Privacy Statement
Here at Case Recit (CaRe), we value the fundamental human right of privacy of communication. Thus, we give our best that your personal information are secured and protected pursuant to the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173).
Case Recit Website Privacy Notice
This privacy notice is for CaRe’s official website caserecit.com. The functionalities in this website enable CaRe to collect and process your personal information for legitimate purposes.
Personal Data Collected and Manner of Collection
We may collect the following personal data from you when you manually or electronically submit to us your inquiries, requests, or messages in any of the platform we directly manage and control:
- Name
- Email Address
- Social Media Profile
Basis, Use, and Purpose for Processing of Personal Data
While your consent may be solicited to process your personal data, we may also process personal data without your consent, such as when processing is according to Section 12 or Section 13 of RA 10173.
With these, your personal data is utilized for the following purposes:
- For documentation and processing of inquiries and requests within CaRe, enable CaRe to properly address them and forward them to the appropriate internal units for action and response.
- To solicit feedback for the services we provide.
- To provide you with the appropriate updates and advisories in an appropriate format and orderly and timely manner.
- To comply with a legal obligation to which CaRe is subject..
- To be able to provide the appropriate action that you may require concerning your data privacy rights.
We may also collect other personal data that are relevant and necessary to perform our obligations under RA 10173.
Methods utilized for automated access
CaRe uses Google Analytics, a third-party service, to analyze our web traffic data, help us determine our website’s engagement, and improve our website services and features. This service uses cookies.
CaRe may share the data generated in Google Analytics to third party entities for the purpose of revealing the number of visitors to this website, determining how long such visitors remain, and improving our services and features.
While we strive to keep the data generated under Google Analytics private and secure, Google Analytics may independently share the data generated with any other party where CaRe is not aware of nor a party to. You may check Google’s privacy policy here.
We also use Google AdSense, a third-party service, to serve ads for this website’s monetization.
Google AdSense and other third party vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visit to this website.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings in your Google Account. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
The following web traffic data are processed for this purpose:
- Your IP address
- The pages and internal links accessed on our site
- The date and time you visited the site
- Geolocation
- The referring site or platform (if any) through which you accessed this site
- Your operating system
- Web browser type
Disclosure of Personal Data
Personal data directly processed and controlled by CaRe are not shared with any other party unless such disclosure is allowed under Section 12 or 13 of RA 10173.
Risks Involved
Risk refers to the potential of an incident to result in harm or danger to a data subject or organization. Risks may lead to the unauthorized collection, use, disclosure, or access to personal data. It includes risks involving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal data or the risk that processing will violate the general data privacy principles and the rights of data subjects.
While we strive hard that adequate physical, technical, and organizational security measures are in place to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information, we do not, however, guarantee absolute protection against certain risks involving the processing of personal data, such as when systems are exposed to targeted cyberattacks, malware, ransomware, and computer viruses or when manual records are accessed without authority.
Data Protection and Security Measures
We safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information by maintaining a combination of organizational, physical, and technical security measures based on generally accepted data privacy and information security standards. Among the measures we implement are the following:
- Policies on access control in both digital and physical infrastructures to prevent unauthorized access to personal information.
- Acceptable use policies
- End-to-end encryption and data classification whenever suitable.
- Security measures against natural disasters, power disturbances, external access, and similar threats.
- Technical measures to protect our computers and databases against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized usage, interference, or access.
Storage and Retention
We store files containing personal information in our computers and servers, which are kept in a secure environment. We may also store your personal information with cloud-based third-party data storage providers. We shall ensure that proper measures are adopted to protect your information.
Personal data shall be stored in a database for two (2) years after inquiries and requests are
acted upon. After which, records shall be disposed of securely.
Other categories of data may be kept longer than two (2) years when its retention period is determined by other relevant laws and regulations.
Disposal
Physical records directly proceeded and controlled by CaRe shall be disposed of through burning, while digital files shall be anonymized and encrypted whenever possible. In all instances, our manner of disposal shall ensure that the personal information shall no longer be retrieved, processed, or accessed by unauthorized persons.
Your Rights
Under the RA 10173, you have the right to be informed regarding processing the personal information we hold about you.
You may also be entitled to request:
- Access to personal data we process about you. It is your right to obtain confirmation on whether or not data relating to you are being processed;
- Rectification of your personal data. This is your right to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Erasure or order blocking of your personal data whenever warranted insofar as directly processed and controlled by CaRe;
- The right to object if the personal data processing involved is based on consent or on legitimate interest;
- The right to data portability through which you may obtain and electronically move, copy, or transfer your data securely for further use.
- You may claim compensation if you believe you suffered damages due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized use of personal data or for violating your rights and freedoms as a data subject, pursuant to an order by a judicial or quasi-judicial agency.
If you think that your personal information which we directly process and control has been misused, maliciously disclosed, or improperly disposed of or that your data privacy rights have been violated, you have a right to file a complaint with us and we shall correct the same.
Changes to the Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to update or revise this privacy notice at any time and will provide a new privacy notice whenever there are substantial changes.
Feedback on our Privacy Notice
Suppose you have suggestions or comments regarding our privacy statement and notice or for any issues concerning our data privacy practices, you may reach us through our Data Protection Officer, Martin Suan at admin@caserecit.com.
Date last updated: October 20, 2023.
