Privacy Notice

(For External Service Providers and Vendors of TCP Group)


T.C. Pharmaceutical Industries Company Limited and its affiliates, including Durbell Co., Ltd., T.G. Vending and Showcase Industries Co., Ltd., Hi-Gear Co., Ltd., TC-Trading and Leasing Co., Ltd., Circure Herbal Med Co., Ltd., TCP Incubator Co., Ltd., and Healthven Co., Ltd. (collectively referred as “we”, “us”, or “TCP Group”), as a controller of Personal Data, has the duties to comply with  the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (“PDPA ”). Consequently, the processing of an individual’s Personal Databy TCP Group is required to comply with PDPA, including the notification of the data subjects of their legal rights as set out in this notice.

 

1.                 Collection of Personal Data of the data subjects

TCP Group may collect Personal Data both directly and indirectly from the data subject, their representative, or any person related to the data subject, as provided to the TCP Group as per the following details:

§  Personal Data provided by the data subjects to TCP Group;

§  Personal Data obtained from representatives or internal employees of service providers or vendors who are juristic persons;

§  Personal Data received from affiliates within TCP Group or personnels of TCP Group and

§  Public sources or any other reliable sources.


2.                 Types of Personal Data Collected by TCP Group

We may collect various types of Personal Data depending on purposes of use including the collection of data as follows:

2.1          Generic Personal Data

§   Personal Identification information such as details on ID cards or passports, and copies of such documents, as well as other documents that can be used for identification purposes such as driver’s licenses, vehicle registration, business cards.

§   Name, family name, address, and other contact information such as phone numbers, email, social media accounts;

§   Information of affiliated department, branch, division, and position;

§   Information relating to communication with TCP Group such as social media account names used for communication, the subject of contact, date of communication or visit  at TCP Group’s premises, or date of communication through TCP Group’s various communication channels;

§   Financial information such as bank account pages, credit and debit card details, transaction information, payment methods, and other payment details;

§   Name and family name of company’s directors appearing on certified copies of company registration documents and other official documents (if any);

§   Name, family name, address, and phone number appearing on power of attorney documents, including copies of ID cards of the grantor and the authorized person

2.2          Digital and online data, including information on the use of information technology systems

§  Information relating to various access activities such as entry/exit systems at TCP Group’s premises or internal areas;

§  Information related to communications or interactions with TCP Group’s websites

§  Image recording from CCTV systems located in the common areas of TCP Group;

2.3          Sensitive Personal Data

§   Health information such as drug test results and medical certificates;

§   Criminal records check result.

 

3.                 Retention Period

TCP Group will retain your Personal Data for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes specified in the processing of such personal data. The retention period may vary depending on the specific purposes of the data processing or as required by applicable laws. In general, the maximum period of data retention is 10 years from the date the legal relationship between you and TCP Group ends. However, we may retain your Personal Data for a longer period than such period if permitted by law or if such retention is necessary for the establishment of legal claims of TCP Group.

After the expiration of the above retention period, TCP Group will delete or destroy such data from its storage space or systems of TCP Group and those of other service providers of TCP Group (if any) or  anonymize  your personal data so that it can no longer identify you, except the case that TCP Group can continue to retain such personal data as prescribed by law.


4. Purposes of Use and Disclosure of personal data

TCP Group will use and disclose your Personal Data for the following purposes:

Purpose of Processing

Ground of processing

To carry the procurement

§  Contractual Obligations

To carry out the procurement of raw materials and various materials and equipment used in product manufacturing

§  Contractual Obligations

To inspect, select and evaluate the qualification of external service providers or vendors

§  Contractual Obligations

To register Vendors (Approved Vendor List: AVL)

§  Contractual Obligations

§  Legitimate Interests

To communicate with external service providers or vendors

§  Contractual Obligations

§  Legitimate Interests

To process payments and receipts of payment

§  Contractual Obligations

To inspect the quality of procured goods and services and recommend improvements

§  Contractual Obligations

§  Legitimate Interests

To manage the overseas working of the personnel of the company

§  Contractual Obligations

To evaluate the procurement performance

§  Legitimate Interests

To carry out engagement of contact manufacturing

§  Contractual Obligations

To organize meetings, seminars, business networking development events (networking) of TCP Group, and to invite relevant parties to participate in such event

 

§  Legitimate Interests

§  Consent

Other purposes

For acquisitions of business or merger of business or organisational restructuring

 

§  Contractual Obligations

§  Legal Obligations

§  Legitimate Interests

§  Consent

To inspect, analyse and prepare documents as requested by relevant government authorities

§  Legal Obligations

To assess and manage complaints

§  Contractual Obligations

§  Legitimate Interests

To comply with applicable laws

§  Legal Obligations

To establish  legal claims, litigation, and other related actions

§  Legal Obligations

To analyse, improve, troubleshoot and develop  TCP Group’s products and services and to carry out other related action

§  Legitimate Interests

To administer and manage finance, accounting, and others auditing activities of TCP Group

§  Legitimate Interests

§  Legal Obligations

To conduct businesses that TCP Group deems necessary for lawful purposes, taking into account the fundamental rights of data subjects

§  Legitimate Interests

To inspect and maintain order and safety of individuals, premises and properties of TCP and other individuals

§  Legitimate Interests

To monitor the use of narcotics of  individuals entering the company premises to prevent accidents and crimes related to the use of narcotics

 

§  Legitimate Interests

§  Consent

If the data subject is unable to provide the Personal Data, which is necessary for the processing of personal data to comply with the contractual obligations or to comply with laws,   TCP Group will be unable to comply with the contract with such data subject or unable to comply with the laws.

 TCP Group will process Personal Data in strict compliance with applicable laws. Where you have provided consent for any data processing activity, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

 


5.     The Recipient of the Disclosure of personal data from TCP Group

TCP Group may disclose or transfer your Personal Data under the specified purposes and in accordance with legal requirements to governmental organisations, governmental agencies, or third parties including: 

§  Individuals or legal entities involved in business operation of the company such as affiliates of TCP Group both domestically and internationally, incorporated joint venture, jointly invested companies, business partners, offer to sell business or merger with any company in TCP Group, co promotion, delegation, transfer, or management in any form of business, properties, or share ofTCP Group;

§  Advisors such as legal advisors, financial advisors, auditors, bankers, and other professionals, both local and international;

§  Governmental and regulatory bodies such as Revenue Department, Department of Provincial Administration, Department of Business Development, Department of Intellectual Property, Department of Foreign Trade, the Office of the Personal Data Protection Committee, Office of Trade Competition Commission, Royal Thai Police, Office of the Attorney General, courts, the Legal Execution Department, etc.;

§  Other data controller to whom the data subject sends or transfer data;

Disclosure of your Personal Data to other persons will be made  for the purposes as specified, or for other purposes permitted by law. Where the law requires your consent, TCP Group will obtain your consent in advance.

In disclosing your Personal Data, TCP Group will take appropriate measures to protect the disclosed Personal Data and will comply with the standards and obligations for the protection of Personal Data as prescribed by  the PDPA Act. Provided in case that TCP Group sends or transfers your Personal Data to the recipient in foreign country, TCP Group will ensure that the destination country, international organization, or overseas recipient has adequate data protection standards, or will ensure that the transfer of your Personal Data to foreign country complies with the requirements of the PDPA Act. In certain cases, we may seek your consent for such sending or transfer of your Personal Data to such foreign country.


6.              Data Security Measure

TCP Group employs a high-standard security system, both technologically and procedurally, to prevent any potential data theft. TCP Group has made significant investments, dedication of time and human resources to ensure that TCP has maintained the high standard under ISO/IEC 27001 standard.  The Data of personal subject will be secured with TCP Group’s computer systems, which are protected through various measures of TCP Group to maintain confidentiality of your personal data and to prevent any unauthorised or unlawful loss, access, destruction, use, alteration, modification, or disclosure of your Personal Data.

TCP Group has dedicated and made efforts to take care of the security of Personal Data by using technical tools  and administration and management by our personnel to control and maintain the security of data to prevent  unauthorised access of personal data or confidential data of data subject. However, this may not be able to prevent the failure in every circumstance , such as the prevention of data of the data subject from an attack by computer virus or is accessed by an unauthorised person, thus the Data subjects should always follow updated computer-related information and install personal firewall software to protect computers from threats or data theft.


7.     Right of Data Subject

The exercise of any right under Clause 7 shall be in compliance with the criteria and procedures for the exercise of right of data subject as specified in Clause 8 of this notice. However, the rights specified in this Clause 7 are subject to change to comply with the criteria to be prescribed by law, which may issue criteria by governmental agencies from time to time and TCP Group will inform the data subject accordingly.

7.1 Right to be notified: if TCP Group wishes to collect, store, use or disclose your Personal Data which is not in accordance with the purposes or is beyond the  given consent, TCP Group will notify and/or seek your prior consent before processing the personal data which is beyond such purposes.

7.2 Right to Access to Personal Data:  the Data Subject has the right tor equest for a copy of your Personal Data and has the right to request the disclosure of  the source of thel Data of the data subject.

7.3  Right to Rectification of the Personal Data: In case the personal data of the data subject is changed, the data subject will proceed to file a request to amend such data in accordance with the procedures under clause 7 to make the Personal Data accurate, up-to-date, complete and not misleading.

7.4  Right to data portability: In case where it is technically available, the data subject has the right to receive his/her Personal Data in a commonly used or readable by the automatic device or to request an automatic transfer.

7.5   Right to erasure of your Personal Data: the data subject has the right to erase or destroy or to make the Personal Data pseudonymized under any of the following circumstances: (a) It is no longer necessary to collect, store, use or disclose the personal data for the intended purposes, (b) the data subject withdraws  the consent for the collecting, storing, using or disclosing or the personal data and TCP Group no longer has any legal right to process such Personal Data, (c) the data subject objects the processing of your Personal Data, or (d) the Personal Data was processed unlawfully under the PDPA Act.

