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These Statements are, except where separate and distinctive
statements are provided, applicable to the Hutchison Global Communications group of companies, including Hutchison Global Communications Limited and Hutchison MultiMedia Services Limited.
Accordingly, references to "we", "us", or "our company" etc.
mean , as the case may be, the relevant company within the
Hutchison Global Communications group of companies.
I. Privacy Policy Statement
Our Pledge
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of individuals
with respect to personal data. We therefore make sure that
our policies and practices in relation to the collection,
use, retention, transfer and access of personal data comply
with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
(Chapter 486) under the laws of Hong Kong.
Types of Personally Identifiable Information
Collected At times, you may be required to give your personally
identifiable information including, but not limited to, your
name, gender, age, identity document number, telephone number,
fax number, home address, email address, credit card information,
bank account number, education level, occupation, household
income, interests and favourite activities etc.. Refusal to
provide such information may render us unable to handle any
application or request you are making, or may deny you of
access to certain parts of our web site, or may otherwise
defeat the objectives of your visit. If you are under the
age of 18, consent from your parent or guardian is required
before you give us any personally identifiable information.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information Collected
Specific purposes for which your personally identifiable information
may be used are set out in our Personal Data Collection Statement
set out in II below (particularly those contained in points
(i) through to (vi) in the third paragraph of II below).
Direct Marketing
If you have once given us your personally identifiable information,
you may receive from us or from our affiliated companies from
time to time telephone calls, email and direct mailings containing
promotional materials. If you do not want to receive them,
please write to our Data Protection Officer.
You may be asked to indicate your preference before signing
up for any of our paid services.
Retention of the Information
If you are our paid customer, your personally identifiable
information which you have given us via application form,
Internet or other means, during the subscription period will
be retained for a reasonable period after termination of your
subscription.
Access to and Correction of Information
If you want to access to and/or correct your personally identifiable
information which you have given us via application form,
Internet or other means, you may write to our Data
Protection Officer. We may charge you a reasonable fee
for each successful access current from time to time. However,
such fee will be waived if the access is necessary to make
a genuine and reasonable correction.
Disclosure of Information
Normally, we may share your information with, or transfer
it to, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, its subsidiaries and affiliated
companies. For details, please refer to our Personal Data
Collection Statement set out in II below. If you do not want
to have your information disclosed to any third party, please
write to our Data Protection Officer.
Security
We use various encryption techniques to transmit via the Internet
your Personal Data, which can only be accessed by our authorised
personnel. Given the nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee
that the transmission is 100% secure. Please, however, refer
to our Security Statement for details on the steps that we
have taken to ensure that any Personal Data collected by us
via our websites is safe and secure from third party interference.
Use of Cookies
Your visiting our web site(s), may trigger our use of cookies.
For your information, Cookies are small computer files that
can be stored in web surfers' computers for the purposes of
obtaining configuration information and analysing web surfers'
viewing habits. They can save you from registering again when
re-visiting a web site and are commonly used to track your
preferences in relation to the subject matter of the web site.
You may refuse to accept Cookies (by modifying the relevant
Internet options or browsing preferences of your computer
system), but to do so you may not be able to utilize or activate
certain available functions in our web sites.
On-line Services
We may have on-line stores or service providers hosted in
our web site which are operated by third party merchants.
If you want to use or order any services or products from
any of them, please note that any information you provide,
once transferred to the relevant merchant, is beyond our control
and thus outside the scope of protection afforded by us.
Enquiries
Should you have any enquiries concerning our Privacy Policy
Statement, please feel free to contact our Data Protection
Officer. The address is as follows:
Data Protection Officer
17/F, Hutchison Telecom Tower
99 Cheung Fai Road, Tsing Yi
New Territories, Hong Kong

II. Personal Data Collection Statement
a customer of our company, or a visitor or user of our web
site(s), it may be necessary for you to provide us with your
personal information ("Personal Data") when you apply to us
and/or continue to subscribe with us for a service and/or
product ("Services"). If your Personal Data is incomplete
or incorrect, we may not be able to provide or continue to
provide the Services to you. We shall keep your Personal Data
confidential at all times. Our policies and practices with
respect to the collection, use, retention, disclosure, transfer,
security and access of Personal Data will be in accordance
with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("Ordinance") and
are as set out in this Statement. You agree that your Personal
Data provided by you to us may be used and retained by us
for the following purposes and for other purposes as shall
be agreed between you and us or required by law from time
to time:
- i. provisioning of the Services;
- ii. marketing of goods and/or services by us, our agents
or our subsidiaries, in relation to the Services;
- iii. processing of any benefits to you arising out of
or in connection with the Services;
- iv. analyzing, verifying and/or checking of your credit,
payment and/or status in relation to the provision of the
Services;
- v. processing of any payment instructions, direct debit
facilities and/or credit facilities requested by you;
- vi. enabling the daily operation of your account and/or
the collection of amounts outstanding in your account in
relation to the Services; and
- vii. enabling us to comply with our obligations to interconnect
or other industry practices.
