Daniel Wong

Privacy Policy

Updated: May 26th, 2018

This Policy applies to information we collect on www.daniel-wong.com about:

  • Visitors to our website (the “Site”); and
  • People who subscribe to our mailing list.

OVERVIEW

In order for us to operate our business and provide our services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to collect or process information about you. In general terms, this information will take one or more of the following forms:

  1. Information that you provide to us directly, such as in the situation where you complete an online form or send us a message;
  2. Information that is automatically sent to us by your computer’s internet browser when you visit our Site, such as your computer’s technical address (or ‘IP address’) or information about which particular internet browser you are using and so on;
  3. Information about how you use our Site or our services, such as which pages you visit, how frequently you visit the Site and so forth.

This privacy policy sets out the detail of what information we collect, as well as how that data is used and protected.

INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE

When you visit us, we may monitor the use of this Site through the use of cookies and similar tracking devices. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Please see the section on “Cookies and Similar Technologies” below for further information.

INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM USERS WHO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST

When you submit your email address to download a guide, checklist, ebook, etc. you are also subscribing to our mailing list. As such, we may send you additional information or email newsletters. We may also contact you about products and services we think may be of interest to you.

You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email.

By submitting your email address, you consent to the use of that email address as set out in this policy.

TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

– TECHNICAL DATA (SUCH AS ‘IP ADDRESS’)

When you visit our Site, our systems will log a record of your visit in our server logs, and typically this record will include the technical ‘IP’ address that is associated with your device and the browser type and version that you are using.

Such server logs are extremely common practice, and are used to monitor technical resources, monitor high-level server activity, and importantly to detect and prevent malicious or fraudulent activity on our systems. This data can also be used, if required, to diagnose reports of technical issues. The storage of IP addresses, allow us to identify patterns of behaviour (such as repeated malicious attempts to access a system).

IP addresses, in and of themselves, do not allow us in any way to identify you as an individual, especially given that it is very common for IP addresses to be dynamically allocated by your service provider, and will therefore often routinely change.

Furthermore, we do not and will not use the content of server access logs to attempt to determine an identifiable individual. We therefore do not consider that data held within server logs falls within the scope of ‘personal data’, and accordingly we do not seek your consent to collect it.

– COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We have included cookies, web beacons and similar technologies into one section because they all perform similar functions even if, from a technical perspective, they work slightly differently.

All of these technologies allow us to better understand how users are using our Site and other related services. They can also be an essential part of providing certain online functionality. They are all essentially small data files placed on your computer (or other device) that allow us to tell when you have visited a particular page, or performed a particular action (such as clicking a particular button) on our Site.

These technologies are used by most websites as they provide useful insight into how the services are being used, as well as improving speed, performance and security, and enabling us to improve our personalisation of your experience.

Cookies are small text files placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:

  • Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session.
  • Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.
  • First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting.
  • Third-party cookies are set by a third-party site separate from the site you are visiting.

There are a number of ways that you can influence how cookies are used on your particular device. Most commercial browsers (such as Chrome, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) allow you to set preferences for whether to allow or block website cookies.

They will also provide tools that allow you to remove any cookies that have already been set. Using the ‘Help’ functionality of your browser, or an internet search, will help you to understand how to use these features for your particular browser.

Our uses of cookies and similar technologies fall into the following general categories:

  1. Essential. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our Site, services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our Site, services, applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular site behaviour, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use of our functions such as shopping carts, saved search, or similar functions;
  2. Performance Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our Site, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our Site, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our Site content, applications, services, or tools;
  3. Functionality Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our Site, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our Site or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our Site;
  4. Marketing Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our Site or on third-party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that have been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.

– WEBSITE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to better understand what people look at on our Site.

When people visit our Site, information about their visit (such as which pages they look at, how long they spend on the site and so on) is sent in an anonymous form to Google Analytics (which is controlled by Google).

The data contains information about anyone who uses our Site from your computer, and there is no way to identify individuals from the data.

We ensure that no personally identifiable information is ever contained within the data sent to our analytics providers, and we also perform a process which partially obscures your IP address information.

As analytics information is not personal data, we do not specifically ask for your prior consent.

– FACEBOOK

Like the vast majority of commercial websites, we use social media cookies from Facebook on our Site. The cookies are placed by Facebook, and we use them to understand the effectiveness of social media campaigns that we operate.

If you are not logged into Facebook when you view our Site, then it is not possible for any personal information about your visit to be collected, and therefore we do not specifically ask for your prior consent.

If you are logged into Facebook when you view our Site, then Facebook will know when you visit us. We do not have any access to the detail of that personal data, as you have consented to share it with Facebook, not us. We just get to see anonymised data about the numbers of people who have responded to our advertising or other social media activity.

Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from your websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You can learn about Facebook’s privacy policy here.

There are a number of ways of controlling the ads that you see based on your activity on Facebook. The following resources may help to understand those choices:

  • How to opt-out of Facebook interest-based advertising on your browser or mobile device: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
  • About ads: http://www.aboutads.info/choices
  • Your online choices: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

You can always use your browser’s ‘private’ or ‘incognito’ mode to browse websites anonymously.

If you disable marketing cookies on this Site, it does not mean that you will not see our ads, it just means that they will not be personalised based on your Facebook activity.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We are committed to maintaining the security of your personal information. We have put in place appropriate security procedures and technical measures to safeguard your personal information, such as contact information that you have submitted to us.

ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION AND UPDATING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

Subject to the exceptions referred to in section 21(2) of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (No. 26 of 2012) of Singapore (“PDPA”), you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.

NON-DISCLOSURE

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to third parties your personally identifiable information.  This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Site, conducting our business, or serving you, as long as these parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our Site policies, or protect ours and others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing or other uses.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Site contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this Site, so when you visit other websites you should read their privacy policies.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, so that you will be aware of the information we collect and how we use it.