In compliance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap 486), Laws of Hong Kong, we have formulated the following corporate privacy and data collection practices for our official website.
Information that we collect
You are free to visit this website without being identified who you are or providing any information about yourself. We only collect your personal information only necessarily in the following occasions:-
| a) | when you submit a feedback survey or subscribe e-newsletter; |
| b) | when it is necessary to support our business activities and to share information among ours’ subsidiary and affiliated companies without subsequent disclosure; |
| c) | when information is legally obtained and gathered for our sales, marketing and support activities, surveys, web site activities , exhibition invitation and /or event registration; |
| d) | when information stored, analyzed and used for direct marketing purpose; |
| e) | when the company has obtained contact information from 3rd party sources; or |
| f) | in pursuant to / in connection with your enquiry / compliant made to us. |
In such case, we may ask for your name, correspondence address, e-mail address, phone number and other appropriate personal information only if necessary and on a need-to-know basis for the said occasions --- but this information is strictly voluntary and discretionary and will never be misused, abused and disseminated to any third party without your knowledge, approval and prior notice.
In addition, we may track and record the total number of visitors hit-rates to this website in the aggregate form for the purpose of allowing us to learn more about the visitors’ interests and offer them a much user-friendly and content-versatile website that better meet their needs. Personally identifiable information shall not be extracted or decrypted during this aggregate data collection process.
Use of Information
We are very concerned about our ongoing security and online protection of those visitors who have provided us with their personal and private information, though we do not require you to supply this information to obtain access to our public websites. Because of this, we exercise an unambiguous and clear-cut policy of not selling or releasing any personally identifiable information gathered on the website to any third parties or commercial institutions unless otherwise stated hereunder. All information gathered online will be used only by our subsidiaries or affiliates for internal marketing analysis and to improve our products, services, and improve and administer the website. Authorized agents however may be utilized by us to collect, track and process such information.
Unless those third parties are acting as an intermediary, those intermediary shall only include but not limited to delivery and logistic companies, direct marketing agencies acting purely under our instruction and authorized resellers. In any circumstances, we sign an appropriate agreement with these intermediary or business partners for the purpose of securing your information and personal data without further disclosure.
Modification Update or Removal of Information
If you have submitted personal information to us and would like it modified, updated or removed from our mailing list, you may do so at any time. Upon your request, we will remove your personal information from future mailings made by us. To request having your personal information modified, updated or removed from future mailings from us, please contact our Webmaster.
You are also allowed to check whether we hold any personal data relating to you and obtain copies of such data, to require us correcting any inaccurate personal data for which it is being used and to ascertain us our policies and practices in relation to personal data. We reserve our discretionary right to charge you a reasonable service fee for processing your request of any data access.
Cookies
We may use cookies on certain pages of our website. A computer “cookie” is a small file located on your computer’s hard drive that allows us to provide you with information which is targeted to your interests and improve the quality of your visit to the website. We may use cookies to tailor the website to meet your personal preferences and to keep track of your visit to the website. If your browser permits, you may set your computer to reject cookies although this may affect the quality of your visit to the website. For example, you may be required to provide your password more often or it may take longer for your computer to display a page of the website.
Children and Parents
We ask that children under the age of 18 shall be refrained from completing our online surveys and sweepstakes entries without permission of the child's parent or legal guardian. Children under the age of 18 should submit personally identifiable information to us only with the explicit permission of their parent or legal guardian. Where appropriate, we will instruct children not to submit personal information. If your child has submitted personal information and you would like us to request that such information be removed, you may do so as indicated above and we will use reasonable and practical efforts to comply with your legitimate request.
Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other websites of interest, which are not operated nor owned by us. However, once you have used these links to leave this website, you should note that we do not have any full and final control over such other websites via external links. Therefore, we cannot be held liable and responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites and such websites shall not fall into the scope of this Internet Privacy Policy. You should remain cautious and look at the Internet Privacy Policy applicable to those website in question.
Other Important Information
This website may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is willfully disclosed in these areas shall become public information and you should exercise caution when deciding whether to disclose your personal information.
We support efforts to make the Internet safe for children and consumers, and due to the rapidly changing nature of technology, we reserve the right to update this policy from time-to-time. Notice of policy updates will be posted to this page and therefore we recommend visiting this page every so often to check for updates.
In accordance with the requirements of the Ordinance, we will honor an individual’s request not to use his or her personal data for the purpose of direct marketing. Should you wish not to receive any direct marketing material from us, please evince your intention by contacting us via the email address herein provided.
Disclaimer: We shall faithfully implement our policies and practices in relation to personal data, which are set out in their entirety herein, without prejudice to the generality of the Ordinance. Our privacy statement provided herein are for your reference only and shall not be regarded as having legal binding force or legally actionable covenant against us.