Note: Privacy Policy is subject to change. An updated version will always be made available online.
This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which Veira Life Pte Ltd and our related companies (“VL”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) may collect, use, disclose or otherwise process personal data of our customers when you use our website at www.veiralife.com and www.veira.life (“Website” or “Platform”) or the services (“Services”) accessible through the Platform in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, Singapore (“PDPA”). This Privacy Policy applies to personal data in our possession or under our control, including personal data in the possession of organisations which we have engaged to collect, use, disclose or process personal data for our purposes.
If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions, please do not use our Platform or Services. Your continued use of the Platform and Services constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
By using our Platform or Services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy. Your use of the Platform and Services is always subject to the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.
PERSONAL DATA
1. As used in this Privacy Policy:
“customer” means an individual who (a) has contacted us through any means (such as through our Platform) in relation to the services, products, and/or goods available on the Platform, or (b) may enter, or has, entered into a contract with us for the supply of any services, products and/or goods by us;
“expert” means an individual or a business that provides consultation services online to our customers using our Platform; and
“personal data” means data, whether true or not, about a customer 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.
2. Depending on the nature of your interaction with us, some examples of personal data which we may collect from you include:
(a) Your name, identification numbers such as NRIC, Passport Number, FIN, residential address, email address, telephone number, nationality, gender, and date of birth (needed especially if you use our telemedicine service);
(b) Personally-identifiable medical and health-related information which you provide to us (including information or records relating to your medical or health history, medical claims, health status, laboratory testing results, diagnostic images, photographs);
(c) Personally-identifiable medical and health information about you prepared by healthcare professionals/treatment providers who provide medical or healthcare services and products to you via the Platform (including medical records, treatment, and examination notes, laboratory testing results, or diagnostic images);
(d) Billing information that you provide us (e.g. credit card or online payment system account information);
(e) Information about the computer or mobile device you are using;
(f) Geographical location or address; or
(g) Other information which you may input into the Platforms or related services.
3. Other terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings given to them in the PDPA (where the context so permits).
COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
4. We generally do not collect your personal data unless
(a) it is provided to us voluntarily by you directly or via a third party who has been duly authorised by you to disclose your personal data to us (your “Authorised Representative”, which could, for example, include your employer) for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or
(b) collection and use of personal data without consent is permitted or required by the PDPA or other laws. We shall seek your consent before collecting any additional personal data and before using your personal data for a purpose that has not been notified to you (except where permitted or authorised by law).
5. We may collect and use your personal data for any or all of the following purposes:
(a) performing obligations in the course of or in connection with our provision of the services, products, and/or goods requested by you (including the provision of any medical or healthcare services or the delivery of products purchased by you).
(b) verifying your identity;
(c) responding to, handling, and processing queries, requests, applications, complaints, and feedback from you;
(d) managing your relationship with us;
(e) processing or facilitating the processing of your claims;
(f) processing payment or credit transactions;
(g) improving the quality of medical or healthcare services through the performance of quality reviews and similar activities;
(h) creating de-identified information which is information that is not used or intended to be used to personally identify an individual (e.g. aggregate statistics relating to the use of the services on the Platforms);
(i) notifying you when Platform updates are available;
(j) marketing and promoting the Platform, and services, products, and/or goods offered on the Platform to you;
(k) conveying health and wellness information to you;
(l)complying with any applicable laws, regulations, codes of practice, guidelines, or rules, or to assist in law enforcement and investigations conducted by any governmental and/or regulatory authority;
(m) converting the personal data to anonymised data for the purposes of analytics and market research;
(n) any other purposes for which you have provided the information
(o) transmitting to any unaffiliated third parties including our third-party service providers and agents, and relevant governmental and/or regulatory authorities, whether in Singapore or abroad, for the aforementioned purposes; and
(p) any other incidental business purposes related to or in connection with the above.
In the event we do contact you for any of the above purposes, you agree that we may contact you via email or text or by calling at your telephone number provided to us by you or your Authorised Representative.
6. We may rely on the “legitimate interests” exception under the PDPA to collect, use and disclose personal data without your consent for the purposes of detecting and preventing fraud and misuse of our services. Such disclosures may be made, without limitation, to your insurer or your employer, where relevant for such purposes.
7. As you use the Platforms, services, or purchase or arrange for the delivery of products and/or goods, certain information may be passively collected:
(a) Site Activity Information: We may keep track of some of the actions you take on the Platforms, such as the content of searches you perform on the Platforms;
(b) Access Device and Browser Information: When you access the Website from a computer or other device, we may collect anonymous information from that device, such as your Internet protocol address, browser type, connection speed, and access times;
(c) Cookies (i.e. small pieces of information that a site sends to your browser while you are viewing a website): We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies to make the Platforms and services easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and VL. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you will not be able to stay logged in to the Platforms. We presently do not honour “Do Not Track” requests across all parts of our Platforms.
(d) Real-Time Location: Certain features of the Platforms use GPS technology to collect real-time information about the location of your device so that we can serve you better, for example, we could use this information to connect you to a healthcare professional/treatment provider near your location.
(e) Device information: We may also collect non-personal information from your mobile device or computer. This information is generally used to help us deliver the most relevant information to you. Examples of information that may be collected and used include how you use the Platform and information about the type of device or computer you use. In addition, in the event, our Platform crashes on your mobile device we will receive information about your mobile device model software version and device carrier, which allows us to identify and fix bugs and otherwise improve the performance of our Platform.
