Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Statement

The Website is owned and operated by the Hong Kong Nutrition Association Limited (hereinafter referred to as “HKNA”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your privacy by complying with the requirements of Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and to facilitate this, we have adopted this Privacy Policy relating to your use of the HKNA website.

These are the terms of the Privacy Policy, please read them carefully.

By accessing and using the HKNA website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you choose not to accept the terms and conditions listed below, please do not use this website.

1.1 Personal Information

During the process of delivering web pages, we do not collect any personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”) about you (such as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address).

You may also voluntarily provide your Personal Data to us by providing us with membership information and/or completing an online application form, an order form, or surveys. Before you provide us with any of your Personal Data, we will provide you with a Personal Information Collection Statement setting out the purposes and uses, including the extent of the transfer and disclosure of your Personal Data, and the right of access to and correction of the collected Personal Data. Online purchases involving credit card or cheque numbers are transacted via secure protocols.

We might use your Personal Data and any information that we obtain from other sources to provide you with services, for administration and member services, for marketing. We may keep your Personal Data for as long as is necessary for these purposes. We may disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with legal or regulatory obligations. At any stage you may choose not to receive (“opt-out”) any or all of our promotional or marketing materials of us and event invitations (whether in the form of email or mailings). You may do this by contacting us by email at internal@hkna.org.hk.

If you provide us with Personal Data about another person, you confirm that you have obtained their consent to the processing and transferring of their Personal Data to us and that you have informed them of our identity and the purposes (as set out above) for which their Personal Data will be processed and used by us.

1.2 Security

We take appropriate measures to ensure that the Personal Data disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.

1.3 Protecting your Privacy

Whilst we take all reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data and to limit the uses of your Personal Data, as described in this Privacy Policy, we cannot guarantee that the Personal Data will remain constantly secure. There is always a possibility that your Personal Data could be lost due to technical problems or stolen from our databases by malicious computer users. We will not be held responsible for any such loss or theft.

We link to a wide variety of other websites. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of third party websites and third party advertisers, nor for the way in which information about their users is treated.

1.4 Changing your Details

You are entitled to ask for a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in your Personal Data corrected. For quality control and training purposes, we may monitor or record your communications with us. The user will have to bear any costs incurred by HKNA in providing the user with a copy of their data or when changes to the personal data is requested.

If you wish to access or correct your Personal Data or if you have any queries about how we use your Personal Data, please contact us by email at internal@hkna.org.hk.

1.5 Changing to this Privacy Policy

Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page, and therefore you should review it regularly.