We are concerned to ensure that all personal data submitted through this website are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.
Purposes of collecting and keeping personal data
In order to better serve visitors to our website, we may collect your personal data when you register with us, attend our functions, or communicate with us. The typical types of personal data collected by us are basic contact details (such as name, job title, company name, email address, telephone and fax numbers).
The main purposes for which personal data are kept and used by us include:
- To process applications for registration of user accounts and create user profiles;
- To provide you access to the functions, platforms and resources of our website and facilitate the use of them;
- To process applications for registration of events;
- To send notifications or invitations of activities and events organised/sponsored by us and distribute our publications;
- To conduct direct marketing of promotional/publicity activities and general market research. At any stage you may choose not to receive (‘opt-out’ of) our mailings by writing to us; and
- To process your enquiries or feedback.
We shall specify the collection purpose and intended usage of your data when we invite you to provide personal data.
Security and retention of the personal data
All personal data you provide via this website are secured, and access to the data is restricted to authorised personnel only. Unless permitted or required by law, we shall not disclose your personal data to any third parties without your prior consent. If however, we suspect that your use of the website is unlawful or damaging to others, we reserve the right to disclose your personal data to third parties without seeking your prior consent to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in our opinion to prevent, remedy or take action in relation to such conduct.
Personal data captured via this website are retained on our server. Storage on our server is protected in accordance with the requirements of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to protect against unauthorised or accidental access, modifying, processing, erasure or other use.
Personal data will be retained so long as they are still required for the mentioned purposes.
Access to and correction of personal data
You may request access to your personal data held by us pursuant to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and request for correction of your personal data if you consider the data are inaccurate. Please contact our officer (info@sustainablefinance.org.hk) in writing for request relating to access and correction of your personal data.
Statistics on visits to this Website
We shall record visits to this website without collecting any personally identifiable information of users. Such general statistics are collected for compilation of statistical reports and the diagnosis of problems with or concerning computer systems to help us to improve this website. Please also refer to the cookie policy of this website.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes that we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page only without any separate notification.
