Particle Accelerator Limited operates the www.particlex.com website, which provides the SERVICE.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service. It also describes your rights towards us and how you can exercise them.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. 

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at www.particlex.com , unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. If you contact us, we may ask for additional personal data other than as informed above, in order to assist you.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device identifier, geolocation, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Sharing personal data

When providing our Services, we may transfer or share your personal data with selected third parties. These third parties are limited by law or contract from using the personal data for purposes beyond those for which the personal data is shared. We take all reasonable legal, technical, and organizational measures to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and with an adequate level of protection when transferred to or shared with such selected third parties. We may share your personal data with the categories of third parties as specified in this section below.

We use subcontractors to provide our Services. When doing so we may transfer your personal data to subcontractors for the performance of our contractual obligations towards you and for the other purposes described in this privacy policy. We use the following categories of subcontractors:

(a) Resource Partners, such as third-party business, legal, financial, and marketing expertise; (b) Cloud services provider, to provide cloud services to us;

(c) Newsletter management services provider, to manage our newsletter;

(d) Web hosting services provider, to host our Website; and

(e) Event management services provider, to manage reservations and information regarding our Events.

(f) Other service providers.

For the purpose of providing Your Startup with certain opportunities when Your Startup participates in a Program, such as investments, loans and business opportunities, we may share your personal data with the following relevant third-parties within such field:

(a) Investors and business angels; and

(b) Companies, foundations, and organizations.

We may disclose necessary personal data to authorities such as the police, tax agencies or other authorities if we are required by law or you have agreed to it. An example of legally required sharing is for the purposes of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing.

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, personal data about our customers may be disclosed and transferred.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

We use cookies when providing our Services, to enhance and facilitate your experience, and to create statistics regarding your use of our Services. A cookie is a small text file that contains text information which is saved on your device. We use two types of cookies, session cookies that expire when you close the browser, and permanent cookies which are stored until they expire. If you do not want to accept cookies, you may adjust your web browser settings either to not accept cookies or to indicate when a cookie is used. Please note, by disabling cookies some features in our Services might not work as intended.

Miscellaneous

Your Rights

You have a right to access your data. Therefore, you may request a transcript of records if you would like to know and verify your personal data stored and processed by us. The request must be made in writing including a verification of you, and sent to the address below.

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is correct and up-to-date. You have the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete information about yourself. If you believe that your personal data stored by us is incorrect, please notify us and provide us with the correct data.

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data insofar as this personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected (“right to be forgotten”). However, certain legal obligations prevent us from immediately deleting all of your data, such as obligations in accounting laws, tax laws and anti-money laundering laws. Data that must be preserved for legal reasons will be blocked from use for any other purposes than meeting such legal requirements.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data. The effect may be that you are no longer able to use our Services. If you object, we will stop the processing of your personal data.

You have a right to data portability. In case you want to utilize such right, please contact us by using the information below. If you have any inquiries regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. We are using adequate technical and organisational security measures to ensure that your personal data is not misused, lost or unlawfully accessed.  We only give access to your personal data to those employees who require it to provide our service. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites, more helpful hints. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

Address: c/o Particle Accelerator Limited, 10/F 33 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong