This Privacy Policy has been developed in accordance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Chapter 486) of the Laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of The People’s Republic of China. The Ordinance provides data subjects with rights to ascertain whether Hong Kong Food Tours Limited holds personal data relating to them, to obtain a copy of that data, and to correct any data that is inaccurate.
Site visitors can freely explore this Website largely without having to reveal any personal data. On occasion however, it may be necessary for Hong Kong Food Tours Limited to gather information on you for a specific purpose. We will always inform you when we are collecting such information. It is our intention to respect your request for privacy, and we try our best to provide you with communication channels to facilitate this. Once all gathered information has been used for the intended purpose, it is destroyed or de-identified.
Hong Kong Food Tours Limited has created this statement in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering methods and dissemination practices for this Website. Hong Kong Food Tours Limited is not responsible for the privacy practices of other linked sites.
Cookies
Hong Kong Food Tours Limited uses your IP address to assist in diagnosing problems with our server, and to administer our Website. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests.
You can set your browser in order to be notified when you receive a cookie, offering the opportunity to decide whether you will accept it or not. Our site uses various types of forms for site visitors to request information and services.
Use of your Personal Information
Hong Kong Food Tours Limited collects site visitors’ contact information (such as e-mail or phone numbers) and demographic information (e.g. age and country of residence). This information is used by us to further our statutory objectives. Contact information from the forms is used to send promotional materials and information to you. If data collected is to be displayed at a later date, due care will be given to keep it anonymous and you will be advised in advance. Users may “opt-out” of receiving future mailings. Demographic information is used for our research requirements and to tailor your experience at our site, showing content of interest, and displaying the content according to your preferences. We may share with our advertisers such information on an aggregate basis. Users may “opt-out” of receiving future mailings.
When you come to our Website, our server software records the domain name of your computer. We may also track the pages you visit. We do these things so that we can measure traffic, gauge the popularity of various parts of the Website, gain some general knowledge about our audience and compile aggregated statistics.
Data collected by the Hong Kong Food Tours Limited is used only for the purposes indicated above. Personal information will not be disclosed to any third party except as follows:
- On a confidential basis to agents we use in the ordinary course of our business, such as for data management and distribution of our promotional materials.
- As we may be required to do so by laws.
- As you indicate your choice to receive promotional materials from third parties named in the forms.
Data Security
Hong Kong Food Tours Limited will take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up-to-date and stored in a secure environment accessed only by authorized persons.
Please note, however, that whatever a user transmits or discloses online can be collected and used by others or unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Such activities are beyond the control of the Site and this Privacy Policy.
“Opt-Out”
You can opt-out from receiving information from Hong Kong Food Tours Limited or to delete your information from our records at any time should you no longer wish to receive updates of Hong Kong Food Tours Limited developments, activities and promotions. To opt out, please send us an email to info@hongkongfoodietours.com.
Contacting the Website
Should you have further questions regarding this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website and your interaction with it, or to request access and correction to your personal data, please contact:
E-mail: info@hongkongfoodietours.com, Fax: +852 2850 5006
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION STATEMENT
Hong Kong Food Tours Limited may from time to time collect your personal data specific for the purpose of event or activities organized or promoted by it (“Event”).
Purposes for which personal data are collected and used
Hong Kong Food Tours Limited may use the data collected and provided by you for one or more of the following purposes:
- To identify you for entry into promotional activities;
- To contact you regarding your enquiries, confirmation of the Tour, and notify you of promotional activities;
- For announcement and publicity of promotional activities’ result;
- For marketing and promotion purposes;
- For identification and verification purposes;
- For our own internal records, research and statistical purposes; and
- For any other purpose pertaining to the Tour.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements
The Site expects its partners, advertisers and third-party affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through the Site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to the Site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on the Site, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through the Site you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, web sites, advertisements, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. The Site is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
Retention of Data
We will keep your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it is being collected. We may also retain archived personal data for statistical purposes.
Your Consent
By submitting the requisite forms, you certify that all information provided to Hong Kong Food Tours Limited in the form is true and correct. You agree that your personal data given to and collected by Hong Kong Food Tours Limited from time to time may be used and disclosed for the foregoing purposes, and to such persons as may be appropriate in accordance with this Personal Information Collection Statement and Privacy Policy of Hong Kong Food Tours Limited.
Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be changed at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.