Legal Information

• Personal Information (“PI”) includes all information that enables an individual to be identified, for example, when you register on our Website for an account, we may collect basic information such as your name, password, date of birth, phone number, email address, physical address, and other demographic or contact information. In case you file an application for student admission with Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation, you may also provide us with certain parents’ and students’ information therein. PI may include those information that has been collected by or provided to us through our Websites and other online and mobile services that link to this Personal Information Privacy Advisory and Consent (the "Privacy Advisory and Consent").

  By using this Website, you acknowledge that you have reviewed the terms of the Privacy Advisory and Consent and agree that we may collect, use and transfer your PI in accordance therewith. If you do not agree with these terms, you may choose not to use our Website, and please do not provide any PI through this Website.

• 1. Purpose, Methods and Scope of PI We Collect and Process

  We use the information we collect for purpose of providing you with [enhanced students admission services, a superior customer experience on the Website, and to communicate with you, to fulfill your specific requests; and other purpose as applicable to Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation’s business]. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation may store such PI itself or it may be stored in databases owned and maintained by Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation's affiliates, agents or service providers. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation retains its rights to these databases and the information contained in them. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation shall comply with the principles of legitimacy, justification and necessity as promulgated by Network Security Law of the People's Republic of China. Your personal information is not used for other purposes, unless we obtain your consent or otherwise required or permitted by law enforcement or relevant government authorities.

  If you make a Student Admissions Enquiry, apply for students admissions or register a new user-account with Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation, we will create a profile that includes your name, e-mail address, School Year of interest, your children’s DOB, family’s nationality, native language, and other information that you provide. In addition, when you contact Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation we may keep a record of that correspondence. We do not collect sensitive PI under any circumstances, however, remember NOT to provide sensitive information to Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation unless you make unambiguous consent to us the specific usage of the PI. If you have any questions about whether the PI is sensitive information, please contact Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation at admission.yt@ywies.com.

  In some circumstances, Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to automatically collect certain types of PI when you apply for the students admissions or sharing our webpages to Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, etc., as well as through emails exchange. The automatically-collected PI is not used to specifically identify you, but to enable us to [customize your online enquires; improve the performance of our admission procedure, measure the effectiveness of our marketing activities, and generate and analyze statistics about our students demographics]. We remind you that the PI you provide via such social media applications may be collected and used and such interactions are governed by the privacy policies of the operators that provide these applications. We do not have control over, or responsibility for, those operators or their use of your information.

  Additionally, we may host blogs, forums and other applications or services on the Website. The purpose of these features is to facilitate the sharing of students’ and parents’ observations, stories, knowledge and inspirations pertinent to the school life. Any personal information that you provide on these features may be shared with other users of the features, over whom we may have limited or no control.

• 2. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation Students’ PI

  Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation collect or maintain PI of our students only to the extent that are limited to educational administration and management, and we understand the utmost importance of protection of your children’s PI from disclosure, distribution or divulge to unrelated parties.

• 3. Sharing and Transfer of Your PI

  We do not seek to divulge, tamper with or damage your PI we have collected, and shall not provide such PI to others without consent of you.

  In order to better understand and serve you and your children, however, Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation often conducts research on Aggregated Data, which includes students demographics, interests and behavior and other information provided to us which is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated, anonymized form. This aggregated information does not identify you personally.

  In addition, when you interact with Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation through this Website, we receive and store certain "User Data". Such User Data, which is collected passively using various technologies, is not used to specifically identify you. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation may store such User Data itself or it may be stored in databases owned and maintained by Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation's affiliates, agents or service providers. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation retains all rights to these databases and the information contained in them.

  We do not share personal information with unaffiliated third parties, except as stated in this Privacy Advisory and Consent. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation also may disclose Aggregated Data to our business partners in order to describe our services. These partners include [providers of administrative, identity management, website hosting, data analysis, data back-up and security management services]. Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation requires these entities to safeguard your PI in the same criterion as Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation.

  Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation also may share your PI with government agencies, its affiliates, agents in case of thus requested.

• 4. Security

  Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation takes reasonable steps to protect any PI you provide to us and to protect such information from being divulged, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Despite Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation’s efforts, however, please be reminded that no network operators or e-mail transmission can guarantee against all threats and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us. In case that you are using your passwords, ID card, deposit and credit cards, driver license or other special access features on this Website, it is your responsibility to safeguard them.

• 5. Access, Deletion or Correction of Your PI Collected and Stored By Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation

  If you find that we collect or use your PI in violation of the provisions of laws and administrative regulations or the terms of the this Privacy Advisory and Consent, under most circumstances you have the right to reasonable access to your PI to correct any inaccuracies, or otherwise you may make a request to update or delete your PI and we will make practical efforts to comply with your request, so long as it is consistent with applicable law.

  In order to request an update, deletion or correction in respect of your PI, please contact us as provided below. If at any time you wish not to receive further communications, you may also follow the unsubscribe procedure included in our communication.

• 6. Questions and Comments

  Hong Kong Yew Wah International Education Foundation is committed to protecting the online privacy of your PI. If you have questions or comments about our collection and management of your PI, please contact us at admission.yt@ywies.com. You may also communicate to this address any concerns you may have regarding compliance with our Privacy Advisory and Consent.