Privacy Policy
DEF (HONG
KONG) Ltd. and store.def.com.hk (collectively "DEF"/“we”) are
committed to safeguarding your privacy and pledges to observe the requirements
of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Chapter 486 in the Laws of Hong
Kong). This Privacy Policy applies to all products and services provided by DEF
and sets out how DEF may collect, use and disclose your personal information.
When you use this Website, DEF will not collect any information which
identifies your personal identity until you in fact decide to buy our insurance
products, register as a member, and/or file information for job application
purposes.
Except as specified in the "Collection
of Personal Information" section below, DEF will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to
third parties except when having your permission or under special
circumstances, such as where required by law or in order to protect our legal
rights, or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a
substantial part of our business, with or to another company.
DEF will take
all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data you provide to us are
properly stored.
If you have any queries in relation to our
privacy policy and practice, please feel free to contact us.
Collection of Personal Information
The following are purposes for which
personal information are collected by DEF
from its users:
(1) processing your orders;
(2) provision of product inquiry service;
(3) provision of pre-sales and after-sales
service;
(4) communication with customers and/or
users of this Website;
(5) providing you with promotional
materials relating to our services or products or related fitness and health
products.
It may be mandatory for you to provide
certain categories of personal information (as specified at the time of
collection). In the event that you do not provide any personal information
marked as mandatory, we may not be able to provide you with our products and
services.
We may collect aggregate data that does not
allow you to be identified. This information helps us better understand your
needs and adapt our products and services. We may share aggregate data with
third parties, including for advertising and marketing purposes.
Personal information of users of this
Website collected by DEF through this Website may be transferred and disclosed
to any of the following parties (whether within or outside Hong Kong) for the
purposes as specified in (1) to (13) above:
(a) other companies within the DEF Group;
(b) any companies carrying on fitness,
health and/or product sales related business;
(c) partnering institutions;
(d) third party administrators;
(e) professional advisors;
(f) any agents, affiliates, contractors or
third party service providers who provides administrative, telecommunications,
computer, payment, printing, redemption or other services to DEF in relation to
the operation of the business of DEF;
(g) any governmental and judicial bodies or
regulators.
DEF may transfer your name, contact
information and information about the products you have purchased (including
sales channel from which such products were purchased) to other companies
within the DEF Group, and other partnering institutions, for the purpose of
providing you with promotional materials relating to those entities' fitness
and health services or related products. However, DEF will not disclose your
Personal Information to any other third parties for direct marketing purposes
without your consent.
DEF may transfer your Personal Information
in connection with a transaction with another company which affects the
control, governance, structure and/or management of all or a substantial part
of its business, or if required to satisfy applicable legal or regulatory
requirements.
This Website may contain links to third
party websites. DEF has no control over the content of such third party
websites or the way that the operators of these websites deal with your
personal data. You should review the privacy policies applicable to these third
party websites to understand the ways in which these third parties may deal
with your personal information.
When you access this Website, anonymous
technical information may be collected about your activities on the Website (e.g.
your IP address, the date and time that you accessed the Website, information
relating to your browser and operating system, the pages visited etc.).
DEF may use "cookies" (pieces of
information relating to your preferences sent by the Website to your browser
and stored on your computer hard-drive). Cookies enable the Website to remember
you and your preferences when you visit the Website and enable us to tailor the
website to your needs. Cookies do not identify you personally. However, if you
do not want to receive cookies you can disable this function by changing your
browser settings.
DEF shall keep your personal information
for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected and
to comply with legal requirements. If DEF no longer needs your personal
information for any purpose, it will take reasonable steps to securely delete
or destroy your personal information.
Users of this Website have the right to
request access to and/or correction of their personal information held by DEF.
In accordance with the provision of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, DEF
has the right to charge a reasonable fee for processing such data access and
correction request. If any users of this Website want to access or correct
their personal information held by DEF, please make such a request by writing
to us.
DEF may from time to time amend this
Privacy Policy and all personal information shall be governed by the most
recent version of this Privacy Policy.