Privacy Statement of Qianming Temple
Qianming Temple (“ QT ”) takes your privacy very seriously and cares about how your information is collected, used, stored, and shared. We provide this Privacy Statement to explain our practices and the choices you can make about how QT uses your information. The Privacy Statement describes our practices for information collected through the websites we operate through which you can access this Privacy Statement (the “ Sites ”), through the software applications we provide for use on computers and mobile devices (the “ Apps ”), through the social media pages we control through which you can access this Privacy Statement through the Sites (collectively, our “ Social Media Pages ”), through HTML-formatted email messages we send you that link to this Privacy Statement, and through offline interactions we may have with you (collectively, including the Sites, Apps, and our Social Media Pages, which provide curated content) (the “ Services ”). By visiting this website, you accept the policies described in this statement and consent to the disclosure of personal information to trusted third parties (including grantors, grantees , other charities, partners and sponsors) to allow them to send you marketing communications in accordance with your selections.
Personal Information We Collect
“Personal information” is information that personally identifies you or relates to an identifiable individual.
- We collect the following personal information: name, email address, postal address, telephone number, profile picture, social media ID and similar contact information, and credit card or other payment information. If you choose to provide QT with your payment or credit card information, we will use that information for the purpose for which it was provided; QT does not store credit card or other payment information.
How we collect personal information
QT and our service providers collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:
- We collect personal information you provide to us via phone, email, in-person conversations, or online and offline forms such as e-newsletters, surveys, donation forms, event registration/participation (including volunteering), and advocacy action alerts you complete.
- We use third-party postal address, phone number, email address products, and other sources to provide and collect accurate and updated contact information.We use third-party postal address, phone number, email address products and other sources to provide and collect accurate, updated contact information.
- We collect information from social media platforms and other sources that you or your friends or other connections on social media platforms use.
We need to collect personal information in order to provide you with the requested services. If you do not provide the requested information, we may not be able to provide the services. If you disclose any personal information about other people in connection with the services to us or our service providers, you represent that you have the authority to do so and allow us to use that information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
QT Uses Personal Information
QT and our service providers use personal information for legitimate business purposes, including to:
- To provide the functionality of the Service and fulfill your requests
- To process and respond to inquiries and the purposes for which you provide information, such as to process donations, register or renew your status as a donor or supporter, purchase merchandise, or receive information about programs, special events, and services.
- Answer your questions and comments.
- Alert your attention to administrative messages, such as information about features of the Service and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
We will take the above steps to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or to comply with legal obligations.
- Provide personalized service.
- Personalize content, improve navigability of the Services, and tailor your experience on the Services, including targeted content, offers, and advertising on the Services or via email.
- To notify you about special programs, offers, products, and services that we think may be of interest to you, whether from QT or our affiliates or other third parties acting on our behalf.
We will provide personalized services where we have your consent or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
- To allow you to participate in special programs, activities, events or
promotions.
- To facilitate your participation in sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions and to administer those activities. Some of these activities have additional rules that may contain additional information about how we use and disclose information, including your personal information. We recommend that you read any such rules carefully.
We will provide personalized services where we have your consent or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
- Achieve our business goals.
- To protect the security or integrity of the Services and to protect the institution, such as by preventing fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims and other liabilities, and managing risk exposure, including identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users.
- Conduct surveys to measure your satisfaction with various aspects of QT activities.
- To analyze data, identify usage trends, develop promotional campaigns, audit, monitor or prevent fraud, develop new products or services, enhance services, improve interactions or operations and for expansion purposes.
- To enforce our Terms of Use or other program terms.
We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with legal obligations and/or because we have a legitimate interest.
- Aggregate and/or anonymize personal information.
- If we aggregate and anonymize personal information, the data is no longer considered personal information and we may use it for any purpose.
- As otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
All references to sharing data with third parties in our Privacy Policy exclude Originator Mobile Number Opt-in Data and Consent; and We do not share this information with any third parties for their own use.
QT Discloses Personal Information
We disclose personal information in the following circumstances:
- To our service providers: We will disclose the information we collect from you to third parties who perform functions on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure configuration, soliciting or confirming charitable donations, aggregate analysis and marketing activities, and professional advisors, such as auditors and attorneys.
- To our affiliates: We share information with related entities, such as affiliates and subsidiaries, to achieve the purposes detailed in this Privacy Statement. Our affiliates and their respective locations are listed in this disclosure .
- To other organizations: We share your information, excluding e-mail address and phone number, with unaffiliated third parties for their own uses. You may choose to opt out as described in “How You Can Control the Collection and Use of Your Information” below.
- You may choose to disclose personal information: If you post information or material on our message boards, chats, profile pages, blogs, and other services where you can post information and content, including, but not limited to, our social media pages. Please be aware that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the public. We urge you to exercise caution when deciding to disclose any information on the Services.
Other Uses and Disclosures
We may also use and disclose your personal information in ways other than those
listed above where necessary or appropriate, in particular where we have a legal
obligation or legitimate interest to do so.
- To comply with applicable laws:
- This may include laws outside the country where you live.
- Responding to requests from the public and public authorities:
- This may include authorities outside your country of residence.
- For other legal reasons:
- To enforce our terms and conditions;
- To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or the rights, privacy, safety or property of our affiliates, you or others.
- In connection with a sale or business transaction:
- In addition, we have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Additional Information
“Other Information”is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or is not directly related to an identifiable individual. If applicable law requires us to treat Other Information as Personal Information, we will use and disclose that information for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Privacy Statement.
