LONG AN INTERNATIONAL PORT OPERATION & MANAGEMENT JOINT STOCK COMPANY and its affiliates (including any company controlled by, controlling or under common control with the LONG AN INTERNATIONAL PORT OPERATION & MANAGEMENT JOINT STOCK COMPANY) (together, “Long An International Port”) collect and use your personal information in relation to Long An International Port’s websites, applications, products and services (together, “Long An International Port Products”) in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy. For purposes of the Privacy Policy, “personal information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Any products, services, websites, or contents that are offered by third parties or have their own Privacy Policy are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy includes the following contents:
- What We Collect
- How We Use and On What Legal Basis
- Collection and use of cookies
- When We Share and How We Share With
- Where We store
- How We Secure
- Internet Advertising and Third Parties
- Access and Option
- Minor’s Personal Information
- How Long We Store Personal Information
- Contacts, Notices, and Amendments
- Examples of Information
1. What We Collect
We may collect your personal information in the course of providing Long An International Port Products to you. The collection of your personal information shall be made in accordance with this Privacy Policy where posted in connection with Long An International Port Products and as permitted by applicable data protection laws of relevant jurisdictions.
Here are the sources from which we gather your information:
- Information Given to Us: You may provide us with information about you in relation to Long An International Port Products.
- Automatic Information: Certain types of information is automatically obtained by us when you interact with Long An International Port Products.
- Other Sources of Information: We might receive information about you from such other sources as service suppliers, motor vehicle agencies, financial institutions, social media platforms, and public sources.
You will be informed if certain personal information is mandatory to be provided or if it is optional. If the mandatory information that is required is not provided, access to certain features of the Long An International Port Products may be impossible.
We may collect the following categories of your personal information:
- Information relating to your identity;
- Your image, voice, and other identifiers that are personal to you when you attend an event of Long An International Port or use Long An International Port’s Products;
- Identifiers and encrypted password;
- Payment data;
- Corporate and tax information;
- Your credit history;
- Commercial relationship data;
- Invoices data;
- Contact data;
- Newsletter registration data;
- Your interests declared via a form or deduced from the use of Long An International Port Products;
- Contacts and exchanges with us;
- Technical navigation and interaction data;
- Location data.
2. How We Use and On What Legal Basis
Your personal information may be used to administer, deliver, and improve Long An International Port Products. We may use personal information for the following purposes, amongst others:
- Operate, Provide Long An International Port Products: To administer, process and deliver Long An International Port Products and handle contracts related to Long An International Port Products, including without limitation registrations, subscriptions, loyalty programs, surveys, purchases, incentive programs and payments. The processing of this information is necessary to enter into a contract with you or a legal entity you represent, to perform our contractual obligations, to provide Long An International Port Products, to respond to requests from you, or to provide customer support.
- Assess, Evaluate, and Improve Long An International Port Products: To assess the use, evaluate performance, fix errors, support and develop Long An International Port Products. The processing of this information is based on our legitimate interests in assessing, evaluating and improving Long An International Port Products.
- Recommendations and Personalization: To recommend Long An International Port Products that you may like, recognize your preferences, and personalize your experience with Long An International Port Products. The processing of this information is based on (i) our legitimate interests in providing you with personalized recommendations and experience, and (ii) your consent where required by applicable laws.
- Comply with Law: In certain cases, we have a legal obligation to collect, use, or retain your personal information or otherwise need to process certain types of personal information to ensure compliance with the law. The processing of this information is necessary for us to comply with relevant legal obligations or for our legitimate interests in ensuring and documenting compliance with applicable laws.
- Contact You: To communicate with you in relation to Long An International Port Products through relevant channels such as email and chat and to answer your requests. This includes contacting you (or other necessary parties) to advise you of important safety-related information, or to notify first responders in the event of an accident involving Long An International Port Products. The processing of this information is necessary (i) for performing our contractual obligations, (ii) for our legitimate interests in responding to your requests and ensuring an effective customer service, and ensuring and documenting compliance with legal and regulatory obligations, and (iii) complying with our relevant legal notification obligations.
- Marketing: To promote Long An International Port Products in accordance with the local laws. We may display interest-based ads for Long An International Port Products. The processing of this information is based on our legitimate interests in promoting Long An International Port Products, and (ii) your consent where required by applicable laws.
- Prevention of Fraud and Abuse and Credit Risks: To locate and handle fraud to protect our customers, ourselves, and others. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks. The processing of this information (i) is necessary for complying with our relevant legal obligations relating to fraud prevention, and (ii) is based on our legitimate interests in preventing fraud and abuse and managing credit risks.
