Privacy Policy
Suppiah & Partners Privacy Policy [EN]
This Privacy Policy governs how Suppiah & Partners (“we, our Firm”) collect, store and handle Personal Data(as defined below) of individuals in accordance to Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (“PDPA”).
This Privacy Policy will help you understand how we use the Personal data we may collect from you. By providing your Personal data to us, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy and the collection, use, access, transfer, storage and processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the collection and/or processing by our Firm of your Personal Data for purposes we deem appropriate, we may not be able to provide the legal services required of us or to consider you for employment opportunities. If you do not consent to our use of your Personal Data, please contact us at the details below. Our Firm will act in accordance with the PDPA as provided in this Privacy Policy.
WHAT IS THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR?
This Privacy Policy is created to explain:
- The kind of Personal Data we collect and how we collect your Personal Data
- How we use your Personal Data
- When we disclose your Personal Data
- When we transfer your Personal Data out of Malaysia
- Your right to access and correct your Personal Data
WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA AND WHAT DO WE COLLECT?
Personal Data is any information that relates directly or indirectly to you. This includes any information that can be used to distinguish, identify or contact you. For the avoidance of doubt, please note that this Privacy Policy is applicable only if you are a natural person / an individual.
In order for us to provide our legal services effectively and efficiently, we will need to collect relevant Personal Data from you. Such Personal Data includes (but is not limited to) personal details such as your name, telephone or mobile phone number, email address and other similar information.
WHEN AND HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may collect Personal Data in many ways, including:
- Directly from you when you communicate with us (for example when you enquire about our legal services, when you decide to appoint us to act for you or your employer or your company, or when our partners, lawyers and pupils meet you at seminars, networking functions);
- Consequently when we provide legal services;
- When you register or subscribe for our newsletters, publications and periodicals, including our News Alerts or legal updates or respond to any marketing materials we send out;
- When you make an application to us to be considered as a potential intern, pupil or employee;
- From third parties we deal with or are connected with you (for example, from referrals), and from such other sources where you have given your consent for the disclosure of information relating to you, and/or where otherwise lawfully permitted.
HOW DO WE USE AND STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may collect and use Personal Data from you or from third parties identified in this Privacy Policy, for many purposes, including, to provide our legal services to our clients and/our yourselves, to assess and process our appointment as your or your employer/company’s solicitor, to contact you for billing purposes (including to facilitate payments and collect debts), to resolve any issues, queries, complaints or other enquiries that you or your employer/company submit to us our legal services, to keep in contact with you and provide you with any information you request or information we feel may be helpful to you, to establish and better manage any business relationship we may have with you, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements and to consider you for possible employment with our Firm. Our Firm adopts strict standards and policies in keeping Personal Data secure.
DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO ANYONE ELSE?
As a part of our legal services to our clients, we may be required or need to disclose information about you to third parties such as our clients who appoint us to carry out legal services which involves your Personal Data, law enforcement agencies (such as the Securities Commission, Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, Companies Commission of Malaysia), companies and/or organisations that assist us in processing and/or otherwise fulfilling transactions and providing you or our clients with legal services, our business associates and other parties for purposes that are related to our purpose of collecting and using your Personal Data, subject at all times to any laws (including regulations, guidelines and/or by-laws) applicable to our Firm.
MARKETING
We may use your Personal Data to provide you with our newsletters, greeting cards, legal updates and information about our and third party services, which we feel may be of interest to or benefit you, unless you inform us otherwise in writing. If you do not wish to receive these materials or should you change your mind in relation to your previous decision, please contact us at the contact details provided below. Your latest written instructions to us will prevail.
YOUR RIGHT TO ACCESS AND CORRECT
If you wish to have access to your Personal Data in our custody, or where you are of the opinion that such Personal Data held by us is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or not up-to-date, you may make a request to us by contacting us at the contact details provided below. You should quote your name, address and phone/account number and provide brief details of the information you want a copy of in any such request, and we will charge you a nominal processing fee permitted by the law to help us defray administration costs.
However, we may have to withhold access to your Personal Data in certain situations, for example when we are unable to confirm your identity or where information requested for is of a confidential commercial nature or in the event, we receive repeated requests for the same information. Nevertheless, we will notify you in writing the reasons for not being able to accede to your request.
WHAT ARE YOUR OBLIGATIONS?
