The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) - Hong Kong

The World Community for Christian Meditation (Hong Kong) (referred to as WCCM (HK)) is strongly committed to protecting personal information. This Privacy Statement explains what information we gather about you, what we use that information for, and who we give that information to. It also sets out your rights in relation to your information and whom you can contact for more information or queries.

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1) Data Protection Principles

We comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. This means the personal information we hold about you must be:

• Collected only for the purpose we told you about and not used in any way that is incompatible with that purpose

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way

• Accurate, and to the extent appropriate, kept up to date

• Kept securely

• Kept only as long as necessary for the purpose we have told you about; and

• Accessible to you, and correctible by you

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This Privacy Policy applies to any personal data provided to us, and any personal data created in connection with WCCM (HK). Personal information and provided by you and all information generated and compiled by us about you from time to time are collectively referred to as

 

We also collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting or storing your personal information as “processing” such personal information.

 

2) How do we collect Data?

Your personal data will either be provided by you, or collected by us, or captured automatically. For example, we collect your personal data when you complete the membership form, send us emails, register for events, complete physical forms, Google forms, questionnaires/surveys, visit our web site, use our social media or donate to us.

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3) What Data do we collect about you?

 

• If you are a member, some of the Data we may collect about you include

• Your full name in English and in Chinese, your title, gender, email address, home phone number, mobile number, home address, your church, and meditation group (if any);

• If you register for events, the Data we may collect include

• Your full name in English and in Chinese, your email address, your phone number, age group;

  • If you visit our website, the server will record

• Your IP address together with the date, time and duration of your visit.

  • Your browsing history, including pages you visited

  • Information about you through cookies, analytic tools, and other similar technologies

  • If you complete our surveys and questionnaires that we may send you from time to time, we may collect Data about

  • Your interests, your areas of expertise, ways in which you can contribute to WCCM (HK)

 

4) How do we use your Data?

We will use the data for the purpose stated at the point of collection including

• Verifying your identity

• Compiling our membership roll

• Creating a mailing list

• Registering for events, talks and retreats

• Responding to your enquiry and/or request

• Sending you newsletters, Advent, Lenten and Easter reflections

• Providing you with information of meditation groups

• Providing you with information of upcoming WCCM (HK) events

• Soliciting volunteers

 

Besides communicating with you, we will also use the data to understand and improve our website, and your user experience.

 

5) Who do we share your Data with?

Any agent or third-party service provider who provides administrative telecommunications, computer or other services to us or supports what we do

 

6) How do we keep your Data secure?

Data held by us will be kept confidential. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure your information held by us is kept secure to prevent it from being lost, used in an unauthorised way, disclosed or altered. Only persons who have a business to know are provided access to personal information collected. 

 

7) How long do we keep your personal information?

We will only retain your Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We will keep mailing list contact information until you withdraw your consent and unsubscribe.

Once we no longer need the data, we will either securely delete it or remove it.

 

8) Your rights

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current.

In order that your personal data is kept as accurate as possible, please notify us at our email address (below) of any changes to your personal data.

   

a) Access and Correction

You can request access to and correction of your Data. If you want to obtain a copy of the Data we hold about you, please write to us at our address below.

You can request a deletion or remove your personal information when there is no good reason for us to continue to process it.

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b) Opt-out

You may write to us at the address below if you want to withdraw your consent at any time to the processing of your Data.

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9) Modification to this Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time by publishing an updated version here. Therefore, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be informed about how we are protecting your information.

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10) How to contact us

To exercise your rights to your Data or if you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@wccm.hk

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