HKSM

Effective Date: January 20, 2024
1. Introduction
Welcome to HKSMNOW.COM, the digital platform for HK School of Management. We specialize in providing online education for busy professionals. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal data, as well as your rights regarding your personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
2. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for your personal information for the purpose of GDPR compliance is:
HK School of Management
3. Personal Data We Collect
We collect the following types of personal data:
- Identity Data: Name, surname, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers.
- Transaction Data: Details about payments and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
4. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
- Direct interactions: You may provide us with your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
5. Use of Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
6. Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with external third parties, such as service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services, professional advisers, and regulators.
7. Data Security
We have implemented security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us.