Your Privacy
MTR Academy (HK) Company Limited ("MTR Academy", "we", "our" or "us") respects your legal rights of privacy when collecting, storing, using and transmitting personal data. This PICS explains our privacy practices. It is our policy to comply with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) of the Laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In doing so, we will ensure compliance by our staff to the strictest standards of security and confidentiality.
Please read the following carefully to understand our policy and practices regarding how your personal data will be treated. This policy applies to all registered and unregistered student applicants, students and alumni of MTR Academy, and may from time to time be revised, or otherwise changed where we deem necessary.
By submitting your application for enrolment to activities, courses or programmes of provided by MTR Academy (the "Application"), you are agreeing to and accepting the terms of our Personal Information Collection Statement ("PICS"), and confirms that you (acting for yourself and acting on behalf of any minor whom you have parental responsibility for and/or whose personal data will be collected("Minor")) consent to our collection, use and transfer of your and/or the Minor’s personal data for the purposes set out in this PICS and in the manner set out in this PICS. You also warrant and represent that you have full legal rights and capacity to consent on behalf of the Minor. If you do not agree to or accept the terms of our PICS, please do not proceed with your Application.
For the avoidance of doubt and for ease of reference, any reference in this PICS to "your personal data" or "personal data" refers to your own personal data and/or the personal data of Minor (as the case may be).
If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese versions of this PICS, the English version shall prevail.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We collect your personal data when you make the Application.
If you are under the age of 13 you must ask your parent or guardian before providing any personal data to us.
If you want us to process your Application, you must provide the personal data marked as "mandatory" in the Application form. Such personal data provided by you will be used by MTR Academy for the following purposes (collectively the "Purposes"):
It is entirely voluntary for you to provide personal data which is not marked as "mandatory" in the Application form. Purposes for which it is only voluntary for you to provide your personal data are:
Use of Data in Direct Marketing
We intend to use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, and we may not so use your personal data unless we have received your consent (which includes an indication of no objection). We shall use your Surname, Given Name, Email Address, Birthday (if provided) and Phone Number (if provided) for marketing the business activities, courses,programmes, products and services of MTR Academy (HK) Company Limited and/or MTR Corporation Limited.
If you object to our use of your personal data for the relevant direct marketing purposes, please tick the corresponding box(es) at the bottom of the Application form. If you do not tick the boxes, you agree that we may use your personal data for the relevant direct marketing purposes.
Disclosure
In cases where we do collect personal data from you, we will:
We will take all practicable steps to keep your personal data confidential but we may transfer/assign such data to the following parties for the Purposes:
Links to Other Websites
This PICS only applies to this Website. If you click on any advertisement or hyperlink linking to another website, you will leave this Website for another location. At any other website, the protection of your privacy, personal data and your exposure to cookies are not our responsibility and you are advised to refer to the privacy policy of that other location (if any).
Web Logs
When you come to our Website, our server software records the IP addresses (and domain names) of your computer, the types and configurations of browsers, language settings, geo-locations, operating systems, previous sites visited, and time/duration and the pages visited (webserver access log). We do these things so that we can measure traffic, gauge the popularity of various parts of the Website, to gain some general knowledge about our audience and market the Website to advertisers with whom we may share summarised traffic data. This information does not identify you as an individual.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data created in a computer when a person visits a website on the computer. A cookie can be used to identify a computer. It, however, is not used to collect any personal information. In other words, it does not have the function of identifying an individual user of the Website.
Within this Website cookies are used to improve your browsing experience, for example:
On some pages, we feature embedded "share" buttons or widgets that enable you to connect to a number of popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These sites may set cookies which can identify you as an individual when you are logged in to their services. We do not control these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website to see how your information is used and how to opt-out.
If you use or continue using our Website, we will assume that you are happy for us to set cookies. You may choose to reject all or some cookies at any time by changing the setting of your web browser. Please visit www.allaboutcookies.org to find out how to manage cookies. However, please be aware that if you choose to delete or restrict cookies, you will not be able to use some of the functions of the Website.
Security
Except as mentioned in paragraph 3 above, your personal data, however stored, will be accessed only by our employees or contractors who are authorised to do so. Where personal data is stored electronically, it will be kept on a secured server and will be password-protected (or under some equivalent form of protection) and accessible only by authorised personnel of MTR Academy and/or MTR Corporation or its contractors. Employees and contractors designated to handle personal data will be instructed to do so only in accordance with this PICS.
Use of Personal Data in Legal Proceedings
If it becomes necessary that we have to take action against you for any reason whatsoever including recovering from you any money you owe us, you expressly agree that the personal data provided by you can be relied upon in identifying and taking legal action against you.
Your Right to Access and Correction
You may at any time request access to and correct personal data relating to you in any of our records. You may also ask us to delete you or your personal data from any active mailing or distribution list. To exercise any of your rights, please write to our Personal Data Privacy Officer at the address or email below marking your communication "Confidential". In response, we may ask you to provide certain details about yourself so that we can be sure you are the person to whom the data refers. We are required to respond to your requests within 40 days, but we may charge you a reasonable fee for doing so.
Personal Data Privacy Officer
MTR Corporation Limited
Legal-General Department
(Marked: MTR Academy)
Address: | MTR Headquarters Building Telford Plaza, Kowloon Bay Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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Email: | PDPO@mtr.com.hk |
Retention of Data
We will keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which the data was collected. Personal data which is no longer required will be destroyed.
Future Amendments
This personal information collection statement is subject to change. Any changes will be posted on this page.
December 2016
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