Privacy Policy

Who we are

This is the website for the AI-First Nation: A blueprint for policy makers and organisation leaders book. The website address is: https://aifn.sg. While the AIFN book is a personal effort, I promote the various AI Singapore programmes which I ran, and hence you will see information about AI Singapore, AI Singapore programmes, and links between this website and the main AI Singapore websites.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data, and we discard it when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also establish several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

In the operation of our website, we use various third-party services to enhance functionality and user experience, which involves sharing some of your data with these providers. Below are the details of the third-party services we use and the nature of the data sharing involved:

1. Rank Math: We use Rank Math to optimize our website for search engines. Rank Math may collect anonymous data about how users interact with our website and use this data to provide us with analytics. This data is stored on Rank Math’s servers and is used to enhance the SEO performance of our site. Rank Math’s privacy policy can provide additional information. We use Rank Math together with Google Analytics.
2. Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track your usage of the aifn.sg website through Rank Math above. The following information may be collected:
   • Non-Personal Information: This includes data like your IP address (anonymized), browser type, device type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on each page, and referring website. This information is used to analyze website traffic trends and improve our website’s content and performance.
   • Cookies: Rank Math and Google Analytics use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device, to collect the aforementioned non-personal information. These cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.
3. Independent Analytics: For detailed site analytics, we use Independent Analytics for on-page analytics.
4. Antispam-Bee: To prevent spam on our site, we use antispam-bee, a fully open source, 100% GDPR compliant WordPress plugin.
5. Data Processors and Other Third Parties: We may share your data with additional third parties who act as data processors on our behalf. These entities are contractually bound by data processing agreements to ensure the confidentiality and security of your data.
6. Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.

We do not share any personally identifiable information collected with third parties. We may share aggregated, anonymized data with trusted partners for analytical purposes.

We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We conduct all data sharing strictly for the purposes outlined above.

We take great care to ensure that all third-party services we use comply with the highest standards of data protection and privacy. We ensure any data transfers outside of your country of residence are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

How We Use the Information:

The information collected is used to:

1. Analyze website traffic and user behavior.
2. Identify popular content and areas for improvement.
3. Enhance the website’s functionality and user experience.
4. Measure the effectiveness of our SEO efforts.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, our system will keep the comment and its metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

For more detailed information on how your data is handled, please refer to the privacy policies of the respective third-party service providers.

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