This privacy statement covers the data you provide to Expat Biz Consult (henceforth referred to as “EBC”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) online at Expatbizconsult.com (the “Site”), as well as any offline contact information you supply to us. Otherwise, this privacy statement does not apply to other websites or any other offline or online data gathering, disclosure, or usage practises.

Expat Biz Consult and its affiliated companies commit to complying fully with the EU’s GDPR regulation as well as the Hong Kong Laws’ Chapter 486 and the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. In the process, we’ll make sure that all personal data and information you submit via our website, services, and goods is protected by the highest security and confidentiality requirements, which our employees will adhere to. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, sometimes known as “personal data,” in order to uphold consumer confidence and preserve your privacy.

The choices you have about the collection, use, sharing, and transfer of your information are outlined in this Privacy Policy Statement (the “Policy”), along with how EBC gathers, uses, and shares information about you.

By accessing or using our website or mobile application (collectively, the “Service”), you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Service.

The choices you have about the collection, use, sharing, and transfer of your information are outlined in this Privacy Policy Statement (the “Policy”), along with how EBC gathers, uses, and shares information about you.

The information we gather and the way we use it

When you use various elements on our website, including our contact or email request forms, sign up for our webinars or newsletters, or download our white papers, among other things, we get information from you. Your name, title, email address, phone number, company name, general location, and the circumstances surrounding the collection may be among the details we gather. You may provide additional information to third-party tools used on our site, including Google Analytics, including your age, operating system language, location, and inbound referral link. We may use the contact details you provide to send information, newsletters, special offers, and other communications (like job postings, event notifications, and downloadable content) to you or your organisation. We may also use this information to maintain our site and, in the event that you or your organisation becomes a customer, to carry out services for you or your organisation.

If you’re interested in a job at Expat Biz Consult, you can also use our feature to send us your resume. We may send you future job posts and utilise your information in the assessment and hiring process.

If mandated by law, we may also use the data to fulfil our commitments, requirements, or arrangements under any law, regulation, ruling, court order, sanctions regime, in the US, Hong Kong, the EU, or another jurisdiction, and to abide by any instructions, directives, or requests made by any legal, regulatory, governmental, tax, law enforcement, or other authority, self-regulatory or industry bodies, or associations of financial services offered in the US, Hong Kong, EU, or elsewhere (collectively, the “Authorities”).

Inactive Contact Details

We may receive your contact details from you in a number of ways, such through a business card, a lead page at a presentation, or during a conference. This information includes your name, title, email address, company name, phone number, general location, and circumstances of collection. In order to service our site, contact you or your organisation as needed to carry out services after you or your organisation becomes a customer, send you or our organisation support information, product and service announcements, and other business communications, we may keep and use that contact information. Your contact information will be kept in the same manner as contact information we collect through our site, as further explained below, and may be merged with contact information we acquire through our site.

IP addresses

When you visit our site, certain tools may collect your IP address.  IP addresses are used by us for trend analysis, site administration, upkeep, and improvement, as well as for the general collection of geolocation data. We do not utilise your IP address in any way that is connected to any other personally identifiable information about you, although it might reveal the city from which you are accessing the Internet.

Removing and updating your data

Using the tools on the Site, we will allow you to update the personal information you have submitted to us. By using the email address provided at the conclusion, you may also get in touch with us to amend or remove your information. Additionally, we’ll take action to guarantee that any modifications or removal requests you submit are handled completely and promptly. It can be more difficult for you to use our services if you ask us to delete your personal data.

Locations

By sending us information, you agree to its possible transfer to us in any of the countries listed under expatbizconsult.com/contact. Expat Biz Consult is located in all of the locations listed on the website. The information we obtain from you might be sent to and kept at a location outside of the United States, the European Economic Area (“EEA”), or your home countries. Employees who use your information in accordance with the procedures outlined in this privacy statement may be based outside of the EEA, the US, or your home country.  You give your consent for this transfer, keeping, or processing of your personal data.

Third Parties

It is possible for third parties to run or host the website or its supporting computers, store or handle data on our behalf, or offer services pertaining to the information requests you have made or correspondence we send you. Furthermore, we have already covered how we use Google Analytics above. We also use SafeNames to host this website, Automattic, Inc. whose WordPress software (and related add-on software) we use to manage the content of this website, and Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC) to manage email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers (Read their privacy policy).

