Privacy Notice (effective August 6, 2020)

The Owner (“Aaron Kho”, henceforth “I, us, we, our”) operates the https://aaronkho.com and https://aaronkho.xyz  websites as well as its subsidiary links and subdomains (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”). This page informs you of The Owner’s policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use The Owner’s Service and the choices you have associated with that data. The Owner uses your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. 

DEFINITIONS

  • Personal Data: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

  • Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Cookies: Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

  • Data Controller: Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

  • Data Processors (or Service Providers): This means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.The Owner may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

  • Data Subject (or User): Data Subject is any living individual who is using the Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

INFORMATION COLLECTION:

The Owner collects several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected:

1) PERSONAL DATA

While using the Service, The Owner may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Cookies and Usage Data

  • Photographs, Videos

The Owner may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from The Owner by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email The Owner sends.

2) USAGE DATA

The Owner may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

3) TRACKING & COOKIES DATA

The Owner may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on the Service and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze the Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the Service.

USE OF DATA

The Owner uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service

  • To notify you about changes to our Service

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

  • To provide customer support

  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service

  • To monitor the usage of our Service

  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

  • To participate in juries, competitions and open calls with the intent of gathering more publicity for the Service. 

RETENTION OF DATA

The Owner will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Owner will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Owner will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Legal Requirements

The Owner may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation

  • To protect and defend the rights or property of The Owner

  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

  • To protect against legal liability

SECURITY OF DATA

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

1) Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

2) Behavioral Remarketing
The Owner uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

3) Payments

The Owner may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).The Owner will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

The Owner do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

The Owner may also publish Materials (which include without limitations, the logos, design, text, graphics, photographic and non-photographic images and other linked documents) on our Service to promote, market and publicize the Service for other clients and sometimes the Materials may contain likeness or resemblance to your Child. The Owner will not request parental consent for the publication of Materials on our Service. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may update our Privacy Notice from time to time. But we do not have any obligation to notify you of any changes to the Privacy Notice. You are encouraged to periodically visit this page to review the most current Privacy Notice to which you are bound. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us: