• COPYRIGHT

All content, graphics, video and soundbites on this site are protected by Malaysian copyright law and and may not be copied or re-used without the express written permission of Star Media Group Berhad (formerly known as Star Publications (M) Berhad) (Company No: 10894D) (hereinafter referred to as “The Company”), which reserve all rights. Re-use of any of such content online for any purpose is strictly prohibited. Permission to use The Company’s proprietary content may be granted on a case-by-case basis. Please direct your enquiries to feedback@thestar.com.my. The materials from this Website are available for informational and non-commercial offline use only, provided that: the content and/or graphics are not modified, amended or altered in any way whatsoever; all copyright and other notices on any copy are retained; and permission in writing has been granted by The Company. from this website whether for commercial or personal purposes without the express written permission of The Company.

You may not copy or adapt the HTML code that The Company creates to display pages. It also is covered by The Company’s copyright. The “look” and “feel” of this Website and its subsites are also trademarks of The Company. This includes colour scheme, button shapes, layout, and all other graphics.

Third party material contained in this Website is protected by copyright and shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither this material nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use.

 

  • THE COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

The Company and its group of companies operate in Malaysia and Singapore. Publications produced include one newspaper title: The Star newspaper, The Star ePaper, and two magazines: Flavours and Kuntum.

The Company, through its subsidiaries, also provides content and advertising services on digital portals (The Star Online, mStar, Star2.com, SMEBiz, Propwall, StarProperty.my, iBilik, myStarjob.com, CarSifu, Kuali, R.AGE, TheStarTV.com); human capital development (Leaderonomics); events services (Perfect Livin and Cityneon); and Out-of-Home advertising (School Buzz).

In addition, The Company either through itself or through its subsidiary owns and/or operates the following radio channels, namely (RedFM (104.9), CapitalFM (88.9), 988FM (98.8) and SuriaFM (105.3)) and television channel namely Life Inspired The Company also owns stakes in shared business ventures, namely a high speed Internet mobile service (IntJoors).

You can get a quick overview of the group structure.

 

  • TRADEMARKS

Among the trademarks and service marks owned by The Company and/or its subsidiaries which shall include but not limited to : The Star Online, mStar, Star2.com, SMEBiz, Propwall, StarProperty.my, and the respective logos of all the sites. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

 

  • DISCLAIMERS

The Company seeks to ensure that information contained in these pages is accurate. However, The Company makes no representations as to accuracy, correctness, completeness, suitability, validity of any information on these pages and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, delay in the information contained in this pages or any other information accessed via this site, including without limitation, any information reached via links on this site to external sites, or any losses, injuries or damages arising from its display or use. All users are strongly encouraged to seek professional advice before relying on any information provided herein.

 

  • CONSENT

The Company seeks to use your personal information only for the purposes of legitimate interests and, with your consent.
We only keep Personal Information for as long as is necessary to satisfy the specified Purposes, for which it was collected. We retain Personal Information in accordance with our own guidelines, procedures and principles and in line with applicable legislation.

We may disclose your Personal Information to our subsidiaries or to a Vendor (often referred to as the data processor). “Vendor” means in relation to Personal Information any person or entity (other than an employee of The Company) who processes the Personal Information on behalf of The Company. “Processing”, in relation to Personal Information means for example obtaining, recording, holding or using the Personal Information in carrying out any operation or set of operations on the Personal Information including organisation, compilation, retrieval disclosure of the Personal Information for verification Purposes. The Vendor and The Company’s subsidiaries will treat your Personal Information as confidential, in accordance with all applicable Data Protection legislation and will process such Personal Information only for the Purposes and within the terms set out herein.

We may disclose your Personal Information if we are required to do so by law or requirement of a competent authority.
In addition to the above, we may from time to time work on specific initiatives with carefully selected third party companies/organisations (outside of The Company) to share opportunities with you. If we do this, we will inform you at the time of such initiatives that, if you decide to submit any Personal Information, it will be shared with those selected companies/organisations and we will only do so with your prior consent.

You will always be given the opportunity to consent (opt in) to your information being shared pursuant to above, and the selected companies/organisations will be sufficiently identified to allow you to make an informed decision. If you do consent (opt in) and subsequently visit such companies’/organisations’ websites, we cannot control how they use or otherwise process any Personal Information you provide directly to them. We always encourage you to check their sites’ terms and conditions and privacy policy before you give out any Personal Information.

