Data Privacy Statement

This Privacy Policy statement sets out how we treat the personal information you supply to us, our use of cookies and our policy regarding online transactions. This statement should be read in conjunction with our Terms & Conditions

Your trust and support is imperative for Happy Hour Asia (HHA).

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information and how we make your experience online safe.

This privacy policy will explain how our organisation uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website. It serves as a testimony to our dedication to protect private personal data.

This Statement also instructs you on how you can verify the accuracy of your personally identifiable information submitted to HHA through our website and how you can request that we delete your personally identifiable information from our databases.

Definitions

Cookies: Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. The stored cookie information may contain both an identifier (cookie ID) for recognition purposes and content data, such as login status or information about websites visited.

Third countries: Countries outside the European Union (EU).

GDPR: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), at link: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32016R0679

Personal data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Profiling: Any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

Tracking: The collection of data and their evaluation regarding the behaviour of visitors in response to our services.

Controller

The following party is responsible for the processing of data in relation to the services, i.e., this is the person who determines the purposes and means of processing personal data:

RunTime Co., Ltd.
45/3 Soi Sukhumvit 31 (Soi Sawasdee) Khwaeng Klong Toey Nua, Khet Watthana, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110
[email protected]

Hosting at external service providers

Our data processing work is carried out to a large extent with the involvement of hosting service providers. These provide us with storage space and processing capacities at their data centers and who also process personal data on our behalf according to our instructions. It may be the case that personal data are transmitted to hosting service providers in respect of all of the functions listed below. These service providers process data that are subjected to guaranteed levels of data protection which we have put in place & in addition adhere to local data security clauses in Thailand (our country of operation).

General Contact Enquiry Forms: Enquiries made via our online contact enquiry forms, will be stored in our customer relationship management system, enquires are defined as customer or partner enquiries on a business relationship and B2B scale, or even a B2C contact. You will be informed when submitting an enquiry and receive a copy of your information submitted via an email notification.

Should a partnership or enquiry relationship be established, we are permitted to store your data on a longer-term basis in accordance to your submission, for removals of your submitted enquiry please refer to section 3, for your respected contact details to further manage your data removal.

Accessing our services

It is impossible not to send access data to external content providers due to the technical processes involved in transmitting information over the Internet. The third-party providers are themselves responsible for the privacy-compliant operation of the IT systems which they use. The service providers are required to decide how long the data will be stored.

Tracking

The tracking methods presented here will only process personal data in pseudonymous form. No connection is made with a specific, identified natural person, i.e., the data are not merged with information which would reveal the identity of the person behind the pseudonym.

Denial of consent to processing, is usually stored via cookies. If you use our services on a new end device or in a different browser, or if you have deleted the cookies set by your browser, you will need to reconfirm the refusal of consent.

In cases where we provide services under a contract, the tracking and the associated analysis of user behaviour are carried out in order to fulfil our contractual obligations. The legal basis for this processing of personal data is Art. 6, subs. 1 b), GDPR. The evaluation of information obtained through tracking is necessary in order to optimize the provision of services according to the contractual purpose and to ensure the greatest possible benefit for you, or where applicable as stated under governing jurisdiction of the data subject.

Otherwise, i.e., in cases where services are not connected with a contract, the legal basis for this processing of personal data is Art. 6, subs. 1 f), GDPR. We hereby pursue the legitimate interest in providing attractive services as efficiently as possible on the basis of the information gained through tracking and marketing them in the best possible way.

Social media plug-ins

This website may contain plug-ins from social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Line, Google + which are operated by third parties and which feature a button via which messages can be sent to the corresponding social network for various purposes, such as rating, recommending or sharing content. Our purpose and legitimate interest in this course of action is to publicize our services to greater effect. We configure our services in such a way that data are only sent if you press the button. The legal basis for data transmission in this case is Art. 6, subs. 1 f), GDPR or where applicable upon the jurisdiction of the data subject. The respective provider is responsible for the privacy-compliant processing of the transmitted data.

Links

Our Site may contain links to other web sites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners or other sites to which we provide links from our sites. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the web site sponsor when linking to other web sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Site.

Type of data collection
Generally, happyhourasia.com only collects identifiable information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by a visitor to our site.

HHA collects the following data:
– Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.)
– Personal preferences to topics relating to the content of HappyHourAsia.com.
– Payment information e.g. credit or debit card information, including the name of cardholder, card number, card issuing bank, card issuing country, card expiry date and banking account details.

When you use applications created by HHA, we may collect information about your location and mobile device. The information may be used to provide you with location-based services such as search results and marketing content. You may decline to share your Personal information with us, or disable location services on your mobile device at any time.

We also collect data from our users so that we can customise the content and/or advertising site according to individual preferences and billing purposes.

Data collection methods

As a visitor to our site you may choose to provide this information to register for certain areas of the site, subscribe to news, or place an order. You directly provide HHA with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
– Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.
– Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
– Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
– Subscribed to and read our newsletters.

Information Collection and Use

You may provide Happyhourasia.com with information directly, such as through registration, requesting information, or by identifying yourself when using particular services.

If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet that we or our business partners may need to correspond with you, it is our intent to let you know how we use such information.

When a visitor provides this type of identifiable information to HHA, we use it solely for the purposes for which it was provided. We use information in accordance with this privacy policy under which the information was collected.

