Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.thelawyer.my
TheLawyer.my (“We“) is committed to protecting your personal information and will take the relevant measures to safeguard your personal information in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 and Personal Data Protection Regulations 2013 including their revisions. This Privacy Policy (“Policy“) sets out how we use and protect the information you give us.
This Privacy Policy supplements our Terms & Conditions of Use and explains how we handle the information collected and received when you visit our website, our related sub-sites (“Site“). It also governs the collection, use and disclosure of your information.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Registration Form / Contact Form
When visitors leave their information on the site we collect the data shown in the Registration Form and/or Contact Form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We understand that your personal data was truly privacy and we will not share or sell to others/third parties and will strictly for our own use for marketing our own products and services only.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
Collection of Personal Information
We may collect information that personally identifies you if you choose to submit your personal information for the various purposes made available on our Site for example, when you visit or browse our website, register or subscribe to be our Users, used our Products and/or Services, register your interest in any of our developers projects, products or other services etc.
Personal information includes any information which relates directly or indirectly to you, which can be used to identify or contact you.
When you visit the Site through your computer, mobile device, or any other device with internet connectivity, our servers will automatically record data that your browser sends for examples your IP address and information about your visit (such as time stamp, date, duration etc).
We may use cookies (small text files placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit the Site) that will allow us to recognize a particular device or browser and help us personalise the content to match your preferred interests more quickly, and to make our Services and Site more convenient and useful to you. You may be able to manage and delete cookies through your browser or device settings. For more information on how to do so, visit the help material of your browser or device.
Any information we collect from the User may be used but not limited to any of the following ways: –
- To send periodical emails, WhatsApp and SMS on information and updates on the Site, related product or service information
- To identify visitors on the Platform
- To conduct marketing research activities
- To comply with applicable Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism regulations and other applicable laws and regulations
- To verify the identity of the User
- To improve our Site and services provided to you
- To process any transactions
- To detect and prevent fraudulent activity
- To personalise your experience on our Site
The processing of your personal information will be done in accordance with all applicable laws. In processing your personal information, we shall take practical and reasonable steps to protect the personal information from any loss, misuse, modification, unauthorized or accidental disclosure, alteration or destruction.
The User shall be deemed to have consented to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data of relevant individuals by the User’s continued dealing and usage of the Services on the Site.
Please take note that if at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, WhatsApp or SMS, please follow the instructions to unsubscribe at the bottom of each email or directly contact us via phone, WhatsApp or SMS.
Changes to this Policy
We may review and change this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our business practices, processes or structure. While it is not generally feasible to notify you of the changes to this Policy, the latest version of this Policy will be available on our website. This policy is not a contract, nor does it suggest any obligation on our part with another party.