Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy gives information on the responsibilities and procedures of Horizon Asia Partners, its affiliates, and associated companies (the “Company”) as per the regulations laid out by the Hong Kong SAR Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance – Cap.486 (the “Ordinance”).

While this privacy policy explicitly addresses the Company’s responsibilities under the legal requirements of Hong Kong, we believe the principles written into the Ordinance are a match to any in the world as far as the protections they provide. As such, the Company will apply, where practicable, those principles and the processes set out herein to its operations worldwide.

Where our operations are subject to privacy legislation other than that which applies under Hong Kong SAR law, this policy shall be implemented so far as feasible and in line with such local laws.

Our Commitment To Privacy

The privacy policy has been written to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and protect the personal data you provide to us and help you make informed decisions when using our website, our products, and services. We regularly evaluate our privacy policy in light of improved technology, business practices, and changing customer needs. Our Privacy Policy may, therefore, be altered occasionally. You should review our Privacy Statement regularly to ensure you are aware of our latest policies.

The Company’s employees shall, at all times, respect confidentiality and make every effort to safeguard all personal data that we collect, maintain, transmit, and use.

Where an individual justifiably requests access to or changes made to personal data, we shall provide or change that data.

Types Of Personal Information Gathered

To carry on the Company’s business, including registration and related products and services, you may be asked to provide personal data such as, including but not limited to, the following, without which it may not be possible to fulfill your request:

• Your name;
• Home and billing address;
• Accounts information, such as account numbers or user accounts;
• Payment details, including credit card and banking details;
• Contact details, including contact name, telephone numbers, or email addresses;
• Information to verify identity, including identification type and I.D. number.

In some circumstances, you may also be requested to provide specific data that can be utilized to improve our products and services and better personalize the type of information presented to you. In most instances, this type of data is optional. However, where the requested service is a personalized service, or the delivery of a product is dependent on you making all required information available, failure to provide the required data may prevent us from delivering the service to you. This type of data includes, but is not limited to:

• Your age;
• Gender;
• Salary range and employment information;
• Education and profession;
• Hobbies and leisure activities;
• Other related products and services subscribed to;
• Family and household demographics.

For services offered by the Company, information may be automatically gathered about those services so we may carry out truthful reporting and management of your accounts.

Our servers may also collect data about your use of our website to provide accumulated, anonymous information on the webserver’s use better to achieve the requirements and expectancies of our website users. This type of information may include, but is not limited to:

• The browser type and version;
• Operating system;
• Domain name

Information Collected Through The Website

We use personal data for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers.

The main reasons we may use personal data are:

• sending information about our products and services, activities, promotions, and events;
• marketing and promotional purposes for us, our business partners, and other selected companies;
• joint marketing arrangements with third parties;
• customizing the advertising and content to improve your experience when visiting our site and to offering individualized marketing and promotional experiences;
• satisfying any of your orders for services and payments;
• responding to your inquiries;
• gathering statistical data, conducting analysis, and providing anonymous reporting for clients;
• carrying out surveys about our customers, products, or services;
• reviewing and further improvements to our products and services;
• fulfilling any purpose expressly related to the above objectives.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your navigation experience when you visit our website. Cookies are tiny pieces of information that your web browser records on your device when you use a website. Our cookies let us individualize your visits to our website and know when you return to the site. Data collected by these cookies may be used for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.

Most browsers routinely accept cookies. You can restrict cookies on your computer in the settings menu of your browser. We suggest that you do this if you are uneasy about receiving cookies.

Links

Our website may contain links to other sites. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Statement is no longer in effect. Your use of any other website, including websites that link to our website, is subject to those website’s own rules and policies, which will differ from that of our site.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies of websites linked to or from our website.

Security Of Information

Our website will take practical measures to ensure that all information we gather, use or disclose is accurate, up-to-date, and stored in a secure manner accessible only to our authorized employees and contractors. However, we give no guarantees against third parties hacks of the data or any unauthorized access to the data by anyone.

Access And Update Of Information

You have the right to see if we hold any of your personal data and, if so, you may also ask for access, modification, alteration, or a copy of said data held by us by contacting us.

The Company will, upon satisfying ourselves of the legitimacy and validity of the access request, make every effort to respond to the request within 30 days after receiving the request.

Data Retention

We keep personal data for as long as is required to fulfill the purpose for which it is being collected. We reserve the right to maintain records for an indefinite period for our archives for statistical purposes.

Disclosure

All personal information held by us will be kept confidential and secure. Still, we may, where such disclosure is necessary to satisfy the purpose for which the information was collected, disclose such information to the following:

• our vendors and partners;
• parties which assist us in carrying out the purposes laid out above in this Privacy Policy;
• parties which participate in joint marketing scheme with us;
• any agent, contractor or service provider who supplies administrative, order processing, payment clearing, credit reference, debt collecting or other services necessary to the operation of our business;
• any other persons or organizations who are bound by confidentiality agreements with us; and
• any person to whom we are, in good faith, forced to make disclosures in accordance with applicable law

You should also be aware that the privacy protection as set out in this Privacy Policy does not apply to data disclosed to third parties. We are not responsible for the security of your personal information by third parties.

Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Statement, personal data about you as an individual subscriber will not be provided to any third party without your consent.

Personal data may also be disclosed to any person or persons with a legal right to access such information provided they can prove their authority to access such information.

Consent

By using our website, you agree to the gathering and using your personal data as described in this Privacy Statement. If we alter our privacy policies and procedures, amendments will be posted on this page to keep you aware of the alteration and what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

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