Last update: December 30, 2024

When you use or interact with a web page, a mobile application, or another Digital Service (each designated as a "Digital Service") operated by or owned by HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD AM 2023 S.L. (hereinafter "HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD") or when you fill out a paper form to subscribe to our magazines or other publications, participate in a contest or give us your data for an event (hereinafter "Paper Forms") we and third parties obtain certain information about you. In this section of highlights, we provide an overview of our privacy practices related to Digital Services and Paper Forms. Please review our complete Privacy Notice presented below to access a detailed explanation of our practices.

What information we obtain:

• The information you provide when using the Digital Services or requesting related content, products, or services, including, for example, signing up to receive newsletters, requesting subscriptions, or creating or registering a membership request through the Digital Services or through Paper Forms. This may include contact information, payment, or demographic data.
• The information you submit when you choose to participate in a survey, raffle, contest, promotion, event, or similar initiatives.
• The information you provide about other people, for example, the contact information referred to a friend when you request a gift subscription for him.
• The information obtained through cookies and similar technologies. Such information includes that related to your device and your browser, including your IP address or the advertising identifiers of your mobile phone, as well as information about how you and others use, interact with, or respond to the Digital Services. This type of information collection takes place while you use a Digital Service or while the Digital Service is running in the background on your device. Our Cookie Policy contains detailed information about our use of cookies and similar technologies.
• Precise location information from your device when location services are active.
• The information we obtain from other sources, such as business partners, data suppliers, and social media platforms.

More information at this link.

How we use the information and what are the legal bases for doing so:

• To process your requests or subscriptions and provide you with the Digital Services, including the delivery of personalized content or recommendations. Please note that we use your payment information (for example, your credit card number or its expiration date) for limited purposes, such as processing your transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable), providing you with the requested products or services, and protecting our rights or the rights of third parties.
• To obtain information about the users of the Digital Services and analyze how you and others interact with the Digital Services and respond to them.
• To communicate with you and send you marketing and promotional communications.
• For advertising and marketing purposes, including sending interest-based ads for cross-device linking and analyzing the results of advertising and marketing activities.
• To protect our rights and the rights of third parties.
• We process personal information for different purposes with the following legal bases: to fulfill our contract with you, to defend our legitimate interests, to fulfill our legal obligations, as well as for other reasons with your consent or under your direction. More information about the legal bases can be consulted here.

Other data on how we use the information can be consulted here.

With whom we share the information:

• With the HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD family of companies.
• With service providers who provide services or perform transactions on our behalf.
• With advertisers, service providers related to advertising and marketing, as well as with companies that help us understand how you and others interact with our content.
• With social networks and similar services, including those you use when you interact with our Digital Services that integrate tools and services provided by social networks.
• With business partners, such as in the case where we partner with a third party to offer products or services in case of a brand-linking strategy.
• With another party when required by law or when it is necessary to protect our rights, and in the context of corporate transactions.
• With your consent or otherwise under your direction.

More information here.

Your options, including opting out of marketing communications and interest-based ads:

• You can take steps to limit the use of your information regarding interest-based advertising on your browser or mobile device. More information here.
• You can unsubscribe from our marketing or promotional emails by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link in them or at the address info@hk-ts.com

More information here.

• We use various technologies and security procedures to help protect information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
• Your data is deleted when it is no longer necessary for legitimate business activity or for legal reasons.
• We apply appropriate security mechanisms to protect your data when it is transferred to, stored, or processed in a country that does not have data protection laws similar to those of the European Union or the United Kingdom.
• Digital Services are not intended for use by children under 14 years of age.

Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Notice, you can contact us through the information indicated here.

This Privacy Notice describes how HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD (identified in this notice as "we," "our," "ours," or "HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD") obtains and processes personal information about you, how it uses and protects such information, and how it establishes your rights concerning such information. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information about you that we collect or process on web pages, mobile applications, or other Digital Services (each designated as a "Digital Service") linked to this Privacy Notice or when you fill out a paper form to subscribe to our magazines or other publications, participate in a contest, or give us your data for an event (hereinafter "Paper Forms").

