1. INTRODUCTION

We are committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit our site and how we use cookies on this website.

We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.

2. PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is information related to your identity. This includes details such as your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. You do not need to disclose personal data to use our website. In certain cases, however, we require your name and address as well as other information so that we can provide the requested services for you.

3. INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

In running and maintaining our website we may collect and process the following data about you:：

- Information about your use of our site including details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access. Such information includes traffic data, location data and other communication data.

- Information provided voluntarily by you. For example, when you request information, products, and services.

- Information that you provide when you communicate with us by any means.

4. USE OF COOKIES

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Cookies provide information regarding the computer used by a visitor. We may use cookies where appropriate to gather information about your computer in order to assist us in improving our website.

We may gather information about your general Internet use by using the cookie. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer’s hard drive. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally; it is statistical data that does not identify any personal details whatsoever.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org.uk. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

5. USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses in particular Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will usually be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the area of Member States of the European Union or in other countries which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States and truncated there.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them with other services relating to website use and Internet usage. The IP address which is transferred by your browser during the use of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software, however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to the usage of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=zh-TW

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords. If you do not want this, you can disable this via the Ads Preference Manage：

https://myadcenter.google.com/u/0/?hl=en&sasb=true

Further information regarding terms of use and privacy policy can be found at :

　
> https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
> https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies

6. EMBEDDING OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS

Our website contains plugins of YouTube, which belongs to Google Inc., with headquarters in San Bruno/California, USA. The YouTube button can be recognized by the name on the button. When you visit a page of our website containing a plugin of this type, your browser sets up a direct connection to the servers of YouTube. The specific page of our internet site that you visited is also reported to the YouTube server. If you are logged into YouTube with your personal account when you visit our website, YouTube allows you to assign your surfing actions directly to your personal account. If you would like to suppress data transmission of this nature, please log out of YouTube before visiting our website.

Regarding the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by YouTube as well as your rights in this respect and setting options to protect your personal privacy, please refer to the data protection notices of YouTube at policies.google.com/privacy.

　
7. STORING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

In operating our website it may become necessary to transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the Taiwan for processing and storing. By providing your personal data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing. We do our utmost to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to make sure that your data is stored securely.

Unfortunately the sending of information via the Internet is not totally secure and on occasion such information can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee the security of data that you choose to send us electronically, sending such information is entirely at your own risk.

8. DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION

We will not disclose your personal information to any other party other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in the circumstances detailed below：

- In the event that we sell any or all of our business to the buyer.

- Where we are legally required by law to disclose your personal information.

- To further fraud protection and reduce the risk of fraud.

9. THIRD-PARTY linkS

On occasion we include links to third parties on this website. Where we provide a link it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site’s policy towards visitor privacy. You should review their privacy policy before sending them any personal data.

10. YOUR RIGHTS AND CONTACT

You have the right at any time to restrict the use of your personal data. To apply for enforcement of your rights please contact us at [sales@apec.com.tw]. And please do not hesitate to contact us regarding any matter relating to this Privacy and Cookies Policy via the website contact form.

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