Statement of Privacy

Brand Factor Solution Sdn Bhd (“Brand Factor”) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Brand Factor Statement of Privacy applies to Brand Factor Web sites and governs data collection and usage at all Brand Factor sites and services. By using Brand Factor websites, you consent to the data collection practices described in this statement of Privacy.

This statement of privacy consists of a general section which applies to all Brand Factor sites and services. Please read the complete Brand Factor Statement of Privacy below to learn details about how some of Brand Factor’s sites and services protect your personal information.

Collection of your Personal Information

Brand Factor collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address name, home or work address or telephone number. At other sites, Brand Factor collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. Some sites collect a combination of the two types of information. Information collected at one Brand Factor Web site may be shared within Brand Factor and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates, including the Brand Factor family of Web sites. Personal and demographic data may be stored and processed outside of your country, and by using Brand Factor, you consent to any such transfers outside of your country.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Brand Factor and may be shared with other Web sites within the Brand Factor family of web sites. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Brand Factor for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Brand Factor Web sites

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information personally sensitive data through Brand Factor Chats, Brand Factor Communities, or other public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others.

Brand Factor encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Brand Factor so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Brand Factor is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of Brand Factor and Brand Factor family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Brand Factor Web sites and their operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate Brand Factor Web sites and deliver the services you have requested. Brand Factor sites also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Brand Factor and its affiliates. Brand Factor may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or products of potential new services or services that may be offered.

Brand Factor does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Brand Factor may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Brand Factor may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Brand Factor, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Brand Factor does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Brand Factor keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Brand Factor, in order to determine what Brand Factor sites and services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within Brand Factor to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Brand Factor Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on       Brand Factor the site;
(b) protect and defend the rights or property of Brand Factor ,and its family of       Web sites; and,
(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of       Brand Factor, its web sites, or the public.

Use of Cookies

Many of the Brand Factor Web sites use "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programmes or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Brand Factor 's pages, or register with Brand Factor site or services, a cookie helps Brand Factor to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Brand Factor Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Brand Factor features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Brand Factor services or Web sites you visit.

Use of Web Beacons

Brand Factor Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons -sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow Brand Factor to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on the Brand Factor network of sites and services; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about Brand Factor Web site usage.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Brand Factor Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners, as described below, to help Brand Factor determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.

Use of Third Party Ad Networks

The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on Brand Factor Web sites are displayed by Brand Factor.

In addition, Brand Factor also allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on Brand Factor Web sites. To do this, ad networks place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the ad network to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. Brand Factor does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

If you want to prevent one of these third-party companies from sending and reading cookies on your computer, you will need to visit each ad network's Web site individually and request that you be removed from its system.

Control your Personal Information

You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Brand Factor Web sites by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. The instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

There are some Web sites, including Brand Factor Online Survey, which send out periodic e-mails informing you of product surveys, new feature announcements and news about Brand Factor products and services. These e-mails are considered essential to the provision of the service you have requested. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered a part of the service you have chosen.

Security of your Personal Information

Brand Factor secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Brand Factor secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Brand Factor will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Brand Factor encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Brand Factor is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Brand Factor welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Brand Factor has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Brand Factor by e-mail. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem. Click here to send e-mail.

Brand Factor Newsletters

When you subscribe to an Brand Factor Newsletter, Brand Factor requests your e-mail address. Brand Factor strongly urges you to also select a password to protect your privacy, however, this is optional. Brand Factor uses your e-mail address to send you the newsletter(s) you have requested. Brand Factor does not share its Newsletter subscribers' e-mail addresses with third parties except as required to deliver the service.

You may subscribe and unsubscribe to Brand Factor Newsletters by going to Registration Page. By using a password when subscribing, you are securing your newsletter subscription account. In addition, each Brand Factor newsletter you receive will have instructions on how to unsubscribe prominently mentioned in it.

By using a password when subscribing, you are securing your newsletter account. If you do not secure your account, others who know your e-mail address can view and modify your subscription choices.