Data Protection at Siam Liberty
At Siam Liberty Insurance Broker Company Limited (“Siam Liberty”, "we", "us"), we routinely collect and use personal data about individuals, including prospective insureds, insured persons, policyholders, claimants or business partners ("you"). We are aware of our responsibilities to handle your personal data with care, to keep it secure and comply with applicable data protection laws.
How this Policy Works
The purpose of this Policy is to provide a clear explanation of when, why and how we collect and use information relating to you, which enables the identification of you, whether directly or indirectly ("personal data").
Important
Do read this Policy with care. It provides important information about how we use personal data and explains your statutory rights. This Policy is not intended to override rights you might have available under applicable data protection laws.
Data Protection Policy
1. Who is responsible for looking after your personal data?
Siam Liberty Insurance Broker Company Limited will be principally responsible for looking after your personal data (your Data Controller).
Where your personal data has been passed to another Data Controller (e.g., insurer), as we do in Section 6 of this Policy.
You should be aware that although we are principally responsible for looking after your personal data. When accessing your personal data, Siam Liberty will comply with the standards set out in this Policy.
2. What personal data do we collect?
We collect and process non-sensitive as well as sensitive personal data.
Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons/Policyholders. In order to facilitate insurance purchases, we collect information about the prospective insureds, insured persons, policyholders and related parties. This may include information about previous quotes obtained, background and contact information on the prospective insured, insured persons, policyholder or their representative and matters relevant to the assessment of insurance purchase and management of insurance policies. The prospective insured or policyholder may be an individual, company or their representative. The level and type of personal data we collect and use varies depending on the type of policy that is applied for or held and may include information on other individuals who need to be considered as part of the policy. In some instances, it is necessary for us to collect and use Sensitive Personal Data, such as information about health or past criminal convictions. We are required to establish a legal exemption to use your Sensitive Personal Data - see Section 5 for further details.
If you are an insured person, from time to time you may need to provide us with the personal data of third parties, for example an injured third party in relation to a claim under a liability policy. Wherever possible, you should take steps to inform the third party that you need to disclose their details to us, identifying Siam Liberty as your broker. We will process their personal data in accordance with this Policy.
Claimants. If you are making a claim under a policy, we will collect your basic contact details together with information about the nature of your claim and any previous claims. If you are an insured person we will need to check details of the policy you are insured under and your claims history. Depending on the nature of your claim, it may be necessary for us to collect and use Sensitive Personal Data, such as details of personal injury you may have suffered during an accident.
Business Partners and Visitors. If you are a business partner, we will collect your business contact details. We may also collect information about your professional expertise and experience.
Shareholders. If you are a shareholder, we will collect your personal data concerning the holding of shares or other securities, this includes a photocopy of your identification card, your passport, or your book bank and other information which may contain sensitive personal data. We may collect your personal data if you attend shareholders’ meeting for keeping record and compliance with law and internal policies.
In the event that you have provided personal data of other persons to Siam Liberty, such as a prospective insured or beneficiary, you acknowledge and confirm that you have provided such persons with the details pertaining to this Policy and have obtained consent where applicable or relied on appropriate legal basis to allow us to process personal data in accordance with this Policy.
For more information on what information we collect, please see Appendix 1.
3. When do we collect your personal data?
Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons
Claimants
Business Partners and Visitors
Shareholders
Applicable to all
4. What do we use your personal data for?
We use your personal data for the purposes set out below. Please refer to Appendix 2 for more detail, including in relation to the legal basis we rely upon in each case.
Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons/Policyholders. If you are a prospective insured or an insured person, we will use your personal data to offer insurance, verify your identity, facilitate filling out an application for an insurance policy, deliver an insurance policy, premium payments. If we have provided you with your policy, we will use your personal data to administer your policy, deal with your queries, and manage the renewal process. We will also need to use your personal data for regulatory purposes associated with our legal and regulatory obligations as a provider of insurance.
Claimants. If you are a claimant, we will use your personal data to help with your claim and settlement. We may also need to use your personal data to evaluate the risk of potential fraud. If you are also an insured person, we will use personal data related to your claim to inform the renewal process and potentially future policy applications.
Business Partners and Visitors. If you are a business partner, we will use your personal data to manage our relationship with you, including sending you marketing materials (where we have appropriate permissions) and to invite you to events. Where relevant, we will use your personal data to deliver or request the delivery of services, and to manage and administer our contract with you or with your employer. If you are a visitor, we will use your personal data; typically, to register for certain areas of our website, enquire for further information, distribute requested reference materials, or invite you to one of our events.
