AV Privacy Policy
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Last updated: May 24, 2018
AcuVietnam recognizes that your privacy is very important and we take it seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information or personal data when you use the AcuVietnam Platform. The Information We Collect We collect information directly from individuals, via our website through opt in and direct contact with AcuVietnam. Profile Information: When you choose to join our mailing list, we collect your name, contact information, and other information you provide, including at times topics or specialities that you know about, work within the field or find interesting. Your name and any other information that you choose to add will not be made visible to anyone outside the AcuVietnam network. Communications. When you communicate with us (via email, phone, through the AcuVietnam platform, or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your communication. Integrated Service Provider and Linked Networks. You can elect to sign in or sign up to the AcuVietnam Platform through a linked network (i.e.Facebook or Google, Twitter and LinkedIn (each a “Linked Network”). If you elect to sign up through or connect a Linked Network, we receive certain profile and account information about you from the Linked Network. The specific information provided to us by Linked Networks is determined by these third parties and may vary by network. In all cases, the permissions page for the Linked Network will describe the information being shared. You should consult their respective privacy policies for information about their practices. You may also elect to connect and make and receive payments to and from us through third party networks (“Integrated Service Provider”); if you do so, you will be allowing us to pass to and receive from the Integrated Service Provider your login username information and other user data for payment purposes. Automatically Collected Information About Your Activity. We use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your visit, and other information about your use on AcuVietnam Platform. We also may collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of the AcuVietnam Platform such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with the AcuVietnam Platform, even if you have not booked a place on our programs. Engagement. We collect browsing information – such as IP address and location, date and time stamp, user agent, AcuVietnam cookie ID (if applicable), URL, unique advertising or content identifiers (if applicable) and time zone, and other information about user activities on the AcuVietnam Platform, as well as on third party sites and services that have embedded our AcuVietnam pixels (“Pixels”), widgets, plug-ins, buttons, or related services. See the section below about AcuVietnam Ads and Personalization for more detailed information about how our Pixels may be used by publishers or users of our advertising services (“Ad Services”) on the AcuVietnam Platform to enable personalization, as well as your choices related to advertising and personalization. We may also receive information about you from third parties, such as other users, partners (including ad partners), or our affiliated companies. How We Use Your Information We do not sell your personal data – such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes. AcuVietnam uses the information we collect for the following purposes:
How We Share Your Information We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented: Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and support providers, as well as those who assist us in providing the Ad Services. Affiliates. The information collected about you may be accessed by or shared with subsidiaries and affiliates of AcuVietnam, whose use and disclosure of your personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy. Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event. Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law. Protection of Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of AcuVietnam, its users, or others. Your Content and Activity. Your Content, including your name, profile information, and certain associated activity information is only available to AcuVietnam, and if you choose to add comments to our blog page. In this case Your Content may be indexed by search engines. Metrics. We may share with users of our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the AcuVietnam Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers or publishers to use Pixels on the AcuVietnam Platform in order to collect information about the performance of their ads or content. Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual. Cookies, Pixels and Tracking We and our third party providers use cookies, clear GIFs/pixel tags, JavaScript, local storage, log files, and other mechanisms to automatically collect and record information about your usage and browsing activities on the AcuVietnam Platform and across third party sites or online services. We may combine this information with other information we collect about users. Below, we provide a brief summary these activities.
Do-Not-Track Signals. Please note we do not change system behaviour within the AcuVietnam Platform in response to browser requests not to be tracked. You may, however, disable certain tracking by third-parties as discussed in AcuVietnam Ads and Personalization section below. You may also opt out of tracking by AcuVietnam Pixels, as described below in AcuVietnam Ads and Personalization. AcuVietnam Ads and Personalization We may display personalized content (including from third party publishers) and personalized ads (including sponsored content), based on information that we have collected via the AcuVietnam Platform, and through our Pixels, widgets, and buttons embedded on third party sites. We also may report aggregated or de-identified information about the number of users that saw a particular ad or content and related audience engagement information to users of our Ad Services and to publishers of content on the AcuVietnam Platform. Users of our Ad Services may also provide us with information as part of their ad campaigns, including customer list information (e.g., email addresses and demographic or interest data) with us in order to create customized audiences for their ad campaigns; we only use this information to facilitate the particular user’s campaign (including ad metrics and reporting to that user) or for fraud detection and security purposes; and we do not disclose this information to third parties (other than our service providers) unless required by law. We also do not disclose to the users of our Ad Services the names or identities of their customers that were successfully reached as part of such campaigns. We may also work with third parties such as network advertisers to serve ads on the AcuVietnam Platform and on third-party websites or other media (e.g., social networking platforms), such as Google AdSense (more info here)and Facebook Audience Network (more info here). These third parties may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. How We Protect Your Information The security of your information is important to us. AcuVietnam has implemented safeguards to protect the information we collect. However, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing a strong password and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished using the AcuVietnam Platform on a shared or unsecured device. Your Choices You may, of course, decline to submit information through the AcuVietnam Platform, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within the AcuVietnam Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings. Here is some further information about some of your choices: Anonymous Posts. You may post certain content anonymously, including questions and answers to AcuVietnam blog and articles. In such event, your name is not displayed along with the content. Your Content. You may edit or delete the answers that you post at any time. Any questions you have posted may remain on the AcuVietnam Platform and be edited by other users. Any deleted content will be removed from third party sites from which it has been shared via AcuVietnam standard sharing features; however we have no control over deletions or changes to Your Content if it has been shared manually by others. When you make edits to Your Content, other users will be able to see the history of those edits in your profile activity and on content edit logs. Emails and Communications. When you join the AcuVietnam Platform by signing up for email subscription or information updates we will contact you with up-to-date info, offers and courses running by AcuVietnam platform. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you transactional e-mails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us. Pixels. To opt out of tracking via the AcuVietnam Pixels, please contact us directly at [email protected]. Opting out of Pixels tracking may impact our ability to personalize ads and content tailored to your interests. This setting is tied to your cookies, and will only be effective on the browser for which you have performed the opt-out. Third Party Ad Networks For information about and to opt out of interest-based ads from many ad networks, go to:
Linked Networks. You may connect or disconnect your Linked Networks, such as Facebook, through the Account Settings tab in your profile settings, and you may access, amend and delete much of your profile information through your profile settings. Once you disconnect a Linked Network, we will not receive information from that Linked Network going forward; unless you choose to reconnect it. You may also control whether the Linked Network is visible in your profile. Transferring Your Data AcuVietnam is headquartered in the Republic of Ireland, and has operations, entities and service providers in Vietnam, South East Asia and throughout the world. As such, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or access it in, jurisdictions (including the United States) that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it. Links to Other Websites The AcuVietnam Platform may contain links to third party sites or online services. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy. Contact Us If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected] or send mail to: AcuVietnam Attn: Privacy Pembroke Hall. 38-39 Fitzwilliam Square. Dublin 2. IRELAND Changes to Our Privacy Policy If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially change how we treat your personal information, we will endeavour to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, such as via prominent notice in the AcuVietnam Platform or to your email address of record, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent or give you the opportunity to opt out of such changes |