T&C
We appreciate your interest in us and our products and services. Your privacy is important to us. We respect your right to protect your personal data and understand your desire to avoid unwarranted solicitations. We wish to disclose our privacy statement to you to ensure that you will be comfortable visiting our site and using our products and services (respectively, “Products” and “Services”).
This privacy statement sets out the policies and practices for Parsons Automobile Pte Ltd and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “PA”, “we”, or “us”), with respect to how PA collects, uses, stores, and discloses personal data. This privacy statement applies to personal data collected by PA via this website and other websites operated or provided by PA, mobile applications provided by PA, at PA’s showrooms and roadshows, and by any other means in the course of providing the Products and/or Services.
By using this site and/or Products or Services, or by submitting personal data about yourself or someone else to PA or its service providers, you agree that PA may collect, use, and disclose your personal data in accordance with this privacy statement and as permitted or required by law. If you do not agree with any part of this privacy statement, please do not use this site or the Products or Services, or submit any personal data to PA. Please note that PA may not be able to provide or continue to provide you with certain Products or Services if you do not consent to PA’s use, collection, or disclosure of personal data.
Personal Data We Collect
In this privacy statement, “personal data“ means data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data, or from that data and other information to which PA has or is likely to have access. Examples include:
- personal particulars (e.g. name, contact details, residential address, date of birth, identity card/passport details, and/or education details);
- signature(s);
- financial details (e.g. income, expenses, and/or credit history);
- images and biometrics such as thumbprints, voice and video recordings of you, including our conversations with you for verification or other purposes;
- employment details (e.g. occupation, directorships and other positions held, employment history, salary, and/or benefits);
- tax and insurance information;
- banking information (e.g. account numbers and banking transactions);
- your personal opinions made known to us e.g. through feedback or surveys;
- location data;
- information relating to your vehicle such as the make, model, registration date, chassis number and license plate number;
- device information (such as the device ID, hardware model and serial number, IP addresses), file and app names and versions, GPS location, IMEI number, and advertising identifiers or any information that may indicate device or app modification);
- telematics data (such as your speed, acceleration and braking data);
- information relating to your activities, habits, preferences and interests arising from your use of PA’s Products and/or Services, or those of our partners or vendors; and/or
- other electronic data or information relating to you such as IP addresses, cookies, activity logs, online identifiers and location data through your usage of PA’s Products and/or Services or as part of their delivery to you.
Collection and Use of Personal Data
PA may collect personal data from you, to the extent permitted by applicable law, including personal data which you provide when you enter our website or give to us voluntarily in any other way, and including personal data provided by you in connection with the following activities:
- when you purchase a Product from us or use our Services or otherwise transact with us;
- when you participate in our events, roadshows, contests and promotions;
- when you complete our survey forms;
- when you send us enquiries or fill in a form on our website;
- when you download or use PA’s mobile applications;
- when users of our Products and/or Services disclose your personal data to us as their emergency contact or the authorised drivers of their vehicles; or
- when you engage with us in relation to employment or experience opportunities at PA, including when you apply for a role or participate in any assessment programme relating to such a role, or because other people (e.g. third party recruitment services) give that information to us, or when it is disclosed on publicly available sources such as business and employment-oriented social networking services and job boards.
- Such personal data will be used for the following purposes to the extent permitted by applicable law:
- To build, conduct and maintain our business relationship with you, including to process transactions and payments;
- To contact you in relation to your transactions and enquiries with us, and to respond to any communications you may have with us;
- To administer events, roadshows, contests and promotions that you have participated in;
- To make recommendations on the type of Products and/or Services that you should book, based on our knowledge of your last servicing with us;
- To improve our website, Products and Services;
- To better understand our customers;
- To maintain and update our records;
- To train our staff and develop our business and operations;
- where you have provided consent, to send you information about promotions, events, Products and Services that you may be interested in;
- To engage in business transactions, including any merger or acquisition involving PA;
- To verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website or mobile applications, and applicable laws;
- To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website or mobile applications;
- To undertake recruitment activities, such as determining the suitability of your qualifications, checking for any existing or potential conflicts of interest or any other restrictions which may otherwise restrict or prevent employment with us, assist us in obtaining services from or managing external service providers (e.g. recruitment agencies), manage our HR records and update our candidates / employees database and (where relevant) manage and make available personal information within the Jardine Matheson group of companies;
- To respond to emergencies. For instance, certain modules within our mobile applications may allow us to share your vehicle’s location with emergency services or your emergency contacts in an emergency situation such as when your airbag has been deployed;
- For any other purposes for which the personal data was provided to us;
- For any other purposes to which you have consented; and
- For any other purposes permitted or required by law.
- Generally, you can visit most parts of our website without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. However, some features and services may not be accessible unless certain personal data or information is supplied.
- Should you decide to withdraw your consent to the collection or use of your personal data for any purpose, you may inform us at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer at sales@parsonsauto.com.sg. Please allow us reasonable time to respond and effect any change. Please note that your withdrawal instructions must be clear and unambiguous. If, for instance, you had already provided your consent to the collection or use of your personal data and we seek your consent again at a later date, your inaction or failure to respond to the later request from us will not constitute a withdrawal of your earlier consent.
