Clear terms. Stated limits.

1. Licensing and regulatory status

Global Entity Research Pte Ltd (“GER”, “we”, “us”) is a company incorporated in Singapore (UEN 202342854H) and holds a private investigation agency licence under the Private Security Industry Act 2007 (Licence No. L/PS/001047/2025).

• Our Singapore licence covers licensable activity in Singapore. It does not by itself authorise investigative activity in any other country. For work abroad we assess local law and, where required, engage appropriately licensed or otherwise authorised local partners, or decline the work.
• We are not a law firm, a credit bureau, a consumer reporting agency, a financial adviser or a regulated screening utility. Our work does not constitute legal, financial, tax, investment or credit advice.
• References on this website to government registries, regulators, screening-list publishers or other organisations describe research sources. They do not imply affiliation, partnership or endorsement.

2. Terms of Use of this website

By using this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

Information only

Website content is general information about our services. It is not advice, an offer capable of acceptance or a guarantee of any outcome. Indicative fees and turnaround targets are for guidance only; binding terms are set out in a written proposal and engagement letter.

Intellectual property

The GER name, logos, text, design and methodology descriptions are owned by or licensed to GER. You may view and print pages for your own reference. You may not copy, republish, frame, scrape or create derivative works from this site for commercial purposes without our written permission.

Acceptable use of the site

You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site or its hosting, introduce malware, probe or test for vulnerabilities outside our responsible-disclosure process, overload the site, or use automated tools to harvest content or contact details.

Third-party links

Links to external websites are provided for convenience. We are not responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, GER is not liable for any loss arising from reliance on website content. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, and the Singapore courts have exclusive jurisdiction, unless a mandatory law of your country provides otherwise.

3. Engagement terms (summary)

Every engagement is governed by a signed engagement letter. The following principles apply to all engagements and are summarised here for transparency.

• Client verification. We verify the identity and authority of the instructing client, record the lawful purpose of the research and run a conflict check before any research begins. We may decline or stop work at our discretion.
• Scope. Our findings are limited to the sources, jurisdictions, languages and time period stated in the report. Public records may be incomplete, outdated, self-reported or unavailable, and some jurisdictions publish limited information.
• As-of date. Reports reflect information available when searched. We have no duty to update a report after release unless ongoing monitoring is engaged.
• No guarantee. We do not guarantee that any record exists or does not exist, that any risk will be identified, or that any recovery, legal or commercial outcome will be achieved.
• Findings, not decisions. Reports support your decision; they do not make it. Risk ratings are analytical judgements, not probabilities of misconduct, credit scores or certifications of compliance with any law or regulator’s requirements, including AML/CFT obligations, which remain yours.
• Allegations. Media reports and allegations are reported as such, with their status and any later developments identified. They are not findings of fact or of guilt.
• Confidentiality and onward disclosure. Reports are confidential to the client for the stated purpose. They may not be shared with the subject or third parties, published or used for another purpose without our written consent, except as required by law.
• Third-party data. Some content is licensed from data providers whose terms restrict redistribution; those restrictions pass to you.
• Liability. Our liability is limited as set out in the engagement letter, to the extent permitted by law.
• Fees. Fees are quoted in Singapore dollars and exclude GST where applicable and third-party disbursements unless stated otherwise.

4. Permitted and prohibited use

We accept engagements only for legitimate purposes such as customer and counterparty due diligence, investment and transaction diligence, third-party risk management, fraud and misconduct investigation, and litigation or asset-recovery support led by counsel.

We will not accept, and clients must not use our work, for:

• locating, stalking, harassing, intimidating or retaliating against any person, including whistle-blowers, witnesses, journalists or former partners;
• discrimination on the basis of race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, political opinion or other protected characteristics;
• fully automated decisions about individuals in employment, credit, insurance, housing or similar contexts;
• employment screening, unless run under our separate consent-based process with the candidate’s informed consent;
• obtaining information by hacking, interception, deception, bribery or any other unlawful means;
• evading sanctions, export controls, anti-money-laundering controls or law enforcement; or
• any purpose that is unlawful in Singapore or in the jurisdiction where the research or its use takes place.

We may terminate an engagement and withhold deliverables if we reasonably believe our work is being, or will be, misused.

5. Privacy Policy

This policy explains how GER collects, uses, discloses and protects personal data, in accordance with Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) and other applicable laws.

Personal data we collect

• Website visitors: our hosting provider processes technical logs (such as IP address, browser type and time of access) for security and operational purposes. With your consent, we also use analytics and advertising cookies as described in our Cookies Policy (section 10). Optional cookies stay off unless you switch them on.
• Enquirers and clients: name, organisation, role, contact details, the information you provide about your enquiry, identity-verification information and billing details.
• Subjects of research: see section 6.

How we use it

• to respond to enquiries, scope and deliver services, and manage client relationships;
• to verify client identity, run conflict checks and meet legal and regulatory obligations;
• to secure our systems, prevent fraud and misuse, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

We rely on consent, contractual necessity, legal obligation or other bases permitted by the PDPA (including, where appropriate, the legitimate-interests and business-improvement exceptions following the required assessments). We do not sell personal data, and we do not send marketing messages without the consent required by law.