Shareholders. We use your personal data to manage your shareholder rights including providing you with share registry services and managing affairs as appropriate in accordance with our Articles of Association and applicable laws. This includes but is not limited to dividend distributions, shareholder resolutions, communication regarding reports, meetings, news, offers, and responses to your inquiries.
Data analytics. We routinely analyse information in our various systems and databases to help improve the way we run our business, to provide a better service. We take steps to protect privacy by aggregating and where appropriate anonymising data fields before allowing information to be available for analysis.
5. Protecting your privacy
We will make sure that we only use your personal data for the purposes set out in Section 4 and in Appendix 2 where we are satisfied that:
Before collecting and/or using any Sensitive Personal Data we will establish a lawful exemption which will allow us to use that information. If your Sensitive Personal Data is collected on a form (including on a website) or over the telephone, further information about the exemption may be provided on that form. This exemption will typically be:
PLEASE NOTE. If you provide your explicit consent to permit us to process your Sensitive Personal Data, you may withdraw your consent to such processing at any time. However, you should be aware that if you choose to do so we may be unable to continue to provide services to you. If you choose to withdraw your consent we will tell you more about the possible consequences, including the effects of cancellation, (which may include that you have difficulties finding cover elsewhere), as well as any fees associated with cancellation. Please see Appendix 2 to find out more about the information we collect and use about you and why we believe it is appropriate to use that information for such activities.
6. Who do we share your personal data with?
We work with many third parties, to help manage our business and deliver services. These third parties may from time to time need to have access to your personal data.
For Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons/Policyholders these third parties may include:
For Claimants this may include:
We may be under legal or regulatory obligations to share your personal data with courts, regulators, law enforcement or in certain cases insurers. If we were to amalgamate our businesses, we would need to transfer your personal data to such businesses or other third parties in connection with the sale, reorganization, transfer, amalgamate or disposal of our businesses. We may also share your personal data with any other persons acting for or on behalf of or jointly with Siam Liberty in respect of a directly related purpose for which your personal data was required.
Descriptions of certain categories of third parties and defined terms are set out below.
Insurers/ Reinsurers: insurance companies which underwrite and administer insurance policies. Some policies are insured on a joint or "syndicate" basis. This means that a group of insurers will join together to write a policy. Policies may also be reinsured, which means that the insurer will purchase its own insurance, from a reinsurer, to cover some of the risk the insurer has underwritten in your policy.
Assistance Providers: these are a special category of service providers which Insurers use to help provide you with emergency or other assistance in connection with certain policies (e.g. certain travel policies).
Claims Experts: these are experts in a particular field which is relevant to a claim, for example medicine, forensic accountancy, mediation or rehabilitation, who are engaged by Insurers to help us properly assess the merit and value of a claim, provide advice on its settlement, and advise on the proper treatment of claimants.
Data Controller: means a natural or juristic person (such as a company) which has the power and duty to make decisions regarding the collection, use or disclosure of personal data. For example, Insurers which sells you an insurance policy will be your Data Controller as it determines how it will collect personal data from you, the scope of data which will be collected, and the purposes for which it will be used.
OIC: the OIC is the Office of Insurance Commission, which is an insurance regulatory body. Siam Liberty may disclose personal data to the OIC to support its supervision over, and promotion of, insurance businesses, in accordance with the insurance commission law, the non-life insurance law and the OIC’s privacy policy which can be viewed on the OIC website (https://www.oic.or.th).
Personal Data Protection Committee: The Personal Data Protection Committee regulates the processing of personal data by all organisations within Thailand.
Prospective Insured and Insured Person/Policyholders: we use this term to refer to prospective, active or former individual policyholders, as well as any individual who purchases and benefits from insurance coverage under one of policies (for example, where an employee benefits from coverage taken out by their employer).
Loss Adjuster: these are an independent claims specialist which investigates complex or contentious claims.
Sensitive Personal Data: means any personal data relating to your health, disability, genetic or biometric data, criminal records, sexual behaviour, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership. At Siam Liberty, (other than in the context of our employees, which is outside the scope of this Policy) we routinely only process Sensitive Personal Data relating to health or criminal records.
Service Providers: these are a range of third parties to whom we outsource certain functions of our business. For example, we have service providers who help us manage our IT and back office systems. Some of these providers use 'cloud based' IT applications or systems, which means that your personal data will be hosted on their servers, but under our control and direction. We require all our service providers to respect the confidentiality and security of personal data. We also use other services from service providers, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, document and records management, order fulfilment, credit reference, debt collection, delivery services, and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities.
