Privacy Policy

InvestHK and FINNOVASIA Limited 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.

Personal data collected and held‍

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 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.

Purposes of collecting and keeping personal data‍

The main purposes for which personal data are kept and used by InvestHK and / Finnovasia include:

To provide services or information about Hong Kong FinTech Week
To provide services or information to facilitate companies to set up or expand their business operation in Hong Kong
To mail communications, publications, invitations and such like as you may select, request or as we may consider being relevant to you
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 required 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.

Privacy of personal data‍

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.

The data collected will be kept confidential. InvestHK and FINNOVASIA Limited will not divulge or sell personal details to external parties for their own purpose. InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA Limited may, however, provide contact information to:

Agents, contractors and personnel who provide services to InvestHK and/or FINNOVASIA Limited (for example, to those agencies engaged by InvestHK and /or FINNOVASIA Limited to administer the distribution of materials); and
companies and clients of InvestHK and/ or FINNOVASIA Limited requiring information of service providers.

Security and retention of personal data

‍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.

InvestHK and/or Finnovasia retain personal data so long as the data are still required for the purposes mentioned above.

Third-party Link

This website may contain hyperlinks to website owned and operated by third parties. 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.

Access to and correction of personal data

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 right:

to check whether we hold personal data about you and to access such data
to require us to correct inaccurate data
to ascertain our policies and practices in relation to personal data and the kind of personal held by us.

If you are in an EU Member State, subject to certain limitation and/or restrictions, you have the right under the data protection laws in the EU:

to request access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data
to obtain restriction of processing or to object to the processing of your personal data
to the right to data portability

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

3/F, 154 Des Voeux Road Central