You further agree that we may disclose and transfer (whether
in Hong Kong or abroad) to our agents, contractors, any telecommunications
operators, any third party service providers, any third party
collection agencies, any credit reference agencies, any security
agencies, any credit providers, banks, financial institutions,
our professional advisers, any other persons under a duty
of confidentiality to us and any of our actual or proposed
assignees or transferees of our rights with respect to you
to use, disclose, hold, process, retain or transfer such Personal
Data for the purposes mentioned above.
In addition, in accordance with your agreement with us or
consent given to us (as the case may be), we may disclose
and transfer your Personal Data (whether in Hong Kong or abroad)
to any company within, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, Cheung Kong
(Holdings) Limited, any of their subsidiaries and any company
in which the same has a direct or indirect interest or with
which it is in joint venture or co-operation or their respective
successors and assigns ("Hutchison Group") and to include
that Personal Data in one or more databases held by us or
the Hutchison Group (which may contain other information collected
by us or the Hutchison Group) for the purposes mentioned above,
the carrying out of market research, credit assessments, marketing
of goods and/or services by us and/or the Hutchison Group
and for the performance of procedures for comparing Personal
Data with other information supplied by you to us and/or the
Hutchison Group for such purposes and for other purposes as
shall be agreed between you and us or required by law from
time to time. If you do not wish to receive marketing information
from us with respect to goods and/or services not related
to or in connection with the Services, or for us to disclose,
transfer or use your Personal Data for the purposes as set
out in this paragraph, please write to us at the
address above quoting your name, address and account number(s).
Under and in accordance with the Ordinance, you have the
right to:
- i. check whether we hold any of your Personal Data;
- ii. access your Personal Data held by us;
- iii. require us to correct any Personal Data which is
inaccurate; and
- iv. ascertain our policies and practices (from time to
time) in relation to Personal Data and the types of Personal
Data held by us.
In accordance with the Ordinance, we have the right to charge
a reasonable fee for the processing of any Personal Data access
request. All requests for access to or correction of Personal
Data or information regarding policies and practices and types
of Personal Data held should be in writing and addressed to
our Data Protection Officer.
Please note that this Statement may be amended from time
to time. Notices regarding amendments will be posted at our
home-page to inform you of the effective dates of the amendments.
Amendments will not have retrospective effect.
Security Statement
This Statement is, except where separate and distinctive
statements are provided, applicable to the Hutchison Global Communications group of companies, including Hutchison Global Communications Limited and Hutchison MultiMedia Services Limited.
Accordingly, references to "we", "us", or "our company" etc.
mean, as the case may be, the relevant company within the
Hutchison Global Communications group of companies.
While the Internet is not an inherently secure environment
for communications, Internet communications can be made safer
by the application of appropriate technology as we have done
(see below). Internet security, however, is not solely a "technology"
issue. Common sense and normal practice in safeguarding personal
and transaction data are of equal importance. "Hackers" need
a "door" to get into the system. Often, access through this
"door" is provided to "hackers" due to simple carelessness
in the physical distribution of sensitive documents and the
handling of sensitive data (such as passwords or personal
identification numbers). Users must, therefore, handle such
sensitive documents and data with extreme care.
We take security matters very seriously and treat all personally
identifiable information obtained from users of our websites
confidential. In addition to the firewalls and other sophisticated
equipment implemented, we also provide and maintain the following
measures to protect our system, and the information and data
contained in them from accidental or malicious disruption
or destruction.
Adopt Security Standards
We will adhere to international standards to ensure transaction
integrity and protect confidential information. Such standards
relate to, for instance,:
- i. business and information privacy practices;
- ii. transaction integrity; and
- iii. information protection.
Internal Guidelines on Access to Personally Identifiable
Information
All of our staff will adhere to our internal Guidelines on
Access to Personally Identifiable Information drawn up to
restrict access to personal data to only the members of staff
who have legitimate needs to have such access.
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