Your privacy is important to us. At GazeTV Foundation, (“GazeTV” or “we”) we are committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality and security of the personal information we collect and hold by complying with the requirements under the Privacy (Data Protection) Ordinance. We are equally committed to ensuring that all our employees and agents uphold these obligations.

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This policy explains how we manage personal information within our organisation. It applies to GazeTV and all its related companies and associates.

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How do we collect personal information?

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We collect personal information from you in the following circumstances:

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· when you register a GazeTV account with us, order products or services from us, subscribe to our newsletter;

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· when you complete any application form to us or submit a query or request to us;

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· when the wallet you use to transfer cryptocurrencies to us provide us with your basic personal and financial information;

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· when advertising networks, analytics providers and search information providers provide us with anonymized or de-identified information about you.

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In some cases, we may be required by law to collect personal information about you. The personal information will generally be acquired through our channels, but we may however obtain information through a third party, such as representatives, agents or contractors who provide services to us, or third parties whom may refer you to us as they think you may be interested in our products or services.

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What information do we collect?

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The kinds of personal information that we collect and hold about you may include:

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• Personal information: your full name, date of birth, nationality, gender, signature, utility bill, photographs, phone number, home address, and/or email.

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• Identification Information: Government-issued identity document such as passport, driver license, national identity card, state ID card, passport number, driver license details, national identity card details, visa information and/or any other information deemed necessary to comply with our legal obligations under financial or anti-money laundering laws.

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• Institutional Information: Employer identification number (or comparable number issued by a government), proof of legal formation (e.g. Articles of Association, Certificate of Incorporation) and/or personal identification information for all material beneficial owners.

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• Transaction Information: Information about the transactions you make on our Services, such as the name of the recipient, your name, the amount and/or timestamp.

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• Correspondence: Survey responses, information provided to our support team, trading team, sales team and/or user research team.

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• Others: We may collect and store certain information automatically when you use our services. Examples include the internet protocol (the "IP") address used to connect your computer or device to the internet, connection information such as browser type and version, your operating system and platform, a unique reference number linked to the data you enter on our system, log in details, the full URL clickstream to, through and from the website or APP or services, cookie identifier and your activity on our website or APP or services, including the pages you visited, the searches you made and, if relevant, the services your purchase.

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• Contact information: such as your postal address, email address and telephone number

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• Social media profile information: that you make available to us or to the public

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• Blockchain identifiers: such as blockchain addresses and public keys

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• Account: usernames and passwords that you create when registering for an account with us

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• Product or service: details of any products or services that we provide to you

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• Use of products or service: information about how you use the products and services we provide

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• Communications: records of our communications with you, including any messages you send us.

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Without this information, we may not be able to provide you with our products or services (or with all of the features and functionality offered by our products or services) or to respond to queries or requests that you submit to us.

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You may, however, visit our website unregistered.

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What do we use your personal information for?

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We use personal data that we collect about you for the following purposes:

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• to verify your identity for the purpose of satisfying our Anti-Money Laundering obligation

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• to determine your eligibility for any of our products or services

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• to determine your compliance with the terms and conditions that apply to any of our products or services and applicable law

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• to enable us to provide our products and services

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• to improve our website based on your information and feedback

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• to answer your queries and requests

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• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

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• to carry out market analysis and research

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• to monitor use of our products and services

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• to assess, maintain, upgrade and improve our products and services

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• to carry out education and training programs for our staff

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• to manage and resolve any legal or commercial complaints or issues

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• to carry out planning and forecasting activities and other internal business processes

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• to keep you informed about our activities, including by sending out newsletters

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• to enforce our Terms of Use by continually reviewing, investigating and preventing any potentially prohibited or illegal activities which contravenes our Terms of Use.

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Direct marketing

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We may from time to time use your personal information in order to send you marketing materials about products or services that we think you may be interested in (including in some cases products and services that are provided by a third party). We may not use your personal information unless we have received your consent. You can opt-in to receive marketing communications from us by contacting us using the contact details set out below.

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We may use your following personal information for the purpose of direct marketing:

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• identifying information, such as your name and date of birth

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• contact information, such as your postal address, email address and telephone number

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• products and services portfolio information and demographic data held by us from time to time

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We may use your personal information to market the following products and/or services to you:

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• purchasing and/or trading digital assets

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• software and hardware wallets for holding digital assets

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• payment services

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• other products or services related to digital assets and/or payment services

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If we use your personal data in any direct marketing communications, you have the right to request that we provide you with the source of that personal data. There is no fee for requesting this information. We will provide you with the source of the personal data, unless it is impracticable or unreasonable to do so.

Please indicate your consent to receiving information relating to the above by contacting us using the contact details set out below.

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We may also use and disclose your information for other purposes in accordance with your requests or instructions.

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Who do we disclose your personal information to?

