Privacy Policy
Effective as of 1st Feb 2008
Phlook places great importance in upholding your privacy. We have written this Privacy
Policy in order to present to you clearly how we collect and handle the information
from you. Please read the following policy carefully, and if you have any further
questions, you may send us an email at info@phlook.com.
Children under 21 years old
Persons under the age of 21 should not use our services. We ask that if you are
under the age of 21, not to submit any information to us.
Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
We collect your personal information so that we can learn more about you in order
to provide better services and further enrich your online experience on our website.
Generally, you can visit our website without having to disclose any personal information.
However if you were to register as a member of our community, we will require you
to provide us with your email address, a self-created username and your country
of origin. Of these, your username and country of origin will be displayed to allow
other users to identify you and know where you are from. As for your email address,
you will be able to select whether it can searchable by other users. However in
any case, your email address will not be displayed in order to protect your privacy.
After signing up as a member, you may go to your personal profile and fill in more
information about yourself such as, your contact number, the URL of your website,
your address, and your occupation etc. You can select whether you want this information
to be viewable by everyone or just your friends. As for us, we will use the additional
information to understand you and improve our marketing and promotional strategy
so that we can provide you with more targeted services, information and offers.
We use a small data file, "cookie", which will be sent to your browser, to store
and track information about you when you enter our websites. The cookie is used
to confirm that you are logged in and to customize our services for you when you
browse our website. We do encourage you to enable our cookies when you are on our
website because this will enhance your experience with us, but if for any reason
you need to reject this, you can do so by changing the setting of your browsers.
Most browsers have features to block cookies. All the cookies we use are unable
to read data off your hard disk.
We also automatically collect certain aggregate, non-personal information including
IP address, browser type, the previous website you have visited, and the website
you visit next. This form of information collection is not limited to members but
applied to all visitors to our website. We will use this information to improve
our services and presentation to you.
Disclosure of Your Information to Third Party
We do not sell your personal information to third party unless there is a legal
request to disclose your personal information for law enforcement and regulatory
purposes. We can, or you can authorize us to, disclose any of your information to
law enforcement and other government bodies.
Security
Phlook takes all appropriate precautions to protect your information by providing
our services via a secure server. All orders placed and information provided by
you is collected by us via the Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”). The SSL encrypts all
information provided by you before they are sent to us. However it is important
for us to highlight to you that it is technically impossible to have a 100% secure
system on the internet. Therefore you have to understand that your private information
may not always remain private because there may be occurrences where, for example,
an unlawful third party intercept or access your data. On our part, we will take
all appropriate precautions to protect you against such intrusions.
If you have signed up an account with us, you have to be responsible for all actions
you have taken with your email address, username and password.
Editing Your Personal Information
All information you have provided, except your username, can be edited any time
after logging in.
If you were to close your member account with us, due to technical constraints,
your information may not be completely removed from our database. However such information
will generally not be available for user’s viewing after you close the account.
Modification of Policy
We may change or modify this Policy from time to time to accurately reflect our
services. For any changes, we will post a notice of policy change prominently on
our website, and thereafter the changes will become effective, with the effective
date displayed within this Policy. Therefore we encourage you to check this policy
regularly. Whenever you visit our website or provide us information, you are accepting
the privacy policy at that time.
Terms of Service
For your use of our services, you shall also agree to be bound by our Terms of Service
Agreement, available at http://www.phlook.com/tos.aspx.
Contact
If you have uncertainties or concerns with regard to this privacy policy, you may
send your questions to us at info@phlook.com.