The privacy of any personal data you provide to InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC is of prime importance to us. InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC is committed to ensuring that all personal data provided under various applications and notifications are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.

Personal data held

The typical types of information held by InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC are basic contact details (such as name, job title, company name, address and email), a record of our contact with you and your areas of interest e.g. sectors, events, publications etc.

At any time, you may contact the webmaster listed at the end of this policy to request a copy of the data InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC holds about you and correct any errors.

Main purposes of personal data

The main purposes for which personal data are kept by InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC are:

- to mail communications, publications, invites and such like as you may select, request or as we may consider to be relevant to you;
- to measure the success of specific campaigns and for general market research; and
- for registration for events.

At any stage you may choose not to receive ('opt-out' of) any or all of InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC's mailings. You may do this by following the options on-line or by contacting the webmaster listed at the end of this policy.

Privacy of personal data

Our website uses cookies to help us gauge what information is most useful to which users and such like. Cookies, however, keep the identity of our individual website users anonymous.

The data collected will be kept in confidence. InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC will not divulge or sell personal details to external parties for their own purpose. InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC may however provide contact information to agents who provide services to InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC (for example, to those agencies engaged by InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC to administer the distribution of materials). Arrangements are undertaken to ensure the security of such information.

Security and retention policies

Only authorised people have access to, custody of and the means of using personal data InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC collects. InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC promotes a privacy-aware culture that respects and is sensitive to the rights of its external contacts.

Data captured via InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC website are retained on InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC's server. Storage on InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC's server is protected in accordance with the requirements of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region which protect against unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure or other use.

InvestHK or Guangdong DOFTEC retains personal data so long as the data are still required for the purposes mentioned above.

Some content provided by Michael Enright and Edith Scott of Enright Scott & Associates, Hong Kong

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