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Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Privacy Statement

Last updated 25 March 2025

This is a Government Agency website, application, and/or digital service.

Cookies

We may use "cookies", where a small data file is sent to your browser to store and track information about you when you enter our website. The cookie is used to track information such as the number of users and their frequency of use, profiles of users and their preferred digital services. While this cookie can tell us when you enter our digital services and which pages you visit, it cannot read data off your hard disk.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website, application, and/or digital service.

Personal Data

If you provide us with personally identifiable data

  1. Where appropriate, we may share necessary data with other Government agencies, so as to improve the discharge of public functions, and to serve you in the most efficient and effective way unless such sharing is prohibited by law.

  2. We will NOT share your Personal Data with non-Government entities, except where (i) such entities have been authorised to carry out specific Government services, or (ii) to render you a product or service by IPOS International Pte. Ltd., so as to serve you in a most efficient and effective way. More information on how IPOS International Pte. Ltd. manages Personal Data can be found here.

  3. For your convenience, we may also display to you data you had previously supplied us or other Government Agencies. This will speed up the transaction and save you the trouble of repeating previous submissions. Should the data be out-of-date, please supply us the latest data.

To safeguard your Personal Data, all electronic storage and transmission of Personal Data is secured with appropriate security technologies.

Links to Websites, Applications and/or Digital Services

This website, application, and/or digital service may contain links to non-Government websites, applications, and/or digital services whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the content and privacy practices of these other websites, applications, and/or digital services and encourage you to consult the privacy notices of those websites, applications, and/or digital services.

Feedback

Please contact our customer service officer at ipos_enquiry@ipos.gov.sg or call (65) 6339 8616 if you:

  1. have any enquires or feedback on our data protection policies and procedures, and/or

  2. need information on or access to data which you have provided to us in the past.