Data Privacy
Personal information collected through the system will be used solely for the Hong Kong Vitreoretina Society (HKVRS).
The Registration and Abstract Submission System has 128-bit SSL encryption on all pages that handle sensitive information.
HKVRS respects your right to privacy and complies with its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (https://gdpr-info.eu/).
In practical terms, the information we collect from you may be used in one or more of the following ways: attendance report, conference registration, payment processing, and communications.
We will take all reasonable steps to guarantee the safety of the data you provide to us and we will only use the data for the intended purpose. However, the nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet will be 100% secure.
We do not disclose your personal data to outside parties except as set out in this policy.
We may share your personal data where you have given permission. For instance, if you attend an industry sponsored event at the Congress and allow your badge to be scanned, this will be taken as consent to share your contact details with the sponsor concerned so that they can follow up with you directly.
We also reserve the right to enforce our site policies in order to protect our rights and the rights of other individuals in a manner that is safe and compliant with the law.
Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. For example, we may disclose the total number of visits to our website.
Embedded content from other websites
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
We may share your personal data where you have given permission. For instance, if you attend an industry sponsored event at the Congress and allow your badge to be scanned, this will be taken as consent to share your contact details with the sponsor concerned so that they can follow up with you directly.