TIMESCONSULT Privacy Policy

Effective October 2019

TIMESCONSULT and its affiliates are committed to protecting your information. Please read this privacy policy (‘the Policy’) carefully as it sets out important information relating to how we handle your personal information.

The Policy is issued by TIMESCONSULT policies.

In this Policy, references to “we”,”us”, or “TIMESCONSULT” are references to TIMESCONSULT. TIMESCONSULT will have access to information on individuals covered by this policy.

How to Contact Us

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy should be addressed to our business representatives via email at roy@timesconsult.com or regular mail at:

TIMESCONSULT
B-13a-2,
Northpoint Offices, Midvalley City,
No. 1, Medan Syed Putra Utara,
59200 Kuala Lumpur

Introduction

This Policy sets out how we collect and use personal information, and your choices and rights regarding our use of your personal information. 

This Policy describes our practices when using your information when you: 

This Policy also applies to information we collect from you via our survey or diagnostic tools as outlined in more detail below. You may be shown an additional confidentiality notice before participating in a survey or diagnostic. Please note that in cases where the terms of any such survey- or diagnostic-specific confidentiality notice conflict with any terms in this Policy, the terms of that notice will take precedence over the terms in this Policy.

This Policy will apply whether you have provided the information directly to us or we have obtained it from a different source, such as a third party.   

1. INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

1.1 Data collection and use
Information we collect directly from you or from the following sources:

Categories of information we collect about you include:

  • Personal information such as name and title, contact details, and company name;
  • Communications with you;
  • Information you provide when posting content on social media sites.

We use this information for certain activities, including:

  • Facilitating the business through communication with corporate clients and other business contacts, for example, to communicate about job opportunities.
  • Monitoring social media content to manage relations with our clients and promote our business and brand.

We use this information to:

  • Manage and promote our business and brand;
  • Provide and improve our services;
  • Operate our business.

Information we collect when you attend one of our Career Fairs:

Categories of information we collect about you include:

  • Information you provide during registration, such as name, business email address, profile photograph, job title, professional interests, and residential address.
  • Information collected when we record one of our job fairs.

We use this information for certain activities, including:

  • Enabling you to expose to more job opportunities;
  • Conductingour job fairs.

We use this information because:

  • It is necessary to perform our obligations or exercise our contractual rights;
  • It is necessary to comply with applicable laws or regulations;
  • We have a legitimate business interest to:
    • Manage and promote our business and brand;
    • Operate our conferences business;
    • Provide and improve our services.

Information we
collect from users of:

  • Our public and member-based websites;
  • TIMESCONSULT social media sites such as Facebook or Linkedin.

Categories of information we collect about you include:

  • Information you provide when you enter information on our website, such as when you provide contact details, answer online questionnaires, or feedback forms;
  • Information you provide when you subscribe to email newsletters such as name, email address, job title;
  • Information you provide when registering for an online or member account, including name, business or personal email address, job title, organization, organization’s physical address, direct telephone number, photograph, and biographical details;
  • When you link your TIMESCONSULT account with your LinkedIn profile, we collect information from your profile, including your profile photograph.

We use this information for certain activities, including:

  • Enabling you to access your TIMESCONSULT account across devices;
  • Monitoring social media content to manage relations with our clients and promote our business and brand.

We use this information because:

  • It is necessary to perform our obligations or exercise our contractual rights;
  • It is necessary to comply with applicable laws or regulations;
  • We have a legitimate business interest to:
    • Promote our brand and business through our website and through social media tools;
    • Monitor, investigate and report any attempts to breach the security of our website;
    • Provide and improve our services including, but not limited to, the Timesconsult system;
    • Operate our business;
  • We have your consent (where required under applicable law) to use your information for recruitment purposes. Where we rely on your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent by contacting us.
2 Further information

Where we collect,and use information for our legitimate interests as mentioned above, alegitimate interest will only apply when we consider that your interests or rights requiring protection of your personal information do not override our legitimate interests. For more information regarding our legitimate interests as applied to your personal information, please contact us.

Our websites and online services are for individuals who are at least 18 years old. Our online services are not designed to be used by individuals under the age of 18.

In certain circumstances, if you do not provide personal information which is required (for example, in relation to activating your TIMESCONSULT license), we will not be able to perform our contractual obligations or provide you with products and services. When this is the case, we will make it clear. 

3. WHEN WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to third parties, such as TIMESCONSULT’s client in order to process the data for the recruitment and research purposes.

To TIMESCONSULT client in order to process the data for the above-mentioned purposes; Your personal information may be shared if we anonymize and/or aggregate it, as in these circumstances the information will cease to be personal information.

Utilization Information
We may share information with our organizational clients about how their employees use the sites and the resources available to them through the sites (e.g., how employees used certain features of the sites, utilization trends, which features were most popular with the client’s employees).

4. DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

In certain circumstances, you have certain rights regarding your personal information. A summary of each right and how you can exercise it is set out below. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. Such requests should include information to allow us to verify your identity (e.g., your name, address, email address or other information reasonably required). 

Where we receive your request to exercise one of these rights, we will respond without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. This may be further extended by two months in certain circumstances,e.g., where requests are complex or numerous.

We will provide the information free of charge, except where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, e.g. because of their repetitive character. In these circumstances, we may charge a reasonable fee or may refuse to act on the request. We will advise you of any fees prior to proceeding with a request. 

We may ask for additional information to verify your identity before carrying out a request. 

Right
How you can exercise the right
Right to access and/or correct your personal information
You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to be provided with a copy of the information (in most circumstances). You also have the right to correct any information we may hold about you that is inaccurate.

Right to restrict use of your personal information
You have the right to ask us to restrict processing of your personal information where one of the following applies:

Right to request deletion of your personal information
You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances. If you want to opt-out from receiving our marketing communications, the best way to do so is to allow us to retain your information with a “do not contact” tag so we know not to contact you in the future. 

There are also certain exceptions where we may refuse a request for erasure,for example, where the personal information is required to comply with a legal obligation or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Right to object to processing of your personal information
You may object to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

You may also object to processing of your personal information in cases where we have used legitimate interests as the basis for processing. In such cases, we will stop processing your personal information until we verify that we have compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms in asking us to stop processing the data, or in limited cases where we need to continue processing the data for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.

Right to data portability
In most cases, you have the right to receive all personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit this data to another data controller, where technically feasible.

5. Changes to this Policy

From time to time, we may change and/or update this Policy. If this Policy changes in any way, we will post an updated version on this website. We recommend you regularly review this website to ensure that you are always aware of our information practices and any changes to such. Any changes to this Policy will go into effect on posting to this page.

How to Contact Us
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Notice should be addressed to our Office through the following means:

Business headquarter 
TIMESCONSULT
B-13a-2, Northpoint Offices, 
MidvalleyCity, No. 1, 
Medan Syed Putra Utara, 
59200 KualaLumpur 

+6 03 22881112

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