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Continue ShoppingSwisse Malaysia Online Store is operated by Awake Asia Distribution Sdn Bhd (hereinafter referred to as "Swisse", “We” or “Us”). The privacy of your Personal Data is important to Awake Asia Distribution Sdn Bhd and all its related companies and affiliates.
We are committed to making the world healthier and happier by bringing to the world many premium brands including Swisse. When we mention "Swisse Wellness", "Swisse", "we" or "our" we are referring to Awake Asia Distribution Sdn Bhd. We are committed to ensuring that your Personal Data is handled responsibly, in accordance with the applicable data protection law.
To better inform you about your privacy, this Privacy Policy describes how we collect, disclose, use, store or otherwise handle your Personal Data when you visit www.shop.swisse.com.my, and any related subdomains (“Swisse Websites”).
By providing us your Personal data, you hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of any or all of your personal data and non-personal data by us as specified under this Privacy Policy. We do not intentionally collect Personal Data of any person under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not use the Swisse Websites or provide us your Personal Data. If you are over the age of 18 and you provide us Personal Data of any person under the age of 18, you hereby confirm that you have obtained the consent of the parent, guardian or authorised representative over the individual under the age of 18 before providing us their Personal Data.
The following articles make up our Privacy Policy. For immediate access to a particular topic, click on the title of that topic.
DATA PROTECTION LEGISLATION
We observe the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (“PDPA”) including the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Principles (hereinafter jointly referred to as the "Malaysian requirements").
"Personal Data" is data relating to you from which you can be reasonably identified. Examples of Personal Data include your full name, postal address, email address and telephone number. We recognise that your Personal Data is valuable and process your information in accordance with the Malaysian requirements, as set out under the PDPA and the relevant regulations and sub-legislation issued thereunder (hereinafter referred to as "Data Protection Legislation").
DATA USER
Awake Asia Distribution Sdn Bhd is responsible as data user for the processing of your Personal Data collected on the Swisse Wellness websites under the Data Protection Legislation and the Malaysian requirements as applicable.
PERSONAL DATA THAT WE COLLECT AND HOLD
We collect Personal Data to allow us to provide you with services and deliver information on the products and/or services offered by us. We make sure that the Personal Data we collect from you is necessary for and directly related to this purpose.
The type of Personal Data that we collect from you, will vary depending on the circumstances in which we are dealing with you. This information may include:
Credit card information we collect from you will go directly to our processor or bank and no personnel of Swisse will have access to this data. If you choose to purchase a product from us, our third party payment processors will collect your payment information, and none of our personnel will have access to this data.
As a general rule, we do not collect sensitive information about you, such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health or condition, sexual orientation and judicial or criminal records ("Sensitive Information"). However, in circumstances where we require Sensitive Information from you for a lawful purpose, for example for the purpose of providing our services to you, we will seek your consent to collect Sensitive Information prior to collecting it.
We collect such Personal Data from you in a number of ways, including:
We make sure that the way we collect data from and about you is lawful and fair in your circumstances.
We take all practical steps to ensure that you are informed of what data you are obliged to provide us, what data you may voluntarily provide us and what we may do if you do not provide us with data which you are obliged to provide.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE USE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US
This is information you give us when you enter your personal details on the Swisse Websites (for example during registration or application for products or services) or by contacting us via post, phone, e-mail or otherwise, in the context of your communication with Swisse. We will use your Personal Data to:
When you opt-in to receive communications from us, you are giving your consent for your Personal Data to be used by us to contact you (depending on your selection) by email, direct mail and telephone, and to deliver personalized website experiences, to share information about relevant products and services, news and events in relation to Swisse's offering.
We shall not use your Personal Data for marketing communications unless we have received your consent. Your consent may be communicated to us without charge by checking the opt-in / consent box in this website or by writing to our Data Protection Officer, Aaron Xie at:
aaron.xie@hh.global
Data Protection Officer
If you subsequently decide that you do not want to receive correspondence from us about the services we could provide, you are entitled to withdraw your consent to us contacting you by clicking the "unsubscribe" link provided in a promotional email message, by amending your communication preferences or by contacting our Data Protection Officer at aaron.xie@hh.global . Withdrawing your consent will not affect our use of the Personal Data prior to you withdrawing that consent but it will mean that we will not be able to contact you about the services we may be able to offer you or your business in the future.