Information Captured Automatically:
- As in many websites, when you view pages on our site, the web server automatically receives certain types of information from your computer including information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages you visit on our website, which site you came from or go to and the date and length of your visit. We may use and evaluate such information for the purposes of website administration and understanding our customers better.
Electronic Commercial Communication:
- If you have provided us with your email address or mobile phone number, and consented to us sending you promotional and marketing information, we may send you promotional and marketing materials via email, SMS or MMS.
- You can choose not to receive such materials by selecting the unsubscribe option which we provide in each email, SMS or MMS sent to you, or otherwise inform us.
- If you have installed our mobile application(s) on your mobile device, we may send you promotional and marketing materials via push and pop-up notifications through the application(s). You can choose not to receive such materials by disabling push and/or pop-up notifications in the application(s) or in your mobile device settings.
Information sharing
- We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
- We may disclose personal data as follows to the extent permitted by applicable law:
- to service providers whom we engage to perform services on our behalf. We will disclose only the personal data that such service providers need to deliver the services on our behalf, and our disclosure will strictly be for such purposes only and the service providers will be required to use the personal data only for the purposes for which it was disclosed to them;
- to our affiliates who perform services or functions for us in conjunction with our services to you, but only where there is an arrangement between us which prohibits them from disclosing or using the personal data other than for the purposes for which it was disclosed;
- to other members of the Jardine Matheson group of companies, for the purposes of building, conducting and maintaining our commercial relationship with you, to improve the group’s business and operations, products and services, and to better understand our customers;
- to our principals for whom we are dealers or distributors, for the purposes of recording our transaction with you relating to our principals’ products and services;
- to service providers providing financing and insurance services where you have opted to apply for such services, for the purpose of administering your application;
- to government authorities or law enforcement agencies at their request or in an emergency situation;
- to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website or mobile applications, and applicable laws;
- to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website or mobile applications;
- to any other persons and for any other purposes to which you have consented; and
- to any other persons and for any other purposes permitted or required by law.
- Personal data collected by us is generally stored and/or processed on our servers in Singapore but may be transferred to, stored and/or processed in countries outside Singapore. Before we make such a transfer, we will take appropriate steps to ascertain whether, and ensure that, the recipient of the personal data is legally obliged to protect the personal data to a standard comparable to that under the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012.
- Should you decide to withdraw your consent to the disclosure of your personal data for any purpose, you may inform us at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer at sales@parsonsauto.com.sg. Please allow us reasonable time to respond and effect any change.
- If you provide us with personal data of a third party, you warrant that you have the requisite authority and permission to consent to our collection, use and disclosure of such personal data as set out in this Privacy Statement
Children
- We do not intend to collect, use, or disclose personal data from or about minors nor do we knowingly collect, use or disclose any such personal data. However, as we cannot distinguish the age of persons who access our website or mobile applications, our privacy statement applies to all who access our website or mobile applications.
- If a child has provided us with personal data without the consent of his parent or guardian, the parent or guardian should email us to request the removal of the personal data.
- We encourage parents and teachers to be involved in their children’s internet activity. It is particularly important for parents to guide their children when they are asked to provide personal information online.
Cookies
- A cookie is a small data file that is written to your hard drive that contains information about your visit to a web page. This helps us to identify you and remember your preferences the next time you visit us. Only information that you have provided will be stored in the cookie, and only the site which created the cookie can read it. This does not allow it access to the rest of the computer. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may configure your browser not to accept them or to notify and require approval before accepting new cookies.
- Some web pages/sites may not function properly if the cookies are not accepted, or you may have to provide the same information each time you visit those pages.
Security
- PA endeavours to protect your personal data, including through reasonable security arrangements to prevent unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks to your personal data.
- However, as information technology continues to evolve rapidly, no transmission of data over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While every effort is made to protect the privacy of our visitors, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or through our website or mobile applications.
- If you use any User identification, password, personal identification number or other authentication information on our website, please ensure that such information is kept secure and that you do not share it with anyone. We cannot take responsibility for any security lapses or unauthorised third-party access arising from your failure to keep such information secure.
- Please note that certain parts of our website, Products and Services are not confidential and are accessible to the general public. Any personal data that you may post or upload to such publicly accessible features of the website, Products or Services will be available to the general public.
Retention
- PA will cease to retain personal data, or will anonymise such personal data, once the purpose for which the personal data was collected is no longer being served, and there are no legal or business reasons necessitating such retention.
Access and Correction
- PA takes reasonable steps to ensure the personal data it holds is accurate and complete. If you wish to access the personal data PA holds about you, or to correct or update such personal data, you may contact our Data Protection Officer at sales@parsonsauto.com.sg. Please allow us reasonable time to respond and effect any change. Please note that in certain circumstances, we are not obliged to accede to your request.
Third party websites
- Our privacy statement does not extend to third party websites that may be linked from this website, or from any broadcast by us to such third party websites. Such third party websites, their content and privacy policies are outside PA’s control. Please review the privacy policies of such third party websites when visiting those websites, and before disclosing any personal data to such third parties.
Amendments to Privacy Statement
- We may revise this privacy statement from time to time by updating this version, and will post our revisions on this website. By continuing to use this website and any of its pages, or continuing to use our Products or Services, you are agreeing to be bound by such revisions. Please visit this web page from time to time to determine if there have been any changes to these terms.
- If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy statement, please contact us at sales@parsonsauto.com.sg.