Privacy Policy
Streetcorner Lending Corp.
Doing Business under the Name and Style of AKULAKU
INTRODUCTION
We value your privacy. This Privacy Policy informs you of your choices and our practices regarding any
information you provide to us.
The use of our services may involve the collection and use of your Information (as defined in the “The Information
We Collect and How We Collect It” section below) on our services (including our website: www.akulaku.com and
mobile application: AKULAKU). It is important for you to understand how this happens and how you may control
it, so please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
By using our services, you agree that we may collect, use and share your Information in accordance with this
Privacy Policy, as revised from time to time.
SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy applies across all of our services as defined above.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and form part of the AKULAKU’s “Terms and Conditions” that you have
agreed to in order to use our services. Any terms used in this Privacy Policy will have the same meaning as the
equivalent defined terms in the AKULAKU’s Terms and Conditions, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy
Policy or the context requires otherwise.
Please also note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected: (i) through third party services
(including any third-party websites and applications) that you may access through our services; or (ii) by other
companies and organizations who advertise their services on our services.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may from time-to-time revise or add specific instructions, policies and terms to this Privacy Policy. These
instructions, policies and terms form part of this Privacy Policy. Where we consider that any changes to this
Privacy Policy are reasonably material, we will notify you via our website at http://www.akulaku.com, through
direct communication to you, or other means prior to the change becoming effective. By continuing to use
our services after any changes to this Privacy Policy, with or without notice from us, you are agreeing to the
revised Privacy Policy.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
In providing our services, we collect, store and use the following Information relating to you:
“Personal Information” is any information or combination of information that relates to you, and can be used to
identify you. Personal Information may include the following:
ⅰ. Information you make available to us when you open an account or use our services, such as your:a. Complete Name
a. Landline and/or Mobile Number
b. Present and Permanent Residence (or Shipping) Address
c. Email Address
d. Age and Date of Birth
e. Gender
f. Civil Status
g. Complete name of Spouse (if applicable)
h. Mobile number and email address of spouse
i. Employment Information
j. Character References (5) and their contact information
ⅱ. information which you make available to our services as you use them, including Shared Information you make
available to others through our services and information you store using our services;
iii. Shared Information that others using our services make available about you, such as information contained in
posts they make and communications they make to you and others using our services; and
ⅳ. Information we collect as you download our application or use our services, such as:
a. “Location Data” – We may collect information regarding your location (when you use a location-enabled
service), including:
- the location of your device when you use our services, such as from the GPS, WiFi, compass,
accelerometer or other sensors in your mobile device;
- the IP address of the device or internet service you use to access our services,
- other information made available by you or others that gives an indication as to where you are or have
been located, such as account information that indicates where you are located and Shared Information
you or others post indicating your location, such as any geotag information that is embedded in any
photos you make available to us; and
b. “Log Data” – There are types of information we may automatically collect when you use our services,
whether through the use of cookies, web beacons and log files or otherwise, including:
- Technical information such as your mobile carrier, configuration information made available by your web
browser or other programs you use to access our services, your IP address and your device’s version
and identification number, information about what you have searched for and looked at while using our
services, such as web search terms used, social media profiles visited and details of other information
and content accessed or requested by you in using our services;
- Information about communications you have made using our services, such as the people you’ve
communicated with and the time, data and duration of your communications; and metadata, which means
information related to items you have made available through our services, such as the date, time or
location that a shared photograph was taken or posted.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
The collected signature, full address, email, contact details and other information as listed above will be used in your
transactions with AKULAKU By agreeing to the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, you are authorizing
AKULAKU to use your submitted signature to facilitate transactions in your behalf as deemed authorized by you
through the use of your password, and such authorization shall extend to third parties with whom we have data
sharing agreements.
We may use your Information for any of the following purposes:
To enable us to perform our transactions with you.
ⅰ. To provide our services and verify your identity;
ⅱ. To approve, facilitate, administer and process applications and transactions; send you statements, billings,
notices and other such documents necessary for continued use of our products and services;
iii. To conduct studies and researches for the purpose of reviewing, developing and improving our products and
services;
ⅳ. To perform profile analysis, behavioral modeling and analytics to understand needs, preferences and market
trends to be able to improve and recommend suitable products and services;
ⅴ. For customer service, security, fraud-detection, archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision
of our services;
ⅵ. Additionally, it must be made clear to users that their personal data will be uploaded to SLC’s server, and SLC
must obtain user consent before the data is uploaded.
