1. Who we are

We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our website. At awongmusic.com, the website of the Artist Alvin Wong, accessible at https://awongmusic.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit awongmusic.com (In the following named “website”). Personal data is all the data with which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by our website and how we use it.

1.1 Terms

Our data protection regulations contain technical terms that are used in the GDPR. For your better understanding, we would like to explain these terms in simple terms in advance:

1.1.1 Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (Art. 4 No 1 GDPR). 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.

1.1.2 Processing

Processing means (as of Art. 4 No 2 GDPR) any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

1.2 Responsible

Responsible for the data processing:

• Alvin Wong
• E-mail: info(at)awongmusic.com

2. What personal data we collect and why we collect it

2.1 Cookies

Most of the websites use so-called ‘cookies’. Cookies are small files which are stored on your device. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the your device. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make online offers more user-friendly, more effective and safer.

2.1.1 Purpose

Our website does not use cookies. However, we use third party content to display content on our website. These companies may be placing and reading cookies on your web browser, or using web beacons to collect information. Remember that cookies do not allow anyone to access your private information on your computer. They only record information about your visits to a website. Cookies can be used for personalization of ads but can be also used for non-personalized advertising.

2.1.2 Browser Cookie Settings

It is important to know that if you disable cookies you may not be able to use certain features offered by our website. You can disable cookies through your browser. Most browsers have instructions on how to disable cookies in their “Help” sections. The instructions for all browsers vary. But the steps are generally similar for most. Here are some places you can look to disable or enable cookies. (Please note that due to regular updates of the browsers the settings may change.):

• Internet Explorer: Look in the Tools menu, select Internet Options, and then click the Security tab. Click Internet, and then click Custom Level. Scroll down to Cookies, click disable (or enable) for both cookie options, and then click OK.
• Mozilla Firefox: Open Preferneces, choose Privacy & Security, and then Cookies and Site Data. Choose Manage data from the submenu to open the Cookie Manager window. Select one or more cookies and click either Remove Cookie or Remove All Cookies.
• Google Chrome: Choose Preferences from the menu and click Privacy and Security. Select Site Settings from the submenu and than Cookies and site data to open the Cookie Manager window. To see all cookies stored on your device choose See all cookies and side data.
• Safari: Choose Preferences from the Safari menu and click Security. Select Never, Always, or Only from sites you navigate to, to set your preferences at the level you desire. To see the cookies stored on your computer, click Show Cookies. From here you have the option to remove one or two cookies or all cookies.

2.2 Server Log Files

The website collects a number of general data and information each time a data subject or automated system accesses the website. These general data and information are stored in the log files of the server. The following data can be recorded:

• Your IP address
• The browser software you use, as well as its version and language The operating system you use
• The website from which you have accessed our website (so-called referrer)
• The sub-pages you have called up on our website
• The date and time of your visit to our website
• Your Internet Service Provider
• Amount of data transmitted
• Country and city from which you visited our website
• Your length of stay on our website

2.2.1 Purpose

The temporary storage of your IP address by the system is necessary in order to deliver our website to your end device (e.g PC or Smartphone). For this purpose, your IP address must remain stored for the duration of the session. However, your IP address is not recorded in our log files. Processing is carried out to enable the website to be accessed and to ensure its stability and security.

2.2.2 Storage duration

We process and store your personal data only for the period of time necessary to achieve the purpose of storage or where provided for by the European legislator or other legislator in laws or regulations to which we are subject. If the purpose of storage ceases to apply or if a storage period prescribed by the European Directives and Regulations Giver or any other competent legislator expires, your personal data will be blocked or deleted as a matter of routine and in accordance with the statutory provisions.

2.3 Contact forms

If you contact us directly (e.g. via our contact form), we receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis from you to the us are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting you. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

2.4 Embedded content from other websites

2.4.1 General

Parts on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos from YouTube). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

2.4.2 Social Network Icons

Our website does not use so-called ‘social media plugins’. The logos of the social networks YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram displayed on our website are merely linked to the corresponding profiles of our company. If you click on one of the logos, you will be redirected to the external website of the respective social network.

2.5 YouTube

2.5.1 Description

On this website, we have integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.

The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

2.5.2 Purpose

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by us and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, your Internet browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under: – https://www.youtube.com/about/ – During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by you. If you are logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by you. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of you.

YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that you has visited our website, if you, as a visitor at the time of the call to our website are logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether you click on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for you, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.

2.5.3 Legal Basis

The processing is necessary to protect the overriding legitimate interests of the controller (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

2.5.4 YouTube’s data protection provisions

YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at: – https://policies.google.com/privacy – provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

2.5.5 Recipient and transfer to third countries

By integrating YouTube, personal data may be transmitted to YouTube LLC or Google. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Further information on the EU-US Privacy Shield can be found at – https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

2.6 DoubleClick by Google

2.6.1 Description

Doubleclick by Google is a service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Doubleclick by Google uses cookies to present you with advertisements relevant to you. In doing so, a pseudonymous identification number (ID) is assigned to your browser in order to check which ads were shown in your browser and which ads were viewed. The cookies do not contain any personal information.

