Overview
This statement provides information on the policies of Ark Space Limited (“ARK SPACE”) under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486 of the laws of Hong Kong) (“PDPO”). Where Ark Space’s operations are subject to privacy legislation other than that of Hong Kong, then our privacy policy will be applied so far as practicable and consistent with such local legislation. Throughout this statement, the term “personal data” has the meaning ascribed to it by the PDPO.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
ARK SPACE collects your information to operate effectively and provide you with the best experiences with our services. The specific kinds of information collected will depend on the context of your interaction with ARK SPACE, and the services you use. The following are examples of the information that may be collected:
• Contact information (such as your name, phone number, company name, industry, postal address, email address);
• Copies of your correspondence if you contact us;
• Your interests and preferences;
• Information related to your use and interaction with our website.
We collect this information in a variety of ways, including:
o Information you give to us
We receive and store the information you enter on our website or give us in any other way.
o Automatic Information
When you use or interact with our website and/or use any apps that we may make available on our website, we receive and store information generated by your activity and information automatically collected from your browser or mobile device. For example, like many websites, we obtain certain information when your web browser accesses our website including your IP address, browser type, operating system, mobile network data, pages viewed and access times. This information helps us to communicate with our customers and better understand them.
o Cookies
Our website may pass a “cookie” (a string of information that is sent by a website to reside in your computer’s hard drive and/or temporarily in your computer’s memory). The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a particular page, to retain log-in information or to remember preferences and enhance your experience on our website. We may allow third parties to set cookies through our website in order to help us manage and analyze the performance of our website. You may set your browser to decline cookies. If you do so, you may not be able to fully experience some interactive features of our website.
o Information from Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, and other third parties. This may include information from your credit card, and other partners.
o Age Limitations
ARK SPACE does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from our websites from any person under the age of 16.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
ARK SPACE collects your information to better manage your relationship with us and serve you on any of the following and for other purposes that shall be agreed between you and us. ARK SPACE may collect, use, and disclose the information it collects for a variety of reasons, including for the following purposes:
• Internal Business Purposes. For our internal business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, developing new products, enhancing the website, improving our services, identifying usage trends and visiting patterns, determining the effectiveness of our promotions, and meeting contractual obligations.
• Response to Inquiries. We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“correspondence data”). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping.
• Administrative and Other Communications. To send you important information regarding our website, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, or other administrative information.
• Our Legal Duties. To comply with legal and regulatory requirements or demands in accordance with applicable law, a court order, subpoena, or another legal process.
• Additional Uses. We may also use your data in other ways as described to you when you provide such information to us.
The legal grounds for processing your personal information consists of one or more of the following: (i) your consent, and/or (ii) providing the services you have requested, and/or (iii) compliance with applicable laws, regulations, court orders or another legal process.
SHARING INFORMATION
In order to provide you with the best experience, your personal information may be shared with the following parties insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal grounds, set out in this policy:
• to third parties not affiliated with ARK SPACE when we have your consent to do so;
• to our trusted business partners to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures;
• to third parties not affiliated with ARK SPACE if we have a good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) enforce applicable terms of service, including investigation of potential violations; (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;
• to any courts, law enforcement bodies or governmental authorities in order to comply with our legal obligations and respond to any claims asserted against us. We will only disclose information to the extent we are legally obligated to.
INFORMATION SECURITY
ARK SPACE’s intent is to strictly protect the security of your personal data honor choice for its intended use and carefully from loss/ misuse/ unauthorized access or disclosure/ alteration/ destruction. We have put in place appropriate physical/ electronic managerial procedures safeguard secure information collect online including encryption when collecting transferring sensitive such as credit card information.
HOW LONG WILL THE INFORMATION BE KEPT
To the extent permissible by applicable law, we will retain your personal information for such periods as necessary in order to satisfy or to fulfil the following:
• the purposes for which that personal information was provided,
• an identifiable and ongoing business need, including record keeping,
• a specific legal or regulatory requirement, and/or
• a requirement to retain records that may be relevant to any notified regulatory investigations or active legal proceedings.
Where there is no sufficient justification to retain such personal information, such personal information will be safely and securely deleted, disposed of, anonymised and/or blocked.
BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS
This website may contain links to other websites. ARK SPACE is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
YOUR RIGHTS
Our Data Protection Officer will be happy to answer any concerns or queries you may have relating to the use or storage of your personal data. Your principal rights herein under are:
• the right to access your personal data;
• the right to rectification of your personal data;
• the right to the erasure of any or all of your personal data;
• the right to restrict processing of your personal data;
• the right to object to the processing of your personal data;
• the right to data portability (means, you may ask us to transfer your personal data to a third party);
• the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
• the right to withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data.
You may exercise any of these rights in relation to your personal data by contacting us anytime via email at cs@arkspace.com.hk or by telephone +852 3168 8649. You may also request access to your Personal Information, withdraw your consent to our use or disclosure of your Personal Information, or update or correct your Personal Information through the above contact.
Note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing of your information by us before the withdrawal of your consent.
CHANGE TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may revise this statement at any time by updating this posting. Please check this page from time to time to review the current terms.
CONTACT US
All inquiries should be made in writing to:
Room 18, Unit 01-03, 05-06,
25/F, CDW Building,
388 Castle Peak Road,
Tsuen Wan, NT, Hong Kong
Attn: Director – Administration
Or by email to cs@arkspace.com.hk