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Privacy Statement

The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina Academic Research Database – Research and Development Team is committed to protecting your privacy and developing advancements that gives you the most advance and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the plmard.com website and governs data collection and usage. By using the plmard.com website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

plmard.com collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, and Learner's Reference Number (LRN). plmard.com also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by plmard.ph. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by plmard.ph for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the plmard.ph website. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through plmard.ph public comment boxes, this information may be collected and used by others. plmard.ph encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from plmard.ph so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information.

Use of your Personal Information

plmard.ph collects and uses your personal information to operate the plmard.ph Web site and deliver the services you have requested. plmard.ph also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from plmard.ph and its affiliates. plmard.ph may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered plmard.ph does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. plmard.ph may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, LRN) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, plmard.ph may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to plmard.ph, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. plmard.ph does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. plmard.ph keeps track of the web sites and pages our customer visit within plmard.ph, in order to determine what plmard.ph services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within plmard.ph to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. plmard.ph web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on plmard.ph or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of plmard.ph; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of plmard.ph, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

plmard.ph secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. plmard.ph secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Your responsibility

plmard.ph recognizes and adheres to your rights to your personal data as provided under relevant data privacy laws.  At any time you may deem necessary or convenient, you may raise your concerns by calling our attention to remove the personal information or sensitive personal information that is provided in the Website.

Further, you have the right to:

(a) access, retrieve, copy, and otherwise be informed about your personal data that was processed, manner by which such data were processed, date when your personal data was last accessed and modified;

(b) dispute the inaccuracy in your personal data;

(c) suspend, withdraw, or order the blocking, removal, or destruction of your personal data from the system;

(d) object to the processing of your personal data, including processing for direct marketing, automated processing or profiling.

Should you wish to exercise any of the foregoing rights, please contact us, by sending an email to hello@plmard.ph. plmard.ph shall endeavor to reply to or otherwise act on your concerns without undue delay and in any event within one (1) month from our receipt of your email.

Protect your information. We encourage you to be vigilant in protecting your personal data by ensuring that your personal details, username and password are not disclosed to others nor written somewhere where it will be accessible to others. We also advise you to use unique strong passwords and to change them regularly. Furthermore, we require that you close our internet explorer when you have finished your sessions with our website.

Use secure means to communicate with us. You can contact us through our website, official social media accounts and contact center. Rest assured that information coursed through these channels is protected by the current security of those systems.

Withrawal of Consent

You may communicate your objection to our continued use and/or disclosure of your personal information for any of the purposes and in the manner as stated above by contacting us at our email address below.

Opt out Right

You have the right to make decisions on how to use, process, or share your personal information.

You may opt to unsubscribe to our services by following the unsubscribe instructions in each email you receive. You may unsubscribe from our SMS notifications by calling our contact number, provided on this website.

We encourage you to make decisions that will enable us to provide you with right information, services and meaningful online experience.

In some circumstances, you can ask us to remove your personal data.  If you wish to remove personally identifying details from our website servers, please contact hello@plmard.ph for the facilitation of the request.

Changes to this statement

plmard.ph will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect the database feedback. plmard.ph encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how plmard.ph is protecting your information.

Contact Information

plmard.ph welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that plmard.ph has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the admins at hello@plmard.ph. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.