These Statements are, except where separate and distinctive statements are provided, applicable to the EVI Services Ltd. Accordingly, references to "we", "us", or "our company" etc. mean , as the case may be, the relevant company within the EVI Services Ltd.

I. Privacy Policy Statement

Our Pledge

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of individuals with respect to personal data. We therefore make sure that our policies and practices in relation to the collection, use, retention, transfer and access of personal data comply with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Chapter 486) under the laws of Wanchai, Hong Kong.

Types of Personally Identifiable Information Collected

At times, you may be required to give your personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, your name, gender, age, identity document number, telephone number, fax number, home address, email address, credit card information, bank account number, education level, occupation, household income, interests and favourite activities etc.. Refusal to provide such information may deny you of access to certain parts of our web site, or may render us unable to handle any application or request you are making, or may otherwise defeat the objectives of your visit. If you are under the age of 18, consent from your parent or guardian is required before you give us any personally identifiable information.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information Collected

Specific purposes for which your personally identifiable information may be used are set out in our Personal Data Collection Statement set out in II below (particularly those contained in points (i) through to (vi) in the third paragraph of II below).

Direct Marketing

If you have once given us your personally identifiable information, you may receive from us or from our affiliated companies from time to time telephone calls, email and direct mailings containing promotional materials. If you do not want to receive them, please write to our Data Protection Officer. You may be asked to indicate your preference before signing up for any of our paid services.

Retention of the Information

If you are our paid subscriber, your personally identifiable information which you have given us via Internet, application form or other means, during the subscription period will be retained for a reasonable period after termination of your subscription.

Disclosure of Information

Normally, we may share your information with, or transfer it to, EVI Services Ltd affiliated companies. For details, please refer to our Personal Data Collection Statement set out in II below. If you do not want to have your information disclosed to any third party, please write to our Data Protection Officer.

Access to and Correction of Information

If you want to access and/or correct your personally identifiable information which you have given us via Internet, application form or other means, you may write to our Data Protection Officer. We may charge you a reasonable fee for each successful access current from time to time. However, such fee will be waived if the access is necessary to make a genuine and reasonable correction.

Security

We use various encryption techniques to transmit via the Internet your Personal Data, which can only be accessed by our authorised personnel. Given the nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that the transmission is 100% secure. Please, however, refer to our Security Statement (at [a designated Internet address]) for details on the steps that we have taken to ensure that any Personal Data collected by us via our websites is safe and secure from third party interference.

Use of Cookies

Your visiting our web site(s), may trigger our use of cookies. For your information, Cookies are small computer files that can be stored in web surfers' computers for the purposes of obtaining configuration information and analysing web surfers' viewing habits. They can save you from registering again when re-visiting a web site and are commonly used to track your preferences in relation to the subject matter of the web site. You may refuse to accept Cookies (by modifying the relevant Internet options or browsing preferences of your computer system), but to do so you may not be able to utilize or activate certain available functions in our web sites.

On-line Services

We may have on-line stores or service providers hosted in our web site which are operated by third party merchants. If you want to use or order any services or products from any of them, please note that any information you provide, once transferred to the relevant merchant, is beyond our control and thus outside the scope of protection afforded by us.

Enquiries

Should you have any enquiries concerning our Privacy Policy Statement, please feel free to contact our Data Protection Officer. The address is as follows:

Data Protection Officer
13/F., Park Commercial Centre,
180 Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay
Hong Kong.

II. Personal Data Collection Statement

As a subscriber of our company, or a visitor or user of our web site(s), it may be necessary for you to provide us with your personal information ("Personal Data") when you apply to us and/or continue to subscribe with us for a service and/or product ("Services"). If your Personal Data is incomplete or incorrect, we may not be able to provide or continue to provide the Services to you.

We shall keep your Personal Data confidential at all times. Our policies and practices with respect to the collection, use, retention, disclosure, transfer, security and access of Personal Data will be in accordance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("Ordinance") and are as set out in this Statement.

You agree that your Personal Data provided by you to us may be used and retained by us for the following purposes and for other purposes as shall be agreed between you and us or required by law from time to time:

You further agree that we may disclose and transfer (whether in Hong Kong or abroad) to our agents, contractors, any telecommunications operators, any third party service providers, any third party collection agencies, any credit reference agencies, any security agencies, any credit providers, banks, financial institutions, our professional advisers, any other persons under a duty of confidentiality to us and any of our actual or proposed assignees or transferees of our rights with respect to you to use, disclose, hold, process, retain or transfer such Personal Data for the purposes mentioned above.

In addition, in accordance with your agreement with us or consent given to us (as the case may be), we may disclose and transfer your Personal Data (whether in Hong Kong or abroad) to any company within, EVI Services Ltd., any of their subsidiaries and any company in which the same has a direct or indirect interest or with which it is in joint venture or co-operation or their respective successors and assigns ("EVI Services Ltd.") and to include that Personal Data in one or more databases held by us for the purposes mentioned above, the carrying out of market research, credit assessments, marketing of goods and/or services by us and/or the EVI Services Ltd. and for the performance of procedures for comparing Personal Data with other information supplied by you to us and/or the EVI Services Ltd. for such purposes and for other purposes as shall be agreed between you and us or required by law from time to time. If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us with respect to goods and/or services not related to or in connection with the Services, or for us to disclose, transfer or use your Personal Data for the purposes as set out in this paragraph, please write to us at the address below quoting your name, address and account number(s).

Under and in accordance with the Ordinance, you have the right to:

In accordance with the Ordinance, we have the right to charge a reasonable fee for the processing of any Personal Data access request. All requests for access to or correction of Personal Data or information regarding policies and practices and types of Personal Data held should be in writing and addressed to our Data Protection Officer.

Please note that this Statement may be amended from time to time without. Notices regarding amendments will be posted at our home-page to inform you of the effective dates of the amendments. Amendments will not have retrospective effect.

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