Privacy policy
Sharp Solar Solution Asia Company Limited (the “Company”) respects your privacy and realizes the importance of protecting your personal data. The Company has data security system and concise operational measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, use or alteration of your data.
This Privacy Policy covers to website, mobile applications, phone calling, social media channels, online communication channel, as well as other channels to collect your data. However, please read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with the terms and conditions for the specific service you have received (this might be set separately according to the type of personal data we collect from you).
The Company reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please check regularly to see the time of the latest revision of this Privacy Policy. Any change will become effective immediately when we publish such revised Privacy Policy on our website. We will notify you of any major revision or improvement. In the event that it is a revision that deprives your right to sensitive information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, the Company will proceed to obtain your consent first. Unless otherwise specified by law.
1. Personal data we collect from you
Personal data is information of an individual person which can be possible to directly or indirectly identify a data subject excluding the data of deceased person. The Company will collect, use or disclose your personal data received by us, including:
1. Personal data, including title, name, gender, age, occupation, qualification, position, place of work, type of business, nationality, country of residence, date of birth, marital status, number of family member and child, child's age, government-issued card (e.g. ID card, Passport, Tax ID number, etc.), signature, educational background, salary, household income and personal income, etc.
2. Contact information, including postal address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, LINE ID, Facebook account, Google ID, Twitter ID, and accounts on other social media sites, contact information on other channels, such as written communication.
3. Technical information such as IP address or Internet Protocol, cookie, media access control (MAC) address, web beacon, log, device ID, device model and type, network device, connection information, access information, single sign-on (SSO), access information (login log), duration and location of access, amount of time spent on our pages, login information, search history, browsing data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform, and other technologies on the device you use to access our platform.
4. Behavior information, such as information about your purchasing behavior and information obtained by using our products and services.
5. Usage information, such as information about your searches or use of websites, platforms, applications, use of our products and services.
6. Marketing and communication information, such as your preference in receiving marketing information from us, affiliates, subsidiaries, third parties, business partners and preferred communication style and / or;
7. Sensitive data such as race, religion, fingerprint, audio record, photo, facial recognition system, health information or physical or mental condition, genetic information, medical history, disability, and criminal history.
If you have provided us third-party personal data such as name, address and emergency phone number, family income. Please notify them of this Privacy Policy, and / or get their consent expressly in writing for the purpose of disclosing and/or providing personal data of such person to the Company.
We will collect, use or disclose sensitive information only with your explicit consent or in cases where the law allows us to do so.
We will collect data possessed by minors, quasi-incompetent person and incompetent persons, only with the consent of a competent custodian or guardian. We will not collect data from person who we expressly know that under the age of twenty, or from the quasi-incompetent and the incompetent, without the consent of the authorized person who has the power to act on behalf of minors, guardians or guardians. In the event that we know that we have unintentionally collected personal information from such person without the consent of a competent parental authority on behalf of a minor, guardian or guardian. We will delete such information immediately. Or process only the portion of information that we can do on legal bases other than obtaining consent.
Personal Data that the Company can collect, use, disclose and process, as required by law without asking for consent, including the information that
• it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract;
• it is for preventing or suppressing a danger to a person’s life, body or health;
• it is necessary for legitimate interests of the Company or any other persons or juristic persons other than the Company, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights of your personal data;
• it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest by the Company, or it is necessary for the exercising of official authority vested in the Company;
• it is necessary for compliance with a law to which the Company is subjected.
We also collect, use and disclose aggregate data such as statistical data, such data is non-personally identifiable data, in order to calculate the ratio of people who access our website, or making statistical data. And if such data can be identified, we will treat it as personal data, which will be conducted in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Personal Data Collection Method
• Through various channels e.g. document, electronic.
• Through various online channels of other service providers.
Third-Party Links
This Privacy Policy will be terminated when you click on a link from our website to Third-Party website. Which is deemed that you have finished your visit to our website. In case other websites collect, use or disclose your personal data, for the benefit of your privacy, we recommend you to read the privacy policy of all websites you visit.
2. Reasons for collecting, using and disclosing your personal data
We will collect, use and disclose your data in accordance with the law as follows:
When receive your consent
The Company will collect, use and disclose your personal data for the purposes the Company has stated and with your explicit consent.
To comply with the contract
We will collect, use and disclose your personal data when necessary for the performance of a contract or to perform your request before entering into a contract, such as providing a service to you, performance of our internal processes for achieving contract objectives.
As legal obligation
The Company collects, uses and discloses data on a reasonable basis in order to comply with the rule of the Company, such as to prevent and detect irregularity of transaction which leading to illegal activity, to report personal data to government agency as required by law.
For public interest
In some cases, the Company may necessary to collect, use and disclose personal data for the public interest of the Company, or to perform duty as assigned by a government agency to do so.
For legitimate interest
• The Company collects, uses and discloses personal data for legitimate interest of the Company or of other persons or juristic persons that are not the Company, such as for internal management including the disclosure of information within the same business group to increase the standard of work of the Company. Such disclosure will be in accordance with the Company's Privacy Policy and this Privacy Policy.
