Privacy Policy

Bowsprit Capital Corporation Limited, in its capacity as manager of First Real Estate Investment Trust (“First REIT”, and as manager of First REIT, the “Manager”), is committed to safeguard your Personal Data (as defined below) and respect the privacy of individuals and confidentiality of Personal Data.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) provides information about the Personal Data that the Manager may collect, and the ways in which the Manager may use such Personal Data. Our websites may include, however, links to other websites which are not covered by this Privacy Policy.  When visiting these third party web sites, you should read their privacy policies.

Collection of Personal Data

In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” refers to any data or information about you from which you can be identified, either from that data alone or from that data and other information which we have or are likely to have access to. Examples of such Personal Data include:

  1. your name, NRIC or other identification number, country, profession, job position, industry, telephone number, mailing address, email address and any other information relating to you which you have provided us in any forms you may have submitted to us, or in other forms of interaction with you;
  2. information about your use of First REIT's website, including cookies and IP address; and
  3. any other related information.

Generally, the Manager may collect your Personal Data in, among others, the following ways:

  1. when you interact with any of our employees;
  2. when you respond to our request for additional Personal Data;
  3. when you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list;
  4. when you request that we contact you; or
  5. when you submit your Personal Data to us for any other reasons.

Use of Personal Data

The Personal Data provided by you will be treated as confidential and we may use such information to:

  1. address and/or respond to the enquires, feedbacks, comments or suggestions that you have communicated to us in writing or orally;
  2. provide you with the matters that you have requested for, such as subscribing to our mailing list or email alert, etc.; or
  3. for other purposes for which we have obtained your consent.

Disclosure of Personal Data

By providing Personal Data to the Manager, you are consenting for the Manager to collect and use the information provided, and to share such information to any member of our group of companies and/or to such third parties with which the Manager may have relevant service arrangements, for the purpose for which the information was collected or to be used, and any other reasonable ancillary purposes.

Security of Personal Data

The Manager will use its reasonable endeavours to protect and limit the use and disclosure of information provided by you for the purposes for which the Manager originally requested such information from you and other related purposes.

All information gathered is stored in our secured servers and precautions will be taken to ensure that the information you provide is protected against unauthorised or unintended access. However, we cannot be held responsible for unauthorised or unintended access that is beyond our control.

The Manager reserves its rights to use and/or disclose your Personal Data where such use and/or disclosure is required under law, for cooperation with regulatory, law enforcement and other governmental bodies or authorities, or to protect the Manager's rights or property.

Access to and Updating of Personal Data, and Withdrawal of Consent

You may contact our Data Protection Officer at firstreit_DPO@first-reit.com at any time if you wish to withdraw the consent you have given us or if you wish to update or have access to your Personal Data.

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and will make the updated policy available on our web site at www.first-reit.com.