Borough Lasik Center Privacy Notice

1. Privacy Statement

Borough Lasik Center, including its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, third-party service providers, and related companies (collectively, "Lasik Group Pilipinas Inc.") collects, processes, and stores personal data about you when you use its products and services, including its websites and mobile applications, participate in their events, apply for a job with them, or enter into any contract with them ("Services"), provided that you have given your express consent.

This privacy policy was created to better assist everyone who uses Borough Lasik Center's services by informing them about how their personal data is collected, utilized, and secured by the clinic.

Please read our privacy policy carefully to understand how Borough Lasik Center collects, uses, protects, and otherwise handles your personal data in accordance with Republic Act No. 10173, also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (collectively, the "Data Privacy Act").

2. Collection of Personal Data

When you attend or participate in any of its events, answer to a survey, register, create, or modify your accounts in any of its websites and/or mobile applications, get in touch with customer support, apply for a job with them, sign a contract with them, or engage in any other communication or interaction with Borough Lasik Center, the clinic gathers the information you voluntarily give them (the “Event”).

3. Use and Processing of Personal Data

In order to enable you to use the Services and/or participate in the Event, as well as future events that Borough Lasik Center may host or provide, the Clinic may use and process the personal information that it has collected about you. This may include processing your application, publishing your name should you win, and providing you with other offers, promotions, discounts, sales, ads, marketing initiatives, and commercial communications, including direct marketing. Your personal information will never be processed or utilized in a way that goes against the law, morality, or public policy.

4. Sharing of Personal Data

In order for Borough Lasik Center to offer you individualized services, they may exchange personal information with other businesses that make up the same. Additionally, contractors, consultants, marketing partners, and other service providers that require access to personal data in order to perform tasks on behalf of Borough Lasik Center may get it from the clinic. A data sharing agreement will cover any data sharing that takes place between the Borough Lasik Center and its suppliers, consultants, partners in marketing, and other service providers, if and when it becomes required. In compliance with applicable laws, Borough Lasik Center may also disclose information in response to orders from any pertinent government body.

5. Storage and Protection of Personal Data

In order to safeguard the personal information it has obtained and will continue to collect, Borough Lasik Center has put rules and procedures in place. These include, among other things, safeguarding any document that contains personal data and demanding that its consultants, suppliers, contractors, employees, and vendors sign non-disclosure agreements.

The websites of Borough Lasik Center are routinely checked for known vulnerabilities and security flaws to ensure that your visit is as safe as possible. Your personal information is kept private behind protected networks and is only accessed by a select group of people who are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of the information and have specific access permissions to these systems. Furthermore, any credit and sensitive data you provide is encrypted. To protect the security of your personal information, Borough Lasik Center employs a number of security procedures whenever a user puts an order, enters, uploads, or accesses your data. No transaction is handled or saved on our systems; instead, it is handled by a gateway provider.

Although there is always a chance that personal information will be disclosed without authorization, Borough Lasik Center is committed to updating and strengthening these measures to protect your information in accordance with the Data Privacy Act. It believes that the measures listed above are adequate to stop this kind of unauthorized disclosure from happening.

6. Use of Cookies

Please be aware that cookies are used when you visit websites run by Borough Lasik Center. If you agree, a website or its service provider may place little files called cookies on your computer's hard disk. These files let the website's or service provider's systems identify your browser and store and retrieve certain data. In order to better serve you, Borough Lasik Center, for example, utilizes cookies to better understand your preferences based on past or present site usage. In order to provide better site experiences and features in the future, Borough Lasik Center also utilizes cookies to assist gather aggregate data about site traffic and site activity.

You have the option to disable all cookies or to have your computer notify you each time one is sent. This may be accomplished using the browser's settings. Because every browser is a little bit different, check out the Help Menu on your particular browser to find out how to properly edit your cookies. Certain functions won't work if you disable cookies. Certain aspects that improve the effectiveness of your website visitation may not work as intended.

7. User Responsibility

We take all reasonable efforts to protect your information, but we are unable to guarantee 100% cyber security. The Borough Lasik Center advises you to make use of the most recent browser versions. Updating your browser is mostly necessary for your personal security and safety. Newer versions of web browsers typically come with enhanced parental controls, anti-phishing protection, and capabilities to stop malware and other privacy risks.

Links to external websites not within Borough Lasik Center's ownership or control may also be found on our website. The third-party website connections are given only for your information and convenience. In order to learn how third-party websites manage and safeguard the information they acquire about you, Borough Lasik Center suggests that you read and carefully examine their privacy policies.

8. Your Rights under the Data Privacy Act

As a data subject, you have the following rights under the Data Privacy Act:

a. You have a right to information about the gathering and use of your personal data, including the reason for the processing. Therefore, before allowing the gathering and processing of your personal data, you must read this privacy policy. Please feel free to ask us any questions or request clarifications, or you may get in touch with our Data Protection Officer;

b. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You will be given an option or opportunity to withhold your consent to the processing of your personal data whenever the Borough Lasik Center communicates with you or by notifying our Data Protection Officer;

c. You may contact our Data Protection Officer to request reasonable access to your personal data;

d. By sending your request for rectification or correction to our Data Protection Officer, you have the right to have any inaccuracy or error in your personal data corrected;

e. In compliance with the provisions of the Data Privacy Act, you have the right to suspend, withdraw, or request the blocking, removal, or destruction of your personal data. To use this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer;

f. If your data is processed electronically, you have the right to have a copy of it in an electronic or structured format that is widely used. To do this, send a request to our Data Protection Officer; and

g. If your personal data is used in an inappropriate manner, is incorrect, incomplete, out-of-date, fraudulent, or was obtained illegally, you have the right to compensation.

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Borough Lasik Center has the right to modify this privacy statement at any time. Borough Lasik Center will notify you via the Services or by another method, such email, if there are any material changes to how personal data is collected, used, and protected. It is advised that you check the Borough Lasik Center website's Privacy Policy from time to time for the most recent details.

10. Contacting Us

If there are any question regarding this privacy policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer with the following contact details:

Title/Designation: Data Protection Officer
Postal Address: G/F Ocean Drive, One E-Com Center, Brgy. 76 Zone 10 Pasay City, Metro Manila, 1300 Philippines
Email Address: privacy@boroughlasikcenter.com

11. Consent

In order to maintain the Services, we shall get your consent either before collecting and processing your personal data or as soon as it is reasonable and practical to do so. You will have a chance to read and approve our Privacy Policy before granting your approval. To use any of the Services, if you are under the age of eighteen (18), Borough Lasik Center needs you to obtain permission from your parents or legal guardians. Borough Lasik Center does not target its marketing explicitly at anyone under the age of eighteen (18).

If you agree to the collection and processing of your personal data in line with the Privacy Policy, your consent will be enforceable for the duration of that purpose or ten (10) years, whichever comes first. It will also be valid for any time that applicable law may require it, as specified by the Data Privacy Act, or until you explicitly withdraw it.