To communicate with you.
vii. To reach out to you regarding products and services information, including offers, promotions, discounts,
rewards; and for personalizing your experience with our various touchpoints such as call center, telemarketing,
email, messaging and other channels;
viii. To respond to your queries, requests and complaints and improve how we interact with you;
ⅸ. To provide you with advertising and direct marketing that is more relevant to you;
To improve our services.
ⅹ. To better understand how you access and use our services, for the purposes of trying to improve our services
and to respond to customer desires and preferences, including language and location customization,
personalized help and instructions, or other responses to your and other customers’ usage of our services;
ⅹi. To help us develop our new services and improve our existing services;xii. To assess the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities on or in
connection with our services when your account is subscribed to an official account; and
xiii. To allow you to participate in surveys about our products and services. If you participate in a survey, we may
request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys is voluntary and you
therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use may use a third-party service provider
to conduct these surveys and such third-party service provider will be prohibited from using your personally
identifiable information for any other purpose.
To protect our Company’s interest.
xiv.To perform certain protective safeguards against improper use or abuse of our products and services including
fraud prevention;
xv. To comply and/or perform our operational, audit, administrative, credit and risk management processes, policies
and procedures, including credit check (which may entail the use of telco scores derived from your mobile phone
usage data for credit evaluation purposes), verification and reporting;
xvi.To review and/or comply with the terms and conditions governing our products, services, facilities and
channels;
xvii. Carry out payment collection activities through the Company’s Collection Department or a debts collection
agency;
xviii. Enable the Company to pursue reasonable and legally permissible remedies in accordance with this
Agreement and under applicable laws;
To comply with applicable laws and legal processes.
xix.To comply with legal and regulatory requirements of government regulators, judicial, supervisory bodies, tax
authorities or courts of competent jurisdiction, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time;
xx. Comply with court order and other legal processes;
xxi. Respond to governmental inquiries or requests from public authorities;
xxii. Prevent fraud, violation of contracts, violations of law, and misuse of our products and services.
Please note that for the purposes of seeking to provide our users with a better experience, to improve our services
or otherwise where you have consented, Personal Information collected through our site or service may, subject to
user privacy controls (where available), be used by our other services (including in an aggregated or individualized
manner).
For example, Personal Information collected during your use of one of our services may be used to suggest particular
content that can be made available to you on another service or be used to try to present more relevant advertising
to you in another service. You may also from time to time ask us to migrate or export your Personal Information
contained in one of our services to another of our services, where such migration option is available.COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND LOG FILES
We may use cookies, web beacons and log files to collect, and store Information about you or relating to you to help
us improve our site and the services we offer. Cookies allow us to recognize your device and tell us how and when
our services are used. We may also link cookie information to personal data. You may refuse the use of cookies by
selecting the appropriate settings on your device. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to
experience the full functionality of our site and our services.
SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Other than as permitted under this Privacy Policy or as otherwise consented to by you, we will not transfer your
Personal Information to any other third parties for their processing for any purposes.
We and our affiliate companies may share your personal information with third party service providers, contractors,
and agents such as, but not limited to, Globe Telecom, Inc. and SMART Telecom, Inc. who send emails or push
notifications on our behalf, and mapping services providers who assist us and you with location data, in each case,
for the purposes of:
i.providing our services to you;
ii. assisting us in carrying out the purposes set out under the “How We Use Your Information” section above;
iii. carrying out our obligations and enforcing our rights under the AKULAKU’s Terms and Conditions or this Privacy
Policy; and/or
iv. improving our services.
These third parties may be located and may use your Personal Information, outside of your jurisdiction for these
purposes.
Where we or our affiliate companies do share your Personal Information with any third parties, we will use reasonable
efforts to ensure that such third parties only use your Personal Information: (i) in compliance with this Privacy Policy;
and (ii) subject to any other instructions we give them, including any appropriate confidentiality and security measures
that we implement and consistent with the purpose for which such information was obtained.
