This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Koh Bus Transport Service Pte Ltd (otherwise, known as KohBus) will use your Personal Data, and is incorporated by reference into the KohBus Terms of Use. The term “KohBus,” “Company,” “we,” and “us” includes Kohbus, and our affiliates and subsidiaries.
This Privacy Policy explains how KohBus may:
– collect,
– use, and
– disclose information we obtain through the “Service.”
The “Service” means any website, mobile application, or Internet service under KohBus’s control, whether partial or otherwise, in connection with providing KohBus’s online platform that connects users with vehicle-sharing transportation providers. Each reservation a user makes with such vehicle-sharing transportation providers on the Service is a “Reservation,” and each ride taken through a Reservation is a “Ride.” “Member” means any such individual who uses the Service to make Reservations and take Rides. “Driver Partner” means any such independent contractor partner who registers with the Service as a third-party transportation provider to provide Rides to Members.
1. Collection of Personal Data
“Personal Data” means information about you, from which you are identifiable, including but not limited to your name, nationality, address, telephone number, fax number, bank details, credit card details, gender, resident status, financial background, your occupation, personal interests, email address, your occupation, your photo and any information about you which you have provided to KohBus in registration forms, application forms or any other similar forms and/or any information about you that has been or may be collected, stored, used and/or processed by KohBus from time to time and includes sensitive personal data such as your identification card number, driving licence number, birth certificate number, passport number, race, ethnic origin, date of birth, marital status, education background, and data relating to health, religious or other similar beliefs. If you are a service provider, we may also collect telematics data (such as your speed, acceleration, and braking data), device data (such as your IMEI number and the names of the apps you have installed on your device) and your vehicle registration data. We do not consider Personal Data to include information that has been anonymized so that it does not allow a third party to easily identify a specific individual.
The provision of your Personal Data is voluntary. However, if you do not provide KohBus your Personal Data, KohBus will not be able to process your Personal Data for the Purposes and Additional Purposes outlined below and may cause KohBus to be unable to provide services or products to or accept payments from you. If you are an agent, vendor, supplier or service provider, provision of your Personal Data is mandatory and failure to provide your Personal Data, may be a breach of laws or regulatory requirements, and may cause KohBus to be unable to engage you to provide services or products or issue payments to you for products or services provided. In addition to the Personal Data you provide to KohBus directly, KohBus may collect your Personal Data from publicly available sources or from third parties, for example:
- from filled up application or registration forms, surveys or training tools or other similar forms;
- from publicly available sources such as directories;
- from KohBus’s official social media pages, if you follow, like or are a subscriber of such pages;
- from credit reporting agencies, insurance providers, or financial services providers;
- when you interact and communicate with KohBus at any events or activities;
- when you enter contests organised by KohBus;
- from various entities or divisions under KohBus;
- from other entities who provide you with services or with whom you have a contractual relationship;
- from marketing service providers or partners; or
- by using KohBus apps and websites, which includes all apps and websites operated by KohBus and under the names of its respective brands (respectively “Apps” and “Websites”).
Your personal data may also be collected from cookies used on the Websites, and if you are a service provider, from your accelerometer data, GPS data, device data and data collected when your KohBus Driver app is on. Further, certain service providers of KohBus may utilise personal in-vehicle cameras for their own safety and security purposes. Whilst the use of such in-vehicle cameras are neither endorsed or prohibited by KohBus, KohBus does not collect, use or disclose any of your Personal Data from such in-vehicle recordings, and the collection, use and disclosure of any such Personal Data is not conducted on behalf of KohBus. The collection, use and disclosure of Personal Data obtained from personal in-vehicle cameras is solely the responsibility of the service provider and you should inform your service provider if you have any objections to the use of personal in-vehicle cameras in such vehicles.
2. Purposes of Processing
KohBus may use and process your Personal Data for business and transportation activities of KohBus which shall include, without limitation the following (“Purposes”):
Where you are a customer of the services provided by KohBus:
- to perform the KohBus’s obligations in respect of any contract entered into with you;
- to provide you with any service you have requested;
- to process your subscriptions and to deliver the services to you;
- where you have requested to download and use the KohBus App or KohBus Driver App, or any other KohBus related application, to process your request, to deliver the App to you and to provide you a license for the use of the App;
- to process your participation in any events, activities, focus groups, research studies, contests, promotions, polls, surveys or any productions;
- to process, manage or verify your application for subscription with the KohBus and to provide you the benefits offered to subscribers;
- to validate your bookings and process payments relating to any products or services you have requested;
- to understand and analyse our sales as well as your needs and preferences;
- to develop, enhance and provide products and services to meet your needs;
- to process exchanges or product returns;
- to use Cookies to enhance our processes, advertising, notifications, authentication, security and compliance, analytics and preference management.
Aggregate Data. We may anonymize and aggregate data collected through the Service and use it for any purpose.
3. Where you are an agent, vendor, supplier, partner, contractor or service provider:
for the purposes of engaging you to provide services or products;
- to facilitate or enable any checks as may be required by KohBus in order to engage you;
- to process payments relating to any products or services you have provided;
- to provide personalised feedback to you, so that you are able to identify specific areas for improvement;
- to assess safety and quality;
- to monitor compliance with our terms and conditions, policies and Driver’s Code of Conduct;
- to provide updates to our fleet partners for fleet management purposes;
- to contact you in relation to the provision of your services.
4. General:
- to respond to questions, comments and feedback from you;
- to communicate with you for any of the purposes listed in this Policy;
- for internal administrative purposes, such as auditing, data analysis, database records;
- for purposes of detection, prevention and prosecution of crime;
- to maintain the safety and security of our services;
- for KohBus to comply with its obligations under law; and you agree and consent to KohBus using and processing your Personal Data for the Purposes and in the manner as identified in this Policy.
