Dear users, Taipei Music Center highly values and respects the privacy rights of our visitors. To assist you in understanding how Taipei Music Center website collects, uses, and protects your personal information, please carefully read the following Privacy Policy and Information Security Policy of Taipei Music Center website. This policy will help you understand our policies and principles for collecting, using, and protecting the personal information of visitors when you utilize the services provided by Taipei Music Center website and its extended service websites.

The following privacy protection policy applies to the collection, use, and protection of personal information involved in your activities on Taipei Music Center website and its extended service websites (principally under the domains www.tmc.taipei and en.tmc.taipei). However, it does not apply to other websites accessed through search links on Taipei Music Center website. When you engage in activities on these websites, the protection of personal data is subject to the privacy policies of those websites.

For the provision of services, Taipei Music Center may require you to provide necessary operational data. We may collect your personal information through the following methods:

• Service Application

When applicants are required to provide personal information, this website will ask you to provide your name, ID number, contact phone number, email address, mailing address, and any other most recent and truthful information as required. You may also participate in sweepstakes, contests, or marketing activities organized by other websites or organizations through hyperlinks provided by Taipei Music Center website. For personal information voluntarily provided by you, these organizations or linked websites have their individual privacy protection policies, and their data processing measures do not apply to the Privacy Policy of Taipei Music Center website. We cannot assume any joint liability.

• General Browsing

Taipei Music Center website will retain relevant records (LOG) generated by the server when users browse or query the Internet, including connection device IP addresses, usage times, browsers used, and browsing and clicking data records. Taipei Music Center website may mark the browsers of individual connections, summarize the web pages browsed by users within Taipei Music Center website, and will not and cannot correlate this record with your personal information unless you voluntarily provide it.

• Others

If you contact Taipei Music Center by writing or through other channels to provide feedback, we will also keep records of such communications and processing.

To provide personalized services, we sometimes use Cookies technology to store and track user data. Cookies are short pieces of data sent from a website to a user's browser and stored on the user's computer's hard drive. Users can choose to modify their browsers' acceptance of Cookies, including accepting all Cookies, receiving notifications when setting Cookies, or rejecting all Cookies, in IE's "Tools-Internet Options," Firefox's "Tools-Options," or Chrome's "Tools-Options" under "Privacy Settings." If you choose to reject all Cookies, you may not be able to use some personalized services or participate in some activities. Generally, we will write and read Cookies in users' browsers for the following purposes and situations:

• To provide better, more personalized services.

Facilitate your participation in personalized interactive activities. Cookies are established when you register or log in and modified when you log out.

• To statistically analyze visitor numbers and browsing patterns.

To understand the browsing situation of web pages as a reference for improving services.

• To track clicks on promotional advertisements or participation in marketing activities.

When sending newsletters or organizing marketing activities on websites, Cookies data may sometimes be written to track the extent of user participation and related data.

Taipei Music Center website will not sell, rent, or exchange any of your personal information to other groups or individuals without your consent. Only under the following circumstances will Taipei Music Center website share your personal information with third parties under this policy:

• Online Activities and Internet Surveys

The names and ID numbers collected by Taipei Music Center website are only used for lottery activities. Phone numbers, emails, addresses, and other information are used to notify participants of lottery results and for analysis purposes, and are not used for any other purposes. Other data is only used for service analysis or academic purposes. Unless the participant agrees, all data is used only for data analysis, and Taipei Music Center website will not use such data for other purposes.

• Statistics and Analysis

Taipei Music Center website conducts internal or commissioned academic research on user numbers, interests, and behaviors based on user registrations, questionnaire surveys, marketing activities, or server log files. This research is based on statistical analysis and summarization of data from all users, and all public information or analysis reports will only analyze and publish the aggregate behavior of all users, without providing individual data analysis reports.

Taipei Music Center website will not arbitrarily sell, exchange, or rent any of your personal information to other groups or individuals. Only under the following circumstances will Taipei Music Center website share your personal information with third parties under this policy:

• To provide you with other services or benefits

When it is necessary to share your data with third parties providing such services or benefits, Taipei Music Center website will provide full explanations during activities and notify you before collecting data. You are free to choose whether to accept such specific services or benefits.

• For value-added service quality enhancement, evaluation, and research

To provide users with accurate and high-quality services, Taipei Music Center website may compare user data with third-party data in accordance with data confidentiality agreements. In addition, for the purpose of introducing our services and other legitimate purposes to future partners, advertising units, and other third parties, Taipei Music Center website may disclose user statistics in an anonymous manner.

• Others

This website is obliged to protect the privacy and personal information of its users, and will not modify, delete, or provide any (or part of) user personal information and files without your consent. Unless you have given prior consent or meet the following conditions:

• Judicial and prosecutorial units of the Republic of China conduct inquiries through legal procedures.
• Violation of website regulations has resulted in coercion.
• Based on the consideration of the service benefits derived from government website services.
• Protecting the legitimate use rights and interests of other users.

Taipei Music Center website will revise this policy from time to time to comply with the latest privacy protection regulations. When we make substantial amendments to the provisions regarding the use of personal data, we will post notices on the webpage to inform you of relevant matters.

If you have any questions about our privacy protection policy or personal data collection, use, updating, etc., please directly send your inquiries to our feedback mailbox.