Privacy Statement

General

This is a Government of Singapore website.

We may use "cookies", where a small data file is sent to your browser to store and track information about you when you enter our websites. The cookie is used to track information such as the number of users and their frequency of use, profiles of users and their preferred digital service. While this cookie can tell us when you enter our digital service and which pages you visit, it cannot read data off your hard disk.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the digital service.

Use of data

If you provide us with personal data:

• Where appropriate, we may share necessary data (including personal data) with other Government Agencies, so as to improve the discharge of public functions, and to serve you in the most efficient and effective way unless such sharing is prohibited by law.

• We may share your personal data with non-Government entities that have been authorised to perform services or functions on behalf of NCSS or other Government Agencies, including but not limited to support research, evaluation, service planning, service improvement, policy development, statistical analysis, and other analytics purposes. We will implement reasonable safeguards, where appropriate,  to protect your personal data and privacy when sharing such data with authorised non-Government entities.

• We will not share your personal data with non-Government entities other than those described above, except with your consent or where required or permitted by law.

• We may use your personal data for research, evaluation, service planning, service improvement, policy development, statistical analysis, and other analytics purposes.

• For your convenience, we may also display to your data that you had previously supplied us or other Government Agencies. This will speed up the transaction and save you the trouble of repeating previous submissions. Should the data be out-of-date, please supply us the latest data.

Protection of data

To safeguard your personal data, all electronic storage and transmission of personal data is secured with appropriate security technologies.

This digital service may contain links to non-Government digital services whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the content and privacy practices of these other digital services, and we encourage you to consult the privacy notices of those digital services.

Contact information

Please contact NCSS_QSM@ncss.gov.sg ↗ (opens in new tab):

• have any enquires or feedback on our data protection, policies and procedures; or

• need more information on or access to data which you have provided directly to us in the past.

Definitions

• “Government Agency” refers to an Organ of State, Ministry, Department or Statutory Board.

• ”Non-Government entity” refers to a person other than a Government Agency.

• "Personal data” shall have the same meaning as its definition in the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (No. 26 of 2012).”