Skip links

This is the Privacy Notice for Hua Lien Club and Hua Lien Club’s website (the “Site”). The Site is being used for the following but limited to, provide information about Hua Lien Club, promote our upcoming events, provide information about our courses, archive pictures of our past events, and used as a contact point.

This Privacy Notice sets out the privacy practices relevant to this Site and explains how information is collected via the Site, how it is used, your rights and what controls you have. Please take the time to review this Privacy Notice carefully as it tells you how information is collected and how it is used. 

If you have questions or you do not feel that your concerns have been addressed by the Privacy Notice, please contact Hua Lien Club, Dr Maxime Shun Shin Street, Trianon, Q.Bornes, Mauritius. You can also contact us by email at: [email protected]

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In running and maintaining the Site, we may collect and process information provided voluntarily by you, in particular your name, date of birth, family status, employment history, job function or department, address and contact details such as your telephone number, email address or fax number when you sign up to or request a newsletter or by any completing forms on the Site, or when requesting any information from us.

Information we collect about you from your use of the Site

Information about your use of the Site, in particular, details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access. Such information includes the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used to connect your device to the Internet, information about your visit, and traffic, data identifying the country associated with your IP address. Our web servers also collect certain other communication information about all visitors to this Site, including host names and the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) or the domain name associated with a visitor’s transit to, through and from our Site (including date and time) and a record of which pages have been requested.

This information is used to produce aggregate visitor statistics in relation to which pages are being accessed. It may also be used to monitor usage patterns on this Site in order to improve navigation and design features to help you get information more easily.

Social Media Platforms

You may wish to participate in the various blogs, forums, wikis and other social media platforms hosted by Hua Lien Club (“Social Media Platforms”) which we make available to you. The main aim of these Social Media Platforms is to facilitate and allow you to share content. However, Hua Lien Club cannot be held responsible if you share personal information on Social Media Platforms that is subsequently used, misused or otherwise appropriated by another user.

Hua Lien Club may also provide links to other social media platforms maintained on separate servers by individuals or organisations over which Hua Lien Club has no control. Hua Lien Club makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy or any other aspect of the information located on such servers. A link to a third party’s website should not be construed as an endorsement by either Hua Lien Club or that third party of the other or its products and services. Hua Lien Club makes no representations or warranties regarding how user data is stored or used on third party servers. We recommend reviewing the Privacy Notice of each third-party website linked from this Site to determine their use of your personal data. We have also implemented social plug-ins from Social Media Platforms on the Site. Where a relevant social plug-in appears on the Site your browser visiting the Site will set up a direct connection to the servers of the Social Media Platform. These servers will recognise that you are visiting this Site. If you are a member of the relevant Social Media Platform and you are logged in when visiting this Site information will be allocated by the Social Media Platform to your personal social media account with them. By clicking on the relevant plug-in icon on the Site (such as a ‘Like’ button) then this information will be shared with your Social Media Platform personal user account. Visit the Privacy Notice of the relevant Social Media Platform provider to learn more about your rights and choices.

Whatsapp Community

The purpose of the Forum is to communicate and inform our members regarding matters and activities of Hua Lien Club

By joining this forum, you confirm that your mobile number shall be used by the administrator to check your membership compliance and to update the HL database. You also consent that your mobile number will be accessible to the members of the forum.

Hua Lien is a non-profit NGO and this forum is being used exclusively for communication in line with its objectives. The communication in this forum remains private and confidential for the benefit of its members only and members are not authorised to forward same to the public. The information and data provided is for general informational purpose only and are provided in good faith. There is no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability or completeness of any information distribution in this forum. You understand and agree that the services provided to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis and the EC management and Administrator disclaim all warranties, express or implied, of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.

Should the content of forum be enabled, the EC and Administrator cannot guarantee the security of any information disclosed by the member through this forum and the EC and Administrator is not responsible for the content or accuracy of the information posted and shall not be responsible for any decisions made based on such information. Individual members posts are not representative of the stand of the EC and Administrator.

The Administrator under the EC Management instruction reserves the right to maintain the database forum according to its policies and includes the right to add and remove mobile numbers. Should there be a mistake or query, please contact our office on +230 465-5505

USE OF COOKIES

We use cookies to assist us in improving the Site by collecting information about you and your device. 

 

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information that we collect from you in our legitimate interests to assist us in providing our services to you or in the case of our promotional communications to you, where we have your consent (as described below). In addition to this, we may also use the information for one or more of the following purposes and lawful grounds:

Information we collect from you

i. To contact you in our legitimate interests, in situations where you have asked us to do so, (for example if you request via the Site that we phone you);

ii. To provide you with information which you have requested from us in our legitimate interest or, where required with your consent. (For example, if you request a product sheet or newsletter from us);

iv. To provide information to you relating to other services that may be of interest to you. Such additional information will only be provided where you have separately consented to receive such information.

v. To obtain in our legitimate interest or where required by national law or with your consent, your feedback on our services which may include by way of a market research survey.

