Privacy Policy
- From time to time, it is obligatory for you to supply to us on our request your personal data in connection with the opening, operation and maintenance of your Account with SinoPac Securities (Asia) Limited (the “Company”) and the establishment, use and continuation of securities trading services, credit facilities and other services and products offered by the Company. Failure to supply such data may result in the Company being unable to open, operate or maintain the Account, or unable to provide or continue any services, facilities or products. Your personal data may also be collected or compiled by the Company in the course of continuing the contractual relationship between you and the Company, for example, when the Company effects transactions on your behalf.
- Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:
- opening, operating and maintaining the Account, processing any applications or requests from you for services, facilities and products, and/or providing financial services, facilities and products to you from time to time, whether by the Company and/or by any of the companies in the Company's group (which includes the parent company and affiliates of the Company) and their respective offices in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the business of provision of financial services (collectively called the “Group Companies”);
- purchasing, investing, or otherwise disposing of and generally dealing in and with all kinds of securities on your behalf;
- conducting or assisting other financial institutions to conduct identity and/or credit checks and enquiries on you and ascertaining your financial situation and investment objectives, and enabling or assisting any other financial institutions (including any other Group Companies) to do so;
- ensuring your ongoing credit worthiness;
- determining the amount owed to or by you;
- collection or recovery of amounts outstanding from you or any person who has provided security for your obligations, enforcement of security, charge or other rights and interest in favour of the Company and/or any other Group Companies;
- researching, designing, launching, promoting and marketing the Company's and/or any other Group Companies’ financial services or products;
- meeting any obligations to make disclosure under any law, rules, regulations, codes of practice, guidelines or any other requirements applicable to the Company and/or any other Group Companies or in accordance with any demand or request of any legal, governmental or regulatory bodies or authorities to which the Company and/or any other Group Companies are subject;
- giving effect to your orders relating to transactions, and carrying out your other instructions;
- forming part of the records of the persons receiving the personal data from the Company;
- conducting matching procedures as defined in the PDPO;
- keeping your credit record for the purpose of present or future reference, regardless whether any relationship exists between you and the Company and/or any other Group Companies or data recipient;
- allowing any actual or potential assignee or transferee of the Company, or participant or re-participant in the Company's rights, to evaluate transactions intended to be the subject of an assignment, transfer, participation or re-participation; and
- Other purposes involved in or incidental to the normal business operations of the Company and/or any other Group Companies or any other purpose involved in or incidental to any one or more of the above purposes.
The Company and/or any other Group Companies may from time to time transfer your data outside of Hong Kong for any of the above purposes. - Your personal data held by the Company will be kept confidential but the Company may provide such data to any of the following persons whether in or outside Hong Kong:
- any agents, contractors or third party service providers employed by the Company and/or any other Group Companies to provide administrative, data processing, financial, telecommunications, computer, payments, dealing, clearing, settlement, custody, depository or other services in connection with the operation of their business;
- any other persons to whom your personal data is passed who are under a duty of confidentiality to the Company, including but not limited to the Group Companies which have undertaken to keep such data confidential, for various purposes set out in Clause 2 hereof;
- any nominees in whose name your securities or other assets may be registered;
- any actual or potential assignee, transferee, participant, sub-participant, delegate, successor or person who acquires, undertakes or shares all or any of the rights and obligations of the Company in connection with the Account or other dealings between you and the Company;
- any financial institution with which you have or proposed to have dealings;
- any person with your express or implied consent;
- any individual under a duty of confidentiality, who registered as the customer's agent of the customer's stocks and assets;
- any person where the interests of the Company require disclosure or where the Company is under an obligation to make disclosure;
- any person where public interest requires disclosure;
- auditors, legal advisors and/or other professional advisors of the Company and/or any other Group Companies;
- credit reference agencies and, in the event of your default, debt collection agencies;
- any person who requests the Company and/or any other Group Companies to provide references in respect of you upon producing proof of your prescribed consent; and
- any exchange, entity, agency, regulatory or government body in any jurisdiction if required by law or pursuant to any court orders, rules or regulations to which the Company and/or any other Group Companies is subject to. In such cases, the Company and/or any other Group Companies is usually under a duty of secrecy and will not be able to notify a customer or seek his/her consent in relation to such release of information.
- Under and in accordance with the terms of the PDPO, you have the right:
- to check whether the Company holds data about you and the right of access to such data;
- to require the Company to correct any data about you which is inaccurate;
- to ascertain the Company's policies and practices in relation to personal data and to be informed of the kind of personal data held by the Company.