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or about our data practices, you have more information about the relevant business activities of HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD, the specific publications they are responsible for, and the corresponding contact information in the "Contact us" section presented below.
This Privacy Notice describes the privacy practices only of HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD and does not cover the practices of other companies, including those that advertise or sponsor the contents, products, or services incorporated into the Digital Services, as indicated in the "With whom we share the information" section, also addressed below.

When you use a Digital Service, we obtain various types of information related to you and your use of the Digital Service. This includes information that directly identifies you, for example, your name, address, or contact information, as well as information related to online identifiers and cookie data that may identify you. The information we obtain generally consists of information (1) that you provide about yourself, (2) that you provide about others, (3) obtained automatically about your interactions with the Digital Services and our content and ads on third-party websites, applications, or other media, and (4) obtained from other sources, as described below.

1. Information we obtain directly from you

• When you use certain parts of the Digital Services, we ask you for information about yourself. For example, to subscribe to one of our newsletters, you need to provide us with an email address. You may not be able to use certain features if you choose not to submit the required information.
• The information you provide includes details such as:
• Contact information (e.g., name, email address, mailing address, or phone number).
• Demographic information about interests or home (e.g., age, sex, or education).
• Information about payments made on subscriptions or purchases made through the Digital Services (e.g., credit card number, expiration date, and billing information).
• Comments, photos, videos, and other content or information that you choose to post on the Digital Services or share with us in any other way.
• Information you provide when participating in surveys, raffles, contests, promotions (including information about your participation in loyalty or reward point-generating activities), or events.
• Location information, including precise location information when you allow the Digital Services to access your device's location. To prevent obtaining precise location information from your device, please consult the instructions provided by your mobile service provider or device manufacturer.
• Other information that you allow us to access through your device's permission settings, such as your contacts or address book.
• Transactional and activity information (e.g., requests, searches, or orders).

2. Information you provide about third parties
You may provide us with information about other people, for example, the name and email address of a friend or contact with whom you wish to share an article, or the name and email address of the recipient of a gift subscription. You should not provide information about third parties unless you are authorized to do so or those third parties have granted you their permission. We will use your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

3. nformation obtained automatically
The Digital Services automatically record certain information about visits to them, related, for example, to the number and frequency of users, technical information about the browsers and devices used to access them, and information about service interruptions and other technical issues. In addition, according to the preferences you express, we and other parties involved obtain automatically and with automated means certain information about your activities while you are connected to the Digital Services or to websites, applications, and other third-party media. The tools that obtain this information vary in the different Digital Services and include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, local shared objects (including HTML5 cookies), and software development kits (SDKs) (collectively referred to as "Cookies and Similar Technologies").

The information obtained automatically includes the following aspects:

• Information about your computer, device, browser, and operating system (e.g., type, model, or version).
• Internet Protocol (IP) address, which can be used to know your general geographic area (e.g., city or country).
• Device identifiers (e.g., mobile advertising ID).
• Information about your interactions with the Digital Services, including browsing activities and clickstream data (visit data) that reflect the content you have accessed, clicked on, or visited.
• Information about how you accessed the Digital Services, including details about the websites or applications you visited immediately before or after accessing a Digital Service.
• Demographic information about interests or home.
• Information about your interactions with email messages and other communications, such as whether you opened or forwarded the email or clicked on links contained in it.

Some cookies and similar technologies assign or obtain specific cookie IDs associated with your browser or device. Cookies and similar technologies can obtain information while you are using our Digital Services or while the Digital Service is running in the background on your device. More information about the cookies and similar technologies used in the Digital Services, including how to manage your preferences, is available in the section about our Cookie Policy.

4. Information we obtain from other sources
We receive information about you from other sources and in certain circumstances, we combine it with other information about you. For example, we may obtain data from:

• Operators of third-party websites or applications, content distribution channels and platforms (e.g., Roku, Amazon Fire TV), voice-activated assistants (e.g., Amazon Alexa, Google Home), or other devices and technologies when you interact with our content, products, services, or ads available on those channels and platforms. The information we receive includes information about the content you visit or access, as well as your demographic and interest information.
• Third-party data providers, such as data aggregators, data resellers, public databases, and business partners. They all provide demographic information, information about your purchases, and information that helps us understand you and other users of the Digital Services.
• Social media platforms and similar services ("Social Media Platforms"). When you access our content or ads on social media platforms or when you interact with tools from the Digital Services with content or features provided by social media platforms (e.g., by entering or registering in features or tools that allow you to share our content with others on social media platforms), we may obtain information from those social media platforms, including your username, user ID, and demographic information, subject to the privacy settings and practices of the respective platform. We may obtain that information directly from the platform or through plug-ins, integrations, or applications. Please note that operators of social media platforms also collect information about your use of the Digital Services and their features and tools. We are not responsible for their practices.

