Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION
Business Club in Shanghai (“Business Club in Shanghai,” “BCS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) deeply believes in the importance of earning and maintaining the trust of our clients and other individuals who visit the Website or otherwise consume or interact with our various Services (“you” or “your”). We are strongly committed to protecting your privacy rights.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to this website (https://shanghai-bc.com) and/or any other BCS website(s) (together, “Website”), as well as the various paid and non-paid subscriptions, newsletters, mobile platforms, briefings, programs, software, applications, events, or services provided by Business Club in Shanghai (collectively, “Services”) which reference, link to, or incorporate this Policy.

This privacy policy explains how information is collected, used and disclosed by us with respect to your access and use of the website. Please note that by accessing or using this website, you represent that you have read this Privacy Policy, understand it, accept it and agree to abide by its terms.

Business Club in Shanghai reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Such changes will be effective upon posting. When we do change it, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the bottom of this page. Your continued use of the website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.


THE TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect two types of information from you:
PII (personally identifiable information) is information that identifies you personally, such as your name, email address or phone number.

We collect PII with relation to your accessing and/or using the website, and you directly provide us with most of the information we collect. For example, we may collect your first and last name, email address and/or phone number when you register to an event, if you contact us with a question or an offer or send us an email, when we request your response to an online survey or when you sign to our mailing list to receive our newsletter and updates. Other information is collected automatically through our systems, including through cookies.

Non-PII (non-personally identifiable information) can be demographic, technical, browsing and usage information. Non-PII does not identify you personally and is collected primarily to perform site optimization and marketing analysis to enhance our website and our services.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION
We collect information in a variety of ways:
  • Online Interactions. We collect Personal Data when you communicate with us, or otherwise connect with us or post to social media pages, or sign up for a newsletter or participate in a survey, register to an event, respond to a promotional offer.
  • Offline Interactions. We collect Personal Data when you attend promotional events and professional seminars that we host or in which we participate, or when you provide your Personal Data to our representatives.
  • Automatic Information: When you use or interact with our website, we receive and store information generated by your activity and information automatically collected from your browser or mobile device. For example, like many websites, we obtain certain information when your web browser accesses our website including your IP address, browser type, operating system, mobile network data, pages viewed and access times.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the information we collect (both PII and non-PII) primarily for internal business purposes, clients relations, marketing and website enhancement, as detailed: to contact you in response to an inquiry; to track, measure and analyze traffic accessing the website; to identify usage trends and visiting patterns and to determine the effectiveness of our promotions.

We also use the information we collect for Marketing Communications. In order to communicate news and promotions to you regarding our related services; to address you by email offering services that we believe may be of interest to you, including invitations to seminars and professional events in China.

You acknowledge that your provision to us of your e-mail address during your enquiry, registration or subscription process, constitutes your consent to receive such marketing materials. At any time after providing us your e-mail address you may withdraw your consent to future receipt of such marketing materials by sending us an applicable request, clearly stating your e-mail address and request.

Sharing information with Strategic Partners
We may share certain Personal Information with trusted strategic partners who work on our behalf under confidentiality agreements for marketing and other purposes. Our Marketing Partners may use your Personal Information to help BCS communicate with you about offers from BCS and our Marketing Partners. However, these Marketing Partners do not have any independent right to share your information with other parties or use it for other purposes.
We do not sell, lease or rent your PII to third parties for their marketing purposes.


COOKIES
Our web pages may place in your computer’s browser ‘cookies’, which are text files that store the IP address of your computer. We use cookies to recognize your access to the website, understand your usage of the website and to improve and adjust the content and user experience we offer. You can refuse cookies by turning them off on your browser. For more information about cookies and how to manage them, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

Our Website uses Session Cookies:
Session cookies are stored temporarily as long as you are on the same page and are automatically deleted by the browser after you leave the page. We use these temporary cookies to support the site’s functionality, for example, if you want to download a number of resources in the same session, your details will be remembered so you don’t get asked for the same information you’ve already given, as long as you don’t leave the page.

