Privacy Policy
Seedready (Singapore), Inc. (“Seedready”, “us” or “we”) understands that your privacy is important to you. Seedready is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personally-identifiable information, being any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person, as you use this Site and the Seedready Recruitment Portal. The scope of Seedready’s commitment is described in this Privacy Policy. By submitting personally-identifiable information, you consent to Seedready’s use of such personally-identifiable information as described herein. Please see our terms of use for more information about our on-line terms and policies in general.
Collection of personally-identifiable information
Seedready collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register for or apply for jobs through the Seedready Recruitment Portal, register for Seedready.com newsletters and alerts, sign up for conferences and events, and participate in user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and background information required to apply for a job. For recruiting purposes, the information collected may include other personally-identifiable information that you include on your resume and information that you submit as part of your application. In addition, Seedready collects certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site, click stream data, HTTP protocol elements, and the status of cookies placed on your computer by Seedready.
Using of personally-identifiable information
Seedready uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, publish your letters to the editor or comments, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, evaluate any job applications, recruit personnel, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, and for such other purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you.
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- We support technologies that have been developed and are being developed for your web browser that allows you to be more selective about the cookies that your web browser will accept.
Usage of cookies
Seedready uses cookies to identify you and your interests and to track your use of the Site. We also use cookies to control access to certain content on our Site and to process any requests that you make with us.
To administer our website and for research purposes, Seedready has also contracted with third parties to track and analyse anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, manage our site content, and track visitor behaviour.
Seedready has also contracted with a third party to send e-mail to our registered members. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of Seedready is used solely by or on behalf of Seedready and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.
Definitions:
- “First Party” Cookie – A cookie placed by this website
- “Third Party” Cookie – A cookie placed by another domain (e.g. not this website)
- “Permanent” Cookie – The cookie information is permanently stored on your device
- “Temporary” Cookie – The cookie information is stored for a defined period on your device (e.g. six months)
- “Session” Cookie – The cookie information is temporarily stored in your web browser’s memory
- Implied Consent – You are deemed to have given your consent by continuing to use this website after having had this privacy policy made available to you
- Explicit Consent – You specifically agree to the use of cookies after having had this privacy policy made available to you
- “Strictly Necessary” Cookies – These cookies are required so the website can function. No consent is required
We don't seek to collect your personal information, and, where we do collect it, we strive to anonymise your personal information as soon as practicable.
Seedready Recruitment Portal and other Seedready Retention Program
To assist Seedready with its staffing and recruitment, Seedready's Business Management System, one of its functions is to provide the Seedready Recruitment Portal. If you provide information through the Recruitment Portal, your personally-identifiable information will be held on servers located in different parts of the world. Seedready agrees to provide the same level of privacy and data protection that you enjoy when interacting with this Site and Seedready generally.
Through the Seedready Recruitment Portal, job candidates can apply for positions with Seedready or sign up for the Seedready Retention Program where you can be notified of any potential job openings or other similar opportunities that might be of interest to you.
Seedready frequently visits recruiting websites and social networks such as LinkedIn. Where users of those websites have made their personally-identifiable information public-ally available, Seedready sometimes collects this information for the Seedready Retention Program. If you do not want Seedready to retain your personally-identifiable information collected in this way, please opt-out of the Seedready Retention Program when notified that your personally-identifiable information has been collected.
Mobile Applications
In connection with applications that we make available for mobile devices, Seedready may use third-party services to track and analyse non-personally identifiable user activity in order to fix errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the applications. In particular, UrbanAirship tracks whether a user opened an application in response to a specific push notification. Omniture tracks and reports on some of our mobile applications’ usage and browsing patterns, including information about the type of device used, articles accessed, and other events occurring within our apps. Crittercism tracks certain errors occurring within mobile applications. None of these third parties gathers information in a manner intended to identify any particular user personally.
In addition, our Seedready Insights app offers a personalised list of recommendations (called “Recommended for you”) pointing out Seedready content we think you'll find interesting. Recommendations are based solely on what you've viewed in the Insights app. A unique user identifier that is generated by the app and does not contain (or link to) any personally identifiable information helps us track the articles you read. We do not share your viewing history or trends with other users or other sites.
Our mobile applications may include integration with various social-networking sites, including Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Twitter. If you enable and use these features within an application, the extent to which your activities and information are tracked is governed by the relevant user agreement you have in place with such a third party.
Personally-identifiable information and third parties
Seedready shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorised or accidental disclosure of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of Seedready) without your consent, whether for such third parties’ Marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. Seedready may provide access to your personally-identifiable information to third party vendors engaged by Seedready to provide services related to the Site; provided that such vendors will first agree to maintain the strict confidentiality of such information and provide the same level of data security as provided by Seedready. Seedready may also be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities without express user consent if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the Terms of Use of or any other terms on this Site, including but not limited to a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through this Site, Seedready may disclose personal user information to affected parties and legal authorities in furtherance of potential or on-going legal proceedings.
Surveys
If you participate in a survey, all of our research results are reported as totals or in other aggregated form, and no information about you as an individual respondent is made public.
User forums
You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. Seedready is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Site.
Link to third-party sites
Seedready may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Seedready of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and Seedready shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.
Accessing, changing, and/or deleting information?
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the Site on which you have provided such information, subscribed or registered or contact us at the address provide at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
Security
Seedready has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorised Seedready personnel and third party vendors are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, Seedready, however, cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable information.
Transborder hosting and transfer of information
Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to Seedready offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and the Site may be viewed and hosted by Seedready or its vendors anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have the same data protection laws than what is found in your country of residence. By using the Site and registering such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.
Data Retention Policy
Seedready stores personally-identifiable information for various purposes as notified to you in this policy. For each of these different purposes, Seedready only retains the personally-identifiable information for so long as it is serving its notified purpose.
Children
Seedready understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site is not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and Seedready will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under this age.
Consent; changes to privacy policy
By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1st January, 2015.
Contact our privacy department
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you require any assistance in navigating or reading the materials on this Site or any other Seedready Sites, please contact our Policy Department via: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
