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The Star (daily) and Sunday Star, Malaysia's most widely-read English-language daily and Sunday newspapers, are published in four editions - two of which cover the northern peninsular states of Penang, Kedah, Perlis and northern Perak; and two other two editions that cover the rest of the country.
TheStarMobile is the mobile extension of The Star that reaches out to a broader public. Not only do users get access to daily news and frequent updates, they can watch mobileTV and download videos and a whole host of other exciting content.
TheStarMobile: The People's Paper -- with you, wherever you go
Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad (co. no. 10894-D) has created this privacy statement to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website, thestarmobile.com and e.starmobile.com (herein after called thestarmobile.com).
Information collected by thestarmobile.com
Our Web servers do not automatically recognise specific information about individual users on our site. However, for billing and server access need our servers record information regarding a user's MSDIN (cellphone number).
We collect information about users during the registration process for certain parts of our site or during useage or purchase of mobile services or mobile portal visits; through their participation in certain activities, including contests, forums, and polls; and through the use of cookies. When you request pages from our server, it automatically collects some information about your preferences, including your IP address. We use this to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our site.
The information collected is meant to identify the broad demographic profile of our users. This information does not contain anything that can identify users individually. We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage data to provide profiles, in aggregate form, about our users and their preferences in the content of the site and advertising. You may receive periodic mailings and mobile advers (sms, mms and wap messages) from us with information on new products or services.
The user-supplied information collected through the user actions (orders and visits), surveys, contest entry forms, polls or other similar vehicles is used to improve the content of our site, or used for Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad's marketing purposes. We may use such information for targeting appropriate editorial or advertising content to users but users will always be able to opt out of such mailings.
General
This site contains links to other sites. Thestarmobile.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. Thestarmobile.com has also established relationships with partners but such relationships are generally technical in nature, or content collaborations. If any partner has access to any information entered by users in our database, this fact shall be disclosed to the user upon initiating the registration process.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. |
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