STATEMENT OF POLICY

The Philippine Racing Commission is committed to protecting and valuing the data privacy rights of data subjects, and ensuring that all personal data collected are processed lawfully, fairly, and appropriately in accordance with the confidentiality practices and applicable laws on data privacy, notably Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.

CONSENT

By using our website, submitting any application, letter, document, and/or request or providing us your Personal Data, manually or electronically, you will be treated as having given your permission for our collection, use, and processing of your Personal Data, and you have accepted the policies and practices described in this Privacy Notice. If you do not allow the collection, use, and processing of your Personal Data, kindly refrain from using our website, and/or contact us for any privacy-related concerns.

COLLECTION

We collect personal information to enable us to deliver our services, where it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Commission. We may collect, use, and process your personal or sensitive personal information provided to us voluntarily when you connect with us by any means (whether physical or digitally) through surveys, website usage, requests, applications or in any other form where you may be in contact with our organization. We may also use software tools or other forms of data collection technology to automatically collect information which can be retrieved from publicly disclosed internet data.

USE

The collected personal or sensitive personal information shall be used for legitimate purposes only and to the extent provided by law. We may disclose information where the law requires us to disclose information and comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligation. We may use the collected data to communicate and process information necessary with your transactions. We may collect the information to conduct and analysis to improve our service. We may use the information to perform such other processing or disclosure that may be required by the Commission.

DISCLOSURE

You may ask the Commission to refrain or discontinue collecting, using or disclosing said information at any time. Your personal or sensitive personal information shall be disclosed if it is required by law.

RETENTION

All collected data shall be retained and kept with reasonable security measures for such period as necessary to serve the purpose for which it was collected, or as required under any contract or by any law, rule or regulation. Thereafter, it shall be disposed in a sure manner that would prevent further processing, unauthorized access or disclosure to any other party.

USE OF COOKIES

We use data collection technologies such as cookies to collect certain information as you navigate through and interact with our website and social media account. It may include information which links and pages you view or clicked on and other relevant statistical information about your interests, and other navigational data to provide content-worthy website for a better user experience.

You may opt not to receive cookies by not accepting them or disabling them on your browser configuration. However, by doing this, you may not be able to fully utilize the features of our website.

Our website and social media accounts may contain links to websites of other government agencies, articles, other website of interest. These sites are independent and are not subject to our control. They are also not governed by this Privacy Policy. Should you choose to use such links and leave our website, please note that we have no control over such sites.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES/UPDATES

The Commission reserves the right to amend, modify or change this Privacy Policy from time to time to comply with the latest directives from laws and regulations. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy regularly for the latest modifications.

CONTACT US

For any questions, inquiries, clarifications, and concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us through:
The Data Protection Officer
Philippine Racing Commission
4th Floor, Electra House Building,
Esteban St., Legaspi Village Makati City
Tel Nos.: 8893-14-53, 8813-77-78, 8893-63-47
Email: dpo@philracom.gov.ph