance of doubt, this means that we may/will disclose your personal data to the aforementioned parties upon their request or direction;
(m) storing, hosting, backing up (whether for disaster recovery or otherwise) of your personal data, whether within or outside Singapore;
(n) facilitating, dealing with and/or administering external audit(s) or internal audit(s) of the business of the Company and/or its related corporations;
(o) for marketing, if you have separately indicated that you consent to such purpose. If so, we may/will send you by email, postal mail or other modes of communication marketing and promotional information and materials relating to products and/or services (including products and/or services of third party organisations whom the Company may collaborate or tie up with) that the Company or its related corporations may be selling, marketing or promoting, whether such products or services exist now or are created in the future. In the case of the sending of marketing and promotional information and materials to you by voice call, SMS/MMS or fax to your Singapore telephone number, we will not do so unless we have complied with the requirements of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act in relation to use of the latter modes of communication to send you such marketing information or materials or where you have expressly consented to such mode of communication;
(p) dealing with and/or facilitating a business asset transaction or a potential business asset transaction, where such transaction involves the Company as a participant, and there may be other third party organisations who are participants in such transaction. The term “business asset transaction” means the purchase, sale, lease, merger or amalgamation or any other acquisition, disposal or financing of an organisation or a portion of an organisation or of any of the business or assets of an organisation, (the purposes set out above shall be collectively referred to as the “Purposes”).
3.2. The Company may/will need to disclose your personal data to third parties, whether located within or outside Singapore, for one or more of the above Purposes, as such third parties, would be processing your personal data for one or more of the above Purposes. In this regard, you hereby acknowledge, agree and consent that we may/are permitted to disclose your personal data to such third parties (whether located within or outside Singapore) for one or more of the above Purposes and for the said third parties to subsequently collect, use, disclose and/or process your personal data for one or more of the above Purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing or of the immediately preceding paragraph setting out the Purposes, such third parties include:
(a) our associated or affiliated organisations or related corporations
(b) any of our agents, contractors or third party service providers that process or will be processing your personal data on our behalf including but not limited to those which provide administrative or other services to us such as mailing houses, telecommunication companies, information technology companies and data centres;
(c) our customers or third party organisations, who may be your potential employers or hirers or organisations which engage you for your services; and
(d) third parties to whom disclosure by the Company is for one or more of the Purposes and such third parties would in turn be collecting and processing your personal data for one or more of the Purposes.
3.3. Your consent pursuant to this Privacy Policy is additional to and does not supercede any other consents that you had provided to the Company with regard to processing of your personal data.
3.4. Data that has been anonymized does not personally identify you and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
3.5. We hold our employees, agents, and suppliers accountable for maintaining the trust that you place in us with your personal data. Your personal data will not be used or shared except as in accordance with applicable law relating to personal data.
3.6. Your personal data may be shared with third party service providers as set out at paragraph 3.2 above.
3.7. Consistent with paragraph 3.2 above, as a result of the scope of the Company’s operations, the sharing of your personal data with our other group entities, service providers, and customers may result in your personal data being sent to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection laws that differ from those in your country of residence. Regardless of the source or destination location of your information, we will at all times protect your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy, and in accordance with applicable data protection laws when transferring your personal data.