Privacy Policy
Appandus is committed to ensuring and maintaining Appandus Users’ and Members’ privacy are respected and protected. We want all our Users and Members to feel comfortable searching and exchanging information on our site. If you have questions or concerns that we do not answers in this Policy, please send us an email to info@appandus.com
In the normal operation of our service, we collect, and in some cases, disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. Although this policy may seem somewhat lengthy, we believe it is beneficial to you to know as much as possible about our practices. The privacy practices of this policy apply to the Appandus website and its Network. (“Site”)
“Network” shall operate to cover the Appandus website (www.appandus.com) and its microsites including, but not limited to www.appandus.com.my .
By using our services and the Site, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information in accordance with the Terms of Service and this policy.
1. Information We Collect
2. Our Use of Your Information
3. Our Disclosure of Your Information
4. Transactions With E-Commerce Partners
5. Public Forums/Chat Rooms/Bulletin Boards
6. Surveys and Polls
7. Online Applications/Widgets/Tools
8. Directories of Members
9. Information Collected by Appandus Through IP Address and Cookies
10. Other Information Collectors
11. Security
12. Recommendations
13. Your Password
14. Incorporation by Reference
15. Modifications
16. Contact Information
17. Correction and deletion
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal information from you primarily to provide you with efficient and customized service while using our services. This allows us to provide you with services and features that will most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service by making the user experience easier and faster.
To use our services, you will be required to perform enquiry using an online enquiry form. This form requires the provision of your contact information as well as other personal information (e.g. name, email address, telephone number, etc.) and other information. You can modify registration data associated with your account, and you have full and sole control of the amount of information that is disclosed on your member page.
The personally identifiable information you provide during membership registration will not be given to third parties without your consent.
We automatically track certain information about you based upon your use of the Site. This information is used to do internal research on users’ demographics, interests, and behaviour. Collecting this information allows us to better understand and serve our users. This information may include the uniform resource locator (URL) that you just came from (irrespective of whether the location is on the Site or not), which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Appandus does not sell or otherwise share personally identifiable information with third parties without your consent except in the following instances:
(i) unless required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order;
(ii) as deemed necessary, in Appandus’s discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of Appandus, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or
(iii) in the event Appandus is required to transfer personally identifiable information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or stock of Appandus or its affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
In addition, Appandus reserves the right to allow access to its systems to third parties providing necessary technical services when such access is required in order to provide those services and to provide your personally identifiable information to third parties who provide services on behalf of Appandus, provided that such third parties are bound by Appandus’s Privacy Policy. Please note, however, that Appandus reserves the right to share any personally identifiable or other information about you which you provide to (or which is gathered by) Appandus website with any or all of its subsidiaries and affiliates and will also have access to any such information which you provide to (or which is gathered by) the web sites of any Appandus subsidiary or affiliate.
If you send us personal correspondence such as e-mails, letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
If you use a service provided by a company providing a service co-branded with Appandus branding, that service may provide personal information about you and possibly the transaction back to Appandus.
2. Our Use of Your Information
Personally identifiable information about you is used to create aggregated portraits of the Appandus audience, portraits which present anonymous statistical demographic information but no personal identifiable information. The aggregated data collected is to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyse site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site’s content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users’ needs.
We may use your information to deliver personalized information, e.g. targeted to your interests. Examples of such information may include new services, promotions, and marketing materials. We may use your e-mail address, your mailing address, and/or phone number to contact you regarding administrative notices, new product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site.
We use information we maintain about you together as well as your activities on the Site to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce the Terms of Service. We may use information about you to facilitate people searches which enable other users to locate you. Such searches will only be enables when you give your express consent to the same in the equiry form.
We may supplement the information that you provide us with information received from third parties.
3. Our Disclosure of Your Information
You hereby acknowledge that we may be required to disclose information collected to various government agencies or competent regulatory authorities, and that we may otherwise be compelled to make such disclosure by law or by an order of Court. Further, you authorize us to release appropriate information to law enforcement officials when we, in our sole discretion, believe it necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.
Our general policy is that we do not sell or rent personally identifiable information about you to any third party. The following describes some ways that personally identifiable information may be disclosed:-
Marketing and Promotional
We do aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. We do not however disclose information that could be used to personally identify you. As such, certain information. e.g. passwords, bank account information, etc., are not disclosed at all.
Co-Branded Services
We may from time to time, partner with a company to provide co-branded services. If you wish to use those services, we may provide some of your personally identifiable information to that other company. You can avoid these disclosures by choosing not to use those companies’ services. We do not control the privacy practices of these other companies and you should evaluate their practices before using their services.
Legal Requests
As stated above, we may be compelled by law, by an order of Court or by regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies to disclose your personally identifiable information.. Therefore, intellectual property rights owners, local, state, federal, and international law enforcement can request and may receive your personally identifiable information in such circumstances.
4. Transactions With Partners
When you provide personal financial and other personally identifiable information to one of Appandus’s partners, this transaction will occur on the partner’s site, not at Appandus and as such the financial and personally identifiable information you provide is collected by and controlled by the Privacy Policy of the partner. It is important that you familiarize yourself with the Privacy Policy of the site which you transact business.
5. Public Forums/Chat Rooms/Bulletin Boards
Any information you disclose in these public forum areas becomes public information and is immediately accessible on Appandus website, so it is important that you exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information in these areas. Appandus may utilize the content of these public forums for promotional activities, enhancing editorial, advertising and similar activities.
