This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

BASICS ABOUT US

We are AIESEC in Hong Kong, a youth leadership movement passionately driven by one cause: peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential. We are registered in the official bodies of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Our registered address is Room 913, Youth Square, Chai Wan, Hong Kong. We comprise AIESEC in Hong Kong and also the 6 local committees across Hong Kong. 

We are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of our event visitors and registrants. This policy explains how we process information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual (“personal data”): thus, this policy applies to the situations in which we act as data controller of personal data and explains when and why we collect personal information about individuals, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.

Who is our Data Protection Officer?

In case you have any questions regarding this policy, you can contact our Data Protection Officer. Please send your enquiries to the person responsible below. Thus, in case you have any questions regarding this policy and/or our privacy practices: [email protected]

Data Protection Representative: Ting Ho Ching

Room 913, Youth Square, Chai Wan, Hong Kong

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your device and allows us or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the service more useful to you: thus, it enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

How does AIESEC in Hong Kong use cookies?

When you use and access our services, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• to enable certain functions of the services;
• to provide analytics;
• to store your preferences;

We use both session and persistent cookies on the website and we use different types of cookies to run it:

• Essential Cookies | We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts;
• Preferences Cookies | We may use preferences cookies to remember information that changes the way the services behave or look, such as the “remember me” functionality of a registered user or a user’s language preference;
• Analytics Cookies | We may use analytics cookies to track information how the website is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them;

First Party Cookies

We will set some cookies that are essential for our website to operate correctly. These cookies, none of which capture personally identifiable information, are:

• Analytics Cookies | We may use analytics cookies to track information how the website is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them;

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third parties cookies to report usage statistics of the website, deliver advertisements on and through the website, and so on. Such cookies may include:

• Facebook Pixel – As a Facebook advertiser we install the Facebook or Atlas pixel on our website in order to measure ad conversions or retarget advertisements on Facebook for our customers, to assist them with applications and information.
• Google Pixel – Our partners will collect data and use cookies for ad personalization and measurement.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish: thus, you can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Google Chrome

Please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050

Internet Explorer

Please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835

Mozilla Firefox

Please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websitesstored

Safari

Please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US

For any other web browser, please visit your web browser’s official web pages.

Where can you find more information about cookies?

You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:

AllAboutCookies http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Network Advertising Initiative http://www.networkadvertising.org/

What about the changes to this policy?

We keep this policy under regular review, so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. This policy was last updated on 22nd November 2022

These are the cookies policy of https://www.aiesec.hk. The cookies policy of https://www.aiesec.org can be found at https://aiesec.org/assets/cookies_policy.pdf.

Data Protection Officer: 

Ting Ho Ching

+852 5544 8310

[email protected]

Date: 6th December, 2022

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