We will respect your email privacy. We will, however, mail you occasionally with information about your registration and/or your subscription account.

HHA stores and processes your personally identifiable information to be able to contact you, better understand your needs, enhance your experience and how we may improve our products and services to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We create aggregate reports on anonymous user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners.

The marketing of goods and services is essential to the HHA business via its Happy Hour Online channel and other advertising. The data processing is therefore necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests as a controller of collected data from users.

We will ask further questions for different services, including competitions. It will be stated what registration questions are compulsory. We also ask some further, voluntary questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. Your responses help us to sell appropriate advertising space and so keep the site free. They also enable us to personalise services for our users. We also collect data listing which of our pages are most frequently visited and by which types of users.

Our policy is not to share personally identifiable information with third parties, except when we respond to subpoenas, disclosure by law or court order, any legitimate request by authorities with which we must comply or legal process.

As part of our effort to serve you better, we continuously enhance and expand HHA´s services to satisfy your needs. We may therefore also process and disclose your Personal information with third parties, such as credit card verification providers, data analytics, marketing agencies, and other third party who is able to demonstrate that you have explicitly consented to the disclosure of your Personal information by us to such third party.

In the event we go through a business transition, such as sale of part or all of our assets, merger or acquisition, your information will likely form part of this transition and be transferred.

Data storage/security

HHA securely stores your data on our server. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

HHA is committed to keeping secure the data you provide us. We endeavor to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information, which we hold about you and to keep this information accurate and up to date. However, HHA will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorized access to your personal information.

Duration of Storage

In general, we keep your personal information for as long as we need it for the purpose for which it was collected, plus a short additional period in case of problems. How long we keep it therefore varies according to the type of information it is and why we have it, and will range from a few days or weeks to, in some cases, several years. We have established a full data retention policy and can provide further information on request.

Inquiries: Stored until six months after completion of processing of your inquiry.

Surveys: Stored up to five years after receipt. To the extent possible, we will store your feedback in an anonymous form, and we have a long duration of storage in order to measure our own performance over time.

In general, if we have reason to store your personal data as part of the protection of our legitimate interests, including, for example, legal disputes, we reserve our right to store your personal data for an extended period and minimum until the legal dispute has been determined.

Your consent

Where required by law, HHA will adopt an ‘opt-in’ policy to obtain your expressed written consent when collecting your Personal information. You may be asked, for example, to sign a form or tick a box.

The provision of personal data is not required by law or contract, and you are under no obligation to provide any data. We will inform you during the data entry process when personal information needs to be provided for the relevant service (e.g., by indicating “mandatory fields”). In cases where the provision of data is required, the consequence of not providing data will be that the service in question cannot be provided. Otherwise, failure to provide data may result in our inability to provide our services in the same form and quality.

By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Happyhourasia.com. By submitting identifying data, a visitor to our Site is agreeing to happyhourasia.com’s use of such data as described in this privacy statement.

By joining the HHA email update service, you agree for us to contact you via email to inform you of our latest updates, events and services. If you do not wish to remain a subscriber, you are able to remove your details from the subscriptions list in Member Profile or you may click “unsubscribe” from any newsletter you received.

In various cases, you may also grant us your consent to the further processing of data (or some of the data, where applicable) in connection with our operations. In this case, we will inform you separately in connection with the submission of the respective declaration of consent about all the procedures and the scope of the consent and about the purposes which we pursue in these processing operations.

Your Personal Information

You can update your personal information and unsubscribe as a user on our Site on the Newsletter page as well as from our newsletter email.

Rights of data subjects

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for marketing purposes with future effect, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.

You also have the right, at any time with future effect and for reasons relating to your particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6, subs. 1 e) or f), GDPR, including profiling based on these provisions, only where applicable upon the jurisdiction of the data subject.

The right to object may be exercised free of charge. In order to be able to process your request faster, please preferably use the form available at the following link: Contact Us

Right of access

You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the other information listed in Art. 15 GDPR and only where applicable upon the jurisdiction of the data subject.

Right to rectification

You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you without undue delay (Art. 16 GDPR) or where applicable upon the jurisdiction of the data subject. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

Right to erasure/opt out

You have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay if one of the reasons listed in Art. 17, subs. 1, GDPR is applicable and the processing operations are not required for one of the purposes approved in Art. 17, subs. 3, GDPR and where applicable upon the jurisdiction of the data subject.

Right to withdraw consent

You have the right at any time to stop HHA from contacting you for marketing and information purposes, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Where applicable upon the jurisdiction of the data subject.

Cookies

The use of cookies can enhance your enjoyment of what is offered by Happyhourasia.com, because they can help personalize your requirements and expedite the results that you seek. . They can make it easier for you to search online and can ensure that information provided to you is most relevant to your stated requirements or interests. Cookies can also provide us with aggregate information on how people use our website and which advertisements are effective, which helps us to keep improving our Services.

The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. You can set your browser to not accept cookies, and www.happyhourasia.com tells you how to remove cookies from your browser.

Happyhourasia.com uses cookies to:
– Track user traffic patterns
– To recognise you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
– To collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose any information requested.

Information requested may include contact information (such as name and delivery address), and demographic information (such as postcode, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving our services.

Notification of changes

HHA keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 13 February, 2022.