OUR Privacy policy

Privacy Statement

The Arabs' Association Singapore (ALWEHDAH) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information, by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. 

This Privacy Statement provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you. 

This policy is effective from 1 June 2016, subject to any updates from time to time.

1. Contact Information

Below are the types of information we may collect:

(a) Details of your visits to our website and resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data weblogs and other communication data.

(b) Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website or related pages, such as when you register as an ALWEHDAH member, sign up to be on our mailing list, register for an event, provide any feedback, or make a donation to any of our causes.

(c) Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any other reason.

2. Use of Cookies

On occasion, we may gather information about your computer to enhance our services and to provide statistical information regarding the use of our website for our internal records. Such information will not identify you personally; it is statistical data about our visitors and their use of our site. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever.

Similar to the above, we may gather information about your general internet use by using a cookie file. A cookie is a small file, which asks for permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. For example, this will speed up any transactions through our website and save you the trouble of repeating previous submissions. We will retain your personal data only as necessary for the effective delivery of services to you.

3. Use of Your Information

The information we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide and enhance our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

(a) To provide you with the information requested from us, relating to our services.

(b) To meet our contractual commitments to you

(c) To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service changes that may affect our present services.

ALWEHDAH may share your necessary data with other Government agencies so as to serve you in a most efficient and effective way, unless such sharing is prohibited by law.

4. Storing Your Personal Data

To safeguard your personal data, all electronic storage and transmission of personal data is secured with appropriate security technologies. Details relating to any financial transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.

5. Third-Party Links

This site may contain links to other sites whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from ours. We do not accept responsibility or liability for the content and privacy practices of these other websites and encourage you to consult the privacy notices of those sites.

Kindly let us know if you require more information on access to the data which you have earlier provided to us.

We welcome any enquries or feedback on our Privacy Statement, the practices of this website or our services.

Please contact:
The Arabs' Association Singapore (ALWEHDAH)
11 Lorong 37 Geylang Road
Singapore 387908
Tel: 6747 5590
info@alwehdah.org