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Overview
We, Outblaze Limited, respect you, our user, and your privacy. It is our policy to comply with internationally recognized standards of personal data privacy protection and, in Hong Kong, with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the "Ordinance"). For further information about the Ordinance, please visit http://www.pco.org.hk/. This statement set outs our privacy policies and practices in relation to the following:
We collect three kinds of information from you. The first kind is personally identifiable information ("Personally Identifiable Information") which we collect during your registration for any Outblaze services such as e-mail, chat, message board, Web hosting, etc ("Services"). Personally Identifiable Information includes your first and last name, year of birth, gender, country, occupation, annual income range, education, household size, and alternative contact address. The second kind is non-personally identifiable information which includes your IP address (your computer's unique signature), operating system, browser software, Internet Service Provider, domain type, and other numeric codes which identify a computer ("Aggregated Information"). We use cookies to collect the Aggregated Information without your being aware of this. A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web server with your permission for record-keeping purposes. Once you register on one of our Web sites, cookies will be used to make a record of the pages you visit and your passwords and preferences. Since cookies cannot contain any program codes, they cannot be used to carry viruses nor can they be used to extract data from your computer. Only the server that sets cookies can access the information saved by using cookies. Since the functioning of our system depends on our use of cookies, our Web sites do not allow access by users who do not accept cookies. The third kind is personal information which we collect during your subscription for certain e-mail marketing programs such as opt-in e-mail, opt-in newsletter, polling, and special promotions ("Subscription Information"). Subscription Information includes all your Personally Identifiable Information, your e-mail address, and topic(s) of interest to you. HOW INFORMATION IS USED Personally Identifiable Information is used solely for the purpose of identifying, managing, and servicing individual users. Aggregated Information is collected to help us to compile aggregate statistics on site usage and to analyse our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour. This will give us a better understanding of the needs of our users and design our services and products accordingly. Subscription Information is used to deliver the e-mails or newsletters to users who have chosen to subscribe to such e-mails or newsletters. WITH WHOM THE INFORMATION IS SHARED We do not disclose any of your Personally Identifiable Information to any third parties except:
We only share the Aggregate Information about our users with our advertising partners. We need to do this so that our advertising partners can target their advertisements at the right audiences. Please however note that we do not give your Personally Identifiable Information to any of our advertising partners. You may request us to send to you further details of any advertisements on our Web sites. We will ask our relevant advertising partners for those details and forward them to you by e-mail. For such requests, please contact info@outblaze.com. We only share the Subscription Information with e-mail marketers that Outblaze carefully selected to work with us in order to provide users e-mails or newsletters they selected to receive. We need to disclose the Subscription Information to the e-mail marketers in order for users to receive the correct e-mails or newsletters which they opt-in to receive or which the Co-brand Partners and Outblaze have agreed upon to send. All opt-in e-mails or newsletters will be conducted in a double-opt-in procedure, meaning users will receive another confirmation e-mail upon subscription, and will have to reply to confirm the subscription of any e-mails or newsletters. The double-opt-in procedure is another method to ensure that users will only receive materials they wanted to receive. Any of our e-mails to you containing marketing materials will also include the details of an opt-out procedure under which you may choose not to receive any further marketing e-mails. If you have any questions regarding marketing e-mails from us or any third parties, please contact info@outblaze.com. Please be aware that when you click on the advertising banners on our Web sites or in any marketing e-mails, you may be linked to sites which are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the collection or use of any information which you provide to those sites. We strongly recommend that you should review the privacy policy statements of those sites which collect information from you. HOW WE PROTECT CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 As is required in the United States by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of the United States of America, we request a new user to indicate his or her age in the registration form. If the new user is under the age of 13 as indicated in his or her registration form, he or she will be denied access to our services. HOW YOU ACCESS OR CHANGE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION You have the right to access and change any of your Personally Identifiable Information collected by us. If you would like to access or change your information, please follow the simple instructions in your user account options or please contact us at info@outblaze.com. GENERAL We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy Statement at any time without prior notice and only the current Privacy Policy Statement may be deemed effective. By registering for any of our services, you also consent to the transfer of any of your information collected by us to a jurisdiction outside Hong Kong which may not have any laws protecting personal data similar to the Ordinance. If you have any questions concerning our use of your personal information, please contact us at: Outblaze Limited
Tel: (852) 2591-9852
Last updated April/2003 |