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Privacy Policy

The Melvin Alexa skill ("Skill") is developed and maintained by the National University of Singapore, through its Cancer Science Institute ("Us", "Our" or "We"). The NUS Privacy Policy is incorporated and is deemed to form part of this privacy policy (collectively referred to as this "Policy").

This Policy describes how We protect Your ("You", "Your" or "The User") privacy and Your data when using the Skill. Before using Our Skill, please read this privacy policy, the NUS Privacy Policy and Our Skill Terms of Use, as well as the Alexa Terms of Use and Privacy Policies by the Amazon Digital Services LLC (with its affiliates, "Amazon"), which also govern and apply to any use by You of Our Skill.

"Alexa" means the Alexa Voice Service which includes third-party services (like Our Skills), any third-party Alexa enabled hardware (such as Amazon’s "Echo" device), and other related Software.

By using the Skill, you:

  1. agree to the terms and conditions set out under this Policy, including the NUS Privacy Policy.
  2. consent to the collection, use and disclosure of any information provided by you, including, without limitation, information that may be deemed personal data under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore ("PDPA"), for the following purposes ("Purpose" or "Purposes"):
    1. Providing, and improving Our service to You through the Skill, including, inter alia;
      • Using the email address registered on Your device to support certain features.

If You do not agree to any of the terms, You should not proceed to enable or use the Skill.

We may revise, alter, add, amend or modify this Policy at any time by updating this page. By enabling and/or using the Skill, You agree to be bound by any such alteration, amendment, addition or modification when you continue to access and/or use the Skill.

Information Collection and Use#

When You use the Skill, You have to talk to Alexa. This voice input is sent to Amazon and Us where We use it to understand what Our Skill should do for You. This is absolutely necessary for Our service to give You an appropriate answer.

To use one of Melvin’s features, Email That to me, We will require You to enable sharing the email address registered on Your device. The Skill may also automatically collect certain information as part of its normal operation, including, but not limited to, Your hardware device unique ID, a unique user ID. The Melvin Skill also collects an unique identifier from Your Amazon Alexa account during account linking. We use this information to enhance user experience. This information is not personally identifiable to You. We collect no additional information from Your Amazon account. We are the sole owners of the information collected by the Skill. We endeavor to make sure this information is stored securely.

You may opt out of using the Skill at any time by disabling the Skill from Your Alexa app on all of Your devices. We will retain the collected information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the Purpose and for a reasonable time thereafter, or as required or permitted by applicable laws.