Dec 2, 2020 12 min read Policies

Privacy Policy

A new data privacy law General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force on May 25, 2018 impacting how businesses collect and process data. Your privacy is important to us, and we are fully committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the following terms carefully before you access and use our websites. If you do not agree with any of the clauses, agreements, statements or policies, do not proceed in accessing or use our website.

This Data Privacy Policy tells you about joy.link policy and practice for the collecting, using, processing, storing, transferring, protecting, and disclosing of information that we may collect about you through our website, https://joy.link/, or any subdomains. We intend to give you full transparency on how we collect, use, and share information about you. Note when we use the terms: joy.link, we, us, service, & website in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to the company Decodes Limited; and terms such as: you, your, & user are referring to you as the individual using our service.

Relationship with Decodes Limited and affiliated merchants

joy.link along with all subdomains are part of the Decodes Limited family, the legal entity and data provider of products, merchants, and any other distributed contents on the website. There will be information received and share with Decodes Limited, and their affiliate merchants. We will provide detail examples and explanations below of what part your data privacy comes in play when using our website, and help you decide to proceed with our service and allow us to access your personal information.

What personal information do we collect from you

We only collect personal information that you provide to us when subscribing to our services including logins, checkouts, newsletter subscription, etc. These information may include (but not limited to) your name, contact numbers, mailing/shipping/billing addresses, login name & password, social media accounts, credit card information, IP address, and other applicable information. Surrender of such personal information is to be agreed upon that you are voluntarily providing such information to us to proceed with using our service (e.g. to register for an account for newsletter, reviews, product checkout, or any type of data exchange). Hereby, you understand we have your permission to collect your personal information when you accept the explicit consents, or unless it is permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Also note our website uses third-party services (e.g. advertising and google analytics), that utilities cookies and other tracking technologies to provide functions, detection of your device, and browsing data. Please see our cookies section for more detail. You can always “opt out” at any time by visiting your subscription preferences page, click the 'unsubscribe' link in any email or visit the joy.link unsubscribe page or email us with your consent.

Payment information will be collected when you use our transaction services, as we will need certain shipping and billing information to process the order. These services including concierge purchasing, and parcel forwarding service, where you designate us to be your representative to purchase the item from the merchant or using one of the provided logistics solution for international shipping. In such cases, we will require your name, contact information and other possibly importing details to place the order. These personal and payment information will be provided to us either during account registration or at checkout, both of which we will collect and store these information via upmost secured processes.

Information we collect automatically when you use the Services

We collect information about you when you use our Services, including browsing our websites and taking certain actions within the Services.

We track certain behavioral data about your visit with tools such as Google Analytics, and Hotjar when you interact with any of our Services. This data includes the features you use; search functions, shipping calculators, search terms, and other outbound links you click on frequently used. The purpose of such information is to improve our user interface and user experience. We collect information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other devices you use to access the Services. This device information includes your connection type. We also collect information through your device about your operating system, browser type, IP address, URLs of referring/exit pages, and device identifiers.

We also track your IP address and/or country to provide better localized experience in language and currency. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: joy.link and our third-party partners, such as our advertising and analytics partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide functionality and to recognize you across different Services and devices. For more information, please see our Cookies section, which includes information on how to control or opt out of these cookies and tracking technologies.

We may also receive information about you when you or your administrator enable third-party apps like integrated or link with our Services. For example, if you create an account or log into using your Facebook or Google credentials, we receive your name and email address as permitted by your third-party profile settings in order to authenticate you. The information we receive when you link or integrate our Services with a third-party service depends on the settings, permissions and privacy policy controlled by that third-party service. You should always check the privacy settings and notices in these third-party services to understand what data may be disclosed to us or shared with our Services.

How we use the information collected

To provide a personalize experience with our product recommendation engine, and improving the user interface and experience for everyone, we use your information to provide the Services to you, including orders and transactions process, authenticating your identity when log in, customer support, and making product suggestions based on your past purchase and browsing behavior. We may use your email domain to infer your affiliation with a particular organization or industry to personalize the content and experience you receive on our websites. Data may also be used for research and development purpose to enhance our product features, for example we use machine learning to understand how people use our Services to identify trends, usage, activity patterns and areas for integration and improvement.

To market, promote, and drive engagement with our services, we use your contact information and information to send promotional communications that may be of specific interest to you, including by email and by displaying joy.link ads on other companies' websites and applications, as well as on platforms like Facebook and Google. These communications are aimed at driving engagement and maximizing what you get out of the Services, including information about new features, survey requests, newsletters, and events we think may be of interest to you. We also communicate with you about new product offers, promotions and contests. You can control whether you receive these communications as described below under 'Opt-out of communications.' For safety and security we use information about you and your Service use to verify accounts and activity, to monitor suspicious or fraudulent activity and to identify violations of Service policies. To protect our legitimate business interests and legal rights where required by law or where we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights, interests and the interests of others, we use information about you in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, and audit functions, and disclosures in connection with the acquisition, merger or sale of a business.

With your consent we will use information about you where you have given us consent to do so for a specific purpose not listed above. For example, we may publish testimonials or featured customer stories to promote the Services, with your permission. For individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws. The legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only where we need it to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services; It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the Services and to protect our legal rights and interests; You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose; or We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation. If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.

We share information we collect with affiliated companies and, in some cases, with prospective affiliates. Affiliated companies are companies owned or operated by Decodes Limited. The protections of this privacy policy apply to the information we share in these circumstances.

Decodes Companies: We share information we have about you with affiliates in order to operate and improve products and services and to offer other affiliated services to you. This includes companies that own or operate the services in the Decodes Limited product family.

