Tough Blogware - Taking Your Privacy Seriously

World Standards in Privacy Protection

This Privacy Statement has been created using the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Privacy Statement Generator and guidelines.

Information about our Organisation and Web site

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like Learning Connections. We are based in Hong Kong and our principal activities are:

  • Hosted Web Services
  • Custom Web Services

Our privacy policy covers Learning Connections and its Web sites:

 

Organisation Name:

 Learning Connections
Address: 2A 1/F Tai Peng Old Village
City, Zip: North Lamma Island , HK
Country: Hong Kong
Controller: Keith Pretty
Web Sites(s): www.toughblogware.com
www.blogware.hk
www.thetough.com

Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access

You can access our Web sites home page and browse our sites without disclosing your personal data.

The Services and Links of our Web sites

Our Web sites do not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others.

Automatic Collection of Information

We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

We do not use cookies to store personal data nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

To access the table of personal data collected and purposes for which they are used, please click here

We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than that indicated in the table below.

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this new purpose: admin@toughblogware.com

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Additionally, to ensure that children's privacy is respected on our Web site, we request verification that your age is over 13. The form will not process if you indicate that you are under 13 and will generate an explanation page.

We do provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children at:
Policy to protect children's privacy

Disclosure and Visitor Choice

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations.

Where we disclose your personal data for purposes which are different from those indicated in the table mentioned above, we offer you the opportunity to consent to disclosure.

Confidentiality/Security

We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

  • primary personal data (such as name and contact details)

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

  • unauthorised access
  • improper use or disclosure
  • unauthorised modification
  • unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you by sending an email to admin@toughblogware.com Upon request, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a week. Although we may require proof of your identity before issuing the details we will provide the information without any charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

  • erased
  • rectified or amended
  • completed

Privacy Compliance

Our privacy policy is compliant with the following instrument:
http://www.pco.org.hk/english/ordinance/ordglance.html

It is also compliant with the following global or regional regulatory, or self-regulatory instrument:
http://www.pco.org.hk/english/ordinance/ordglance.html

In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instrument, we are subject to a Government Agency supervision

Government Agency supervision

Designation of the agency The Privacy Commissioner's Office (PCO) is an independent statutory body set up to oversee the enforcement of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) which came into force on 20th December, 1996.
URL http://www.pco.org.hk/
Address Unit 2401, 24/F, Office Tower, Convention Plaza, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai,Hong Kong.
Country Hong Kong

Privacy Support

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact:

Name/designation: Keith Pretty
Department : Operations
Address : 2A 1/F Tai Peng Old Village
Phone Number : (852) 2982 1868
Fax Number : (852) 2982 6050
Email address : admin@toughblogware.com
URL : http://www.toughblogware.com

If you are not satisfied with our response to your concern you may wish to contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Table of Personal Data Collected and Purposes for Which They are Use

Primary personal data/Business information

x volunteered by each visitor
- collected from public records or bodies
- collected from private organisations

 

Primary personal data Technical administration of the Web site Research & development Customer Administration Marketing Trading in personal data
Name

x

-

-

-

-

Gender

-

-

-

-

-

Address

x

-

-

-

-

E-mail address

x

-

-

-

-

Phone/Fax number

-

-

-

-

-

other (describe)

-

-

-

-

-

Other personal details and profiling data

- volunteered by each visitor
- collected from public records or bodies
- collected from private organisations

 

  Technical administration of the Web site Research & development Customer Administration Marketing Trading in personal data
Personal details

-

-

-

-

-

Physical description

-

-

-

-

-

Family characteristics

-

-

-

-

-

Education and skills

-

-

-

-

-

Life style or personal tastes

-

-

-

-

-

Financial resources

-

-

-

-

-

other (describe)

-

-

-

-

-

Identifiers

- volunteered by each visitor
- collected from public records or bodies
- collected from private organisations

 

  Technical administration of the Web site Research & development Customer Administration Marketing Trading in personal data
On-line identifiers

-

-

-

-

-

Financial identifiers

-

-

-

-

-

identifiers assigned by Public bodies

-

-

-

-

-

Biometrics identifiers

-

-

-

-

-

other (describe)

-

-

-

-

-

Specific Data

- volunteered by each visitor
- collected from public records or bodies
- collected from private organisations

 

  Technical administration of the Web site Research & development Customer Administration Marketing Trading in personal data
Racial or ethnic origin

-

-

-

-

-

Political opinions

-

-

-

-

-

Religious or philosophical beliefs

-

-

-

-

-

Trade union membership

-

-

-

-

-

Health/Medical data

-

-

-

-

-

Sex life

-

-

-

-

-

Police/Justice data such as civil/criminal actions brought by or against the visitor

-

-

-

-

-

other (describe)

-

-

-

-

-

If you need more information about our privacy policy please contact us:
admin@toughblogware.com