This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Privacy Statement”) for Discovery Chinese Cultural Center Limited (“Discovery Chinese Cultural Center”). This Privacy Policy was last updated on 22nd August 2024. For more details on Discovery Chinese Cultural Center operations please email infor@discoverychinese.com.
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center understands that your privacy is important. Discovery Chinese Cultural Center is committed to protecting your privacy and the personal information you provide as you access and use materials https://discoverychinese.com/ (the “Site”), including the site subscription pages, sales pages, e-commerce pages, or other websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Statement. In addition, information that you submit to Discovery Chinese Cultural Center in response to an email request for information or other outreach from Discovery Chinese Cultural Center will be treated following this Privacy Statement.
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center may, at its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you can remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here. This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. Discovery Chinese Cultural Center does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. By browsing our website and expressly consenting where required (for instance, when submitting any application, or purchasing products through the site), you agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT, AND HOW WE USE IT
What information do we collect?
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center collects information from you when you create your account for the Site, register for our courses, purchase products from the site, request copies of publications, subscribe to email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities, databases, or register for conferences and other Discovery Chinese Cultural Center-sponsored events. If you do not provide such information, you will not be able to create an account for the Site, register for our courses, purchase products, request copies of publications, subscribe to email newsletters and press releases, and seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities.
Personal information that we collect may include names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, unique personal identifiers, subject areas of interest, and/or demographic information.
During rehitration of our courses and purchasing products through the site, we collect information such as names, billing and shipping addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, products you purchased or ordered, purchase history, and payment methods. In addition, we sometimes aggregate demographic information and the types of systems and browsers of users Discovery Chinese Cultural Center, also we may conduct user surveys on the Web or use technologies to provide Discovery Chinese Cultural Center with information on several areas, such as user identity, user viewing habits, whether or not users found what they were searching for, whether the Site content is relevant to user needs, and the like.
How do we use personal information?
The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:
(i) to safeguard the legitimate interests pursued by Discovery Chinese Cultural Center. This includes:
• Informing you about updates to the service and notifying you about other products and services offered by Discovery Chinese Cultural Center that may be of interest to you, including information regarding courses, publications and events.
• Completing your orders, purchases, and registration on the site.
• Tailoring your experience at the Site with relevant Discovery Chinese Cultural Center materials
• Understanding the Site’s user population, identifying subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Site is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors
• Measuring and improving the effectiveness of Discovery Chinese Cultural Center marketing programs across different channels.
• Improving our web content and navigation.
(ii) based on your consent. Insofar as you have granted us consent to the processing of personal information for specific purposes, (for instance, when you send a request, message, purchase products, or submit an application) the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
(iii) for compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.
We will not sell, share, rent, or otherwise make available your personal information to other parties, except that we may disclose the information to third parties who perform services on our behalf and have a need to access the information in connection with those services. Any third parties will only process this information to the extent to which and within the limits that Discovery Chinese Cultural Center itself is permitted to process that data. In addition, Discovery Chinese Cultural Center may disclose your contact information in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to Discovery Chinese Cultural Center.
HOW WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
The third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Website include:
• our subsidiaries or affiliates;
• our advisors;
• our third-party service providers who process the information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services, and marketing and events services;
• our business partners for courses, publications and events co-organized by Discovery Chinese Cultural Center and them;
• law enforcement bodies to comply with any legal obligation or court order
Because Discovery Chinese Cultural Center is an international company, we may need to transfer personal information which is collected on the Site or through other means across Discovery Chinese Cultural Center Company Locations to help operate our business efficiently. This also includes third parties located in different countries around the world, including outside of the EEA. These arrangements may involve your personal information being located in various countries around the world e.g. USA where privacy laws differ. We only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect information held in that country. In addition, the Site may be viewed and accessed anywhere in the world including in countries that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personally identifiable information. By using the Site, submitting information through this site, or submitting personal information to Discovery Chinese Cultural Center through other means you voluntarily consent to the international transfer and hosting of such information to those countries and parties.
RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center retains your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. We may retain your personal information for longer if it may be the subject of a legal claim, or may otherwise be relevant for future litigation.
MARKETING
If at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications through a link provided in every e-mail that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to Discovery Chinese Cultural Center e-mail newsletters, you are allowed to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of signing up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place a small amount of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information. Once you have given your consent to use cookies we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browser’s settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies.
We use the following types of cookies:
“Required Cookies” are required to operate this site.
“Functional Cookies” are used to store choices and preferences, providing a convenient browsing experience.
“Advertising Cookies” are used by us or third-party providers to analyze how the Site and our services are used, including the following types:
Google Analytics.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics and marketing service provided by Google. Google uses HTTP “cookies” and similar technologies to collect information to measure and understand how users use this website. This includes user activity tracking on this website, including pages, visits, and links clicked. Discovery Chinese Cultural Center does this to provide you with experiences and marketing messages based on your likely interests. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do opt out you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. To find out more about Google Analytics, Google’s privacy policy, and opting out of its cookies please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/?hl=en-US.
Web beacon.
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center includes a web beacon, which is a graphic image, in a majority of the HTML email messages we send. Discovery Chinese Cultural Center uses web beacons, alone or in conjunction, with cookies to compile information about your usage of Discovery Chinese Cultural Center websites and interaction with emails from Discovery Chinese Cultural Center. We use the capability to determine whether or not an email has been received, or opened, or when an URL has been clicked inside of an email that directs you to one of Discovery Chinese Cultural Center’s websites. These web beacons are used to: (i) operate and improve Discovery Chinese Cultural Center websites, services, and email communications, (ii) send emails in a format that users can read, and (iii) track the aggregate number of emails opened. The web beacon does not collect your personal information, however, the information compiled by the web beacon allows us to tie a user to information Discovery Chinese Cultural Center has collected in the data collection process as set out in this Privacy Statement. You may refuse the use of web beacons by selecting the appropriate settings on your email program to disable images and refrain from clicking on any links in email messages.
By continuing to browse or use our Sites and services, you agree that we can store and access cookies and other tracking technologies as described herein.
SECURITY PROCESSES
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center has in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or contractor having access to any personally-identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standards to protect your personally identifiable information, Discovery Chinese Cultural Center cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and Discovery Chinese Cultural Center cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This website contains links to other Web sites not operated by Discovery Chinese Cultural Center.
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-Discovery Chinese Cultural Center websites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Privacy Statement. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAW
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center complies with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. Discovery Chinese Cultural Center may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on the use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.
ACCESS RIGHTS
Following applicable data protection laws, you have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it, please follow the process outlined below and we will amend our records where appropriate. You also have the right to require us to erase your personal data, stop processing your personal data, restrict the processing of your personal information, the right of portability of your personal information, and/or to withdraw your consent to the processing of this information. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. If you think we may have incorrect personal information or would like a copy of the personal information we hold on you, or to exercise any other data protection right, please contact us at infor@discoverychinese.com. Please note that we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.
CHILDREN
Discovery Chinese Cultural Center understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, particularly in their online interactions. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit children 18 years of age and younger.
USE OF DISCOVERY CHINESE CULTURAL CENTER WEBSITES
Your access to and use of the Site are subject to this Privacy Statement and certain other terms and conditions, contained in our Terms and Conditions of Use.
CONTACT US
For further questions, you may contact the appropriate data protection point of contact infor@discoverychinese.com