PRIVACY POLICY
Effectivity Date: 28 March 2023
AgriXchange respects and values the right to privacy of everyone who visits the AgriXchange Website. We will only collect, record, store, process and use your personal information in accordance with Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the “Data Privacy Act of 2012”, its Implementing Rules and Regulations, the issuances of the National Privacy Commission, other relevant laws (collectively, the “Data Privacy Laws”), and the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is for the information of users or visitors of the AgriXchange Website regarding AgriXchange policies in relation to the collection, use, storage, disclosure, disposal and sharing of personal information provided or submitted by users or visitors to AgriXchange when browsing and/or using the AgriXchange Website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. By accessing and using the AgriXchange Website and/or providing information to AgriXchange through the AgriXchange Website, you accept and agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and give your consent to the collection, storage, processing, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information in accordance with the Data Privacy Laws and this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, please leave or discontinue the use of the AgriXchange Website immediately.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Depending on your use of the AgriXchange Website, AgriXchange may collect some or all of the following information:
• name,
• email address,
• telephone number,
• mobile number, and
• other information provided through the AgriXchange Website.
We will only collect your personal information if you voluntarily provide or submit the same to AgriXchange. If you choose not to submit your personal information to AgriXchange or subsequently withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information, we may not be able to adequately respond to your inquiries.
AgriXchange may use your personal information for the following purposes:
• provide customer service and support;
• respond to inquiries relating to AgriXchange products;
• communicate with you and identify you;
• maintain records and comply with legal obligations; and
• accomplish other purposes, when necessary, and under circumstances permitted or required by law.
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, AgriXchange may also use your personal information for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email and/or other contact details with information, news and offers of AgriXchange products.
Data Sharing
AgriXchange may share your personal information with its affiliates and third parties (i.) that were hired by AgriXchange to perform support services for it; (ii.) that partnered with AgriXchange to provide products and services to AgriXchange partners; and (iii.) when AgriXchange believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with a law, regulation, court order or other legal processes.
AgriXchange shall require its affiliates and third parties to use the personal information shared to them in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and the Data Privacy Laws.
AgriXchange may also share anonymized or aggregated information internally and with affiliates and third parties for lawful purposes. Such information will not identify you individually.
Log Data
Your usage of the AgriXchange Website will allow access to information that your browser sends to AgriXchange called Log Data. This Log Data may include information about your computer’s/device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of the AgriXchange Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, postal code, and other statistics.
Cookies
The AgriXchange Website uses cookies to optimize your experience. Cookies are files with a minimum amount of data that commonly use an anonymous unique identifier. These data are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s/device’s hard drive. AgriXchange Website may use these “cookies” to collect information and to improve the AgriXchange Website. When you accept the use of cookies, you are deemed to allow AgriXchange access to the information gathered from these cookies. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and a prompt is sent to you to inform you when a cookie is being sent to your computer/device. If you choose to refuse these cookies, you may not be able to use some functions or features of the AgriXchange Website.
Security
AgriXchange maintains reasonable and appropriate organizational, physical, and technical measures for the protection of your personal information against any accidental or unlawful destruction, alteration, and disclosure, as well as against any other unlawful processing in accordance with the Data Privacy Laws.
Although we use reasonable and appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Thus, AgriXchange cannot guarantee the security of the information provided during transmission via the Internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond its reasonable control.
Retention of Personal Information
AgriXchange will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary or permitted for the purposes for which they were collected as outlined in this Privacy Policy, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or for legitimate business purposes, or as provided by law.
Your Data Privacy Rights
You are in control of any personal information that you submit and provide to us through the AgriXchange Website. You have the following rights in relation to your personal information as provided under Section 16 of the Data Privacy Act of 2012:
• right to access, update, erase or block your personal information;
• right to post your data in a mutually acceptable format;
• right to dispute the inaccuracy or error in the personal information and to correct the same;
• right to withdraw your consent to the continued use, disclosure and/or processing of your personal information;
• right to lodge a complaint before the National Privacy Commission; and
• right to indemnification for damages sustained due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained or
unauthorized use of personal information.
If at any time you would like to exercise your right to access, object, erase, block, rectify, or update the personal information AgriXchange obtained from you as well as your right to data portability, or to withdraw your consent, you may contact through the contact information provided below.
Links to Other Sites
The AgriXchange Website may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). AgriXchange has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy policies of these Linked Sites. Thus, please study their privacy policies before providing them with any personal information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
AgriXchange may, in its sole discretion, update, amend, modify or withdraw any portion of this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice. We may also update this Privacy Policy to apply changes due to new laws, rules and regulations affecting the Data Privacy Laws. Thus, we advise you to review the Privacy Policy when you visit the AgriXchange Website to apprise yourself with any changes. Any changes to this Privacy Policy are effective immediately upon posting.
Data Breaches
AgriXchange commits to comply with the relevant provisions of the Data Privacy Laws in handling any personal data security incident or breach, including notification to the affected data subjects and to the National Privacy Commission.
Concerns and Questions
In case of complaints, concerns, or questions regarding the processing of your personal information, or if you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject, you may address them to:
Email Address: info@agrixchange.com.ph