Notice of Personal Information Protection
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Notice of Personal Information Protection
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (including its affiliated enterprises of legal persons or organizations such as the Taiwan Trade Center, with details on its official website, hereafter referred to as “TAITRA”, “we”, or “us”) respects and aims to protect your privacy and personal information. We hereby inform you of the following in accordance with Article 8 of the Taiwan Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”).
1. Purposes of Collection
Assistance in enterprises' development of Taiwan’s external trade; relevant practices of other public sectors (including administrative-legal entities, government foundations, and other public legal entities); client management and services; assistance in medium- and small-sized enterprises and other industries; policy advocacy; education and training administration; book and publication administration; advertisement or commercial activity management; marketing; contract, quasi-contract, or other legal relationship affairs; commercial and technical information; information/communication services; information/communication and database management; information/communication security and management; investigation, statistics, and research analysis; and non-government agencies’ collection, processing, and use of personal information for fulfilling legal obligations, etc.
2. Personal Information Categories
Identification, social situations, and/or other kinds of personal information necessitated by the purposes of their collection.
3. Time Period, Area, Target, Way of Use, and Processing of Personal Information
(1) Time period: the term during which the purposes of the personal information collection remain, the retention period
for the information under the relevant laws and agreements, or the term necessary for TAITRA to perform its duties (if
it is longer than the term set forth by the laws and agreements). Time period can also refer to the time period you
otherwise agree to, if longer than the aforementioned.
(2) Area: the Republic of China, the regions where TAITRA's branches are located, and the countries for which the
branches are in charge; the regions where the information receivers are located and not prohibited by government
authorities for international transmission; the regions where the targets of the use of personal information are
located; and the regions where the institutes having business relationships with TAITRA are located.
(3) Way of Use: the collection, processing, use, and international transmission may be performed in automatic or
non-automatic manners.
4. Rights under the PIPL; Way to Exercise
With regard to your own personal information, subject to the applicable laws, you are entitled to (i) make inquiries or request a review and/or duplications; in these cases, TAITRA may request the necessary costs incurred therefrom; (ii) request for supplements or corrections, but you should provide appropriate explanation according to the laws; (iii) request for discontinuation of collection, processing, or use of your own personal information and request for deleting the same, but TAITRA may not follow your request in accordance with the laws in case it is necessary for TAITRA to perform its duties or conduct its business.
5. Consequences for Non-provision of Information
In the event you do not provide the information, you will not be able to apply for the event or enjoy the services that we offer.
6. You have confirmed that the personal information provided is true and correct.
If any changes are to be made in the future, the relevant supporting documents shall be submitted to us for correction.