Virginia Food, Inc. (“VFI” or “we,” “our,” or “us) respects your privacy and will keep secure and confidential all personal and sensitive personal information that you may provide to us, and/or those that we may collect from you ("Personal Data").
This privacy statement ("Statement") provides for the Personal Data we obtain, or which you may provide through this website ("Website"), and the standards we observe in using, processing, keeping, securing and disclosing said Personal Data.
Please read this Statement carefully to understand how we treat your Personal Data. We may update this Statement from time to time to reflect change(s) in the law and/or our internal standards. When we do so, we will notify you by posting the updated statement in this Website for your information and reference. By accessing the Website and submitting your Concerns (as defined below), Resumes or Personal Data through it, you expressly acknowledge that you have read, understood and hereby agree to all of the terms of this Statement and that you provide consent for us to:
Personal Data We Collect and Process
Our Website allows you to directly reach us and provide comments, suggestions and complaints (collectively, "Concerns") on our products and services to help us improve them. When you access our Website and submit your Concerns, we ask you to provide the following Personal Data to identify you, and enable us to act on your Concerns:
If you do not provide any or all of the foregoing Personal Data accurately, we may not be able to effectively address your Concerns.
Our Website may also allow you to submit your Resume, which may provide your Personal Data to our Resume databank.
Any additional Personal Data that you may provide through your correspondence(s) with us in connection with your Concerns, or which you may have included in your submitted Resume shall also be considered and treated as Personal Data.
When you navigate through and interact with the Website, depending on your settings, we may use automatic data collection technologies (e.g., cookies, web beacons, small data text files or similar technologies) to obtain certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, such as:
The Collected Data are mostly statistical data but may include other Personal Data, and we may maintain or associate them with the Personal Data that we ask you to provide to us in connection with your Concerns, or which you may provide in your submitted Resumes.
What We Do with Personal Data and Collected Data
Upon receiving your Concerns and the accompanying Personal Data identifying you, and your submitted Resumes, VFI shall forward the same to our concerned department. We may use your Personal Data to get in touch with you, in order to attend to, further inquire about, and address your Concerns; or to process your submitted Resumes for employment purposes. We may separately contact you to confirm that our concerned department has acted on your Concerns, ask you for further feedback, request your participation in surveys and/or provide information on its products and services.
For the Collected Data, we use them to help us improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
Retention of Personal Data and Collected Data
We shall retain your Personal Data and Collected Data for a maximum period of five (5) years counted from the date you provide it to us or when they were collected, respectively.
Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Data and Collected Data
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify, or when combined with other information, does not directly and certainly identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose and share the Personal Data and Collected Data, subject to compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, on a need to know basis, and in all cases only for legitimate business purposes, such as but shall not be limited to:
Website Visitor Under the Age of 18
No one under the age of eighteen (18) years ("Minors") may provide any Personal Data on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from Minors. Thus, if you are a Minor, please do not use or provide any of your personal information on this Website.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, please contact the responsible provider directly.
Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data
You are entitled to certain rights in relation to the Personal Data collected from you, including the right to access and correct your Personal Data being processed, object to the processing, and to lodge a complaint before the National Privacy Commission in case of violation of your rights as data subject.
You may send us an e-mail at dataprivacy.dpo@virginiafood.com.ph to request access to, correct and/or delete any Personal Data that you have provided to us. Please be advised, however, that we cannot delete your Personal Data without restricting or removing our ability to effectively address your Concerns or process submitted Resumes for employment purposes. We may not accommodate a request to correct and/or delete Personal Data if we believe the same would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the Personal Data to be incorrect.
Security of your Personal Data and the Collected Data
We have implemented technical, organizational, and physical measures designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your Personal Data and Collected Data and secure such Data from destruction, unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, fraudulent misuse and/or any other unlawful processing, as well as other natural and human dangers.
VFI Data Privacy Policy
To know more about our commitment to data privacy, kindly check out VFI's Data Privacy Policy.
Contact Information
Should you have any questions and/or concerns regarding this Statement, our use of your Personal Data and the Collected Data, or your rights in relation thereto under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the following: 09178055068 or through this email address at dataprivacy.dpo@virginiafood.com.ph. The office of our DPO is located at Virginia Food, Inc. Corporate Building, Osmeña Blvd, Barangay Sta. Cruz, 6000 Cebu City, Philippines.
Virginia Food, Inc. (“VFI” or “we,” “our,” or “us) recognizes the value of ensuring that all personal information and data of its customers, suppliers, employees, visitors, and other data subjects are protected against natural dangers such as accidental loss or destruction, and human dangers such as unlawful access, fraudulent misuse, unlawful destruction, alteration and contamination.
In compliance with the general data privacy principles embodied in Republic Act No. 10173 or the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (“Data Privacy Act”), its Implementing Rules and Regulations, and other relevant policies, including issuances of the National Privacy Commission (“NPC”) (the “Data Privacy Laws”), VFI issues this Policy to serve as guidelines and to show its commitment to the protection of personal information and data. This Data Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) shall also encapsulate the privacy and data protection protocols that need to be observed and carried out within the organization for specific circumstances (e.g., from collection to destruction), directed toward the fulfillment and realization of the rights of data subjects.
VFI shall exercise its responsibility with the due diligence expected from the nature of the industry, and ensure that its directors, officers, and employees perform their duties with a strict and faithful compliance with these guidelines on personal information and data security and confidentiality.
“Data Subject” refers to an individual whose personal, sensitive, or privileged information is processed (“you”);
“Personal Data” refers to all types of personal information;
“Personal Information” refers to any information, whether recorded in a material form or not, from which the identity of an individual is apparent or can be reasonably and directly ascertained by the entity holding the information, or when put together with other information would directly and certainly identify an individual;
“Personal Information Processor” refers to any natural or juridical person or any other body to whom a personal information controller may outsource or instruct the processing of personal data pertaining to a data subject;
“Processing” refers to any operation or any set of operations performed upon personal information including, but not limited to, the collection, recording, organization, storage, updating or modification, retrieval, consultation, use, consolidation, blocking, erasure or destruction of data; and
“Sensitive Personal Information” refers to personal data:
About an individual's race, ethnic origin, marital status, age, color, and religious, philosophical or political affiliations;
About an individual's health, education, genetic or sexual life of a person, or to any proceeding for any offense committed or alleged to have been committed by such individual, the disposal of such proceedings, or the sentence of any court in such proceedings;
Issued by government agencies peculiar to an individual which includes, but is not limited to, social security numbers, previous or current health records, licenses or its denials, suspension or revocation, and tax returns; and
Specifically established by an executive order or an act of Congress to be kept classified.
All personnel of VFI including but not limited to its directors, officers, and employees, regardless of their type of employment or contractual arrangement, must comply with this Policy.
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