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Last updated on 25 March 2020
Preface Technopreneur Limited (“Preface”, "we", "us" "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and confidentiality of all personal data you provide to us. This privacy policy applies to all individuals who visit and/or use our and our affiliates, related company and/ or subsidiaries' websites, services, and products that collect data and/or display these terms ("Website & Services"). This privacy statement applies only to information collected through iD Sites & Services and not to information collected offline. By accessing or otherwise using any of our services, you consent to the terms contained in this privacy policy statement, including the collection, use, and disclosure of data as described below.
COLLECTION OF DATA
Information Collected From You
Information provided to us on Website & Services and/or other third party websites Preface uses to collect information includes not limited to contact information like:

- Contact and profile information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone numbers, date of birth and/or school name; - Gender preference;

- Course interests;

- Billing information such as credit card number and billing address;

- Personal data on third-party systems and other information as provided by such third party and/or public sources such as social media;

- Information provided through our support channels, such as our email inbox and our support hotline, such information include any contact information, documentation, and/or screenshots

- Information provided through surveys for research purpose;

- Information included in résumés and job applications; and

- Health, any participation limitations or needs, immunization and allergy information.

These informations are provided to us at the time of account registration, newsletter subscription, consultation, site visit scheduling, live chat enquiry, or any request for further information or services on our website or via offline activities.
Information Collected Automatically Or From Other Sources Cookies and other Tracking Technologies
Cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Local Storage Objects, or other technologies may be used to collect certain information about visitors to and users of Preface, such as traffic data, page views, length of visits to certain pages, location data, page interaction data, the type of web browser and operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, software version, domain name from which you accessed our Website & Services and/or any other communication or technical data. Such information is used to monitor and improve our Website & Services, support our internal operation, personalize your online experience, support e-signatures process, and for internal evaluation and analysis purpose. You may modify your preference on cookies by modifying your browser preference.

Our Websites & Services may use third-party plug-ins for the provision of additional services and benefits, which may also collect information about you.

Geolocation information may be collected from your device to personalised your experience on Website & Services. Such data collection, in most cases, may be turned off at any time by accessing the privacy and/or location setting of your device.

Other Sources
We may obtain your personal data and information from other sources, third party data providers, and/or public sources, such as social network, third-party social media plug-ins, integrations and applications and other online sources when you engage with our content, and other offerings, on or through such channels. You may refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use should you wish to modify your privacy settings.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY OR FROM OTHER SOURCES
Cookies and other Tracking Technologies
Cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Local Storage Objects, or other technologies may be used to collect certain information about visitors to and users of Preface, such as traffic data, page views, length of visits to certain pages, location data, page interaction data, the type of web browser and operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, software version, domain name from which you accessed our Website & Services and/or any other communication or technical data. Such information is used to monitor and improve our Website & Services, support our internal operation, personalize your online experience, support e-signatures process, and for internal evaluation and analysis purpose. You may modify your preference on cookies by modifying your browser preference. Our Websites & Services may use third-party plug-ins for the provision of additional services and benefits, which may also collect information about you. Geolocation information may be collected from your device to personalised your experience on Website & Services. Such data collection, in most cases, may be turned off at any time by accessing the privacy and/or location setting of your device.
Other Sources
We may obtain your personal data and information from other sources, third party data providers, and/or public sources, such as social network, third-party social media plug-ins, integrations and applications and other online sources when you engage with our content, and other offerings, on or through such channels. You may refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use should you wish to modify your privacy settings.
USE OF DATA
Data will be used for the following purposes or any of them in the following ways, which may vary depending on the nature of your relationship with us, including but not limited to Nomad Teacher, Partner, Student:

Allow you to register yourself or your student with iD Sites & Services, or to otherwise register and open an account with us;

- Allow the registration of you or your child with Website & Services, or otherwise register and open an account with us;

- Process payments, prevent transactional fraud and facilitate daily operations;

- Provide you or your child with information about any of our products and/or services which may interest you, that you have contacted us for or enquired about;

- Provide direct marketing materials or publish your information or your child’s information as part of brochures, leaflets, testimonials or customer stories upon consent;

- Consider you for employment or a volunteer opportunity;

- Monitor and improve our Website & Services, support our internal operations, personalize your online experience, and internal evaluation and analysis;

- Protect the security, integrity, rights, property, or safety of our company, our affiliates, our users, our customers, or others;

- Facilitate the sale or potential sale of our business or any of our assets, in which case personal data about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; or

- As required by law.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Data held by us or a member of the Preface will be kept confidential but may be disclosed to any member of our group including our subsidiary, affiliates related company and our holding company and its subsidiaries (whether within or outside Hong Kong).

We do not share your or your information with any third parties, except to those who assist in the operation or provision of our products and services to our customers, such as third parties that provide payment processing services, or customer relationship management software etc. These third party providers may have access to your personal information only for the purpose of performing their services and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

You personal information will not be shared with any company outside our group for marketing purposes, unless you have specified your consent to do so.

Your personal data will be retained for so long as deemed reasonably necessary for Preface to fulfill our obligations to different parties. If you wish to delete your personal information from us, you may submit a written request to us.
ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
You may request access to and correction of your personal information at any time. Any request may be made in writing and addressed to:

Head of Human Resources Department Hong Kong

18/F, Tower 535, 535 Jaffe Road, Causeway Bay, HK
CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY
Preface reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this statement at any time. Should there be any material change on our use of your personal information, we shall notify such change on our website and/or through emails as well as in this privacy statement. The effective date of this privacy statement is documented at the beginning of the statement.
RECORDING ONLINE AND DIGITAL EVENTS
Information about you: how we use it and with whom we share it
Preface (“we”) uses the recording functions of the Online and Digital events platforms to record and keep your online classes, digital meetings and events.

We use external companies (included but not limited to Google, Zoom and Learnworlds) to provide the platforms on the Preface’s behalf. As the data controller, we remain responsible for your meeting recordings and will ensure they are kept securely when they are held on one of these platforms. For each of the platforms for further information on the data that the external companies collect from you and how they use this data, please read the privacy statements provided by them on the websites.

As by consenting to a meeting you are a participant in of being recorded, you are agreeing for that meeting (and any data you share within the meeting) to be recorded and we reserve the right to use photos, videos, and/or sound recordings of meeting for teacher training and curriculum development and delivery, and/or promotional purposes, unless otherwise informed in advance by you in writing. You can withdraw your consent at any time. If you decide at any time that you do not want a meeting you are a participant in to be recorded, inform the Preface and leave the meeting if necessary.

Our administrators for each platform (i.e. specific internal staff) will be able to access these recordings, however they will not share these with anyone else.
Retention of Meeting Recordings
The retention period of the meeting recordings is 7 years.

Further Queries
If you want to contact someone about Data Protection, you can contact the Preface’s Data Protection Officer at hello@preface.ai. For further information on the approach to your data protection and rights, please see the following page - https://www.preface.ai/privacy.