Privacy Policy - 8excite+ | Malaysia's No. 1 Group Buy Community Platform

8excite+ Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us, and we aim to ensure that your privacy is protected throughout your 8excite+ experience.

For us to provide you with the best experience possible while you use 8excite+, we will need to collect specific data from you while you use 8excite+. This way, we can provide you with the necessary information and updates on all the exciting happenings within your vicinity such as offers, and promotions based on your preferred lifestyle choices. We hope, that by collecting the data we need from you, your 8excite+ experience grows from strength to strength and provides a long-term benefit not only for you but for the 8excite+ community.

The Type Of Information We Collect

Personal Information you provide to us: Your privacy is important to us, and we aim to ensure that your privacy is protected throughout your 8excite+ experience.

Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically: As mentioned above when you use 8excite+, our servers automatically receive and record your information from your mobile device or browser including your location, IP address, mobile carrier, cookie information and information you have requested for under 8excite+ services. These types of information are considered by us as non-personal information which is not personally identifiable to you (“Non-Personal Information”).

Information we receive from third parties: We record and store information that we receive about your use of 8excite+ from third party service providers who support us in connection with 8excite+. If you use 8excite+ with another application or share your activities on 8excite+ with any other application or service, we may use such information to enhance your 8excite+ experience. If you use other applications or services with 8excite+ and share your 8excite+ information with such applications or services, please ensure that you read the privacy policies of such applications or services. We may also obtain information about you through parties and partners we work with on 8excite+.

Any information we collect from you through these methods is to ensure that you can use 8excite+ and claim all points and rewards as part of the 8excite+ service. Should you not wish for your information to be collected in the manners set out herewith, you may not be able to use 8excite+ to its fullest capabilities, including not being able to claim points and other benefits related to 8excite+.

How Do We Use and Share the Information?

We will not share your Personal Information with any other party except to provide you with the 8excite+ services unless we have your permission or under the following circumstances.

8excite+ is not directed to parties below the age of 13 years. As such, we do not knowingly collect any information related to parties below the age of 13. If you become aware (including as a parent or guardian) that your child or any other child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent (as that child’s parent or guardian) or the consent of their parent or guardian, please contact us so we may delete such information from our system. If we come across any member who is under the age of 13 and has provided us with Personal Information without verifiable parental/guardian consent, we will delete such information from our files.

Personal Information

We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out above, which are, in essence, the following:

to allow for your smooth and uninterrupted use of the 8excite+ services.
to provide you throughout your use of the 8excite+ service with related content, promotions, sales, items of interest, advertisements and offers (based on the information provided) that we feel may excite you.
to lend a personal touch to your 8excite+ experience by customizing your experience to tailor it to your personal needs.
to understand your needs as an 8excite+ user and what excites you as well as what excites the 8excite+ community.
to provide you with necessary updates on the 8excite+ services including updates to the service and the application.
as far as your contacts list is concerned, to allow your contacts subscribed to the 8excite+ community to be displayed in your friend list under your 8excite+ profile and enable you to invite your contacts to be part of the 8excite+ community.

We may also share your Personal Information with our partners who support us (such as merchants who upload information about their goods and services) about the 8excite+ application. This sharing will only take place, however, should you opt to share your activities with such merchants on 8excite+.

Retention of Personal Information

The Personal Information provided to us will be retained until the purpose for which your Personal Information was collected by us has been completed or as permitted by law. In the event the purposes for which your Personal Information collected ceases, is required to be deleted by you or is no longer required for the purpose, your Personal Information will then be destroyed or anonymised from our records in accordance with our internal policy subject to compliance with our operational, legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements.

Non-Personal Information

We use Non-Personal Information to enhance and develop 8excite+ and improve its features and create a better 8excite+ experience for you and the 8excite+ community. We also use Non-Personal Information to analyze trends and fads (but in an aggregated manner) amongst the 8excite+ users. This will help us ensure that the content you receive through 8excite+ suits what excites you. We may also share this information with our partners and third-party service providers to allow us to deliver customized and tailored promotions, happening, information, advertisements, and other exciting deals to you when you use the 8excite+ services.

Third Parties and/or the Public

We may share Non-Personal Information with third parties or members of the public, for example by way of media-related articles which does not disclose your Personal Information, nor be reasonably likely to allow you to be personally identified, for analysis of industry trends, demographic profiling, and other similar purposes. This information (in an aggregated format) will be shared with our partners so that we can understand what interests and excites you to expand the 8excite+ service and product for the long-term benefit of you and other 8excite+ users.