6. Surveys and Polls
Surveys ask for opinions on various issues and very often these surveys and polls are sponsored or associated with Appandus advertisers and partners. There are times we request demographic information (for example age, gender, postcode/zip codes). Most information obtained through surveys and polls is aggregated and used internally or shared with advertisers and partners only in the aggregated form. In the event personal identifiable information is requested as part of the surveys or polls about any of Appandus members, such personal identifiable information is never provided to third parties without your consent. In this instances you may expressly choose to receive information from a sponsor/advertiser in which case your information is provide to that sponsor/advertiser only. Some survey answer may be added to your profile as so we can better provide you with content, ads and offers that are most appropriate for you.
7. Online Applications/Widgets/Tools
The content on Appandus?s applications/widgets/tools is presented in summary form, is general in nature, and is provided for informational purposes only. The content is not intended in any way to be a substitute for professional advice. Always seek the advice of your subject matter experts or other qualified providers with any questions you may have regarding any conditions related to your situations. Neither the content nor any other service offered by or through our online applications/widgets/tools is intended to be relied on for diagnosis or treatment. Never disregard advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on Appandus.
Our online applications/widgets/tools do not recommend or endorse any specific test, products, or procedures, unless stated so. Any opinions expressed on the applications/widgets/tools are the opinions of the authors. Appandus does not assume any liability for the contents of any material provided by applications/widgets/tools available on Appandus. Reliance on any information provided by our applications/widgets/tools, or other visitors to them is solely at your own risk. Appandus assumes no liability or responsibility for damage or injury to persons or property arising from any use of any product, information, idea, or instruction contained in the materials provided to you. Appandus reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of this application/widget/tools.
8. Directories of Members
Appandus provide a directory services to its members. Selected information will be collated from your equiry form to be included in this directories of members. This service allows other Appandus members to communicate with you via a contact link provided and it is your choice should you want to proceed with other members. Information retrieved from your equiry form to be included in the directory shall include name, gender and job scope. Categories of directories are individual members, business members and organization members.
9. Information Collected by Appandus Through IP Address and Cookies
Your IP address is a number that is assigned by the ISP (Internet Service Provider) to your computer to identify its location. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our website and to administer our website. We also sometimes use IP addresses to communicate with Members and possibly ban those Members who are not complying with our Terms and Conditions.
Appandus uses a feature of your Internet Web browser called a cookie: to assign a unique identification to your computer. Cookies are files that your Web browser places on your computers hard drive. These cookies are used to tell us whether you have visited Appandus before and to help us determine if you came to from a particular Internet link. This information is then used to improve the Site and our service. Appandus does not use cookies to retrieve personal information from your computer unless your browser is set to allow such retrieval.
10. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise provided, this policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information that we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules and policies will apply to their use of personal information you disclose to them, and you will therefore be subject to them. We do not control the activities nor the privacy policies of third parties. We therefore encourage you to make full inquiries with those third parties about their privacy policies before you disclose your personal information to them.
Links. The Site may include links to other web sites (the “Linked Sites”) such as to our partners and advertisers. Appandus will not share personally identifiable information about Users with the operators of such Linked Sites, but may provide aggregate information regarding Users to such operators. Appandus does not control the Linked Sites, and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the Linked Sites.
Appandus shall not in any way be liable or to you or to any third party for any loss or damage whatsoever and howsoever caused, which may arise in connection with the activities and privacy practices of the above mentioned third parties or operators of the Linked Sites, as well as the content of any third party sites, including the Linked Sites.
11. Security
Appandus uses industry standard security enhanced systems in order to prevent third party access to your User information. Although we employ efforts to maintain the privacy of your User Information, we cannot guarantee that your User information will not be intercepted by a third party’s illegal efforts to intercept it.
We also have put in place privacy protection control systems designed to ensure that your personal data remains safe and private. Each and every Appandus employee must abide by Appandus’s privacy and confidentiality policies. Only authorized Appandus employees are permitted to have access to your personal information and such access is limited by need. In addition, any company with which we contract to be our agent in conducting our business is required to adhere to confidentiality agreements to ensure that your information remains safe and secure. All Appandus employees are required to acknowledge that they understand and will comply with this privacy policy. Employees who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. We strongly encourage our content, commerce and advertising partners to post clearly their own privacy policies and to have privacy control systems in place to protect your personal information. However, we cannot and do not control the activities of our business partners. As such, be sure to review their privacy policies and contact them directly if you have any questions.
12. Recommendations
Recommendations are generated solely based on the end-user and/or client’s rating preferences and the preferences of other end-users and/or clients, hence are not generated by us or any of our advertisers.
13. Your Password
It is your responsibility to maintain the privacy of your Appandus ID and Password, Please keep your Appandus ID and Password in a safe place.
14. Incorporation by Reference
This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into the Appandus Terms of Service.
15. Modifications
Appandus may update or amend this Policy from time to time. Such amendments and updates will be posted on this page. Please read this page regularly to keep yourself informed of our Privacy Policy and practices.
16. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or anything else about Appandus, you can contact us at the following email address: info@appandus.com
17. Correction and deletion
If you discover that the information which Appandus as the data controller process on you is incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, Appandus shall make the correction hereof on your request. We recommend that you – if possible – make the correction of such errors yourself.
You may withdraw your consent for the collection, use and/or disclosure and/or request deletion of your personal data in our possession or under our control by sending an email to our Personal Data Protection Officer at info@appandus.com, and we will process such requests in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our obligations under the Privacy Laws and other applicable law. However, your withdrawal of consent may mean that we will not be able to continue providing the Services to you and we may need to terminate your existing relationship and/or the contract you have with us. If you have an account with us, you may personally access and/or correct your personal data currently in our possession or control through the Account Settings page on the Platform. If you do not have an account with us, you may request to access and/or correct your personal data currently in our possession or control by submitting a written request to us. We will need enough information from you in order to ascertain your identity as well as the nature of your request so as to be able to deal with your request. Hence, please submit your written request by sending an email at info@appandus.com.