This Data Protection notice serves as an integral part of the terms and conditions of all Events/programs offered by Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited which may have required you to provide your personal data for the registration to attend the Events / Programs offered.
For the purpose of this Data Protection notice, “Personal Data” is any information related directly or indirectly to an individual who is identified or identifiable from that information or from that and other information that Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited possesses. Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited is fully committed to protecting the rights and privacy of individuals, in accordance with the following general Data Protection principles:
- General Principle – Subject to the exceptions set out below at paragraph 9, Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall not process your Personal Data unless you have given consent to the processing of your personal data. “Processing” means collecting, using or disclosing your personal data for legitimate and lawful purposes. By providing your Personal Data to Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited, you hereby consent to Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited processing your Personal Data for the stated lawful purposes which you were notified of when your Personal Data was collected. You may withdraw your consent at any time in respect of the processing of your Personal Data provided that at least 10 days’ notice of such withdrawal is given to us. Details on how to submit the withdrawal request can be found at paragraph 7 below.
- Notice & Choice Principle – For each event/program organised by Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited, , etc. you will be notified in writing of the lawful purposes for which your personal data is collected and whether it is necessary that you provide your personal data. Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will not collect your Personal Data beyond what is reasonably needed to organise the Event/Program. By providing your personal data to Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited for any of its Events/Programs, you have given consent to Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited to process your Personal Data for the registration and attendance of the stated Events/Programs. You will also be given an option to receive information about future Events/Programs, news or promotions and will only be sent such information if you provide your consent. If Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited wishes to use your Personal Data for purposes other than the organisation of Events/Programs, Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will separately notify you of this and obtain your consent to such use.
- Disclosure Principle – Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall not disclose any of your personal data for any purpose other than the above stated purposes disclosed at time of collection. Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall not disclose to any other third party without your consent, save where is otherwise permitted by law.
- Security Principle – Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall take practical steps and use reasonable endeavours to protect your Personal Data from any loss, misuse, modification, unauthorised or accidental access or disclosure, alteration or destruction, or the loss of any storage medium or device on which your Personal Data is stored.
- Retention Principle – Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall not keep your Personal Data longer than is reasonably necessary for the fulfillment of the lawful purposes to which it was obtained for, save where is otherwise permitted by law. In most ordinary circumstances, Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall keep your personal data not more than 7 years from the date of collection.
- Data Integrity Principle – Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is accurate and relevant only to the lawful purposes to which it was obtained for.
- Access and Correction Principle – Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited will give you access to your own Personal Data held by Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited upon your request, and you may also request for information on the ways your Personal Data has been used or disclosed by Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited within a year before the date of your request. Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will then consider your request and inform you of its decision. If your request is refused, Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will specify the reasons for such refusal. If your Personal Data is no longer within the possession of Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited, we will not be able to process your request and will inform you as such. Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited reserves the right to impose a fee to process your request for access to your Personal Data. You may also submit a request to correct any inaccuracies or incompleteness in your Personal Data. Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will endeavour to correct the Personal Data as soon as reasonably practicable. No fees will be charged for correcting any inaccuracies in your Personal Data. If you wish to request access to your Personal Data held by Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited for the above purposes or to withdraw your consent as stated in paragraph 1 above, please send your request in writing to the following address: Attention: Executive Director, John Teo, Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited 190 Middle Road, #14-06 Fortune Centre Singapore 188979. Asia Pacific Lotteries Association Limited shall endeavour to respond within 30 Days upon receipt of your request.
- Accountability Principle – When Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited has credible grounds to believe that a data breach has occurred, it will notify the Personal Data Protection Commission if the breach is likely to result in significant harm to the individuals whose Personal Data is affected by the breach; or is of a significant scale (involving at least 500 individuals). If your Personal Data has been affected, and the breach is likely to result in significant harm to you, Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will notify you of this breach, unless certain exceptions apply, which includes but is not limited to a situation where Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited has already taken remedial action such that no significant harm is likely to be caused, or if appropriate technological measures have already been applied to the Personal Data. Additionally, Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited has also appointed a Data Protection Officer [name], who can be contacted at [contact number, email address], who you can contact if you have any questions relating to the processing of your Personal Data.
- Exceptions – Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited may use your Personal Data without your consent for the following purposes as well as other purposes permitted by law not expressly set out herein:
- Business improvement: Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited may use your Personal Data to improve the provision of its services, and for learning about and understanding your behaviour and preferences. Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited will only do so if such purposes cannot reasonably be achieved without using your Personal Data, and only for reasonably appropriate purposes.
- Legitimate interests: Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited may process your Personal Data where it is in the legitimate interests of Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited or another person to do so, and if it is assessed by Asia Pacific Lottery Association Limited that the legitimate interests outweigh any adverse effect which may impact you. Such legitimate interests include the detection or prevention of illegal activities (e.g. fraud, money laundering) or threats to physical safety and security, IT and network security; the prevention of misuse of services; or carrying out other necessary corporate due diligence).