Chinese General Hospital Colleges respect the individual's right to privacy. CGHC is committed to protecting the confidentiality of your personal information; thus, it has adopted necessary measures to secure it. CGHC is bound to comply with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173), its Implementing Rules and Regulations, and relevant issuances of the National Privacy Commission.

This Privacy Notice discloses the privacy practices for CGHC websites. By accessing it, you are consenting to our collection and use of information under this Privacy Notice.

This website (cghc.edu.ph) provides information about CGHC, in particular: college program offerings; faculty listing; available student services and opportunities; listing of student organizations and volunteer groups; security and safety guidelines; and news, articles, images, photos, and videos of college activities, events, and achievements.

From the website, student applicants may download application forms and view application and scholarship requirements and procedures. Student applicants may also check the result of their CGHC Entrance Exam from the website.

You do not have to create an account or provide us with any personal information to access this website. However, we may ask for some personal details if you wish to access some of our services.

To access the CGHC Entrance Exam Result, you will be asked for the following personal information:

• Check for your test result in the School Automate
• Click Parents/Students Tab
• Enter your USERNAME (Temporary Student Number) and PASSWORD
• Click the Online Advising Access tab
• Click the Enrollment Dashboard
• Passed student applicants will be tagged COMPLETED with date approved in the Online Exam tab
• Result of entrance examination is valid for one (1) academic year only

We and our third-party vendors collect certain information regarding your access to the website, such as the page visited, your IP address, and browser type. We may use your IP address to identify the general geographic area from which you are accessing this site.

We also use the information gathered from you for systems administration purposes, abuse prevention, and to track user trends, and for the other purposes described in this notice. If you send us an email or post on our Facebook page, the email address, and Facebook account you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. We will not share, sell or authorize any third party to use your email address and social media accounts for commercial purposes without your permission.

Usage information may be shared with third-party vendors to the extent necessary to provide and improve web services or other communications to users. For example, we use Google Analytics to generate reports on site usage, web traffic, user behavior, and user interests to optimize our website for our visitors.

We may also provide your information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• when you have given consent;
• if it is in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes;
• a requirement to fulfill a service that you have subscribed to;
• detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; or
• protect our rights and safety and the rights and safety of our users or others.

Google and other third parties may use cookies, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from this website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. For more information on Google Analytics' privacy policy, visit https://privacypolicies.com/blog/privacy-policy-google-analytics/.

You may choose not to give your personal information; however, CGHC may not be able to provide the service that you may require.

Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer (unless you block them). We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. You may disable cookies through your browser options.

This website may contain links to other non-CGHC websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Cookies may be set by parties other than us. These "third-party cookies" may, for example, originate from websites such as Facebook, or other social media services for which our website has implemented "plug-ins". Since the cookie policies of these sites change over time, you should determine their policies by visiting the privacy policy pages of these sites directly.

This website has reasonable administrative, physical, and technical security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

CGHC protects your personal information through:

• Confidentiality requirements and data privacy training of our associates;
• Document storage security policies;
• Security measures to control access to our systems and premises;\
• Limitations on access to personal information;
• Strict selection of third-party data processors; and
• Electronic security systems, such as firewalls and data encryption.
• Storage and Transmission

Personal information is stored in the CGHC database and Google Cloud.

Data will only be retained until they are still relevant for CGHC. In case when a retention period is provided, all records after such period will be securely disposed of.

You have the following rights as data subjects:

• Right to be informed what personal information CGHC holds about you and what it is used for
• Right to reasonable access your personal information
• Right to object to the processing of your personal information
• Right to update the personal information CGHC holds or rectify inaccurate data
• Right to erasure or blocking
• Right to damages
• Right to data portability
• Right to file a complaint

You may request access to your personal information, and/or have it corrected, erased, or blocked on reasonable grounds. CGHC will consider the request and reserves the right to deal with the matter under law.

CGHC reserves the right to amend this notice at any time at its sole discretion and will publish such modification on our website. The modification shall take effect immediately upon posting.

Queries and complaints can be directed to the Data Protection Officer at tel. no. (632) 8711-4141 loc. 1008 or email at dpo@cghc.edu.ph