Business transfers: We may share or transfer information we collect under this privacy policy in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of the joy.link or Decodes Limited businesses to another company. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on the Services if a transaction takes place, as well as any choices you may have regarding your information.

How we store and secure information we collect

We use data hosting service providers in the United States to host the information we collect, and we use technical measures to secure your data. While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others. We will respond to requests about this within a reasonable timeframe.

How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information, as described in further detail below. After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible (for example, because the information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.

We retain your account information until you delete your account. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations and to continue to develop and improve our Services. Where we retain information for Service improvement and development, we take steps to eliminate information that directly identifies you, and we only use the information to uncover collective insights about the use of our Services, not to specifically analyze personal characteristics about you.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by adding a notice on the Services homepages, login screens, or by sending you an email notification. We encourage you to review our privacy policy whenever you use the Services to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

If you disagree with any changes to this privacy policy, you will need to stop using the Services and deactivate your account(s), as outlined above.

Our privacy policy is very simple. We do not intentionally collect any sort of personal information or PII from joy.link’s users. For each visitor to our website, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's IP address. We use your IP address to administer our website. Upon visiting our website, we assign each visitor a unique ID that is used to track visitor traffic patterns within our website. We also collect aggregate and user-specific information on the pages that visitors access or visit. We reserve the right to retain all website traffic reporting data as long as may be reasonably necessary for accounting and auditing purposes. As part of our on-going efforts to ensure the best possible experience for all users of the Site, we may use log files, web beacons and cookies to collect Non-PII from the Site, browsers, advertisers and third-party sites. “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site and collect data including: your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, click data and types of advertisements viewed. Image requests or (“web beacons”) can transmit information used to track your data, which may include the navigation of a website or collection of sites, the completion of transactions, submittal of applications and browsing behaviour. This information is written to cookies. “Cookies” are files (e.g. flash browser objects) that are stored on your Internet enabled device (which includes your computer, BlackBerry or other PDA). Cookies are used to improve the experience web users have when they see web advertisements and ensure that when a web user clicks on an advertisement, they are sent to the correct click-through destination. We may use Cookies for purposes which may include, without limitation, to estimate the total reach of any of our advertisers, how frequently you return to the Site, as well as to streamline experiences of users of our Site. Cookies are also an anonymous way to survey how we are doing and to look for ways to improve our services. All information collected by Cookies, Web beacons and Log files are Non-PII.

There are two classes of Cookies based on how long they remain on your system: (i) “Session Cookies” may be used only during your visit to the Site and are erased once you close your browser, and (ii) “Persistent Cookies” (if applicable) remain on your browser for one (1) year from your last visit to the Site and enable us to remember you on subsequent visits to the Site and provide more relevant content to you on such Site.

There are many misconceptions about Cookies, some of which we will try to address in this policy. Cookies cannot erase your hard drive or otherwise damage your computer and do not tell us an e-mail address or any other PII. We do not and cannot use Cookies or web beacons to retrieve PII from your computer.

A useful resource on understanding Cookies may be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

joy.link does not automatically collect any personal information about you. We do collect PII, including but not limited to your name, e-mail address, geographical location, age and gender, through membership registration, newsletter sign-up requests or promotional contests. We have access to your PII after such PII has been submitted to us where for example (i) you provide us with personal and corporate information, such as name, address, email address and other account information, in order to be able to access and use our services (ii) as part of our sales efforts, we may collect and store data through online forms for contact purposes (iii) you provide information when you send us inquiries relating to our services or in relation to this Privacy Policy (iv) you become a registered user of our Site, (v) you subscribe to any of our newsletters (vi) you contact us by submitting a comment, problem, or request for information ,for example if you report a problem with our site (vii) you submit a review of one of our merchants we will use your email to give you feedback and/or enquire about the delivery process of your product (viii) you submit PII in connection with special offers or contests which can then be used for contact purposes by joy.link and/or merchant/supplier,or by (ix) signing up as one of our advertisers, merchants or business partners.

PII provided in connection with problems, comments or requests is used only to respond to those problems, comments or requests. This information is not stored or used in connection with Clickstream Data and is provided to a third party only as necessary to respond to the comment, problem or request of as required by law or court order.

Please note that it is not necessary for you to become a member in order to use many of the features on joy.link, a non-member can easily see products and prices, perform searches, read reviews and take advantage of many other useful features on the site.

joy.link also operates a free e-newsletter service - the joy.link Update - to help you keep up-to-date with the best deals, contests and joy.link news. This is an opt-in service so, as a member, you will receive the newsletter. To unsubscribe simply send an e-mail to info@joy.link and include your e-mail address.

The reason that we ask for this PII is to provide you with information that you may request, to customize your experience on the Site, and to contact you when necessary in connection with any promotions you participate in.

We also use this information for internal business purposes, such as aggregating the data to help us to create a profile of joy.link visitors, as a whole, so that we can; a) build a better understanding of our users and enhance the services we offer, and b) attract advertisers to spend money on joy.link, thus enabling our free price comparison service to operate.

Finally, from time to time, but only with your permission, we may provide your PII to selected third parties who wish to participate in special promotions offered in conjunction with us.

Data Deletion Policy

User can send a message to data-deletion@de.codes to request for the closure of account and the deletion of data. The request will be processed within 7 working days and the user will receive an email confirmation from https://joy.link upon successful deletion of account and the data.

Data controller contact info

Your information is controlled by Decodes Limited, if you have concerns or enquiries on information handling, feel free to contact us via writing or email to addresses below:

Decodes Limited

Unit 308-313, 3/F, Enterprise Place,

Hong Kong Science Park,

Shatin, Hong Kong

E-Mail: contact@de.codes

EU Representative for residents of European Economic Area: