The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong highly respects the privacy, confidentiality and security of personal information of our website visitors and is fully committed to complying with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. We are equally committed to ensuring that all our employees and agents uphold these obligations.

  1. Collection of Personal Data

    1. When you offer to donate money to our cause, you have to enter into the online donation system provided by our designated bank and you voluntarily agree to provide personal details such as name, phone number, email address, postal address, credit card and bank account information. Without such personal data, our bank may not be able to process your donation.
    2. If and when engaging volunteers to support our fund-raising activities or development projects, we will not collect personal credit card and bank account information.
    3. If you agree to receive email, post mail or enewsletter from us, we also will not request personal credit card and bank account information.
    4. 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 provide us with web site usage statistics.
    5. We may use cookies to identify web visitors and to track the visitors’ activities. 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. Retention of Personal Data

    All personal data collected will not be kept longer than necessary for the intended purposes as stated in “Clause 1” above or for the legal requirement of internal audit. We will comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements in Hong Kong for the retention of personal data collected.

  3. Use and Disclosure of Personal Data

    1. Personal Data collected via the above-mentioned online donation system is solely used by us and our designated bank for the purpose of fulfilling our donation service.
    2. Only with your consent or your indication of no objection, personal information (except bank/credit card information) may be disclosed to third parties who help organise fund-raising activities and / or voluntary work.
    3. Without your expressed consent we will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose or transfer your personal data to any other third parties. However, we may be obliged to comply with the statutory obligations or required by the Judiciary of Hong Kong to disclose your personal information to any designated person or statutory department/organization.

  4. Protection Measures

    1. We take all practicable steps to protect all personal data and hold against unauthorized or accidental access, processing, erasure, loss or use.
    2. All data collected will be securely stored and kept strictly confidential. No credit card / banking information is stored in our web server.
    3. The designated 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.
    4. We will keep up with technological advancement in ensuring the security of personal data collected and stored.

  5. Access, Correction and Removal

    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 to (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