Privacy Policy

SITE & PRIVACY POLICY – www.caroline-b.net

(including Cookie Policy)

Site Policy

Your use of the Site and/or all content contained within the Site (“Content”) is entirely at your own risk. The Site and the Content are provided for information purposes only, and shall not form a part of any agreement for provision of Services that you may enter into with Caroline B. Please note, whilst we endeavour to provide accurate and up-to-date information, the Content may not be wholly accurate or up-to-date, complete or free of defects, and is subject to change, often at very short notice. If you find that some particular item of information is incorrect or has not been provided, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will try to rectify or provide the information as soon as reasonably possible. All Content is provided without any representations or warranties of any kind (implied or express) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and we will not be liable for any inconvenience, loss of revenue or any damages which result from the direct or indirect use of any information provided on the Site.

Caroline B owns or controls all relevant intellectual property rights in the Site and the Content, except for articles linked to other publishers, etc. You may not publish, distribute, extract, re-utilise, or reproduce any part of the Site or Content in any form (including storing it in any medium) other than as expressly allowed herein or as permitted on the Site or under Hong Kong SAR or local law.

This Privacy Policy sets out how Caroline B ("We") will treat the personal information which you provide to us while using the website located at www.caroline-b.net (“Site”), and the services provided from this Site (“Services”). You are deemed to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy on your first use of the Site. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and such changes shall be effective from the date and time the revised Privacy Policy is posted on the Site.

The Site together with all content are owned or controlled by Caroline B, a company registered in Hong Kong SAR.

We only ask for contact information necessary for effecting an initial contact and contract of service. We take reasonable care in keeping this information secure and preventing any unauthorised access or unlawful use of it. All personal information is processed by us in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary. We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale of certain divisions or the transfer of control of certain divisions to other parties. Data provided by Users will, where relevant, be transferred and the new owner or new controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use such data for the purposes for which it was supplied by you.

The Site is monitored by Google Inc’s Analytics and Adwords service. Google Inc will acquire information about you that they will then present to us in the context of the usage reporting. You hereby consent to the use of this information by Caroline B.

At some time in the future, We may do the following to which you also consent:

a) use “cookies” while you access the Site to avoid the need to re-enter details on different occasions. If you do not wish to receive ‘cookies’, you may change the settings on your computer or browser accordingly. Cookies are also used to collect general usage and volume statistical information.

b) use a third party advertising network to display advertising on the Site and to manage our advertising on other sites. This network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect information in order to provide personalised advertising.

If you do not want us to retain or use your personal information as described above, please withdraw your consent (i.e. “opt out”), by contacting us at caroline@caroline-b.net and we will remove you from our mailing list and database(s). However, we cannot and shall not be liable for how your information is used by Third Party advertising networks after that time as they are not operating under our control.

If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy or wish to resume receiving information which you may have previously opted-out of receiving, please contact us at caroline@caroline-b.net.

Image Rights

Some images used on this website are copyright controlled and a license has been bought for their use on this web site. As such, Caroline B notes the following use-controlled photographic images:

iStock-1953106127-Individuals Collage small

iStock-1887658449 FAQ small

iStock-1291474734 Family CHN small

iStock-639001742 Events-Cheers small

Cookie Policy (EU)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on December 19, 2024 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://caroline-b.net (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

5.4 Social media

On our website, we have included content from LinkedIn to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like LinkedIn. This content is embedded with code derived from LinkedIn and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. LinkedIn is located in the United States.

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

Functional Always active
Preferences
Statistics
Marketing

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us (if any, since we don't collect names etc.).
Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Caroline B

FAO Caroline Basham
2310 Dominion Center,
43-58 Queen’s Road East,
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
Website: https://caroline-b.net
Email: info@caroline-b.net
Phone number: +852