We collect other information, such as IP address, browser type, mobile device type, content accessed on the website or app, Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, or length of time the Services are used. Collecting browser activity or IP addresses, as well as visit times and pages visited, is common practice and is often performed automatically by many websites, apps, and other services for purposes such as calculating usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Services. In addition:
- We and our service providers collect information about the apps you use. We track and collect app usage data based on your device ID, such as the date and time the app accesses our servers and the information and files downloaded to the app.
- We collect information that identifies the physical location of your mobile device or the device's geographic location, such as using satellite, cell tower or Wi-Fi signals, in order to provide you with personalized location-based services and content.
- We use "Cookies" and similar technologies to obtain information (individually
and in aggregate form) about your visits to the Services or responses to our
emails or other electronic communications. Cookies are pieces of data placed on
your device when you visit the Services that help us recognize you when you
return to the Site, for example, by allowing us to remember the email address
and password you use when logging in from a particular computer. We also gather
statistical information about the use of the Services so that we can continually
improve its design and functionality, understand how it is used, and help us
resolve issues relating to the Services. Cookies also enable us to select the
advertisements or offers that are most likely to appeal to you and display them
when you use the Services. We also use cookies or other technologies to track
responses to our online advertisements. Currently, we do not respond to "Do Not
Track" requests.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies or gives you the choice to decline or accept the transfer of a particular cookie (or cookies) to your computer from a particular website. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services, and you may not be able to access certain features we offer. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer, and you may need to log in each time you visit. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
- We use pixel tags and other similar technologies to track the actions of users of the Services, to measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and to compile statistics about Service usage and response rates.
- We collect information about your interaction with emails, such as links clicked and whether the message was opened or forwarded.
- Aggregate Information: We share aggregated statistics and other non-personally identifiable information with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes. These aggregated statistics do not allow anyone to identify you.
We use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, unless we are required to do otherwise by applicable law. In some cases, we combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your location). If we do so, we will treat the information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
Our Advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve you ads that may be of interest to you based on information about your visits to and use of the Services and other websites. To do this, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags). They may also use these technologies, along with your mobile advertising ID and information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use (such as mobile phones and laptops).
This advertisement may be sent directly to you because you have visited or logged into our website. When we generate this advertisement, the data we collect from you through online cookies, your mobile advertising ID, and other technologies may be combined with other de-identified data (such as a hashed, unreadable email or postal address) to tailor advertising to you or your business on your computer, device, or Smart TV based on your preferences and other information about you.
How to Control the Collection and Use of Information
- Sharing Personal Information with Other Organizations: You may opt out of having your information shared with, rented or traded to unaffiliated third-party organizations for their own use at any time by calling ([email protected]) or emailing ([email protected] ) . We will not rent or trade your email address or phone number.
- Marketing Email Opt Out: You may opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails at any time by following the opt-out procedures at the bottom of our emails. We will respond to your request within 10 business days.
- Mailing List: You can opt out of receiving our mailings at any time by calling (+8506582112) or sending an email to ([email protected] ) . Your address will be removed from current mailings within 30-60 days.
- Telemarketing: You may opt out of QT 's residential telemarketing list at any time by calling ( +8506582112) or emailing ([email protected] ) . Your phone number will be removed from any currently active plans within 30 days.
Access, Modify, Update and Delete Your Information: We strive to keep our records as accurate as possible. Subject to applicable law, you have the right at any time to access, correct, restrict, update, modify or delete personal information you have previously provided to us. To do so or to request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for the purpose of transmitting it to another company (to the extent applicable law provides you with the right to data portability), please call (+8506582112)
In your request, please clearly state what personal information you would like changed, whether you would like your personal information to be suppressed from our databases, or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to impose on our use of your personal information. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will respond to your request as quickly as reasonably possible.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions you began prior to requesting change or deletion (for example, when you make a donation or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the personal information you provided until after such donation or promotion is completed). Some residual information may also remain in our databases and other records, which will not be deleted.
How we protect information
QT uses a variety of security measures to protect your personal information. We use appropriate and reasonable organizational, electronic, physical, administrative and technical measures (including encryption) to help protect personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
When we work with other companies to process credit card transactions, those companies also use encryption and other appropriate security measures. However, no transmission or electronic storage of information is completely secure. If you have reason to believe that your use of the Services or your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us as described in the "Questions/Contact Information" section below.
Retention Period
We retain personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The criteria used to determine retention periods include:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services);
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
- Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
Children's Privacy
The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and QT does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13, and we ask that they not submit any personal information through the Service.
Cross-Border Transfer
Our services are controlled and operated by us in Mongolia , and we are not subject to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or region outside of Mongolia. Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or where we engage service providers. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside your country of residence, including Mongolia , which may have different data protection rules than your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulators or security agencies in these other countries may be entitled to access your personal information.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”): Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission to protect your Personal Information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by following this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/model-contracts-transfer-personal-data-third-countries_en.
Third Party Content and Links
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, applications or similar technologies that are not affiliated with and that QT has no control over. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Statement but instead by the privacy statements of those third-party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices or the content of these other websites and/or applications.
We are not responsible for the information collection , use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations (such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer) , including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
Third-party payment services
We will use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Services. If you wish to make a payment through the Services, your personal information will be collected by that third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy statement and not this Privacy Statement. We cannot control and are not responsible for that third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.
Sensitive Information
Unless explicitly requested, we ask that you not send and disclose any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security number, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union memberships) to us through the Services or otherwise.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
QT may modify this Privacy Statement from time to time. We will post any revisions to the Services and recommend that you review it periodically. The “Effective Date” reference at the top of this page indicates when we last revised this Privacy Statement. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Services. Your continued use of the Services or engagement in the Interactions after we implement such changes will also constitute your affirmative consent to the revised Privacy Statement.
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in emails to us.