- The Company and/or any other Group Companies may use your personal data in direct marketing with your consent (which includes an indication of no objection) for that purpose. In this connection, please note that:
- Your personal data such as the customer 's name, telephone number, email address, correspondence address, account number, products and services portfolio information, transaction pattern and behaviour, risk profile, financial background and investment objectives and experience may be used by the Company and/or any other Group Companies in direct marketing.
- The following classes of services, products, facilities and marketing subjects may be marketed:
- financial, securities, commodities, derivatives, investment, financing, insurance, MPF/ ORSO, wealth management, investor education and related services, products and facilities;
- reward, loyalty or privileges programmes and related services, products and facilities;
- services, products and facilities offered by business partners of the Company and/or any other Group Companies providing any of the services, products and facilities referred to in Clause 5(ii)(1) above; and
- donations and contributions for charitable and/or non-profit making purposes.
- The above services, products, facilities and marketing subjects may be provided or (in the case of donations and contributions) solicited by the Company and/or any other Group Companies and/ or any of the following persons:
- any member of the Company and/or any other Group Companies;
- third party financial institutions and providers of any of the services, products and facilities referred to in Clause 5(ii)(1) above;
- third party reward, loyalty, co-branding or privileges programme providers;
- business partners of any member of the Company and/or any other Group Companies providing any of the services, products and facilities referred to in Clause 5(ii)(1) above; and
- charitable or non-profit making organisations.
- The Company and/or any other Group Companies may, with your written consent (which includes an indication of no objection), also provide the personal data described in Clause 5(i) above to any of the persons referred to in Clause 5(iii) above for use by any of them in direct marketing of the services, products, facilities and marketing subjects referred to in Clause 5(ii) above. The Company and/or any other Group Companies may so provide the personal data to such persons for direct marketing purposes for gain. If a customer wishes the Company to cease to use and provide his/her personal data to other persons for us in direct marketing, the customer may notify the Company in writing by mailing or faxing the written notification to the postal address, email address or fax number provided in Clause 9 below. The Company shall then cease to use and provide his/her personal data for direct marketing purposes without any charge.
- There may be instances where customers elect to provide personal information to the Company and/or any other Group Companies through electronic means (such as internet or voice recording system). Whilst the Company generally uses best endeavours to maintain the security and integrity of its systems, due to many unpredictable traffic or other reasons, electronic communication may not be a reliable medium of communication, customers should take heed of such weaknesses and communicate personal information through electronic communication with caution.
- According to the PDPO, the Company has the right to charge you a reasonable fee for the processing of any data access request.
- Neither the Company nor any other Group Company shall have any liability to you if any information supplied by you or on your behalf is incorrect or inaccurate.
- The person to whom requests for ceasing the use of personal data in direct marketing, access to data, correction of data or information regarding policies and practices and kinds of data held are to be addressed as follows:
The Data Protection Officer
SinoPac Securities (Asia) Limited
7th Floor, Lee Garden Three, 1 Sunning Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Email: cs.asia@sinopac.com
Fax: (852) 2586 8412 - The Company and/or the other Group Companies are required, upon your written request, to cease to use your personal data for direct marketing purposes without charge.
- This Notice may be revised, amended or supplemented from time to time by the Company. The most up-to-date Statement can be found in the Company's website at www.sinopacasia.com or available from the Company upon written request.
- Nothing in this Notice shall limit your rights under the PDPO.
- In this Notice wherever the context so requires or admits where the customer comprises two or more persons all references to the customer shall be construed as references to all or any of such persons, the singular shall include the plural and vice versa, the expression “person” shall mean and include a company, society, corporation, firm or an individual and in the case of an individual his or her executors, administrators, committee, receiver or other person lawfully acting on behalf of every such person. All references to the plural herein shall also mean the singular and to the singular shall also mean the plural unless the context otherwise requires. All references to “customer” include prospective and existing customers, visitors to the Company's website and individuals who participate in promotion, contest or game.
- SinoPac’s GDPR Privacy Statement is applicable to you and be supplementing this Privacy Policy if:
- (for individual and joint account holders) you are living in any of the European Union member countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway; or
- (for all account holders) you have provided any personal data of a person living in any of the European Union member countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway to us.
Please press here to download the SinoPac's GDPR Privacy Statement