Privacy Policy

Last modified on June 30th 2021

1. Purpose

This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into the WhiteHub Terms of Service (the “Terms”). The terms “WhiteHub,” “we,” and “us” include WHITEHUB PTE. LTD, Singapore, our affiliates and subsidiaries. This Privacy Policy explains our online and offline information practices, the kinds of information we may collect, how we intend to use and share that information, and how you can opt-out of a use or correct or change such information. All capitalized terms not defined herein will have the meanings set forth in the Terms.

2. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that is processed by WhiteHub in the course of our business, including on WhiteHub websites (each a “Site”), applications, forums, blogs, and other online or offline offerings (collectively, the “Services”). All individuals whose responsibilities include the processing of personal information on behalf of WhiteHub are expected to protect that data by adherence to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is intended to meet requirements globally, including those in USA, Europe, APAC, and other jurisdictions.

3. Transparency / Notice - Types of Personal Information we collect and How we use it

The types of personal information we may collect and our privacy practices depend on the nature of the relationship you have with WhiteHub and the requirements of applicable law. Some of the ways that WhiteHub may collect personal information include:

• You may provide personal information directly to WhiteHub through interacting with WhiteHub, participating in surveys, during events such as sweepstakes, and requesting Services, or information.

• As you navigate our Websites, certain passive information may also be collected about your visit, including through cookies and similar technologies as described below.

We endeavor to collect only that information which is relevant for the purposes of processing. Below are the ways we collect personal information and how we use it.

3.1 Types of Personal Information we collect

WhiteHub collects personal information regarding its current, prospective, and former clients, customers, users, visitors, and guests (collectively “Individuals”).

3.2 How WhiteHub uses your Information

We acquire, hold, use, and process personal information about Individuals for a variety of business purposes, including:

You may contact us at any time to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, as further described in Section 5 below

• Research and Development. WhiteHub may use personal information alone or in the aggregate with information obtained from other sources, in order to help us to optimally deliver our existing products and Services or develop new products and Services.

• Direct Mail, Email and Outbound Telemarketing. Individuals who provide us with personal information, or whose personal information we obtain from third parties, may receive periodic emails, newsletters, mailings, or phone calls from us with information on WhiteHub’s or our business partners’ products and services or upcoming special offers/events we believe may be of interest. We offer the option to decline these communications at no cost to the Individual by following the instructions in Section 5 below.

• De-Identified and Aggregated Information Use. WhiteHub may use personal information and other information about you to create de-identified and/or aggregated information, such as de-identified demographic information, de-identified location information, information about the computer or device from which you access WhiteHub’s Services, or other analyses we create. Anonymized and aggregated information is used for a variety of functions, including the measurement of visitors’ interest in and use of various portions or features of WhiteHub. De-identified and/or aggregated information is not personal information, and WhiteHub may use such information in a number of ways, including research, internal analysis, analytics, and any other legally permissible purposes. We may share this information within WhiteHub and with third parties for our or their purposes in an de-identified and/or aggregated form that is designed to prevent anyone from identifying you

• Sharing Content with Friends or Colleagues. WhiteHub’s Services may offer various tools and functionalities to share content. Our referral services may allow you to forward or share certain content with a friend or colleague, such as an email inviting your friend to use our Services. Email addresses that you may provide for a friend or colleague will be used to send your friend or colleague the content or link you request, but will not be collected or otherwise used by WhiteHub or any other third parties for any other purpose.

• Other Uses. WhiteHub may use personal information for which we have a legitimate interest, such as network and information security, direct marketing, disclosure to affiliated organizations, research (including marketing research), fraud prevention, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent.

Uses of Automatic Collection Technologies. Our use of the Technologies fall into the following general categories:

• Operationally Necessary. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our sites, services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our sites, services, applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular site behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use of our functions such as shopping-carts, saved search, or similar functions;

• Performance Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our websites, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our websites, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, applications, services, or tools;

• Functionality Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our sites, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our sites or keeping track of your specific preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our sites;

• Advertising or Targeting Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our sites or on third party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that has been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.

If you would like to opt-out of the Technologies we employ on our Services, you may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device permits.

