Personal Information Collection Statement

This Personal Information Collection Statement is made by the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Limited in accordance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the “Ordinance”) and contains details of how we may collect, hold, process and use the personal data collected from you. “Personal data” means any personally identifying information as more particularly defined in the Ordinance.

What We Gather

We collect and keep information about how to reach you (such as names, titles, firms, mailing and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers) and information about which specific markets, functional areas, and types of information are pertinent to you. We use this to help get you information that’s useful to you, and to avoid bothering you with information that isn’t.

What We Do With It

  • Data gathered with Order Forms/Registration Forms: We’ll keep track of your address so that it’s easier for you to reregister or reorder. [Other information is gathered so that we can bill you or ship the products to you.
  • When you ask for a Password: If you’re asked for some information when you apply for a password to members-only pages, it’s only used to generate a password and communicate it to you.
  • If you’re interested in Web page Subscriptions: When you subscribe to a page, we use your email address only to send you a notice when the page is updated.
  • If you respond to our Member Survey: This is how we keep our member database and address list up to date, and to keep information about what you’re interested in, so that we can tailor our Web and printed material to you.
  • Information collected by IP address and Cookies: This information is used by us for broad demographic data, to produce aggregated information about the number and types of visitors to our site and to ensure that we’re delivering the information you want.
  • In a few carefully considered cases we will provide your personal data to reputable organisations (including other trade associations in Hong Kong or overseas) that we think may be of interest to people in the industry, or in very rare circumstances where we are judicially compelled to produce information. To "opt out" of any of these outside mailings, please contact us.

How You Can Control Your Information

Should you wish to be removed from our member database at any time, or if you feel we have inaccurate or outdated information about you, you can contact us.

Privacy Policy Statement

Please refer to our Privacy Policy Statement for details of our privacy policies.