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Privacy Policy Statement

Program Contractors Limited ("PCL") is committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users. As part of the normal operation of this website, we collect information from you and we intend to give you as much control as possible over your personal information. This Privacy Policy Statement describes the information we collect about you and the ways we may use that information.

Data Collection and Use

To maintain a high standard of service to you, personal data may be collected from you on a voluntary basis for some particular purposes or services as set out hereinbelow. Personal data including names, telephone numbers, email addresses etc. are used by us for the purposes stated on the respective screens, such as¹:

for providing services to promote business opportunities between Hong Kong and overseas, in particular supplying trade enquirers with contact and business information [with your prior written consent]²

• for statistical or research purposes e.g. opinion survey³
• for distribution of publications, promotional and research materials
• for marketing and promotion
• for handling applications for vacant positions
• for following up with general enquiries, comments and suggestions
• for fulfilling any other purposes relating thereto

Personal Data information that you provide will not be used for other purposes without your written consent unless such use is permitted or required by law. If at any time you would like us to cease sending you any materials for marketing and promotion of our services or products, please contact our Data Privacy Officer and we will then ensure that you will not be included in future direct marketing promotions as statutorily required.⁴

In general, personal data provided by you are retained for as long as the purposes for which such data were collected continue. Data are then destroyed unless their retention is required to satisfy legal or regulatory requirements.⁵

Data Security

PCL takes necessary measures⁶ to ensure that information pertaining to personal data that you provide in this website is stored in a secure environment and accessed only by authorised persons. PCL however gives no warranty against hacking by third parties or any unauthorised access to the data by anyone or against any attack by computer viruses.

Restriction on the Use of Materials

The contents of this website, including designs, photographs, illustrations and texts, are under the copyright laws of the HKSAR and overseas countries. They may not be reproduced, transmitted or stored in a retrieval system without our prior written consent.

By sending promotional information to our website, you are giving us the right to display such information on our website and to use such information for the specified purposes, including promotional and marketing initiatives.

Any promotional information displayed in this website should not be regarded as an offer or solicitation to sell any product or services concerned in any country to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such invitation or solicitation in such country.

While you may access the promotional materials contained in this website only for your personal use, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, sell, display, transmit and/or distribute creative or derivative works of this website or exploit the content of this website for commercial or public purposes without the our prior written approval. PCL retains all propriety rights on its website.

You may not use this website for any purpose which is unlawful, abusive, libelous, obscene or threatening.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are commonly used devices for internal navigation and programming to facilitate transmission and provide useful features. When you browse this website, cookies will be stored in your computer's hard drive. In order to improve our services, we record the domain name of your computer and track the pages you visit thus enabling us to compile statistics on the number of visitors to and the usage of our website regarding traffic, pages visited and time spent. 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 features, e.g. banner display or maintenance of continuity during a session, may not be available for browsing.

Access and Correction

Under the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, you have the rights (i) to request access to your personal data information retained by us or make correction thereof; (ii) to ascertain our policies and practices in relation to personal data; and (iii) to be informed of the kind of personal data held by PCL⁷. If you wish to do so, please write to: Data Privacy Officer, Program Contractors Limited, 19/F., Wing Shing Industrial Building,, 26 Ng Fong Street, San Po Kong,, Kowloon, Hong Kong. A reasonable fee for processing a data access request may be charged.

No Warranties

PCL intends to provide the information and materials in this website on an "as is" basis without giving warranty of any kind, either express or implied. In particular, no warranty as to non-infringement, security, accuracy and fitness for a purpose is given in connection with such information and materials.

Whilst all practical steps have been taken to ensure that personal data provided by you are protected against unauthorized or accidental access, processing, erasure or other use⁸, due to the nature of Internet, PCL is not liable in any way for direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of this website or transmission of email messages over the Internet to or from us.

Important:

By accessing this website and any of its pages, you are agreeing to the terms set out herein. PCL reserves the right to amend its prevailing data protection and privacy policy at any time and will place such amendments on this website.

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1.	The list of purposes should be an exhaustive list so as to ensure that any Internet user being the subject of data ("the data subject") is explicitly informed of all the purposes for which the data are to be used on or before collecting the data in compliance with the Data Protection Principles 1(3)(b)(i)(A) and 5(C) of Schedule 1 to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) ("the Ordinance").
2.	According to s.33(2) of the Ordinance, a user of other's personal data ("data user") whose principal place of business is in Hong Kong or who collects, holds, processes or uses the personal data in Hong Kong shall not transfer personal data to a place outside Hong Kong unless, inter alia, (i) the place is one specified by the Privacy Commissioner for Personal data; or (ii) it has reasonable grounds for believing that there is in force in that place any law which is substantially similar to, or serve the same purposes as, the Ordinance; or (iii) the data subject has consented in writing to the transfer; or (iv) it has taken all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to ensure that the data will not, in that place, be collected, held processed or used in any manner which, if that place were Hong Kong, would be a contravention of a requirement under the Ordinance. Therefore, PCL may find it most convenient to simply secure the written consent of the data subject prior to its transfer of the data to an overseas party and obtain such a consent at the time of collecting the data.
3.	Although personal data can be collected for statistical or research purpose, it is advisable that the results of the research are not to be made available in a form which identifies the data subject.
4.	Under s.34 of the Ordinance, a data user who uses the data for direct marketing purposes shall on the first use of those data inform the data subject that the data user is required, without charge to the data subject, to cease to use those data if the data subject so requests.
5.	Data Protection Principle 2(2) of Schedule 1 to the Ordinance provides that personal data shall not be kept longer than is necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose for which the data are or are to be used.
6.	Please note that necessary measures to protect the data against unauthorized or accidental access or processing should take into account the following:-
	(a) the kind of data and the harm that could result if any of those things should occur; (b) the physical location where the data are stored; (c) any security measures incorporated (whether by automated means or otherwise) into any equipment in which the data are stored; (d) any measures taken for ensuring the integrity, prudence and competence of persons having access to the data; and (e) any measures taken for ensuring the secure transmission of the data. [Data Protection Principle 4 of Schedule 1 to the Ordinance]
7.	A data user is required to inform the data subjects of these rights either explicitly or by all practicable steps under Data Protection Principles 1(3)(b)(ii)(A) and 5 of Schedule 1 to the Ordinance.
8.	As required by Data Protection Principle 4 of Schedule 1 to the Ordinance.