The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality and security of the personal information we hold by complying with the requirements of Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with respect to the collection and management of personal information. We are equally committed to ensuring that all our employees and agents uphold these obligations.

  1. Purpose of Collecting Personal Information

    1. In the provision of online donation service, we have designated the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd (hereinafter referred as the “Bank”) to handle all online donations via the Bank’s online donation system. Donors will be guided to the Bank’s online donation system to complete the donation process.
    2. To process online donation, the Bank will collect from the donor the following data:
      • Name of donor and contact person
      • Phone number of donor and contact person
      • Email address of donor and contact person
      • Postal address of donor
      • Donor’s Credit card information and /or
      • Donor’s Bank account information
    3. If and when engaging volunteers to support our fund-raising activities and /or development projects, we may only collect name and personal contact information. Credit card and bank account information are not required.
    4. If we communicate with you via post mail, email or enewsletter, we also will not request personal credit card and bank account information.
    5. Your supply of the above personal information is on a voluntary basis. If you do not prefer to do so, we may not be able to fulfill the above-mentioned purposes.
    6. When you visit our website, we may collect from your device information such as the basic information of your operating system and browser, and IP addresses. This type of information would only provide us with web site usage statistics.

  2. Use of Cookies

    1. We use cookies to identify web visitor and to track the visitors’ activities in order to help customize user experience on our website (e.g. to remember your browsing preferences with language or font size). Cookies are small files which are sent from a website and placed on the browser of the visitor’s computer or mobile phone. They do not store personally identifiable information.
    2. You may choose to disable your website browser to accept cookies, but this may affect your use of some functions and features of our website.

  3. Transfer and Management of Personal Information

    1. Personal information collected by the Bank will be transferred to the credit card / financial institutions for the purpose of fulfilling your donation.
    2. We shall download the personal information from the Bank’s designated channel for our internal verification and audit purposes.
    3. With your consent or indication of no objection, we shall use your name, email, telephone number or address for the Diocese’s future communications with you.
    4. Both the Diocese and the Bank will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise transfer your data in any form to any third parties.
    5. We may be obligated to comply with any statutory obligations or instructions from the judiciary of Hong Kong to disclose personal information to designated person or organization.

  4. Security Measures

    1. We take all practicable steps to protect all personal data and hold against unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure, loss or used.
    2. All personal data collected will be securely stored and kept strictly confidential. No personal information is stored in our web server.
    3. The Bank will also have appropriate security measures in handling and storing your personal data being submitted to the Bank related to the purpose of processing your donation.

  5. Access, Correction and Removal of Personal Information

    At any time you have the right to request access to your personal information kept by us or that personal information be corrected or removed where appropriate by contacting us through email (donate@catholic.org.hk).

  6. Amendment to this Statement

    We may make amendment or update to this Statement without prior notice. Please check this website regularly for any amendment or update. If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese versions of this Statement, the English version shall prevail.

Date: December 1, 2019