Last Updated: March 3, 2026
The Philippine Association for Media and Information Literacy (PAMIL), Inc. values your privacy. In compliance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173), we are committed to protecting your personal information and ensuring that your data is processed fairly and lawfully.
Who we are
We are the Philippine Association for Media and Information Literacy (PAMIL), Inc.
Address: 3rd Floor, Communication Foundation for Asia, 4427 Int. Old Sta. Mesa, Manila, Philippines 1016.
Website: http://pamil.org.ph
Personal Information We Collect and Why
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you interact with our website.
Comments: We collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.
Media: If you upload images, please avoid embedding location data (EXIF GPS). Note that visitors can extract this data from images hosted on the site.
Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your experience.
Comment Cookies: Save your name/email for 1 year for convenience.
Login Cookies: Temporary cookies check browser compatibility; login cookies last 2 days (or 2 weeks if “Remember Me” is selected).
Editing Cookies: Indicate post IDs of articles edited; expires after 1 day.
Legal Basis for Processing
By using our website, providing your information in forms, or leaving comments, you give your explicit consent for PAMIL to collect and process your data for the purposes of community engagement, security, and site improvement.
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your data. We only share information in the following instances:
Legal Necessity: We may disclose data if required by Philippine law or to protect our legal rights.
Third-Party Services: We use an automated spam detection service for comments. An anonymized hash of your email may be sent to the Gravatar service (Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/).
Embedded Content: Articles may include content from other websites (e.g., YouTube). These sites may collect data according to their own privacy policies.
Data Retention and Storage
Comments: Retained indefinitely to recognize follow-up comments automatically.
User Profiles: For registered users, we store personal information provided in profiles.
Security: We implement appropriate organizational, physical, and technical security measures to protect your data against unauthorized access or disclosure.
Your Rights as a Data Subject
Under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, you are entitled to the following rights:
Right to Damages: Seeking indemnity for damages due to inaccurate or unauthorized use of data
Right to be Informed: Knowing how your data is collected and processed.
Right to Access: Requesting a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Object: Withdrawing consent to the processing of your data.
Right to Erasure or Blocking: Requesting the deletion of your data (excluding data we are legally mandated to keep).
Right to Rectification: Correcting any inaccuracies in your data.
Right to Data Portability: Obtaining your data in a structured, commonly used format.
Contact Information
If you wish to exercise any of your rights or have concerns regarding your privacy, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at:
Email: admin@pamil.org.ph
Address: 3rd Floor, Communication Foundation for Asia, 4427 Int. Old Sta. Mesa, Manila, Philippines 1016.