CLIENT CHARTER AND PRIVACY POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY
At GREAT EASTERN, we respect
every individual's right to privacy. Our relationship with
you is our most valuable asset and is the very basis of our
name and reputation. Whether you are our policyholder, GREAT
EASTERN agent, registered user or a visitor to the secured
area of our Website, we understand the importance you place
on the privacy and security of information that personally
identifies you or your information. We refer to and treat
this information as "personal information". We extend
the following privacy policy to you.
INFORMATION GREAT EASTERN COLLECTS
AND HOW THE INFORMATION IS USED
When you sign up for a new policy or register for our services,
we ask you for your personal particulars via various modes
of communication (e.g. electronic form transmission, hardcopy
form filling, etc) such as your contact details, amongst other
information. Whenever we collect these personal information
from you, we will reference this policy. We limit the collection
and use of personal information to what is necessary to administer
our business, to offer the best possible range of financial
plans, products and /or to deliver superior service to you.
SECURITY PROCEDURES IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE INFORMATION
We are committed to protect the security of your personal
information. For this purpose and to the best of our ability,
we have put in place the required control systems to ensure
security and confidentiality of our customers', agents' or
business partners' information at all times. These security
standards and procedures shall be maintained notwithstanding
any ending or termination of this business relationship. For
further information on our security measures, please see our
statement on Security Policy and Features below.
We also maintain stringent procedures authorizing
only such employees as are strictly relevant or required to
access your information on a need-to-know basis. Our employees
have been educated and have personally undertaken to observe/act
in accordance to your right to privacy and confidentiality.
Any breach by the employee of our corporate policies would
be viewed seriously and subject the employee to such disciplinary
action as we may consider appropriate.
SECURITY POLICY AND FEATURES
We have put in place security measures to prevent unauthorized
access which could result in the alteration, destruction,
theft of data or compromise the confidentiality of our customers',
or agents' or business partners' data. Our site utilizes commercially
proven security hardware and software products in our system,
network and application infrastructure. These security products
include routers, firewalls, secure operating system, authentication
processes, encryption technology, etc. Please note that you
play a part in system security as well. Although we exercise
every reasonable effort to provide a variety of safe, secure
and reliable system, we do not have control over the computer,
computer software, systems and other incidentals used by you
to access the system and further transmission over the Internet
cannot be guaranteed, warranted or represented to be absolutely
secure. If you have registered for on-line facility, you should
not share the facility with another person or reveal both
your "system user-id" and "password".
The "password" is supposed to be a secret code and
it must be changed immediately, if you feel that it has been
compromised. Under good practice, "password" must
be changed regularly and its secret code cannot be easily
guessed.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
We will not disclose your personal information to others unless
we have given you prior notice of disclosure or have been
previously authorised by you. We do reserve the right to disclose
or report personal information in limited circumstances where
we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under
any law, regulation, guidelines or directives (whether or
not having the force of law), to cooperate with regulators,
law enforcement authorities or any authority having jurisdiction
over us, or to enforce and protect our rights or property.
To ensure that you benefit from the full
range of financial plans, products and/or services as well
as other opportunities, we may from time to time share your
personal information with our agents, affiliated or member
companies within our Group and/or other business partners.
In such circumstances, we protect that personal information
with a confidentiality agreement and these entities must conform
to our privacy standards so that confidentiality of the information
is always protected.
ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
We will attempt to keep our customers, agents or business
partners' information complete, accurate and up-to-date. If
you have any reason to believe that your records with us are
inaccurate, incomplete or not updated, please write to us
or you may contact us, upon which we will promptly rectify
or update, as the case may be.
RELIABLE AND QUALITY SERVICES
We are committed at all times towards providing reliable and
quality services to our customers, agents and business partners.
We will ensure that all personnel and staff involved in providing
these services have the necessary expertise and skills. We
will endeavor to offer services that are tailored to your
needs. We will achieve this by fully understanding your goals
and objectives while ensuring service standards that are consistent
and efficient.
TRANSPARENCY OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
We will use our reasonable endeavors to ensure that our descriptions
and details of any services offered online by us are clear
and true. We will be happy to receive any feedback from you
on your opinions and comments. Portrayal of our products and
services online is designed to be clear and easily understood,
however, in the event you are in any way unsure, unclear or
require more details on the service concerned, you may contact
us at the address and telephone numbers indicated below.
CUSTOMER FEEDBACK/COMPLAINT
You may address all concerns or complaints relating to handling
of your personal information by contacting us at tel : 03-4259
8333
or please write to :
Complaints Unit
Level 8, Great Eastern Life Assurance Malaysia Bhd
Menara Great Eastern
303, Jalan Ampang
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Fax : 03-42598397
Email : Feedback@lifeisgreat.com.my
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