We will let you know where you must provide us with Personal Data in order to perform an agreement with you or your business or to comply with a legal obligation. If you do not provide us with the Personal Data in these circumstances, we may be unable to respond to your enquiry and/or engage in further communications with you.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM THIRD PARTIES
We may use information provided to us by third parties that operate automated tracking technologies on third party websites, information you may have made publicly available or information provided by third party sources, such as marketing opt-in lists or data aggregators.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE USE INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT FROM YOU
When you visit the Swisse Websites, we may automatically collect information such as your IP address and browser type using cookies, log files, and pixel-tags (also called web beacons). This automatic data is primarily used for delivering and optimising services offered by us, such as:
To the extent this information constitutes Personal Data, we use it to ensure that content from the Swisse Websites is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device because it is in our legitimate interest to improve our customers' online experience in relation to the Swisse Websites.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files which are placed on your browser and the hard drive of your computer, mobile or other handheld device as you browse the Swisse Websites. We use cookies to store information about your visit to the Swisse Websites and distinguish you from other users.
The use of cookies helps us to provide you with a good browsing experience when you visit our websites by displaying content effectively and obtaining and analysing statistics about the use of our websites. By continuing to use the Swisse Websites you consent to our use of cookies as explained in this Privacy Policy.
The use of cookies allows us to automatically personalise the Swisse Websites’ content for you and remember your preferences. It also allows you to participate in interactive features on the Swisse Websites, when you choose to do so. Our technology works by remembering your engagement with the site and how the site interacts with you. This may include automatically providing with a custom website experience based off your interactions with the site and making suggestions and recommendations to you about our Services that may be of interest to you.
The following information sets out the types of cookies used on the Swisse Websites and provides detail about what they are used for. When you use the Swisse Websites for the first time, cookies which are essential to make the Swisse Websites operate (see those identified as "essential cookies" below) will have been set but other cookies will not have been set unless you agreed to those cookies being set at that time. If you have agreed to accept cookies then the Swisse Websites will remember this and continue to set cookies each time you visit. If you do not want cookies to be stored, then you may, via your browser, turn off certain cookies listed below individually or you can select the appropriate options on your web browser to delete some or all cookies. Please note, however, that if you block some or all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to use or access all or parts of the Swisse Websites, such as being able to log on to member specific areas.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
We use a number of different cookies, outlined below:
Session-based cookies:
Persistent cookies:
First party cookies:
Third party cookies:
These cookies serve a function of:
Authentication, Security, Basic Functionality
Site Performance
Preferences
Advertising, Marketing and Analytics
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox:
Please note that Google and other third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies as a result of you visiting other websites, over which we have no control.
CONSEQUENCES FOR YOU IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS NOT PROVIDED TO US
If you do not provide us with the Personal Data we ask for or the information provided is incorrect or incomplete, we might not be able to provide you with our products or services.
DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD PARTIES
We do not provide any Personal Data provided by you to any third parties other than to our affiliated companies, where required by law or as set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not sell, trade or rent your Personal Data to others.
However, we may disclose your Personal Data for the purposes listed above or as otherwise permitted by the Data Protection Legislation. By visiting the Swisse Website, you agree to disclosures to the following third parties:
STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO OTHER COUNTRIES
If you provide Personal Data to Swisse, it may be transferred to, processed in, stored at or accessible from a destination outside Malaysia or the European Economic Area ("EEA"), such as Singapore, Hong Kong, China, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and Switzerland, or any other country in which Swisse or its service providers maintain facilities. All practical steps are taken to ensure that all data is treated confidentially, kept secure and protected against unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure or other use and is maintained and kept no longer that is necessary for the purpose for which it is intended.
