Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 1 November, 2024
Welcome to Creating Shared Value!
Creating Shared Value values and respects your privacy. We understand the importance of protecting your information, thus we are committed to ensuring that all personal data provided under various applications and notifications are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information and data. By using our services, you consent to the practices described in this policy. It also sets out your rights and who you can contact for more information or queries.
In this Privacy Policy, “CSV”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Creating Shared Value.
1. Information We Collect
In order to provide a better service to you, we may collect information when you attend our functions, use our services, register with us or communicate with us. The typical types of information held by CSV are basic contact details (such as name, job title, company name, address, email, telephone and fax numbers), a record of our contact with you and your areas of interest e.g. sectors, events, publications etc.
2. Purposes of Collecting and Keeping Personal Data
The main purposes for which personal data are kept and used by CSV include:
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To provide services or information to your organisations / companies;
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To mail communications, publications, invitations and such like as you may select, request or as we may consider to be relevant to you;
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To measure the success of specific campaigns and for general market research; and for registration for events.
We may conduct direct marketing via fax, email, direct mail, telephone and other means of communication whether now or hereafter know, 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. If applicable law requires that we receive your explicit consent before we send you certain types of marketing communications, we will only send you those types of communications after receiving your explicit consent.
3. Privacy of Personal Data
Our website may use cookies to help us gauge what information is most useful to which users and such like. Cookies, however, keep the identity of our individual website users anonymous.
The data collected will be kept confidential. CSV will not divulge or sell personal details to external parties for their own purpose. CSV may however provide contact information to:
– Agents, contractors and personnel who provide services to CSV (for example, to those agencies engaged by CSV to administer the distribution of materials).
When we transfer your personal data to third parties, we do so for the purposes stated under this Statement, for the administration and maintenance of websites and associated systems, and/or other internal or administrative purposes.
It is our policy to use only third party service providers that are bound to maintain appropriate levels of security and confidentiality and process personal information only as instructed by us pursuant to the contract between us. Subject to the foregoing, third party service providers may also use their respective subsidiaries and affiliates, and their own third party subcontractors that have access to personal data (sub-processors) to meet purposes of disclosure and/or transfer.
4. Security and Retention of Personal Data
Only authorised people have access to, custody of and the means of using personal data CSV collects. CSV promotes a privacy-aware culture that respects and is sensitive to the rights of its external contacts.
CSV will try our best to protect your personal data from unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure or other use.
CSV retains personal data so long as the data are still required for the purposes mentioned above.
5. Third Party Links
Please be aware that our website may contain links to other sites, these sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy but by other privacy policy that may differ somewhat. Please note that your personal data is beyond the control of CSV and thus is outside the scope of protection afforded by CSV. We encourage users to review the privacy statement of each website visited before disclosing any personal information.
6. Your Rights
If you have submitted personal information to CSV, you have the following rights:
• Access: You have the right to access that data. If we agree that we are obliged to provide personal information to you, we will provide it to you free of charge. Before providing personal information to you, we may ask for proof of identity and sufficient information about your interactions with us that we can locate your personal information.
• Correction: If the information we hold about you is incorrect, you may ask us to correct any inaccuracies in your personal information.
• Object to processing: You may have the right to object to us processing your personal information if we are not entitled to use it anymore.
• Withdrawal of consent: Where we process your personal information on the legal basis of the consent from you, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting CSV via the email below (note: withdrawal of consent does not affect the validity of our consent-based personal information processing prior to the withdrawal).
• Deletion: in addition, you may have rights to have your information deleted if we are keeping it too long, have its processing restricted in certain circumstances and/or to obtain copies of information we hold about you in electronic form.
7. Changes to This Privacy Statement
CSV may modify this Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect our current privacy practices. When we make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will revise the "Updated/Effective Date” at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed about how CSV is protecting your information.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about our administration of your personal information, please contact us at: chrischeung@csv.hk