Your personal information
Personal information held by MC may include your name,
date of birth, current and previous addresses, telephone/mobile
phone number, email address, bank account or credit card
details, occupation, driver's licence number and your
MC PIN, username or password. MC also holds details of
your MC services (including their status), as well as
certain details about your personal interests.
If you choose not to provide certain personal information
(e.g. your date of birth), MC may not be able to provide
you with the services you require, or the level of service
on which MC prides itself.
Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information
about other individuals to MC (e.g. about your authorised
representatives). If so, MC relies on you to inform those
individuals that you are providing their personal information
to MC and to advise them that MC can be contacted for
further information (see 'How to contact us' below).
How we collect personal information
MC collects personal information in a number of ways,
including:
? directly from you, when you provide information by phone
or in application forms, or when you submit your personal
details through MC’s web sites (e.g. during managechina.com
registration if and when this is required);
- from third parties such as MC’s related companies, credit
reporting agencies or your representatives;
- from publicly available sources of information;
- from the organisations identified below under 'When
MC discloses your personal information';
- from MC’s own records of how you use your MC services;
or
- when legally required to do
How we use your personal information
Your personal information may be used to:
- verify your identity;
- assist you to subscribe to MC’s services;
- provide the services you require;
- administer and manage those services, including charging,
billing and collecting debts;
- inform you of ways the services provided to you could
be improved;
- conduct appropriate checks for credit-worthiness and
for fraud;
- research and develop MC’s services;
- gain an understanding of your information and communication
needs in order for MC to provide you with a better service;
and
- maintain and develop MC’s business systems and infrastructure,
including testing and upgrading of these systems.
Also, your personal information is collected so that MC
can promote and market its services to you (including
by way of direct mail, telemarketing, SMS and MMS messages).
MC does this to keep you informed of its products, services
and special offers. If you do not wish MC to promote and
market its products, services and special offers to you,
please indicate your desire to opt out by reply email
to one of the service offers we send you.
In relation to marketing and promotional material sent
via email, MC will send such material only if you elect
to receive it (i.e. opt-in) or if it is provided in response
to your request. You can indicate your opt-in preference
at MC’s web sites.
When we disclose your personal information
In order to deliver the services you require, MC may disclose
your personal information to organisations outside of
MC. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations
only in relation to MC providing its services to you.
These organisations carry out MC’s:
- customer enquiries;
- mailing operations;
- billing and debt-recovery functions;
- information technology services;
- installation, maintenance and repair services;
- marketing, telemarketing and door-knocking services;
- market research; and
- web site usage analysis.
MC takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations
are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in
relation to the protection of your personal information.
In addition, MC may disclose your personal information
to:
- your authorised representatives or your legal advisers
(e.g. when requested by you to do so);
- credit-reporting and fraud-checking agencies;
- credit providers (for credit related purposes such as
credit-worthiness, credit rating, credit provision and
financing);
- MC’s related companies;
- MC’s professional advisers, including its accountants,
auditors and lawyers;
- other consultancy and information service providers
(for example, if you obtain services from other providers,
MC may need to disclose your personal information for
billing purposes);
- government and regulatory authorities and other organisations,
as required or authorised by law; and
- organisations who manage MC’s business and corporate
strategies, including those involved in a transfer/sale
of all or part of its assets or business (including accounts
and trade receivables) and those involved in managing
MC’s corporate risk and funding functions (e.g. securitisation)
.
MC’s web sites
MC provides products and services via its various web
sites. When you visit MC’s sites, its web servers record
anonymous information such as the time, date and URL of
the request. This information assists MC to improve the
structure of its web sites and monitor their performance.
MC may use 'cookies' on various web sites. Cookies are
an industry standard and most major web sites use them.
A cookie is a small text file that our web sites may place
on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means
for MC’s web sites to remember your preferences. As such,
cookies are designed to improve your experience of MC’s
web sites.
In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal
information about you. MC extends the same privacy protection
to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies
or from other sources. You can adjust your Internet browser
to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being
used. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be
able to access certain areas of our web sites or take
advantage of the improved web site experience that cookies
offer.
MC also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. IP
addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to
uniquely identify them within the global network. MC collects
and manages IP addresses as part of the service of providing
internet session management and for security purposes.
Links to third-party sites
MC may provide links to third-party Web sites as a service
to our users. In addition, some of the content appearing
to be on this Site is in fact supplied by third parties,
for example, in instances of framing of third- party Web
sites or incorporation through framesets of content supplied
by third-party servers. Please be aware that we cannot
control and are not responsible for the information collection
practices of such third-party Web sites, which may differ
from those of this Site. We encourage you to review and
understand the privacy policies on these Web sites before
providing any information to them.
Transborder hosting and transfer of information
Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site
may be transferred from time to time to MC offices or
personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the
world, including offices located outside the European
Economic Area (EEA), and the Site may be viewed and hosted
anywhere in the world, including countries (such as the
United States) that may not have laws of general applicability
regulating the use and transfer of such data. By using
the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily
consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such
information.
Children's on-line privacy protection
MC understands the importance of protecting children's
privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site
is not intentionally designed for or directed at children
16 years of age or younger, and MC will not intentionally
collect or maintain information about anyone under the
age of 16.
Consent/Changes to Privacy Policy
By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use,
and storage of your information by us in the manner described
in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve
the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from
time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by
updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was
last updated on December 14, 2005.
Help us to ensure that we have accurate personal
information
To ensure that we are collecting up to date information
regarding the services we provide to you it is imperative
that you advise us of any personal/contact details that
have changed. We require you to bear the burden of informing
us of such changes and will assume that all details in
our data base are accurate subject to verification or
alteration from you.
You can access your personal information
Should you require access to your personal information
you can do so via mail contact at
Att: Privacy Manager
Manage China
379 Ti Yu Chang Road
Hangzhou Zhejiang China 310006