Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

1.1. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is prepared by Summer International, Pte Ltd (“we” or “us”, as the case may be) for you (which include organisation and/or such other persons or companies as represented by you) who use www.sumco.store and/or Sumco App (“Platform”).

1.2. We take your privacy seriously. We are committed to complying with all data protection laws as are applicable to us.

1.3. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, the expression “personal data” shall bear the meaning as defined by the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (“ PDPA”), which includes “sensitive personal data” (as defined by the PDPA) and any personal data that may have been or may from time to time hereafter be provided by you and/or obtained independently by us from other lawful sources (if any) in connection with a commercial transaction.

1.4. “Services” shall mean various services, products and contents provided by us on the Platform including electronic commerce services, information about each product or service listed on the Platform, marketing channels, technical advice on use of the platform and other related services and content.

1.5. In the course of providing you with our Services or access to the Platform (as defined in the Terms of Use), we will be collecting data, including your personal data.

1.6. This Privacy Policy exists to keep you in the know about how we use, process and handle the data we collect and receive during the course of providing the Services or your access to the Platform as our customer. We will only collect, use and disclose your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1.7. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other applicable notices we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal data.

1.8. BY CLICKING OR CHECKING “SIGN UP”, “I AGREE TO SUMCO’s PRIVACY POLICY” OR SIMILAR STATEMENTS AVAILABLE AT THE SUMCO REGISTRATION PAGE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF AND UNDERSTOOD THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THAT YOU HAVE AGREED TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AS DESCRIBED AND UNDER THE TERMS HEREIN.

1.9. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email, whereupon your continued use of our Services, access to the Platform or use of the Services, including placing orders on the Platform, shall constitute your acknowledgment and acceptance of the changes we make to this Privacy Policy, as notified to you by email. Please check this Privacy Policy frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy.

1.10. This Privacy Policy applies in conjunction with other notices, contractual clauses and consent clauses that apply in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by us, and is not intended to override them unless we state expressly otherwise.

1.11. You can visit the Platform and browse without having to provide personal details. However, you will be required to sign up for an account if you wish to use the Services.

1.12. If you have any comments, suggestions or complaints in relation to your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer through our Contact Us page.

1.13. In the event of any inconsistency between the English version and the other translated language versions of this Privacy Policy, the English version shall prevail over the other translated language version.

2. THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU

2.1. Personal data means any information, whether recorded in a material form or not, from which the identity of an individual is apparent or can be reasonably and directly ascertained by the entity holding the information, or when put together with other information would directly and certainly identify an individual.

2.2. We may collect the following personal data from you:

(a) Identity data, such as your name, gender, and date of birth

(b) Contact data, such as billing address, delivery address, email address, and phone numbers

(d) Transaction data, such as details about payments to and from you, and other details of products or services you have purchased from us;

(e) Technical data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Platform;

(f) Profile data, such as your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;

(g) Usage data, such as information on how you use the Platform and Services; and

(h) Marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and third parties and your communication preferences.

2.3 During the course of your use of the Platform and our provision of the Services, we may receive personal data from you in the following situations

(a) When you create an account with us;

(b) When you apply for any of our Services or purchase any products or services available on the Platform

(d) When you subscribe to our publications or marketing collaterals

(e) When you enter a competition, promotion or survey;

(f) When you log in to your account on our Platform or otherwise interact with us via an external service or application, such as Facebook or Google; or

(g) When you interact with us offline, including when you interact with our outsourced customer service agents

2.4 You must only submit personal data which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and inform us of changes. We shall have the right to request for documentation to verify the personal data provided by you as part of our customer verification processes.

2.5 We will only be able to collect your personal data if you voluntarily submit the personal data to us. Unfortunately, if you choose not to submit your personal data to us or subsequently withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data, we may not be able to provide you with our Services or access to the Platform.

2.6 You may access and update your personal information submitted to us at any time as described below.

2.7 If you provide personal data of any third party to us, you represent and warrant that you have obtained the necessary consent from that third party to share and transfer his/her personal data to us, and for us to collect, use and disclose that data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2.8 If you sign up for Sumco using your social media account or link your Sumco account to your social media account or use certain other Sumco social media features, we may access personal data about you which you have voluntarily provided to your social media provider in accordance with the provider's policies and we will manage your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3. USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

3.1. The personal data we collect from you may be used by us, our preferred shoppers, affiliate marketers, trainers or shared with or transferred to third parties (including our subsidiaries, related and associated companies; our parent company including its subsidiaries, associated and related companies; third party service providers and their service providers and related companies, and third party sellers), for some or all of the following purposes:

(a) To facilitate your use of the Services or access to the Platform, including responding to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes through our outsourced customer service agents

(b) To process orders you submit through the Platform, whether the products or services are sold by us or a third party seller

