Last Update: 26 June 2023
This privacy- and cookie policy (the “Privacy- and Cookie Policy”) governs the way AIESEC Hong Kong Limited, registered as a private limited company by guarantee under Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) and having its registered office at Room 913, Youth Square, 238 Chai Wan Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong (“AIESEC”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), as data controller, processes (collects, uses, maintains and discloses) your personal data in relation to the https://aiesec.hk/ websites (“Sites”) and in relation to the services we provide through these Sites. For any other website affiliated with AIESEC, please refer to their respective privacy policy. As you read our Privacy and Cookie Policy, keep in mind that it applies to all AIESEC services available on our Sites unless otherwise indicated.
Please refer to the following definitions that will be used in the document:
To the extent that we process personal data of individuals located in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom in relation to the offering of goods or services to these individuals or the monitoring of their behaviour, this Privacy and Cookie Policy contains the information required to be conveyed to these individuals pursuant to the European Union’s general data protection regulation (the “EU GDPR”) as applicable in the European Economic Area (“EEA“) and as retained in the laws of the United Kingdom further to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the “UK GDPR” and, together with the EU GDPR, the “GDPR“).For the purposes of article 27 of the EU GDPR, our representative in the European Union is Stichting Aiesec International (Rijn 12 85272491BG ‘s-Gravenhage, The Netherlands). For the purpose of article 27 of the UK GDPR, our representative in the United Kingdom is A.I.E.S.E.C. (U.K.) LIMITED (Allia Future Business Centre, 18-20 London Lane, London, England, E8 3PR; [email protected]).
Our Platform aims to connect Opportunity Providers with Members and Active Users in the context of Exchange Experiences. Our Platform is accessible via our Sites. There are three general categories of how we collect information about our Members, Customers, Partners and visitors to our Sites.
1.1 Information You Give Us
We collect information you share with us when you use the AIESEC Platform
date of birth.-
credit card information) when you use Payment Services to process payments.
1.2 Information We Automatically Collect from Your Use of the AIESEC Platform
When you use the AIESEC Platform, we collect information about the services you use and how you use them.
1.3 Information We Collect from Third Parties
We collect information that others provide about you when they use the AIESEC Platform, or obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through the AIESEC Platform.
2.1 Purposes and legal grounds for processing
We use your personal data only for the following purposes or purposes compatible therewith and pursuant to the following legal bases under the GDPR (the legal basis identified at the top of each column applies to the purposes set forth in that column):
TO PURSUE LEGITIMATE INTEREST (Data processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests identified below) | CONSENT (You have consented to the relevant data processing) | CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION/USER AGREEMENT (Data processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract) |
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email address for our | information to create | |
direct marketing activities | an AIESEC account | |
(only (i) for Active Users having purchased a similar service which we approach by electronic communication, (ii) for anyone we approach otherwise than by electronic communication, and (iii) for individuals representing Partners or potential Partners) – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us in marketing our services. | ||
We use your login | ||
We use your Usage | We use your contact | data to enable you to |
information (regarding the | details (name and email | access and use the |
use of our Platform) for our statistical research – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us in gaining insight on our market | address) for direct marketing purposes by electronic communications (for | AIESEC Platform. |
We use your contact details and the information you upload on your Profile for our user management and account information administration (refer to | We use your Profile information to provide it to the Users of the POP | We use Payment and Transaction information to carry out our payment |
We use Profile information to perform our services such as the Exchange Experiences | ||
We use your Usage information and Log services and Sites, for experience by, among other things, ranking featured opportunities based on your search, application history, and preferences and to such as by performing | We collect and use the images of Users in their Profile to display them to Opportunity Providers | We use your contact details to provide |
We use your contact details and information to communicate with you (such as to send you service or support messages, such as updates, security alerts, | We collect the following information through the (persistent) cookies to help us improve our products and performance, such as: whether you are a recurring user and whether | We use a copy of your passport to identify you and to provide your visa services (we will ensure that your social security number is blacklined) |
We use your contact details, Profile information, user data, and other Users and enforce our agreements with third parties (for example to enforce our Terms & | We use cookies and tracking technologies to collect information t to show you advertisements that are | To provide our services we display age, nationality and professional experience to potential Opportunity Providers to showcase your profile |
Conditions, Payments Terms, and other policies) – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us of asserting our legal rights | ||
We use your contact details and Profile information to regularly check our own operations with an internal independent body. We | ||
Experiences that were delivered on the Platform and get in touch with our customers to verify that the information documented on our | ||
Platform is reflecting what actually happened – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us in ensuring and improving the quality, security and functionality of our service | ||
To enter into or perform a contract with a Partner – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us in entering and performing contracts with Partners and improving the quality, security and functionality of our service | ||
To generate statistical information, including in respect of your Location information – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us in gaining insight on our market | ||
to preserve and defend our rights and assist law enforcement agencies as required – it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us of asserting our legal rights and/or the legitimate interests pursued by law enforcement agencies |
3.1 Sharing between Opportunity Providers and Exchange Participants
To help facilitate the application process, we share your information with other Users as follows:
We do not share your billing and payout information with other Users.
