Privacy Notice
We, Prudential (Cambodia) Life Assurance PLC. (PCLA), take the privacy and protection of your personal data seriously.
So, we’ve set out below information about our processing of your personal data, what rights you have, and how you can get in touch if you want to know more.
When we say “Personal Data”, we mean information about you, such as your name, date of birth and contact details. We collect personal data from you that is necessary for us to either provide you with the product or service you’ve requested or to comply with statutory or contractual requirements. Unfortunately, if you’re unable to provide certain personal data which is necessary for us to provide our products and/or services to you, we will not be able to provide you with those products and/or services.
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time by updating our Privacy Notice page on our website. We encourage you to check our Privacy Notice from time to time on our website, as the version of our Privacy Notice which is displayed on our website takes precedence over all previous versions of our Privacy Notice.
Part A – Personal data we process
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Personal and contact details, such as title, full name, primary occupation, contact details and contact details history;
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your date of birth, gender and/or age, height, weight;
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your nationality (if relevant to the product or service);
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details of fund investors, beneficiaries, such as joint policy holders and minor beneficiaries of our products or services;
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family members (if relevant to the product or service);
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records of your contact with us such as via the phone number of our customer service centre and, if you get in touch with us online using our online services or via our smartphone app, details such as your mobile phone location data, IP address and MAC address;
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products and services, you hold with us, as well as those you have been interested in and have held and the associated payment methods used;
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the usage of our products and services, any claims and whether those claims were paid out or not (and details related to this);
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analysis of data relating to marketing made to you, including history of communications and whether you open them or click on links;
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information about your use of products or services held with our Marketing Partners, such as insurance policies, mortgage, savings or financial services and products;
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information we obtained from third parties, including information about insurance risk, pricing, claims history, instances of suspect fraud and usage history;
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personal data which we obtain from Credit Reference Agencies and Fraud Prevention Agencies, including public (for example, defaults) and shared credit history, financial situation and financial history;
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fraud, debt and theft information, including details of money you owe, suspected instances of fraud or theft, and details of any devices used for fraud;
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criminal records information, including alleged offences;
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information about your health or if you are a vulnerable customer if you are applying for medical or life insurance;
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information about your property, such as location, value, number of rooms, property type and building work you’ve had done (if relevant to the product or service);
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financial details about you, such as your salary and details of other income, details of your savings, details of your expenditure, and payment method(s);
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details about all your existing borrowings and loans (if relevant to the product or service);
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information about your employment status (if relevant to the product or service);
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information about your property occupier status, such as whether you are a tenant, live with parents or are an owner occupier of the property where you live at the time of your application;
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your residency and/or citizenship status;
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your marital status, family, lifestyle or social circumstances (if relevant to the product or service). For example, the number of dependents you have or if you are a widow or widower;
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information we buy or rent from third parties, including demographic information, details of outstanding finance, marketing lists, publicly available information, and information to help improve the relevance of our products and services;
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insights about you and our customers gained from analysis or profiling of customers;
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third party transactions; such as where a person other than the account holder uses the service, information about that person and the transaction; and
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tax information (if relevant to the product or service). For example, for investment accounts.
Part B - Where we get your personal data
We’ll collect personal data from the following general sources:
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from you directly, and any information from family members, associates or beneficiaries of products and services;
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information generated about you when you use our products and services;
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from a broker or other intermediary (for example, agents, distributors, business partners) who we work with to provide products or services or quote to you;
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Prudential Group companies if you already have a product with them, have applied for one or have held a one previously;
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Cookies, location services, IP addresses when you visit our website or mobile app.
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Questionnaire and contact details when you attend surveys, investor conferences, roadshows or when you update contact us form on our website;
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from other sources such as Fraud Prevention Agencies, Credit Reference Agencies, other lenders, publicly available directories and information (for example, telephone directory, social media, internet, news articles), debt recovery and/or tracing agents, other organisations to assist in prevention and detection of crime, police and law enforcement agencies; and
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we buy or rent information about you or customers generally from third parties including demographic information, vehicle details, claims history, fraud information, marketing lists, publicly available information and other information to help improve our products and services or our business.