3.3 Third-party Websites and Social Media Platforms

The Services may contain links to other websites and other websites may reference or link to our Services. These other domains and websites are not controlled by us, and WhiteHub does not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites or social media platforms. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of each and every website and application with which they interact. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites or applications. Visiting these other websites or applications is at your own risk.

WhiteHub’s Services may include publicly accessible blogs, community forums, or private messaging features. Our Websites may also contain links and interactive features with various social media platforms (e.g., widgets). If you already use these platforms, their cookies may be set on your device when using our Site or other Services. You should be aware that personal information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, chat room, social media platform or otherwise online, or that you share in an open forum may be viewed and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable to control such uses of your information when interacting with a social media platform, and by using such services you assume the risk that the personal information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes.

3.4 Third-party Payment Processing

If you use our Services to make, receive or facilitate payments in connection with the Services, we and Third-Party applications may collect certain financial information from you to process transactions, including your name, email address, address, financial account information and other billing information.

4. Onward Transfer - WhiteHub may disclose your Information

4.1 Information we share

We may share your information as described in this Privacy Policy (e.g., with our third-party service providers; to comply with legal obligations; to protect and defend our rights and property) or with your permission.

• We Use Vendors and Service Providers. We may share any information we receive with vendors and service providers. The types of service providers (processors) to whom we entrust personal information include service providers for: (i) provision of IT and related services; (ii) provision of information and services you have requested; (iii) payment processing; (iv) customer service activities; and (v) in connection with the provision of our Services. WhiteHub has executed appropriate contracts with the service providers that prohibit them from using or sharing personal information except as necessary to perform the contracted services on our behalf or to comply with applicable legal requirements.

• Business Partners. WhiteHub may share personal information with our business partners, and affiliates for our and our affiliates’ internal business purposes or to provide you with a product or service that you have requested. WhiteHub may also provide personal information to business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you. In such cases, our business partner’s name will appear, along with WhiteHub. WhiteHub requires our affiliates and business partners to agree in writing to maintain the confidentiality and security of personal information they maintain on our behalf and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which WhiteHub provided them.

• Content Visible to Others. When you create a Profile or post content to our Websites, this information may be displayed to others. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the other users who will view and use the posted information.

• Marketing – Interest-Based Advertising and third party Marketing. Through our Services, WhiteHub may allow third-party advertising partners to set tracking tools (e.g., cookies) to collect information regarding your activities (e.g., your IP address, page(s) visited, time of day). We may also share such de-identified information as well as selected personal information (such as demographic information and past purchase history) we have collected with third-party advertising partners. These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other websites) for purposes of delivering targeted advertisements to you when you visit non-WhiteHub related websites within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “personalized advertising.” We may allow access to other data collected by WhiteHub to facilitate transmission of information that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you. If you prefer that we do not share your personal information with third-party advertising partners, you may opt-out of such sharing at no cost by following the instructions in Section 5 below.

• Disclosures to Protect Us or Others (e.g., as Required by Law and Similar Disclosures). We may access, preserve, and disclose your personal information, other account information, and content if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (i) comply with law enforcement or national security requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (ii) respond to your requests; (iii) protect yours’, ours’ or others’ rights, property, or safety; (iv) to enforce WhiteHub policies or contracts; (v) to collect amounts owed to WhiteHub; (vi) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation or prosecution of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (vii) if we, in good faith, believe that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable.In addition, from time to time, server logs may be reviewed for security purposes – e.g., to detect unauthorized activity on our Websites. In such cases, server log data containing IP addresses may be shared with law enforcement bodies in order that they may identify users in connection with their investigation of the unauthorized activities.

• Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. In such an event, WhiteHub will endeavor to direct the transferee to use personal information in a manner that is consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such personal information was collected.

4.2 International Data Transfers

All personal information collected via or by WhiteHub may be transferred, Processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including but not limited to, the United States, the European Union, in the cloud, on our servers, on the servers of our affiliates or the servers of our service providers in order to provide our Services. Your personal information may be accessible to law enforcement or other authorities pursuant to a lawful request. Where required by law, international transfers of personal information will be supported by an adequacy mechanism. In the case of transfers of data out of Europe, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and endeavor to utilize third-party service providers that provide adequate protections that are compliant with the GDPR such as implementing Standard Contractual Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules.