If you make a purchase or request an order through a Digital Service or Paper Forms or in connection with them, we use information about payments (e.g., the number and expiration date of your credit card) to process the transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable) to provide you with the requested products or services, and to protect our rights or the rights of third parties, as indicated below.

Regarding information about you other than payment information, we use such information:

1. To provide you with the Digital Services or Other Services you request. This includes:

• Processing your requests regarding the Digital Services and our subscriptions, products, or services, or your participation in a survey, raffle, contest, promotion, event, or similar initiatives.
• Providing customer service or technical support.
• Personalized content, providing recommendations, and improving the quality and overall experience with the Digital Services, considering maintaining your user preferences as efficiently as possible for the browser or device you use to access the Digital Services.
• Maintaining, operating, improving, and developing the Digital Services and related content, products, or services, including developing new products and features based on user interaction with the Digital Services.
• Improving our knowledge about users of the Digital Services and analyzing how you and others interact with and respond to the Digital Services, including measuring and optimizing usage, reliability, and performance, developing market research, analyzing trends, and supporting our operations (e.g., in accounting, auditing, financing, legal issues, and other aspects).

2. To communicate with you. This includes:

• Sending informational messages about the Digital Services (e.g., to confirm your subscription or notify you of changes to a Digital Service).
• Sending marketing or promotional communications, including offers or promotions about our products, services, or other initiatives, ours or third parties.
• Responding to your questions or meeting your requests.
• Communicating with you regarding surveys, raffles, contests, promotions, or events.

3. For advertising and marketing purposes, including interest-based advertising.
Depending on your preferences, considering those related to the use of cookies and similar technologies, this may include:

• Developing, managing, and executing advertising and marketing campaigns, promotions, and offers, such as those related to our content, products, and services or to the products, services, and other initiatives of third parties.
• Interest-based advertising (also known as targeted or personalized advertising or ads) is based on your interests inferred from your activities over time on the Digital Services and online services operated by third parties, as well as information from other sources. Interest-based ads consist of text, image, animation, or video ads and are sent to you based on various factors, including the context of the site or application where they appear (e.g., sports or travel sections), the information you have provided to the site or application operator (e.g., when you created an account), your activities on the site or application (e.g., pages visited, searches conducted, or ads opened), and information such as your demographic data, interests, or information about your home.
• We, our service providers, or other parties involved use automated means that include cookies and similar technologies on the Digital Services and sites, applications, or other third-party media to (a) obtain information intended for interest-based advertising or (b) serve you interest-based ads. When you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies on the Digital Services, specific identifiers may be associated with your device to support interest-based advertising.
• The online and offline information we obtain about you, including your personal information, is used by us for interest-based advertising purposes. We aggregate the information we obtain to create audiences that are more likely to respond to ads based on demographic information about interests and households.
• Interest-based ads may be sent to you by third parties, such as ad networks or ad exchanges.
• You can take steps to limit the collection of information about you through cookies and similar technologies and the use of your information regarding interest-based advertising; these measures vary depending on web and mobile app environments and are specific to browsers and devices. For more information about these options, see the section "Your options, including opting out of marketing communications and interest-based ads" included below and our Cookie Policy.
• Cross-device linking. If you access the Digital Services from multiple browsers or devices, we, our service providers, and other parties involved may attempt to establish connections and link the different browsers and devices you use to access the Digital Services and our content and ads published elsewhere in certain circumstances. This helps us offer you a continued experience with the browsers and devices you use and to propose the most relevant content and ads to you (e.g., so that we do not show you the same article twice). See our Cookie Policy for information about measures you can take to limit cross-device linking.
• Analysis and measurement of the performance, effectiveness, and reach of our advertising (including interest-based ads) and our marketing initiatives on the Digital Services and elsewhere.

