Privacy policy.

 

Our Privacy Policy was introduced and posted on 28 May, 2018 and is active from this day forward. It governs the privacy terms of our Website, located at http://ilcm.org.mo/

This privacy policy sets out how the International Ladies Club of Macau (ILCM), uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website.  The ILCM follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy.

The ILCM is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

The ILCM may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may use your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information. You will see terms in our Privacy Policy. These terms have meanings as described in the Definitions section below.

Definitions

“Non Personal Information” is information that is not personally identifiable to you and that we automatically collect when you access our Website with a web browser. It may also include publicly available information that is shared between you and others.

“Personally Identifiable Information” is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained in order for us to provide you within our Website. Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your name, email address, and other related information that you provide to us or that we obtain about you

What we collect

You control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our Website.

As a Visitor, you can browse our website to find out more about our Website. You are not required to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information as a Visitor.

Personally Identifiable Information

We may process certain types of personal data about you when you interact with us, as follows:

  • Identity Data: may include your first name, last name or date of birth.

  • Contact Data: may include your email address and telephone numbers.

  • Marketing and Communications Data: may include your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us

Computer Collected Information

When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered Non Personal Information. We also collect the following:

  • Cookies. Our Website uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Website. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

  • Automatic Information. We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.

What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Customizing Our Website. We may use the Personally Identifiable information you provide to us along with any computer information we receive to customize our Website.

  • Internal record keeping.

  • Register You as a Member. We use Personally Identifiable information you provide us, with membership to the ILCM

  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new events, special offers or other information, which we think you, may find interesting using the email address, which you have provided.

  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests

  • Sharing Information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for marketing purposes. We may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to affiliates that provide services to us with regards to our Website (i.e. Website hosting companies, etc.); such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide the respective services and will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information.

The following third parties may have access to your Personally Identifiable Information:

  • Jot Forms

  • Mailchimp

  • Legally Required Releases of Information. We may be legally required to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of the ILCM our Users and volunteers

Transferring Information

  • By using this website, you authorize us to transfer and store your information in Macau, for the purposes described in this policy. The privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your information in Macau may not be the same as in your home country.

Marketing communications

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:

  • Requested information from us or have joined the ILCM

  • We will not give any 3rd party any of your information

EU Residents:

If you wish to exercise your “right to be forgotten” and have all Personally Identifiable Information deleted, please email us directly with your request: membership@ilcm.org.mo

You maintain the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority in your local EU Member State under the GDPR.

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Customer data is stored for a reasonable time (5+ years) as a necessity to keep accurate records of accounting and membership needs. The exact data retention period varies based on the system storing the information, the date of the user’s last activity or interaction with the ILCM, and whether or not the information relates to a current or past member.

Links to other websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not under our direct control. These websites may have their own policies regarding privacy. We have no control of or responsibility for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors. You access such linked Websites at your own risk. These websites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should check the privacy policies, if any, of those individual websites to see how the operators of those third-party websites will utilize your personal information. In addition, these websites may contain a link to Websites of our affiliates. The websites of our affiliates are not subject to this Privacy Policy, and you should check their individual privacy policies to see how the operators of such websites will utilize your personal information.

Privacy Policy Updates

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You should review this Privacy Policy frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we may notify you on our Website, by a blog post, by email, or by any method we determine. The method we chose is at our sole discretion. We will also change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this Last Updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies.

Questions About Our Privacy Practices or This Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about our Privacy Practices or this Policy, please contact us at membership@ilcm.org.mo