Privacy Policy and Personal Information Collection Statement
Atelier FJ Company Limited and any/all of its subsidiaries, associated and/or related companies (collectively, the “Company”, “our”, “we” or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data as required by local laws and regulations and those of other applicable laws and regulations in different jurisdictions that the Company may collect, use or transfer the personal data. Our privacy policy and personal information collection statement as set out herein (the "Statement") explains the privacy policy and practice regarding how we use and protect any personal data that you provide.
The Statement applies to all personal data we collect through our official website (www.atelierfj.com) (the “Website”).
Please note that the provisions herein may be updated, revised, varied and amended from time to time as we deem necessary. Your continued use of the Website following such revision shall be deemed as your acceptance of the amended Statement. It is your responsibility to check the Statement regularly for any amendments.
It is important that you read this Statement together with any other privacy policy or personal information collection statement we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Statement supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them. If you do not agree with this Statement, then you should either not use the Website or contact us using the details under the section ‘Contact us’ to request us to cease using your personal data.
If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese version of this Statement, the English version shall prevail.
Collection of Personal Data
The types of personal data we collect from you will depend on the specific type of facilities, services and/or products as requested by, or provided to, you. The types of personal data may include (without limitation) the following:
- your personal information (e.g. your name, telephone numbers and email addresses);
- your business information (e.g. company name, business title and associated contact information);
- your interests, personal preferences or comments; and/or
- information when you use the Website or other facilities, services and/or products (e.g. behavioural information, location information, browser details and IP addresses).
All personal data collected by us through the Website or through any other medium are to be provided voluntarily by you and you are not obliged to supply the personal data, however if you do not provide your personal data (whether compulsory or optional) we may not be able to provide the relevant services to you.
Purposes of Collection
The purposes for which your personal data are collected and used may include (without limitation) one or more of the following purposes:
- following up on comments, inquiries and complaints that users submit to the Website;
- understanding users' needs so as to provide better facilities, services and/or products;
- collecting data for identity verification and record and maintaining contact lists for correspondence;
- promoting, improving and/or further the provision facilities, services and/or products of the Company;
- with your consent, marketing or promoting any of facilities, services and/or products of the Company (e.g. sending you updates on our latest offers and promotions in relation to any of facilities, services and/or products from time to time);
- evaluating the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns;
- recruitment and human resource management including online job applications;
- monitoring use of the Website to help its further development;
- compiling statistics about our users or customers to analyze site usage or aggregated consumer behavior;
- making disclosure when required by law, regulation, or court order of any jurisdiction, and/or as requested by any government, regulatory or law enforcement authority or administrative organisation, which may be within or outside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”);
- establishing legal claims or defences, obtaining legal advice, and/or exercising, defending and/or protecting the rights or properties of any member of the Company, including identifying, contacting or bringing legal action against any person who may be causing interference with such rights or properties (whether intentionally or otherwise) or where any other person could be harmed or property of any other person could be damaged by such interfering activities;
- for the use by any member of the Company in connection with any of the above purposes and/or any of services and products that any member of the Company may offer or supply to you from time to time; and/or
- any other incidental or associated purposes relating to the above, or any other purpose to which you may from time to time agree.
If you are under the age of 18, you must ask your parent or guardian before providing any personal data to us.
Date Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which the data was collected unless the personal data is also retained to satisfy any applicable statutory or contractual obligations. Personal data which no longer required will be destroyed.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Data
We will take all practicable steps to keep your personal data confidential but for any one or more purpose(s) named under the section ‘Purposes of Collection’. We may transfer/assign your personal data to or exchange such data with third parties located within or outside Hong Kong, and your personal data may be transferred within or outside Hong Kong. These third parties may include the following:
- subsidiaries, associated and/or related companies of Atelier FJ Company Limited;
- agents, contractors and third party service providers authorised or engaged by the Company or its affiliate who provide administrative, data processing, research and marketing, distribution, telecommunications, professional or other services to the Company;
- any person to whom we are under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirement of any law binding on us or for the purposes of any guidelines or codes of practice issued by regulatory or other authorities with which we are reasonably expected to comply; and
- our professional advisers.
Personal data may be transferred to, stored or processed by the above-named parties which may be located in countries outside of your own for the purpose(s) named under the section ‘Purposes of Collection’, and may be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities of that jurisdiction. Any transfer will be made subject to compliance with the law.
We may also transfer personal data to a purchaser or transferee (or proposed purchaser or transferee) of any of the Company’s business or the business of a particular division or line of our business, or any such business of an affiliate (whether through a sale of assets or shares), including for the purposes of any due diligence exercise, subject in each case to our compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory obligations.
Unless expressly stated in this Statement or with prior consent, personal data collected from you will not be disclosed to any third party other than the above-named parties.
Security of Personal Data
In order to ensure the correct use and to maintain the accuracy of the personal data collected from you, as well as preventing unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure or other use of the personal data, we have put in place appropriate security measures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect.
Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use appropriate security measures to seek to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure.
Log Files
When you visit the Website, data relating to your visits, including but not limited to your IP address, domain name, browser type and access time will be collected for preparing general statistics on the usage of the Website to improve the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional activities. This information does not identify you as an individual. No personal data will be collected.
Use of cookies
If you visit any of the Website, we may use cookie files to store and track information about you and your preferences. A cookie is a small text file that the Website transfer to your computer's or device’s hard disk. We use cookies to better serve you and/or maintain your information across multiple pages within or across one or more sessions. We obtain consent to the use of cookies by showing a notification to you on your first visit to our Website. You may edit your browser options to block them in future. However, if you disable cookies or refuse to accept a request to place a cookie, certain functionalities on the Website may not be available.
Links to other websites
The Website may include links to third-party websites, 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. When you leave the Website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Data Access and Correction
You have the right (subject to various exceptions and in accordance with data protection legislation in your country) to:
- check what kinds of personal data about you the Company holds;
- access the personal data about you the Company holds;
- require the Company to correct any personal data which is inaccurate; and
- request a copy of this Statement.
Additional rights may be available to you depending on the location of your residence or of our operations. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details under the section ‘Contact us’ below.
It is important to make sure your personal data is kept up to date. If you wish to change or modify your information previously provided, please contact us using the details under the section ‘Contact us’ below. We may ask you to authenticate your identity in order to protect the safety of your personal data.
To the extent permitted by relevant laws and regulations, we reserve the right to refuse unreasonable requests (for example, requests which infringe the privacy of others). To the extent permitted by relevant laws and regulations, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for the cost of processing any request set out above.
Use of Personal Data in Legal Proceedings
If it becomes necessary that we have to take action against you for any reason whatsoever including but not limited to recovering from you any money you owe us, you expressly agree that the personal data provided by you can be relied upon in identifying and take legal action against you.
Disclaimer
The Statement is designed to provide compliance with all relevant applicable laws and regulations, in particular those our businesses are subject to. We recognize that certain laws and regulations might be modified to require more stringent standard than those described in the Statement, in which case the more stringent standards shall apply. If applicable laws and regulations provide for a lower level of protection of personal data than the Statement, then the Statement shall prevail.
As an international business with operations in different parts of the world, we may need to disclose your personal data when required by relevant law or court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities. This also applies when we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal data is necessary to identify, investigate, protect, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties (including our Website), or to others, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
Contact us
If you have any questions about the Statement or our privacy practices, or wish to exercise any of the individual rights outlined in the section ‘Data Access and Correction’ above, please contact us as follows:
Full name of legal entity: Atelier FJ Company Limited
Address: 3902 The Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR
Contact: +852 2855 2289
Email address: info@atelierfj.com