Effective Date : June 2021
In this Policy, the terms “we,” “us,” are references to Timezone or Leisure and Allied Industries Philippines, Inc. (LAIP) and all its venues doing business under the Timezone name.
The term “you” and its derivatives refer to customers, vendors, partners, employees, associates, and other stakeholders of Timezone or Leisure and Allied Industries Philippines, Inc. (LAIP).
Timezone or Leisure and Allied Industries Philippines, Inc. (LAIP) or Timezone, and its Venues are in compliance with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012. The LAIP respects the confidentiality of personal information, and values data privacy rights.
We strive to ensure that all personal information collected from customers, vendors, partners, employees, associates, and other stakeholders are processed in accordance with the general data privacy principles of transparency, legitimate purpose, and proportionality.
Our privacy policy describes how we collect, protect, and manage customer information through our websites, information systems, and processes.
Personal information refers to data that can be used on its own, or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person or an individual in context.
As part of your dealings with us (e.g., Guests, shareholder, business partner, etc.), whether online or offline, we may collect and process your personal information as summarized below.
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Personal Identification |
Name, gender, civil status, date of birth, government-issued identification |
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Contact Information |
Address, telephone or mobile numbers, email address |
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Financial Data |
Bank account data, credit card data |
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Job Application Data |
Employment history, educational background, résumé and pictures sent with it, compensation and benefits, pictures included in |
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Vendor Accreditation Data |
Work-related information regarding your company, your ownership and participation |
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Account log-in Information |
Log-in ID, password or other security codes |
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Images, quotes and/or videos from which you may be identified |
Pictures uploaded to the Timezone’s social media platforms or provided to us, for example, in the context of a webinar or interview |
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Any other information that you voluntarily decide to share Timezone |
Feedback, opinions, reviews, comments, uploaded files, information provided for our due diligence process |
Lastly, when you visit our premises, for security reasons, we might also record data through video or other electronic, digital or wireless surveillance system or device (e.g. CCTV, biometric readers).
When you visit or use our websites or applications, subscribe to our newsletters or otherwise interact with us through our digital channels, in addition to the information you provide to us directly, we may collect information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other access device. For example, we may collect:
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Examples |
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Device Information |
IP address, hardware model, IMEI number and other unique device identifiers, operating system version |
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Location Information |
Your location (derived from your IP address, Bluetooth beacons or identifiers, or other location-based products or features technologies) that may be collected when you enable location-based features |
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Information about your visit and use of our websites, digital platforms, and mobile apps |
Time, duration, manner of use of our products and services, or products and services connected to ours. |
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Social media behavior |
Tagging, mentioning, or posting photographs of any development project of Timezone on any social media platform (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.) |
To the extent permitted by applicable law, in addition to our websites, applications and other digital channels, we may also obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms and other third parties.
If you have indicated to us that you wish to receive personalized direct marketing communications, we might aggregate data from different sources (both internally and externally) to have a better understanding of your preference and interests, and be able to serve you with more relevant communications. You can always object to these activities by opposing this. In particular, you can always opt-out from receiving marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each email.
Ways we collect your personal information
We may collect and store your personal information in a variety of ways:
When you interact with our sales or customer care agents, reservation officers and specialists through email, phone, chat services, or face-to-face meetings;
When you submit information through manual forms, and online forms on our digital assets (i.e., websites, apps), or contact us through any of our social media accounts (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.);
When you register, maintain, or use our digital platforms, including our mobile apps;
When you visit our premises with CCTV surveillance camera that are used to for safety and security of our guests, employees, and other visitors of our venues, offices;
When you provide personal information in relation to inquiries, requests, and complaints;
When you respond to surveys, promotions, and other marketing and sales initiatives;
When you submit a job application;
When you are referred to us by third parties or business partners; and
When you submit your personal information to us for any other reason
When you disclose to us personal information of another person (e.g., your dependent, spouse, children, and/or parents), you attest that consent has been obtained from that person to disclose and process his/her personal information in accordance with this policy.
If the Personal Information was provided by a minor or one who is not legally capable of entering into contractual transactions without parental or guardian consent, the parent or legal guardian shall be responsible in providing the consent as required under this Data Privacy Policy, and in correcting any information given or informing us that the information should be disregarded or deleted.
