Welcome to the website of The Department of Taxation,Taoyuan (the “Website”); to enable you to safely use various services and information on this Website, we hereby explain to you our privacy protection policy, which safeguards your rights and interests; you are advised to carefully read the following content:
The applicability of this privacy protection policy: the content covered by this privacy protection policy includes how we treat your personal identification data collected during your use of this Website.
This privacy protection policy is applicable neither to external websites linked to this Website nor to personnel not entrusted by this Website or participating in our management.
1.The method with which data are collected and used
To provide you with the best interactive services on this Website, you may be asked to provide relevant personal data, which are described as follows: The names, e-mail addresses, contacts and use time you provide when using such interactive functions as the service mailbox or questionnaire survey will be kept on this Website.
The server will automatically record the paths you take during general browsing, including the IP address of the connection device you use, your use time, the browser you use, and records of the data you browse and select; these records will be used as a reference by which we can further improve the Website’s services and will never be disclosed to others.
To provide accurate services, we will carry out statistics and analysis of the survey questionnaires we collect, and the results will be displayed by statistical data or descriptive words, which will, in addition to being used in our internal research, be published depending on our actual needs.
Unless your consent is obtained or otherwise provided by law, this Website will never disclose your personal data to third parties or use them for purposes other than data collection.
2.Data protection
Various information security devices and necessary safety and protection measures, including fire-walls and anti-virus systems, are installed on the Website servers to protect both the Website and your personal data.
Strict protection measures are taken so that only authorized personnel can gain access to your personal data; all the data handling personnel are required to sign confidentiality contracts, and anyone of them who breaches their obligation to keep data confidential will be dealt with accordingly.
In case we need to entrust other relevant units to provide services, we will require that they comply with their confidentiality obligations and take necessary inspection measures to ensure that their personnel perform such obligations.
3.Relevant links to external websites
Links to other websites provided on the web pages of this Website allow you to gain access to other websites by clicking on them; however, the linked websites are not governed by this privacy protection policy, and you must refer to each linked website’s own privacy protection policy.
4.Using cookies
To offer you the best service, this Website will install and use cookies on your PC; if you do not accept cookies, you can refuse cookies by setting the privacy level to high in the function options of your browser, but doing so will cause some functions of the website to fail.
5.Amendments to the privacy protection policy
The privacy protection policy of this Website may be amended from time to time, and the terms of the amended policy will be published on the Website.