Last updated: 6 September 2026

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how personal data may be collected and processed when you visit cheilangho.com or contact Cheila Ng Hó through this website.

Cheila Ng Hó is committed to handling personal information with transparency, care and in accordance with applicable data-protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Data Controller

The data controller for personal data processed through this website is:

Cheila Ng Hó
Applied Human Systems Engineer
Portugal
Email: cheilangho@gmail.com

[Professional/business address and legally required identification details to be added before publication, where applicable.]

2. Information That May Be Collected

Depending on how you use the website, personal data may include:

information you voluntarily provide when contacting me, such as your name, email address, organization, role and the content of your message;
information provided in connection with a professional inquiry, collaboration, workshop, research conversation or other requested interaction;
technical information generated when accessing the website, which may include IP address, browser type, device information, date and time of access and pages visited;
cookie or analytics information, where such technologies are enabled and legally permitted.

The website does not intentionally request sensitive personal information through general contact channels. Please avoid sending health information, passwords or other highly sensitive data unless it is genuinely necessary and an appropriate communication method has been agreed.

3. Purposes and Legal Bases

Personal data may be processed for the following purposes:

Responding to enquiries and communications
To reply when you contact me regarding my work, research, collaborations, workshops, speaking, organizational projects or other professional matters.

The legal basis will normally be taking steps at your request prior to entering into a professional relationship, performance of a contract where applicable, or legitimate interests in managing professional communications.

Professional relationships and collaborations
To communicate about an existing or potential project, partnership, research activity, workshop or other engagement.

The legal basis may be contractual necessity, pre-contractual steps or legitimate interests, depending on the situation.

Website operation and security
Technical information may be processed where necessary to maintain website functionality, security, reliability and protection against misuse.

The legal basis is legitimate interests in operating and protecting the website and, where relevant, compliance with legal obligations.

Analytics or optional cookies
If analytics or other non-essential technologies are enabled, they will be used only in accordance with applicable consent requirements.

4. Cookies

This website may use technical cookies required for its proper functioning.

Analytics, advertising or other non-essential cookies will not be used without the appropriate consent where consent is legally required.

The exact cookie configuration will depend on the services enabled on the final published website. This Privacy Policy will be updated if additional technologies that process personal data are introduced.

5. Third-Party Services and Links

The website may contain links to external platforms, including professional networks, social-media platforms, video platforms, book retailers or other third-party websites.

When you follow an external link, the privacy practices of that third party apply. Cheila Ng Hó does not control the processing carried out independently by those external services.

Where third-party services are embedded directly into this website, their data-processing implications will be reviewed and disclosed where required.

6. Data Sharing

Personal data is not sold.

Information may be shared only where necessary with service providers supporting the operation of the website or professional activity, such as website hosting, email or technical infrastructure providers, subject to appropriate data-protection obligations.

Data may also be disclosed where required by law or by a competent authority.

7. International Data Transfers

Some technology providers may process data outside the European Economic Area.

Where such transfers occur, appropriate safeguards required under applicable data-protection law will be used, where necessary.

8. Data Retention

Personal data is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and to comply with applicable legal, contractual or professional obligations.

General enquiries that do not lead to an ongoing relationship will not be retained indefinitely.

Information connected with contracts, invoices or other legally relevant professional records may need to be kept for longer periods where required by law.

9. Your Rights

Under the GDPR, depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

access your personal data;
request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
request deletion of your data;
request restriction of processing;
object to certain processing;
receive applicable data in a portable format;
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.

You may exercise your rights by contacting:

cheilangho@gmail.com

Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.

In Portugal, the supervisory authority is the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD).

10. Security

Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, its functionality or applicable legal requirements change.

The latest version will always be made available on this page, together with its most recent update date.