3.2 Profiles, Opportunity Listings, and other Public Information
The Applications Platform let you publish information that is visible to selective groups of users. For example:
Information you share publicly on the AIESEC Platform can be indexed through third party search engines. In some cases, you may opt-out of this feature in your Account settings. If you change your settings or your public-facing content, these search engines may not update their databases. We do not control the practices of third party search engines, and they may use caches containing your outdated information.
3.3 Service Providers
We use a variety of third party service providers to help us provide services related to the AIESEC Platform, such as IT service providers (i.e. Google Analytics and Google Search Console), consultants and payment service providers. For example, service providers may help us to provide customer service, advertising, or payments services. These providers have limited access to your information and only in case this is necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf.
3.3.1 Google Analytics
As a data processor acting on our behalf, Google Analytics collects data from your websites and apps, then analyzes your use of our website and/or product and tracks our relationship by way of cookies and similar technologies, so that we can improve our service to you subject to obtaining your consent before collecting information through cookies stored on your terminal equipment and information obtained from your terminal equipment.
3.3.2 Google Search Console
As a data processor acting on our behalf, Google Search Console tools and reports help us measure your usage of our website that reflect the traffic and our performance. It fixes issues on our sites and polishes our appearance in Google Search results.
3.4 Safety and Compliance with Law
AIESEC discloses your information to courts, law enforcement or governmental authorities, or authorized third parties, if and to the extent that we are required to do so by law or if such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with legal process and to respond to claims asserted against AIESEC, (ii) to respond to verified requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our Users to legal liability, (iii) to enforce and administer our Terms & Conditions or other agreements with Users, (iv) for fraud investigation and prevention, risk assessment, customer support, product development and debugging purposes, or (v) to protect the rights, property or personal safety of AIESEC, its employees, its Members, or members of the public.
We will attempt to notify Users about these requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon AIESEC’s property, it’s Users and the Platform (collectively, “Risk Scenarios”). In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we will attempt to notify that Users about the request after the fact if we determine in good faith that we are no longer legally prohibited from doing so and that no Risk Scenarios apply.
3.5 Corporate Affiliates
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We may share your information with AIESEC’s affiliates and branches abroad when this is necessary to ensure that AIESEC is able to provide the Exchange Experiences (as required on the basis of AIESEC’s contractual obligations). We will share your information with (i) the legal AIESEC entity in the country you are residing in (which you choose during the Account creation) or (ii) the legal AIESEC entity that the Opportunity you are applying is based. This concerns the following countries and territories:
Greece | Germany | Pakistan |
Australia | Hungary | Austria |
Philippines | India | Poland |
Rwanda | Indonesia | Portugal |
Bolivia | Italy | Romania |
Slovakia | Singapore | Cambodia |
Bosnia Herzegovina | Kenya | Bulgaria |
Brazil | Korea | Serbia |
Cote D’Ivoire | Ecuador | Tunisia |
Canada | Sweden | Spain |
Colombia | Lithuania | Sri Lanka |
Costa Rica | Malaysia | Taiwan |
Croatia | The Netherlands | Tanzania |
Czech Republic | Mexico | Thailand |
Egypt | Morocco | Turkey |
Finland | Vietnam | Uganda |
New Zealand | Venezuela | Ukraine |
United States | France | United Arab Emirates |
Nepal | United Kingdom |
3.6. Operating globally
As described in this Privacy and Cookie Policy, we may sometimes share your information with affiliates or branches of AIESEC or with third parties. Individuals protected by the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486) (PDPO) are informed that their personal information can be transferred to other countries where such service providers are located.
