PRIVACY POLICY
Personal Data Protection Notice for Sunway Group (Sunway Hotel)
Sunway Group of Companies and Sunway Education Group Sdn Bhd, including Sunway University Sdn Bhd, Sunway Berhad, Sunway Integrated Properties Sdn. Bhd. and subsidiary companies of Sunway Berhad (“Sunway”) respects and is committed to the protection of your personal information and your privacy. In this Personal Data Protection Notice, “we”, “us” and “our” refers to Sunway, and “you” and “your” includes third parties whose personal data you have provided to Sunway.
This Personal Data Protection Notice explains how we collect and handle your personal information, including your sensitive personal information in accordance with the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010. Please note that Sunway may amend this Personal Data Protection Notice at any time without prior notice and will publish the amended or revised Personal Data Protection Notice on our website or by email.
1 Personal information
1.1 Type of personal information
Personal information means any information which relates to you or any other third party related to you which was collected or provided to Sunway for the purposes stated in Section 2 below. We process your personally identifiable information which may include your name, NRIC number, contact details, financial and banking account details, information regarding your family, relatives or third party that you provide to us, your preferences in relation to products and services you purchase from us, CCTV/security recordings and location tracking/GPS information.
1.2 Source of personal information
(i) Customer or potential customer: Sunway collects your personal information directly from you or indirectly from your legal representatives, agents (e.g. travel agents) and/or employer when you, your legal representatives, agents and/or employers send us completed enquiry, application and/or registration forms via various means, including online and physical hardcopies at public venues or in any of our premises. Your personal information may also be collected from cookies through the use of our website.
(ii) Vendor, supplier, tenant or service provider: Sunway collects your personal information directly from you or indirectly from your employer or credit reference agencies when tendering for projects, when you send us completed enquiry and/or credit application forms via various means, including online and physical hardcopies. Your personal information may also be collected from cookies through the use of our website.
1.3 Obligatory personal information
All information requested for in the relevant forms is obligatory to be provided by you unless stated otherwise. Should you fail to provide the obligatory information, we would be unable to process your request and/or provide you with relevant services.
2 Purposes of collecting and further processing (including disclosing) your personal information
(i) Customer or potential customer: Your personal information is collected and further processed by Sunway as required or permitted by law and to give effect to your requested commercial transaction, including the following:
• to process your requested products and services;
• to facilitate your participation in any contests or events;
• to administer and communicate with you in relation to our services and/or events;
• to process any payments related to your requested service;
• for insurance purposes;
• to apply for relevant travel visas in the event of travel overseas;
• to operate our premises in a manner which is physically safe, secure and befitting of health and safety requirements;
• for internal investigations, audit or security purposes;
• to conduct and support internal marketing analysis and analysis of customer patterns, choices and engagement with Sunway’s related companies, subsidiaries, holding companies and affiliate companies;
• to be collected and stored into a central repository that is accessible by Sunway related companies, subsidiaries, holding companies and affiliate companies;
• to create and deliver personalized products and services that are unique to you to enhance your customer experience;
• to provide you a more seamless customer experience;
• to support research and innovation of our products and services;
• to store and carry out data analytics processes;
• to improve our products and services;
• for matching of loyalty points provided by a third party/business partner to advertise and market products and services to you;
• for purposes of collaboration with a business partner to advertise and market products and services to you;
• to comply with Sunway’s legal and regulatory obligations in the conduct of its business;
• to contact you regarding products, services, upcoming events, promotions, advertising, marketing and commercial materials which we may feel interest you;
• to send you season greetings, special occasion messages or other similar communications;
• to allow third parties to contact you for advertising, promotional or marketing campaigns conducted by any third party entities;
• to ensure that the content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for your and for your computer and/or device;
• for Sunway’s internal records management, customer relations events and activities, and customer loyalty reward program.
(ii) Vendor, supplier, tenant or service provider: Your personal information is collected and further processed by Sunway as required or permitted by law and to give effect to your requested commercial transaction, including the following:
• to process your requested services;
• to process your credit account application;
• to assess your credit worthiness;
• to administer and give effect to your commercial transaction (tender award, contract for service, tenancy agreement);
• to process any payments related to your commercial transaction;
• for insurance purposes;
• for internal investigations, audit or security purposes;
• to comply with Sunway’s legal and regulatory obligations in the conduct of its business;
• to contact you regarding products, services, upcoming events, promotions, advertising, marketing and commercial materials which we may feel interest you;
• to ensure that the content from our website is presented in the most effective manner
• for your and for your computer and/or device;
• for Sunway’s internal records management, customer relations events and activities, and customer loyalty reward program.
Where you have indicated your consent to receiving marketing or promotional updates from Sunway, you may opt-out from receiving such marketing or promotional material at any time. You may select the “unsubscribe” option provided in Sunway’s email blasts or you may contact Sunway at the details provided in Section (6) below.
Data Analytics Processing
Sunway wants to share and consolidate your data into a single platform to be shared across the Sunway Group of Companies, including Sunway Berhad and Sunway Education Group Sdn Bhd. We will use and share your data for analytics and measurement purposes to understand how our products and services are used, to help improve the products and services we offer, to provide you with more personalized products and services, and provide a more seamless customer experience. For example, we analyse data about your choice and preferences in relation to the products and services you purchase from us to send you targeted advertisements and promotional materials. We also process data about the ads you interact with to help us and advertisers understand the performance of various ad campaigns.
3 Disclosure of personal information
3.1 Entities within Sunway
Your personal information provided to us is processed by and disclosed to entities (in or outside of Malaysia) within Sunway (including related companies, subsidiaries, holding companies, associated companies and outsourcing partners) for the purposes stated in Section 2 (Purposes of collecting and further processing (including disclosing) your personal information) above. Sunway will ensure that access to your personal information is restricted to staff who are contractually required to process your personal information in accordance with their respective job requirements.
3.2 Classes of third parties
Your personal information may be disclosed to relevant third parties (in or outside of Malaysia) as required under law, pursuant to relevant contractual or business relationships, our service providers or for the purposes stated in Section 2 (Purposes of collecting and further processing (including disclosing) your personal information) above (or directly related to those purposes).
3.3 Advertisers, business partners or other third-party entities.
Your personal information (including your sensitive personal data) may be disclosed or provided to advertisers, business partners or other third party entities and their advisers/representatives (in or outside of Malaysia) for purposes of any advertising, promotional or marketing campaigns conducted by any third party entities.
In the event of a potential, proposed or actual sale of business, disposal, acquisition, merger or re-organisation (“Transaction”), your personal information may be required to be disclosed or transferred to a third party as a result of the Transaction. You hereby acknowledge that such disclosure and transfer may occur and permit Sunway to release your personal information to the other party and its advisers/representatives.
(i) Customer or potential customer: Your personal information may be disclosed to the following classes of third parties:
• Third parties appointed by us to provide services to us or on our behalf (such as auditors, lawyers, company secretary, consultants, contractors, professional advisors, service providers, printing companies, contractors, conference/training/event organiser, other advisers, travel agencies and insurance companies);
• Our business partners or affiliates who may jointly provide the service requested for (such as third party hotels or resorts or shopping mall tenants);
Utility companies;
• Property management companies for management of property purchased;
• Foreign embassies (including agencies appointed by foreign embassies to carry out their services) if Sunway assists you in your visa application as part of your requested travel services;
• Law enforcement agencies, including the local police; and
• Relevant governmental authorities statutory authorities, local council and industry regulators.
(ii) Vendor, supplier, tenant or service provider: Your personal information may be disclosed to the following classes of third parties:
• Third parties appointed by us to provide services to us or on our behalf (such as auditors, lawyers, company secretary, printing companies, contractors, conference/training/event organiser, other advisers, travel agencies and insurance companies);
• Law enforcement agencies, including the local police; and
Relevant governmental authorities, statutory authorities, local council and industry regulators.
Transfer of your personal data outside Malaysia. It may be necessary for us to transfer your personal information outside of Malaysia if any of the third parties mentioned in section 3 (Disclosure of personal information) above including our service providers or business partners who are involved in providing any services to us are located or have processing facilities in countries outside of Malaysia.
You consent to us transferring your personal information outside Malaysia to such third parties and for the purposes set out in section 2 (Purposes of collecting and further processing (including disclosing) your personal information).
We shall take necessary steps to ensure that any such third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal information and that they can only process your personal information under our instructions.
4 Websites
4.1 Links to other sites
Links to other sites is provided for your convenience and information. These sites may have their own privacy statement in place, which we recommend you review if you visit any linked websites. We are not responsible for the content on the linked sites or any use of the site.
4.2 Location enabled products or applications
Location enabled products or applications transmit your location information to us. We do not use the information sent or provided other than to provide the service you request. Location enable features are opt-in and you have control over your participation and can turn these services off at any time or uninstall them.