(c) Payments that you make through the Platform for products or services, whether sold by us or a third party seller, will be processed by our agent

(d) To deliver the products or services you have purchased through the Platform, whether sold by us or a third party seller. We may pass your personal information on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product or service to you (for example to our courier companies or delivery agents), whether the product or service is sold through the Platform by us or a third party seller

(e) To update you on the delivery of the products or services, whether sold through the Platform by us or a third party seller, and for customer support purposes

(f) To compare information, and verify with third parties in order to ensure that the information is accurate;

(g) To administer your account (if any) with us;

(h) To verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments you make online;

(i) To audit the downloading of data from the Platform;

(j) To improve the layout or content of the pages of the Platform and customise them for users;

(k) To identify visitors on the Platform;

(l) To carry out research on our users’ demographics and behaviour;

(m) To provide you with information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about our or third party sellers’ products and services, provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for these purposes;

(n) Subject to having obtained your consent in accordance with applicable law, we may also use your personal information to send you marketing or promotional materials about our or third party sellers’ products and services from time to time; and

(o) We may also conduct automated-decision making processes in accordance with any of these purposes.

3.2. In connection with the purposes set out in Clause 3.1 above, you hereby give permission to us to disclose such personal data, to the relevant authorities, our successor in interest, sponsors, advertisers, lawyers, insurers, adjusters, other advisers, suppliers, contractors and/or service providers.

3.3. In exceptional circumstances, we may be required to disclose personal information, such as when there are grounds to believe that the disclosure is necessary to prevent a threat to life or health, or for law enforcement purposes, or for fulfilment of legal and regulatory requirements and requests.

3.4. We may share and permit the sharing of your personal data with third parties and our affiliates for any of the abovementioned purposes, including but not limited to, facilitating your use of the Services, completing a transaction with you, managing your account and our relationship with you, marketing and fulfilling any legal or regulatory requirements and requests as deemed necessary by us. In sharing your personal data with them, we endeavour to ensure that the third parties and our affiliates keep your personal data secure from unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, or similar risks and retain your personal data only for as long as they need your personal data to achieve the abovementioned purposes.

3.5. In disclosing or transferring, or permitting the transfer of, your personal data to third parties or our affiliates located overseas, we take steps to ensure that the receiving party has in place a standard of protection accorded to personal data that is comparable to the protection under or up to the standard of the data protection laws as are applicable to us.

3.6. In the event of a sale of business, disposal, acquisition, merger, joint venture, debt financing, reorganisation, insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership involving us or our assets to another third party, your personal data may be required to be disclosed and/or transferred to the third party as part of our business assets. You acknowledge and authorise us to release the personal data to the third party including its advisers and representatives, and that the other party has your consent to process such personal data.

4. PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR MARKETING PURPOSES

4.1 By accessing the Platform and/or using the Services, you are deemed to have given us your consent to contact you via phone calls, text messages, emails and other electronic methods in future by using the data provided by you during registration on our Platform.

4.2 The consent shall include consent to receive pictures, videos, online messages and/or emails about our / our business partners’, strategic partners’, sponsors’ or advertisers’ products, services, promotions, special offers, events and/or activities that may be of interest to you.

4.3 You may elect to opt out from receiving any newsletters, updates, promotional materials, festive greeting (if applicable) or other communications, in part or in whole, for general purposes or for marketing purposes set out in this Clause, by following the “unsubscribe” links or instructions within the email we send you at any time. In any event, your latest written instructions to us will prevail.

4.4 Take note that for as long as you remain a registered user with us, you will not have the option to opt out from receiving user-related notifications and/or materials from us.

5. WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT AND DELETION OR ANONYMISATION OF PERSONAL DATA

5.1 You may communicate the withdrawal of your consent to the continued use or disclosure of your personal data for any of the purposes and in the manner as stated above at any time, or request the deletion or anonymisation of your personal data, by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the contact details provided.

5.2 You may request the deletion of your personal data at any time. To make such a request, you may send an email to admin@sumco.store with the subject line "Data Deletion Request". Please include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and a description of the data you would like deleted.

5.3 Upon receiving your data deletion request, we will:

a) Confirm receipt of your request within 7 business days.

b) Verify your identity to ensure the security of your data.

c) Process your request within 7-14 business days and delete your personal data from our records, except for any data we are required to retain by law.

5.4 Please note that if you communicate your withdrawal of your consent to our use or disclosure of your personal data for the purposes and in the manner as stated above, or request the deletion or anonymisation of your personal data, we may not be in a position to continue to provide our products or services to you or perform on any contract we have with you, and we will not be liable in the event that we do not continue to provide our products or services to, or perform our contract with you. Our legal rights and remedies are expressly reserved in such an event.

6. UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

6.1 It is important that the personal data you provide to us is accurate. You are responsible for informing us of changes to your personal data, or in the event you believe that the personal data we have about you is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date. You can update your personal data anytime by accessing your account on the Platform. If you are unable to update your personal data through your account, you can do so by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the contact details provided above.

6.2 We take steps to share the updates to your personal data with third parties and our affiliates with whom we have shared your personal data if your personal data is still necessary for the above-stated purposes.

7. ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

7.1 If you would like request information about your personal data which we have collected, or inquire about the ways in which your personal data may have been used or disclosed by us within the past year, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details provided above. In order to facilitate processing of your request, it may be necessary for us to request further information relating to your request.

7.2 We reserve the right to charge a reasonable administrative fee for retrieving your personal data records. If so, we will inform you of the fee before processing your request.

7.3 We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably possible. Should we not be able to respond to your request within twenty-one (21) days from the date of your request, we will inform you in writing. If we are unable to provide you with any personal data or to make a correction requested by you, we shall generally inform you of the reasons why we are unable to do so (except where we are not required to do so under the applicable data protection laws).

8. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

8.1 To safeguard your personal data from unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks, we have introduced appropriate administrative, physical and technical measures such as.

a) Restricting access to personal data to individuals who require access

b) Maintaining technology products to prevent unauthorised computer access;

c) Deleting or anonymising your personal data in compliance with the standards mandated by applicable law, when it is no longer needed for any legal or business purpose; and

d) Using 128-bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption technology when processing your financial details

8.2 If you believe that your privacy has been breached by Sumco, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details provided above.

8.3 You should be aware, however, that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. While security cannot be guaranteed, we strive to protect the security of your information and are constantly reviewing and enhancing our information security measures.

8.4 Your password is the key to your account. Please use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not share your Sumco password to anyone. If you do share your password with others, you will be responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account and the consequences. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal data and other data submitted to Sumco. You could also be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason or if you have grounds to believe that your password has been compromised, you should immediately contact us and change your password. You are reminded to log out of your account and close the browser when you are finished with using a shared computer.

9. RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA

9.1 We will only retain your personal data for as long as we are either required to by law or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected

9.2 We will cease to retain your personal data, or remove the means by which the data can be associated with you, as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention no longer serves the purposes for which the personal data was collected, and is no longer necessary for any legal or business purpose

10. CHILDREN AND MINORS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE

10.1. Sumco does not sell products or services for purchase by children under 18 years of age, nor does it intend to provide any of the Services to, or the use of the Platform by, children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect any personal data relating to children under 18 years of age.

10.2. If you are under 18 years old, you may use our website only with the involvement of a parent or guardian

11. COLLECTION OF COMPUTER DATA

11.1 We or our authorised service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies for storing data to help provide you with a better, faster, safer and personalized experience when you use the Services or access the Platform

11.2 When you visit the Platform through your computer, mobile device, or any other device with internet connectivity, our company servers will automatically record data that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This data may include:

(a) Your computer or device's IP address

(b) Browser type;

(d) The pages within the Platform which you visit; and

(e) The time spent on those pages, items and data searched for on the Platform, access times and dates, and other statistics.

11.3 This data is collected for analysis and evaluation in order to help us improve our website and the Services and products we provide

11.4 Cookies are small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. They allow us to recognize a particular device or browser and help us to personalise the content to match your preferred interests more quickly, and to make our Services and Platform more convenient and useful to you.

11.5 You may be able to manage and delete cookies through your browser or device settings. For more information on how to do so, visit the help material of your browser or device.

11.6 Web beacons are small graphic images that may be included on our Service and the Platform. They allow us to count users who have viewed these pages so that we can better understand your preference and interests.

12. SUMCO'S RIGHT TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL DATA

12.1 YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT SUMCO HAS THE RIGHT TO DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO ANY LEGAL, REGULATORY, GOVERNMENTAL, TAX, LAW ENFORCEMENT OR OTHER AUTHORITIES OR THE RELEVANT RIGHT OWNERS, IF SUMCO HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS NECESSARY FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEETING ANY OBLIGATIONS, REQUIREMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS, WHETHER VOLUNTARY OR MANDATORY, AS A RESULT OF COOPERATING WITH AN ORDER, AN INVESTIGATION AND/OR A REQUEST OF ANY NATURE BY SUCH PARTIES. TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AGREE NOT TO TAKE ANY ACTION AND/OR WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS TO TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST SUMCO FOR THE DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.

13. THIRD PARTY SITES.

13.1 The Platform may contain links to other websites operated by other parties, such as our business affiliates, merchants or payment gateways. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by these other parties. You are advised to check on the applicable privacy policies of those websites to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.