It is noted that we must explicitly inform you of the purpose for which your personal information is to be used and the classes of persons to whom your personal information may be transferred. We are not allowed to transfer your personal information for new purposes without your prescribed consent. We must also adhere to the direct marketing requirements of PDPO and remain liable for any act done by agents with their authority. We are recommended to include contractual clauses that ensure our responsibilities to take all reasonable precautions in transferring data to the transferee that is an entity outside Hong Kong
You may get access to these agreements or request a copy thereof by sending an email to [email protected].
Your personal data will be stored no longer than necessary for the purposes for which they are collected. Only where we are legally obliged to, or where this is necessary for defending our interests in the context of judicial proceedings (e.g. in case of a dispute), we will store the personal data for a longer period of time.
More specifically, the following storage periods apply in terms of personal data:
5.1 Access and Update
You may review, update or delete the information in your AIESEC Account by logging into your AIESEC Account and reviewing your Account settings and profile.
5.2 Account Cancellation
You may cancel your account at any time on our Site in the Profile Preferences section. Note that information that you have shared with others (like Reviews or forum postings) may continue to be publicly visible for up to 2 years (after last activity or until you delete your account) on the AIESEC Platform in association with your first name.
Once your account is cancelled, we are removing any personal data attached to your user account (such as, but not limited to contact information). Instead, we will display anonymous identifiers to all our key stakeholders. All business critical information, such as statistical data connected to applications you may have created on the Platform will be retained in such an anonymous way.
5.3 What are your rights and how you can exercise them?
Under the PDPO, as data subjects, you have the right to:
You may request your personal information held by us on the Platform in your Profile Preferences in the Download Personal Data section. We will provide you with a copy of the personal information held by us as soon as possible and will respond to your request within one month; that period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests.
Requests in this section should be addressed to: https://aiesec.hk/. AIESEC will handle the aforementioned requests within a period of 3 months.
Finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority relating to the processing of your personal data by AIESEC
We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. However, the Internet is not a 100% secure environment so we can not guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.
More specifically, we have taken the following measures:
Further, we seek to ensure that we keep your personal data accurate and up to date. In view thereof, we kindly request you to inform us of any changes to your personal data (such as a change in your contact details).
AIESEC uses “cookies” in conjunction with the Platform to obtain information. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device (e.g. your phone or your computer) for record-keeping purposes. For example, a cookie could allow the Platform to recognize your browser, while another could store your preferences and other information.
There are two types of cookies used on the Platform, namely “persistent cookies” and “session cookies”. Session cookies will normally expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies will remain on your device after you close your browser, and can be used again the next time you access the Platform.
Your browser may allow you to set how it handles cookies, such as declining all cookies or prompting you to decide whether to accept each cookie. But please note that some parts of the Platform may not work as intended or may not work at all without cookies.
Disabling cookies
You may disable performance and/or marketing cookies using the Cookies control panel. Alternatively, you can modify your browser setting to decline specific cookies by visiting the Help portion of your browser’s toolbar. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in, customize, or use some of the interactive features of the Platform.
Other technologies
We also use other technologies with similar functionality to cookies on the Platform, such as web beacons and tracking URLs to obtain Log Data about Users, subject to, when this is not strictly necessary for operating our website, obtaining your consent before collecting information through cookies stored on your terminal equipment and information obtained from your terminal equipment. We also use web beacons and tracking URLs in our messages to you to determine whether you have opened a certain message or accessed a certain link, subject to the same qualification.
7.1 AIESEC cookies
Strictly necessary cookies. We use cookies that are strictly necessary to operate our website without your specific consent, including:
Performance cookies. We use performance cookies enabling us to tell how users use our Website, such as:
Name | Type | Expiry period (if persistent) |
_ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
_ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state. | 2 years |
7.2 Third party cookies [If necessary, the following text you can adapt according to your platform-website].
We may also allow our business partners to place cookies on your device. For example, we use Google Analytics for web analytics, so Google may also set cookies on your device. As further explained below, Third Parties may also place cookies on your device for advertising purposes, subject to obtaining your consent for this purpose.
Our partners’ cookies are intended to obtain information to help them provide services to AIESEC. For example, Third Parties we engage to provide services to us may track your behavior on our
Platform to market and advertise AIESEC listings or services to you on the Platform and Third-party websites. Please note that even if you choose not to receive targeted advertising, you may still receive advertising on or about the Platform – it just will not be tailored to your interests.
Google Analytics
This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. Provider is the Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes information, as well as how you can control the information sent to Google, please review Google’s site “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
7.3 Third party partners & integration
The AIESEC Platform contains links to third party websites or services, such as third party integrations, co-branded services, or third party-branded services (“Third Party Partners”). AIESEC doesn’t own or control these Third Party Partners and when you interact with them, you may be providing information directly to the Third Party Partner, AIESEC, or both. These Third Party Partners will have their own policy regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the other websites you visit.
Google Maps/Earth
Parts of the AIESEC Platform use Google Maps/Earth services, including the Google Maps API(s). Use of Google Maps/Earth is subject to Google Maps/Earth Additional Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
Typeforms
We use TypeForms to create and conduct customer surveys and User surveys to improve our services. The data collected using a Typeform will be stored on Google’s “Google Drive” cloud for us. We also collect data and files that you can upload through other forms that are also stored in Google Drive. For more information about Typeforms, please refer to Typeform’s privacy policy https://admin.typeform.com/to/dwk6gt?typeform-source=www.google.com. For more information about Google Drive and its data processing, please refer to Google Drive’s private policy: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10375054?hl=en. For more detailed guidance on how to manage your own data related to Google products, visit Google’s https://www.dataliberation.org/.
7.4 Social Sharing Features
The AIESEC Platform offers social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our Sites with other media, and vice versa. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature.
Facebook places a cookie via the Platform that allows Facebook to obtain aggregated, non-Personal Information to optimize their services. For example, if an advertisement for the AIESEC mobile app on Facebook and subsequently installs the app, this cookie will inform Facebook that a User (who is not personally identified) has installed the app after clicking on the advertisement. This cookie may also inform Facebook that a User is using the app, without identifying the specific actions taken by the User in the app.
On our pages, functions of the Instagram service are integrated. These functions are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit of our pages with your User account. We would like to point out that as a provider of the pages we are not aware of the content of the transmitted data as well as their use by Instagram. For more information, see the Instagram Privacy Statement: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
Our website uses the functions of the LinkedIn network. Is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you visit one of our sites that contain LinkedIn, LinkedIn connects to LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our Internet pages with your IP address. We would like to point out that as a provider of the pages we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as their use by LinkedIn. For more information, see LinkedIn’s privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Youtube
Our website uses plugins from Google’s YouTube site. The site is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our YouTube-enabled sites, you will be connected to YouTube’s servers. The Youtube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. When you are logged in to your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to map your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. For more information on how to deal with User data, see the YouTube Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy
AIESEC reserves the right to modify this Privacy- and Cookie Policy at any time in accordance with this provision. If we make changes to this Privacy- and Cookie Policy, we will post the revised Privacy- and Cookie Policy on the AIESEC Platform and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy- and Cookie Policy.
If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy- and Cookie Policy or AIESEC’s information handling practices, you may contact us at the address indicated at the beginning of this Privacy- and Cookie Policy. You may also email [email protected]. Please expect a response within 1 month after we receive your letter or email.
Hong Kong – Date [20/06/2023]
Name: Disheng Cheng
Room 913, Youth Square,
238 Chai Wan Road,
Chai Wan, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 3791 2748
Email: [email protected]
Employment Agency License No.: 70793
© 2022 AIESEC Hong Kong Limited.