Lawyers: we frequently use lawyers to advise on complex or contentious claims or to provide us with non-claims related legal advice.
Third Party Administrators (or TPAs): these are companies which administer the underwriting of policies for insurers, the handling of claims, or both. The insurers require all TPAs to ensure that your personal data is handled lawfully and in accordance with this Policy and our instructions.
7. Direct Marketing
We may use your personal data to send you direct marketing communications about our insurance products or our related services for the purposes of conducting direct marketing activities, marketing communication, news updates, making special offers, giving promotional information, and offering privileges (these may include other products and services offered by affiliated companies or business partners), in a way within customers' expectation. This may be in the form of email, post, SMS, telephone or targeted online advertisements.
In most cases our processing of your personal data for marketing purposes is based on our legitimate interests to provide information you might find helpful to manage your insured risks, insurance renewals and other products, services and offers that may be of interest to you, although in some cases (such as when that is beyond your expectation or where required by law) it may be based on your consent. You have a right to prevent direct marketing of any form at any time - this can be exercised by following the opt-out links in electronic communications or by contacting us using the details set out in Section 14.
We take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level and to send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on the information we have about you.
8. International Transfers
From time to time we may need to share your personal data who may be based outside Thailand. We may also allow our Service Providers or Assistance Providers, who may be located outside Thailand, access to your personal data. We may also make other disclosures of your personal data overseas, for example, if we receive a legal or regulatory request from a foreign law enforcement body.
We will always take steps to ensure that any international transfer of information is carefully managed to protect your rights and interests:
9. How long do we keep your personal data?
We will retain your personal data for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes listed in Section 4 of this Policy. In some circumstances, we may retain your personal data for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required or permitted to do so in accordance with legal, regulator, tax or accounting requirements.
For example, if you are the holder of an insurance policy, your personal data will typically be retained for 10 years after the cancellation or termination of the policy, unless an exception applies.
In specific circumstances, we may also retain your personal data for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your personal data or dealings.
Where your personal data is no longer required we will ensure it is either securely deleted or stored in a way which means it will no longer be used by the business.
10. Importance Notice
If you: (i) do not or decline to provide certain personal data we inform you as necessary to provide for compliance with a law or contract, or where is it necessary to provide the personal data for the purpose of entering into contract; or (ii) do not or decline to consent us to collect, use or disclose certain personal data; or (iii) exercise your rights to withdraw your consent for our collection, use, disclose, transfer or process certain personal data which is necessary for us to make a relationship with you or provide our services and/or products to you, we may not be able to provide you with our products or services you request, enter into a contract with you or perform our obligations resulting from a contract entered with you nor may not be able to stay in contact with you.
In such circumstance, you will be informed about the consequences of your refusal to provide us personal data or grant us consent, or your withdrawal of consent, as the case may be.
11. Security
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative including security measures to protect personal data from unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure, loss or use within our organization, which are consistent with the PDPA and other applicable data protection laws. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with Section 14 below.
12. What are your rights
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data.
You may request access to your data, correction of any mistakes in your data, erasure of records where no longer required, restriction on the processing of your data, objection to the processing of your data, withdrawal of consent, data portability and various information in relation to the basis for international transfers. You may also exercise a right to complain to the Personal Data Protection Committee. More information about each of these rights can be found by referring to the table set out further below.
To exercise your rights, you may contact us as set out in Section 14. Please note the following if you do wish to exercise these rights:
Right |
What this means |
Access |
You can ask us to:
We may not have to comply with a request where it is permitted by law or pursuant to a court order, and such access would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other persons. |
Rectification |
You can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data. We may seek to verify the accuracy of the data before rectifying it. |
Erasure |
You can ask us to erase your personal data, but only where:
We are not required to comply with your request to erase your personal data if the processing of your personal data is necessary:
There are certain other circumstances in which we are not required to comply with your erasure request, although these two are the most likely circumstances in which we would deny that request. |
Restriction |
You can ask us to restrict (i.e. keep but not use) your personal data, but only where:
We can continue to use your personal data following a request for restriction, where:
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Portability |
You can ask us to provide your personal data to you in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, or you can ask to have it 'ported' directly to another Data Controller, but in each case only where:
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Objection |
You can object to any processing of your personal data which has our 'legitimate interests' as its legal basis, if you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our legitimate interests. You can object to any processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing including sending marketing communications. |
Withdrawal of consent |
Where the processing of your personal data is based on consent (see Appendix 2), you can withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. The withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before your withdrawal. If you choose to withdraw your consent, that may affect our ability to provide you with services and have other consequences, about which we will tell you more if you so choose. |
Personal Data Protection Committee |
You have a right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Committee about our processing of your personal data. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first although you have a right to contact the Personal Data Protection Committee at any time. |
Identity |
We take the confidentiality of all records containing personal data seriously and reserve the right to ask you for proof of your identity if you make a request in respect of such records. |
Timescales |
We aim to respond to any valid requests within one month unless it is particularly complicated or you have made several requests in which case we aim to respond within three months. We will let you know if we are going to take longer than one month. We might ask you if you can tell us what exactly you want to receive or are concerned about. This will help us to action your request more quickly. |
13. Changes to the Policy
We may modify or update this Policy at any time in order to address future developments of Siam Liberty, or changes in industry or legal trends.