You consent to the third-party use, sharing and transfer of your Personal Information (both inside and outside of
your jurisdiction) as described in this section.
As we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliate companies may be acquired by a third party or we may
re-organize our group structure. In these circumstances, it may be the case that your Information is transferred
within our group and/or transferred to a third party who will continue to operate our services or similar services under
either this Privacy Policy or a different privacy policy which will be notified to you. The party to which your Personal
Information is transferred may be located, and may use your Information, outside of your jurisdiction.
You agree that we or our affiliate companies may be required to retain, preserve or disclose your Personal
Information:
i. in order to comply with applicable laws or regulations;ii. in order to comply with a court order, subpoena or other legal process;
iii. in response to a request by a government authority, law enforcement agency or similar body (whether situated
in your jurisdiction or elsewhere);or
iv. where we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws or regulations.
You also agree that we or our affiliate companies may need to disclose your Personal Information in order to enforce
AKUALKU’s Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property
or safety of our affiliate companies or other users of our services.
A WORD ABOUT SHARED INFORMATION
Our services enable Shared Information to be shared publicly with all users of that service and not just your contacts.
Our social media services in particular are primarily designed to help you share Shared Information with the world
via features either provided by us or third parties, so Shared Information can be broadly and instantly transmitted
and will remain public for as long as you do not delete it (and even after you delete Shared Information, it may still
be separately cached, copied, or stored by, or remain public through, other users or third parties who are not
affiliated with and not controlled by us).
Please consider carefully what you post and communicate through our services. In some instances, you may control
what access the wider public has to your Shared Information via the privacy settings in some of our services. If you
would like to update or amend your Personal Information you may do so by logging into your account and making
the appropriate changes or by contacting our Data Protection Officer. To request removal of your Personal
Information from our services, or to request the removal of an unauthorized account, please contact our Data
Protection Officer. In some cases, we may not be able to update, amend or remove your Personal Information, in
which case we will let you know why we are unable to do so.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM US
Newsletters and other types of communications
When you use our service, we may use your Information to send you emails, newsletters or push notifications to
your device. If you no longer wish to receive these communications, you can do so by following the unsubscribe
instructions in the emails we send to you, opting out of notifications at the device level (if available) or contacting
our Data Protection Officer via the contact information within this Policy.
Service-related announcements
We may from time to time send you service-related announcements when we consider it necessary to do so (such
as when we temporarily suspend one of our services for maintenance). You may not opt-out of these service-related
announcements, which are not promotional in nature.
A WORD ABOUT SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
In some jurisdictions, certain Personal Information, such as information about your race or ethnic origin, religious or
philosophical views or personal health, is characterized as “sensitive” and is subject to stricter regulation than other personal information. Please note that content and information that you input to our services, such as photographs
or information about your school or social activities, may reveal your sensitive Personal Information to others.
We urge you to consider whether it is appropriate to communicate Personal Information of a sensitive nature in the
manner you are proposing to communicate it using our services.
You consent to all processing of sensitive Personal Information for the purposes and in the manner described in this
Privacy Policy.
Please note that we do not use your sensitive Personal Information for the purpose of advertising to you.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES ON OUR SERVICES
Our service may link you to social media or other services (including websites and applications) provided by a third
party. For example: you may be able to share content on, or login to, our services using services provided by third
parties. The third parties who provide such services may be able to collect your Information and Personal Information
(including your Log Data), and may set cookies on your computer to enable such feature to function properly; and
we may (whether in advertisements or otherwise within our services) provide you with links that allow you to access
third party services or websites. These third-party social media or other services may be hosted by the relevant third
party or us. Your use of any such third-party services (whether social media services or otherwise), including any
Personal Information you provide to such third parties, are subject to the relevant third party’s own Terms of Uses
and Privacy Policies and not the AKULAKU’s Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy, so please review their
terms carefully.
This Privacy Policy only applies to any Information collected by us, and does not apply to any services offered by or
information practices of any third parties, and we bear no liability for any third-party use of any Information provided
by you to them.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have rights enumerated in Chapter IV of Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act.
