Privacy Policy

This website is owned by The University of Hong Kong (the “University”, “Website”, “We” or“Us”). This website is committed to respecting the privacy rights of our users, visitors, and other public users of the website in accordance with Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486 of the Laws of Hong Kong) (“PDPO”). We created this policy (“Privacy Policy”) to give you confidence as you visit and use the website, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. This Privacy Policy is only applicable to the website, and not to any other websites that you may be able to access from the website or any website of our partners, each of which may have data collection, storage, and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy. Your use of the website is governed by this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTED
We automatically track and collect the following categories of information when you use the website: (1) IP addresses; (2) domain servers; (3) types of mobile device accessing the website; (4) referring source which may have sent you to the website; and (6) other information associated with the interaction of your browser and the website (collectively “Traffic Data”).

COOKIES
“Cookies” are small computer files that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive that contain information such as user ID, user preferences, lists of pages visited and activities conducted while using the websites. At your option, expense and responsibility, you may block cookies or delete cookies from your mobile device. However, by disabling cookies, you may not have access to the entire set of features of the website.

Other cookies used by our partners may collect other non-personally-identifying information, such as the mobile device’s IP address, type of operating system, type of browser, what web pages were viewed at what time, the geographic location of your internet service provider and demographic information, such as gender and age range. This information is used to provide us with more information about our users’ demographics and internet behaviours.

We do not link the information stored in these cookies directly to any of your Personal Information you submit while on the website, however.

WEB BEACONS
In limited circumstances, we also may use “Web Beacons” to collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our website and the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of emails, special promotions or newsletters we send to you. “Web Beacons” are tiny graphic image files embedded in a web page or email that provide a presence on the web page or email and send back to its home server information from the user’s browser. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using the website and selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, or opening our emails, and for what purposes.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS
We may use third-party website analytics services in connection with the website. The third-party website analytics will not track your browsing habits across any websites that are not using their services. We are using the information collected from these services to find usability problems to make the website easier to use. The collected data will never identify you or your account. We only record anonymous user information.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your Contact Data to send you information about the website or Services, to
contact you when necessary, including to remind you of upcoming or follow-up appointments, and in conjunction with your use of certain Interactive Tools. We may use your Demographic Data, your Traffic Data or your Medical Data to customize and tailor your experience on the website, in emails and other communications, displaying content that we think you might be interested in and according to your preferences.

SHARING OF INFORMATION
We share certain categories of information we collect from you in the ways described in this Privacy Policy. We may share Demographic Data with advertisers and other third parties only on an aggregate (i.e., non-personally identifiable) basis. We also share Personal Information and Traffic Data with our partners who assist us by performing core services (such as hosting, fulfilment, or data storage and security) related to our operation of the website and/or by making certain Interactive Tools available to our users. Those partners shall be bound to uphold the same standards of security and confidentiality that we have promised to you in this Privacy Policy, and they will only use your Contact Data and other Personal Information to carry out their specific obligations to the website. We do not share, sell, rent or trade your Personal Information with any third parties for their promotional purposes

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your Personal Information private and will not share it with third parties, unless we believe in good faith that disclosure of your Personal Information or any other information we collect about you is necessary to (1) comply with a court order or other legal process; (2) protect the rights, property or safety of us or another party; (3) enforce our Terms of Use; or (4) respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties.

UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy so please review it frequently. If we do, then we will notify you here, as well as by posting a notice on our Website and/or by e-mailing you, along with a description of any changes (material or otherwise) and, where appropriate, a link to the modified policy so that you can review it. In all cases, the use of the information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The website contains links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. We do not share your personal information with those websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. Should you decide to visit one of these third-party websites, we suggest that you read its privacy policy.

APPLICABLE LAW
This Privacy Policy shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.