We will post the change on the home page of the website or app. You can determine when the Policy was revised by referring to the “Updated” legend on the below of this Policy. Where changes to the Policy will have a fundamental impact on the nature of our collection, use or disclosure of your personal data, or otherwise have a substantial impact on you, we will give you sufficient advance notice so that you have the opportunity to exercise your rights your rights in accordance with Section 14 of this Policy in relation to your personal data.
14. Contact and complaints
The primary point of contact for all issues arising from this Policy, including requests to exercise data subject rights, is our Data Protection Officer.
The Data Protection Officer can be contacted in the following ways:
Email:
dpo.th@chubb.com
Write to:
Data Protection Officer,
Siam Liberty Insurance Broker Company Limited, 2/4 Chubb Tower, 8th Fl., Northpark Project, Vibhavadi-Rangsit Rd, Thung Song Hong, Laksi, Bangkok 10210
Webform
If you have a complaint or concern about how we use your personal data, please contact us in the first instance and we will attempt to resolve the issue as soon as possible. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Committee at any time.
Updated January 2024
Appendix 1 – Categories of Personal Data
Information type
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Details of information that we typically capture |
Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons/Policyholders |
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Contact Details |
Name, address, telephone number, email address, social media account |
Identification Information |
Identity card number, passport number, work permit number, driving license number, photos |
Policy Information |
Policy number, relationship to the policyholder, details of policy including insured amount, exceptions etc., previous claims, telematics data |
Personal Risk Information |
Gender, date of birth, claims history. Sensitive Data that we collect in connection with your relationship with us and that you have chosen or required to provide to us Health data – e.g. physical and mental conditions, disability status, medical history and procedures (including consultation history, prescriptions, treatments, medical billings), relevant personal habits Background check information where it is deemed sensitive data, judicial data such as civil, criminal record or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings, police reports, court orders and other information required under the laws, including bankruptcy laws, anti-money laundering laws, prevention and suppression of financial terrorism support laws, tax laws Race, religion, ethnicity |
Financial Information |
Bank account details (where you are the payer of the policy premium), credit card data used for billing, salary, income, tax information, credit/debit card details, loan details, investment information and other payment details |
Marketing |
Name, email address, interests/marketing list assignments, past purchases, record of permissions or marketing objections, website data (including online account details, IP address and browser generated information) |
Claimant |
|
Contact Details |
Name, address, telephone number, email address, social media account |
Identification Information |
Identity card number, passport number, work permit number, driving license number, photos |
Policy Information |
Policy number, relationship to the policyholder, details of policy including insured amount, exceptions etc., previous claims, telematics data |
Claim Details |
Details of incident giving rise to claim, vehicle registration number, handset details and IMEI number, health data, criminal record data |
Financial |
Bank account details used for payment |
Anti-fraud Data |
Address, history of fraudulent claims, details of incident giving rise to claim, criminal record data |
Business Partners and Visitors |
|
Contact Details |
Name, work address, work email, work telephone numbers, job title |
Marketing |
Name, job title, email address, interests / marketing list assignments, record of permissions or marketing objections, website data (including online account details, IP address and browser generated information) |
Office Visitor |
Name, job title, email address, telephone number, CCTV images, dietary preferences (for events), disability data (voluntarily provided) |
Website Visitor |
behaviour on website, Cookies, computer traffic data |
Appendix 2 – Legal Basis for Processing
Activity
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Type of information collected
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The basis on which we use the information |
Who we may disclose the information to |
Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons | |||
Help you enter into an insurance contract such as providing suggestions, facilitating in filling out and delivering insurance policy including providing relevant services |
• Contact Details • Identification Information • Policy Information • Personal Risk Information |
• Performance of a contract
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• Insurer • Business Partners • Service Providers • Healthcare providers and travel and medical assistance providers • Credit reference agencies • Anti-fraud databases • Third party administrators • Other insurers/ reinsurers • Assistance Providers • Lawyers and other professional services firms and partners • Regulators (eg OIC) • Law enforcement bodies • Courts • Other insurers (under court order) |
Set up and manage a record on our systems.
