Data Privacy

Picture City International Incorporated, the owner and operator of picturecity.ph, respects your privacy. We are required by Philippine law to treat certain kinds information that you may supply to us, and those that we may collect from you, as private and confidential.

Please read the following terms and conditions carefully to understand how we process your information. We may update it from time to time, as required either by law or to changes in our regulations. When we do so, we will notify you by posting updates on this website for your reference.

Please take note that by accessing picturecity.ph, or by purchasing goods and/or services from it, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to all of the foregoing terms and conditions and that you permit us to:

  • Process your information, in the manner prescribed by law and company regulations, to enable us to fulfill your instructions, and for the legitimate purposes of our authorized subsidiaries, affiliates, contractors, service providers, and similar organizations;
  • Make your information available to our subsidiaries, affiliates, contractors, service providers, and similar organizations. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions, or to any other guidelines, notices, operating rules, and policies governing the access and/or use of picturecity.ph that are published elsewhere on it, do not use this website.
Information We Collect and Process

picturecity.ph allows you to browse and to purchase a selection of our goods and/or services, as well as to supply your comments on the same. For you to do so, we will ask you to provide the following personal data to identify you, depending on the transaction you wish to engage in, and to enable us to discharge it:
  • Complete name;
  • E-mail address;
  • Primary and alternate phone numbers;
  • Delivery address;
  • Financial credentials, such as but not limited to, your credit or debit card number, your name as indicated on your credit or debit access device, expiry dates, card verification values (CVV) and/or card identification data (CID), and billing address, among others, and;
  • Image files that may contain your depiction or that of others.
If you do not provide any of your personal data accurately, we may not be accomplish your instructions in a satisfactory manner, or even completely fail to do so.

Any additional information that you may provide through your correspondence with us in relation to your orders, shall also be treated as private and confidential.

In addition to the personal data that we may ask from you, or that you may supply to us, we may use data collection techniques, such as cookies, web beacons, data text files, or similar technologies to obtain statistical data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, such as:
  • Details of your visits to the website;
  • Information about your device and internet connection, as well as IP address, operating system, and browser type
We may associate this statistical data with the personal data that we collected from you, or which you supplied to us, in relation to the tasks in which you would like us to perform on your behalf.

What We Do with Personal and Statistical Data

Upon receiving your instructions and its data, including your personal data, picturecity.ph shall use the same to fulfill your orders, and/or to obtain insights from your correspondence. We may use your personal data to contact you in the event of any inquiries or clarifications regarding your transaction. Subsequently, we may ask you for further feedback, request your participation in surveys, and/or provide information on its products and services.

We intend to use your statistical data to help us improve our website by enabling it to:

  • Estimate audience size and usage patterns;
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing the customization of our website according to your individual interests;
  • Speed up your searches, and;
  • Recognize you when you return to our website.
Retention of Personal and Statistical Data

picturecity.ph and/or its duly authorized agents shall retain your data for a maximum period of five (5) years counted from the date it is collected from you or supplied to us. Disclosure and Sharing of Personal and Statistical Data picturecity.ph may disclose aggregated information about our website’s users in a manner that does not directly and certainly identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose and share personal and statistical data, in the manner prescribed by law, on a need to know basis, and in all cases only for legitimate purposes, as follows:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we engage to support our business, and who are bound by contract to keep personal and statistical data confidential, and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
  • To government and law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies;
  • To comply with orders of courts, government agencies, regulatory bodies, stock exchanges, and with applicable laws and regulations;  If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Picture City, its subsidiaries and affiliates, officers, employees, customers, or other third parties;
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Picture City’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal and statistical data held by Picture City about its website users is among the assets transferred, and;
  • To conduct investigations of breaches of Picture City’s internal policies, laws and regulations, enforce appropriate sanctions and pursue legal actions if necessary.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on picturecity.ph are served by third parties, which may include advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies, either alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content.

picturecity.ph does not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data

The Data Privacy Act of 2012 grants you certain rights regarding how websites like picturecity.ph may process your personal data, including the right to access and correct the same, to object to its processing, and to lodge a complaint before the National Privacy Commission in case of violation of your rights as data subject.

You may send us an e-mail at privacy@picturecity.ph to request access to, correct and/or delete any personal data that you have provided to us. Please take notice, however, that we cannot delete this information if it prevents us from accomplishing your instructions to your satisfaction. We may not accommodate a request to correct and/or delete this information if we believe the same would be contrary to law or cause it to be incorrect.

Contact Information

Should you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions, or your rights in relation thereto under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, please do not hesitate to contact Picture City at privacy@picturecity.ph.