Privacy Policy

In collecting your personal data, we genuinely want to be able to keep in touch with you and ensure you are kept up to date when we reach significant milestones in our progress. With that said, we take your privacy and security very seriously and we are committed to protecting your data so you can have peace of mind when interacting with us. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of how we manage your personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“the Act”). Please do not hesitate to give us a shout should you have any questions or concerns around how we protect your privacy.


The key things you can rest assured in when providing us your personal data are that: 

  • We only use your personal data to keep you informed and updated on ‘Don’t Mind If’ related activities, as well as to improve the ‘Don’t Mind If’ experience.

  • We will never disclose your personal data to any third party without your prior consent.

  • Your personal data cannot be used to trace your responses in the ‘Don’t Mind If I Ask’ industry survey. Your responses are recorded separately and are 100% anonymous.


1. Your Personal Data

a. In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” refers to any data or information about you from which you can be identified either (a) from that data; or (b) from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access. Examples of such Personal Data which you may provide to us include (depending on the nature of your interaction with us:

i. your name, NRIC, passport or other identification number, telephone number(s), mailing address, email address and any other information relating to you which you have provided us in any forms you may have submitted to us, or in other forms of interaction with you;

ii. information about your use of the ‘Don’t Mind If’ website and services, including cookies, IP address, subscription account details and membership details, but only to the extent that ‘Don’t Mind If’ may identify you from such information;

iii. your employment history, education background, and income levels;

iv. your payment related information, such as your bank account or credit card information, and your credit history; and

v. information about your usage of and interaction with our website and/or services including computer and connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, and traffic to and from our website.


2. Collection of Personal Data

a. Generally, ‘Don’t Mind If’ may collect your Personal Data in the following ways:

i. when you provide us with your contact details via a feedback form, contact form, to join our mailing list, or via any other means.

ii. when you register for or use any of our services on websites owned or operated by us or when you register as a member of websites owned and/or operated by us, or use services on such websites;

iii. when you interact with ‘Don’t Mind If’ representatives;

iv. when you request that we contact you;

v. when you respond to our request for additional Personal Data

vi. when you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list;

vii. when you respond to our promotions and other initiatives;

viii. when you submit a job application or a scholarship application;

ix. when we receive references from business partners and third parties, for example, where you have been referred by them;

x. when you submit your Personal Data to us for any other reason.

b When you browse our website, you generally do so anonymously but please see the section below on cookies.

c. If you provide us with any Personal Data relating to a third party (e.g. information of spouse, children, parents, employees and/or authorised representatives), by submitting such information to us, you represent to us that you have obtained the consent of the third party to you providing us with their Personal Data for the respective purposes.

d. You should ensure that all Personal Data submitted to us is complete, accurate, true and correct. Failure on your part to do so may result in our inability to provide you with products and services you have requested.


3. Purposes for the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data

a. Generally, ‘Don’t Mind If’ collects, uses and discloses your Personal Data for the following purposes:

i. responding to your queries, requests and complaints;

ii. managing the infrastructure and operations of ‘Don’t Mind If’ and complying with internal policies and procedures;

iii. facilitating business asset transactions

iv. matching any Personal Data held which relates to you for any of the purposes listed herein;

v. verifying your identity;

vi. preventing, detecting and investigating crime, including fraud and money-laundering, and analyzing and managing other commercial risks;

vii. protecting and enforcing our contractual and legal rights and obligations;

viii. conducting audits, reviews and analysis of our internal processes, action planning and managing commercial risks;

ix. preventing, detecting and investigating crime and managing the safety and security of our premises and services (including but not limited to carrying out CCTV surveillance and conducting security clearances

x. compliance with any applicable rules, laws and regulations, codes of practice or guidelines or to assist in law enforcement and investigations by relevant authorities;

xi. and/orany other purpose relating to any of the above.

b. In addition, ‘Don’t Mind If’ may collect, use and disclose your Personal Data for the following purposes, depending on the nature of our relationship with you:

i. If you have a subscription or membership account with us:

  1. to maintain your account with us;

  2. to verify and process your personal particulars and payments in relation to provision of Online Subscription Service and/or Donations;

