Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to You

BGI respects your privacy choices. If you provide us with personal information, we will treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We are committed to:

1. taking all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you provide to us;
2. telling you how we use the information we gather about you; and
3. ensuring that you know why we intend to disclose your personal information.

Accessing the Web Site

In accessing this website you acknowledge that we may track and record information for systems, trouble shooting, administrative and reporting purposes, including, for instance, the aggregate number of visitors to the website and the sections of the site visited by visitors.

Cookies

We use "cookies" to collect and store information about your Internet connection when you visit our web site. Cookies are data elements that our website sends to your browser. In using cookies, we do not gather or store any personal information about you other than to the extent necessary to identify you, if you are a registered user. We utilise cookies to better understand who is coming, and returning, to our website. We also use cookies to measure the number of visitors to different parts of our website. This information helps us to improve our website and make it more useful to our visitors. If you would prefer not to accept cookies from us, you may set your browser accordingly. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you may not be able to access all of the website.

Use of your personal information

We use your personal information to service your account, to improve our services to you, to provide information to you and to inform you about additional products or services that may be of interest to you.

We may provide such information to affiliates, service providers and other third parties for the preceding purposes. By disclosing your personal information to us via this website, you consent to our disclosing your personal information to such parties both in your country of residence and outside your country of residence. We may forward your personal details to the police or another regulatory body if we are asked to do so or wish to do so in order to comply with the law or in relation to any suspected misuse by you of our website or any of our website services. We endeavour to prevent unauthorised disclosures of your personal information by other people, but we are not responsible for any unauthorised disclosures or other breaches of security or for the actions of others if the information was passed to them with your authority or with the authority of anybody other than us or our associated companies.

We may disclose details about the general use of our websites to third parties e.g. to demonstrate patterns of use to advertisers and other business partners. Information we pass on will not include any personal information by which you may be identified. We may forward your personal details to third parties (including our affiliates) whom we have contracted to provide direct marketing services on our behalf and in our name.

We may send you information which we think may interest you after registering on this website. We will normally send direct marketing by email or post depending on your preference. If you would like us to stop sending direct marketing to you, by selecting the unsubscribe facility in any email or by writing to us at the address set out in the "Communicating With Us" section of this Privacy Policy.

How We Ensure Privacy Is Maintained

We will use all our reasonable endeavours to ensure that your data is stored securely and is protected against unauthorised access. Our websites provide a number of links to websites not operated by us or by companies associated with us. We take no responsibility for the use of any information about you which is collected as a result of your use of these websites and this Privacy Policy does not extend to any website operated by anybody other than us.

Revisions to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to revise this policy at any time by posting a revised Privacy Policy online (of which you will be made aware when you next access this web site after such revisions have been made) and your continued access to or use of the web site will mean that you agree to these changes.

Communicating With Us

You have the right to request access to and correction of information about yourself held by Barclays Global Investors. If you wish to access or correct your personal data held by BGI, please send your request to email address isharesasiaprivacy@barclaysglobal.com or to the following address:

The Privacy Officer
Barclays Global Investors Southeast Asia Limited
23 Church Street
#13-04 Capital Square
Singapore 049481

BGI has the right to charge a reasonable fee is respect of any access request.

Nothing in this statement limits the rights available to a person under relevant privacy regulation.