The provisions of this law are deemed written into this Terms and Conditions. Hence, you have the right to:
- Right to be informed and to request access. You have the right to ask whether your personal information
is being or has been processed. Consequently, you have the right to access such personal data that we
process.
- Right to object. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, including processing
for direct marketing, automated processing or profiling.
- Right to withhold consent. You shall also be notified and given an opportunity to withhold consent to the
processing of your personal information in case of changes in our privacy policies and other information
we provide you. However, your withdrawal of consent may mean that we will not be able to continue
providing our services to you or we may need to terminate our existing relationship and your contract
with us, etc. as the case may be, which we will inform you of.
- Right to rectification. You have the right to dispute the inaccuracy or error in your personal information
and we shall correct it immediately and accordingly, unless the request is vexatious or otherwise
unreasonable.• Right to erasure/blocking. You shall have the right to suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal
or destruction of your personal data from our database in the following circumstances: (1) your personal
data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed; (2) you withdraw
your consent or object to the processing of your personal information, and no other legal ground or
overriding legitimate interests exists for us to continue processing the same; (3) you believe that we
have processed your personal data unlawfully; or (4) the personal data you provided involves private
information that is prejudicial to you.
- Right to lodge a complaint. You have to right to approach us if there has been any violation of your rights
as enumerated above. We shall exert our best efforts to address and settle any requests or complaints
brought to our attention.
AGE RESTRICTIONS
Users under the age of 18 are not allowed to use our services. The Personal Information about the age of users
will be referred to the uploaded image of user’s Gov’t issued ID (as explained in more detail under the “The
Information We Collect and How We Collect It” section above). We do not knowingly collect Personal Information
from any users under the age of 18. Please contact our Data Protection Officer if you believe we have any
Personal Information from any users under the age of 18 and we will promptly investigate (and remove) such
Personal Information.
TRANSFER, STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We operate and may continue to operate servers in a number of jurisdictions around the world, so the server on
which your Personal Information is used and stored may not be in your jurisdiction.
You consent to the transfer of your Personal Information (both inside and outside of your jurisdiction) for the
purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures for the purpose of preventing loss, misuse,
unauthorized access or disclosure of information.
In our service, we will use encryption technology (such as SSL) to protect certain sensitive Information (such as
location data) provided by you to us. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can
guarantee 100% security at all times. Our systems and the communications networks through which you access
our services may be subject to security breaches and failures which are due to circumstances beyond our
reasonable control. If you have any questions regarding the security of your Personal Information, please contact
our Data Protection Officer.
PERIOD OF USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Subject to applicable laws and regulations (including as set out under the “Sharing of Your Personal Information”
section above), we will only use your Personal Information for so long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes as
set out under the “How We Use Your Information” section above.Subject to applicable laws and regulations, you may have the right to request to receive a copy of and make any
corrections to your Personal Information which we hold, and to request that we deactivate and not use any of
your Personal Information that is stored by us. You may direct such request to our Data Protection Officer, or
where we offer this option in our services; you may also log into your account with us and make the appropriate
changes. We will respond to all requests made to our Data Protection Officer within 60 days.
Should your account be terminated by you or us for any reason, we will (subject to the above paragraph) take
steps to ensure that your Personal Information is no longer available through our services, or otherwise used by
us, within a reasonable period of time (subject to technical limitations) after such account termination. However,
it is important to note that communications made by you using our services may put your Personal Information in
the hands of third parties that we cannot control.
If you wish to contact us regarding this Privacy Policy or any privacy-related matters, please contact our Data
Protection Officer via email at support@akulaku.com or via postal mail to AKULAKU at 24th Floor IBP Tower Doña
Julia Vargas and Jade Drive Avenue Barangay San Antonio, Pasig City (Attention: Data Protection Officer, Legal
Department).
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you wish to contact us regarding this Privacy Policy or any privacy-related matters, please contact our Data
Protection Officer via email at dpo@akulaku.com (Attention: Data Protection Officer, Legal Department).
You may also write to our Data Protection Officer at:
Streetcorner Lending Corp.
24th Floor IBP Tower Doña Julia Vargas and Jade Drive Avenue Barangay San
Antonio, Pasig City