eBarangayPH.com (“eBPh”, “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information we collect.

We understand that you take your privacy seriously. We do too.

Our Privacy Policy describes how we manage personal information, including the kinds of personal information we collect, the purposes for which we collect personal information, and how we hold, use and disclose personal information. By using our products and services (including our website) or by providing your personal information to us you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time to take into account changes to our standard practices and procedures or where necessary to comply with new laws and regulations.

When we use the term “Personal Information”, “Sensitive Personal Information”, and “Processing” we use the definition that is given by the Data Privacy Act of 2012. We refer to “Personal Information” and “Sensitive Personal Information” collectively as “Personal Data”.

Additionally, once you consent to the use of your personal data, your continued use of our Service means that such consent is continuing, and we shall only cease the processing of your personal data when you withdraw your consent, or when our processing is unjustified under the DPA.

In the event that you have, are, or will separately contract with, enter into an agreement, consent, or otherwise allow any other person or entity to process your personal data or to process your personal data on your behalf, who at the same time provides products and/or services to us; we shall no longer be liable for the securing, safeguarding, and protecting your personal data that these entities may have in their possession and process on your behalf.

Please take the time to read and understand the following carefully. These are important matters, and we wish to inform you of how and why we process your personal information; and help you make an informed decision before consenting to our processing of your sensitive personal information.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

  1. Personal Information
    While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with the following personal information:
    • Full Name
    • Email address;
    • Phone number;
    • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City;
    • IP Address; and
    • Cookies and Usage Data
  1. Usage Data, Meta-data, and Log-in Details
    We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
  2. Tracking & Cookies Data
    We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use:
    • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
    • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
    • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
  3. Non-Personal information
    We may also collect any information that does not identify you individually. This may include anonymous reports, aggregated reports, statistical data, analytical reports, analytical data, anonymized usage statistics and data; and other forms of anonymized data that we may get from your use of our services or accessing our website, mobile application.
  4. Data we may need in the future
    At a future date, it may be beneficial or needed by us to process personal data that is not enumerated above. However, if we need to process data that is not enumerated above, we ensure you that we will provide notice or secure your consent, as may be applicable, before such processing is performed on such personal data.
  5. Use of Data and Basis for Processing of Personal Data
    We use the information we have on you: (i) as described below, (ii) to support our and your obligations under the terms and conditions of use, and (iii) as otherwise provided for and allowed by law. We use your information for the following purposes, without limiting the generality of the forgoing, among others:
    • To provide you the user experience you deserve and maintain the Service. We are committed to giving you the best experience that we can provide. We may use your personal data to: communicate to you any information that would be necessary, beneficial, or in relation to your use of the Service; to notify you of any updates, concerns, changes and the like; for any matter that relates to your use and availing of the Service; to respond to your queries; to prevent and address technical issues; and for any similar purposes that would be necessary for us to serve you better.
    • We may also track your actions when you use our Service. We take note of these so that we can determine what services and products we offer appeal to you the most; and to all our customers in general. This will help us determine and eventually provide content that you prefer and find relevant.
    • To keep you up to date with our latest offerings. We use your personal data such as your name, business name, email address, phone number, usage history, and others, to provide you with relevant news, newsletters, advertisements, special offers, promotions, discounts, privileges, and other marketing and promotional materials, both from us and from products and services being offered by third parties which we think would interest you.
    • There may also be times where we will partner with third parties for certain promotional material, marketing materials, events, and the like. This being the case, we may use your personal data to inform you of these events, and we may use your data, as aggregated and anonymized, to show that our products’ and/or services’ feasibility, relevance, and other related factors to these third parties.
    • To find out what you want and at the same time how we can improve. From time to time we may also contact you and ask if you would want to participate in surveys. We do this so that we get your opinion concerning our Service, and what you think can help us improve. These surveys will be purely optional and will not affect your availing of our Service in any way. Also, the information we get from these surveys would only be for the purposes stated in the survey, unless we indicate otherwise.
    • To make what we send more relevant to you. We may use the personal data that you provide us such to provide you with tailor made offerings concerning our products and/or services, content, information, promotions, discounts, advertisements, special offers, other marketing and promotional materials.
    • To facilitate your interaction with our platform. Some aspects of the Service, which you may choose to enjoy, are interactive in nature.
    • To optimize and fully deliver this part of the Service, we would have to use the personal data that is relevant and necessary to deliver these interactive features.
    • To make our third-party service providers and contractors help us in serving you better. We hope that we are good at what we do, but we have to admit that there are things that are not within the scope of our competencies. We may hire third party service providers to handle certain aspects of our business operations. This would entail that we disclose your personal data to our third-party service providers, contractors, vendors, agents, who we have contracted or may further contract to perform functions, services, and activities for us, or directly to you on our behalf (“Trusted 3rd Parties”).
    • We will only provide these Trusted 3rd Parties with the information that is necessary and in relation to the services, functions, and/or activities which they provide us. Furthermore, we also have a contract with these Trusted 3rd Parties that prohibits them from using your personal data in any manner different from our specific instructions, and with the obligation to abide by the terms of this privacy notice.
    • To our Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and External-Business Partners. We may also pass on your personal data with business entities that are legally part, or that may become part of the same group of companies that BantonLinks.com is part of. These affiliates and/or subsidiaries may use your personal data to help provide, improve, and understand the various aspects our products and/or services. Rest assured, that if we pass on your personal data to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and third-party service providers their use and disclosure of your personal data shall by subject to this Policy.
    • To make sure that you are you. As part of safety and security measures we may require that you present to us competent evidence of identity. We want to make sure that the people who avail of the Service are the people who they say they are.
    • To comply with law and regulations. We may have to process your data in order to comply with law, legal processes, and/or other regulations, to prevent imminent harm to public security, public safety, public order, to fulfill functions of public authority which necessarily includes the processing of personal data for the fulfillment of its mandate.
    • To protect our lawful rights and interest in court proceedings. We may use your personal data when it becomes necessary or beneficial for the protection of our lawful rights and interest in any arbitration, court proceedings, or the establishment, exercise, or defense of any and all legal claims and defenses.
    • To keep us abreast of changes we need to make or enforce. Essential to running a web-based platform is knowledge of the number of views and activities that are performed through the Service. This being the case, we track how you use the site to provide us analytic data or valuable information we need to help us determine what we can do to attract more people to use the Service.
  6. Research, research, research. One way for us to serve you better is to conduct research. This being the case we can collect and use aggregated data and analytics to use and share with our affiliates, service providers, subsidiaries, business partners, and the like. We will share this data since these entities help us research, analyze, evaluate the services and products that we offer. This in turn will help us improve the services and products that we offer.
    Don’t worry, the data that we sent out to these entities is anonymized – this means that we will try as much as possible, using commercially available and reasonable means and efforts, to remove and obscure your personally identifiable information.