4. To protect our rights or the rights of third parties. This includes:

• Detection, prevention, and response to fraud or potentially illegal activities, misuse of the Digital Services, infringements related to intellectual property or other violations of the law, this Privacy Notice, our Terms of Use, or other policies of HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD.
• Conducting inspections, assessments, and tests or activities aimed at troubleshooting.
• Reinforcing our systems (including disaster recovery measures) and improving the overall security of the Digital Services.
• Compliance and enforcement of applicable sectoral and legal requirements (including legal processes such as judgments, orders, and court subpoenas) and fulfillment of contractual obligations.

We process personal information for different purposes on the following legal bases:

• To fulfill contractual obligations with respect to you. We and our service providers process your information to fulfill our contractual obligations to you when we use your information to offer you the Digital Services and related content, products, or services, and to communicate with you. For example, when you purchase one of our subscriptions, we process your payment and your contact information and other details to offer you the support services you request. We also send you informational communications on this basis, including subscription confirmation or eventual notification of a change in a Digital Service. Failure to provide the required information could contravene or delay the fulfillment of our contractual obligations.
• To satisfy our legitimate interests. We process your information to satisfy our legitimate interests by using it to provide you with Digital Services and related content, products, or services, to communicate with you, and for our advertising and marketing purposes. For example, our legitimate interests include incorporating improvements, personalization, and understanding how you interact with the Digital Services and related content, products, or services, and sending communications about products and services that we consider may be of interest to you. To satisfy our legitimate interests, we may share your information with our affiliates and branches and our service providers and business partners (including those related to advertising and marketing) and in the context of a corporate transaction. We maintain appropriate security measures to protect the information we process, ensuring the safeguarding of our legitimate interests.
• To comply with our legal obligations. We process and share your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations when we use your information to protect our rights or the rights of third parties and when we share it with others in cases where required by law or when necessary to protect our rights. For example, we are required to obtain certain information from you to process the payment on your part of a subscription for tax or financial control reasons.

With your consent. We obtain your consent to process your information when the law requires it. In connection with cookies and similar technologies, we obtain your consent as described in our Cookie Policy. If consent is the legal basis on which we process your personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us as set out in the "Contact us" section below.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to access or object to the use of personal information that we have about you (including that related to direct marketing). You may also indicate to us that we rectify, update, delete, limit, or share your information with another company in an appropriate format. Such requests are regulated by the relevant legal framework.

Do not hesitate to contact us to correct your information if it changes or if the personal information about you that we have is inaccurate.

If you wish to review or exercise such rights, please contact us as set out in the "Contact us" section below. We will communicate with you if we need additional information to comply with your requests.

YOUR OPTIONS, INCLUDING OPTING OUT OF MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS AND INTEREST-BASED ADS

Opting out of direct marketing:

1. Email marketing. You can unsubscribe from receiving marketing or promotional emails sent by us or third parties (in cases where you have opted to receive communications from third parties and other types of communications from us as required by law) by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link contained in such emails. Please note that if you unsubscribe from receiving marketing or promotional emails, we will continue to send you emails related to transactions or other communications related to your use of the Digital Services (e.g., to confirm your subscription, to inform you of changes to a Digital Service, or in response to your password recovery request).
2. Text message marketing. If you have ever opted to participate in a marketing campaign or promotion by text messages offered in connection with a Digital Service or Other Service, you can unsubscribe from receiving more text messages by following the instructions contained in those messages (e.g., by typing the word STOP or UNSUBSCRIBE) or in the instructions that were indicated to you when you agreed to receive marketing by text messages.
3. Direct mail. If you choose to receive offers by postal mail related to a Digital Service (provided that this option is required under the relevant legal framework), you can request that we stop sending you offers by postal mail by notifying your request in writing at the address specified below in the "Contact us" section. Please indicate in the correspondence the name of the Digital Service, Other Service, or publication to which your request refers.
4. Marketing by third parties. We provide the contact information about you to third parties for their own marketing purposes in cases where you have given us your consent to do so. If you wish to withdraw your consent to the shared use in the future, you can notify us in writing at the address specified below in the "Contact us" section. Please indicate in the correspondence the name of the Digital Service, Other Service, or publication to which your request refers.
5. Offers with linked brands, co-sponsorship, or co-promotion with business partners. If at any time you opt to participate in a campaign of offers with linked brands, co-sponsorship, or co-promotion, the sponsor or other business partners involved in such offers may use the information about you for their own purposes, including those related to online advertising and marketing, in line with our privacy policy for business partners. To exercise your opt-out options regarding the use made by the business partner of your information, you must contact the business partner directly.

