LINKGOODS Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy explains how LINKGOODS (hereinafter referred to as “this website”) collects, processes, and uses your (or the “Member's”) personally identifiable information (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”). This website is developed by MESh + Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”). In order to ensure that you can easily access various services and information on this website, we hereby explain the privacy policy of this website to protect your interests and rights. Please carefully read and agree to the following contents before accessing this website. Should you have any question, please feel free to contact us at any time.

Applicable Scope of the Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy contains the descriptions about how this website collects, processes, and uses the personal data that you provide or is retained when using this website's services (including those collected by the system automatically). The Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party website linked from this website nor to personnel not commissioned or involved in the management of this website.

Matters to be disclosed pursuant to the laws

Name of the entity collecting the data: MESh + Co., Ltd.
Purpose of collection: To provide this website's related services, analyze member profiles, and proceed with marketing. The Company collects data in order to engage in marketing to this website's members, manage customers, conduct internal investigations, analyze statistics and research, manage members, and meet the needs of other business operations (040 Marketing, 052 Member Management, 090 Consumer and Customer Management and Service, 157 Investigation, Statistics and Research Analysis, and 181 Other Business Operations) in accordance with the registered business lines or articles of incorporation under the classification of personal information of the Personal Information Protection Act.
Classification of Personal Data: The Personal Data collected by the Company on this website and APP include:
1. C001 Type for identifying individuals: e.g., name, address, tel. no., photo and email, etc.
2. C002 Type for identifying finances: e.g., bank account number, etc.
3. C003 Type for identifying in government data: e.g., national ID card no., passport number (for foreigners), etc.
4. C011 Individual description: e.g., age, gender, date of birth, etc.
5. C021 Family: e.g., marital status, number of children, etc.
6. C024 Other social relations: e.g., friends, colleagues, etc.
7. C035 Recreational activities and interests: e.g., hobbies, sports, etc.
8. C036 Lifestyle: e.g., types and details of consumables and services, etc.
9. C038 Occupation: e.g., driver, school principal, teacher, etc.
10. C051 School records: e.g., universities, colleges, other schools, etc.
11. C064 Work experiences: e.g., previous employer and occupation, status of military service, etc.
12. C132 Data unclassified: e.g., files, reports, etc.
13. The Company will use cookies to manage this website and record your activities. The cookies referred to herein are saved by the Company on your computer's browser directory. Only websites that set cookies for the company can read the contents. The contents include the IP address of the access device, time period of access, applied browser, and browsing and click history. You may verify when cookies are set via your browser settings or reject the setting of cookies.
Time period for use of the Personal Data: Member profile information collected due to the use of this website or APP is valid during the membership period and within six months upon termination of the membership. However, other data (not combined with the members' identifiable information) may be exempted from said restriction on the time period.
Territory where the Personal Data are used: Territory of the R.O.C. (Taiwan), places where the Company conducts its business, and where its server host is located.
Recipient of the Personal Data: Unless otherwise provided by the laws, the Personal Data are made available to the Company and service providers contracted by the Company only for the purposes agreed upon and within the scope related to this website. In the case of data without members' personally identifiable information, the recipients shall include the partners and specific advertising clients in any advertising campaign. Where the Personal Data are collected by the Company and other service providers jointly, the relevant regulations shall be expressly defined with respect to the activity for which the data are collected jointly. Where the Company needs any member's identifiable information to work with another person, it shall seek the approval from the member separately.
How the Personal Data are used: The Personal Data shall be used for the purpose of collection and based on the Privacy Policy.
Impact of non-provision of complete personal data: If you fail to provide complete and accurate personal data, the provision of services, communication, transaction completion, identity verification, or the handling of disputes and complaints might be affected. If it is impossible for you to provide complete and accurate personal data, access to the website services will be affected, and so will the communication with you, completion of transactions, provision of services, identity verification, or settlement of dispute over consumption, transaction, or customer complaint. Therefore, you are advised to provide complete personal data, which should be updated from time to time. Where the relevant webpage or document states that the Company's collection of personal data is optional and subject to your discretion, the Company only does so in order to provide you with better experiences in accessing the website services, while your interests and rights in the access to the services related to this website shall remain unaffected.