3. Collection and use of cookies
We may use cookies and other similar technologies (collectively, “cookies”) for a variety of purposes. We may use cookies to improve user experience, track statistics and optimize advertising campaigns when you use Long An International Port Products. We may use cookies to recognize your browser or device, understand more about your preferences, deliver to you certain basic features and services, and for other purposes, such as:
- Identifying you when you sign in to use Long An International Port Products. This allows us to provide you with suggestions, display content personalized to you, and provide other customized features and services.
- Paying attention to your preferences so we can know what you like and do not like, such as the language and configuration that you chose.
- Researching and analyzing information to improve Long An International Port Products.
- Compliance with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations.
- Preventing fraud, and situations that cause a potential threat to the safety or property of any person.
- Securing your information and our services from unauthorized access, loss, and misuse.
- Improving safety.
- Delivering content, including ads, relevant to your interests on our sites and third-party sites.
- Evaluate the performance of Long An International Port Products.
Cookies allow you to utilize certain essential features of ours. For example, if you reject our cookies, you may be unable to use certain products that require your sign-in information, or you may have to adjust some preferences or language settings manually every time you visit our sites or applications.
Third parties may also collect information via cookies when you interact with Long An International Port Products. Third parties usually include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies. Third parties use cookies and other technologies such as web beacons or clear GIFs while delivering content, such as interest-based ads, to assess the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on our behalf. The use of these technologies and any information about you we may provide to third parties is governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one.
You can manage browser cookies through your browser settings. Through the Help feature on most browsers, you will know how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to receive notification from the browser when you receive a new cookie, how to disable cookies, and when cookies will expire. If you disable all cookies on your browser, neither we nor third parties will transfer cookies to your browser. If you do this, however, you may need to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site or application, and some features and services may not work.
4. When We Share and Who We Share With
Information about our customers is important to us and our business does not sell our customers’ personal information to others for monetary consideration. We share personal information only as described in this Privacy Policy. We may also share personal information with our affiliates, all of these companies are subject to this Privacy Policy or similar policies.
- Our service providers and business partners or with our affiliates: We make available to you services, software, and content provided by our service providers and/or business partners and/or with our affiliates for use on or through Long An International Port Products.
- Transactions Involving Third Parties: We make available to you services, software, and content provided by third parties for use on or through Long An International Port Products. You will know when a third party participates in a transaction with you and we may share information relevant to that transaction with that third party.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We employ and/or cooperate with other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf and carry out certain incentive programs, cross-sale programs, etc. Other examples may include: sending communications, processing payments, evaluating credit and compliance risks, interest-supporting program, analyzing data, providing marketing and sales support (including advertising and event management), managing customer relationship, and training. These third party providers have access to personal information needed to perform their roles, but we do not permit them to use it for other purposes. Further, we require them to adhere to the applicable data protection law.
- Restructuring, Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might restructure,sell or buy businesses or services in accordance with the laws. In such transactions, personal information, databases and right to use information may be transferred as business assets but the transferee remains subject to the Privacy Policy (or the individual consents otherwise). Also, in the event that Long An International Port or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your information will be one of the transferred assets. We may share personal information with third parties are reasonably necessary to negotiate or complete a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or part of our assets.
- Protection of Us and Others: We may disclose account and other personal information when such disclosure is required by law, to enforce or apply our terms and other agreements, or to protect the rights, assets, or the safety of ourselves, our customers, or others. This may include releasing exchanging information to other organizations for fraud prevention and detection and credit and property risk reduction, or disclosing certain types of information in case we receive legally binding requests from public authorities.
- Your Choice: Other than as set out above, you will be notified when your personal information is shared with third parties, and you may be able to elect not to share the information.
5. Where We Store
Long An International Port has offices in Vietnam. Depending on your use of Long An International Port Products, your personal information may be stored in or accessed from multiple countries, including but not limited to Vietnam, USA, the EU and Singapore. Whenever we transfer personal information to other countries, we make sure that the transfer is done in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as authorized by applicable data protection laws.
6. How We Secure
At Long An International Port, security is a priority. We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind.
- We employ technical and security measures designed to prevent unauthorized access and use of your personal information. Despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee security. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password of at least 11 characters that includes digits, lowercase letters, uppercase letters and special characters that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your login and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.
- Your payment card information, which is issued by the relevant financial institution, is protected by us in accordance with international standards on the principle that no important data of the card (card numbers, full names, CVV number) is recorded in our system. Your payment transaction is conducted via third-party systems.
7. Internet Advertising and Third Parties
Long An International Port Products may include third-party advertising and links to other websites and applications. Third party advertising partners may collect information about you when you interact with their content, advertising, or services. Any access to and use of third party links or websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third party operators. We are not responsible for the information practices of third parties. To opt out of interest-based advertising, please see Collection and Use of Cookies above.
Third-Party Analytics. Long An International Port Products may use services operated by third parties, such as Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to understand use of Long An International Port Products and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources over time.
