DITO Telecommunity Corporation ("DITO," "we," "us," or "our") is committed to safeguarding your privacy and upholding your rights under applicable data privacy laws. We implement appropriate measures to ensure the security of your personal data in compliance with Republic Act No. 10173, also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA), its Implementing Rules and Regulations, and other relevant issuances of the National Privacy Commission (NPC). We are committed to safeguarding your personal data across all channels of interaction with us, including our website, mobile applications, online portals, physical stores and offices, paper-based forms, and digital communications such as email, SMS, and other electronic messaging platforms.
We encourage you to review this privacy statement thoroughly to understand how we handle your personal data and the principles that guide our data processing activities. This statement outlines how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data, and provides information on how you may access, update, or manage your data, including your options and preferences regarding its use.
I. What does DITO do?
We are a major telecommunications provider in the Philippines. We offer and will be offering a variety of telecommunications services to you, including but not limited to, services related to mobile telephony and the internet of things.
II. What is the purpose and scope of this privacy statement for lead generation?
At DITO, we understand that your personal data is very important. To make sure that you understand what we will be doing with your personal data, we made this privacy statement to explain the details to you in a simple and transparent way. We made sure that this would be consistent with the principles of the DPA, its Implementing Rules and Regulations, and the relevant issuances of the National Privacy Commission.
This privacy statement applies to people who signed up and gave their express consent to be updated about our 5G Home WiFi service. In other words, this only applies to this instance of generating leads for DITO.
Further, you will likewise be covered by DITO's General Privacy Statement that can be accessed through https://dito.ph/privacy-policy. You can also access the same through the DITO Application ("DITO App").
III. What are the types of your personal data that we will be processing?
Personal data refers to information that identifies or can be linked to you, a natural person. To keep you updated about our products and services, we will just need your full name, mobile number, telephone number, email address, address, and preferred DITO Experience Store.
IV. How will we be collecting your personal data?
We collect your personal data when you:
fill out and submit application forms, sign contracts or agreements, or accomplish any other similar documents through any of our channels, may it be through our online channels, stores, or through our sales representatives or specialists;
reach out to us to ask about something, file a complaint, or make a request for service;
visit and transact in our stores, apps, and websites; and
submit your personal data to us for any other reason.
V. How do we process your personal data and why?
When we process your personal data, it means that we are collecting, recording, storing, modifying, organizing, using, disclosing, transferring, or deleting it according to the law. The processing that we do will be done only with your consent, or if justified by our legitimate business interests. We can do these activities through either software or paper-based mechanisms. Anyway, we will only be processing your personal data:
To give you updates on our DITO 5G Home WiFi. We may process your personal data so we can check whether you are eligible for our 5G Home WiFi service. If we find out that you are not yet eligible for this specific service, we may offer you our other products and services that we think will benefit you.
To comply with our legal obligations. We process your data to comply with our obligations under the law and to the government regulators.
To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. If necessary, we may process your data to prosecute or defend a legal claim.
You can be assured that we will not process your personal data in a way that is inconsistent with these purposes.
VI. Who is the Personal Information Controller?
We are considered the Personal Information Controller ("PIC") under the DPA. This means that we can determine the purposes for which your personal data can be used. In case your personal data is shared with your consent to a third party under the appropriate data transfer agreement, this third party will also be considered a PIC or Personal Information Processor ("PIP") depending on the terms contained therein.
VII. To whom do we disclose your personal data and why?
To deliver optimal service and maintain our competitive edge, we may share your personal data with third parties outside of DITO. Such disclosures are carried out securely and confidentially, and always in compliance with applicable data privacy laws and regulations. We will never share, lease, or sell your personal data to third parties, unless required by law or if you have provided explicit consent.
We will never share, rent, or sell your personal data to third parties, except in special circumstances where this is required by law or you have given your clear and explicit consent.
In some instances, we may need to share your personal data with our agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, and other third parties as part of our operations and for the continued provision of products and services. This means that we might share your information with:
Our service providers, contractors, and professional advisors. We may have to share personal data to carry out certain activities in the normal course of our business. These service providers, contractors, and professional advisors help us with activities like:
- designing, developing, maintaining, debugging, and optimizing our products, services, systems, tools, and applications;
- providing application or infrastructure services;
- marketing activities or events and managing customer communications, including mobile attributions and the generation of analytics;
- preparing reports and statistics, printing materials, and designing products;
- creating and placing advertisements on apps, websites, social media, and other modes of communication;
- facilitating payment and transfer of funds;
- identifying, investigating, or preventing fraud or other misconduct; and
- performing legal, auditing, or other special services provided by lawyers, notaries, auditors, or other professional advisors.
Our subsidiaries and affiliates with whom you have also signed up with. We do so only to improve our operations as well as those of our subsidiaries and affiliates. For example, we can study your use of our products and services as well as that of our subsidiaries and affiliates to create product and service bundles that would meet your needs.
