Privacy Policy and Personal Information Collection Statement

1. Your Privacy    

Centralcon Properties Company Limited and its subsidiaries, associated and related companies (collectively, the “Centralcon Properties Company Limited” or “we” ) respect your legal rights of privacy when collecting, storing, using and handling personal data and this Privacy Policy and Personal Information Collection Statement (“this Statement” ) explains our privacy practices. It is our policy to comply with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) (the “Ordinance”) of the Laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China ( “Hong Kong” ).

Please read the following carefully to understand our policy and practices concerning the collection and use of your personal data. This Statement applies to users of all our websites, including both our official website (http://www.centralcon.com) and our individual property websites (collectively, the “Websites” ) and may from time to time be revised or otherwise changed where we deem necessary. If you are visiting the individual websites of any subsidiaries, associated and/or related companies of the Centralcon Properties Company Limited, kindly read and understand the individual privacy policy and personal information collection statement (if any) specifically applicable to such subsidiaries, associated and/or related companies.

If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese version of this Statement, the English version shall prevail.

Throughout this Statement, the meaning of the term “personal data” is defined in the Ordinance.

          

2. Data Collection and Use

We may collect your personal data including but not limited to name, telephone number, address and email address in order to provide you various services and features. You are not obliged to supply your personal data, but if you do not, we may not be able to provide the relevant services and features.

We may use your personal data for one or more (including but not limited to) of the following purposes:-

(i) follow up on comments, inquiries and complaints that users submit to the Websites;

(ii) follow up and processing your applications, registrations or subscriptions;

(iii) monitoring use of the Websites to help their further development;

(iv) understanding users' needs so as to provide better services;

(v) compiling aggregate statistics about users to analyze usage of the Websites;

(vi) conducting research and/or analysis from time to time to better understand your consumption needs, preferences, interests, experiences and/or habits;

(vii) operating internal control, resolving disputes, troubleshooting problems and enforcing terms of use;

(viii) contacting users regarding administrative notices and communication;

(ix) collecting data for identity verification and record and maintaining contact lists for correspondence;

(x) designing, providing and marketing to users facilities, services and/or products of the Centralcon Properties Company Limited;

(xi) promoting, improving and/or further the provision of facilities, services and/or products of Centralcon Properties Company Limited;

(xii) delivering information that users may have interest in, such as targeted banners, new services and products and other promotions and marketing materials;

(xiii) recruitment and other human resources related purposes;

(xiv) communicating with assignees, purchasers, investors and/or potential assignees, purchasers or investors of Centralcon Properties Company Limited (including its subsidiaries, associated and related companies);

(xv) complying with any law binding on us or for the purposes of any requests, guidelines or codes of practice issued by government, regulatory, enforcement or other administrative authorities with which we are reasonably expected to comply;

(xvi) establishing legal claims or defences, obtaining legal advice and/or exercising, defending and/or protecting the rights or properties of any member of Centralcon Properties Company Limited, including but not limited to identifying, contacting or instituting legal action against any person who may cause interference to such rights or properties or where any other person could be harmed or property of any other person could be damaged by such interference;

(xvii) the use by any member of Centralcon Properties Company Limited in connection with any of the above purposes and/or any of the services that any member of Centralcon Properties Company Limited may offer or supply to you from time to time;

(xviii) any other incidental or associated purposes relating to the above, or any other purposes as specified in a personal information collection statement when your personal data is being collected, or any other purpose(s) which has been agreed by and/or notified to you.

If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian before providing any personal data to us.

When you use the Websites, cookies will be stored in your computer. The purpose of using cookies is for internal navigation/ programming only. We will not collect any personal data from you under this circumstance. You have a choice not to accept the cookies, but if you do, certain functionality may not be available.

       

3. Disclosure

We will take all practicable steps to keep your personal data confidential but for any one or more purpose(s) named in point 2 above, we may transfer/disclose your personal data to or exchange such data with any of the following parties irrespective of whether such parties are located inside or outside Hong Kong:

(i) any agent, contractor or third party service provider who provides administrative, telecommunications, computer and other services to us with respect to the operation of our business;

(ii) any subsidiaries, associated and related companies of Centralcon Properties Company Limited;

(iii) any person under a duty of confidentiality to any member of Centralcon Properties Company Limited (including accountants, legal advisors or other advisors);

(iv) any actual or potential assignee, purchaser or investor of all or any part of the business and/or asset of Centralcon Properties Company Limited (including its subsidiaries, associated and related companies); and/or

(v) any person to whom we are under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirement of any law binding on us or for the purposes of any requests, guidelines or codes of practice issued by government, regulatory, enforcement or other authorities with which we are reasonably expected to comply.

Unless expressly stated in this Statement or with prior consent, personal data collected from you will not be disclosed to any third party other than the above-named parties.            

4. Links to Other Websites   

This Statement only applies to the Websites. If you click on any advertisement or hyperlink linking to other website(s), you will leave these Websites for another website or location. If you visit any other websites, such other websites are independent from our Websites. We have no control over the contents of such other websites or their privacy policies or compliance with the law. Therefore, the protection of your privacy, personal data and your exposure to cookies are not our responsibility and you are advised to read and understand the privacy policy  (if any) of that other websites.

 

5. Web Logs

When a user visits the home page of the Websites, the visit will be counted and included in the total number of visits to the Websites for statistical purpose. This information does not identify you as an individual. No personal data will be collected.

         

6. Security         

Except as mentioned in point 3 above, your personal data, however stored, will be accessed only by our employees, contractors or advisors who are authorized to do and under a duty of confidentiality to us. Such authorized personnel, contractors or advisors designated or appointed to handle or disclose personal data will be instructed to do so only in accordance with this Statement.

 

7. Use of Personal Data in Legal Proceedings 

If it becomes necessary that we have to take action against you for any reason whatsoever including but not limited to recovering from you any money you owe us, you expressly agree that the personal data provided by you can be relied upon in identifying and take legal action against you.

 

8. Your Right to Access and Retention       

You may at any time request access to, correct, delete or erase personal data relating to you in any of our records. To exercise any of your rights or obtain a copy of any of your personal data, contact us at the address below marking your communication “Confidential”. In response, we may ask you to provide certain details about yourself so that we can be sure you are the person to whom the data refers. We are required and will endeavor to respond to your requests, wherever possible, within 40 days.

To the extent permitted by relevant laws and regulations, we reserve the right to refuse unreasonable requests (including but not limited to requests which infringe the privacy of others) and we may, in handling such request, charge you a reasonable fee for doing so.

 

9. Personal Data Privacy Officer   

The person to whom (1) requests (a) for access to data or correction of data; (b) for general information regarding our policies and practices with respect to personal data; and (c) about the kinds of personal data that we hold and (2) general questions and complaints should be addressed is as follows:-

Centralcon Properties Company Limited

Personal Data Privacy Officer

(Marked Confidential)

Address: 14/F., Everbright Centre, 108 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong

 

10. Retention of Data        

We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which the data was collected unless the personal data is also retained to satisfy any applicable statutory or contractual obligations. Personal data which no longer required will be destroyed.