Disclosure

We disclose personal data only to our personnel and service providers who need it (for example hosting, secure storage and professional advisers), local partners engaged on a matter, and authorities where required by law. Service providers are bound by contractual confidentiality and data protection obligations.

Retention

We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purpose for which it was collected and for legal, regulatory, contractual or limitation-period requirements, under a documented retention schedule. Data is then securely deleted or anonymised, subject to any legal hold.

Protection

We apply reasonable security arrangements including encryption, role-based and need-to-know access, client-matter isolation, audit logging and vendor due diligence. In the event of a notifiable data breach, we will assess and notify the Personal Data Protection Commission and affected individuals as the PDPA requires.

6. People we research

Due diligence and investigations necessarily involve information about individuals — for example company directors, shareholders, beneficial owners and other people connected to a subject. We handle this information with particular care.

• We research individuals only for a documented lawful purpose, normally in their business or professional capacity, and limit research to what is relevant and proportionate to that purpose.
• Sources include official registries, court and regulatory records, licensed databases, sanctions and PEP lists, media and publicly available information, and lawful enquiries.
• We do not collect data by deception or unauthorised access, and we avoid unnecessary collection of sensitive data such as health, religion or family details.
• We take reasonable steps to ensure accuracy, record the source of each finding, and report allegations as allegations together with relevant denials and outcomes.
• Where the law permits research without notice to the individual (for example, where notice would prejudice an investigation or a legal proceeding), we rely on the applicable exceptions and keep our processing proportionate.

If you believe we hold personal data about you, you may contact our Data Protection Officer. We will respond as required by law, while respecting exceptions that protect investigations, legal privilege, confidentiality owed to clients and the rights of others.

7. Cross-border data and regional laws

Our work often involves more than one country. When we transfer personal data outside Singapore, we take appropriate steps to ensure the recipient provides a standard of protection comparable to the PDPA, for example through contractual clauses.

Depending on where a subject is located or where we process data, other laws may also apply, including Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (as amended in 2024), Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 27 of 2022), Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019), Vietnam’s Law on Personal Data Protection (Law No. 91/2025/QH15), the Philippines’ Data Privacy Act of 2012, and, where applicable, the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations. Where these laws impose stricter requirements, we follow them for the processing they govern.

8. Your rights

Subject to applicable law and its exceptions, you may:

• request access to personal data we hold about you and information about how it has been used or disclosed;
• request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
• withdraw consent where we rely on consent (this may affect our ability to provide services); and
• exercise any additional rights given by the law that applies to you, such as deletion, objection or data portability.

Please send requests to our Data Protection Officer at dpo@globalentityresearch.com. We will verify your identity before responding and may charge a reasonable fee for access requests where the law allows. If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore or the data protection authority in your country.

9. Use of artificial intelligence

We use AI tools to help search, extract, translate and draft. AI output is always reviewed by our analysts, and every report is approved by a senior human reviewer before release. We use AI services only under reviewed contractual terms, limit inputs to what each task requires, and do not use AI to make automated decisions about individuals. Where AI assistance was used in preparing a report, the report methodology says so.

10. Cookies Policy

We use cookies and similar technologies in five categories. Strictly necessary cookies are always on. All other categories stay off until you switch them on in our cookie banner or under Cookie Settings, which is also linked in the footer of every page.

• Strictly necessary: security, site operation, form submissions and remembering your cookie choice. Your choice is stored on your device for six months.
• Functional: remembering settings and preferences.
• Analytics and performance: understanding traffic, navigation and page performance, for example through Google Analytics.
• Advertising and attribution: measuring whether our ads lead to enquiries, for example Google Ads conversion tracking.
• Remarketing: showing relevant ads to people who have visited our website, for example Google Ads audiences.

We load Google Tag Manager with Google Consent Mode. Until you consent, Google tags do not set or read analytics or advertising cookies; they may send limited cookie-less signals, such as the page viewed and your consent status, which do not identify you.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time under Cookie Settings. When you withdraw consent, we delete the Google cookies already set on this website where your browser allows. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Questions: dpo@globalentityresearch.com.

11. Security and responsible disclosure

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in this website, please report it to dpo@globalentityresearch.com with the subject “Security disclosure”. Please do not access, modify or delete data that is not yours, degrade the service, or disclose the issue publicly before we have had a reasonable time to fix it. We will not take legal action against good-faith research conducted in line with this policy and applicable law.

Please never send passwords, seed phrases, private keys or one-time codes to anyone claiming to represent GER. We will never ask for them.

12. Complaints and contact

We take complaints seriously and aim to acknowledge them within five business days. Please contact:

Global Entity Research Pte Ltd
Attn: Data Protection Officer / Complaints
808 French Road, #06-165 Kitchener Complex, Singapore 200808
Email: dpo@globalentityresearch.com · Phone: +65 8683 8638

We may update this page from time to time. The date at the top shows the latest revision. Last updated: 18 September 2026.