• To prevent and reduce the risk of illegal acts including recording for security in the area.
• To maintain customer relations, such as handling complaints, offering benefits without a marketing objective.
The objectives to collects, uses and discloses personal data
• To provide products and services to you, to enter into a contract and manage the contractual relationship between us and you, to support and carry out other activities related to such service or such products, to check the warranty, to provide after-sales services including service appointments, maintenance and facilitation.
• To be used to offer promotions, special offers, lucky draws, contests, privileges and other offers / promotions to introduce products and services, including processing and managing of registration of your account, registration to receive gifts, registration for the event;
• To communicate with you regarding the products and services you receive, to deal with any aspect of customer service related to questions, requests, responses, complaints, claims, disputes or indemnity remedies, to provide technical assistance and solve technical problems, to process and update your information, to facilitate you in using our products and services;
• For Data Analytics, to assess your interests or behavior in products and services that you receive and may be interested, for Data Cleansing and Data profiling, to conduct market research, conduct surveys, conduct behavioral assessments, statistics and categorization patterns and trends in consumption to get to know you better, to enhance business operations for better, to modify the content to better meet the satisfaction of the customers, to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, to identify and resolve problems with existing products and services, for improving the quality of information.
• To enhance business operations, products and services, to better evaluate, develop, manage and enhance, to research and develop products and services and systems and business operations for you and our customers, to identify and resolve problems that arise, to make report of anonymous data overview and evaluate the effectiveness of our digital media products and marketing campaigns.
• For the function of the website, mobile application and our platform, to operate, monitor, and manage our website and platform to facilitate and assure you that the website and platform work smoothly, effective and safe, to improve the plans and content of our website and platform.
• For management of information technology, information technology operating system management, communication system management, information technology security system, and auditing security in information technology, internal business management according to internal practice policies and procedures.
• Compliance with regulatory, duties, to perform in accordance with the provisions of the law, legal process or orders of government agencies, including government agencies outside of Thailand and / or cooperate with courts, government officials and law enforcement agencies, recording and tracking communications, disclosure of information to the competent tax authorities, and other governing bodies and agencies for the investigation or prevention of crime.
• Corporate transactions in the event of sales, transfers, mergers, reorganization or other similar events we may transfer your data to other third parties, either one or more, as part of the transaction.
• To perform risk management, operation check and risk assessment, to prevent or deter harm to the life, body or health of a person.
If you are unable to provide personal data to us upon request, we may not be able to offer or provide you with our products or services.
Cookies
When you visit our website we will collect certain data automatically from you through the use of cookies.
Cookies are small data or messages that are issued to your computer when you visit a website. And used to store or track data about the use of the website by you and use it to analyze trends, website administration, to follow the movement of the website users, or to remember the preferences of the service users. However, that certain types of cookies are very necessary, otherwise the website pages may not work properly. And other types of cookies allow us to improve your browsing experience, customize content according to your needs, and make your interaction with the website more convenient. This is because cookies remember usernames (in a safe way) as well as remembering your language preferences.
Most internet browsers let you decide whether to accept cookies or not. If you refuse, remove or block tracking by cookies, may affect your user experience and without cookies your ability to use all or part of the site or area may be limited.
Third parties may also issue cookies through our website to provide you with advertisements relevant to your interests based on your browsing activities. These third parties may collect your browsing history or other information in order to know how you accessed the website and the pages you visit after leaving our website. The information collected through these automated intermediaries may relate to the personal data you previously provided on our website.
3. Details of disclosing personal data
The company does not have policy to sell your personal data to third parties. Your data will be kept confidential, and we will not disclose your data unless necessary. To achieve the objectives notified to you as detailed above, or with your prior consent. We may disclose your data to the following individuals or entities:
• Sharp Group Companies and Affiliates
Sharp Group Companies and Affiliates cooperate and share services and systems which provide to customers, including providing services related to website and other systems, so the Company may be required to transfer personal data to other companies which are within the Sharp Group Companies and Affiliates, or allow such companies to access your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
• Our Service Provider
We may hire other companies, agents or contractors to perform services on our behalf, or facilitate the delivery of products and services to you. We may share your personal data with third party service providers or distributors.
During the provision of such services, our service providers may be required to access your personal data, however we will only provide your data to our service providers as necessary to provide such services. And will ask the service provider not to use your data for any other purpose.
• Websites on social media
You can log in to our website and platform without filling out the form. In the event that you log in via social media login system, you expressly consent to us to access and store publicly available data on your social media accounts (such as Facebook, Google or Instagram), as well as any other data that appears during the use of the social media login system. We may also send your email to social media, to identify whether you are a member of the relevant social media sites or not, and to post advertisements to match your interest and relevant advertisements on your social media accounts as appropriate.
• Third parties as required by law
In some cases, we may be required to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with the law or regulations, including compliance with law enforcement agencies, courts, government offices, or other third parties where we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or legal regulation, or for the protection of our rights, other people's rights, or for the safety of people, or to investigate, prevent, or deal with fraud problems, or in terms of security or safety.
• Consultants
Various consultants include lawyers, technical expert and auditors, that assist in conducting business, prosecuting or dealing with legal claims.
