Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://equalstrategy.com.

Equal Strategy (S) Pte Ltd. and its affiliates (collectively “Equal Strategy” or “We”) are committed to protecting your privacy.

We comply with data protection legislation, which regulates the processing of your personal data and grants you rights in how your personal data is used – including, but not limited to, the right to object to some of your processing.

The aim of this statement is to inform you how we will use the personal data collected in the context of your customer relationship with Equal Strategy and the choices available to you regarding collection, use, access, and how to update and correct your personal data.

If you are using an Equal Strategy service provided by a service provider or third party, there may be additional policies and notices to be aware of. Please refer to the privacy statement or policy of the entity through which you are obtaining Equal Strategy services for more details.

Additional information on our personal data practices may be provided in supplemental privacy statements or notices provided prior to or at the time of data collection.

What Information Do We Collect And Process?

Equal Strategy collects and processes the following data:

  • Personal data – name, email address and billing address.
  • Credentials- user IDs and passwords, authentication tokens, and cookies
  • User-generated data –instant messages, uploaded media files, voice messages
  • Connectivity data – IP addresses, device identifiers (such as IMEI), MAC address,
  • Location data – based on IP address or device location
  • Traffic data – phone numbers or other identifiers that you call and send messages to and receive from, the date, time, duration (at the time these communications are made)
  • Usage data – communications metadata
  • Billing data – Data relevant for invoicing and collections, invoice documents and other billing records.

What Do We Use This Information For And What Is The Legal Basis For This Use?

We will use your personal data for the following purposes:

In the context of your relationship with Equal Strategy for the performance of our contractual obligations with either you or your service provider, in particular:

  • for the provisioning of and providing the service;
  • to provide operational support for contracted service;
  • to communicate with you on status and availability of service; or
  • for billing.

To conduct our business and pursue our legitimate interests. Where our interests are not overridden by your data protection rights, We may use your personal data to:

  • verify your identity;
  • perform subscriber and user enquiries and aide in the resolution of problems that may arise associated with service;
  • aide in the prevention or detection of fraud;
  • carry out research and analysis and monitor use of our network, products and services on an anonymous basis in order to identify general consumer trends and to better understand our users’ behaviour; partner with other businesses to create new services and to develop interesting and relevant products and services for our customers, as well as personalize the products and services we offer you; use information about your location for research and analytics purposes but We will only retain this information in an anonymized form to ensure that you cannot be identified as an individual;
  • enforce compliance with our terms of use and other policies or otherwise in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory and investigatory purposes as necessary (including disclosure of such information in connection with legal process or litigation) or preventing, investigating and/or reporting fraud, terrorism, misrepresentation, security incidents or crime.

Where you give us your consent, We will use your information to:

  • send marketing information via a medium or in a format, you designate (for more information about how to modify your preferences about marketing communications, please see below);
  • provide informational type directory services; and
  • provide other services or information, the consent of which will be asked for at that time.

For purposes that are required by law, such as responding to requests by government or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.  

  • We also use aggregated information about the use of our services so we can administer and improve our services, analyse trends, and gather broad demographic information. We may pass this information to third parties.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We will retain your Subscriber Data (such as personal data, profile data, contact lists, etc) for the duration of the contractual relationship.

We will retain billing data relevant for invoicing and collection for up to 7 years (except in the EU and EEA where data is stored for six months), or in the case of invoice disputes until the dispute is resolved. Traffic Data will be stored for up to 30 days (except in Germany where data is stored for up to 7 days), unless necessary to investigate faults or investigate cases of fraud.

Data CategoryRetention Time in Production or Live Systems
Personal dataData is deleted as soon as service is terminated or a user is deactivated.
CredentialsData is deleted as soon as service is terminated or a user is deactivated.
Profile dataData is deleted as soon as service is terminated or a user is deactivated.
User-generated dataData is deleted as soon as service is terminated or a user is deactivated.
Usage dataData is deleted as soon as service is terminated or a user is deactivated.
Connectivity dataData is deleted as soon as service is terminated or a user is deactivated.
Traffic dataData is stored for up to 30 days, except in Germany where data is stored for up to 7 days.
Billing dataData is stored for up to 2 years, except in the EU and EEA where data is stored for six months.Invoices and billing records are stored for up to 7 years.

