Privacy Policy
The key points of this Privacy Policy are outlined below.
- Our Cancer Stories takes the Singapore PDPA and other data protection laws very seriously and is mindful of the concomitant responsibilities.
- Our Cancer Stories also recognises the importance of the Personal Data entrusted to us and believes that it is our responsibility to properly manage, protect and process your Personal Data.
- This Privacy Policy applies only to the Our Cancer Stories website. If you are only browsing this website or using the website search function, we do not capture data that allows us to identify you individually. This website automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information and the page(s) requested. Although user sessions are tracked, the users remain anonymous. Our website may contain links to other websites not maintained by Our Cancer Stories. Such third-party websites are subject to their own data protection and privacy practices and you are encouraged to examine the privacy notices of those websites.
- If you choose to share your Personal Data via an application or an e-mail or any other form, we recommend that you read our Privacy Policy set out below explaining how we use your Personal Data when you interact with us via our website or in any other way.
- If you have any queries on this Privacy Policy or any other queries in relation to how we manage, protect and/or process your Personal Data, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@ourcancerstories.com.
- As part of our efforts to ensure that we properly manage, protect and process your personal data, we will be reviewing our policies, procedures and processes from time to time. We reserve the right to amend the terms of this Privacy Policy at our absolute discretion. Any amended Privacy Policy will be posted on our website. Please visit this page periodically to access current information in relation to Personal Data Protection.
This policy and disclaimer was last reviewed on 23 August 2024.
1. Introduction
Our Cancer Stories takes its responsibilities under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”) and other data protection laws very seriously. Our Cancer Stories also recognises the importance of the personal data entrusted to us and believes that it is our responsibility to properly manage, protect and process your personal data.
This Privacy Policy describes (i) how Our Cancer Stories will collect, store and use your personal data when you access our website or when you interact with us; and (ii) information on our use of cookies. In this context, “personal data” means information that identifies you personally or data that can be linked with such information to identify you directly or indirectly.
By interacting with us, calling or sending messages to us, accessing our websites and/or submitting information to us via forms or other data collection means or processes (whether through a form, an interview, our website or otherwise), you signify that you have read, understood and agreed to Our Cancer Stories’s collection use and disclosure of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Notice applies only to the Our Cancer Stories website. Our website may contain links to other websites not maintained by Our Cancer Stories. Such third-party websites are subject to their own data protection and privacy practices and you are encouraged to examine the privacy notices of those websites.
2. Your Personal Data
If you are only browsing this website or using the website search function, we do not capture data that allows us to identify you individually. This website automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information and the page(s) requested.
Website and Device Information
When you access Our Cancer Stories, the website automatically collects and stores in its server logs information from your browser or mobile device such as your IP address or unique device identifier, browser information (including referring URL), your preferences and settings, cookies and information about the content you have viewed and actions taken (e.g., search queries, ad engagement, clicks and the associated dates and times). When enabled by you, we collect precise location information provided by your mobile device, which you may disable through the device settings.
Precise Geolocation Data
When enabled by you, we collect precise location information provided by your mobile device, such as latitude and longitude. We do so to provide you more relevant content including advertising based on your location. You may disable the collection and use of your location data through your device settings. To change location settings on your device, please refer to your device’s official knowledge base.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We and our web solution providers use cookies to collect information about your use of the website. “Cookies” are small data files assigned to your browser when you visit Our Cancer Stories that enable recognition of your browser and collect and store information about your use of the website, as described above. In addition to cookies, we and our web solution providers use other tracking technologies that collect information about your use of the website, including mobile identifiers and "web beacons" which are small graphic files (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) embedded in a web page or email typically used to monitor activity and send relevant information back to a home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party). The information collected by such tracking technologies may be combined with other information that our web solution providers have access to, including your name and email address, so that we can send you materials electronically that may be of interest to you.
Our advertising service partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the website, including content you have viewed. These third parties may use this information to help Our Cancer Stories deliver advertising on the website and on other third party websites based on your browsing activity on the website. Our Cancer Stories may further tailor the advertising on the website and these other third party websites based on additional information to the extent known by Our Cancer Stories or these third parties.