You are responsible for providing accurate and complete information to us about yourself and any other person whose Personal Data you provide us and for updating this Personal Data as and when it becomes incorrect or out of date by contacting our PDPA Compliance Officer at the contact details provided below. This obligation is a condition to the provision of legal services or processing of your application for employment. In the event you may need to provide us with Personal Data of third parties (for example about your spouse or children or where you are the designated person in charge of an organisation or company to deal with us), you confirm that you have (i) obtained the relevant individuals’ consent or are otherwise entitled to provide their Personal Data to us and for us to use accordingly, and (ii) informed them to read this Privacy Policy on our website at https://suppiahlaw.com/.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ACCESS OUR WEBSITE?
- Cookies
Cookies are packets of information stored in your computer which assist your website navigation by customizing site information tailored to your needs. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. You are not obliged to accept cookies. We do not have a policy on using cookies on our website, but if you are concerned, you can set your computer either to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. - Links to Third Party Websites
Our website may have links to websites maintained by third parties. This Privacy Policy applies solely to Suppiah & Partners’ website and does not apply to any third party websites. To determine how third party websites deal with your Personal Data, you should ensure that you read their respective privacy policies.
DOES YOUR PERSONAL DATA GET TRANSFERRED OUTSIDE MALAYSIA?
It may be necessary for us to transfer your Personal Data outside Malaysia if our clients or business associates involved in the provision of our legal or any related services are located outside Malaysia or if you are located outside of Malaysia and require our legal services, in order for us to perform our services. We shall take reasonable steps to ensure that any such transfer of Personal Data are adequately secure.
REVISIONS TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and the updated version shall apply and supersede any and all previous versions. We encourage you to check our website for information on our most up-to-date practices.
CONTACT US
Should you have any queries, concerns or complaints in relation to this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to access and correct your Personal Data, kindly contact us during office hours (Mondays to Fridays between 9am to 5pm) at the following:
Suppiah & Partners
UG-13, LEXA Galleria,
No. 45, Jln 34/26, Wangsa Maju,
53300 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603 4142 3766
Email: general@suppiahlaw.com
Attention/Subject: Suppiah & Partners Data Processing Officer
Dasar Privasi Suppiah & Partners [BM]
Dasar Privasi ini mengawal cara Suppiah & Partners (“kami, Firma kami”) mengumpul, menyimpan dan mengendalikan Data Peribadi (seperti yang ditakrifkan di bawah) individu selaras dengan Akta Perlindungan Data Peribadi 2010 Malaysia (“PDPA”).
Dasar Privasi ini membantu anda memahami bagaimana kami menggunakan Data Peribadi yang mungkin kami kumpulkan daripada anda. Dengan memberikan Data Peribadi anda kepada kami, anda bersetuju dengan Dasar Privasi ini dan pengumpulan, penggunaan, akses, pemindahan, penyimpanan dan pemprosesan Data Peribadi anda seperti yang dihuraikan dalam Dasar Privasi ini. Sekiranya anda tidak bersetuju dengan pengumpulan dan/atau pemprosesan Data Peribadi anda oleh Firma kami untuk tujuan yang kami anggap sesuai, kami mungkin tidak dapat memberi perkhidmatan guaman yang diperlukan atau mempertimbangkan anda untuk peluang pekerjaan. Sekiranya anda tidak bersetuju dengan penggunaan Data Peribadi anda, sila hubungi kami melalui butiran yang dinyatakan di bawah. Firma kami akan bertindak selaras dengan PDPA seperti yang dinyatakan dalam Dasar Privasi ini.
APAKAH TUJUAN DASAR PRIVASI INI?
Dasar Privasi ini diwujudkan untuk menjelaskan:
- Jenis Data Peribadi yang kami kumpulkan dan bagaimana kami mengumpulkannya
- Bagaimana kami menggunakan Data Peribadi anda
- Bila kami mendedahkan Data Peribadi anda
- Bila kami memindahkan Data Peribadi anda ke luar Malaysia
- Hak anda untuk mengakses dan membetulkan Data Peribadi anda
APA ITU DATA PERIBADI DAN APA YANG KAMI KUMPULKAN?