Other companies to whom you have also given consent for us to share information with. For example, when you sign up for products and services by other companies, they may request your data from us for them to validate your identity; and
Government, supervisory, judicial authorities. To comply with our own legal and regulatory obligations, we may disclose your personal data to the appropriate government, supervisory, and judicial authorities such as:
- Public authorities, regulators, and supervisory bodies such as the National Telecommunications Commission and the National Privacy Commission;
- Judicial and investigative authorities such as the police, public prosecutors, courts, and arbitration and mediation bodies.
If you want to know our partners, you can make a request through our Data Protection Officer using the contact details outlined in Part XII below.
VIII. How long will we be keeping your personal data here?
When we keep your personal data, we will be following these principles:
We will retain personal data only according to operational needs and in compliance with legal and regulatory purposes.
However, we may retain your personal data for longer when it is necessary for us:
- to continue providing you with the products and services you get from us;
- to meet our legitimate business purposes;
- to comply with our own legal obligations; and
- to exercise or defend legal claims when the need arises.
For the actual handling of your personal data:
Physical copies of the forms you submit to us will be stored in secure storage areas.
Electronic copies of these forms will also be stored in our secure databases.
IX. How do we protect your personal data?
We are committed to keeping your personal data safe. To maintain this commitment, we:
design our products and services with your safety in mind;
established a dedicated team to look after the safety and security of your personal data;
use the right organizational, physical, and technical security measures, which includes audits, policies and procedures related to data security, setting up secured servers and firewalls, encryption, and other security controls;
ensure only qualified and authorized staff have access to your personal data, and that our staff are bound to keep your personal data confidential;
use contracts to make sure that third-party service providers that process your personal data for us have the right security measures that will help keep your personal data safe;
notify you and the appropriate privacy regulators in the event of a personal data breach; and
we let you update or correct your personal data to keep our records up to date.
To help us serve you effectively, it is essential that the personal data you submit to us is complete, accurate, and true. Any inaccuracies may hinder our ability to provide the products and services you have requested. If any information or circumstances change, we ask that you promptly notify us to ensure the accuracy of your personal data. You may also be required to provide supporting documentation or additional details to help DITO verify the updated information.
X. What are your rights in relation to your personal data?
The DPA gives you rights in relation to your personal data. It essentially gives you control on how your personal data is collected and used by companies.
Below is a list of your rights. We want to make sure that you understand what these are, so we are describing each of these rights in a simple and transparent manner:
The right to be informed. When we ask you to share your personal data with us, we give you details of what data we will be using, why we will be using it, and how long we will be keeping it, among other things.
The right to object. This is your right to tell us to stop using your personal data. Please note, however, the DPA still allows us to use your personal data despite the exercise of this right under certain conditions. For example, we will still process your personal data despite your objection if we are legally required to do so or if it is necessary to fulfill our legal obligations to you.
The right to access. This right allows you to ask whether we have personal data on you and, if we do, ask for a copy of that personal data.
The right to rectification. This gives you the right to correct anything that you think is wrong with the personal data we have on file on you.
The right to erasure or blocking. This gives you the right to ask us to delete your personal data. However, there are only certain instances where you can exercise this, such as in a case where you think we are processing your personal data unlawfully.
The right to portability. This right allows you to get a copy of the personal data we have on you in a structure, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
The right to damages. This right allows you to be indemnified for any damages that you may have sustained due to any violation of the DPA.
The right to complain with the National Privacy Commission ("NPC"). In case you feel that any of your privacy rights have been violated, you have the right to file a complaint with the NPC. However, we encourage you to come to us first so we can resolve your complaint.
While you do have the right to withdraw the consent you have given, please note that this withdrawal will not stop us from processing your personal data so long as there are other legal bases to do so. In other words, if you withdraw your consent, we can only stop the processing activities that rely on your consent. If, however, we cannot give you a legal basis to justify the continued processing of your personal data, we will either stop the processing and delete your personal data or anonymize it.
In any case, to exercise any of these rights, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer through the contact details we have indicated in Part XII below. In certain instances, we may ask for supporting documents or proof before we can move forward with your request. If someone else submits the request on your behalf, they must provide proof of authorization; otherwise, it will be rejected. Any identification provided will be processed in compliance with applicable laws. In some cases, we may deny your request and, if allowed by law, we will notify you of the reason for denial. We may also charge you a reasonable fee to help us process your request.
XI. How can you contact us about your personal data?
In case you have questions, concerns, or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer through the contact details below:
Addressed to: The Data Protection Officer
Office Address: 16th Floor, Udenna Tower, Rizal Drive cor. 4th Avenue , Bonifacio Global City, City of Taguig
Email Address: privacymatters@dito.ph
XII. How will you know if there are changes to this privacy statement?
This privacy statement will be updated from time to time to comply with changes in the law, adopt new technologies, or for some other legitimate reason. If we do make important changes, like how and why we use your personal data, we will let you know through a notice, email, SMS, or a message in our app. We will also make sure to get your updated consent when necessary.
This version became effective on 26 June 2025.