For us, "personal information" means information which either directly identifies you (like your name, email address, or phone number) or can be reasonably linked or combined to identify you (like student number or IP address). We'll always tell you what personal information we’re collecting from you. See each form’s Privacy Notice or Privacy Statement for specific details.
Any information that falls outside this is "non-personal information."
If we store your personal information with information that is non-personal, we will consider the combination as personal information. If we remove all personal information from a set of data then the remaining is non-personal information.
We learn information about you when:
When you give us information, we will use it in the ways for which you've given us permission. Generally, we use your information to help us provide and improve our products and services for you.
For users in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, and California: see here for more information. There are apparently way more of you visiting this site than we expect, despite us being based in Hong Kong and the majority of us have yet to leave.
These regions have data protection laws that require us to specify the following:
Our Privacy Policy and product/activity specific privacy notices describe the purposes for which we process information about you and the categories of information we process. Queen's College Astronomers' Club does not sell personal data.
Our lawful bases for collecting and processing personal information under the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") include:
The following rights are granted under the GDPR and California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). Queen's College Astronomers' Club applies these rights to all users of our products/services, regardless of your location:
If you have a question or concern, please contact us and we hope to resolve it for you.
We are committed to protecting your personal information once we have it. We implement physical, business and technical security measures. Despite our efforts, if we learn of a security breach, we'll notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps.
We also don't want your personal information for any longer than we need it, so we only keep it long enough to do what we collected it for. Once we don't need it, we take steps to destroy it unless we are required by law to keep it longer.
We may need to change this policy and our notices. The updates will be posted online. If the changes are substantive, we will announce the update through the Club's usual channels for such announcements such as social media posts or emails. Your continued use of the product or service after the effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. To make your review more convenient, we will post an effective date at the top of the page.
Queen's College Astronomers' Club 皇仁書院天文學會
16 July 2021
We care about your privacy. When Queen's College Astronomers' Club (that's us) collects information about you, our Privacy Policy describes how we handle that information.
This privacy notice applies to Queen's College Astronomers' Club operated websites and mobile apps, which include the domains qcac.hk, and qcac.net, among others.
Functionality: We may use information such as cookies, device information, and IP addresses to enhance functionality of certain products, services, and communications. For example: we use certain device information such as country, language, operator and OEM, to customize your experience.
Metrics: We may also use cookies, device information, and IP addresses, along with clear GIFs, cookies and third party services to help us understand in the aggregate how users engage with our products, services, communications, websites, online campaigns, snippets, and other platforms. We use:
Fraud Prevention: We have implemented third-party technology, Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA, that operates in the background on some of our websites in order to identify fraudulent activity. Use of the Invisible reCAPTCHA is governed by the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
We recommend the latest version of Firefox browser for the best experience of the site and privacy protection to your online presence. Instructions here are given according to the current version of Firefox. Other browsers may not support some of these actions.
Cookie History: You can accept or decline individual cookies in your Firefox preferences in the Tools/Options/Privacy history section. Note that certain features of our products and services may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Do Not Track: We do not track users across third party websites to provide targeted advertising.
Analytics & Optimization: Follow the instructions below to prevent data collection about your visits to our websites:
Social Media: The social sharing buttons on our websites are designed not to share data with the social media provider until you specifically click the button.
If you wish to use materials on this website, we are happy to provide you with a custom license for your specific project. Please feel free to contact us via email or social media.
You are most welcome to use materials on this website with the default licenses stated below for general purposes.
Unless otherwise specified, the text, images and videos on this website is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license, or any later version, with the conditions listed below.
A summary of the terms of this license is available, as well as its detailed terms.
The following conditions must be satisfied:
Unless otherwise specified, the code, except the texts, images and videos on this website, is free and open source; available under the GNU General Public License v3.0, or any later versions.
You should know what this is already if you are coding. But the detailed terms of this license are available anyway.
Code libraries used are under separate licenses by their authors, but are also public licenses.