Eversharp International Group Limited is
committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with any other
documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we
collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please
read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding
your personal data and how we will treat it.
Information collection
In order to provide a better service to
you, we may collect and process the following data about you:
(a) information
that you provide by filling in forms on our website //www.eversharpgroup.com//
(the “Site”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to
use our Site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting
further services. We may also ask you for information at other times, for
example in connection with a promotion or when you report a problem with our
Site;
(b) if you
contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
(c) we may also
ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do
not have to respond to them;
(d) details of
transactions you carry out through our Site and of the fulfilment of your
orders;
(e) details of
your visits to our Site and the resources that you access.
(f) Name, Email,
Contact Phone Number, Willingness to receive eDM (electronic distribution mail)
We only retain
personal data for so long as it is necessary. Data may be archived as long as
the purpose for which the data was used still exists.
Uses made of the information
The purposes for which information may be
used by us in and outside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region include:
(a) ensuring
that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you
and for your computer;
(b) providing
you with alerts, promotion, event invitation and newsletter or information that
you requested or signed up to;
(c) carrying out
our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
(d) allowing you
to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do
so;
(e) designing
and conducting surveys/questionnaires for client profiling/segmentation,
statistical analysis, improving and furthering the provision our products and
services;
(f) complying
with laws and regulations applicable to us or any of our affiliates in or
outside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region;
(g) legal
proceedings, including collecting overdue amounts and seeking professional
advices;
(h) researching,
designing and launching services or products including seminars/events/forums;
(i) promoting
and marketing services and products subject to your exercise of the opt-out
right (please see further details in Clause 2.2 below); or
(j) purposes
directly related or incidental to the above.
We intend to use
your data in direct marketing and we require your consent (which includes an
indication of no objection) for that purpose. In this connection, please note
that:
(a) your name,
contact details (including address, contact number, email address), products
and services information, transaction pattern and behavior, background and
demographic data held by us from time to time may be used by us in direct
marketing;
(b) the
following classes of services, products and subjects may be marketed in direct
marketing:
(i) services and
products related to our Site and/or our affiliates (including marketing
affiliates programs we are a part of);
(ii) reward,
loyalty or privileges programmes, promotional offers and related services; and
(iii)invitations
to events such as seminars/webinars/tele-seminars, conferences, live programs
or events.
(c) We may
conduct direct marketing via fax, email, direct mail, telephone and other means
of communication or send e-newsletters to you. You may choose not to receive
promotional materials, by simply telling us (see below for contact details),
and we will cease to do so, without charge.
Disclosure of your information
We will keep the personal data we hold
confidential but may provide information to:
(a) personnel,
agents, advisers, auditors, contractors, financial institutions, and service
providers in connection with our operations or services;
(b) our overseas
offices, affiliates, business partners and counterparts (if any);
(c) persons
under a duty of confidentiality to us;
(d) persons to
whom we are required to make disclosure under applicable laws and regulations
in or outside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; or
(e) actual or
proposed transferees or participants of our services in or outside the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you
from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good
experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our Site.
By continuing to browse the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and
numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you
agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard
drive.
We use the following cookies:
(a)
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number
of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using
it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by
ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Please note that
third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of
external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies,
over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be
analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
We may use the
following third party web analytic services on the website. The service
providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web
server logs and web beacons to help us analyse how visitors use the website.
The information collected through these means (including IP address) is
disclosed to these service providers, who use the information to evaluate use
of the website. These analytic services may use the data collected to
contextualise and personalise the marketing materials of their own advertising
network.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analysis service
provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google’s ability to use and share
information collected by Google Analytics is in accordance with their policies:
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
You can prevent Google’s collection and
processing of data by using the Google Ads Settings page or downloading and
installing their browser plug-in (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
You block cookies by activating the setting
on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including
essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.
Security
All information you provide to us is stored
on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a
password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a
password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our
best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your
data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we
have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security
features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our Privacy
Policy in the future will be posted on this page.
Data transfers
We may hold your data on servers in Data is
stored in the database which is hosted in Hong Kong and we use the collected
information for promotion and advertising purposes and any other territories as
we see fit from time to time. We may also transfer your data to our overseas
offices or to any people listed at Clause 3 above, who may be located in or
outside of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Your consent and rights
By using our service, making an application
or visiting our website, you consent to the collection and use of your
information and other activities as outlined in this policy.
Under the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy)
Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), individuals have the right:
(a) to check
whether we hold personal data about you and to access such data;
(b) to require
us to correct as soon as reasonably practicable any data relating to you that
is inaccurate;
(c) to ascertain
our policies and practices in relation to personal data and the kind of
personal data held by us; and
(d) to object to
the use of your personal data for marketing purposes and we shall not use your
personal data for marketing purposes after you communicate your objection to
us.
You may exercise
your opt-out right by notifying us if you wish to object to the use of your
personal data for direct marketing purposes. Please send requests for such
objections, access to data, correction of data, information regarding policies
and practices and kinds of data held, questions or complaints to:
Address: Suite
1307-1309, Leighton Centre, 77 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Tel: +852
5499 7521 Email: info@eversharpint.com
In accordance
with the terms of the Ordinance, we have the right to and may charge a
reasonable fee for processing any data access request.
In the event
that a User wishes to access or amend his or her personal information and data,
the Company may request him or her to provide personal details in order to
verify and confirm his or her identity. A HKID card number or passport number
or business registration certificate number cannot be amended unless such data
is proved to be inaccurate. The Company is required to respond to a User’s
request within seven (7) days of his or her request and will endeavor to do so
wherever possible.
Governing law and jurisdiction
Nothing in this Privacy Policy shall limit
the rights of the data subject under the Ordinance. This Privacy Policy shall
be governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. You
agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Hong Kong courts.