Privacy Policy

Alliance Française Bangkok recognizes the importance of the protection of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use or disclosure of personal data including other rights of the Data Subjects in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Laws.

We will collect your personal data that receive directly from you as following:

• telephone
• email address

We may collect your personal data that we can access from the other sources not directly from you such as search engines, social media, government authorities, third parties, etc.

• Personal data such as name, surname, age, date of birth, nationality, identification card, passport, etc. 
• Contact information such as address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.
• Account details such as username, password, transactions history, etc.
• Proof of identity such as copy of identification card, copy of passport, etc.
• Transaction and Financial information such as purchase history, bank account, etc.
• Technical data such as IP address, Cookie ID, Activity Log, etc.
• Other such as photo, video, voice, and other information that is considered personal data under the Personal Data Protection Laws.

If you are under the age of 20 or having legal restrictions, we may collect, use or disclose your personal data. We require your parents or guardian to be aware and provide consent to us or allowed by applicable laws. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

We store your personal data as hard copy and soft copy.

We store your personal data by using the following systems:

• Our server in Thailand
• Third-party server service providers outside of Thailand

We use the collected data for various purposes:

• To create and manage accounts
• To provide products or services
• To improve products, services, or user experiences
• To share and manage information within organization
• To conduct marketing activities and promotions
• To provide after-sales services
• To gather user’s feedback
• To process payments of products or services
• To comply with our Terms and Conditions
• To comply with laws, rules, and regulatory authorities

We may disclose your personal data to the following parties in certain circumstances:

• Organization: We may disclose your personal data within our organization to provide and develop our products or services. We may combine information internally across the different products or services covered by this Privacy Policy to help us be more relevant and useful to you and others.
• Service Providers: We disclose Personal Data to our third party service providers to enable them to perform their services which are under our instruction. Those services are such as IT services, event organizers, employment agencies, professional advisors, consultants, or external auditors. As a part of our agreement with them, they are required to strictly adhere to applicable laws and/or regulations and to take reasonable and efficient measures to ensure Data Subject that your Personal Data is secure.
• Financial Institutions: We disclose Personal Data to them in connection with business routines e.g. invoicing and payments.
• Compulsory disclosure: We disclose Personal Data as requested from regulators, governmental bodies/organizations, or other related law enforcement authorities where our services are subject to be regulated. We also disclose Personal Data to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or rights, property, or safety of other individuals, or we have to defend against any legal claims.

We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary during the period you are a customer or under relationship with us, or for as long as necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless law requires or permits a longer retention period. We will erase, destroy or anonymize your personal data when it is no longer necessary or when the period lapses.

Subject to the Personal Data Protection Laws thereof, you may exercise any of these rights in the following:

Withdrawal of consent: If you have given consent to us to collect, use or disclose your personal data whether before or after the effective date of the Personal Data Protection Laws, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time throughout the period your personal data available to us, unless it is restricted by laws or you are still under beneficial contract.

Data access: You have the right to access your personal data that is under our responsibility; to request us to make a copy of such data for you; and to request us to reveal as to how we obtain your personal data.

Data portability: You have the right to obtain your personal data if we organize such personal data in automatic machine-readable or usable format and can be processed or disclosed by automatic means; to request us to send or transfer the personal data in such format directly to other data controllers if doable by automatic means; and to request to obtain the personal data in such format sent or transferred by us directly to other data controller unless not technically feasible.

Objection: You have the right to object to collection, use or disclosure of your personal data at any time if such doing is conducted for legitimate interests of us, corporation or individual which is within your reasonable expectation; or for carrying out public tasks.

Data erasure or destruction: You have the right to request us to erase, destroy or anonymize your personal data if you believe that the collection, use or disclosure of your personal data is against relevant laws; or retention of the data by us is no longer necessary in connection with related purposes under this Privacy Policy; or when you request to withdraw your consent or to object to the processing as earlier described.

Suspension: You have the right to request us to suspend processing your personal data during the period where we examine your rectification or objection request; or when it is no longer necessary and we must erase or destroy your personal data pursuant to relevant laws but you instead request us to suspend the processing.

Rectification: You have the right to rectify your personal data to be updated, complete and not misleading.

Complaint lodging: You have the right to complain to competent authorities pursuant to relevant laws if you believe that the collection, use or disclosure of your personal data is violating or not in compliance with relevant laws.

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA) you have the rights as mentioned above and also you have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable Personal Data Protection laws.

You can exercise these rights as the Data Subject by contacting our Data Protection Officer as mentioned below. We will notify the result of your request within 30 days upon receipt of such request. If we deny the request, we will inform you of the reason via SMS, email address, telephone or registered mail (if applicable).

To enable you to receive benefits from using our products or services, we use your personal data to analyze, personalize and enhance our products or services, and marketing efforts through Google, Facebook, pixel tracking code and others. We use such information to provide you with customized and personalized recommendations for products or services we think will be of interest to you.

We do not use automated decision-making without human intervention, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning you or otherwise significantly affects you.

We may send certain information or newsletter for the purpose of utilizing your preference via your email. If you no longer want to receive the communications from us, you can click the “unsubscribe” link in the email or contact us through our email.

To enrich and perfect your experience, we use cookies or similar technologies to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer. We use cookies to identify and track visitors, their usage of our website and their website access preferences. If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer you should select “Declin” on the banner at the beginning of your navigation on our website.  

We endeavor to protect your personal data by establishing security measures in accordance with the principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability to prevent loss, unauthorized or unlawful access, destruction, use, alteration, or disclosure including administrative safeguard, technical safeguard, physical safeguard and access controls.

We will notify the Office of the Personal Data Protection Committee without delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours after having become aware of it, unless such personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of you. If the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of you, we will also notify the personal data breach and the remedial measures to you without delay through our website, SMS, email address, telephone or registered mail (if applicable).

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes of this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to frequently check on our website. A written hard copy will also be available upon request to the address below. This Privacy Policy was last updated and effective on 30 June 2022.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to offer products or services and use of our website. Any websites from other domains found on our site are subject to their privacy policy which is not related to us.

If you want to contact us with specific queries or concerns in relation to this Privacy Policy, or if you have any questions or complaints as to how your Personal Data is collected, used, disclosed and/or processed by us, you can contact us by using the following details:

Data Controller

Alliance Française Bangkok

179 Thanon Witthayu, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330

+66 (0)2 670 4210

communication@afthailande.org 

www.afthailande.org

Data Protection Officer

Alliance Française Bangkok

179 Thanon Witthayu, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330

+66 (0)2 670 4210

communication@afthailande.org 

www.afthailande.org