7.6  Right to Request to suspend the use of Personal Data: the data subject has the right to request TCP Group to suspend its use of your Personal Data in any of the following events:

(1)  when TCP Group is in the process of verifying the Data as requested by the data subject for the purpose of rectifying, updating, completing and not causing the  misleading. t;

(2)  when the Personal Data must be erased or destroyed under Clause 7.5 but the data subject instead requests to suspend the use of data;

(3) when the data subject is no longer necessary to be stored, but the data subject requests TCP Group to continue the storage of your Personal Data for establishing legal claims, legal compliance, exercise of legal rights or defenses; or

(4)  when TCP Group is in the process of verifying the collection of personal data or is in the process of verifying the processing of personal data for the purposes specified by law.  

7.7             Right to object the processing of Personal Data: the data subject has the right to object to the collection, storage, use or disclosure of his/her Personal Data in any of the following events:

(1)  Is the data that TCP Group has collected such data (a) from the performance of duties of TCP Group for a governmental order or (b) from the necessity for any legitimate interest of TCP Group or other legal entities;

(2)  In case where TCP Group has processed Personal Data for the purpose of direct marketing; and

(3)  In case where TCP Group has processed Personal Data for any research purposes as specified by laws, including for statistics.

7.8            Right to withdraw consent: the data subject has the right to withdraw  consent at any time. Such withdrawal will not have any effect on any processing of personal data that the data subject had previously given the consents. Provided if any withdrawal of consent will have any affect on the Personal Data in any manner, TCP Group will notify the data subject of such effect from the withdrawal of the consent. 

However, TCP Group may deny an above request to exercise the right  if any action is made for the purpose of, or for complying with, applicable law or court order, or in the case that may have an effect and cause harm to the rights and freedom of the data subject or other persons or  it is an action for statistical study and research that has appropriate protection for Personal Data, or for establishing legal claims, legal compliance, exercise of legal rights or defenses.

If you have any concern or questions regarding TCP Group’s practices in processing your Personal Data, please contact TCP Group via the contact channels provided in Section 8. In case there is a e reasonable ground to believe that TCP Group has breached the PDPA Act, you have the right to file a complaint with the Office of the Personal Data Protection Committee in accordance with the procedures and requirements set out under the PDPA.

 

8        Criteria and Procedures for Exercise the Rights of data subject

8.1

§ If the data subject wishes to exercise the right, please submit the Data Subject Rights Request Form via TCP Group website: https://privacy.tcp.com/dsr?id=1f0deb2d-1261-43a7-8b61-90acb9905665&t=0 or Contact our Data Protection Officer of TCP Group at the contact information as specified in Section 9.:

§ Please mark as “Data Subject’s Rights Request” with your first name, last name and contact information.

8.2

§ The request will be sent to TCP Group’s data protection officer for verification of your identity.

§ To verify the identity of the individual submitting the request, verification must be conducted via the Thai ID or by submitting relevant documents, including: a copy of a government-issued identification document (e.g., national ID card, driver’s license, or passport), a contactable address, phone number, information related to TCP Group, and details of products you have purchased from TCP Group. You must also attach the Data Subject Rights Request Form available at the link provided in Clause 8.1. In addition, your signature is required on the request form.

8.3

§ The data protection officer will consider whether the request can be processed such as by considering the reasonableness or negative effect that may arise on others or whether there is any reason for denial as prescribed by law.

8.4

§ If the request is under the criteria to be processed, the data protection officer will proceed the Data Subject Rights Request Form and report you without delay via the contact channel that the data subject has informed in the Data Subject Rights Request Form.

8.5

§ If the request is not under the criteria to be processed, the data protection officer will notify you without delay via the contact channel that the data subject has informed in the Data Subject Rights Request Form with the reason of denial. In this circumstance, the data subject has the right to file a complaint with a supervising agency as prescribed by law to be  informed for your information in the notification of consideration.

Remark:

1.           The action above will take no more than 30 (thirty) days following the date of receipt of the Data Subject Rights Request Form and  all supporting documents.

2.              The action in accordance with the above request will not incur any expenses. However, if any action in accordance with any request will incur any expense,  TCP Group will notify the data subject  prior to taking any action.


9                    Contact Channels and Contact Address

In case the data subject has any questions regarding the exercise of your rights or the consent that the data subject has provided, you may contact:

Data Protection Officer

Address:        288 Ekachai Road., Khlong Bang Phran Sub-district, Bang Bon District, Bangkok

Telephone:    094-981-1044

Email:             DPO@tcp.com


10               Changes to This Notice

TCP Group may amend this privacy notice from time to time to reflect any changes in the processing of your Personal Data as prescribed by PDPA Act or other relevant laws. TCP Group will inform you of such changes through appropriate channels, including in the website of TCP Group.