Privacy Notice

The types of information which we collect includes but is not limited to data and information pertaining to yourself such as your name, address, e-mail address (or other contact information), age, gender, race, National Registration Identification Card (NRIC) number, financial information such as your bank balance, bank transactions, assets, liabilities and income as well as credit facilities and records with other financial service providers. The information serves to establish your identity, background, financial standing and credit worthiness as well as suitability of the products and services offered by AEON Credit and our business partners, if applicable.

We may obtain this information from yourself and from a variety of sources, including but not limited to:

• through your relationship with us, for example information provided by you in application forms, when using our products or services, when taking part in customer surveys, competitions and promotions, and during financial reviews;
• through your verbal, written and e-mail communications with us and/or our authorised agents;
• from an analysis of the way you use and manage your account(s)/facility(ies) with us, from the transactions you make and from the payments which are made to your account(s)/facility(ies);
• from third parties such as employers, credit reference information providers, government/statutory agencies, and/or
• from such other sources in respect of which you have given your consent to disclose information relating to you and/or where not otherwise restricted.

AEON Credit collects, uses, and/or processes your personal data for the following purposes:

• to process application for products offered by AEON Credit and/or its business partners and/or services which you had subscribed for;
• to notify you about important changes/developments to the product/service features;
• to assess/verify your credit worthiness;
• to communicate with you including responding to your enquiries and/or complaints and resolving disputes;
• for the purposes of strategic alliances, cross selling, marketing, and promotions; by other units/department/entities within AEON Credit, AEON Group, our agents and third parties;
• to comply with regulatory requirements and provide assistance to law enforcement agencies;
• to research and develop products and/or services;
• to administer and/or manage products and services to you including collecting debts and enforcement of our rights and obligations;
• to improve and develop our services and quality assurance to you;
• to prevent, detect or prosecute cases of fraud/crime and comply with legal and regulatory obligations;
• to maintain your credit history for present and future reference (if deemed necessary), and
• to protect AEON Credit’s interests and other related purposes.

While AEON Credit treats your Personal Information as private and confidential, the Personal Information may be disclosed, disseminated and/or transferred to the following :-

• Entities and business units within AEON Group in and outside Malaysia, for the purposes of providing customers with latest marketing and promotional offers which may be of interest to customers;
• Licensees, business partners and third party service providers;
• Professional advisors including consultants, lawyers, accountants, auditors, bankers, rating agencies, trustees, insurers, auctioneers and brokers on a need to know basis for the purposes of providing their services/advices to us;
• Credit bureaus, CTOS, debt-collection agencies and/or other parties who assist with debt recovery functions;
• Agent or contractors acting on our behalf or appointed by us to act on our behalf;
• Regulatory, government bodies or other authorities if required or authorised to do so to discharge any regulatory function under any law or in relation to any order or judgment of a court;
• Any relevant institution/party to facilitate your request/dealings in respect of the credit facilities, accounts, products and/or services obtained from AEON Credit;
• Any parties authorised by you;
• Any person or corporation to whom AEON Credit may transfer or propose to transfer any part of its interests, obligations, business and/or operations.
  subject at all times to any laws (including regulations, guidelines and/or obligations) applicable to AEON Credit and further subject to your rights as stated in this notice.

You may inform us at any time if you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, from individual entities within the AEON Group and/or from our merchants and business partners by notifying us through the channels stated below in Clause 10 of this notice.

The security of your information is our priority. AEON Credit keeps, protects and processes your Personal Information in a secure manner by maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, in compliance with applicable regulations.

We ensure that access of AEON Credit employees to the Personal information which you have provided to us is limited to authorised employees who are trained in handling your information. These authorised personnel are required to ensure the confidentiality of your information and to respect your privacy at all times.

AEON Credit will retain your personal information in compliance with this Privacy Notice and/or the terms and conditions of your agreement(s) with AEON Credit for the duration of your relationship with us, for such period as may be necessary to protect the interests of AEON Credit and/or its customers as may be deemed necessary, where otherwise required by the law and where required based on AEON Credit’s relevant policies.

Keeping your data and information accurate and updated is very important to us. You are responsible to ensure that the Personal Information which you provide to us is accurate, complete and not misleading and that such Personal Information is kept up to date.

You have the right to request for access to your Personal Information and to request for amendment/correction of your Personal Information by contacting us through the channels stated below in Clause 10 of this notice, if you have reason(s) to believe that your records with us are inaccurate, incomplete or not updated.

We will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request to access or correct your personal information subject to due verification and further communication with you. Please note that AEON Credit may have to withhold access to your personal information 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 of the reasons for not being able to accede to your request.

Please also note that AEON Credit may use its discretion in allowing the corrections requested and/or may require further documentary evidence of the new information to avoid fraud and inaccuracy.

Should you wish to request for access to your Personal Information, request for amendment/correction of such Personal Information or provide any feedback to AEON Credit on this Privacy Notice, you may e-mail us at dpo@aeoncredit.com.my

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