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Policy

This website of the "ARTS•TECH Exhibition" at www.arts-tech.hk ("the Website") is developed and maintained by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council ("HKADC" or "we").  The HKADC shall comply with The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, Cap. 486 of the Laws of Hong Kong ("Ordinance") and is committed to provide protection and endeavours to keep in strict confidence any personal data received by the HKADC.

The following policies on privacy ("Policy") are applicable to this Website directly operated by the HKADC, and any other electronic communications and activities engaged under this Website.

You are requested to read this policy very carefully, so as to ensure that you fully understand how this Website will handle your personal data when you are utilizing this Website and the services in connection therewith. Your [continued] use of this Website constitutes your acceptance to the liability and policy statement posted hereunder. The HKADC may amend, vary or add to this policy without any notice to you. Please check this Website regularly for the relevant policy statement. If you continue to use this Website after the amendment of the policy statement, you are deemed to have accepted the relevant amendment/variation.

Data Collection

  1. We primarily collect and keep your personal data for the following purposes:
    • Newsletter Subscription
    • Provision of contents and contacts in response to enquiries
    • Participant Survey
  2. Under general circumstances, the HKADC will not transfer, sell, trade or disclose any information or personal data you provided to us to any third party without your prior consent or notice to you. Only authorized staff of the HKADC can access to your personal data for administrative purposes without your authorization or notice to you.
  3. Under special circumstances, the HKADC shall have the right to disclose or release your personal data to any third party without your prior consent or notice to you. The said special circumstances include the protection of the rights, interests, copyright and intellectual property rights of the HKADC and its users, and the investigation or inquiry of illegal activities and any procedures required by law and the protection of the personal safety of the users and general public, etc.
  4. The HKADC reserves the right to use the personal data you provided for statistical and data analysis and may collect personal data and reserves the right to use the results derived from the statistical analysis of such information, which shall not include any personally identifiable information. The HKADC is the owner and proprietor of the results generated from such statistical analysis and reserves the right to announce, use and publish the same.
  5. The Websites provides links to websites of third parties. As soon as you visit sites hosted under the other parties through the links provided by the Website, you are deemed to have left the Website and the HKADC is not in any way related to these third party's websites. The HKADC does not accept responsibility for the products or services or acts in connection with such third party's website. Moreover, such third party's website has its own set of privacy policies and practices and this policy does not cover such third party practices. The HKADC accepts no responsibility for any security, confidentiality and data protection issues arising from any personal data you provide to these sites.

Domain Names and IP Addresses

  1. Every time you visit the Website, our network servers will automatically verify your IP address and the HKADC will use such data for visitor flow statistical and data analysis

Cookies

  1. When you log on the Website, the HKADC may record the relevant data containing your browsing preferences (i.e. “cookies”) through your browser to your computer hard disk, so that the site will be displayed according to the users’ usual way of use on subsequent visits.
  2. We also use third party cookies such as Google Analytics and Google Maps for better user experience and analytics purposes.
  3. In order to provide appropriate and personalized information to individual registered users, the HKADC may send “cookies” to and collect information from users’ computer hard disk through your browser.
  4. Should you wish to refuse cookies, you may change your browser’s settings, but such acts may interfere with your ability to use some of the services of the HKADC.

Contact Us

5/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang
Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Tel: 2820 1083

Email: arts.tech@hkadc.org.hk