5. Marketing and promotional purposes:
KohBus may also use and process your data for other purposes such as (“Additional Purposes”):
- To send you alerts, newsletters, updates, mailers, promotional materials, special privileges, festive greetings from KohBus, its partners, sponsors or advertisers;
- To notify and invite you to events or activities organized by KohBus, its partners, sponsors or advertisers;
- To process your registration to participate in or attend an event or activity and to communicate with you regarding your attendance at the event or activity;
- To share your Personal Data amongst its subsidiaries, associate companies and jointly controlled entities as well as with its agent, vendor, supplier, partner, contractor or service provider who may communicate with you to market their products, services, events or promotions; by way of post, telephone call, short message service (SMS), online messaging service, by hand and/or by email.
6. Unsubscribe and Revocation of Consent
If you wish to unsubscribe to the processing of your Personal Data for Additional Purposes by KohBus, please click on the link “Unsubscribe” which is embedded in the relevant email or message in order not to receive any such messages in the future. Please note that if you unsubscribe, we may still send you service-related messages, such as ride receipts.
If you wish to revoke the consent that KohBus has obtained from you for the Purposes stipulated herein, please notify KohBus using the contact details stated below. Upon request, we will take reasonable steps to correct, update, amend or delete your Personal Data, though we may not be able to permanently delete your Personal Data in all instances, such as when the information has been shared with third parties.
7. Disclosure to Third Parties
Your personal data may be transferred, accessed or disclosed to third parties for the Purposes and Additional Purposes. Further, KohBus may engage other companies, service providers or individuals to perform functions on its behalf, and consequently may provide access or disclose to your Personal Data to such service providers or third parties. The third parties include, without limitation:
KohBus partners, which include parties with whom KohBus collaborates with for certain events, programs and activities;
- Advertisers;
- Event management companies and event sponsors;
- Marketing research companies;
- Service providers, including, information technology (IT) service providers for infrastructure, software and development work;
- Professional advisors and external auditors, including legal advisors, financial advisors and consultants;
- Governmental authorities to comply with statutory, regulatory and governmental requirements.
Your Personal Data may also be shared in connection with a corporate transaction, such as the formation of a joint venture, a sale of a subsidiary or a division, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of winding-up.
8. Access & Correction Requests and Inquiries, Limiting the Processing of Personal Data
Subject to any exceptions under applicable laws of your home nation or Alternate Country, you may request for access to and/or request correction of your Personal Data, request to limit the processing of your Personal Data for the Additional Purposes and/or make any inquiries regarding your Personal Data by contacting:
KohBus Data Protection Officer
10 Bukit Batok Crescent
#10-05
Singapore 658079
Email: admin@kohbus.sg
Subject to any laws of your home nation or Alternate Country, KohBus reserves the right to impose a fee for access of your Personal Data in the amounts as permitted therein.
In respect of your right to access and/or correct your Personal Data, KohBus has the right to refuse your requests to access and/or make any correction to your Personal Data for the reasons permitted under law, such as where the expense of providing access to you is disproportionate to the risks to your or another person’s privacy.
9. Cookies
KohBus, and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as HTML5 and Flash (sometimes called “flash cookies”), advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers such as Apple’s IDFA or Google’s Advertising ID) and similar technology (“Cookies”) in connection with your use of the Websites and Apps. Cookies may have unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of the Service, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have clicked on, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session.
KohBus may allow third parties to use Cookies on the Websites and Apps to collect the same type of information for the same purposes KohBus does for itself. Third parties may be able to associate the information they collect with other information they have about you from other sources. We do not necessarily have access to or control over the Cookies they use.
Additionally, we may share non-personally identifiable information from or about you with third parties, such as location data, advertising identifiers, or a cryptographic hash of a common account identifier (such as an email address), to facilitate the display of targeted advertising.
If you do not wish for your Personal Data to be collected via Cookies on the Websites, you may deactivate cookies by adjusting your internet browser settings to disable, block or deactivate cookies, by deleting your browsing history and clearing the cache from your internet browser.
10. Links to Third-Party Websites
The Websites may contain links to third parties’ websites. Please note that KohBus is not responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information by such third parties. If you provide information directly to such sites, the privacy policy and terms of service on those sites are applicable and KohBus is not responsible for the information processing practices or privacy policies of such sites.
11. Personal Data from Minors and Other Individuals
As a parent or legal guardian, please do not allow the minor (individuals under 18 (eighteen) years of age) under your care to submit Personal Data to KohBus. In the event that such Personal Data is provided to KohBus, you hereby consent to the processing of the minor’s Personal Data and personally accept and agree to be bound by this Policy and take responsibility for his or her actions.
In some circumstances you may have provided personal data relating to other individuals (such as your spouse, family members or friends) and in such circumstances you represent and warrant that you are authorized to provide their personal data to KohBus and you have obtained their consent for their personal data be processed and used in the manner as set forth in this Policy.
12. Acknowledgement, Consent, and Data Retention
By communicating with KohBus, using KohBus’s services, purchasing products from KohBus or by virtue of your engagement with KohBus, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy and agree and consent to the use, processing and transfer of your Personal Data by KohBus as described in this Policy.
KohBus shall have the right to modify, update or amend the terms of this Policy at any time by placing the updated Policy on the Websites. By continuing to communicate with KohBus, by continuing to use KohBus’s services, purchasing products from KohBus or by your continued engagement with KohBus following the modifications, updates or amendments to this Policy, such actions shall signify your acceptance of such modifications, updates or amendments.
In the event of any conflict between the English and other language versions, the English version shall prevail.