Privacy Policy

Hong Kong Brahma Management Services Foundation respects your legal rights of privacy when collecting, storing, using and transmitting personal data and this Privacy Policy ( the “Policy” ) explains our practices. We pledge to comply with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) (the “Ordinance”) of the Laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”). Throughout this Policy, the meaning of the term “personal data” is defined in the Ordinance.

We will take appropriate measures to safeguard personal data security. However, given the nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee security of data transmission over the internet. Accordingly despite our efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, or to or from our online product or services. You transmit all such information at your own risk.

Email address(es) and other personal data (including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, etc) collected by us through this website are to be provided voluntarily by you. You are not obliged to supply the personal data, but if you do not, the services and features may not be available.

When you browse this website, cookies will be stored in your computer(s), mobile phone(s) or other devices for internal navigation and programming only. You can edit your browser settings to disable cookies but to do so you may not be able to utilise certain functionality of the website.

We do not collect any personally identifiable information from you during your browsing of this website. When you visit the website, we record your visit only as a ‘hit’ and do not collect any personal data from it. We will, however, make a record of such visit that shows only the source address(es), their e-mail address(es), and the page(s) visited. We use such information only for preparing general statistics on the usage of our website.

We ensure your personal data is not kept longer than is necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose for which the personal data is or is to be used. Different retention periods apply to the various kinds of personal data collected and held by us.

We reserve the right but undertake no duty to review, edit or otherwise change this Policy at our sole discretion and without notice. Any enquiries regarding this Policy may be addressed to us via email to info@brahmashrine.org.hk or via mail to 25/F, Goldin Financial Global Centre, 17 Kai Cheung Road, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, Attn: Hong Kong Brahma Shrine Personal Data (Privacy) Officer.

Collection and use of personal data

Generally, we collect personal data in order to:

1. follow up on comments, enquiries and complaints that you submit to the website;
2. monitor use of the website to help its further development;
3. understand your needs so as to provide better services;
4. compile aggregate statistics about you to analyse usage of the website;
5. operate internal control, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce terms of use;
6. contact you regarding administrative notices and communication;
7. collect data for identity verification and record and maintain contact lists for correspondence;
8. design and provide to you facilities, services and/or products;
9. promote, improve and/or further the provision of facilities, services and/or products;
10. deliver information that you may have interest in;
11. transfer your personal data (including out of Hong Kong) for any of the above purpose(s); and
12. any other purpose(s) which has been agreed by or notified to you.

In cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal data is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the disclaimers or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other user(s), or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities, we may disclose your personal data.

Transfer of personal data

We will take all practicable steps to keep your personal data confidential but we may transfer/assign such data to any person to whom we are under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirement of any law binding on us or for the purposes of any guidelines or codes of practice issued by regulatory or other authorities with which we are reasonably expected to comply.

Personal data collected by us will not be sold, provided or transferred except as provided herein or with your consent.

Access to personal data

You have the right to request access to, and correction of, personal data about you held by us. If you need to check whether we hold your personal data or if you wish to have access to correct any personal data relating to you which is inaccurate, please write to us via email to info@brahmashrine.org.hk or via mail to 25/F, Goldin Financial Global Centre, 17 Kai Cheung Road, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, Attn: Hong Kong Brahma Shrine Personal Data (Privacy) Officer.

In case of discrepancies between the English version and Chinese version in respect of all or any part of this Policy, the English version shall prevail.