Global Privacy Policy
Your Privacy Is Important To Chenreiki
In the course of serving you as an individual client or as someone associated with a corporate or institutional client, Chenreiki may obtain personal information about you. Obtaining this information is important to our ability to deliver the highest level of service to you, but we also recognize that you expect us to treat this information appropriately.
This Policy describes the types of personal information we may collect about you, the purposes for which we use the information, the circumstances in which we may share the information, and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy. As used throughout this Policy, the term Chenreiki refers to Nicolas and his affiliates worldwide.
The Sources of Information
The personal information we collect about you comes primarily from the course applications or other forms and materials you submit to Chenreiki during the course of your relationship with us. We may also collect information about your transactions and experiences with Chenreiki relating to the products and services Chenreiki provides. In addition, depending on the products or services you require, Chenreiki may obtain additional information about you, such as your medical history, from medical reporting agencies.
Finally, in the provision of reiki services to you and subject to strict compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, information may be collected about you indirectly from monitoring or other means (e.g., recording of telephone calls and monitoring e-mails). In these circumstances, the information is not accessed on a continuous or routine basis but it may be used for compliance or security purposes.
The Information We Have About You
If you deal with Chenreiki in your individual capacity (e.g., as a private client) the typical information we collect about you would include:
* Your name, address and other contact details;
* Your age, occupation and marital status;
* Extensive financial information, including source of wealth, investment experience and objectives, risk tolerance and, in certain jurisdictions, representations required under applicable law or regulation concerning your financial resources; and
* A personal identifier such as, depending on your country of residence, your Hong Kong Identity Document (HKID) Number, Social Security Number, National Insurance Number, Tax File Number, etc.
Of course, you are not required to supply any of the personal information that we may request. However, failure to do so may result in our being unable to provide services to you. While we make every effort to ensure that all information we hold about you is accurate, complete, and up to date, you can help us considerably in this regard by promptly notifying us if there are any changes to your personal information.
Our Use of Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information to:
* Administer, operate, facilitate and manage your relationship with Chenreiki. This may include sharing such information internally as well as disclosing it to third parties, as described in the following two sections, respectively;
* Contact you or, if applicable, your designated representative(s) by post, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., in connection with your relationship;
* Provide you with information (such as reiki news and updates), recommendations, or advice concerning products and services offered by Chenreiki; and
* Facilitate our internal business operations, including assessing and managing risk and fulfilling our legal and regulatory requirements.
If your relationship with Chenreiki ends, Chenreiki will continue to treat your personal information, to the extent we retain it, as described in this Policy.
Disclosures of Your Personal Information to Third Parties
Chenreiki does not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as described in this Policy. Third party disclosures may include sharing such information with non-affiliated companies that perform support services for your account or facilitate your transactions with Chenreiki, including those that provide professional, legal, or accounting advice to Chenreiki. Non-affiliated companies that assist Chenreikiin providing services to you are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent they receive it, and to use your personal information only in the course of providing such services and only for the purposes that Chenreiki dictates.
We may also disclose your personal information to fulfil your instructions, to protect our rights and interests and those of our business partners, or pursuant to your express consent. Finally, under limited circumstances, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties as permitted by, or to comply with, applicable laws and regulations, for instance, when responding to a subpoena or similar legal process, to protect against fraud, and to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or regulatory authorities, or with organizations such as hospitals and mental health institutions.
You should know that Chenreiki will not sell your personal information.
Information Security: How We Protect Your Privacy
Chenreiki is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized Chenreiki employees or agents and, as described above in Disclosures of Your Personal Information to Third Parties, our service providers are held to stringent standards of privacy. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure.
Privacy and The Internet
* "Cookies" are small text files consisting of information stored by your Web browser. This information is used for administrative purposes and to improve your experience with our Web sites. For example, this information helps authenticate you (i.e., verify that you are who you say you are), an essential component of site security. Cookies also make it easier for you to navigate a Chenreiki Web site by, among other things, "remembering" your identity so that you do not have to input your password multiple times as you move between pages or services. You can set your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set, or to prevent cookies from being set. However, if you decline to use cookies, you may experience reduced functionality, and declining to use authentication related cookies will prevent you from using the Web site altogether.
Other Privacy Policies or Statements; Changes to Policy
This Policy provides a general statement of the ways in which Chenreiki protects your personal information. You may, however, in connection with specific products or services offered by Chenreiki, be provided with privacy policies or statements that supplement this Policy. This Policy may be changed from time to time to reflect changes in our practices concerning the collection and use of personal information. The revised Policy will be effective immediately upon posting to our Web site. This version of the Policy is effective January 1, 2008.
Additional Information: The European Economic Area; Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and New Zealand
(This section applies only if your information is processed by Chenreiki in a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia or New Zealand).
You are entitled to access any personal data about you held by Chenreiki by sending a written request to the applicable individual identified below. You may be required to supply a valid means of identification as a security precaution to assist us in preventing the unauthorized disclosure of your personal information. We will process your request within the time provided by applicable law. You are also entitled to have Chenreiki modify or delete any information that you believe is incorrect or out of date.
Chenreiki may occasionally contact you by post, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., with details of products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to be contacted in this way, if you wish to exercise your rights of correction and access, or if you require further information regarding our privacy policies and practices in the above-referenced regions please contact:
Nicolas
Reiki Master Teacher
Hong Kong
