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Our Private Policy

Private Policy for Refinement Society 

At Refinement Society, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains the type of information that is collected and how we use it. 

It is your Choice

When we make Refinement Society Blog available to you online, we use cookies and similar technologies to help us to do this. Some are necessary to help our blog work properly, and some are optional but support Refinement Society and our experience in other ways.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our website/blog, fill out a form, or comment on the site. When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, or website URL. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.  The purpose of this information is to analyze trends, administering the blog, visitors insights on the blog, and gathering demographic information. 

Cookies and Web Beacons

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your WEB browser (if you allow) that enable the sites or service providers' systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. 

Like most sites, this website use cookies to ensure we provide you with the best possible experience, and to analyze how you are using the site to improve it for you in the future.

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

What do we use the information for?
  • To personalize your experience: (Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs, to provide social media features)
  • To improve our website/blog: We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you
  • To improve our customer service requests and support needs. 
  • To send periodic emails: The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. 
  • We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising, and analytic partners. 

We also use third-party advertisements on Google.com (third-party vendor) to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Malaysia refinement style trends information to someone in Malaysia, or site visitors from other countries as information for their market study in Malaysia or Asia, or example only), or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing digital marketing online education ads to someone who frequents online study sites).

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security or others of your choice. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log in to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. 

Our Private Policy key highlights:
  • Third-party vendors including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website.
  • Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our website users based on users' visits to our sites and/or other sites on the internet
  • Users may opt-out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie interest-based advertising, or by visiting Google Ad Settings and content network Privacy Policy. 
  • You can manage the choices available to you, by clicking 'Manage my cookies, where our partners rely on legitimate interests to use your information.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other users. 

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products, or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites. 

Children's Information

It is also our priority in adding protection to children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guradians to observe, participate in, and /or monitor and guide their online activity.  Refinement Society does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our blog, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we shall do our best efforts to immediately remove such inforamtion from our records. 

Online Private Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

NB: If there are any future changes to this privacy policy, we shall post these changes on this page. 

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us at the contact box on this site https://www.refinementsociety.blogspot.com

By clicking "I CONSENT", you are agreeing to our use of cookies accepting our privacy policy, and our third parties' privacy policies, and our website terms and conditions. 


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