(f) Web Analytics: We may use Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the Website. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the Website, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Website and services. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit the Website, rather than your name or other personally identifying information. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent Cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit the Website, the Cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
8. We may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is required for performing obligations in the course of or in connection with our provision of the services, products, and/or goods requested by you:
(a) To our subsidiaries, related companies, affiliates, or partners;
(b) To the relevant parties who may process your claims for your medical care (which may include your employer or your insurer if you are making claims under your employee or insurance benefits scheme or policy). In such circumstances, we may disclose your medical diagnosis/information to such parties for the purposes of claims processing and/or verification of utilisation, if required by such parties;
(c) To experts, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them (including logistics service providers, data service providers);
(d) As required by law, which can include providing information as required by a court order;
(e) When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect your safety or the safety of others, to protect our rights, to investigate fraud, or to respond to a government request;
(f) To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of VL’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data maintained on the Platform is among the assets transferred;
(g) To any other person or organisation disclosed by us when you provide the information.
9. The purposes listed in the above clauses may continue to apply even in situations where your relationship with us has been terminated or altered in any way, for a reasonable period thereafter (including, where applicable, a period to enable us to enforce our rights under a contract with you).
10. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Platform and in email, text, and other electronic communications set through or in connection with the Platform. This policy does not apply to information collected by any third party. When you click on links on the Platform, you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy statements.
WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT
11. The consent that you provide for the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data will remain valid until such time it is being withdrawn by you in writing. You may withdraw consent and request us to stop collecting, using, and/or disclosing your personal data for any or all of the purposes listed above by submitting your request in writing or via email to our Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided below.
12. Upon receipt of your written request to withdraw your consent, we may require reasonable time (depending on the complexity of the request and its impact on our relationship with you) for your request to be processed and for us to notify you of the consequences of us acceding to the same, including any legal consequences which may affect your rights and liabilities to us. In general, we shall seek to process your request within ten (10) business days of receiving it.
13. Whilst we respect your decision to withdraw your consent, please note that depending on the nature and scope of your request, we may not be in a position to continue providing our services, products, and/or goods to you and we shall, in such circumstances, notify you before completing the processing of your request. Should you decide to cancel your withdrawal of consent, please inform us in writing or via email to our Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided below.
14. Please note that withdrawing consent does not affect our right to continue to collect, use and disclose personal data where such collection, use, and disclosure without consent is permitted or required under applicable laws. For the avoidance of doubt, such withdrawal of consent shall not require us to delete any personal data that has already been collected by us from our records. Such retention shall be subject to clauses mentioned in the section titled ‘Retention of Personal data’.
ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
15. If you wish to make (a) an access request for access to a copy of the personal data which we hold about you or information about the ways in which we use or disclose your personal data, or (b) a correction request to correct or update any of your personal data which we hold about you, you may submit your request in writing or via email to our Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided below. Such a request shall include the details of the requestor, description of the personal data being requested, and the date and time range the personal data was believed to be collected.
16. Please note that a reasonable fee may be charged for an access request. If so, we will inform you of the fee before processing your request.
17. We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably possible. In general, our response will be within fourteen (14) business days. Should we not be able to respond to your request within thirty (30) days after receiving your request, we will inform you in writing within thirty (30) days of the time by which we will be able to respond to your request. If we are unable to provide you with any personal data or to make a correction requested by you, we shall generally inform you of the reasons why we are unable to do so (except where we are not required to do so under the PDPA).
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
18. To safeguard your personal data from unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal, or similar risks, we have introduced appropriate administrative, physical, and technical measures such as up-to-date antivirus protection, encryption, and disclosing personal data both internally and to our authorised third-party service providers and agents only on a need-to-know basis.
19. You should be aware, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. While security cannot be guaranteed, we strive to protect the security of your information and are constantly reviewing and enhancing our information security measures.
ACCURACY OF PERSONAL DATA
20. We generally rely on personal data provided by you (or your authorised representative). In order to ensure that your personal data is current, complete, and accurate, please update us if there are changes or corrections needed in your personal data by informing our Data Protection Officer in writing or via email at the contact details provided below.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA
21. We may retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, or as required or permitted by applicable laws.
22. We will cease to retain your personal data or remove the means by which the data can be associated with you, as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention no longer serves the purpose for which the personal data was collected, and is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes.
TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE OF SINGAPORE
23. We may transfer, store, process, and/or deal with your personal data outside of Singapore. Where we do so, it will comply with the PDPA.
DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
24. You may contact our Data Protection Officer if you have any inquiries or feedback on our personal data protection policies and procedures, or if you wish to make any request, in the following manner:
Email Address: veiraforyou@veiralife.com
Subject: Attn – Data Protection Officer
Data Breach Notification: In the event, we suspect or find a data breach that is likely to cause significant harm to you, we shall immediately report the said data breach to the Personal Data Protection Commission.
EFFECT OF PRIVACY POLICY AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
25. This Privacy Policy applies in conjunction with any other notices, contractual clauses, and consent clauses that apply in relation to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data by us.
26. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time without any prior notice. You may determine if any such revision has taken place by referring to the date on which this Privacy Policy was last updated. Your continued use of our services constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance of such changes.
Effective date: 15 Jun 2021
Last updated: 01 Dec 2022
