Introduction

This privacy policy covers the website treatment of personally identifiable information collected by MSPA Asia/Pacific. All data treatment is the responsibility of MSPA Asia/Pacific, a company registered in Singapore.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

You can visit the websites of MSPA Asia/Pacific without revealing any personal information. However, MSPA Asia Pacific needs certain personal information if you wish to purchase our training courses, register for an affiliate account, receive MSPA Asia/Pacific newsletter, or use certain MSPA Asia/Pacific services.

Where required, this information may include your personal contact information and/or your company contact information. MSPA Asia Pacific will use this information to reply to your inquiries, to provide you with requested products and services, to set up your member's account, and to contact you regarding new products, services, news or events.

By accessing the services of MSPA Asia Pacific and voluntarily providing us with the requested personal information, you consent to the collection and use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

MSPA Asia Pacific automatically receives and records non-personal information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page you requested. MSPA Asia/Pacific may use this information to customize the advertising and content you see and to fulfill your requests for certain products and services. However, MSPA Asia/Pacific does not connect this non-personal data to any personal information collected from you.

MSPA Asia Pacific may also allow third party companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Again, these cookies are not connected to any personal information. Third party cookie usage is subject to their own privacy policies, and MSPA Asia Pacific assumes no responsibility or liability for this usage.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

MSPA Asia Pacific may disclose your personal information to third parties who work on its behalf to provide products and services requested by you. We will share personal information for these purposes only with third parties whose privacy policies are consistent with ours or who agree to abide by our policies with respect to personal information

MSPA Asia Pacific may otherwise disclose your personal information when:

We have your express consent to share the information for a specified purpose;

We need to respond to subpoenas, court orders or such other legal process, including taxes.

We need to protect the personal safety of the users of our websites or defend the rights or property of MSPA Asia/Pacific;

We find that your actions on our websites violate the MSPA Asia Pacific Terms of Use document or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

Consent

If you do not consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information as outlined in this policy, please do not provide any personal information to MSPA Asia Pacific. If you have provided personal information to MSPA Asia Pacific and no longer consent to its use or disclosure as outlined herein, please notify us via registered mail. Please send a letter requesting to be removed from our database to: mspa-ap@mysteryshop.org 

Security

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be considered 100% secure. However, your information protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas of our websites, as identified on the site, MSPA Asia Pacific uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, through access control procedures, network firewalls and physical security measures.

Further, MSPA Asia Pacific retains your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes identified above or as required by law.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

MSPA Asia Pacific may at any time, without notice to you and in its sole discretion, amend this policy from time to time. Please review this policy periodically. Your continued use of MSPA Asia Pacific websites after any such amendments signifies your acceptance thereof.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions about this privacy policy, or your own personal information, please e-mail us at mspa-ap@mysteryshop.org