Privacy Statement

Business Valuation Singapore takes the security of and our legal responsibilities around your personal data seriously. This statement explains relevant information about our processing of your personal data collected via this website.

1.1    The purpose of this policy is to inform you and provide you with an understanding of how we handle, collect, use, disclose and process personal data about you that you give us.

1.2    The data controller collecting the data described herein is the Axellsor otherwise the Axells firm to which the visitor has submitted their data.

1.3    By submitting data on Axells’ website, the visitor is providing consent to transmission of data collected on the website for the fulfilment of their voluntary requests.

1.4    The data protection policy which is established in Singapore, governs the collection, use and disclosure of personal data submitted to Axells, and explains how we collect and handle personal data of individuals and comply with the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore and its regulation(s) (the “PDPA”).

2.1    If Axells processes personal information about you, you have the following rights:

(a)    Access – you have the right to access any personal data that we hold about you, subject to the requirements of the PDPA

(b)    Correction – note that the PDPA exempts certain types of personal data from being subject to your correction request as well as provides for situation(s) when correction need not be made by us despite your request.

(c)     Object to Processing – you have the right to object to us processing your personal information if we are not entitled to use it any more.

(d)    Deletion – when requested and practical, Axells will delete identifying information from current operational systems.

2.2    We will make all reasonable and practical efforts to comply with your requests, so long as it is consistent with applicable laws and professional standards.

2.3    Do note that your withdrawal of consent will not affect our ability to collect, use or disclose your personal data for a specific purpose without your consent, if the PDPA or a provision in applicable law permits us to.

3.1    We may process your personal data collected through our website for the purposes outlined below:

Contract entry and performance: Should you indicate an interest in becoming a client of Axells we will use the personal data in order to take steps to enter into a contract for services with you.  We may continue to use the data provided through our website in order to perform our duties under a contract with you.

Our legitimate interests: We process personal data in order to run our business, including managing our relationship with you, meeting our administrative, accounting and corporate rights and obligations, maintaining and using our IT systems and developing our business and services.

Recruitment and personnel administration: If you apply for a job through our website, we collect personal data from job applicants in order to recruit new employees.

Security, quality and risk management: Personal data may be processed in the context of maintaining security and within the scope of internal quality and risk analysis.

Direct marketing: we may process personal data for direct marketing purposes to promote and develop our services and to provide you with information we think will be of interest to you. In all cases we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of our direct-marketing activities. Opt-out can be achieved by responding using the unsubscribe options contained within the information you have received or by contacting us.

Complying with legal requirements, regulations or a professional body of which we are a member of:  We are subject to legal, regulatory and professional obligations. We need to keep certain records to demonstrate that our services are provided in compliance with those obligations and those records may contain personal data.

3.2    All personal data submitted through this site may be used by us in an anonymised form to assess and improve the services delivered herein and for our wider business development activities.

4.1    Personal information may also be disclosed to law enforcement, regulatory, or other government agencies, or to other third parties, in each case to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests.

4.2    Axells will not transfer the personal information you provide to any third parties for their own direct marketing use unless you give us your permission to do so or we first notify you of our intention to share data for this purpose.

4.1    We will retain your personal information for as long as the information is reasonably required to fulfil the purpose collection of the information or until you request that we delete that information.

4.2    We will put in place measures such that your personal data in our possession or under our control is destroyed and/or anonymized as soon as it is reasonable to assume that (a) the purpose for which that personal data was collected is no longer being served by the retention of such personal data; and (b) retention is no longer necessary for any other legal or business purposes.

5.1    Security of your personal data is important to us. We take appropriate action to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration or destruction using the same safeguards as we use for our own proprietary information. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers.

5.2    Axells has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.

5.3    Despite Axells best efforts, however, security cannot be absolutely guaranteed against all threats. To the best of our ability, access to your personal information is limited to those who have a need to know. Those individuals who have access to the data are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

5.4    We have in place reasonable commercial standards of technology and operational security to protect all information provided by visitors via this Website from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

6.1    Cookies – cookies will typically be placed on your computer or internet-enabled device whenever you visit us online, however by themselves do not tell us your email address or otherwise identify you personally.

6.2    IP Addresses – in our analytical reports, we may obtain other identifiers including IP addresses, but this is for the purpose of identifying the number of unique visitors to our web sites and geographic origin of visitor trends, and not to identify individual visitors. Site statistics are compiled by third parties, and therefore your IP address will be passed to third parties for statistical reporting only.

6.3    Google Analytics – Axells uses Google Analytics to collect information about how people use our website and gain a better understanding of their expectations. This allows us to constantly improve the site. Axellsdoes not allow Google to use or share data about browsing on our website with a third party. More information about how Google Analytics is used by Axells can be found here: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

8.4    Web Beacons – Axells only uses web beacons in accordance with applicable laws. You have the option to render some web beacons unusable by rejecting the associated cookies. The web beacon may still record an anonymous visit from your IP address but cookies information will not be recorded.

9.1 Our website may contain links to other websites but this Privacy Statement applies only to the personal data collected via the website(s) operated by Axells, and to how Axellsprocesses personal data.

9.2 A link to a third party’s website should not be construed as an endorsement by either Axells or that third party of the other or its products and services. Axells makes no representations or warranties regarding how user data is stored or used on third-party servers. We recommend reviewing the privacy statement of each third-party site linked from Our Site to determine their use of your personal information.

10.1 Axells reserves the right to modify or amend this Statement at any time, with or without notice.  We recommend you check this page regularly.

10.2 The effective date will be display at the end of this Statement.

11.1 Your consent that is given pursuant to this Privacy Policy is additional to and does not supersede any other consents that you had provided to Axells with regard to processing of your personal data.

11.2 For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that Singapore personal data protection law permits an organisation such as us to collect, use or disclose your personal data without your consent, such permission granted by the law shall continue to apply.

11.3 For any enquiries on our privacy policy, please send your enquiry to the Data Protection Officer of Axellsat james@businessvaluation.com.sgor to the below address:

Axel Langdon & Sawyer Pte Ltd

105 Cecil Street, #06-02The Octagon, Singapore 069534

12.4 If you are dissatisfied with the way we have handled your personal data and we are unable to resolve the issue for you, you may take the matter to your local Data Protection Regulator.  For personal data that originates from Singapore, the Personal Data Protection Commission may be contacted via the information provided on their website.

Updated as of 1 July 2021