At IPAO, accessible from https://ipao.org.ph/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by IPAO and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in IPAO. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

CONSENT

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MARKETING

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We may use information which you provide to us to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you. You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing information at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us.

LOG FILES

IPAO follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

COOKIES

Like any other website, IPAO uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

DATA STORAGE, PROTECTION, AND RETENTION

IPAO has strict technological, organizational and physical security measures in place in order to protect your personal data at all times. These include using secure IT infrastructure in collecting and storing personal data, locked storage rooms for files, requiring the execution of non-disclosure agreements for all persons who will handle personal data.

IPAO will use your personal data to allow us to provide you our Services, and always in accordance with the Data Privacy Act, other relevant laws, and this Privacy Policy, IPAO may disclose your information to affiliates, employees, partner agencies, accredited third party service providers and payment gateway service providers whom we contract to provide data processing services to us, only for the purpose of providing our Services to you.

IPAO may store and process your personal data in jurisdictions wherein our cloud service providers maintain their data centers. IPAO will ensure that the appropriate protections and security measures in accordance with the Data Privacy Act shall be complied with at all times.

YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT

As a data subject you have the right to be informed, to object, to access, to rectify, to erasure or blocking, to damages, to data portability and to complain in relation to your personal information under the Data Privacy Act. You may thus, as appropriate, opt to tell us not to send you marketing materials, not to share your information, to provide you with information we have about you, to update you information, or any other concerns regarding the processing of your personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@ipao.org.ph.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

IPAO reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time with or without notice to you. If we do make changes, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on this website and will take effect immediately.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or IPAO’s use of your personal data, please do not hesitate in contacting us.

Integrated Philippine Association Of Optometrists, Inc
33 West Avenue
Quezon City, MM 1104
 (02) 728-4396