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Privacy policy

Privacy

Privacy policy

The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the HK Data Protection Regulation, is:

 

HFSTH & Coll. Limited

No. 5, 17/F Bonham Trade Centre, 50 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan3 7204, Hong Kong

Registered in Hong Kong
Company No: 3109270

Website: www.hfsth-group.com

 

 

 

General Notice

Based on The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act together form a new framework for regulating the processing of personal data in the HK, replacing the former Data Protection Act, every person is entitled to the protection of their privacy and to protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or forgery.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.B. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing and use of data in accordance with the following description. In principle, this website can be visited without registration. Data such as pages accessed or names of the retrieved file, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address, are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. Without your consent, the data will not be passed on to third parties.

 

Processing of personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the storage, disclosure, procurement, deletion, storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with northern ireland data protection law. In addition, we process personal data – insofar as and insofar as the HK GDPR is applicable – in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with Article 6 (1) GDPR:

  • lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.

  • lit.b) Processing of personal data for the fulfilment of a contract with the data subject as well as for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.

  • lit.c) Processing of personal data to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject in accordance with any applicable HK law or in accordance with the applicable law of a country in which the GDPR is applicable in whole or in part.

  • lit. d) Processing of personal data to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.

  • lit. f) Processing of personal data in order to safeguard the legitimate interests of us or of third parties, unless the fundamental freedoms and rights as well as the interests of the data subject prevail. Legitimate interests are in particular our business interest in being able to provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our own legal claims and compliance with HK law.

We process personal data for the duration necessary for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer-lasting retention obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we limit the processing accordingly.

 

Privacy Policy for Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific information related to the user on the user's device while using the website. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to determine the frequency of use and number of users of the pages, to analyze the behavior of site use, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored at the end of a browser session and can be called up again when you visit the site again. If you do not want this, you should set your Internet browser to refuse to accept cookies.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by switching them off in the settings of the browser. Please note that not all functions of this online offer may then be able to be used.

 

Privacy Policy for SSL/TLS Encryption

This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

 

Data transmission security (without SSL)

Please note that data transmitted via an open network such as the Internet or an e-mail service without SSL encryption can be viewed by everyone. You can recognize an unencrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser displays "http://" and no lock symbol is displayed in your browser line. Information transmitted over the Internet and content received online may be transmitted over third-party networks. We cannot guarantee the confidentiality of communications or documents transmitted over such open networks or third-party networks.

If you disclose personal information through an open network or third-party networks, you should be aware of the fact that your data will be lost or third parties may potentially access this information and consequently collect and use the data without your consent. In many cases, the individual data packets are transmitted encrypted, but not the names of the sender and the recipient. Even if the sender and the recipient live in the same country, the data is often transmitted via such networks and without controls also via third countries, i.e. also via countries that do not offer the same level of data protection as your country of domicile. We assume no responsibility for the security of your data during transmission over the Internet and disclaim any liability for direct and indirect losses. We ask you to use other means of communication if you consider this necessary or reasonable for security reasons.

Despite extensive technical and organizational security precautions, data may be lost or intercepted and/or manipulated by unauthorized persons. As far as possible, we take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent this within our system. However, your computer is outside the security area that we control. It is your responsibility as a user to inform yourself about the necessary security precautions and to take appropriate measures in this regard. As a website operator, we are in no way liable for damages that you may incur as a result of data loss or manipulation.

Data that you provide in online forms can be passed on to commissioned third parties for the purpose of order processing and viewed by them and, if necessary, processed.

 

Third Party Services

This website may use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam, and YouTube for embedding videos.

These services of the American Google LLC use, among other things, cookies and as a result, data is transmitted to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that in this context no personal tracking takes place solely through the use of our website.

Google is committed to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the American-European and American-HK Privacy Shields.

Further information can be found in Google's privacypolicy.

 

Privacy Policy for Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

 

Rights of data subjects

Right to confirmation

Any data subject has the right to request confirmation from the operator of the website as to whether personal data concerning data subjects are being processed. If you would like to make use of this right of confirmation, you can contact the data protection officer at any time.

 

Right to information

Any person affected by the processing with personal data has the right to receive free information from the operator of this website at any time about the personal data stored about him or her and a copy of this information. Furthermore, information may be provided, where appropriate, on the following information:

  • the purposes of the processing

  • the categories of personal data that are processed

  • the recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed

  • if possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining that period

  • the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning them or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing

  • the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority

  • if the personal data are not collected from the data subject: all available information on the origin of the data

Furthermore, the data subject has a right to information as to whether personal data have been transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to obtain information about the appropriate guarantees in connection with the transfer.

