Privacy Statement
Effective Date: 1st April, 2018
We take our customers privacy seriously and we will only collect and use your personal information as outlined below.
Data protection is a matter of trust and your privacy is important to us. We shall therefore only use your name and other information, which relates to you in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. We will only collect information where it is necessary for us to do so and we will only collect information if it is relevant to our dealings with you.
You can visit the Site and browse without having to provide personal details. During your visit to the Site you remain anonymous and at no time can we identify you unless you have an account on the Site and log on with your user name and password.
1. Collection of Personal Information
When you create a WORLD-TECH account the personal information we collect may include your:
- Name
- Delivery Address
- Email Address
- Telephone Number
- Mobile Number
- Date of Birth
- Gender
The personal information we collect from you will be used in some or all of the following ways:
- To deliver the products you have purchased from WORLD-TECH
- To update you on the delivery of the product and for customer support purposes
- To provide you with relevant product information
- To process your orders and to provide you with the services and information offered through our website and which you request
We may pass your name and address on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product to you (for example to our courier).
2. Collection of Computer Data
When you visit WORLD-TECH, our company servers will automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This data may include:
- Your computer's IP address
- Browser type
- Webpage you were visiting before you came to our site
- The pages with in WORLD-TECH you visit
- The time spent on those pages, items and information searched for on our site, access times and dates, and other statistics.
This information is collected for analysis and evaluation in order to help us improve our site and the services and products we provide. This data will not be used in association with any other personal information.
3. Security of Your Personal Information
WORLD-TECH ensures that all information collected will be safely and securely stored. We protect your personal information by:
- Restricting access to personal information
- Maintaining technology products to prevent unauthorized computer access
- Securely destroying your personal information when it's no longer needed for our record retention purposes
WORLD-TECH uses 128 - bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption technology when processing your financial details. 128-bit SSL encryption is approximated to take at least one trillion years to break, and is the industry standard.
4. Why do we share your information with？
To protect your privacy, we will endeavour to only share with third parties data which has either been aggregated and anonymized or which otherwise does not contain your name or contact details. However, there may be limited circumstances where we will share data (which may include your personal data) with third parties who may or may not be located overseas as details in this section. By using WORLD-TECH Website, or applying for a WORLD-TECH membership, you agree to allow us to share your personal data with third parties and to the cross-border transfer of your personal data in accordance with this section. Regardless of where we store or process your personal data, we are committed to protecting it and will take reasonable steps to safeguard it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws.
(a) Service providers
Your personal data may be shared with our members’ service providers (including agents and contractors) who process personal data on our behalf to help us administer and operate WORLD-TECH Website and membership system, to conduct data analytics, promotion, to help aggregate and anonymise the personal data, or to carry out any of the purposes set out above. These may include IT vendors, back-office and front-end or ancillary service providers, call canter operators, marketing agencies, data management and analytics service providers, and customer contact services.
(b) Government and regulatory authorities
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ("Hong Kong"). We strive to handle your personal data in accordance with any data privacy laws or rules that we believe apply to us. Your personal data may be shared with regulatory authorities, courts and other governmental agencies to comply with any legal or regulatory requirements, orders or requests. Any dispute concerning the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.
5. Cease to use the Personal Data for Direct Marketing
If you want to stop receiving any promotional material from our company, you may at any time contact us by sending email to info@worldtech.com.hk, indicating your request to cease the use of your Personal Information. Upon receipt of your request, our company will erase your Personal Data from our list within 14 working days and stop using it for direct marketing purpose.
6. Changes to the Privacy Policy
WORLD-TECH reserves the right to modify and change the Privacy Statement at any time. Any changes to this policy will be published on our site.
Should there be any discrepancy between the English and Chinese versions of these Privacy Policy, the Chinese version shall prevail.
