Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy explains how Myktex collects, uses, and discloses information about you. The terms “Myktex,” “we,” “us,” and “our” include Myktex and our affiliates. We use the terms “member,” “you,” and “your” to mean any person using our Forum, including any organization or person using the Forum on an organization’s behalf. This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information about members and other individuals that we collect when you use our “Forum,” which means any website, application, or services we offer, or when you communicate with us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information that you may provide to third parties, such as members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself.
1. Collection Of Information
1.1 Information You Provide to Us
We collect information that you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information that you provide when you create an account, choose, fill out a form, or communicate with us. The types of information that we may collect include identifiers, such as your name, username, password, email address; commercial information, if any; and any other personal information that you choose to provide, such as photos, professional or employment-related information, including your role, company, and years of experience. Certain information about yourself is optional to provide. See Section 2 to learn how we will use the information that you provide to personalize our recommendations and other content to you.
1.2 Information We Collect Automatically When You Use the Forum
When you use our Forum, we automatically collect internet and other electronic network activity information about you and other information, including:
1. Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Forum, including the type of browser that you use; the time, duration, and frequency of your access; Forum pages viewed; your IP address; and the page you visited before visiting our Forum.
2. Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device that you use to access our Forum, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
3. Geolocation Information: We may collect information about the location of your device each time you use our Forum based on your consent to the collection of this information, such as when you enable location services. We may also collect information, such as your IP address, that can sometimes be used to approximate your location based on your device settings.
4. Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We and our service providers collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels). Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Forum and your experience, and track usage of our Forum. Pixel tags are electronic images that may be used in our Forum or emails, and track usage of our Forum and effectiveness of communications.
5. Other Information: Based on your consent, we may collect other information from your device, such as photos from your camera roll you want to manage via the Forum.
1.3 Information We Collect from Other Sources
We may collect information about you from other sources, such as through certain features on the Forum you elect to use. We rely on these third parties to either have your consent or ensure that they are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your information to us. Examples include:
1. Social Media Services. If you register or log into your account through a third-party social media service, we will have access to some of your third-party account information from that service, including identifiers, such as your name and other information in that account, and used for purposes such as improving your Myktex recommendations. We may also have access to third-party account information if you use the Forum feature to share a link.
2. Member Content. We may receive information about you when you or another member uploads photos or posts other content to the Forum.
3. Current or Future Corporate Affiliates. We may receive information about you from our current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
4. Information From Other Third-Party Sources. In order to provide you with more tailored recommendations, we may obtain information about you from publicly and commercially available sources, such as third-party publishers, advertising networks (if any), and service providers that we use to manage ads on our and other sites, and other third parties as permitted by law. For more information about the data that we obtain from these providers, please contact us at privacy@MyKTeX.com.
We may analyse and make inferences from the information we collect.
2. Use Of Information
2.1 Operating our Forum
We may use information about you described above for various business purposes related to operating our Forum, including to:
1. Provide, maintain, and improve our Forum, including to process transactions, develop new products and services (for example, including you in tests or pilots of new or revised Forum functions, such as messaging or search functionality or using information about your usage of the Forum to develop new or revised messaging or search functionality), and manage the performance of our Forum;
2. Display information about you, for instance, your profession, which may be visible on your profile;
3. Personalize the Forum, for example, to suggest content in which we think you may be interested;
4. Allow you to share information about your use of the Forum through a third-party social media service, if you connect your account through that service (which you can turn off at any time) and to provide you with better recommendations;
5. Monitor and analyse trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Forum;
6. Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions, abuse, and other illegal activities; to protect the rights, property, or safety of Myktex and others; to enforce compliance with our policies; and to comply with applicable law and government requests; and
7. Perform accounting and administrative tasks and enforce or manage legal claims.
2.2 Communicating With You
We may use information about you for various business purposes related to communicating with you, including to:
1. Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service;
2. Communicate with you, in accordance with your account settings, about products, services, and events offered by us and others, to provide news and information that we think will be of interest to you, to conduct online surveys, to contact you about events on our Forum that are being held near your location, and to otherwise communicate with you in accordance with Section 2.3;
3. Notify you about communications of other members, in accordance with the communication preferences that you indicate in your account; and
4. Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support, and administrative messages.
2.3 Advertising and Other Uses
We may use information about you for various other business purposes, including to:
1. Provide content, features, or sponsorships that match member profiles or interests;
2. Deliver more relevant advertising to you on and off the Forum;
3. Facilitate contests and other promotions;
4. Send you marketing communications, subject to applicable law;
5. Combine with information that we collect for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy; and
6. Carry out any other purposes described to you at the time that we collected the information.
2.4 Legal Basis for Processing
If you are in a jurisdiction that requires a specific legal basis for processing personal data, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it.
1. We process information about you in order to provide our services in accordance with our Terms of Service, for example, to allow you to join groups or to display your profile to other members; to allow us to send you important service updates; and to perform a contract.
2. We also process information about you where it is in our legitimate interests to do so and not overridden by your rights (for example, in some cases for direct marketing, fraud prevention, network and information systems security, responding to your communications, the operation of networks of groups by the network administrators, and improving our Forum).
3. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process information about you or may otherwise need the information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. For example, we may process information, if we believe doing so is required by, or in accordance with, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits.
3. Sharing Of Information
3.1 Through Our Forum
We share some of the information that we collect by displaying it on our Forum according to your member profile and account settings. Some information, such as username, is always public. Some information, such as company, can be hidden on our Forum.
Information that is public on our Forum is visible to others on and off the Forum.
3.2 With Our Service Providers
We may use service providers in connection with operating and improving the Forum to assist with certain business purposes, such as payment processing, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our ads, and some aspects of our technical and customer support. These service providers, which include data analytics providers, may access, process, and store information about you on our behalf for the purposes we authorize, subject to confidentiality obligations.
3.3 With our Analytics and Advertising Partners
We may share information we have collected about you with others or allow others to use technologies (like cookies, web beacons, and device identifiers) that collect information about your use of the Forum and other websites and online services, to provide analytic services and to serve ads for Myktex.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information for purposes of targeted advertising (targeting ads based on consumer activity across other sites and services).
3.4 Following the Law and Protecting Myktex
We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to government entities and other third parties, including the content of messages, if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms of Service or related guidelines and policies, or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, Myktex or others.
3.5 Social Sharing and Other Tools
The Forum may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools which let you share actions that you take on our Forum with third-party services, and vice versa. Such features let you share information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you have chosen with the service. The third-party services' use of the information will be governed by the third parties’ privacy policies, and we do not control the third parties’ use of the shared data.
3.6 Affiliate Sharing and Merger, Sale, Or Other Asset Transfers
If Myktex is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of our assets, information about you may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. We may also share information about you with current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
4. Data Rights
We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to privacy@myktex.com.my
Rights that you may have, depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, may include:
· Accessing, correcting, or requesting deletion of your information.
· Appealing a decision Myktex has made about an access, correction, or deletion request.
· Opting out of the sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising.
· Objecting to processing of your information, asking us to restrict processing of your information, or requesting the portability of your information.
· Opting out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.
· Withdrawing your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
· Complaining to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
Note that Myktex is a controller of your information. Other members, such as group organizers and network administrators, may also act as controllers of your information. You should contact these members if you have any questions about how they use information that you have provided to them.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices, although some of the functionality and features available on the Forum may change or no longer be available to you.