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hkaac.hk Privacy Policy

Overview
hkaac.hk takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable precaution to safeguard the personal information you supply to it.

Data Protection hkaac.hk is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 under registration in Hong Kong. The information you provide is safeguarded under the terms of that Act.

The Data Collected About You
hkaac.hk collects data about you, including answers to specific questions asked by hkaac.hk's sponsors. This information is used to assist hkaac.hk and connected third parties in communicating with you about their products and services.

The Use of Cookies
hkaac.hk uses resident cookies to store data on your hard disk for the purpose of identifying you when you return to the hkaac.hk site. 

If you have resident cookies disabled in your browser you are still able to use the hkaac.hk site but you may see the same offer twice or you may continually see the same banner adverts.

hkaac.hk uses sessions to store data on our server that are individually identifiable. In most cases a search for the keyword "AMATEUR CALLIGRAPHERS" in your temporary internet files folder will find all the cookies that our site has placed on your computer. You may find no cookies even if your browser is cookie enabled. This would happen if you happen not to visit a part of the site where cookies are served.

As hkaac.hk works with third parties to serve some of our advertisements, you may also find cookies from the following companies associated with a visit to hkaac.hk and others. If you click on their name, you will be taken to a page explaining their privacy policy.

Click Tracking
hkaac.hk tracks visitors to and on the hkaac.hk site by using referrer tracking. hkaac.hk also uses click thru and open mail tracking when sending emails. This process gives hkaac.hk the ability to profile the recipients of their communications. It also provides us data relating to the country that you reside in.

Third Party Usage
The collection of data by hkaac.hk through registration on third party sites may lead to your data also being held by that third party site.

The Use of Data by Third Parties
The data that you provide to hkaac.hk is held by both hkaac.hk and the sponsors, of the questionnaires that you answer. hkaac.hk holds your data in a central database and this database is only accessed by ourselves. However, when you have opted to receive information from a sponsor of a competition or questionnaire, they may gain access to part of this data.

Further Use of Data to Third Parties
The information you provide may be used, by hkaac.hk and its clients, to provide you with information and offers by post. If you would prefer not to receive such offers please email hkaac.hk@gmail.com with your full postal details.

Contact by Other Means 
At times it may be appropriate for hkaac.hk or its clients and sponsors to contact you with offers and information in respect of your interests or to inform you about subjects upon which you have requested information through your mobile phone or other PDA devices. Before doing so hkaac.hk will always ask you for your specific consent. If having given consent previously, you wish to withdraw this consent you may do so by emailing hkaac.hk@gmail.com with your telephone details.

The Use of Data to Validate Other Lists
Your data may be provided to clients of hkaac.hk to be appended to information they already hold about you for the purpose of contacting you with information about their products and services. These clients may not contact you without your prior consent, so the primary use is to understand their existing users better.

The Use of Third Party Equipment, Servers or Suppliers
Not all hkaac.hk services are provided and served by us directly. In certain circumstances other companies perform specialist services on our behalf to our users. This may be for the actual delivery of email or the hosting of a particular website.  hkaac.hk shall only be entitled to supply such of your personal information as is necessary to enable them to provide the relevant service to you.  All partners must be registered in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1988.

Relevance of Your Data
The data you provide to hkaac.hk will be held as you have provided it. Functions exist within the hkaac.hk website to change the data that is held.

Cancel Subscriptions
You may at any time cancel your relationship with hkaac.hk by emailing hkaac.hk@gmail.com with your full postal details. The consequences of deregistration are that your account details will be placed in a suppression file and you will not receive any further email communications from hkaac.hk. It should be noted that this may invalidate entry in particular competitions run on the hkaac.hk website.

Disclouse of Information
hkaac.hk will not provide your personal information to any third party without your prior consent, however, under certain circumstances, official government agencies may require the provision of information to the legal authorities. In order to maintain the integrity of its website and safeguard the interests of its subscribers hkaac.hk will comply with any such legally binding request. However, when at all possible, hkaac.hk will not divulge any information to agencies based outside the jurisdiction of Hong Kong.

Security
Whilst the internet is more secure than the postal service, it is not 100% secure. hkaac.hk cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to hkaac.hk via the Internet. hkaac.hk is not responsible for any loss or damage you or others may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such information.

Further information If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of hkaac.hk or require any further information please send your request by email to our data controller, Alan by emailing hkaac.hk@gmail.com

HONG KONG ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR CALLIGRAPHERS 2007