If you do consent (opt in) to receive these communications, you may unsubscribe at any point in the future by contacting us

Opt In: We will not use your Personal Information for a purpose that has not previously been specified, unless we have previously obtained your consent or unless such purpose is required by law.

Consent to provide Personal Information is not a condition for our selling a product to you, unless the information requested is required to fulfill an explicitly specified and legitimate purpose.
In particular we will generally seek your explicit prior consent (opt in) before sending to you marketing communications.

Unsubscribe: At any time, you can withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure (generally Processing) of your Personal Information by writing to us in the prescribed manner (whether by email, letter or fax), as specified in our communications to you, or in relevant forms that you might have signed (e.g. for our customer loyalty scheme). If you have any concerns whatsoever, with regard to the unsubscribe functionality that we make available to you, pursuant to this section, please contact us at the address or medium shown in section 8 of this Terms and Conditions. If you have previously opted into receiving commercial communications from us, while also becoming a member of our loyalty scheme, should your membership to such scheme comes to an end for whatever reason, we will not take this to imply an automatic request to unsubscribe, and we will assume that we have your continued consent, unless you specifically unsubscribe.

Similar Products or Services (Soft-opt-in): In certain jurisdictions, it is permissible to send commercial communications by email even in the absence of explicit prior consent (opt-in) where the recipient’s details have been collected in connection with the sale or negotiation for sale of products or services, irrespective of the conclusion of a contract, provided always that the sender’s identity is clearly stated and an unsubscribe option is given. This is usually referred to as the “Similar Products or Services exception”, or as the “Soft-opt-in rule”. Where this rule applies we may rely on it in order to send to you marketing communications that we think may be of interest to you, but we will make sure that this is made clear and that you are given the opportunity up-front to opt out from receiving such communications from us, whilst you will also always be given the opportunity to subsequently unsubscribe.

Materials submitted: In the event you are to submit and/or upload any comments/messages/submissions/pictures/photographs/your name (collectively referred to as “Materials”) onto our Website, by such conduct it will be deemed that you have given your express and explicit consent to The Company to reuse, re-purpose, re-publish such Materials in any way The Company deems fit. For the avoidance of doubt, The Company will not seek your permission and/or consent prior to The Company reusing/repurposing/republishing the Materials submitted and/or uploaded. You are to notify The Company upon submission and/or upload of your Materials if you do not wish for your Materials to be used by The Company, failure to do so would be deemed that consent has been granted by you to The Company to freely use the Materials submitted and/or uploaded. For the avoidance of doubt, all proprietary rights of the Materials submitted to The Company shall vest solely on The Company.

 

  • ACCURACY OF INFORMATION

The Company keeps Personal Information as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary, taking into account its use and the interests of our customers.

You are responsible for informing us about changes to your Personal Information and for ensuring that such information is accurate and current.

 

  • COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW

The Company has procedures in place in order to receive and respond to enquiries about our policies and practices relating to its handling of Personal Information. Any complaint or enquiry should be made in writing and addressed as shown in section 8 below.

The Company investigates all complaints. Requests will be forwarded to the appropriate personnel. If the complaint is found to be justified, The Company will take appropriate measures to resolve the matter, including, if necessary, amending its policies and practices.

 

  • CONTACT US

If there are any questions or concerns regarding this Terms of Use or the consent practices outlined herein, please contact us as follows:

By Email: customerservice@thestar.com.my

By Mail: Star Media Group Berhad, Menara Star, 15 Jalan 16/11, 46350 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Customer Service Hotline: 1300 88 7-8-2-7 (S-T-A-R) (Monday – Friday (9am to 5.30pm), excluding public holidays).

By Fax: 03 – 7957 7798
By agreeing to the terms and conditions contained herein, you hereby allow The Company to collect your Personal Information to be regulated and managed by The Company. You also hereby agree to receive the latest information about products, news and events updates, rewards and promotions, special privileges and initiatives from The Company, its partners and advertisers.
Click here to view the full Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to receive the above, kindly call 1300 88 7827 (STAR) or email to customerservice@thestar.com.my

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