Cookies

We may use “cookies” on your device, including your mobile device, to record your usage of the 8excite+ service for our record keeping. As a regular practice in most big websites, we do this so that we can preserve and record your information and activity on 8excite+ to further enhance your usage of 8excite+. The information stored by us using cookies will make it easier for you to use the 8excite+ services, as we can study and record your profile-related usage for us to understand what excites you, and further enhance the 8excite+ experience for you. We also use cookies to monitor your use of the 8excite+ services to gauge your interaction and monitor your usage of the service. In essence, the use of cookies enables the 8excite+ website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login details, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. You can opt to disallow cookies on your device at any time, by way of you opting not to accept the same on your browser, but please note that if you choose not to accept cookies while using 8excite+, the full functions and features of 8excite+ may not be available to you.

Agents and/or Partners and/or Service Providers

Naturally, we cannot work alone to ensure that the 8excite+ service is a complete service catered to all your 8excite+ needs. To do so, we need the help of our partners and third-party agents and companies to provide us with the support needed to ensure that your 8excite+ experience is satisfactory. These partners, agents and third parties assist us in performing certain services related to 8excite+ including but not limited to payment processing, analytics services, management services and services to improve 8excite+ or to assist us in analyzing how 8excite+ is used. Our partners, agents or service providers may have access to your Personal Information but only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purposes. In some instances, these third parties will be able to make use of Non-Personal Information for other purposes.

Legal Compliance

We must provide our full cooperation with any government and law enforcement agencies and any other party to ensure our compliance with the laws. We will disclose your information to such authorities when we are of the view that we reasonably need to do so, to protect our proprietary rights to the 8excite+ service or the rights of a third party, to protect the safety of any of our users or the public or any person, to prevent any activity that may be construed as illegal or unethical, or would cause any legal action to be commenced against us.

Mergers, Acquisitions, Reorganizations, etc.

We may, during our business, be subject to or be involved in a merger, acquisition or reorganization of our company. In the event of these circumstances, we may transfer or otherwise share your Personal Information in connection with these occurrences.

Updating Your Personal Information

You may update or amend your Personal Information on 8excite+ by informing us that you wish to do so or by making the necessary changes to your profile.

You may also communicate with us via the contact information set out below to withdraw your consent to the continued use, disclosure, storing and/or processing of your Personal Information subject to the conditions and/or limitations imposed by any applicable regulations and laws.

Please note that upon communicating and confirming your decision to withdraw your content for the use, disclosure, storing or processing of your personal information for the purposes set out in this policy, we may not be able to continue to provide the services to you or to perform any obligations to you. We will not be liable in the event that we are not able to continue to provide the services to or perform our obligations to you. Our legal rights and remedies are expressly reserved in such event.

The Security Of Your Information

We have in place security measures designed to protect your information from any unauthorized access and exposure.

If we are required under the law to disclose any information collected under 8excite+ services, we will do so accordingly. We will also inform you in the event there has been any breach of security or confidentiality of your information to the extent we are legally required to do so by law without unreasonable delay, to the extent necessary within the limits of the law and to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the 8excite+ system.

Transfer Abroad

We may transfer and maintain your information on servers that may be located outside your state, country, or jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. The terms of this Privacy Policy will, to the extent allowed by such laws, apply to you in those states, countries, or jurisdictions.

Links to Other Sites

The 8excite+ service may contain links to other sites including sites of our third-party external services or websites of our other partners or advertisers for information or functionality or services. If you choose to visit such sites by clicking on an advertisement, service, or banner on the 8excite+ service, including any third-party link, you will be directed to that party’s resources. We do not endorse nor authorize the content or services provided by such parties. The fact that we may provide a link to a third party’s services, functionality, or website, or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement, is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices, and we have no control in any manner over the said policies. We advise that you exercise caution when disclosing any personal information to a third party. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit to learn more about their privacy practices. Our Privacy Policy only applies to 8excite+ services, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites.

Agreement and Changes to this Privacy Policy

By using any part of the 8excite+ services, you agree to the current 8excite+ Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, amend, alter, discontinue, or terminate any or all 8excite+ services or to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, without notice to you. Any modifications will be effective immediately as of the date the modified Privacy Policy is posted on the 8excite+ site. By continuing to access or use the 8excite+ services after we have posted a modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If the modified Privacy Policy is not acceptable to you, please stop using the 8excite+ services.

How You Can Contact Us

Let us know how we can make the 8excite+ experience a better one for you. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@8excite.com.