Privacy Policy

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you voluntarily provide to us. For example, we collect your name, email address, and other information you provide to us when you send an enquiry, register to be an APN Member, fill out a form or survey, submit orders, or sign up to receive email notices.

We also collect information when you participate in any interactive features of the web sites, fill out a form, communicate with us, fill out a survey, submit queries, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us.

Information About Your Use of the Services

Automatically Collected Information

When you access or use our web sites, we automatically collect information about you, including:

• Log File Information.

It is standard for your Web browser to automatically send log file information to every Web site you visit including ours. That information includes the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our web site.

• Device Information

We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our web sites, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.

• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

We and our service providers use various technologies to collect information, including cookies and web beacons. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our web sites and your experience, see which areas and features of our web sites are popular and count visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our web sites or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through our web sites and services. For example, we collect information about you from third parties, including but not limited to export control and restricted list verification services if your request may trigger those obligations.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to:

• provide, maintain, personalize and improve our web sites and services, as well as our events and operations;
• process any purchase transactions or meeting registrations;
• respond to your comments and queries and provide customer service;
• monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Web sites and services;
• personalize our web sites, services and features and to improve your experience on our web sites and services, such as providing content or features to match your registration information and making the sites or services easier to use;
• send you information about new program benefits and features, promotions, upcoming events such as APN Open Day, and other news about products and services offered by APN and others we think may be of interest to you;
• link or combine it with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service;
• send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages; and
• detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of APN and others.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

APN’s participation programs by their nature facilitate sharing of certain limited non-sensitive information among its participants to foster program communications and deliver benefits, services and events. For example, we post lists of meeting attendees to be shared with other participants.

Except as described above, APN will only share information about you with third parties as follows:

• with third party vendors, consultants and other service providers who are working on our behalf and need access to your information to carry out their work for us;
• in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or otherwise required by, any applicable law, regulation or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;
• if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of APN, members, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies and terms of use;
• in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. If such a transaction is completed, we will provide notice that we have transferred the information we collected to another company; and
• with your consent or at your direction.

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO SINGAPORE AND OTHER COUNTRIES

APN is based in Singapore and we process and store information in Singapore. As such, we and our service providers may transfer your information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.

YOUR CHOICES

• Account information. You may update, correct or delete information about you at any time by logging into your online account or by contacting us. If you wish to delete or deactivate your account, please contact us, but note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.
• Cookies. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our web sites.

DATA RETENTION

We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us. Alternatively, you may contact us by submitting an Enquiry at Contact Us.