Two of the third parties that Our Cancer Stories works with are Google and Meta. In addition to using the information it collects performing services for Our Cancer Stories, Google may also use such information as described in its privacy policy. To see how Google may use information collected through our use of the Google services on Our Cancer Stories, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. While Meta does not provide any personal information to Our Cancer Stories, Meta may use information that it has about you that it collects performing services for Our Cancer Stories (which may be associated with personal information that Meta has about you) as described in its privacy policy available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
3. Who does Our Cancer Stories share your Personal Data with?
In order for Our Cancer Stories to offer services to you, we may have to disclose your personal data to third-parties in order for them to process it on our behalf. This may include the following categories of recipients:
- Our affiliates or related companies who may be delivering parts of our services on our behalf.
- Some of these third parties may be located outside of Singapore.
Our Cancer Stories will only disclose your personal data to third parties where we are allowed to do so under data protection laws. More specifically, Our Cancer Stories will not disclose your personal data to any third-parties without your prior consent to do so, unless such disclosure is sanctioned under the PDPA exemptions.
When sharing your personal data with third parties, Our Cancer Stories will always ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the security and confidentiality of your personal data when in the hands of such third-parties. Those safeguards will always comply with the minimum requirements set out in data protection laws.
4. Requests for Access, Correction and/or Withdrawal of Personal Data
You may request to access and/or correct the personal data currently in our possession, or object to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data in our possession or under our control, at any time by submitting your request to hello@ourcancerstories.com.
For a request to access personal data, Our Cancer Stories will provide you with a copy of the relevant personal data within a reasonable amount of time from when the request is made.
For a request to correct personal data, Our Cancer Stories will process your request as soon as practicable after the request has been made. Such correction may involve necessary verification, which may include sending the corrected personal data to other organizations to which the personal data was disclosed by Our Cancer Stories within a year before the date the correction was made (unless that other organization does not need the corrected personal data for any legal or business purpose), or if you so consent, only to specific organizations to which the personal data was disclosed by us within a year before the date the correction was made.
For a request to object to the processing of your personal data by us, Our Cancer Stories will process your request within a reasonable time from when the request is made. Such requests may adversely impact your relationship with Our Cancer Stories or the quality of the services Our Cancer Stories delivers to you. Our Cancer Stories will notify you in advance of such impacts.
5. How does Our Cancer Stories protect your Personal Data?
Our Cancer Stories will take appropriate measures to keep your personal data accurate, complete and updated.
Our Cancer Stories will take precautions and preventive measures to ensure that your personal data is adequately protected and secured in accordance with data protection laws. Appropriate security arrangements will be made to prevent any unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, leakage, loss, damage and/or alteration to or of your personal data.
Our Cancer Stories will also make reasonable efforts to ensure that the personal data in our possession or under our control is destroyed and/or anonymized as soon as it is reasonable to assume that:
- the purpose for which that personal data was collected is no longer being served by the retention of such personal data; and
- retention is no longer necessary for any other legal or business purposes.
6. Persons located inside the European Economic Area ("EEA")
The European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a EU framework for data protection that came into force on 25 May 2018.
It applies to organizations processing and holding the personal information of data subjects residing in the EEA, regardless of where the organization is located.
Our Cancer Stories is in the process of aligning our privacy framework and organizational practices with the GDPR to further strengthen the way in which we protect your personal information.
7. Updates to this Privacy Policy
As part of our efforts to ensure that Our Cancer Stories properly manages, protects and processes your personal data, we will be reviewing our policies, procedures and processes from time to time.
Our Cancer Stories may amend the terms of this Privacy Policy at its absolute discretion. Any amended Privacy Policy will be posted on our website, and we will notify you if Our Cancer Stories makes any significant changes to this Privacy Notice where required to do so under applicable laws.
We recommend that you revisit this Privacy Policy regularly.
8. Questions about this Privacy Policy
If, at any time, you have any queries on this Privacy Policy or any other queries in relation to how Our Cancer Stories manages, protects and/or processes your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@ourcancerstories.com.