5. Your choices

5.1 General

You may have the right to object to and opt out of certain uses and disclosures of your personal information. Where you have consented to WhiteHub’s processing of your personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time and opt-out to further processing by contacting [email protected].

5.2 Email and Telephone communications

If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email to opt-out of receiving future emails. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt. Note that you will continue to receive transaction-related emails regarding products or services you have requested. We may also send you certain non-promotional communications regarding WhiteHub and our Services and you will not be able to opt out of those communications (e.g., communications regarding updates to our Terms or this Privacy Policy).

5.3 “Do Not Track”

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.

5.4 Cookies and Interest-based advertising

As noted above, you may stop or restrict the placement of Technologies on your device or remove them by adjusting your preferences as your browser or device permits. Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications. However, you may opt-out of personalized advertisements on some mobile applications by following the instructions here: https://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice

The online advertising industry also provides websites from which you may opt out of receiving targeted ads from data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these websites and learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy, at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, https://youradchoices.ca/choices/, and www.aboutads.info/choices/.

Please note you must separately opt out in each browser and on each device.

6. Your Privacy Rights

Right to Access – You have the right to obtain information about the processing activities of a data controller and the personal data of yours that they are processing.

Right to Rectification – The right to rectification concerns the ability to correct any inaccurate data concerning the data subject.

Right to Erasure – This is also known as the right to be forgotten, and gives you the right to request deletion of your personal data held by the controller.

Right to Restrict Processing – Right to restrict processing where data is inaccurate or use is unlawful or no longer needed.

Right to Portability – You have the right to receive requested personal data in a commonly used and machine-readable format.

We do not “sell” your personal information.

In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to: (i) request confirmation of whether we are processing your personal information; (ii) obtain access to or a copy of your personal information; (iii) receive an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or ask us to send that information to another company (the “right of data portability”); (iv) restrict our uses of your personal information; (v) seek correction or amendment of inaccurate, untrue, incomplete, or improperly processed personal information; (vi) withdraw your consent and (vii) request erasure of personal information held about you by us, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law.

Where otherwise permitted by applicable law, you may send an email to [email protected] or use any of the methods set out in this Privacy Policy to exercise your rights in personal information. Please include your full name, email address associated with your Account, and a detailed description of your data request. Such requests will be processed in line with applicable laws.

To protect your privacy, WhiteHub will take commercially reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to or making any changes to your personal information.

7. Data Retention

WhiteHub retains the personal information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

8. Security of your Information

We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. We do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure.

By using our Services or providing personal information to us, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of our Services. If we learn of a security system’s breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice on our Websites or sending an email to you. You may have a legal right to receive this notice in writing.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not directed to children under 13 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 16) years of age, and WhiteHub does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 16) years of age. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may alert us at [email protected]. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from children under 13 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 16), we will promptly take steps to delete such information.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact WhiteHub by email at [email protected].

11. Other Rights and Important Informations

11.1 Changes to our Privacy Policy and Practices

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. You understand and agree that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Policy if you use our Services after the updated Privacy Policy is posted on our Websites. If at any point you do not agree to any portion of the Privacy Policy then in effect, you must immediately stop using our Services.

• Revision to the Privacy Policy. We may revise this Privacy Policy in our sole discretion, so review it periodically. If you continue to visit this Site and use our Services made available to you after such changes have been made, you hereby provide your consent to the changes.

• Posting of Revised Privacy Policy. If there are any material changes to this Privacy Policy, WhiteHub will notify you by email or as otherwise required by applicable law. We will post any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this web page, and the revised version will be effective immediately when it is posted (or upon notice as applicable). If you are concerned about how your information is used, bookmark this page and read this Privacy Policy periodically.

• New Uses of personal information. Additionally, before we use personal information for any new purpose not originally authorized by you, we will endeavor to provide information regarding the new purpose and give you the opportunity to opt-out. Where consent of the Individual for the processing of personal information is otherwise required by law or contract, WhiteHub will endeavor to comply with the law or contract.