  3. to provide you with the goods and services which you have signed up for, 

  4. communicating with you to inform you of changes and development to ‘Don’t Mind If’ policies, terms and conditions and other administrative information, including for the purposes of servicing you in relation to products and services offered to you;

  5. resolving complaints and handling requests and enquiries;

  6. conducting market research for statistical, profiling and statistical analysis for the improvement of services provided to you; and

  7. the processing of your Personal Data in relation to any of the purposes stated above.

ii. If you submit an application to us as a candidate for employment, internship or volunteer position:

  1. processing your application including pre-recruitment checks;

  2. providing or obtaining employee references or other references where relevant for background screening/vetting;

  3. collecting information about your suitability for the position applied for;

  4. organising training and staff development programs;

  5. assessing your performance;

  6. administering benefits and payroll processing;

  7. providing you with tools to facilitate or as required for you to do your job;

  8. communicating with you as required by ‘Don’t Mind If’ to comply with its policies and processes, including for business continuity purposes; and

  9. any other purposes relating to the aforesaid.

4. Disclosure of Personal Data

a. ‘Don’t Mind If’ will take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data against unauthorised disclosure. Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, this Personal Data may be disclosed, for the purposes listed above (where applicable), to the following third parties, whether they are located overseas or in Singapore:

i. ‘Don’t Mind If’ affiliates;

ii. the Credit Bureau, or in the event of default or disputes, any debt collection agencies or dispute resolution centres;any business partner, investor, assignee or transferee (actual or prospective) to facilitate business asset transactions;

iii. anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties;

iv. our professional advisors such as our auditors and lawyers;

v. relevant government regulators or authority or law enforcement agency to comply with any laws or rules and regulations imposed by any governmental authority; and

vii. any other party to whom you authorise us to disclose your personal data


5. Use of Cookies

a. When you interact with us on our websites, we may collect or analyse anonymised information from which individuals cannot be identified (“Aggregate Information”), such as number of users and their frequency of use, the number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the website and common entry and exit points into website.

b. ‘Don’t Mind If’ uses "cookies", where a small data file is sent to your browser to store and track Aggregate Information about you when you enter our websites. The cookie is used to track information such as the number of users and their frequency of use, profiles of users and their preferred sites.

c. ‘Don’t Mind If’ may use an independent company (the “Third Party Market Research Company”) to measure and analyse the Internet usage across ‘Don’t Mind If’  web sites. ‘Don’t Mind If’ uses a Third Party Market Research Company to collect the following core information on the usage of our web sites, including:

i. The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on ‘Don’t Mind If’  web sites;The number of unique visitors to ‘Don’t Mind If’  web sites;

ii. How long these unique visitors (on average) spend on ‘Don’t Mind If’  web sites when they do visit; and

iii. Common entry and exit points into ‘Don’t Mind If’  web sites.

iv. This information is aggregated by the Third Party Market Research Company and provided to ‘Don’t Mind If’ to assist in analysing the usage of ‘Don’t Mind If’ web sites. Such data is also accessible by media organisations and research companies, for the purpose of conducting industry comparisons with other Internet portals.

d. Pages on ‘Don’t Mind If’ web sites may be coded with software which enables the Third Party Market Research Company to track visitors to our web sites.

e. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy. Should you wish to disable the cookies associated with these technologies, you may do so by changing the setting on your browser. However, you may not be able to enter certain part(s) of our website.


6. Third-Party Sites

a. Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our website. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of such third party websites. Some of these third party websites  may be co-branded with our logo or trademark, even though they are not operated or maintained by us. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable terms, conditions and policies of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.


7. Withdrawal, Access and Correction of your Personal Data

a. Should you wish to withdraw consent to use of your Personal Data or obtain access to or make corrections to your Personal Data records, please log in to the relevant account through which the Personal Data was provided, if any, failing which please contact us directly, contact details of which are found in the Personal Data Protection Statement or similar elsewhere on the ‘Don’t Mind If’ website.

b. Please note that if your Personal Data has been provided to us by a third party, you should contact such party directly to make any queries, feedback, and access and correction requests to ‘Don’t Mind If’ on your behalf.

c. Please note that if you withdraw your consent to any or all use of your Personal Data, depending on the nature of your request, ‘Don’t Mind If’ may not be in a position to continue to provide its products or services to you 

8. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Singapore.