Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
ZHONG LUN LAW FIRM LLP complies with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). For more information about the Ordinance, you may wish to visit the official website of the Office of the Privacy Commission at https://www.pcpd.org.hk/ By providing personal information to us on this Website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information in accordance with this privacy policy. Information We Collect Automatically If you merely browse through this Website or download information, our servers will automatically collect certain information from you. This information includes: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the browser you use and your operating system; the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the website from which you link directly to this Website; the pages you viewed. We will use information that we automatically collect to manage and improve our website to make it as useful as possible for visitors like you. None of the information we automatically collect is tied to personal information you may provide to us. Information You Choose to Provide to Us Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson gathers and retains personal information about you only when it is voluntarily submitted by you. For example, if you choose to contact us by email, we will retain the information you submit to respond to your inquiry or consider your request. After we have taken the appropriate action, the information you submitted will be retained for our records. If we change the manner in which we use or retain personal information you provide to us, we will update this Privacy Policy. Direct marketing We would like to use your name and contact details to send you marketing materials about our legal services and/or related products but we must obtain the consent (or an indication of no objection) of persons who become our clients (or staff) after 1 April 2013 before we can do so. We will however continue to send marketing materials to all persons who were our clients (or staff) before 1 April 2013 as usual, as we are permitted to do so by the Ordinance. If you do not want to receive our marketing materials, please send an email in this respect to lawyers@bpya.com.hk. Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties Your personal data will generally be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to any other person without your consent. Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson will not sell or rent the personal information you provide to us to any third party. In addition, we will not disclose the personal information you provide to us without your consent, except as required by law. Cookies A cookie is a small text file that a website can place on your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping or other administrative purposes. We currently do not use cookies on this Website; however, cookies may be used at certain websites accessible through links on this Website. Your emails The message and any attachment is private and confidential and may also be legally privileged and is intended for the recipient(s) identified. If you have received a message by mistake, please immediately notify the sender and delete the message. You are not entitled to use or copy the message, or to disclose it to any third party. Email is not a secure medium, meaning that there is risk of interference, hacking or virus attack. Whilst we adopt and apply industry standards in guarding against such risks and take precautions to ensure that our electronic communications are uncorrupted and virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) of the message to ensure that the content of the message and any attachment is intact and virus-free. If you require us to provide you with greater degrees of security, we can encrypt / password protect emails and their attachments. Please contact the sender of the message if you would like us to provide you with any such increased protection. |