If you would like to make use of this right to information, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

 

Right to rectification

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Furthermore, the data subject has the right, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

If you would like to make use of this right of rectification, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

 

Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to request from the controller of this website that the personal data concerning him or her be erased without undue delay, provided that one of the following reasons applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary:

  • The personal data have been collected or otherwise processed for such purposes for which they are no longer necessary

  • The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing

  • The data subject objects to the processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in the event of direct marketing and profiling.

  • The personal data have been processed unlawfully

  • The erasure of the personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject

  • The personal data have been collected in relation to information society services offered that have been made directly to a child

If one of the above reasons applies and you would like to request the deletion of personal data stored by the operator of this website, you can contact our data protection officer at any time. The data protection officer of this website will arrange for the deletion request to be complied with immediately.

 

Right to restriction of processing

Any data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right to request from the controller of this website the restriction of processing if one of the following conditions is met:

  • The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data

  • The processing is unlawful, the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and instead requests the restriction of the use of the personal data

  • The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs them for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

  • The data subject has objected to the processing on grounds arising from his or her particular situation and it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject

If one of the above conditions is met, you would like to request the restriction of personal data stored by the operator of this website, you can contact our data protection officer at any time. The data protection officer of this website will arrange the restriction of the processing.

 

Right to data portability

Any data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. It also has the right to have this data transmitted to another person responsible if the legal requirements are met.

Furthermore, the data subject has the right to obtain that the personal data are transmitted directly from one controller to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

To assert the right to data portability, you can contact the data protection officer appointed by the operator of this website at any time.

 

Right to object

Each data subject shall have the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her.

The operator of this website shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

To exercise the right to object, you can contact the data protection officer of this website directly.

 

Right to revoke consent under data protection law

Each data subject shall have the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If you would like to assert your right to revoke your consent, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

 

Privacy Policy for Objection to Promotional Emails

The use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby rejected. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

 

Fee-based services

In order to provide fee-based services, we request additional data, such as e.B. payment details, in order to place your order or to to be able to carry out your order. We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired.

 

External payment service providers

This website uses external payment service providers through whose platforms users and we can make payment transactions.

For example, about

As part of the performance of contracts, we use the payment service providers on the basis of the Northern Ireland  Data Protection Regulation and, if necessary, Art. 6 para. 1 lit.b. EU GDPR. In addition, we use external payment service providers on the basis of our legitimate interests in accordance with the Swiss Data Protection Regulation and, if necessary, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. EU GDPR in order to offer our users effective and secure payment options.

The data processed by the payment service providers includes inventory data, such as .B name and address, bank data, such as account numbers or credit card numbers, passwords, TANs and checksums as well as the contract, sums and recipient-related information.

The information is required to carry out the transactions. However, the data entered will only be processed by the payment service providers and stored by them. As the operator, we do not receive any information about (bank) account or credit card, but only information to confirm (accept) or reject the payment. Under certain circumstances, the data may be transmitted by the payment service providers to credit agencies.

The purpose of this transmission is to verify identity and creditworthiness. For this purpose, we refer to the terms and conditions and data protection information of the payment service providers.

For the payment transactions, the terms and conditions and the data protection information of the respective payment service providers apply, which can be called up within the respective website or transaction applications. We also refer to these for the purpose of further information and assertion of rights of revocation, information and other data subjects.

 

Note on data transfer to the USA

Among other things, tools from companies based in the USA are integrated into our website. If these tools are active, your personal data may be shared with the US servers of the respective companies. We would like to point out that the USA is not a secure third country within the meaning of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can therefore not be ruled out that US authorities (e.B. secret services) process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

 

Copyrights

The copyright and all other rights to content, images, photos or other files on the website belong exclusively to the operator of this website or the specifically named rights holders. For the reproduction of all files, the written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance.

Anyone who commits a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective rights holder can be liable to prosecution and, if necessary, to pay damages.

 

General Disclaimer

All information on our website has been carefully checked. We endeavor to offer our information up-to-date, correct and complete in terms of content. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, which means that we cannot guarantee the completeness, correctness and timeliness of information, including of a journalistic and editorial nature. Liability claims for material or immaterial damage caused by the use of the information provided are excluded, unless there is evidence of intentional or grossly negligent fault.

The publisher may, at its own discretion and without notice, change or delete texts and is not obliged to update the contents of this website.

The use or access to this website is at the visitor's own risk. The publisher, its clients or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, incidental, pre-determined or consequential damages, which are allegedly caused by the visit to this website and therefore assume no liability for this.

The publisher also assumes no responsibility and liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. The publisher thus expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or that violates common decence.

 

Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. To the extent that the Privacy Policy is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of the change by email or other appropriate means in the event of an update.

 

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection listed at the beginning of the privacy policy in our organization.

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