Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy aims to inform how Evantage Solution Sdn Bhd (referred to as “Evantage”, “us” or “we”) collect, store and handle personal information of individuals. It also tells you how you can access and update your personal information.

What does this Privacy Policy apply to?

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected by us including via:

Evantage web portal, when you on-board with us.
Evantage websites, including any consumer-directed websites operated by Evantage and pages that we run on third party social networks.
Evantage mobile sites and applications.
Registration forms which we may collect from consumers, whether online or offline, including by post, during in-person events or campaigns.
Any of Evantage' events or campaigns.
Call centers.

Type of Personal Information Collected

If you choose to use Evantage, you will be asked to provide your personal information such as (but is not limited to) name, identification card number, mailing address, phone number(s), email address(es), contact preferences and language preferences.

Personal contact information – information that would allow us to contact you personally such as your name, home or mailing address, phone number or email address. In some cases, it would include information you give us about someone else (e.g. if you provide a friend’s email address for a tell-a-friend programmed).
Account login information.
Technical computer information (e.g. type of operating system, web browser type).
Device-specific information such as hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information, memory.
Website Usage Information – information about how you use or navigate our websites, applications, online advertisements including which links you click, which pages you view and for how long, and other similar information and /or statistics such as date and time of visit, which site you came from, and site activities).
Information from verification processes undertaken by us.
Consumer generated content – This includes information that you create and voluntarily share with us (and perhaps others) by uploading it to one of our websites or applications, including on our social network sites such as but not limited to Facebook or Twitter.
Social network information – this includes information that is part of your profile on a third-party social network (such as but not limited to Facebook) and that you allow the third-party social network to share with us.
Other information which we might need to collect for a specific campaign, form, feature or other service that you use or request.

Use of Personal Information Collected

The purpose of collecting your personal information may include but not limited to the following:

Access control system.
Identity verification; please note that when we obtain information about individuals from third parties, we use reputable sources, including public repositories. Evantage takes appropriate measures to assure the quality of information which we collect.
Assessing your application.
Notifying you about information newly captured or processed about you.
To investigate, respond to, or defend claims made against, or involving Evantage.
Responding to your enquiries.
Investigation of complaints and suspicious transactions.
Research for service or products improvement.
To notify you about benefits and changes to the features of our Products and/or Services including new products and services.
General operation and maintenance of the products and/or services provided including accounting (billing and auditing), statistical and marketing analysis, information systems management, system testing, maintenance and development, operational, support, customer surveys, customer relations and to improve and help us in any future dealings with you, for example by identifying your requirements and preferences.
To provide you with information about third party services and/or products, which may be of interest to or benefit you, except where otherwise requested or notified by you.
For any other purposes that is required or permitted by any law, regulations, guidelines and/or relevant regulatory authorities.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We are aware that your information is a vital part of our relationship with you. As such we will not sell or rent your Personal Data and except as provided herein. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below.

Whenever required by law, we will disclose your information to the government bodies, authorities or third parties pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process accordingly. Further, we may also use or disclose your information as permitted by law to protect the rights or property of Evantage, our customers, our website, or its users. We may also disclose your information, whether in part or in full, to our contracted or authorized companies such as our data processors.

If you choose to use Evantage, your personal information may be shared where necessary and only on a need to know basis with companies within the Evantage Solution Sdn Bhd and/or authorized third parties, to serve you in the most efficient and effective manner.

Evantage may disclose your personal information to the following parties for the purposes stated above:

companies and/or organizations that act as our agents, contractors, service providers and/or professional advisers.
companies and/or organizations that assists us in processing and/or fulfilling transactions and providing you with Products and/or Services that you have subscribed or requested.
law enforcement agencies.
government agencies.

In certain instances, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information to our partners. We take reasonable steps to ensure that agreements with our partners include appropriate privacy and confidentiality obligations.

Your personal information will not be disclosed to any unauthorized third party.

Retention and Removal of Personal Information

The personal information is kept within our system at most 180 days from the date of the service subscription termination. After which, the personal information will be removed unless we are required to keep it to comply with our legal obligations or for another legitimate and lawful purpose. Alternatively, we may choose to anonymize the personal information to ensure it can no longer be linked to you.

Transfer of your Personal Information outside of Malaysia (where applicable)

For your information, in certain circumstances your personal information may be stored in a server which is located outside Malaysia. In this instance, we would endeavor to bind the service provider in an agreement that ensures a high standard of privacy protection.

Information Security: How We Protect Your Privacy

Evantage is committed to implementing the highest standards of information security to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized employees. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure.

Some of the other central features of our security measures include:

A dedicated group of Information Security specialists that designs, implements, and provides oversight to our information security programmed.
The use of specialized technology such as firewalls.
Testing of the security and operability of products and services before they are introduced to the Internet, as well as on-going scanning for publicly-known vulnerabilities in the technology.
Internal and external reviews of our Internet sites and services.
Monitoring of our systems infrastructure to detect weaknesses and potential intrusions.
Implementing controls to identify, authenticate and authorise access to various systems or sites.
Protecting non-public communications through encryption or other means.

Update of Privacy Policy

We may review and update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, changes in our business practices, procedures and structure, and the community’s changing privacy expectations. The latest version of the Privacy Notice will be made available on our website.