Part B.1 - Cookie Policy
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use the Site and also allows us to improve our Site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is stored on your computer's hard drive. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the setting in your browser. If you would like to do this, please see the help menu of your browser.
We use the following types of cookies:
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Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into our secure Site;
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Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our Site and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily; and
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Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
By continuing to use the Site, you accept to the use of cookies as outlined above.
Part C - How we use your personal data and why
We, PCLA, Prudential Corporation Asia, the Prudential Group and our Business Partners, will use the personal data you provide to us, together with other information, for the following purposes:
Purpose |
Legal basis for processing |
The administration of our products and services, including to enable us to perform our obligations to you and to provide any relevant services as discussed with you prior to any purchase of a product or service. Carrying out checks using agencies such as credit reference agencies, tracing companies, or publicly available information (see Part D for more). |
Necessary for the performance of our contract with you or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract with you. |
Provision of customer services - like to reply to a question, or tell you that something’s changing. Automated decision-making or profiling (see Part E for more). Keeping your information on record and carrying out other internal business administration. |
Necessary for the performance of our contract with you. After our contract is complete, our legitimate interests in maintaining and developing our relationship with you. |
Complying with any regulatory or other legal requirements. |
Compliance with our legal obligations. |
Design and provide you with insurance, financial and related products and services. Conduct research and statistical analysis (including use of new technologies). |
Our legitimate interests in designing and improving our products, provide value added services, developing our business and gaining insight into how our products are used. |
In addition, we, PCLA, Prudential Corporation Asia, the Prudential Group and our Marketing Partners, will use the personal data you provide to us, together with other information, to send you direct marketing offers by electronic and non-electronic means including by post, as well as sending you introductions to products and services from carefully selected third parties also by post. Please see part I for further details. Our legal basis for this processing is based on your consent.
Some of the purposes above are necessary to allow us to perform our contractual obligations to you and to enable us to comply with applicable laws and regulation. We may also rely on legitimate interests in using and sharing your personal data for the purposes described above to improve our products and services. This allows us to explore ways to develop our business and to gain insights into how our products and services are used. If we need your consent to use your personal data for the purposes described above, we will only process your personal data if you have provided consent.
Who we share your personal data with and why
We’ll share your personal and your health information within the Prudential Group and to our financial / health business partners and third party service providers (including without limitation insurers, lawyers, bankers, accountants, financial institutions, trustee’s and other third party service providers who provide administrative, telecommunications, computer, payment, printing, redemption or other services to us to enable us to operate our business), medical bill review companies, claims investigations companies, industry associations and federations, your joint policy or investment holder, professional advisors, researchers, credit reference agencies, debt collection agencies, financial/health institutions and partnerships for any of the purposes set out in this Part C. If you have a joint policy or, the other person may receive your personal data too. If appropriate, we may also pass on your personal data to financial crime prevention agencies, any legal, regulatory or government bodies.
We may process your personal data in a country other than the one in which you reside. To the extent we transfer your personal data, we will use appropriate safeguards and comply with the laws of the country to which your personal data is transferred. Details of the safeguards we use are available on request.
We keep your personal data for a set amount of time
Your personal data will be stored either for as long as you (or your joint policyholder) are our customer, or longer if required by law or as is otherwise necessary. It’ll always be in line with our data retention policy. There may be specific circumstances where it is necessary for us to retain your personal data for longer (such as when a dispute arises).
Part D - Reference checks
For certain products, we may use approved credit reference agencies, tracing companies, financial crime prevention agencies, or publicly available information, to help us to check your identity, as well as to prevent fraud and money laundering; this may include checks on your current or previous addresses. Results of these may be recorded for future reference.