2.6.2 Purpose

DoubleClick’s use of the DoubleClick cookie only enables Google and its partner websites to serve ads based on previous visits to our or other websites on the Internet.

2.6.3 Legal basis

The processing is necessary to protect the overriding legitimate interests of the controller (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

2.6.4 Storage period and right of objection

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly. However, you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookies and related to your use of the web pages to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under – https://adssettings.google.com/.

2.7 Google reCAPTCHA

2.7.1 Description

Google reCAPTCHA is a free service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) that helps to protect our website from spam and abuse by keeping automated software out of our website. It does this by collecting personal information about users to determine whether they’re humans and not spam bots. reCAPTCHA checks to see if your computer or mobile device has a Google cookie placed on it. A reCAPTCHA specific cookie gets placed on your browser and a complete snapshot of your browsers window is captured. The data collected during the analysis will automaticly be forwarded to Google. For more information about reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, you can use the following links: (Google privacy policy) https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and (reCAPTCHA v3 intro) https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html. In case you want to try out reCAPTCHA you can use this Google demo link: (reCAPTCHA demo) https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo.

2.7.2 Purpose

We use Google reCAPTCHA on our websites to protect our booking form from spam and abuse by keeping automated software out of our website.

2.7.3 Legal Basis

The data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.

2.8 Google Analytics

2.8.1 Description

Google Analytics is a free web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Web analysis is the gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website a data subject has come to a website from (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising. Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.  The data collected during the analysis will automaticly be forwarded to Google. For more information about Google Analytics and Google’s privacy policy, you can use the following links: (Google privacy policy) https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and (Google Analytics Information) https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.

2.8.2 Purpose

We use Google Analytics on our websites to monitor and analyze website traffic and optimize the user experience.

2.8.3 Legal Basis

The processing is necessary to protect the overriding legitimate interests of the controller (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

2.9 Intuition Machines hCAPTCHA

2.9.1 Description

Intuition Machines hCAPTCHA is a free service provided by Intuition Machines, Inc. (“IM”) that helps to protect our website from spam and abuse by keeping automated software out of our website. It does this by collecting personal information about users to determine whether they’re humans and not spam bots. The data collected during the analysis will automatically be forwarded to Intuition Machines. For more information about hCAPTCHA and Intuition Machines privacy policy, you can use the following link: (Intuition Machines privacy policy) https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy

2.9.2 Purpose

We use Intuition Machines hCAPTCHA on our websites to protect our contact form from spam and abuse by keeping automated software out of our website.

2.9.3 Legal Basis

The data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.

3. How we protect your data

In order to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, we have provided our website with an SSL or TLS certificate. SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer” and TLS for “Transport Layer Security” and encrypts the communication of data between a website and the user’s end device. You can recognize the active SSL or TLS encryption by a small lock logo, which is displayed on the far left in the address line of the browser.

4. Rights of the data subjects (You)

With regard to the data processing by us described above, you are entitled to the following data subject rights:

4.1 Right of access your data | Art. 15 GDPR

You have the right to ask us to confirm whether we process personal data concerning you. If this is the case, you have the right, under the conditions set out in Art. 15 GDPR, to access this personal data and the other information listed in Art. 15 GDPR.

4.2 Right of rectification | Art. 16 GDPR

You have the right to ask us to correct incorrect personal data concerning you and, if necessary, to complete incomplete personal data.

4.3 Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) | Art. 17 GDPR

You have the right to demand from us that personal data concerning you be deleted immediately if one of the reasons listed in Art. 17 GDPR applies in detail, e.g. if your data is no longer required for the purposes we pursue.

4.4 Right to restriction of processing | Art. 18 GDPR

You have the right to ask us to restrict processing if one of the conditions listed in Art. 18 GDPR is met, e.g. if you dispute the accuracy of your personal data, the data processing will be restricted for the time necessary to allow us to verify the accuracy of your data.

4.5 Right to data portability | Art. 20 GDPR

You have the right, under the conditions set out in Art. 20 GDPR, to request the handing over of data concerning you in a structured, common and machine-readable format.

4.6 Conditions for consent | Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time in the case of processing based on consent. The withdrawal applies from the time of its occurrence. In other words, it is effective for the future. The processing does not become retrospectively illegal by the withdrawal of the consent.

4.7 Right to lodge a complaint | Art. 77 GDPR

If you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is in breach of the GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. You can exercise this right before a supervisory authority in the EU Member State in which you are resident, in your place of work or in the place where the alleged breach occurred.

4.8 Automated individual decision-making/profiling | Art. 22 GDPR

Decisions that have legal consequences for you or that significantly affect you cannot be based exclusively on automated processing of personal data, including profiling. We inform you that we do not use automated decision making, including profiling, with respect to your personal data.

4.9 Right to object | Art. 21 GDPR

If we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (to safeguard overriding legitimate interests), you have the right to object to this under the conditions set out in Art. 21 GDPR. However, this only applies if there are reasons arising from your particular situation. Following an objection, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms. Nor do we have to stop processing if it serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. In any case – even regardless of any particular situation – you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

5. Contact

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at contact.alvincello(at)gmail.com

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Rev. 1.1 | Status: June 2021