At our website (“we”) it is important to us that we manage your personal information securely and consistently with relevant legislation, including the Privacy Act 1993 (“Privacy Act”).
This Policy outlines how we and our related companies collect, disclose, use, store or otherwise handle personal information.
This Policy is not limited to current customers but to all individuals who deal with us.
IRD and Commerce Commission) as required or authorised by law. These agencies may also share this information with organisations or agencies outside HK.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
Exceptions
Except as set out above, We will not disclose your information to a third party unless one or more of the following applies:
you have given your consent for us to do so;
you would reasonably expect us to use or give that information for another purpose related to the purpose for which it was collected;
it is otherwise required or authorised by law;
it will prevent or lessen a serious threat to somebody’s life, health or safety or to public health or safety;
it is reasonably necessary for us to take appropriate action in relation to suspected unlawful activity, or misconduct of a serious nature that relates to our functions or activities;
it is reasonably necessary for the enforcement of a law conducted by an enforcement body.
Examples
Customer Records: We maintains records of all customers including financial information which may need to be shared with financial institutions, government or regulatory bodies from time to time.
Product Delivery: Our products may be delivered to you by a third party courier organisation. In order to deliver these products we will have to disclose your name, address and, in some circumstances (such as with dangerous or hazardous materials), the nature or contents of the package.
We may disclose personal information to our service providers that are based in HK including our IT product and service suppliers and our direct debit banking merchants. We undertake to protect your personal information by ensuring the country in which those providers are located has similar protections in relation to privacy, or that we enter into contractual arrangements with the organisation or agency to ensure the protection of your privacy. We regularly shares information with related organisations in HK.
It is your choice to provide information to us. Wherever it is lawful and practicable, you have the option not to identify yourself or to use a fictional name when interacting with us. You can remain anonymous when using some parts of our website, or sites administered by us.
It may be necessary for us to collect your personal information if you would like certain products or services. If you choose to withhold the information we require, we may not be able to provide you the products or services you have requested.
We store your information in a number of ways including physically (such as in paper form) or electronically with third party data storage providers. Your privacy and the security of your information is very important to us so where we store your information with third party providers, we will enter into contractual arrangements with those providers to ensure they take appropriate measures to protect your information.
We take appropriate steps to protect your personal information held by us from misuse, interference, unauthorised access, modification, loss or disclosure. This includes during storage, collection, processing and transfer and destruction of the information. These steps include but are not limited to:
ensuring our computer systems and websites have security systems in place such as up to date firewall and data encryption;
maintaining security systems and monitoring of our premises;
implementing confidentiality agreements with our employees and contractors, sub-contractors ,service providers and their agents;
requiring all employees and contractors who handle, deal or work with personal information in the course of their duties with us to undergo training on our Privacy Policy and procedures and information and data storage management, before undertaking those duties
maintaining document storage security policies and procedures; and
implementing verification procedures for all inquiries/transactions to ensure only authorised people can access personal information.
Our website may contain links to external websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of those external websites as we are not responsible for their privacy practices.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that all personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, up-to-date, complete, relevant, and not misleading.
We will correct any personal information that we believe to be incorrect, out-of-date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading. This may include taking reasonable steps to notify any organisation or government agency to which information was disclosed about the correction. You may request to access or correct your personal information at any time by contacting the Privacy Officer using the contact details below. We will give you access to your information unless one of the exceptions under the Privacy Act applies.
For example, if providing access would be unlawful.
If you request to access or correct your information, we will respond within a reasonable time (usually within 30 days). If your request is refused, we will give you a written notice that sets out the reasons for refusal and how to complain about the decision.
From time to time, we may send out promotional materials and information from government departments or other third parties.
If you do not wish to receive these communications, please contact us to unsubscribe from that mailing list.
Your information may also be used by us to provide you with details of other organisation’s services where permitted by the Privacy Act or where you have consented to the use or disclosure of your personal information for direct communications and promotional materials.
It is our policy that any direct communications or promotional material will include a statement advising that you can request to not receive further material from us by contacting us using the details provided. Please note that if you choose this option this will also prevent you receiving offers of discounts and notices of upcoming promotions as well as other informational materials relating to our products.
The We website and sites administered by us use software known as
‘cookies’ to record your visit to the website and collect some statistical information.
We use this information to help administer and improve our websites. We do not use this information to personally identify you. Information we may collect includes:
your computer’s IP address;
your domain name;
the date and time or access to the website;
pages accessed and documents downloaded;
the previous sites visited
if you have visited the website before; and
the type of browser software in use.
You may set your browser to disable cookies when visiting our websites. However, some of our website functions may be unavailable if you choose to do so.
We will update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Our website will have the most current Privacy Policy.
We are committed to the protection of your privacy. If you have any questions about how we handle personal information, we would like to complain about how we have handled your information, or would like further information about our Privacy Policy, please submit a query or complain to our Privacy Officer. Our privacy officer will assess any complaints and liaise with you to resolve and any issues within a reasonable time.
If you consider your privacy concerns have not been resolved satisfactorily by us, of you wish to obtain more information on privacy requirements you can contact The Office of the HK Privacy Commissioner