Privacy Policy

Insights Law LLC (“our Firm”) is committed to respecting and protecting your personal data.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you on how our Firm collects, uses, discloses (collectively, “processes”) and protects your personal data. “Personal data” means data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified (a) from that data; or (b) from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access.

By providing our Firm with your personal data, you agree and consent to our Firm, including its related corporations and business units and their respective representatives and/or agents (collectively referred to as “our Firm”, “us”, “we” or “our”) that we may process your personal data pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore and any amendments thereto (“PDPA”), this Privacy Policy and any other terms, conditions and policies agreed to by you from time to time which relate to the processing of your personal data.

We may amend or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please refer to our website at www.insightslaw.sg for the latest version. This Privacy Policy is to be read in conjunction with our Standard Terms and Conditions, where applicable.

Collecting your personal data

We may collect your personal data in the following manner:

when you provide the personal data to us (e.g. when you communicate with us via telephone, email, SMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, post or by any other means);
in the ordinary course of our relationship;
when you subscribe to our publication(s), alerts and/or announcements;
when you register for any of our seminars, webinars and/or events (including subscribing to be on our mailing list);
when you visit or use our website or premises; and
when third parties provide it to us.

We may collect the following types of personal data from you:

your name and contact details (e.g. phone numbers and email addresses);
your national identification number (only where necessary and relevant);
any information about you in relation to matters on which you instruct us or in which you are involved (e.g. your date of birth, gender, nationality and employment information);
your attendance records at our seminars, webinars and/or events;
your likeness and/or voice (e.g. in the form of photographs or video recordings);
your subscription preferences on our mailing list; and
your online data when you access our website (including your IP address).

We presume that any personal data provided to us is accurate, complete and up to date.

Purposes of processing

We may process your personal data for the following purposes:

to provide legal advice and services to you in the ordinary course of our work;
to manage and administer our relationship with you and/or your company (which includes, without limitation, mandatory client due diligence checks and the processing of payments);
to organise seminars, webinars and events;
to send you legal updates, newsletters, announcements, and any similar messages to keep you informed of legal developments and our services;
to respond to your queries, requests and complaints;
to ensure the smooth functioning of our website;
to satisfy any commercial, legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements;
any other purpose for which we notify you and obtain your consent prior to processing; and
any other purpose as required or permitted by law.

We will only disclose your personal data for the abovementioned purposes to our affiliated entities, third party service providers, agents, other professional advisors and consultants with whom we are dealing on your behalf and any governmental authorities. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing of your personal data for a new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact our Data Protection Officer (contact details provided below).

When required for any of the abovementioned purposes, you consent to us transmitting your personal data to other jurisdictions out of Singapore as may be necessary. We will ensure that your personal data receives a standard of protection that is comparable to that under the PDPA. We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to ensure the security and integrity of your personal data, in accordance with the PDPA.

Where you provide us with any personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to do so and we will only process such personal data for the purposes set out above, in accordance with the PDPA.

Retention

We may retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for us (even after our engagement has ended) to fulfil any of the abovementioned purposes.

Use of cookies

Cookies are pieces of information or small files that a website transfers to the memory or hard drive of a visitor’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies to provide visitors with an enhanced user experience by improving and personalising the website to our visitors’ needs. We also use this information to verify that visitors meet the criteria required to process their requests. By accessing our website, you agree and consent that we can place cookies on your device.

Please be informed that cookies do not gather any personal data. You may disable or refuse the use of cookies. However, this may prevent you from using some, or all, of the features of our website.

Third party website

Our website may contain links to third party or external websites (e.g. LinkedIn). Please note that our Privacy Policy does not apply to links connected to external websites (e.g. LinkedIn) and the operations you perform on those websites.

IP addresses

An IP address is an assigned number, similar to a telephone number, which allows your computer to communicate over the Internet. It enables us to identify which organisations have visited this website. By accessing our website, you agree that our server may record your IP address, together with the date, time and duration of your visit.

Security

As required under the PDPA, we will take reasonable care to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, destruction or similar risks.

All emails sent to and from Insights Law LLC may be monitored to ensure compliance with internal policies and to protect our business.

This Privacy Policy and all issues arising from, relating to and/or in connection with this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore.