Privacy Policy
This is an AI Singapore (or "AISG") website. AISG is the data controller responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy. ATLAS-Data is an open-source data platform operated by AISG. This Privacy Policy describes how AISG collects, uses, discloses, and protects your information in connection with ATLAS-Data's owned and operated website, currently available at https://atlas-data.ai ("Site"), the cataloguing information of ATLAS-Data datasets of dataset providers that we make available ("Datasets"), and any other products, services, features, or applications provided by AISG (collectively, "Services").
If you are only browsing this website, we do not capture data that allows us to identify you individually.
In these Terms, the words "we", "our" and "us" refer to AISG. "Data Providers" refer to third-party data providers and / or AISG (where relevant).
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information You Provide to Us
When you use or interact with us through our Services, such as when you use our Site or register to receive Dataset-related services, or interact with us through the devices you use to interact with us, you may provide the following types of information to us:
Registration information, such as your name, email, information related to your organisation (such as the organisation name), and any other information you provide in connection with signing up for the Services;
- Rough geolocation (which may be inferred from your IP address);
Interactions you initiate or otherwise have with the ATLAS-Data team or on our Services (such as when you interact with our search or chatbot functionalities); and
Any other information, identifiers, records or materials that you voluntarily provide to us.
Where you request access to certain Services, Dataset-related features, metadata resources, APIs or Dataset content subject to additional requirements, we may request supplementary information or documentation to assess eligibility, verify identify, satisfy legal or compliance obligations, or facilitate access in accordance with applicable licences, policies or operational requirements. Such requirements may vary depending on the nature of the Service or resource requested. If you choose not to provide the requested information, we may be unable to provide certain Services or respond to your requests.
We may aggregate, anonymise, or de-identify information collected through the Services for analytics, operational, research, security, service improvement, statistical, or reporting purposes, provided that such information cannot reasonably identify an individual.
To safeguard your personal data, all electronic storage and transmission of personal data are secured with appropriate security technologies.
1.2 Cookies and Other Technologies
Through our Site, we may collect information from your computer or other device by automated means such as cookies, web beacons, local storage, JavaScript, mobile-device. Please refer to the Cookie Policy, which is incorporated by reference.
1.3 Information From Third Parties
We may receive information from third parties, including Data Providers, service providers, affiliates, partners, analytics providers, publicly available sources, and other entities that support the operation of the Services.
We may work on research initiatives, or collaborative programmes, or with contributors who may voluntarily provide datasets or related materials, which may include voice recordings, audio data, text data, images, documents, annotations, demographic tags, or other information associated with research and AI development activities. Where demographic or descriptive information is voluntarily provided in connection with contributed data (such as accent, age range, language, or gender tags associated with voice recordings), such information is intended for research, benchmarking, cataloguing, or Dataset description purposes. Unless expressly stated otherwise, cataloguing information on Datasets released or made accessible through the Services are intended to exclude directly identifying personal information or information reasonably linkable to a specific individual or device.
The Site facilitates the cataloguing, indexing, discovery, metadata management, licensing references, and access coordination of datasets and related resources. In many cases, the underlying Dataset content may be hosted, controlled, licensed, or managed directly by the relevant Data Provider or authorised third party.
We may combine the information we collect about you from various sources and process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. This site may contain links to other sites whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of such third party websites or services, and we encourage you to review their applicable privacy notices and terms.
2. Use of Information
We use the information described above for the following purposes ("Purposes"):
- Manage and improve the Services generally;
- Process your registration and verify your information;
Send you confirmations, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
Conduct platform promotion and update marketing activities (including by email or social media);
Conduct business operations such as auditing, security, fraud prevention, analytics (including with analytics technology), and research and development;
Analyse your use of the Services (such as understanding interactions on the Site and with the Datasets) to understand how our users use the Services and improve the Services, including with the help of analytics technology;
Protect against, identify, investigate, and respond to misuse of the Services or other unlawful behaviour;
- Address legal requirements;
- Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights; and
- Create aggregated or de-identified information.
3. Disclosure of Information
In order to conduct our operations more smoothly, AISG may need to disclose your personal data to third parties, whether located within or outside Singapore, for one or more of the Purposes. Such third parties include but not limited to our third-party service providers, affiliates or related corporations that would be processing your personal data on AISG's behalf.
We will take steps to ensure that your personal data that is transferred or disclosed to third parties continues to receive a standard of protection that is at least comparable to that provided under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("PDPA").
Except where permitted by law (and not excluding disclosures to third parties for the Purposes), AISG will not disclose your personal data to any third parties without first obtaining your consent permitting us to do so or unless any such disclosure is permitted under any of the statutory exemptions under the PDPA.
We may use and disclose appropriately aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose.
General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR")
This applies only if a particular circumstance or activity applicable to AISG requires the application of the GDPR to AISG and residents of the European Union only.
Generally, we process personal data on the basis of consent. Apart from consent, under the GDPR, we may also lawfully process your personal data on one or more of the following lawful basis:
The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
Process your personal data on the basis of a balance of interests to pursue our or a third party's legitimate interests. This is carried out for one or more of the Purposes set out above;
Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which AISG is subject;
Necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
Necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in AISG.
We practise data minimisation and strive to collect only what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which such personal data is processed and to maintain the relevant relationship between us. The consequence of not providing such requested personal data may result in our inability to start or maintain that relationship with you or to provide you with our products or Services.
Where your personal data is transferred to a country for which the European Data Protection Board has not made an adequacy decision, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the foreign recipient organisation of the personal data is bound by legally enforceable obligations to protect the transferred personal data. This may include us entering into an appropriate contract with the foreign recipient organisation dealing with the personal data transfer.
Where the GDPR is applicable, you have the following rights (subject to any exceptions under the GDPR):
ACCESS. You have the right to request confirmation of whether we process your personal data, a copy of the personal data we are processing about you, and other information relating to your personal data as provided for in the GDPR.
RECTIFICATION. You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we process about you rectified.
ERASURE. You have the right to request that we delete personal data that we process about you if one of the grounds for erasure under the GDPR applies.
RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING. You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data if one of the grounds for such restriction under the GDPR applies, such as where you believe such data to be inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose, pursuant to the full terms of the grounds as provided in the GDPR.
DATA PORTABILITY. You have the right to obtain personal data we hold about you, in a structured, commonly used, electronic format, and to transmit such data to another data controller, if certain conditions under the GDPR are satisfied.
OBJECTION TO PROCESSING. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data where such personal data is being processed by us for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, or in the exercise of official authority vested in us, or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us. Additionally, you have the right at any time to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing. Further, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, subject to condition(s) in the GDPR.
WITHDRAWING CONSENT. If you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge.
4. Management and Protection of Personal Data
AISG will take reasonable and appropriate measures to:
- keep your personal data accurate, complete and updated; and
- ensure that your personal data is adequately protected and secured.
Appropriate security arrangements will be put in place to prevent any unauthorised access or misuse of your personal data. We will similarly take reasonable efforts to ensure that the personal data in our possession is destroyed or anonymised as soon as (i) the purpose for which that personal data was collected is no longer being served by the retention of such data; and (ii) retention is no longer necessary for any other legal or business purposes.
5. Rights of Third Parties
No one other than a party to this Privacy Policy shall have any right to enforce any of its terms.
6. Governing Law
Use of the Site and this Privacy Policy are governed by the laws of Singapore. Any claim relating to use of the Site shall be heard by Singapore Courts.
7. Updates and Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, such as to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. We will post those changes here or on a similarly accessible page.
As part of our effort to ensure that we properly manage, protect and process your personal data, we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our absolute discretion. We encourage you to periodically check this Policy so that you will remain updated on any changes.
This Privacy Policy applies in conjunction with any other policies, notices, contractual clauses, and consent clauses that apply in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by us. By continuing your relationship with us and/or accessing any part of the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms of this Policy and agreed or shall be deemed to agree to be bound by this Policy including updates or amendments.
8. Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy and practices, or to submit a request or complaint, please email us at [email protected].