AUDI CLUB SINGAPORE – PRIVACY POLICY
It is our sincere hope of Audi Club Singapore that what is now a purely an online relationship will evolve into a more personal and warm relationship with your membership to Audi Club Singapore. A relationship built on trust and our Privacy Policy outlines this.
The ACS website provides Audi car enthusiasts users with access to collection of resources, including private messaging, forums/bulletin boards, forum search, personalized profile content, technical facts (FAQ), and other internet resources that may be accessed through the internet.
Our policy on privacy is simple and unwavering. We would also remind you that audiclubsg.com is a private, copyrighted site, containing Audi trademarks/logos. The Audi Logo (and four rings emblem) is a trademark and intellectual property-owned by Volkswagen AG and Audi AG. The Audi Club Singapore and its Committee have expressed permission from Audi AG/Audi Singapore for the use of the Audi Logo and trademark for Audi Club related activities.
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this Privacy Policy, which explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this Privacy Policy easy to find, we make it available on our homepage for your easy reference.
Audi Club Singapore is committed to user privacy in respect of our products and services, and guards your data carefully. The online environment provides an unprecedented access to information, but the convergence of communication and information technologies also brings a range of information privacy issues to the centre of public concern.
At Audi Club Singapore, we take care to respect your right to privacy.
Your Consent
By joining as a member and using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Audi Club Singapore. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. If you provide us with such information, it will be accepted as your consent for us to collect and use it as described below.
We will treat your information as confidential in accordance with Audi Club Singapore's Privacy Policy.
The Information We Collect
This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected or submitted on the audiclubsg.com website or using the official application form. The information may be submitted electronically or via other means such as conventional mail.
Some of this information such as vehicle registration number is used to verify the origin of the vehicle as a pre-requisite in your application to be a member of Audi Club Singapore. The membership criteria is governed by the Audi Club Singapore Constitution.
The types of personal information collected that you submit typically include:
• Name, Date of birth & IC Number
• Address, Phone number(s) & E-mail address
• Occupation
• Vehicle Model Details / Engine capacity
• Vehicle Registration details / Number plate of vehicle
• Details of the registered owner of the vehicle (where applicant is not the owner)
• Declaration of the registered owner permission
• Declaration of the vehicle driver (where applicant is not the owner)
• +/-Survey questions
On some pages of the website, you may register to receive materials, make requests, and perhaps even order products. The information collectsubmitted will be tailored to a level appropriate to the service requested.
Emergency Contact, Next of Kin (NOK) Information
On some forms, you may be asked to submit information about other people. For example, if you take part in an activity where the next of kin details must be supplied. You will need to submit such details for safety and contact reasons incase of an emergency.
How We Use Information
We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and share with our partner agencies. For example, we may tell an advertising agency that x number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that y number of men and z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals.
If you choose to register or receive products or materials from us, or to otherwise give us personal information, we may store some or all of that personal information and use it for statistical, marketing research and marketing purposes, which may include sharing it with Audi Authorized dealerships or with various suppliers that provide marketing, research, or other services for us.
In the event of a criminal investigation or a suspected illegal activity, we may be requested by law to share certain personal information.
We will never sell your personal information to any other company!
Finally, we never use or share personally identifiable information provided to us online or offline in ways unrelated to the ones described above.
Marketing and Promotional Material
We acknowledge and respect a user's choice to opt-out of Audi Club Singapore and it rrelated partnerthird party’s marketing and promotional communication activities. Should you decide you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional materials, there is an ‘opt out’ option in the third party's material.
"Cookies" used on the website
"Cookies" are small items of data that some websites either write to your hard drive upon your visit to their site(s) or store in the browser. These data files contain information the site can use to organize the pages you have visited on a particular website. Some of our websites may use "cookie" technology to measure site activity and tailor information to fit your personal interests. In this way, we can deliver tailor-made information suiting your personal interests upon your next visit to our site. Our use of "cookie" technology is, thus, to provide you with a more individualized delivery of information and an optimal viewing experience.
Pixel Tags
We may use "pixel tags", which are small graphic files that allow us to monitor the use of our websites. A pixel tag can collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the pixel tag appears; the time the page containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that fetched the pixel tag; and the identification number of any cookie (please see A word on "Cookies") on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable email, we may or may not use "format sensing" technology, which allows pixel tags to let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail.
Our Commitment To Data Security
Because your privacy is important to us, we have installed safeguards to secure your data (especially if it involves credit card information). Our aim is to carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up to date.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Whilst we strive to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorized access, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from our online services. You conduct these activities at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security.
When and where deployed; our e-commerce site will use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology supported by popular browsers to protect your online transactions. SSL encrypts your credit card number, name, address, and phone number before they travel over the Internet.
While Audi Club Singapore is committed to user privacy, it does not warrant or guarantee that there may not be occasions when our employees, agents, or members may use or abuse negligently, recklessly or maliciously or in anyway in a manner not authorized or sanctioned by the Club or its Management, the data and other information given by you to the Club. In such circumstances, you accept that the Club and the Management will not be held liable to you.
Our Commitment To Privacy of the Young
Protecting the privacy of the young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 18. No part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18. You cannot be a member of Audi Club Singapore unless you are 18 years old and above as governed by the Audi Club Singapore constitution.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
For your profile information on the Audi Club Singapore forum/bulletin board, you can access and maintain all your personally identifiable information that we collectyou have submitted online by visiting the “My Profile” section of the website.
Links to other Sites from Audi Club Singapore
Audi Club Singapore provides access to other sites by way of hyperlinks or “RSS news” feeds. These links are provided to enrich the content of the site for the benefit of the members. These other sites are not subject to Audi Club Singapore’s privacy standards and procedures. You should make your own enquiries as to the privacy standards for each linked site.
Audi Club (Singapore)
Last Updated: 28 July 2009