Some mobile applications will utilize Google Analytics (or similar tool) to help us better serve you through improved products, services, and revisions to the mobile applications. This collected information will not identify you to us. It may, however, let us know anonymously, which services and features you are using the most within the application, as well as device type and hardware features, country and language of download.
4.3 Cookies
A cookie may be used in the processing of your information. A cookie is a text file placed into the memory of your computer and/or device by our computers. A copy of this text file is sent by your computer and/or device whenever it communicates with our server. We use cookies to identify you. We may also collect the following information during your visit to our website and/or the fully qualified domain name from which you accessed our site, or alternatively, your IP address:
(i) the date and time you accessed each page on our web site;
(ii) the URL of any webpage from which you accessed our site (the referrer); and
(iii) the web browser that you are using and the pages you accessed.
Some web pages may require you to provide a limited amount of personal information in order to enjoy certain services on our websites (system login credentials, email address and contact, etc). These personal information will only be used for its intended purposes only, i.e. to respond to your message or deliver the requested services.
5 Right to access and correct personal information
You have the right to access and correct your personal information held by us (subject always to certain exemptions). We will make every endeavour to ensure your personal information is accurate and up to date therefore we ask that if there are changes to your information you should notify us directly. If you would like to access or correct your personal information, please refer to our data access/correction forms available on HERE and send us the completed form or query to the contact details in Item 6 below.
6 Limiting the processing of personal information, further enquiries and complaints
If:
(i) you would like to obtain further information on how to limit the processing of your personal information;
(ii) you would like to request to erase your data;
(iii) you have any further query; or
(iv) you would like to make a complaint in respect of your personal information, you may contact :
For Sunway Hospitality matters
Sunway City Kuala Lumpur Hotels (Sunway Resort, Sunway Pyramid Hotel, Sunway Lagoon Hotel)
Brand Marketing & Communications Executive
Brand Marketing & Communications Department
Persiaran Lagoon, Bandar Sunway,
47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan,
Tel: 03-7492 8000 (Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm)
Email Address: srhs.enquiry@sunwayhotels.com
Sunway Putra Hotel Kuala Lumpur
Brand Marketing & Communications Executive
Brand Marketing & Communications Department
100, Jalan Putra, Chow Kit,
50350 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 034-40409888 Ext 1024 (Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm)
Email Address: spkl.enquiry@sunwayhotels.com
Sunway Velocity Hotel
Reservation Supervisor
Sunway Velocity Hotel Sdn Bhd
Lingkaran Sunway Velocity
Sunway Velocity, Jalan Cheras
55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 03-2726 3988 (Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm)
Email Address: nght@sunwayhotels.com & svkl.enquiry@sunwayhotels.com
Sunway Hotel Georgetown
Marketing & Communications Manager
33, New Lane (Off Macalister Road)
George Town, 10400 Penang
Tel: 04-2299988
Email Address: shgp.enquiry@sunwayhotels.com
Sunway Hotel Seberang Jaya
Marketing & Communications Manager
11, Lebuh Tenggiri Dua,
Pusat Bandar Seberang Jaya,
13700 Perai, Penang
Tel: 04-3777788
Email Address: shsj.enquiry@sunwayhotels.com
The Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat
Reservation Executive
Reservation Department
No 1, Persiaran Lagun Sunway 3,
Sunway City Ipoh,
31150 Ipoh Perak
Tel: 05-210 7777 (Office Hours: Monday -Friday, 9am to 6pm)
Email Address: tbhr.reservations@sunwayhotels.com
Sunway Hotel Bigbox, Sunway City Iskandar Puteri
Assistant Manager – Marketing Communications Sales & Marketing Department Persiaran Medini 6, Sunway City Iskandar Puteri 79250 Iskandar Puteri, Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia
Tel: +607 533 6688 (Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.00am – 6.00pm)
Email Address: sbbh.enquiry@sunwayhotels.com
Customer Service Assistant Manager
SUNWAY PALS membership service
Telephone No: 03-56333988 (Operation Hours: Mon-Sun, 10am-10pm)
Email Address: sunwaypals@sunway.com.my
For information of all other businesses, please submit your enquiry via Group Brand Marketing & Communications at https://www.sunway.com.my/contact-us/
7 Conflict
In the event of any conflict between this English language Personal Data Protection Notice and its corresponding Bahasa Malaysia Personal Data Protection Notice, the terms in this English language Notice shall prevail.
This Personal Data Protection Notice was last updated on 28 March 2022.