Introduction

Schmid Telecom Singapore Pte Ltd (“STS” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website http://www.schmid-atc.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• on this Website;
• in e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means;
• or any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.

We are committed to complying with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number (“personal information”);
• that is about you but individually does not identify you;
• and/or about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us;
• and/or automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website or completing a purchase on our Website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website;
• records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us;
• details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website; and/or
• your search queries on the Website.

User Contributions; Third-Party Sites, Plug-ins and Applications.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website (collectively, “User Contributions”), including through third-party social media sites, plug-ins and applications such as Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions.

When you engage with our content on or through third-party social media sites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your social media profile (e.g., name, e-mail address, photo, gender, birthday, location, your list of friends, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the ‘likes’ you make) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the application. We may also obtain non-personally identifiable information (e.g., content viewed) from your interaction with our content.

The information practices of third-party social media sites may be different than ours. Through some social media sites’ privacy settings, you can control what data you share. For more information about how social media sites handle your personal information, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

Usage Details, IP Addresses Cookies and Other Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

• details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and
• information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests;
• speed up your searches; and
• recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Google Analytics and Clicky.

We use certain features of Google Analytics.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Google Ads Settings located at www.google.com/settings/ads. To prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ .

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• to present our Website and its contents to you;
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us;
• to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
• to provide you with notices about your account;
• to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and/or
• for any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
• to contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business;
• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of STS’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by STS about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
• to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and/or
• with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing, fraud and collection purposes; and/or
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of STS, our customers or others.

Choices About How We Use

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

Data Security

The security of your Personal Information is very important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on the Site, you can contact us.

While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

t is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.