The Website of Taiwan Convention & Exhibition Association, Rep. Of China greatly respects and protects your privacy. In order to help you to have a comprehensible understanding on how this Website collects, applies and protect your personal information, please read explicitly the following Privacy Policy by Taiwan Convention & Exhibition Association, Rep. Of China. This policy will help you to see the principles and methods we based on how we treat your personal information.

1. Applicable Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to your internet activities on the website of Taiwan Convention & Exhibition Association (http://www.taiwanconvention.org.tw/ and www.taiwanconvention.org.tw hereto accordingly), which involves the personal information collection, application and protection. However, it excludes the links through this Website. When you are engaging in the internet activities on those websites, your personal information is protected under its own Privacy Policy.

2. The Principles on Collecting Personal Information
Under the regulation of Computer Communications Privacy Protection Act of Rep. Of China, this Website will not collects personal information without the permission of the user’s agreement. We will collect your personal information through the following channels:

• Membership registration
  When you register as a member of this Website in order to acquire the services this Website provides, we will ask for information such as your name, education background, phone number, address and email address, etc. to be able to present the best service quality to each members.
• e-Newsletter Subscription
  When you intend to get information from the monthly e-Newsletter this Website provides, in order to make sure that you will receive the intended information, we will ask you to give your personal data, which includes your name, education background, phone number, address, e-mail address, etc. we may also retain your data for further processing, and offer the services for unsubscribing or modifying the information.
• Contact Us
  We need to contact you through your e-mail address and/or any other correct contact information you provide when we respond to any of your comment or question about this Website.
• Internet Survey
  When you participate with this Website’s internet survey, we will require your agreement in advance before we draw any statistical result out of the answer you provide or to analyze it.
• General
  This Website automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you request. This Website may mark on online user’s browser, in order to sum up statistical induction of the pages being browsed. Unless you agree to provide your personal information, this Website will not, and can not compare this record with yours.

3. Use of your Personal Information
The personal information collected on this Website will not be sold, rent or lease to others. We will not share your personal information with third parties except in responding to the following stated policy: According to the user’s registration information, e-Newsletter’s subscription, file downloading, or the server log, this Website will process the statistical studies on the subject of the number, interests and behaviors of the users. The purpose of this study is to provide more accurate personalized service on the basis of all the given information being analyzed and sorted out. Any public information or analyzed reports will only be promulgated to the users. The individual information will not be distributed to specific subject for its purpose of use.

4. Use of Cookies?
We use cookies on this Website to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize this Website. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, however, users can choose to cancel or restrict such function by altering the preference option of their browsers. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or other Web sites you visit. Generally speaking, we will read and write Cookies in user’s browser according to the following purposes and situations:?

• To provide better and more customized services: so that you can easily participate in the customized interactivity. Cookies will be created during your registration or log-in, and will be modified while you log-out.?
• To sum up the total count of the browsing users and to analyze the browsing mode: to get better knowledge of how the webpage’s being browsed, as the reference for the improvement.?

5. Personal Information Sharing Principles
This Website will not sell, exchange, rent or lease any of your personal information to others for any commercial purpose. We will not share your personal information with third parties except for under the following principles:?

• To upgrade, examine, and study our service quality: In order to provide the most accurate and best services to all the users, pursuant to the Data Security agreement, this Website may compare the user’s information with the third party. In addition, for the purpose of introducing our service for the potential cooperation partners and other parties, as well as other legitimate purposes, this Website may expose the statistical result of the users anonymously.?
• Others
  This Website is obligated to protect all users’ privacy and personal information, we will not modify, delete or provide any (or part) user’s personal data or file without your consent. Unless:?
  • 1. The judicial agencies of Republic of China is processing investigation through legitimate procedure;
  • 2. You have violated the relevant law or regulation, or have threatened to others. This Website and TCEA may decide to disclose your personal information to identify, to contact or to take any necessary legal procedure toward you;?
  • 3. This Website considers to extend its service efficiency;? and
  • 4. This Website tries to protect other users’legitimate usage right.?

6. Data Security
Any unauthorized attempt for uploading or changing the information in this Website is strictly prohibited and may violate the law. For the internet safety purpose and to ensure this service will be able to serve all the internet users persistently, this Website provides the safety protection measures as follows:?

• Using the internet invasion detect system to monitor the IP traffic, to avoid any unauthorized attempt to upload, change or sabotage the information on this Website.?
• Installing the firewall to prevent illegal invasion, sabotage or stealing information, and to avoid this Website being wrongly used, so that the user’s right is protected.?
• Installing the antivirus software to provide virus scan regularly, to ensure the user to have a safer webpage browsing environment.?
• Simulating hacker’s attacking irregularly, practicing system recovery procedure when any security issue may occur, and responding with appropriate security defense grade.?
• Backing up all the information each day to the backup server.?
• Automatically receiving all the security maintenance e-mail notices from relevant working procedure system or application software partners, and complying the e-mail’s suggestion to install the proper editing PATCH.?

Although this Website dedicate itself on protecting the user’s personal information, however, the information transmission on internet is not 100% secure. Under some particular situations, we will use SSL Security System to protect the security of the information transmission. Because the process of information transmission involves the quality of your internet access environment, we can not assure users’ security on transmitting or receiving information within this Website. The users need to be cautious and take the risk when you choose to do it.

Modification on Privacy Policy and Data Security:
We may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time to conform to any newly made privacy policy regulation. We will notify you of any changes by posting a notice on the home page of the Website whenever there is a major modification of it.?

Privacy and Information Security Policy
Any of your comments regarding this Privacy Policy, or any problem regarding the personal data collection, utilization, and renewal is deeply welcomed.