In fulfillment of the stated purpose/s that you consented to, we may disclose your personal information to the following parties:
Our employees and officers;
Banks, credit card companies and their respective service providers;
Suppliers or subcontractors; third-party service providers; consultants that have been contracted by Timezone to provide financial, technical, architectural, administrative, and support services such as information technology, payroll, accounting, sales administration, procurement, training, background investigation, loyalty engine or rewards program, and other services, such as but not limited to allowing users to have access to and enjoy other features of our digital platforms;
Any third-party business offering goods and services or sponsor contest or other marketing and promotional programs, where you have provided your consent;
Our company Leisure and Allied Industries Phils., Inc. / Timezone and its and affiliates;
To the extent that we are required to do so by applicable laws, rules, and regulations, we may share your personal information:
To the buyer or prospective buyer of any business or asset that we are contemplating to sell;
To clients and customers availing of our products and services;
To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably and is likely to order the disclosure of such personal information;
Any company/entity with which we share information about you for the above purposes is contractually required to comply with confidentiality standards, undertake to respect any individual’s right to privacy, and comply with the Data Privacy Act. We also require that these organizations use this information only for our purposes, and follow our reasonable directions with respect to the use and protection of this information. This includes organizations which handle or obtain personal information as service providers for Timezone.
CLOUD SERVICES
Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries which host the cloud services that we utilize, (e.g., Microsoft Office 365, Azure, Salesforce),. All cloud service providers have been evaluated for their ability to meet the minimum requirements of the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Their performance in fulfilling these requirements is part of the Vendor Performance Evaluation.
INTERNET
Personal Information that you publish or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by parties other than those mentioned in the above section ("Disclosure of Personal Information with Other Parties").
We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing your personal data :
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
To the extent required by or pursuant to our contract; and
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings in order to establish, exercise, and defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)..
Thereafter, your personal information shall be disposed or discarded in a secure manner that would prevent further processing, unauthorized access, or disclosure to any other party or the public.
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, subject to providing us with appropriate evidence of your identity.
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
You will be asked to expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for the same purpose.
If the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated, Timezone shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure that data collected is current, complete and accurate.
If you need to access, correct and update your personal information, you may send a request to laipdpo@timezonegames.com or get in touch with the customer support team of the product or services that you availed.
As part of our security measures, we will contact you and conduct the necessary verification measures to process your request. Once we have implemented the necessary corrections, we shall then notify you that your request has been processed and completed.
If you wish to withdraw the consent you’ve given for any or all purposes set out in this policy, you may send your detailed request to laipdpo@timezonegames.com. Depending on the nature of the withdrawal of consent, Timezone may no longer be in a position to provide products and services to you.
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via any of our official websites, such information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), such information goes through our payment gateway which encrypts and transmits the data to us in a secure way.
All our critical websites undergo security scanning and penetration testing to reduce their vulnerability to cyber-attacks. While we employ all necessary precautions to safeguard your information, the internet is not 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee that information we collect or store will be protected from unauthorized access and used in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy policy
We maintain physical, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect your personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. We also implement safeguards such as:
Wherever we collect sensitive information (e.g., credit card data), such information goes through our payment gateway, which encrypts and transmits the data to us in a secure way.
We maintain physical, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
We also implement safeguards such as:
The use of secured servers behind advanced threat protection appliances, firewalls, encryptions and other security tools;
Limiting access of your personal information to those who are qualified and authorized to process them. All such persons, wherever they are located, are required to protect the confidentiality and privacy of your personal information in a manner consistent with our privacy policies and practices; and
Regular security vulnerability and penetration testing of our information system and infrastructure to ensure that your personal information is properly protected.
Our websites contain hyperlinks and details of third-party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
We therefore advise you to study their privacy policies before providing them with any personal information. Once you leave our website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third-party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you allow the use of cookies, the file is added to your browser, helping us analyze and identify browsing behavior within our digital assets. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can customize its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to properly respond to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes, after which the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. We may use your browsing behavior to develop promotional offers, products, and services that we feel are beneficial to you.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies; however, doing so may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Timezone Management is committed to ensure that its Privacy Management Program is constantly reviewed, monitored, and enhanced.
To that end, a Data Protection Officer for Timezone and corresponding Compliance Officers of Privacy for our company have been appointed to manage and safeguard the handling of your personal information in compliance with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (R.A. 10173) and this Policy.
Timezone regards personal information breaches very seriously, and has procedures in place to deal with these.
Timezone in its venues use a CCTV system in capturing images and videos of employees, guests, and visitors to monitor security, crime and emergency incidents or situations within the premises. The CCTV data is stored in secure locations, accessed by authorized Timezone personnel for legitimate purposes and may be shared with appropriate authority for investigatory purposes.
Individuals identified on the CCTV system have the right to ask for access to footage subject to confirmation and approval of Timezone’s management.
As part of our efforts to safeguard and ensure the security and protection of your personal information, Timezone amends this privacy policy from time to time. Timezone may also update this policy to apply changes due to new laws and regulations affecting the Data Privacy Act, as well as changes in our business operations and environment. Any update will be posted on the Timezone corporate website with a date stamp so that you are informed of the latest policy update.
For comments, questions, or requests relating to this privacy policy, or complaints in relation to your rights under this privacy policy, you may get in touch with the Timezone Group Data Protection Officer by emailing laipdpo@timezonegames.com.
This privacy notice sets out most of your rights under the data privacy laws. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. We ask that you keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