Data protection

This website's server host is equipped with firewalls, antivirus systems, and other relevant information security equipment and necessary security measures in order to protect this website and your personal data. Meanwhile, this website adopts strict protection measures and only authorized personnel may access your personal data. All relevant processing workers have executed non-disclosure agreements, and anyone who violates the confidentiality obligation will be subject to the relevant penalties pursuant to the laws.

Where it is necessary to contract another unit to provide services to meet business needs, this website will strictly demand such unit to fulfill the confidentiality obligation and also take the necessary inspection measures to confirm its compliance with the requirement.

Self-protection measures

Please keep your password and/or any personal data safe. Never provide your personal data, especially your password, to anyone. You shall avoid setting a password identical to one that you set for any other website, APP, email, social media, or forum.
Upon completion of payment or termination of access to this website or email, please do remember to log out of your account. If you share a computer with others or use a public computer, please remember to exit your browser window to prevent others from reading your personal data or email.
Avoid opening websites from unknown sources and attachments thereof. Do not install or run programs from unknown sources, or visit plugin websites or forums, in order to prevent your data from being disclosed, and to protect your computer from being infected with a Trojan horse.
Official personnel, event organizers, and online administrators will never request your password information, irrespective of any circumstances. Otherwise, please send feedback to this website immediately for resolution.

Methods of exercising personal data rights

According to Article 3 of the Personal Data Protection Act, you shall be able to exercise the rights to inquire about and review your personal data, request a copy of your personal data, supplement or correct your personal data, demand the cessation of the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, and erase your personal data. You may exercise said rights via email to [email protected] (in order to avoid missing emails or failure to serve emails due to any other reasons, the Company's acknowledgment of receipt shall apply), or in writing to 20F-4, No. 2, Lane 150, Section 5, Xinyi Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 110. Upon receipt of your request, the Company will process it promptly pursuant to the laws.

Policy on sharing personal data with a third party

This website will never provide, exchange, rent, or sell any information containing your personal data to any other individuals, groups, private enterprises, or government agencies beyond the scope of the services and the Privacy Policy, unless otherwise provided by the laws or contractual obligations. The exceptions include but are not limited to the following circumstances:

where it is subject to your prior written consent;
where it is expressly required by law;
where it is to prevent harm to your life, body, freedom, or property;
where it is necessary for statistics gathering or academic research by a government agency or an academic institution for public interests; provided that such data, as processed by the data provider or as disclosed by the data collector, may not lead to the identification of a specific data subject;
where what you do on the website violates the Terms of Service or is likely to harm or impair the interests and rights of this website or other users, or cause harm to any person; and the website administrator concludes that the disclosure of your personal data is required for identification, communication, or initiation of a legal action;
where it is for your interests and rights.
When contracting a service provider to help collect, process, or use your personal data, this website will be responsible for supervising the service provider or individual.

Use of Cookie information

In order to provide you with the best services, this website uses various cookies and similar technologies to collect the other information and save and access our cookies on your computer. If you are unwilling to accept the cookies, you may set the highest privacy level in your browser functions to reject such cookies, but this might make it impossible for some functions of this website to run normally.

Deletion of data

When you request the termination of contract or deletion of accounts or personal data, the data will be retained for six months upon termination to respond to potential legal actions, and this website will also partly retain your personal data in case of the following circumstances:

In order to prevent malicious users from registering the account repeatedly, this website will retain the data that identify the email address or social media account required for registration, including re-encoded values;
Where it is necessary to initiate related investigations or legal actions in case of violations of this website's terms and conditions or policy by said accounts;
Where a third party has already initiated legal actions related to the accounts pursuant to the laws, or the police, prosecuting, or judicial authority orders that the information related to the accounts should be retained or presented.

Amendments to the Privacy Policy

The Company reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy voluntarily at any time whenever necessary. The related amendments will be disclosed on this website, and all members will be notified by public notice or via email. Please pay close attention in order to protect your personal interests and rights. By continuing to use the website services following any modification or change to the Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, and accepted such modification or change. Should you disagree with the Privacy Policy, please cease accessing the website services immediately.