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• Contact Details • Identification Information • Policy Information • Personal Risk Information |
• Performance of a contract • Legitimate interests (to ensure we have an accurate record of all Insured Persons we cover) |
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Carry out background, sanction and fraud checks |
• Contact Details • Identification Information • Personal Risk Information • Criminal Record Data |
• Legitimate interests (to ensure that Insured Persons are within our acceptable risk profile and to assist with the prevention of crime and fraud) • Legal obligation • If we have specifically asked for it, your consent • Local law exemption |
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Act as a broker/intermediaries between Insurers and you such as manage renewals etc.
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• Contact Details
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• Performance of a contract • Legitimate interests (to determine whether to extend cover for a renewal period, and if so, on what terms) • If we have specifically asked for it, your consent |
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Provide client care, assistance and support |
• Contact Details • Policy Information |
• Performance of a contract |
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Receive premiums and payments on behalf of Insurers |
• Contact Details • Financial Information |
• Performance of a contract |
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Marketing
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• Contact Details
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• Legitimate interests (to provide Insured Persons with information about insurance products or services which may be of interest) • Consent |
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Market research, advanced data analytics, and statistical, reporting or financial assessment undertaken by business partners or respective regulators |
• All (where relevant to the research/ data analytics) |
• Legitimate interests • Legal obligation • Consent |
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Comply with legal and regulatory obligations/ cooperate with law enforcement | • Contact Details • Identification Information • Policy Information • Personal Risk Information • Financial Information |
• Legal obligation |
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Claimant | |||
Receive notification of claim |
• Contact Details
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• Performance of a contract • Legitimate interests (third party claimants) (to maintain an accurate record of all claims received and the identity of claimants) |
• Third Party Administrators • Assistance Providers • Service Providers • Healthcare providers and travel and medical assistance providers • Loss Adjusters • Lawyers and other professional services firms and partners • Claims Experts • Anti-fraud databases • Law enforcement bodies • Banks • Regulators (eg OIC) • Courts • Other insurers (under court order) |
Monitor and detect fraud, including communicating with companies within the financial services and insurance industries and our respective regulators |
• Claim Details
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• Performance of a contract • Legitimate interests (to monitor, assess and ultimately prevent fraud) • If we have specifically asked for it, your consent • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims |
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Comply with legal and regulatory obligations/ cooperate with law enforcement | • Policy Information • Claim Details • Anti-fraud Data • Financial Information |
• Legal obligation
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Business Partners and Visitors | |||
Manage relationships |
• Contact Details |
• Legitimate interests (to maintain an accurate client and partner relationship management platform) • Consent |
• Service Providers |
Administer contracts |
• Contact Details |
• Performance of a contract |
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Marketing
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• Contact Details
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• Legitimate interests (to communicate to Business Partners about events, services or products which may be of interest to their sector) • Consent |
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Run events and host office visitors; accommodate website visitors | • Website or Office Visitors
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• Legitimate interests (to organize and host events which may be of interest to Business Partners) • Consent |
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Monitor and analyse behaviour on website; deliver targeted contents and advertisings on website |
• Marketing • Website Visitor |
• Performance of a contract • Legitimate interests • Legal obligation • Consent |
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Applicable to all | |||
Transfer of books of business
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• All (where relevant to the book)
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• Legitimate interests (to structure our business appropriately) • Legal obligation • Consent |
• Courts
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Sale or reorganization or amalgamate of Siam Liberty
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• All
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• Legitimate interests (to structure our business appropriately) • Legal obligation • Consent |
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Recording of telephone calls
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• Contact Details
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• Legal obligation • Legitimate interests (to train staff, to provide evidence of intention to enter into an insurance contract, to help resolve complaints, to improve customer service or to detect fraud) |
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Internal management, including to develop, manage, process, analyse, improve, design, operate and administer products, services and operations, to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others |
• All |
• Legitimate interests |
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Shareholders | |||
• Manage your shareholder rights, calling and convening shareholders’ meeting • Share registry services • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations/ cooperate with law enforcement |
• Contact Details
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• Legitimate interests |
• Share Registrar
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