About this Privacy Policy
- This policy covers how
Nebula Group Ltd. treats the personal information that we collect and
receive at the sites at which this policy is posted, including information
related to your past use of Nebula Group Ltd. products and services
(www.i-learner.com.hk and its sub-sites).
Information Collection and General
Use
- Nebula Group Ltd. collects
personal information when you register, and when you complete your user
profile with Nebula Group Ltd. Personal information is information about
you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, email
address, or phone number and information that links to this information.
- When you register, we
ask for information such as your name and email address. Once you register
with Nebula Group Ltd. and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous
to us.
- To enable Nebula Group
Ltd. to show more relevant and targeted content, we may also ask for
demographic information like age, gender, location and income level;
however, this information is optional.
- Nebula Group Ltd. automatically
receives and records information on our server logs from your browser,
including your IP address, cookie information, and the pages you request.
- Nebula Group Ltd. uses
information for the following general purposes: to fulfill your requests
for products and services, customise the content you see, improve our
services, contact you, conduct research, and report your learning progress
to your school teachers, and provide anonymous reports for internal
and external clients.
- Nebula Group Ltd. also
shows certain information about users to facilitate peer learning and
encourage participation as members of our community of learners. The
information that might be displayed includes your name, your school
name, your marks at selected period of time, your learning progress
and other items.
Children
- If you are a parent and
suspect that your child has provided Nebula Group Ltd. with personally
identifiable information, please contact us at customer@i-learner.com.hk.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- Nebula Group Ltd. is not
in the business of renting or selling personal information you provide
on this site with other people or companies. Nebula Group Ltd. does
share your information to provide products or services you've requested,
when we have your permission, and under the following circumstances:
- We display certain information
about users to other fellow users to facilitate peer learning and encourage
participation as members of our community of learners. The information
that might be shown to other users includes your name, your school name,
your marks at selected period of time, your learning progress and other
online items.
- We provide the information
to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Nebula Group Ltd.
under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal
information to help Nebula Group Ltd. communicate with you about offers
from Nebula Group Ltd. and our marketing partners. However, these companies
do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We may share aggregate
demographic information with third parties such as the media, advertisers,
and government agencies. This aggregate information is typically in
the form of statistics, such as numbers of Nebula Group Ltd. users in
a particular age group. Such aggregate information is not traceable
back to you as an individual.
- We may share your information
to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process or to otherwise
cooperate with law enforcement agencies or officials, or to establish
or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We may share your information
if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of
our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We will transfer information
about you if Nebula Group Ltd. is acquired by or merged with another
company. In this event, Nebula Group Ltd. will notify you before information
about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
Cookies
- Nebula Group Ltd. sets
and accesses cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small bit of information
used by the site to track your session. It does not contain any sensitive
information. No other websites can access cookies set by Nebula Group
Ltd., nor can the Nebula Group Ltd. sites access cookies set by other
websites.
Account Information and Communications
- You can edit your Nebula
Group Ltd. account information at any time by logging in to the site
and entering the My Personal Info area.
- You may opt out of receiving
Nebula Group Ltd. emails by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link in
the Buddy Community area. Please note that even if you do opt out of
receiving our email materials, we reserve the right, and will continue
to send you certain infrequent communications relating to the Nebula
Group Ltd. service and/or your account, such as service announcements
and administrative messages, that are considered part of your Nebula
Group Ltd. account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out
of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
- We limit access to personal
information about you, except those specified above, to employees who
we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information
to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic,
and procedural safeguards that comply with Hong Kong laws and regulations
to protect personal information about you.
- You should take steps
to protect yourself as well. For example:
- Do not share your password
with anyone else, and take measures to prevent it from unauthorized
access or disclosure.
- Change your passwords
frequently and do not use easily guessed passwords like your name or
your school id.
Links and Third Party Ads
- We may post links to other
web sites as a service to you. These sites are operated by companies
that are outside of our control, and your activities at those sites
will be governed by the policies and practices of those third parties.
We encourage you to review the privacy practices of these third parties
before disclosing any personally identifiable information, as we are
not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.
- We might use third-party
companies to serve advertisements when you visit certain parts of our
sites. These companies may use information (not including privacy information
such as your name, address, email address or telephone number) about
your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements
on this site, other sites and other forms of media about goods and services
that may be of interest to you.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
- This policy is effective
as of 1 January, 2005. Nebula Group Ltd. may update this policy. We
will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal
information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified
in your account with Nebula Group Ltd. or by placing a prominent notice
on our site.
Questions
- To contact us for more
information about this privacy policy or how your information is treated,
please contact us by email at customer@i-learner.com.hk.