Information Privacy Policy
Meet Taiwan Website, Ministry of Economic Affairs (herein after referred to as MOEA) will do whatever necessary to safeguard your rights of privacy. Please read the following Meet Taiwan Website, MOEA privacy and data security policy carefully. This policy explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information.
1.Applied Scope
The following privacy and data security policy is applied regarding the collection, use, and protection of your personal information due to the use of Meet Taiwan Website, MOEA (www.meettaiwan.com, herein after referred to as this website). This website might contain links to websites of other non-governmental institutes whose data protection and privacy policies might differ from ours and we therefore accept no responsibility for any consequences. You are advised to check on those privacy statements beforehand.
2. Collection of Personal Information (Please see the Statement of Protection of Personal Information for its Policy Details)
2.1 Categories of Personal Information
2.1.1 Member
You will be requested to provide personal information, including name, gender, education, phone number and e-mail address for member information management after you register and become a member of this website and thus qualified to obtain member services.
2.1.2 Subscription to E-Letter
You will be requested to provide personal information, including e-mail address to receive information you need after you subscribe to our E-letter for the monthly message. Your information will be stored and you may cancel or make adjustments to the subscription.
2.1.3 Contact Us
You will be requested to provide the accurate e-mail or contact information for our reply should you make any suggestions or queries by accessing to Contact Us page by your e-mail.
2.1.4 Online Survey
You will be requested to provide some other information and opinions with your permission for analysis and statistics should you join the online survey on this website.
2.1.5 Browse
This website will store related data automatically produced by the server while users browse or search online, including IP address, time of visits, browser in use, browsing history and data of history entries. This website will identify the browser of individual user and analyze its history entries. Unless under the circumstance that you are willing to disclose the personal information, this website will not and incapable of matching the data with your personal information.
2.1.6. Participation in Events or Engagement in Business
Your contact information or membership obtained through introduction or
visits when you join MICE activities held by the MICE project or other
organizers, or engage in businesses with various units carrying out the MICE
project will be given to the competent agencies implementing the MICE
project.
- Use of Personal Information
This website does not sell, rent or exchange in anyway your personal information to any other groups or persons. Only under the following circumstances will this website in accordance with this policy share your personal information with the third party: the internal analysis and statistics over the number, interests and behaviors of users based on registration, E-Letter subscription, file downloading and system/server log of this website. The analysis and inclusion of data are based on the information of all the users as a whole and in the pursuit of better and sophisticated personal service. The public information or analysis report will only be processed and disclosed as opposed to all the users as a whole, rather than individual.
4. Cookies
In order to provide better personal service, we use cookies to collect and track statistical information of users. A cookie is a simple data that is sent from the website to the browser and stored in the hard drive of user’s computer. Users can modify how the browser responds to cookies, such as receiving or refusing all cookies or notification while receiving cookies by clicking Advanced under Functions for Netscape/Mozilla, or Security under Internet Options for IE. You may be excluded from some personal services or activities should you set to refuse all cookies. Under the next two circumstances, we will write and read Cookies in the user’s browser:
4.1 Provide better and personalized service:
For you to join customized interactive activities, cookies are produced while you
register or log on to the website and will be modified after you log out.
4.2 To obtain statistical information of number of visits and browsing pattern:
Understand the statistical information of web pages and improve the service.
5、Share and Disclosure of Information
This website does not sell, rent or exchange in anyway your personal information to any other groups or persons. Only under the following circumstances will this website in accordance with this policy disclose your personal information to the third party:
5.1 For More Added-Value, Evaluation and Study on Service Quality
To provide more accurate and sophisticated service, this website will compare the user data with that of the third party in accordance with the confidentiality agreement. Besides, this website will also disclose statistical information about users anonymously in order to introduce our services to the third party or based on other legal purposes.
5.2 Others
This website is obliged to protect the privacy and personal information of users and
will not change, delete or provide the entire or part of personal data and files of
users without your acknowledgment or consent unless with your permission or
under following circumstances:
5.2.1 Review by police and investigation agencies through legal process.
5.2.2 Violations against the website policy found and potential threats posed. To identify or contact or take necessary legal actions, the operation team and MOEA will disclose your personal information.
5.2.3 Expand the efficacy of services of governmental websites.
5.2.4 Protect the legal rights of other users.
6. Data Security Measures
6.1 Any unauthorized attempts to upload or modify any services or related information are prohibited and might violate the law. For the safety of this website and to make sure all internet users continue to enjoy this service. Measures are taken as following:
6.1.1 The intrusion detection system is used to monitor the network flow and prevent unauthorized attempts from uploading or modifying webpage content, or break-in purposefully.
6.2.2 The firewall is set to block illegal intrusion, break-in or stealing/damaging data, revent the website from being used illegally and protect the rights of users.
6.2.3 Anti-virus software is built in to eliminate viruses on a regular basis and offers
users a safer environment to browse web pages.
6.2.4 System recovery procedure is rehearsed and appropriate defense is enacted
from time to time in the drill of hacker’s attack or other emergency conditions.
6.2.5 The process of backing up is carried out every day. All the data is stored to the
back-up mainframe.
6.2.6 Safety maintenance notifications from related operation system suppliers or
application providers are received automatically and the necessary patch will be
done in accordance with the suggestions attached.
Due to the fact that the data transmission via internet is not 100% safe, this website,
despite its efforts to protect personal data of users will use the SSL security system
under certain circumstances to safeguard transmitted information. Data information
is related to the quality of your internet environment, and we therefore can not
make sure or guarantee the safety of information sent by users or received from this
website. Users are advised to be mindful and endure the risks of data transmission
via internet.
6.2 Amendments of Privacy and Data Security Policy:
This website will amend this policy from time to time to comply with the latest
privacy protection regulation. A public notice will be posted on the webpage should
there are changes in large scale.
6.3 Consultation of Privacy and Data Security Policy:
Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions regarding personal data
collection, use and update.
E-mail: mpo@meettaiwan.com
Tel: +886-2-2725-5200 Ext.1128 or 1120