Data Peribadi adalah apa-apa maklumat yang berkaitan secara langsung atau tidak langsung dengan anda. Ini termasuk sebarang maklumat yang boleh digunakan untuk membezakan, mengenal pasti atau menghubungi anda. Untuk mengelakkan sebarang keraguan, sila ambil perhatian bahawa Dasar Privasi ini hanya terpakai sekiranya anda merupakan seorang individu.
Untuk membolehkan kami memberikan perkhidmatan guaman secara efektif dan efisien, kami perlu mengumpulkan Data Peribadi yang relevan daripada anda. Data tersebut termasuk (tetapi tidak terhad kepada) maklumat peribadi seperti nama anda, nombor telefon atau nombor mudah alih, alamat e-mel dan maklumat serupa yang lain.
BILA DAN BAGAIMANA KAMI MENGUMPUL DATA PERIBADI ANDA?
Kami mungkin mengumpulkan Data Peribadi dalam pelbagai cara, termasuk:
- Secara langsung daripada anda apabila anda berkomunikasi dengan kami (contohnya apabila anda membuat pertanyaan tentang perkhidmatan guaman kami, apabila anda melantik kami untuk mewakili anda, majikan anda atau syarikat anda, atau apabila rakan kongsi, peguam atau pelatih kami bertemu anda dalam seminar atau acara rangkaian);
- Semasa kami menyediakan perkhidmatan guaman;
- Apabila anda mendaftar atau melanggan kepada surat berita, penerbitan dan maklumat berkala kami, termasuk Makluman Berita atau kemas kini undang-undang;
- Apabila anda membuat permohonan kepada kami untuk dipertimbangkan sebagai intern, pupil atau pekerja;
- Daripada pihak ketiga yang berurusan atau mempunyai kaitan dengan anda (contohnya, melalui rujukan) dan daripada sumber lain yang anda telah memberikan kebenaran untuk pendedahan maklumat atau jika dibenarkan secara sah.
BAGAIMANA KAMI MENGGUNAKAN DAN MENYIMPAN DATA PERIBADI ANDA?
Kami mengumpul dan menggunakan Data Peribadi daripada anda atau pihak ketiga seperti yang dinyatakan dalam Dasar Privasi ini untuk pelbagai tujuan termasuk:
- Memberi perkhidmatan guaman kepada anda atau pelanggan kami;
- Menilai dan memproses pelantikan kami sebagai peguamcara anda, majikan anda atau syarikat anda;
- Menghubungi anda untuk tujuan pengebilan (termasuk memudahkan pembayaran dan pemungutan hutang);
- Menyelesaikan sebarang isu, pertanyaan, aduan atau maklum balas berkaitan perkhidmatan kami;
- Terus berhubung dengan anda dan menyediakan maklumat yang anda perlukan atau yang kami rasa berguna kepada anda;
- Mengurus dan menambah baik hubungan perniagaan kami dengan anda;
- Mematuhi keperluan undang-undang dan peraturan;
- Mempertimbangkan anda untuk kemungkinan pekerjaan dengan Firma kami.
Firma kami mengamalkan standard dan dasar yang tegas dalam memastikan keselamatan Data Peribadi.
ADAKAH KAMI MENDEDAHKAN DATA PERIBADI ANDA KEPADA PIHAK LAIN?
Sebahagian daripada perkhidmatan guaman mungkin dikehendaki atau perlu mendedahkan maklumat anda kepada pihak ketiga seperti:
- Pelanggan kami yang melantik kami untuk menjalankan perkhidmatan yang melibatkan Data Peribadi anda;
- Agensi penguatkuasaan undang-undang (seperti Suruhanjaya Sekuriti, Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia);
- Syarikat atau organisasi yang membantu kami memproses dan/atau memenuhi transaksi serta menyediakan perkhidmatan guaman;
- Rakan perniagaan kami dan pihak lain berkaitan dengan tujuan pengumpulan dan penggunaan Data Peribadi anda;
Tertakluk kepada undang-undang dan peraturan yang berkenaan.
PEMASARAN
Kami mungkin menggunakan Data Peribadi anda untuk menghantar surat berita, kad ucapan, kemas kini undang-undang dan maklumat berkaitan perkhidmatan kami atau pihak ketiga yang mungkin menarik atau memberi manfaat kepada anda, melainkan anda memberitahu sebaliknya secara bertulis. Sekiranya anda tidak ingin menerima bahan-bahan ini, atau ingin menukar keputusan anda, sila hubungi kami melalui butiran di bawah. Arahan bertulis anda yang terkini akan diguna pakai.