Our Website uses the following Third-Party Cookies:
Google cookies. Google analytics cookie are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help improve our site. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, for example determine the number of visitors, where the visitors have come to the site from and what buttons the visitor clicked. To read Google’s privacy policy in respect of Google Analytics click here to opt out of Google analytics click here. Google cookies also include Google AdWords & DoubleClick cookies for marketing, advertising & remarketing these enable to recognize visitors on the websites of our advertising partners and to address them with interest-related information or ads. To find out about Googles double-click cookies click here.

Facebook cookies. These cookies are used for interest-based advertising meaning ads you might like to see based on your activity on websites off of Facebook. These cookies collects information from your site visit and enables promoting you ads through Facebook platforms. To read more about interest-based ads from Facebook click here. To unsubscribe from Facebook’s interest-based ads, please follow Facebook’s instructions here. More information about Facebook’s privacy policy can be found here in the Facebook Privacy Policy.


SECURITY
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information that you transfer to us is done at your own risk. We implement reasonable administrative, organizational and technical safeguards and security measures to protect Personal Data from unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction or alteration, accidental loss, misuse or damage.


RETENTION
To the extent permissible by applicable law, we will retain your Personal Data for such period as necessary to satisfy or to fulfill the following:
  • The purposes for which that Personal Data was provided;
  • An identifiable and ongoing business need, including record keeping;
  • A requirement to retain records that may be relevant to any notified regulatory investigations or active legal proceedings;
  • Comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, including, without limitation, court orders and/or compulsory disclosures required by governmental authorities;
  • Fulfill legitimate interests of BCS and third parties, such as, defend in cases of legal procedures etc.

EDITING AND DELETING YOUR INFORMATION OR OPTING OUT OF OUR MAILING LIST
You can correct or delete the information that you provided by contacting us on WeChat, at the following id: ani_aks.
Please note that we may need to verify your identity before acting on your request. While we will try to comply with any request pertaining to your Personal Information in accordance with applicable law, please be aware that we may not be able to fulfill requests pertaining to information already shared with third parties. Some information may be retained on our systems for recordkeeping purposes, and some residual digital information cannot be removed or changed.

UPDATES
We are entitled to change and update this Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion, without having to provide notice thereof. Responsibility for becoming familiar with the changes, if any, made by this Privacy Policy rests with you alone.

ASSIGNMENT
Any information collected by us and by any other acting on our behalf, and all communications and information transmitted, received and/or contained in our information systems, is our property. You agree that in the event that we sell or transfer any of our business assets, including through merger or acquisition, this may include the sale or transfer to the acquiring party of such property, which may include your PII.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our Site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of BCS. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.

RIGHTS OF EUROPEAN DATA SUBJECTS UNDER THE GDPR
If you are in one of the EU/EEA countries, you are entitled to certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) EU Regulation 2016/679 and applicable national data protection regulations.
By visiting the BCS Website or communicating with BCS, you acknowledge that we may process your Personal Information for the purposes described above, either on the basis of your consent or if we have other lawful grounds to do so.

  • You have the right to withdraw consent to processing, where consent is the basis of processing. For the Personal Information we collect on the BCS Website, this means you may withdraw your consent to processing by leaving the BCS Website, opt-out of the BCS mailing list, and requesting that we delete your Personal Information by contacting us on WeChat, at the following id: ani_aks.
  • You have the right to request further details about how we process your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
  • You have the right to demand rectification of inaccurate Personal Information about you. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
  • You have the right to object to unlawful data processing under certain conditions.
  • You have the right to erasure of past data about you (your “right to be forgotten”) under certain conditions.
  • You have the right to demand that we restrict processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions, if you believe we have exceeded the legitimate basis for processing, processing is no longer necessary, or if you believe your Personal Information is inaccurate.
  • The Personal Information we collect on the BCS Website is not used for automated decision making and profiling, except for automated processes in the context of marketing. As stated above, you can opt-out of direct marketing by BCS by contacting BCS directly.
  • You have a right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority in your country if you believe that BCS is processing your Personal Information in violation of applicable laws.

CONTACT US
Your privacy is important to us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us on WeChat, at the following id: ani_aks.

Effective from: 01.06.2024
Last Updated on: 01.06.2024