Privacy Policy

Introduction

Shuangqing Academic Publishing (”we”, ”us”, ”our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

We are committed to the protection of the personal data we process in line with the data protection principles set out in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (“EU GDPR”) (together referred to herein as the “GDPR”); the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486) as amended in 2012 (“PDPO”); the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PIPL”); the Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China (“DSL”); Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais of Brazil (“LGPD”); the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”); and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (“PECR”), as amended.

We have aligned our data protection compliance programme to the core requirements of the GDPR, as this is considered as the global “gold standard” of data protection regulation.

This privacy notice (“Notice”) explains how we treat personal information processed on our bespoke platform, qingpress.com, what we collect when you visit our website, contact us by email, phone or through one of our social channels, or through other communications. It also explains what information we collect automatically when you visit our website and the information we collect when you use our services.

We place great importance on ensuring the quality, confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data we hold and in meeting our data protection obligations when processing personal data. We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of technical and organizational measures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

We update this Notice from time to time in response to changes in applicable laws and regulations, to our processing practices, and to the products and services we offer. When changes are made, we will update the date at the top of this document. Please review this Notice periodically to check for updates.

What information do we process?

Information provided to us via our website

We process all information you provide to us via our website (“our site”), by telephone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register for our services as a client, enquire about a product or service, use one of the social media functions linked to our website, or when you report a problem with our website.

Cookie

We use cookies to remember your preferences and improve your overall experience of our site. Below is a list of the cookies we use and the purpose of use:

You can block cookies by setting your browser, but this may make some features of the platform unusable.

Purposes and bases for processing your personal data

We may use your data for the following purposes and on the following lawful bases:

Sharing your information

If sharing your personal data becomes necessary for the purposes of providing our services to you, we will only share it where appropriate safeguards are in place, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (“IDTA”) or the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) with supplementary measures, to ensure your personal data is protected to the same standard expected under the GDPR.

We may, on occasion, engage the services of a third-party sub-processor. Any such third party will act under our written instructions and will adhere to strict data protection obligations, including the implementation of appropriate technical and organizational measures which meet the processing requirements of the GDPR.

We also use a third party for hosting infrastructure, website performance and management, error monitoring, support and other functionality. The written contract in place between us and this third party provides for the maintenance of confidentiality, security, and integrity of the information we share with them.

Direct marketing communications

To market, promote, and drive engagement of our products and services, we use data about you to send promotional communications that may be of specific interest to you. These communications are to drive your engagement and maximise the value of our services to you. Occasionally, we will use your name and address for marketing and promotional communications via written email, phone calls, faxes, postal mail and text messages through platforms like SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram and more.

Your rights

The GDPR provides you with certain rights in relation to the processing of your personal data, including to:

• Request access to personal data about you (a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are processing it lawfully.
• Request rectification, correction, or updating of any personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request personal data provided by you to be transferred in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
• Request erasure of personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you (e.g., if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it).
• Object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. This right may apply where the processing of your personal data is based on the legitimate interests of SleekFlow.

Some of these rights are not absolute and are subject to various conditions under applicable data protection and privacy legislation, laws, and regulations to which we are subject. If at any time you would like to exercise any of your rights as set out above, you can contact us at service@qingpress.com. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

Data retention

We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to provide you with our products and ongoing services and for a reasonable period thereafter, to enable us to meet our contractual and legal obligations and to deal with complaints and claims. At the end of the retention period, your personal data will be securely deleted in accordance with our Personal Data Retention Policy.

Contact

You can contact us in relation to data protection and this privacy notice by emailing service@qingpress.com .