• Associations and organizations
We may transfer your personal data to associations such as the Office of The Consumer Protection Board, Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade of Thailand, Thai E-Commerce Association, Thai Retailers Association.
• Assignee of rights and / or duties
The assignee of such rights and / or duties includes a third party in the event of a reorganization, merger, transfer of business, in whole or in part, sale, purchase, joint venture, assignment, transfer or disposition of assets or shares, or similar transactions, either in part or in all. The assignee of our rights and / or obligations will follow this Privacy Policy in order to respect your personal data.
4. Measures for the personal data security
The Company realizes the importance of maintaining the security of your personal data, the Company strives to protect your data by requiring appropriate measures to maintain the security of your personal data, and in accordance with the confidentiality of personal data to prevent loss, access, destruction, use, alteration, disclosure or destruction without rights or unlawful, the Company will examine the methods of personal data collection, place to store data and to perform practice of processing including physical safety measures, to be in accordance with the policy and guidelines for information technology security of the Company.
5. Period of Data Retention
We will keep your personal data for a period of 5 year. In order to achieve the purposes for which we have received that personal data and to comply with various legal and regulatory obligations, however, we may keep your personal data for longer if required by applicable law.
6. Data Subject Rights
You have rights under the Personal Data Protection law that you should be aware of, you can submit a claim using the contact method we have provided in the section “7. Contact us”, we will process your request as soon as possible, up to 30 days or more, depending on the volume and complexity of the request.
Right to Withdraw Consent
At any time, you have the right to withdraw the consent given to us to collect, use or disclose your personal information. The Company will stop processing your information as soon as possible and may delete your information unless the company still needs to take action as required by law. In this regard, the withdrawal of your consent will affect you in the matter such as if the withdrawal of consent affects you being unable to receive news, information relevant to the Company’s products/services or the monthly sale promotion to be sent to you etc.
Right to Access
You have the right to request access or obtain a copy of the personal data we collect, use or disclose about you for your privacy and security or to request the disclosure of the acquisition of the personal data obtained without your consent, we will process your request as soon as possible, but shall not exceed thirty (30) days from the date of receiving such request. We may ask you to prove your identity before giving you the information you request.
Right to Rectification
You have the right to request correction of the personal information that we have collected. Use or disclose about you correctly, current, and complete without misleading.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to obtain the personal data of you that we keep in an organized and readable electronic format, and to transmit or transfer such data to another data controller, it must be (a) the personal data you have provided to us and (b) where we have your consent to collect, use or disclose, or in order to perform the contract we have with you.
Right to Erasure
You have the right to request the Company to delete or destroy or make your personal data to be non-personally identifiable data in the following cases:
• When such data is no longer necessary for the purpose of collecting, using or disclosing personal data.
• You withdraw your consent to collecting, using or disclosing personal data and the Company has no legal authority to process it.
• You have rejected to the collecting, using or disclosing personal data in the case (1) it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest by the Company, or it is necessary for the exercising of official authority vested in the Company, or it is necessary for legitimate interests of the Company or any other persons or juristic persons other than the Company, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights of the data subject of your personal data, or (2) in the case of the collection, use, or disclosure of such personal data is for the purpose of direct marketing;
• Personal data is collected, used or disclosed illegally.
Right to Restriction of Use
You have the right to request the Company to restrict the use of your personal data, when the following conditions are met:
• When there is no longer a need for retain personal data for the purposed of such collection, but you have necessity to request the retention for the purposed of the establishment, compliance, or exercise of legal claims, or the defense of legal claims;
• It is illegal to collect, use or disclose personal data, but the personal data requests to restrict the use instead of deleting or destroying their personal data;
• When in the process of verifying the accuracy of the personal information you have requested;
• When it is in the process of proving more important legitimate grounds.
Right to Object
You have the right to object to the collection, use or disclosure of personal data concerning yourself in the following cases:
• In the event that personal data is collected, used or disclosed for the purpose of direct marketing;
• In the case of the collection, use or disclosure of personal data for the purposes of scientific research, history or statistics, except necessary for the performance of a mission for the public interest of the Company;
• In the case of information that is reasonably collected for the performance of a mission for public benefit of the Company, or it is necessary for the exercising of official authority vested in the Company, or necessity for legitimate interests, or it is necessary for legitimate interests of the Company or any other persons or juristic persons other than the Company. Unless (a) the Company demonstrated a more important legal basis, or (b) the collection, use, or disclosure of such personal data is carried out for the establishment, compliance or exercise of legal claims, or defense of legal claims.
Right to Lodge a Complaint
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent authority in the event that the Company or the data processor, including the employees or the service providers of the Company or the data processor violates or does not comply with applicable personal data protection laws.
7. Contact us
If you wish to exercise your rights in connection with your personal data or if you have any questions about your personal data under this Privacy Policy, please contact us or our Personal Data Protection Officer at:
Sharp Solar Solution Asia Company Limited
Address: 952 Ramaland Building 15th Floor, Rama IV Road, Suriyawong, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 Thailand
Tel. 0-2855-8800
Email: privacy@sssa.sharp-world.com