We don’t give third-party marketers access to personally identifiable information that we obtain through the Site.

Data Disclosure or Transfer

Regarding the terms in this section, we will do all in our power to ensure the confidentiality and/or undiscloseability of all your personal data. In general, we will only give access to and/or transfer your personal information to our employees in order to fulfil our obligation to you. But in the following situations, we might additionally divulge and/or send such information to other parties:

In the event that the data is shared and/or moved to a third party that we have properly given permission to use under a confidentiality obligation;

When we feel it is necessary to do so in order to comply with the applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation complying with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on EBC; When the information is disclosed and/or transferred to any EBC agents, affiliates, or associates who have been duly authorised by us to use such information; When EBC needs to protect and defend our rights and property.

If EBC determines that doing so is essential to maintaining and improving the services, you are considered to have given us permission to disclose and/or transfer your personal information in the above-mentioned situations. We might provide the following parties access to your personal information for these purposes:

any agents, contractors, sub-contractors or associates of the EBC (including their employees, officers, agents, contractors, service providers and professional advisers); any third party service providers who provide services to us or any affiliate., in connection with the operation or maintenance of our business (including their employees and officers); any Authorities; any persons under a duty of confidentiality to us or any affiliate of EBC. which have undertaken to keep such data confidential; any credit reference agencies; any affiliate of Expat Biz Consult.; third party financial institutions, insurers, credit card companies, securities and investment services providers; third party reward, loyalty, co-branding and privileges programme providers; co-branding partners of ours or any affiliate of Expat Biz Consult. (the names of such co-branding partners will be provided during the application process for the relevant products and services, as the case may be); and charitable or non-profit making organisations.

Exclusivity

We may use and disclose information, including personally identifiable information, that you submit, that the Site collects, or that is otherwise subject to this Privacy Policy, in addition to the uses listed above in this Privacy Policy, to the extent that it is reasonably necessary for any one or more of the following purposes: (i) to address technical issues and malfunctions in the way we offer you our Site and to process your information technically; (ii) to safeguard the security and integrity of the Site; (iii) to defend our rights and property as well as the rights and property of others; (iv) to address allegations that your information infringes upon the rights or interests of third parties; (v) to comply with applicable law; (vi) to respond to judicial process; and (vii) to the extent allowed by other legal provisions, to submit information to law enforcement agencies and for an investigation pertaining to public safety, as applicable.

You acknowledge and agree that technical processing of your information may be necessary in order to: (a) send and receive messages about how you are using the site; (b) comply with connecting network technical requirements; (c) adhere to our site’s limitations; and (d) comply with other, similar technical requirements.

Secured Information

We have put in place the necessary management and technological safeguards to preserve, secure, and protect your personal information, and we will always work to make sure that it is safeguarded against unauthorised access.

Only authorised EBC employees or our approved third parties have access to the personal information you submit, and they are required to abide by this policy’s guidelines when doing so. You may be sure that your personal data will only be retained for as long as is required to achieve the goals for which it was gathered.

There is no completely safe way to transmit data over the Internet or store electronic files. Consequently, even though we work hard to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information, we are unable to guarantee its complete security.

Storage of Personal Information

Your personal information will be safely stored in our system as soon as it is acquired. Your personal information will only be kept on file for as long as it’s necessary to fulfil the objectives outlined in this privacy statement. Generally speaking, we will erase your personal information if you withdraw your consent and we have no other justification for keeping it. To make sure we don’t send you any more marketing materials, we could retain your email address even after you unsubscribe from receiving them.

 

Modifications to the Policy

 

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. For instance, we might amend this policy to tell you of new features and controls that we might offer you, as well as to explain how new features of the Site might impact how we use your information. If this policy is changed, we won’t apply it retroactively to data we’ve already gathered unless it gives you more options or protection. It is highly advised that you examine this Policy on a regular basis, as we reserve the right to update, revise, modify, or amend it at any time as we see fit. Updates, revisions, modifications, and amendments to this policy will be available at https://www.expatbizconsult.com/privacy, as well as other locations we think fit.