Opting out of receiving interest-based ads
Depending on your preferences regarding the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies, the ads you receive on the Digital Services may be interest-based ads. This means that such ads are personalized based on the information that we and others obtain about you and involve the use of cookies and similar technologies. In our Cookie Policy, we indicate the measures you can take to limit the tracking of your activities and the sending of interest-based ads on the browsers and mobile applications you use to access the Digital Services. Please note that even if you opt out of interest-based ads, you will continue to receive ads, although these will not be based on your interests or preferences. Moreover, if you take the measures indicated in the Cookie Policy, certain automated means will continue to be used to obtain information about your interactions with the Digital Services for the other purposes described in this Privacy Notice (e.g., remembering user preferences or activating a specific functionality).

The technologies used to send ads on websites and mobile applications are diverse. Also, note that "opt-out" links are specific to different browsers and devices.

Additional options

1. Device settings. In the corresponding Digital Services, you can review and adjust your preferences by updating your device's settings (e.g., allowing us to obtain precise location information).

Push notifications. If push notifications for a particular Digital Service are enabled on your device, you can review and update your preferences about them by adjusting your device's settings. For example, you can select the relevant application in "Notifications" (for iOS devices) or "App Notifications" (for Android devices) and turn off alerts as appropriate.

We use various technologies and procedures to help protect information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

We will maintain your information for as long as we maintain a relationship with you. Once that relationship comes to an end, we will retain such personal information for a period that allows us to:

• Maintain business records for analysis, market trend studies, and/or inspection measures and improve our Digital Services.
• Comply with record retention obligations under relevant laws or other applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
• Defend, assert, exercise, or analyze existing or potential legal actions.
• Develop fraud detection and prevention actions.
• Address any claims related to the Digital Services and other products and services.

We will delete your personal information when it is no longer necessary for these purposes. If there is any information that for technical reasons we are unable to delete from our systems, we will enable appropriate measures to prevent any further processing or use of the data.

In certain circumstances, your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries other than those of the European Union and the United Kingdom that do not have data protection laws similar to those of the European Union or the United Kingdom.

In such circumstances, we will enable the relevant security mechanisms to protect your data, including contractual commitments. For more information about these mechanisms, contact us by the means detailed below.

Digital Services are not designed to be used by children, especially those under 14 years of age, and we do not knowingly obtain personal information from persons under 14 years of age.

Certain Digital Services contain links to websites, mobile applications, or other services operated by companies not affiliated with HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD. In addition, Digital Services may be available to you through other platforms (such as app stores or social networks) or other channels. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any of the websites, mobile applications, or other services and channels not operated by HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD, so it is advisable to review the policies or privacy notices of the corresponding third parties.

From time to time, we update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes in our privacy practices or relevant laws. In cases where changes to this Privacy Notice have fundamental implications for the nature of the processing of information or on you, we will communicate them in advance so that you can exercise your rights (e.g., by objecting to the processing of information). We will publish the updated version of the corresponding Digital Services and indicate at the beginning of the Privacy Notice the date of its last update. Your use of Digital Services will be governed by the most current version of the Privacy Notice.

HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD , as the responsible party for the Digital Services and Paper Forms that you are using or accessing, is responsible for processing the personal information we obtain and process in connection with each Digital Service or Paper Form. Below are the details of the data controller and its publications, along with the corresponding contact information.

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Publishing company (controller/s): HONGKONG TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD AM 2023

For inquiries related to personal data protection, you can contact us at info@hk-ts.com

For inquiries related to your subscription, you can contact us at info@hk-ts.com

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at: info@hk-ts.com

We commit to working with you to reach a satisfactory solution in case you have any problem or reason for complaint related to privacy. If, nevertheless, you consider that we have not been able to assist you with that problem or reason for complaint, you have the right to file a complaint with the data protection regulatory bodies.