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BrandsWorld™ Privacy Policy

Effective: Jan 10 2019

This Privacy Policy governs the way that Suntory Beverage & Food Asia Pte Ltd (”Suntory”), a Singapore corporation, and/or its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (collectively, “we,” “our,” or “Suntory”) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from you and other users (collectively, “User,” “you,” or “your”) of our www.brandsworld.us website and any derivative website on which this Privacy Policy is posted (collectively, the “Site”). . We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such changes to this page.  You understand that you have the affirmative obligation to check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes, and you hereby agree to periodically review this Privacy Policy for such changes.  The continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes an acceptance of those changes. The most current version of this Privacy Policy is available at www.brandsworld.us/Privacy-Policy.  

 

Privacy

We respect the privacy of all visitors to the Site and believe it is important for every User to know how it utilizes the information collected from Users. Please be aware that our Site is not directed at children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age online. Please also note that our Site may contain links to other websites, which we may not control.  Accordingly, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these or any other websites, and you access these websites entirely at your own risk.  We strongly recommend that you review the privacy practices of any other websites that you choose to visit.

Our Site is hosted in the United States of America, although we are based on Singapore.  If you are from Canada, the European Union, or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from United States law. If you register an account on the Site, visit the Site, purchase products or services via the Site or from Suntory or our affiliates, or otherwise access or use the Site, please note that any personally identifiable information that you may provide to us will be transferred to the United States and/or Singapore.  Any such personally identifiable information provided will be processed and stored in the United States and/or Singapore by Suntory or a service provider acting on its behalf.  By providing your personally identifiable information, you hereby specifically and expressly consent to such transfer and processing and the uses and disclosures set forth herein.

  

Information We Collect

We may collect personally identifying information about you in a variety of ways. Personally identifying information may include, without limitation, (a) contact data (such as your name, address, email address, telephone numbers), (b) demographic data (such as your  gender, race, age and personal preferences), (c) financial information collected to process purchases made from us via our Site or otherwise (such as your credit card, debit card, or other payment information; (d) other information requested during the account registration process, and (e) specific information required for purposes of entry in any contest or competition we may host from time to time. If you communicate with us by email or otherwise, post messages to any forums, complete online forms, surveys, or entries, or otherwise interact with us or use features on the Site, we may also collect information you provide in such communications. The provision of personally identifiable information by you is voluntary. If you do not want your personally identifiable information to be used for the purposes as mentioned below, you may choose not to provide your personally identifiable information, although it may affect or limit your access to certain Materials (as defined in the Terms of Use) and/or features available or accessible via our Site . We may also collect information about how you use the Site, for example, by tracking the number of unique views received by the pages of the Site, or the domains and IP addresses from which Users originate. While not all of the information that we collect from Users is personally identifiable, it may be associated with personally identifiable information that our Users provide us through the Site or otherwise.

We may use "cookies" or “web beacons” to track how our Users use the Site. A cookie is a piece of software that a web server can store on Users’ PCs and use to identify Users should they visit the Site again.  Users may adjust their web browser software if they do not wish to accept cookies.

 

How We Use Information

We may use personally identifiable information collected via the Site for the specific purposes for which such information was collected, to process purchases and sales of products or services offered or made available via the Site, to contact Users regarding products and services offered by Suntory and our trusted affiliates, independent contractors, and business partners, and to otherwise enhance our Users’ experience with us and our affiliates, independent contractors, and business partners. We may also use information collected from our Site for research regarding the effectiveness of the Site and the business planning, marketing advertising, and sales efforts of Suntory and our trusted affiliates, independent contractors, and business partners. We may also use the information collected from our Site to provide general health information and information about our products and services.

 

Disclosure of Information

We may disclose personally identifiable information collected from Users to our trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners who will use the information for the purposes outlined above, as necessary to provide our offered products and services and to provide the Site itself, and for the specific purposes for which the information was collected.  We may also disclose your personally identifiable information at the request of law enforcement or governmental agencies or in response to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to establish, protect or exercise Suntory’s legal or other rights or to defend against a legal claim or as otherwise required or allowed by law. Suntory may disclose personally identifiable information in order to protect the rights, property or safety of a User or any other person.  Suntory may disclose personally identifiable information to investigate or prevent a violation by User of any contractual or other relationship with Suntory or the perpetration of any illegal or harmful activity.  Suntory may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from Users to investors and potential partners.  Finally, Suntory may disclose or transfer personally identifiable information collected from Users in connection with or in contemplation of a sale of its assets or business or a merger, consolidation or other reorganization of its business.  

 

Security of Information

Information about Users that is maintained on Suntory’s systems is protected using industry standard security measures.  However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and Suntory cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on or transmitted from its systems will be completely secure.  Suntory is not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures relating to the Site by any Users or third parties.

 

Correcting, Updating, Accessing, or Removing Personal Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire to receive non-account specific information from us, we will attempt to provide a way to correct, update, change, and/or remove your previously-provided personal data. This can be done by emailing a request to us at Joanna.Ang@Brands-Suntory.com or Yunfang.Tay@brands-suntory.com . Additionally, you may request access to your personally identifiable data that we have collected by sending a request to us at the above email address. Please note that in certain circumstances, we may not be capable of completely removing a User’s personal information from our systems. For example, we may retain a User’s personally identifiable information if it is necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, if required by law, for legitimate business purposes, for account recovery purposes, or as retained in our data backup systems or cached or archived pages. All retained personally identifiable information will continue to be subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy to which you have previously agreed.

 

Contacting Suntory 

If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please email us at Joanna.Ang@Brands-Suntory.com or Yunfang.Tay@brands-suntory.com or write to us at 18 Cross Street #12-01/08 China Square Central Singapore 048423, to the attention of Export Market Division (Privacy), or contact us at 65 6212 0100

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits Users that are residents of California to request certain information regarding Suntory’s disclosures of personally identifiable information to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes.  If User is a California resident and would like to make such a request, please email us at Joanna.Ang@Brands-Suntory.com or Yunfang.Tay@brands-suntory.com or write to us at 18 Cross Street #12-01/08 China Square Central Singapore 048423, to the attention of Export Market Division (Privacy), or contact us at 65 6212 0100.