This policy discloses the privacy practices for the online publication Asia Property Journal (https://www.asiapropertyjournal.com) and its news alert email service.
Asia Property Journal has adopted a set of information management guidelines which serve as the basis for our customer and sponsor relationships. These guidelines have been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, and that underlying business models are still not established. Accordingly, guidelines are subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page. If the changes represent a material departure from our current practices with respect to the use of personal information, the changes will be posted on this page thirty days prior to taking effect and registered users will be notified via email.
Asia Property Journal is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which it may link.
What information does Asia Property Journal gather/track about you?
Registration: During a registration process prior to receiving Asia Property Journal on email, Asia Property Journal requires that you supply your full name, your position in your organisation, name of organisation and e-mail address. You must agree to the terms of our Subscriber Agreement.
Premium Products and Services from Asia Property Journal: The premium products and services offered by Asia Property Journal require a paid subscription.
Premium Products and Services from Third Parties or Partners: From time to time, Asia Property Journal may offer products or services from our partners or third parties. The information you provided at registration may be shared with the provider of the product or service.
Contests, Special Offers, Surveys: On occasion, Asia Property Journal also collects additional personal information from subscribers in connection with optional contests or special offers.
Additionally, Asia Property Journal may collect additional personal information from subscribers in connection with optional surveys. Information that you provide in answer to optional survey questions may be shared, but only in the aggregate, with advertisers and partners unless we notify you at the time of collection.
Cookies: Asia Property Journal cookies to track site usage and your login details.
We use an advertising server to display ads on our site. In addition, sponsors may elect to use third-party advertising companies to serve ads onto our website. In the course of serving these advertisements, the third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser. We do not have access to these cookies or any information that they may contain. Acceptance of cookies from domains other than Asia Property Journal is optional.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs): We use an advertising serving system to display ads on our site. In addition, advertisers may elect to use third party advertising companies to serve ads onto our website, and in these instances may use a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs/action tags) to help better manage advertising on our site. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. Clear gifs may ping or alert the advertiser’s server about the online movements of web users. For instance, advertisers may place a clear gif allowing them to recognize an existing cookie on your browser if from the same service. The main difference between cookies and clear gifs is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Please keep in mind we do not have access to any information collected by these clear gifs nor additional information they may be tied to by the advertiser.
IP Addresses: Asia Property Journal logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration, troubleshooting purposes and to ascertain whether your subscription account is being shared or compromised.
Log Files: Log data is only used in aggregate to analyse usage of our website.
What does Asia Property Journal do with the information it gathers/tracks?
Statistical Analysis and Banner Advertising: Asia Property Journal may perform statistical analyses of user behaviour in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how many consumers have seen or “clicked” their advertising banners. We also use demographic and preference information to allow advertising banners on our website to be targeted, in aggregate, to the users for whom they are most pertinent. In this statistical analyses and banner advertisement targeting, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form. Personal information about you as an individual subscriber will not be provided to any third party without your consent, except under the circumstances described in Compliance with Legal Process below.
E-Mail: If you subscribe to Asia Property Journal, Asia Property Journal will send you a regular email alert of stories published by Asia Property Journal. Additionally, the email address provided by you at registration may be used by Asia Property Journal to contact you regarding (1) account status (including confirmation of registration), (2) major changes to the website and or to the Subscriber Agreement and Privacy Policy, and (3) participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the website and existing or prospective products and services, as well as information to better understand our users. User surveys greatly help us to improve our website, and any information we obtain in such surveys will not be shared with third parties, except in aggregate form.
We use e-mail links located on the website to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We will use your email address to respond directly to these questions or comments.
Except as permitted by this policy, Asia Property Journal does not send unsolicited e-mail.
Data Security: To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.
With whom does Asia Property Journal share the information it gathers/tracks?
Asia Property Journal shares the information it gathers, in aggregate form only, with advertisers and other partners. We will not release personal information about you as an individual to third parties, except under the circumstances described in Compliance with Legal Process below.
How do I change or update my personal information?
Please contact Asia Property Journal to update your personal information.
Compliance with Legal Process
We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of Asia Property Journal; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).
Suggested text: Our website address is: https://asiapropertyjournal.com.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.