1. Introduction to this Privacy Policy
1.1. At AWESOME KITCHEN, we take your privacy seriously. We are committed to complying with all data protection laws as are applicable to us.
1.2. In the course of providing you with our Services or access to the Platform (as defined in the Terms of Use), we will be collecting data, including your personal data.
1.3. This Privacy Policy exists to keep you in the know about how use, process and handle the data we collect and receive during the course of providing the Services or access to the Platform to you, our customer. We will only collect, use and disclose your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1.4. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other applicable notices we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal data.
1.5. BY CLICKING “Make Payments” YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF AND UNDERSTOOD THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THAT YOU HAVE AGREED TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AS DESCRIBED AND UNDER THE TERMS HEREIN.
1.6. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. 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, whereupon your continued use of our Services, access to the Platform or use of the Services, including placing Orders on the Platform, shall constitute your acknowledgment and acceptance of the changes we make to this Privacy Policy, as notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy.
1.7. This Privacy Policy applies in conjunction with other notices, contractual clauses and consent clauses that apply in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by us, and is not intended to override them unless we state expressly otherwise.
1.8. You can visit the Platform and browse without having to provide personal details. However, you will be required to sign up for an account if you wish to use the Services.
2. The Personal Data We Collect From You
2.1. Personal Data means any information, whether recorded in a material form or not, from which the identity of an individual is apparent or can be reasonably and directly ascertained by the entity holding the information, or when put together with other information would directly and certainly identify an individual.
2.2. We may collect the following personal data from you:
(a) Identity data, such as your name and date of birth;
(b) Contact data, such as billing address, delivery address, email address, and phone numbers;
(c) Transaction data, such as details about payments to and from you, and other details of products and Services you have purchased from us;
(d) Technical data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Platform;
(e) Profile data, such as your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;
(f) Usage data, such as information on how you use the Platform, products and Services; and
(g) Marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
2.3. During the course of your use of the Platform and the provision of the Services, we may receive personal data from you in the following situations:
(a) When you create an account with us;
(b) When you apply for any of our Services or purchase any products available on the Platform;
(c) When you use any of the features or functions available on our Platform or Services;
(d) When you subscribe to our publications or marketing collaterals;
(e) When you enter a competition, promotion or survey;
(f) When you log in to your account on our Platform or otherwise interact with us via an external service or application, such as Facebook or Google; and
(g) When you interact with us offline, including when you interact with our outsourced customer service agents.
2.4. If you provide personal data of any third party to us, you represent and warrant that you have obtained the necessary consent from that third party to share and transfer his/her personal data to us, and for us to collect, use and disclose that data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
3. Use and Disclosure of Personal Data
3.1. The personal data we collect from you may be used by us, or shared with or transferred to third parties (including related companies, third party service providers and their service providers and related companies, and third party sellers), for some or all of the following purposes:
(a) To facilitate your use of the Services or access to the Platform, including responding to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes through our outsourced customer service agents;
(b) To process orders you submit through the Platform, whether the products are sold by us or a third party seller;
(c) Payments that you make through the Platform for products, whether sold by us or a third party seller, will be processed by our agent;
(d) To deliver the products you have purchased through the Platform, whether sold by us or a third party seller. We may pass your personal information on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product to you (for example to our courier or supplier), whether the product is sold through the Platform by us or a third party seller;
(e) To update you on the delivery of the products, whether sold through the Platform by us or a third party seller, and for customer support purposes;
(f) To compare information, and verify with third parties in order to ensure that the information is accurate;
(g) To administer your account (if any) with us;
(h) To verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments you make online;
(i) To audit the downloading of data from the Platform;
(j) To improve the layout or content of the pages of the Platform and customise them for users;
(k) To identify visitors on the Platform;
(l) To carry out research on our users’ demographics and behaviour;
(m) To provide you with information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about our or third party sellers’ products and services, provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for these purposes;
(n) Subject to having obtained your consent in accordance with applicable law, we may also use your personal information to send you marketing or promotional materials about our or third party sellers’ products and services from time to time; and
(o) We may also conduct automated-decision making processes in accordance with any of these purposes.
3.2. In exceptional circumstances, we may be required to disclose personal information, such as when there are grounds to believe that the disclosure is necessary to prevent a threat to life or health, or for law enforcement purposes, or for fulfilment of legal and regulatory requirements and requests.
3.3. We may share and permit the sharing of your personal data with third parties and our affiliates, for any of the abovementioned purposes, including but not limited to, facilitating your use of the Services, completing a transaction with you, managing your account and our relationship with you, marketing and fulfilling any legal or regulatory requirements and requests as deemed necessary by us. In sharing your personal data with them, we endeavour to ensure that the third parties and our affiliates keep your personal data secure from unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, or similar risks and retain your personal data only for as long as they need your personal data to achieve the abovementioned purposes.
4. Withdrawal of Consent and Deletion or Anonymisation of Personal Data
4.1. You may communicate the withdrawal of your consent to the continued use or disclosure of your personal data for any of the purposes and in the manner as stated above at any time, or request the deletion or anonymisation of your personal data, by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the contact details provided above.
4.2. Please note that if you communicate your withdrawal of your consent to our use or disclosure of your personal data for the purposes and in the manner as stated above, or request the deletion or anonymisation of your personal data, we may not be in a position to continue to provide our products or services to you or perform on any contract we have with you, and we will not be liable in the event that we do not continue to provide our products or services to, or perform our contract with you. Our legal rights and remedies are expressly reserved in such an event.
4.3. Your password is the key to your account. Please use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not share your AWESOME KITCHEN password to anyone. If you do share your password with others, you will be responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account and the consequences. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal data and other data submitted to AWESOME KITCHEN. You could also be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason or if you have grounds to believe that your password has been compromised, you should immediately contact us and change your password. You are reminded to log out of your account and close the browser when you are finished with using a shared computer.
5. Collection of Computer Data
5.1. We or our authorised service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies for storing data to help provide you with a better, faster, safer and personalized experience when you use the Services or access the Platform.
5.2. When you visit the Platform through your computer, mobile device, or any other device with internet connectivity, our company servers will automatically record data that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This data may include:
(a) Your computer or device's IP address;
(b) Browser type;
(c) Webpage you were visiting before you came to our Platform;
(d) The pages within the Platform which you visit; and
(e) The time spent on those pages, items and data searched for on the Platform, access times and dates, and other statistics.
6. Awesome Kitchen’s Right to Disclose Personal Data
6.1. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT AWESOME KITCHEN HAS THE RIGHT TO DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO ANY LEGAL, REGULATORY, GOVERNMENTAL, TAX, LAW ENFORCEMENT OR OTHER AUTHORITIES OR THE RELEVANT RIGHT OWNERS, IF AWESOME KITCHEN HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS NECESSARY FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEETING ANY OBLIGATIONS, REQUIREMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS, WHETHER VOLUNTARY OR MANDATORY, AS A RESULT OF COOPERATING WITH AN ORDER, AN INVESTIGATION AND/OR A REQUEST OF ANY NATURE BY SUCH PARTIES. TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AGREE NOT TO TAKE ANY ACTION AND/OR WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS TO TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST AWESOME KITCHEN FOR THE DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.
7. Third Party Sites
7.1. The Platform may contain links to other websites operated by other parties, such as our business affiliates, merchants or payment gateways. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by these other parties. You are advised to check on the applicable privacy policies of those websites to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.