Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the Hong Kong Dragon Association uses any personal information we collect about you when you use this website.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track website visitor use and compile statistical reports on website activity. For further details, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function.

Web forms

When you submit information to this website via a web form, we collect the data requested to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Vercel, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide us with website services. Messages sent through our contact form, insurance assistance form, equipment inspection booking and ceremony RSVP form are delivered by Resend, our email provider. Ceremony RSVPs are sent to the regatta office at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club so the guest list can be managed.

Media accreditation

If you apply for media accreditation, we collect more than a standard form submission: your name (and Chinese name, if given), job title, outlet and outlet type, commissioning editor's name and email, mobile and WhatsApp number, nationality and country of residence, your planned days on site, equipment list, a headshot and press card image, sample work links, accessibility needs, and, if you apply to fly a drone, your CAD registration reference and flight details.

This is used to assess your application, issue accreditation, produce your badge, allocate media boat places, and provide the confirmed media list required by Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club and Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, who host the event and need this list for venue access and safety. We do not use your accreditation details for marketing. You'll only receive championship press releases if you separately opt in to that list when you apply.

Applications are stored in a database hosted by Neon. We keep accreditation application data for the Championship's record-keeping needs, and delete it on request: contact media@dragonworld2027.com.

The newsletter

If you sign up to our newsletter we collect your email address, and nothing else. We ask for it only when you choose to give it to us, and we use it only to send you news about the 2027 Hong Kong Dragon World Championship: announcements, partner appointments, and practical information for competitors and visitors.

We do not sell your email address, and we do not pass it to our sponsors or partners for their own marketing.

Your address is held by Resend, the service we use to send the newsletter, who process it on our behalf and store it on servers in the United States. Resend also records whether an email was delivered and, for the newsletter, whether it was opened, so that we can tell whether our mailings are arriving and worth sending.

Every newsletter we send carries an unsubscribe link at the foot. One click removes you, and we will not email you again. You can also write to info@dragonworld2027.com at any time and ask us to remove you, to tell you what we hold about you, or to correct it.

We keep your address until you unsubscribe, or until twelve months after the Championship has finished, whichever comes first. After that the list is deleted.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics only runs if you choose "Accept all" in the cookie notice. If you choose "Necessary only", nothing is loaded from Google and no analytics cookie is set. You can change your mind at any time with the Cookie Settings link at the foot of every page, which switches analytics off again straight away.

When it is switched on, Google Analytics tells us which pages are visited and for how long, roughly where in the world the visit came from, what kind of device and browser was used, and which site or search brought the visitor to us. We use this to see which parts of the site are useful and to improve them.

It does not tell us your name, your email address or anything else that identifies you personally, and we do not combine it with any information you give us through the contact form or the newsletter. Your IP address is shortened by Google before it is stored, so it cannot be traced back to you, and we have switched off every advertising and personalisation feature Google offers. Google Analytics places one cookie in your browser so a return visit is not counted twice; only Google can read it.

All data handled by Google is retained for 26 months from your last visit, the minimum term they allow.

For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Visitor numbers

Separately from Google Analytics, our hosting company Vercel counts page views for us so we know how busy the site is. This count sets no cookie and reads none, it stores nothing on your device, and it cannot recognise you on any other website. Vercel records the page address, the page you came from, and the country, browser and type of device, and it works out a one-way code from your IP address and browser details so two views from the same person on the same day are not counted twice. That code is thrown away and started afresh every day, your IP address itself is never stored, and nothing here tells us who you are. Because nothing is stored on your device, this count runs whichever answer you give the cookie notice.

Vercel's own account of what it collects is at https://vercel.com/docs/analytics/privacy-policy.

Maps

The maps of the racing area draw their background from OpenStreetMap and OpenSeaMap, two free, volunteer-run mapping projects. Loading the map pictures tells those projects your IP address, as loading any picture from any website does. They set no cookie, and we send them nothing else about you. The maps are part of how the pages work, so they load whichever cookie choice you make.

Your own schedule

On the For Visitors page you can tick the social events you want and build your own schedule. Those ticks are stored by your browser, on your own device, so that the page remembers them when you come back. They are never sent to us: nobody here can see what you have chosen. Clearing your browser's site data, or pressing Clear on the schedule, removes them. Adding the events to your calendar, or saving them as a PDF, happens on your device too, and sends nothing to us or to anyone else.

Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so you should read their privacy policies when you link to other websites.

Your rights

Whatever country you live in, you can ask us to tell you what information we hold about you, to correct it if it is wrong, to delete it, or to stop using it. If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to receive a copy of your information in a portable form, to object to how we use it, and to complain to your national data protection authority if you are not satisfied with our answer.

To exercise any of these rights, email info@dragonworld2027.com. We will reply within one month.

Who is responsible for your information

The data controller is the Hong Kong Dragon Association, c/o Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Kellett Island, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China. Any question about this policy or about the information we hold can be sent to info@dragonworld2027.com.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update this privacy policy at any time, for example when regulations change or when we start using a new service. The date below always shows the version you are reading.

Last updated: 1 October 2026.