Privacy

We collect certain information or data about you when you use sociology.hku.hk.

This includes:

questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you send an email to us
your IP address, and details of which version of web browser you used
information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website
details to allow you to access our services, eg an email address (you’ll always be told when this information is being collected, and it will only be used for the purpose you provide it for)

This helps us to:

improve the site by monitoring how you use it
respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to
provide you with information about our programmes, courses or other services if you want it

We can’t personally identify you using your data.

Where your data is stored

We mostly store your data and any emails you send us on our secure servers in Hong Kong.

It may also be stored outside of Hong Kong (for example in the case of our email newsletters, website cookies and some online forms), where it could be viewed by our staff or suppliers.

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this.

Keeping your data secure

Transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can’t guarantee the security of your data.

Any data you transmit is at your own risk.

We have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it.

We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.

Disclosing your information

We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so.

Your rights

You can find out what information we hold about you, and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.

Links to other websites

The sociology.hku.hk website contains links to and from other websites.

This privacy policy only applies to this website, and doesn’t cover other websites that we link to.

Following a link to another website

If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

Following a link to HKU Sociology from another website

If you come to sociology.hku.hk from another website, we may receive personal information about you from the other website. You should read the privacy policy of the website you came from to find out more about this.

The above privacy policy is adapted from this original source, which was made available under an Open Government Licence v3.0.