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We may share personal information about you with:

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• your representatives, advisers and others you have authorised to interact with us on your behalf

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• our staff who need the information to discharge their duties

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• related entities within our corporate group

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• our business partners, agents and service providers

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• payment system operators and financial institutions

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• prospective purchasers of all or part of our business or shares in our company or a related entity

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• professional advisers who we engage to provide advice on our business

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• government authorities who ask us to disclose that information, or to other people as required by law

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Under this privacy policy, you consent to your personal information being disclosed in such circumstances.

In some cases, the people to whom we disclose your personal information may be located overseas. There may not be in place data protection laws which are substantially similar to, or serve the same purposes as Hong Kong. As such, your personal information may not be protected to the same or similar extent as in Hong Kong.

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How do we protect and store your information?

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We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All personal information provided to us is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our database, which can only be accessed by those with special access rights to our systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. We update these physical and technical security processes and procedures from time to time to address new and emerging security threats that you become aware of.

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Do we retain your personal information?

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Yes. We normally retain your personal information for a period of at least 5 years from the date on which (i) we collect the information; or (ii) our relationship ends (whichever occurs last), however your personal data will not be kept longer than required. At our discretion, we may retain personal data for longer than this period if we consider it necessary or desirable to do so to meet our legal or regulatory obligations.

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Can you access and correct your personal information?

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Yes. If you want to access any of the personal information that we hold about you or to correct some aspect of it (e.g. because you think it is incomplete or incorrect), please contact us using the contact details set out below. To protect the integrity and security of the information we hold, we may ask that you follow a defined access procedure, which may include steps to verify your identity. In certain cases we may charge you an administration fee for providing you with access to the information you have asked for, but we will inform you of this before proceeding. There may be cases where we are unable to provide the information you request, such as where it would interfere with the privacy of others or result in a breach of confidentiality. In these cases we will let you know why we cannot comply with your request.

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Even if you do not request access to and/or correct your personal data held by us, if we are satisfied that, having regard to the reasons for which we hold your personal data, that personal data is inaccurate, incomplete, out-of-date, irrelevant or misleading, we may take reasonable steps to correct that data.

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Do we use cookies?

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Yes, we use cookies on the GazeTV website to monitor and observe your use of our websites, compile aggregate data about that use, and provide you with more effective service (which may include customising parts of our websites based on your preferences and past activities on those websites). “Cookies” are small text files created and stored on your hard drive by your internet browser software, in order to hold relevant information and the webpage you are currently viewing. Most internet browsers have a facility that will allow you to disable cookies altogether – please refer to your browser’s help menu to find out how to do this. While you will still be able to browse our websites with cookies disabled on your internet browser, some website functionality may not be available or may not function correctly.

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Google Analytics

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Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use our website.

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The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties here required to do by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

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You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website. By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

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Cookies

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Cookies help to make our website more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. By default, web browsers enable the use of cookies but this function can also be disabled. However, this will result in some services not being available. It is also possible to manually delete cookies after their use via the web browser. More information may be available from your web browser provider.

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Third party links

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Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include links to third party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. Further, we do not verify their content. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

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Your Consent

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By using our website, providing personal information and/or using any of our products or services, you agree that you consent to our privacy policy, as updated from time to time.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy

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We may make changes to this policy from time to time, to take into account changes to our standard practices and procedures or where necessary to comply with new laws and regulations. The latest version of this policy will be available at https://www.gazetvf.com/privacy-policy

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Transfer of personal information outside of Hong Kong

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We will ensure that any transfers of personal information to a territory outside of Hong Kong will be in accordance with the PDPO so as to ensure a standard of protection to personal data so transferred that is comparable to the protection under the PDPO. For example, we may transfer personal data when (i) the place to which the data are transferred has in force “any law which is substantially similar to, or serves the same purposes as, this Ordinance”; (ii) you have consented in writing to the transfer; (iii) you have reasonable grounds for believing that the transfer is for the avoidance or mitigation of adverse action against the data subject and that it is not practicable to obtain the data subject’s consent, but if practicable, such consent would be given; (iv) the data are exempt from data protection principle 3 by virtue of an exemption in the PDPO; or (v) you have taken “all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to ensure” that the data will not be dealt with in a manner that would constitute a contravention of PDPO.

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Complaints

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We try to meet the highest standards in order to protect your privacy. In any case, if you are concerned about the way in which we are managing your personal data and think we may have breached any applicable privacy laws, or any other relevant obligation, please contact us by using the contact details set out below. We will make a record of your complaint and refer it to our internal complaint resolution department for further investigation. We will deal with the matter as soon as we can, and keep you informed of the progress of our investigation.

If we have not responded to you within a reasonable time or if you feel that your complaint has not been resolved to your satisfaction, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data.

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Contact details

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If you wish to obtain any further information on privacy matters, please contact us at:​

GazeTV Foundation​

Email: support@GazeTV.com

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