These checks may also be carried out for a fund investor, joint policy holder or person(s) that you provide personal data on. Should we ever lose contact with you, we may use these agencies to verify your address to help us get back in touch.
Any transfer of your personal data will always be done securely.
Part E – We may use your personal data to make automated decisions or profile you
We, PCLA, Prudential Corporation Asia, our Business Partners, and our Marketing Partners may use your personal data to make automated decisions affecting you or to conduct other profiling (for example, marketing profiling).
To the extent that we conduct such automated decision-making activity, we’ll provide you with further information at the appropriate time in accordance with local law.
Part F – Use of your sensitive personal data
For certain products or services, we’ll need to process your sensitive personal data, such as information relating to health, genetics, biometric identifiers and sexual orientation. To the extent that we need your explicit consent to process this kind of personal data in the manner described in Parts C, D, and E, we will provide details of this at the point of collection and seek your consent in accordance with local law.
Part G – You’re in control
When it comes to how we use your personal data, you’ve got the right as permitted in local law.
Meanwhile, if you currently reside in a EU jurisdiction, additional rights under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may apply. As such, you may:
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request a copy of your personal data for free (we may charge you for this if the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive);
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in certain circumstances request that we move your personal data to another organisation if you want us to;
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request that we correct anything that’s wrong, or complete any incomplete personal data;
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ask us to delete your personal data if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out in Part A or if there is no other legal basis for the processing;
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limit how we use your personal data or withdraw your consents (including automated decision making) you have given for the processing of your personal data;
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object to us using your personal data for direct marketing (including related profiling) or other processing based on legitimate interests; and
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complain to a data protection authority or another independent regulator about how we’re using it.
If you want to exercise your rights, or would like an explanation about these rights, we’ve explained how you can get in touch in the Contact Us section.
If you do need to speak to us, it’ll be useful to have to hand that the data controller of your personal data is PCLA. We may monitor or record calls or any other communication we have with you. This might be for training, for security, or to help us check for quality.
Part H – Acting on someone else’s behalf?
Your local law may require you to seek consent before you give us personal data about another person (or persons) on their behalf. This includes providing consent to:
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our processing of their personal data and sensitive personal data (as we’ve explained in Parts A - G above); and
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you are getting any information protection notices on their behalf.
If for any reason you are concerned as to whether you are permitted to provide us with the other person’s information, please contact us at the email address below before sending us anything.
Part I – Direct marketing
We, PCLA, Prudential Corporation Asia, our Business Partners, and our Marketing Partners will still send you information by post about our and the Prudential Group’s products and services and carefully selected third parties.
Additionally, from time to time, we, PCLA, Prudential Corporation Asia, and the Prudential Group would like to contact you by electronic means with details about products, services and any special offers. We will only do this if you have consented to us contacting you by electronic means.
And if you change your mind, and / or you would like to opt-out of receiving non-electronic direct marketing, it’s easy to let us know. Just use one of the options in the Contact us section.
Contact us
If want to exercise your rights in Part G or if you require any other information about any other part of this notice, you can contact us in several different ways.
Write to us at:
20th Floor, Chip Mong Tower, Russian Federation Blvd (110), Phum 10, Sangkat Phsar Depou 3, Khan Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. P.O.Box: 417
Email us at:
info@prudential.com.kh
Or visit:
www.prudential.com.kh
Prudential Corporation Asia means Prudential Corporation Asia Limited.
The Prudential Group means Prudential Plc, Prudential Holdings Limited and any other affiliates of Prudential plc. Prudential Plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc. a company with principal place of business is in United States of America or with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G Plc, a company incorporated in United Kingdom.
Business Partners means our service providers, accountants, auditors, IT service and platform providers, intermediaries, reinsurers, investment managers, agents, pension trustees (and other stakeholders), scheme advisors, introducers, selected third party financial and insurance product providers, and our legal advisers.
Marketing Partners means our service providers, intermediaries, pension trustees (and other stakeholders), scheme advisors, introducers and selected third party financial and insurance product providers.