InvestHK and FINNOVASIA Limited (collectively, “we”, “our” or “us”) are committed to ensuring that all personal data collected by us are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.
We may collect, use, store and transfer your personal information when you attend our functions, use our services, register with us or communicate with us. The typical types of information held by InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA are basic contact details (such as name, job title, company name, address, email, travel document details, telephone and fax numbers), a record of our contact with you and your areas of interest e.g. sectors, events, publications etc.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us (to be done in accordance with the terms of the contract we have with you) but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
The main purposes for which personal data are kept and used by InvestHK and / FINNOVASIA include:
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We may send you the latest news, events, updates, promotions, offers, e-newsletters and market research invitations by fax, email, direct mail, telephone and other means of communication whether now or hereafter. We cannot provide you with any promotional materials unless we have received your consent, and you can withdraw your consent without charge at any time. We will get your express opt-in consent before we use your personal data for direct marketing purposes. You may choose to opt-out by simply telling us (see below for contact details), and we will cease to send your any further direct marketing communications.
The data collected will be kept confidential. InvestHK and FINNOVASIA Limited will not divulge or sell personal details to external parties for their own purposes.
InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA Limited may, however, provide contact information to:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We may also disclose your personal data to governments, regulatory authorities and bodies and to other individuals, bodies and organisations such as dispute resolution, prosecution and law enforcement bodies, legal advisers, and organisations which conduct credit and fraud checks, for the purposes of complying with our legal obligations.
Only authorised people have access to, custody of and the means of using personal data InvestHK and FINNOVASIA collects. InvestHK and FINNOVASIA promote a privacy-aware culture that respects and is sensitive to the rights of its external contacts.
Data captured on-line or via this website (https://www.fintechweek.hk/) retained with InvestHK and FINNOVASIA. Storage of your data with InvestHK and FINNOVASIA is protected in accordance with the requirements of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region which protect against unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure or other use.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA retain personal data so long as the data are still required for the purposes mentioned above, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
We may transfer your personal data out of Hong Kong in circumstances where it is necessary for us to process your personal data or otherwise for us to provide you with our goods and services. Whenever we do so, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
This website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. These third-party websites may have their own privacy policies and we recommend that you review them. They will govern the use of personal information that you submit or which is collected by cookies and other tracking technologies whilst browsing these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party services and your use of these is at your own risk.
Our website uses 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. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
An individual may request access to his personal data held by InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA pursuant to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. A charge may be imposed to cover the cost of photocopying personal data at the rate as approved by the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury. In addition, an individual may also request for correction of his personal data held by InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA if he considers the data are inaccurate.
Under the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, you have the rights:
If you are in an EU Member State, subject to certain limitation and/or restrictions, you have the following additional rights under the data protection laws in the EU:
Individuals in the EU also have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of their personal data with their local data protection authority.
Please contact the following officer of InvestHK for request relating to access and correction of your personal data:
Departmental Secretary Invest Hong Kong
25/F Fairmont House
8 Cotton Tree Drive
Central
Hong Kong
Tel No.: (852)3107 1073
Fax No.: (852)3107 9140
Data-protection@investhk.gov.hk
Please contact the following officer of FINNOVASIA for request relating to access and correction of your personal data:
Company Secretary
The Verse, 29/F, The Chelsea, 69 Jervois St, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Tel No.: (852)2526 9133
hk@finnovasia.com
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Commissioner so please contact us in the first instance.
If there is any conflict between the Chinese and English versions of this Statement, the English version will prevail.
This document informs Users about the technologies that help Hong Kong FinTech Week to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with Hong Kong FinTech Week.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
Hong Kong FinTech Week uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information – such as the presence of other Trackers - in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
Hong Kong FinTech Week uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Hong Kong FinTech Week uses Trackers to provide a personalized user experience by improving the quality of preference management options, and by enabling interaction with external networks and platforms.
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of Hong Kong FinTech Week and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows Hong Kong FinTech Week to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
Hong Kong FinTech Week uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior with the goal of improving the Service.
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of Hong Kong FinTech Week, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
The services contained in this section allow the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of Hong Kong FinTech Week.
Google Optimize is an A/B testing service provided by Google LLC ("Google").
Google may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
Google Optimize 360 is an A/B testing service provided by Google LLC ("Google").
This service allows the Owner to target groups of Users on the base of their past use of Hong Kong FinTech Week. Users that opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics will not be included in experiments created in Google Optimize 360.
Google may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
Heat mapping services are used to display the areas of Hong Kong FinTech Week that Users interact with most frequently. This shows where the points of interest are. These services make it possible to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of User behavior.
Some of these services may record sessions and make them available for later visual playback.
Hotjar is a session recording and heat mapping service provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
Hong Kong FinTech Week uses Trackers to deliver personalized marketing content based on User behavior and to operate, serve and track ads.
This type of service allows Hong Kong FinTech Week and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of Hong Kong FinTech Week by the User.
This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.
LinkedIn Website Retargeting is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by LinkedIn Corporation that connects the activity of Hong Kong FinTech Week with the LinkedIn advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC that connects the activity of Hong Kong FinTech Week with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.
Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies for ads personalization by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration: up to 2 years
Remarketing with Google Analytics is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC that connects the tracking activity performed by Google Analytics and its Cookies with the Google Ads advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
There are various ways to manage Tracker related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:
Users can manage preferences related to Trackers from directly within their own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of Trackers.
Additionally, whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, Users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences widget, if available.
It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored Trackers, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent.
Other Trackers in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Departmental Secretary Invest Hong Kong
25/F Fairmont House
8 Cotton Tree Drive
Central
Hong Kong
Company Secretary
The Verse, 29/F, The Chelsea, 69 Jervois St, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Tel No.: (852)2526 9133
Email: hk@finnovasia.com
Owner contact email: data-protection@investhk.gov.hk
Since the use of third-party Trackers through Hong Kong FinTech Week cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by Hong Kong FinTech Week.
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Information collected automatically through Hong Kong FinTech Week (or third-party services employed in Hong Kong FinTech Week), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use Hong Kong FinTech Week, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
The individual using Hong Kong FinTech Week who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of Hong Kong FinTech Week. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of Hong Kong FinTech Week.
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
The service provided by Hong Kong FinTech Week as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
This cookie policy relates solely to Hong Kong FinTech Week, if not stated otherwise within this document.
Latest update: 6 July 2022