Swisse is located in Malaysia, which is a territory not currently been deemed to offer adequate data protection by the European Commission. If you provide your Personal Data to us, please note that you are doing so on the basis that you explicitly consent to the transfer of your data outside of Malaysia or the EEA. The potential consequence of you explicitly consenting to this are that there is a risk that your Personal Data will not be protected in a manner that complies with European Data Protection Legislation. You can withdraw your consent for this reason at any time by emailing us at aaron.xie@hh.global. Withdrawing your consent will not affect our use of the Personal Data prior to your withdrawing that consent but it will mean that we may not be able to contact you about the services we may be able to offer you in the future.
HOW PERSONAL DATA IS HELD AND PROTECTED
Swisse will only store the Personal Data as long as Swisse considers it necessary or beneficial for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or for regulatory, audit or record-keeping purposes.
We will keep a record of the Personal Data that we receive from you in order to answer your query, respond to a request for more information about the services, or in response to an enquiry from one of our existing suppliers. Subject to legal requirements, we will only retain the Personal Data collected from a user for as long as the user’s account is active or has otherwise not been cancelled and the user has not requested that their Personal Data be deleted. We will retain Personal Data to fulfil the purposes for which we have initially collected it, unless otherwise required by law. All Personal Data will be retained only as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
We will delete our copy of your Personal Data 7 years from the end of our contact with you or when we are no longer required by law to retain it (whichever is later), although we may retain a record of the existence of the relationship, to the extent and for so long as we are required to do so by law. For example, if you have contacted us to ask us for the processing of your Personal Data to be erased, we will retain a record of your request in order to ensure we comply with your wishes.
Your Personal Data may be stored in hard copy documents or in electronic form in our computer systems. In particular, your Personal Data, will be stored in 128 SSL bit encryption on database servers at our data centres or at data centres owned by third party hosting companies.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to help safeguard your Personal Data, help prevent unauthorized access, unauthorized interference, help maintain data security and to limit use of your Personal Data to what is allowed by this Privacy Policy. We have implemented technology and security policies, rules, and other reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data from loss, modification, unauthorized access, unauthorised interference, improper use, improper alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, or accidental loss.
You should keep in mind that Internet transmissions (including emails) are never completely secure or error-free. As such, you should take steps to protect yourself, especially online and take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail or other transmissions. Moreover, where you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features on the Websites, it is your responsibility to safeguard them. You should choose a strong password, do not use the same password that you use on other websites and do not share your password with anyone else. Also remember to sign out of our Websites and close your browser window when you have finished to ensure that others who may have access to your computer cannot access your Personal Information.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You have a right to access the Personal Data that we hold abut you at any time, subject to certain exemptions under the PDPA.
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Data we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up-to-date and relevant to our dealings with you and the nature of our relationship with you.
If you would like to request access to your Personal Data or correction of your Personal Data held by us, you may contact us in writing. The relevant contact details are provided below (see “Contact us”).
PRIVACY COMPLAINTS OR DISPUTES
If you believe your Personal Data has not been treated consistently with this Privacy Policy or the PDPA, please contact us (see “Contact us” below). We will investigate your privacy complaint and respond to you as soon as practicable. We aim to resolve all complaints we find are justified.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may, from time to time, review and update this Privacy Policy including, to take into account new laws, regulations and technology. Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.
All Personal Data that we collect, use, hold and disclose will be governed by the most recent Privacy Policy that has been posted on the Website. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy, which will be effective immediately when posted on this website or notified to you as applicable.
CONTACT US
If you wish to contact us about the privacy-related matters described above or find out more information about our privacy practices, please use the contact details below:
Privacy Officer
PrivacyOfficer@hh.global
Or
Data Protection Officer
Aaron.Xie@hh.global
LANGUAGE
As required by the PDPA, this Privacy Policy is issued in both English and Bahasa Malaysia language versions. In the event of any inconsistences or discrepancies between the English version and the Bahasa Malaysia version, the English version shall prevail.