HAK ANDA UNTUK MENGAKSES DAN MEMBETULKAN DATA PERIBADI
Sekiranya anda ingin mengakses Data Peribadi anda yang kami simpan, atau anda percaya bahawa Data Peribadi tersebut tidak tepat, tidak lengkap, mengelirukan atau tidak dikemas kini, anda boleh mengemukakan permintaan dengan menghubungi kami. Sila nyatakan nama, alamat dan nombor telefon/akaun serta butiran maklumat yang anda ingin akses. Kami berkemungkinan akan mengenakan caj nominal seperti yang dibenarkan dari undang-undang bagi tujuan pentadbiran.
Kami mungkin menolak permintaan akses jika kami tidak dapat mengesahkan identiti anda atau sekiranya maklumat yang diminta bersifat sulit secara komersial atau jika terdapat permintaan berulang terhadap maklumat yang sama. Sebagaimanapun, kami akan memaklumkan alasan penolakan secara bertulis.
APAKAH TANGGUNGJAWAB ANDA?
Anda bertanggungjawab untuk memberikan maklumat yang tepat dan lengkap mengenai diri anda dan mana-mana individu lain yang Data Peribadinya anda berikan kepada kami, serta mengemas kini maklumat tersebut jika terdapat perubahan dengan menghubungi Pegawai Pematuhan PDPA kami. Kewajipan ini adalah syarat kepada pemberian perkhidmatan guaman atau permohonan pekerjaan anda.
Jika anda memberikan Data Peribadi pihak ketiga (contohnya pasangan, anak-anak, atau anda bertindak bagi pihak organisasi), anda mengesahkan bahawa anda telah:
(i) Mendapatkan kebenaran individu berkenaan atau dibenarkan secara sah untuk memberikan Data Peribadi tersebut kepada kami; dan
(ii) Memaklumkan mereka untuk membaca Dasar Privasi ini di laman web kami: https://suppiahlaw.com/
APA YANG BERLAKU APABILA ANDA MENGAKSES LAMAN WEB KAMI?
- Cookies
Cookies ialah maklumat yang disimpan dalam komputer anda untuk membantu navigasi laman web mengikut keperluan anda. Cookies tidak mengenal pasti pengguna secara individu. Anda tidak diwajibkan menerima cookies. Kami tidak mempunyai dasar rasmi penggunaan cookies di laman web kami, namun jika anda bimbang, anda boleh menetapkan komputer anda untuk menerima semua cookies, memberi amaran apabila cookie diterima, atau menolak semua cookies. - Pautan ke Laman Web Pihak Ketiga
Laman web kami mungkin mengandungi pautan ke laman web pihak ketiga. Dasar Privasi ini hanya terpakai kepada laman web Suppiah & Partners dan tidak terpakai kepada laman pihak ketiga. Sila baca dasar privasi mereka untuk memahami bagaimana Data Peribadi anda dikendalikan.
ADAKAH DATA PERIBADI ANDA DIPINDAHKAN KE LUAR MALAYSIA?
Pemindahan Data Peribadi anda ke luar Malaysia mungkin perlu jika pelanggan atau rakan perniagaan kami berada di luar Malaysia, atau jika anda berada di luar Malaysia dan memerlukan perkhidmatan kami. Kami akan mengambil langkah munasabah untuk memastikan pemindahan tersebut adalah selamat.
SEMAKAN DASAR PRIVASI KAMI
Kami mungkin meminda Dasar Privasi ini dari semasa ke semasa dan versi terkini akan diguna pakai dan menggantikan versi terdahulu. Kami menggalakkan anda untuk menyemak laman web kami bagi mendapatkan maklumat terkini.
HUBUNGI KAMI
Sekiranya anda mempunyai sebarang pertanyaan, kebimbangan atau aduan berkaitan Dasar Privasi ini, atau ingin mengakses dan membetulkan Data Peribadi anda, sila hubungi kami pada waktu pejabat (Isnin hingga Jumaat, 9 pagi hingga 5 petang):
Suppiah & Partners
UG-13, LEXA Galleria,
No. 45, Jln 34/26, Wangsa Maju,
53300 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603 4142 3766
Emel: general@suppiahlaw.com
Perhatian/Subjek: Pegawai Pemprosesan Data Suppiah & Partners