Who will We share this information with, where and when?

Equal Strategy will share the personal data you provide with other Equal Strategy entities and/or third parties who are acting on Equal Strategy’s behalf to provide services such as technical assistance, troubleshooting, customer support and billing. Third parties may include but are not limited to, vendors providing cloud hosting, service billing, analytics and service monitoring.

  • Where these recipients are data processors on our behalf, we have entered into appropriate data processing agreements with them.
  • Where these recipients receive your data as controllers, this disclosure is justified by their role in providing services to you and they receive the data necessary to provide and invoice their contribution to these services.

Some of these Equal Strategy entities or business partners may be located in multiple geographies, including Singapore, Malaysia,Indonesia, the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, EU, Australia, and Japan.  Where we export your data outside of the EEA, this is permitted either by appropriate data processing agreements or justified by the need to provide our services to you internationally. Where such transfers are to an Equal Strategy entity or business partner in a country that is not subject to an adequacy decision by the EU Commission, data is adequately protected by EU Commission approved standard contractual clauses, an appropriate Privacy Shield certification or Processor Binding Corporate Rules.  You can obtain a copy of the relevant mechanism by contacting us via the contact us form on this website.

Personal data may be shared with government authorities or law enforcement officials if required for the purposes above, if mandated by law, or if required for the legal protection of our legitimate interests in compliance with applicable laws.

In the event that the business is sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchaser’s advisors and will be passed to the new owners of the business.

Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure.

The security control baseline for the operation and management of the service, incorporates control families that cover various security-related areas. These areas represent a broad-based, balanced information security program that addresses the management, operational and technical aspects of protecting information and information systems.

Additional controls may include:

  • Encryption of data in transit and secure file transfers
  • Use of authentication tokens for integrating with 3rd party applications
  • Ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident.
  • Conducting penetration tests and vulnerability scans
  • Authenticating employees, vendors and contractors access to information systems
  • Maintaining appropriate security documentation

What Rights Do You Have?

You are entitled to see the information held about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us using the contact us form at https://equalstrategy.com/contact/. We may require you to provide verification of your identity to provide a copy of the information we hold. Please note that in certain circumstances we may withhold access to your information where we have the right to do so under current data protection legislation.

You may also have the right to correct, delete or restrict the processing of your personal data; and to obtain the personal data you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine-readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another controller. In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances, in particular where we don’t have to process the personal data to meet a contractual or legal requirement, or where we are using the data for direct marketing.

If you opted to receive marketing emails or other communications from Equal Strategy or third parties at the time you registered for the services but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out by notifying us using the contact us form at https://equalstrategy.com/contact/.  You can also use this form to exercise any of your other rights. If you have unresolved concerns, you have a right to complain to an EU data protection authority where you live, work or where you believe a breach may have occurred.

Children’s Privacy

Equal Strategy encourages parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities. Equal Strategy does not knowingly collect personal data from children without appropriate parental or guardian consent. If you believe that we may have collected personal data from someone under the applicable age of consent in your country without proper consent, please let us know using the methods described in the Contact Us section and we will take appropriate measures to investigate and address the issue promptly.

How To Contact Us

We value your opinions. Should you have questions or comments related to this Privacy Statement, please use the contact us form at https://equalstrategy.com/contact/.

Updates To This Equal Strategy Privacy Statement

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we modify our Privacy Statement, we will post the revised version here, with an updated revision date. You agree to visit these pages periodically to be aware of and review any such revisions. If we make material changes to our Privacy Statement, we may also notify you by other means prior to the changes taking effect, such as by posting a notice on our websites or sending you a notification. By continuing to use our website or Solutions after such revisions are in effect, you accept and agree to the revisions and to abide by them.

The Equal Strategy Privacy Statement was revised and posted as of March 14, 2021.

If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected] or at one of our support centres:

Singapore +65 6817 7767
Malaysia +603 9212 2114

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