Social Plugins. We may use social plugins on our site, such as: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn. When you view a site that contains a plugin, your browser will create a direct link to the third parties’ servers. If you are logged into your social media account, the social media platform will record the visit to your social media account. Please visit the social media platform’s privacy policy for more information.
8. Access and Option
You can see, update, and remove certain personal information about your account and your interactions with Long An International Port Products. Do let us know if you cannot access or update your personal information yourself.
You have many options in relation to the collection and use of your personal information. Many of Long An International Port Products include settings that provide you with options as to how your information is being used. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to utilize certain Products of ours.
- Account Information: If you want to add, update, or delete information related to your account, please go to your account in Long An International Port official website or app. When you update or delete any information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records for technical purpose.
- Communications: If you do no longer want to receive promotional communications from us, and would like to withdraw your prior consent (if any) and/or object to any further use of your personal information for marketing purposes, please kindly contact us as indicated in the “Section 11 – Contacts, Notices, and Amendments” below. If you do no longer want to receive in-app notifications from us, please adjust your notification settings in the app or your device.
- Browser and Devices: The Help feature on most browsers and devices will tell you how to prevent your browser or device from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
9. Minor’s Personal Information
If you’re a minor or younger defined by your local applicable laws, you may enter into contracts and accept this Privacy Policy only with the approval of your parent or guardian.
10. How Long We Store Personal Information
We retain your personal information to provide you with Long An International Port Products, for as long as it is needed to meet the relevant purposes described herein, as may be required by law (including for tax and accounting purposes), or as otherwise informed to you. How long we keep certain personal information will be different based on the purpose for its use, and we will adhere to the law when deleting your personal information.
We undertake to anonymize or delete your personal information as soon as the purpose and/or the duration of their established retention expire, except where further storage is necessary in the individual case to comply with our legal obligations (such as specific data retention obligations) or to establish, exercise or defend our legal claims.
The maximum retention periods set out in the table below apply unless you request for your personal information to be erased before the expiry of these periods, in accordance with your rights under applicable laws.
11. Contacts, Notices, and Amendments
If you have any questions about privacy at Long An International Port or want to contact one of our data controllers, please contact us and we will try to resolve it. You may also contact us at the address below:
Email: info@longanport.com
Address: No.68 Provincial Road 830, Vinh Hoa Hamlet, Tan Tap Commune, Can Giuoc District, Long An Province, Viet Nam.
Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Policy may also change. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all personal information we have about you and your account. We will not change our Privacy Policy to make them less protective of personal information collected in the past without letting the relevant customers know and giving them a choice.
12. Examples of Information Collected
Information You Give Us
We mainly obtain information about you when you:
- search for, subscribe to, use, or purchase Long An International Port Products;
- create and use your account;
- interact with Long An International Port Products;
- register for or attend a Long An International Port’s event;
- use products or services from third-party providers through Long An International Port’s websites or
- apps (or other similar platforms provided by us);
- offer your products, or services on or through Long An International Port Products or Long An International Port’s websites or apps (or other similar platform provided by us);
- contact us through official channels such as our customer support centre, call centre, email;
- complete a questionnaire or other information request forms;
- post on Long An International Port’s websites or apps or similar;
Depending on your use of Long An International Port Products, we may obtain from you such information as:
- your name, email and physical address, phone number, and other contact information;
- payment information, including credit card and bank account information;
- your organization and your contacts’ information, such as your organization’s colleagues or people;
- usernames, aliases, roles, and other authentication and security credential information;
- feedback, questions, correspondences with us;
- your image, voice, and other identifiers that are personal to you when you attend an event of Long An International Port or use Long An International Port’s Products;
- information regarding identity, including government-issued identification information, nationality;
- corporate and financial information; and
- VAT, PIT numbers and other tax identifiers.
Automatic Information
We mainly automatically receive information when you:
- interact with or use Long An International Port Products (including when you use your computer or other device to interact with Long An International Port Products);
- download content from us;
- open emails or click on links in emails from us; and
- interact with us.
Examples of the information automatically collected may include:
- information about network and connection, such as the Internet protocol (IP) address;
- information in relation to computer and device information (e.g. device, application, or browser, browser plug-in, operating system);
- your device or computer’s whereabout;
- authentication and security;
- content interaction information (e.g. downloads, and playback details);
- Long An International Port Products metrics (e.g. products usage, technical errors, reports, settings, information, API calls, and other logs);
- the content viewed or searched by you, page response times, and page interaction (such as scrolling, clicks);
- email and phone numbers to contact us; and
- identifiers and information contained in cookies.
Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources include:
- information on marketing, sales and recruitment (e.g. your name, email, physical address, phone number, and other similar information);
- information about your interactions with Long An International Port’s Products or third parties’ products in relation to Long An International Port Products (e.g. subscription, purchase, support, or other);
- search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links); and
- credit history information.