Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

When you visit our web site(s), we will record your visit only and will not collect any personally identifiable information (i.e. information that is about you and identifies you) from you unless otherwise stated. Cookies used (if any) in any part of our web site will not be deployed for collecting personally identifiable information. For your information, Cookies are small computer files that can be stored in web surfers' computers for the purposes of obtaining configuration information and analysing web surfers' viewing habits. They can save you from registering again when re-visiting a web site and are commonly used to track your preferences in relation to the subject matter of the web site. You may refuse to accept Cookies (by modifying the relevant Internet options or browsing preferences of your computer system), but to do so you may not be able to utilize or activate certain available functions in our web sites.

Types of Personally Identifiable Information Collected

At times, you may be required to give your personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, your name, gender, age, telephone number, fax number, home address, email address, credit card information, bank account number, education level, occupation, household income, interests and favourite activities etc. Refusal to provide such information may deny you of access to certain parts of our web site, or may render us unable to handle any application or request you are making, or may otherwise defeat the objectives of your visit. If you are under the age of 18, consent from your parent or guardian is required before you give us any personally identifiable information.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information Collected

Specific purposes for which your personally identifiable information may be used are set out in our Personal Information Collection Statement.

Direct Marketing

Unless you have indicated your objection, we may use your personally identifiable information for marketing of goods and services to you  from time to time by telephone calls, SMS messages, email and direct mailings containing promotional materials. If you do not want to receive them, please email to admin@chopinsociety.com.my.

Retention of the Information

In your dealings with us, we retain records of your online transactions for auditing purposes. Our general policy is to retain the information for a reasonable period. We do not offer online facilities for you to delete personal data held by us.

Security

All personal data you provide to us is secured on our web site with restricted access by authorized personnel only. Our online registration process uses the SSL protocol link for data transmission so as to protect your data via encrypting it in a secure format to ensure its privacy is maintained.
Please note that this Statement may be amended from time to time without prior notice. You are advised to check it on a regular basis.

Personal Information Collection Statement

As a registered user of Chopin Society Malaysia, it may be necessary for you to provide us with your personal information ("Personal Data") when you apply to us and / or continue to subscribe with us for a service and / or product ("Services"). If your Personal Data is incomplete or incorrect, we may not be able to provide or continue to provide the Services to you.

We shall keep your Personal Data confidential at all times. Our policies and practices with respect to the collection, use, retention, disclosure, transfer, security and access of Personal Data will be in accordance with the laws of  Malaysia and are as set out in this Policy Statement.

You agree that the Personal Data provided by you to us may be used and retained by us for the following purposes and for other purposes as may be agreed between you and us or required by law from time to time:
a.       providing the Services; 
b.       marketing by us of goods and / or services offered by us,  our subsidiaries or our affiliates; 
c.       processing of any benefits arising out of or in connection with the Services;
d.       analyzing, verifying and / or checking of your credit, payment and / or status in relation to the provision of the Services; 
e.       processing of any payment instructions, direct debit facilities and / or credit facilities requested by you;
f.        enabling the daily operation of your account and / or the collection of amounts outstanding in your account in relation to the Services; 
g.      providing you with carefully selected offers, promotions and benefits from us, our subsidiaries and/or our affiliates. We may need to carry out data sorting and analysis to enable us to better understand your characteristics and buying behavior and to provide other services better tailored to your needs, to assist us in selecting good and services that are likely to be of interest to you;
h.       provide you with regular communications from us with details of the Services and its benefits;
i.        designing new, or improving existing, Services provided by us, our subsidiaries or our affiliates to you;
j.        investigation of complaints, suspected suspicious transactions and research for service improvement; 
k.       prevention or detection of crime;
l.        disclosure as required by law;
m.     aggregated behavioral analysis.

You further agree that we may disclose and transfer to our agents, contractors or any telecommunications operators under a duty of confidentiality to us, any third party collection agencies, any credit reference agencies, any security agencies, any credit providers, banks or other financial institutions, , and any of our actual or proposed assignees or transferees of our rights with respect to you, to use, disclose, hold, process, retain or transfer such Personal Data for the purposes mentioned above.

You have the right to:
i.       check whether we hold any of your Personal Data; 
ii.      access your Personal Data held by us; 
iii.     require us to correct any Personal Data which is inaccurate; 
iv.     ascertain our policies and practices (from time to time) in relation to Personal Data and the types of Personal Data held by us.