We may also send you further information about our services or keep you informed of legal updates through our periodic newsletters, provided you have consented to being contacted for these purposes, including where you have specifically registered or subscribed to receive emails. Where you have consented to our newsletters we may also collect information using web beacons that help us to understand if a newsletter has been opened. 

If at any time you decide you no longer wish to receive updates and invitations in this way, you can unsubscribe. Please refer to our PROMOTIONAL UPDATES AND COMMUNICATIONS section below.

No data or information obtained by this site will be used for dissemination or sale to outside parties for consumer marketing purposes or host mailings on behalf of third parties outside the Hua Lien Club.

 

Information we collect about you from your use of the Site

We will use this information in our legitimate interests, where we have considered these are not overridden by your rights:

To administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and survey purposes.

To keep our Site safe and secure.

To improve our Site to ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for our and for your device.

To measure and understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver relevant advertising to you.

 

UPDATES AND COMMUNICATIONS

Hua Lien Club gives you choices regarding the collection and usage of your personally identifiable information. If you have registered for any Hua Lien Club’s related updates and do not wish to receive future communications, please use the unsubscribe link in our communication. However, by doing so, you acknowledge and agree that Hua Lien Club do not guarantee that you will receive further information from our communication system and will not be held responsible.

DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION

In order to provide the best information to you in response to your enquiry or request for information, Hua Lien Club may pass, in our legitimate interests, your personal data to one or more of the firms within the Hua Lien Club’s member who may then respond directly to you.

We may share your information with organisations that help us provide the services described in this Privacy Notice and who may process such data on our behalf and in accordance with this Privacy Notice, to support the Site and our services. For example, Hua Lien Club may need to give these details to a third party – such as a mailing house or mailing broadcast services, provider– if it was necessary to enable us to deliver you with the information you had requested or to a third party providing back office support or IT, hosting or software services, or to market research organisations engaged to obtain client feedback on our services for us. We may also share information with our legal advisors, auditors or other professional advisors.

We may disclose personal information in other circumstances where:

you agree to this;

as permitted by applicable laws;

if we are required to do so by law, Court order, legal obligation or regulatory authority;

for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime; or

if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of Hua Lien Club, Hua Lien Club’s Members, the Site or its visitors.

 

In the event that we undergo reorganisation, you agree that any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party.

 

STORAGE AND RETENTION

Information collected from visitors to the Site will only be kept in order to provide the required service. Where you ultimately become a member of Hua Lien Club, your data will be retained for as long as you maintain a member relationship with us, in order to meet our obligations to you and for a period after that to identify issues, respect claim limitation periods and to resolve any legal proceedings.

We may also retain aggregate information beyond this time for research purposes and to help improve our services. Information is held and ultimately destroyed in accordance with Hua Lien Club’s data retention policies. Should you require your information to be updated, amended or deleted from our records please contact us via email [email protected]

 

INTERNATIONAL SERVICES AND DATA TRANSFERS

With your agreement or where permitted by applicable data protection laws, information provided will be stored on systems relevant to Hua Lien Club’s requirements. It may also be stored and used by Hua Lien Club’s service providers who process personal information on our behalf and who may be located around the world.

 

SAFEGUARDING YOUR INFORMATION

Data sent to us using forms on the Site are encrypted in transmission.

Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Any Messages that you send to us by email may not be secure. We recommend that you do not send any confidential information to Hua Lien Club by email. If you choose to send any confidential information to us via email you do so at your own risk with the knowledge that a third party may intercept this information. Instructions sent by you via email and to the Site are processed exclusively at your risk.

 

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Occasionally we include links to third parties outside the Site. Where we provide a link it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site’s policy towards visitor privacy. You should review their Privacy Notice before using that website or sending them any personal data.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right under certain circumstances to:

be provided with a copy of the personal data held by us

request the rectification or erasure of your personal data held by us

request that we restrict the processing of your personal data (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information for example)

object to the further processing of your personal data, including the right to object to direct communication (as mentioned in the ‘Updates and Communications’ section).

request that your provided personal data be moved to a third party.

Where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time by contacting us. 

If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us you may approach your local data protection authority.

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

Hua Lien Club wants to offer you the best possible browsing experience. Consequently, additional functions, features, products or services may be incorporated into the Site from time to time. This, and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information, may result in periodic changes to this Privacy Notice. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Notice regularly to review any amendments.

 

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Notice please contact us at [email protected]

 

This website uses cookies to improve your web experience.