Media5 respects its customers’ fundamental right to privacy, and we commit to take great care in safeguarding your personal data. Media5 Marketing Corporation has developed a Privacy Policy that aims to adopt and observe appropriate standards for personal data protection in compliance with Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and its implementing rules and regulations.
While our Privacy Policy sets out the general principles that govern the collection, use, and disclosure of our customers’ personal information, this Privacy Commitment seeks to inform you more specifically about our privacy practices.
- Why we collect your personal information
We collect and maintain some basic information about you as customers of Media5. We do so for the following purposes:
- To create and nurture a relationship with you, so we can continuously provide you with our services.
- To improve our programs, products and services, we collect, use, process, and analyze how you use our products and services so we can improve them for your benefit.
- To understand your needs and preferences, we maintain a record of the programs, products and services that you avail from us. This allows us to gain a better insight of the kind of offers that would be relevant to your preferences. From time to time, we may send you recommendations and special offers that we think will interest you.
- To continuously improve our business and operations, we have established a process that will continuously improve customer experience, keeping customers delighted with the service and helping to boost customer loyalty.
- To meet legal and regulatory requirements, we perform such other processing or disclosure that may be required to comply with pertinent laws, rules, or regulations.
- Where we get these information
There are several ways we collect information about you.
- Information that you personally give us.
Most of the personal information we have are those that you have given us yourself. You provide us personal information when you:
- Register to our programs or purchase our products or services;
- Get in touch with us to ask about something, file a complaint or request for service;
- Take part in our research and surveys;
- Become our Partner, Vendor, Contractor or Supplier; and/or
- When you apply for a job with us.
- Information we collect during our relationship with you
We also collect information as you use our products and services, like when you:
- Use our network, facilities and services;
- Call us through our hotline;
- Use our apps, websites, and self-service channels and portals;
- Join our promos, prize raffles, or rewards & loyalty programs.
- Information we collect from other sources
We also collect personal information about you through other activities such as our market research initiatives, when you visit and transact in our stores, when you visit and use our websites and mobile apps, and from our subsidiaries, affiliates, and third-party business partners to whom you have given your consent for them to share your information with us.
- When we disclose personal information
There are circumstances where we may need to share some of the information that you have provided us. In these cases, we ensure that your personal information is disclosed on a confidential basis, through secure channels, and only in compliance with the Data Privacy Act and other privacy laws.
We will never share, rent, or sell your personal information to third parties outside of Media5 except in special circumstances where you may have given your specific consent for, and as described in this policy.
In some instances, we may be required to disclose your personal information to our agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners and other third-party agencies and service providers as part of our regular business operations and for the provision of our products and services. This means we might share your information with:
- Our service providers, contractors, and professional advisers who help us provide our services. This includes partner companies, organizations, or agencies, and their sub-contractors (Ex.our couriers for bill delivery and our customer contact centers for our pre- and post-sales hotline operations);
- Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates with whom you have also signed-up with. We do so only for the improvement of each other's business and operations.
- Other companies to whom you have also given consent for us to share your information with; and
- Law enforcement and government agencies, but only when required by laws and regulations and other lawful orders and processes.
- How we protect your personal information
The integrity, confidentiality, and security of your information are important to us. That’s why we strictly enforce our Privacy Policy within Media5 and have implemented technical, organizational, and physical security measures that are designed to protect your information from unauthorized or fraudulent access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, and other unlawful activities.
We also put in effect the following safeguards:
- We keep and protect your information using a secured server behind a firewall, encryption and security controls;
- We keep your information only for as long as necessary for us to (a) provide the products and services that you avail from us, (b) for our legitimate business purposes, (c) to comply with pertinent laws, and (d) for special cases that will require the exercise or defense of legal claims;
- We restrict access to your information only to qualified and authorized personnel who are trained to handle your information with strict confidentiality;
- We undergo regular audits and rigorous testing of our infrastructure’s security protocols to ensure your data is always protected;
- We promptly notify you and the National Privacy Commission when sensitive personal information that may, under the circumstances, be used to enable identity fraud are reasonably believed to have been acquired by an unauthorized person;
- We let you update your information securely to keep our records accurate.
Media5 will not collect, use, or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified in this Commitment, your Service Agreement or our Terms of Service, and any other purpose that you may have given your consent for.
For greater clarity, unless you provide specific consent, we will not:
- Share your personal information with or sell it to our business partners and third-party service providers; or
- Use your personal information to enable third-party targeted advertisements.
- What your choices are
You are given certain rights in relation to your personal data under the Data Privacy Act. We would like to ensure that we have your consent to continue to collect, use, and disclose your personal information for the purposes that we have identified. We want you to know that you do have choices and can object or withdraw your consent and/or edit your consent preferences at any time.
If you wish to have access to your personal information in our records; or you think that such personal information we have of you is incomplete, not up-to-date, or otherwise inaccurate, you may get in touch with our Data Privacy Officer through the contact details provided below. In some instances, we may request for supporting documents or proof before we effect any requested changes to your personal information.
Raul M. Dela Cruz
Media 5 Marketing Corporation
Reliance corner Sheridan Streets
Mandaluyong City
med5dataprivacy@media5.com.ph
- What happens when there are changes in our Policy
From time to time, we may update our privacy policy and practices to comply with changes in applicable laws and regulatory requirements, to adapt to new technologies and protocols, to align with industry best practices, and for legitimate business purposes.
You will always be provided notice if these changes are significant and, if we are required by law, we will ensure to obtain your updated consent.
