Privacy Policy

  1. Your personal data
    It is our company policy to protect our clients' privacy and this policy also applies to the privacy of users of the Website. We may, however, collect a very limited amount of your personal data ("personal data", means information about you or which can be used to ascertain your or your clients' identity).
     
  2. Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
    Our Company complies with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ('Ordinance'). You may visit the official website of the Office of the Privacy Commission at http://www.pco.org.hk for more information about this Ordinance.
     
  3. Collection and use of your personal data
    Any personal data collected from you on the Website will only be used for the specific purposes mentioned at the time of collection or for purposes directly related to those specific purposes. The personal data and information collected from you through the Confidential Questionnaire of the Website will be used by our company for one or more of the following purposes:
    • to process your request for services to be provided by our company;
    • to be used to calculate and collect the fees to be charged by our company;
    • to be used or disclosed to potential expert(s) sourced by our company to provide expert evidence to your client(s) in litigation/arbitration;
    • to be used by the expert(s) introduced by our company and appointed by you to provide expert evidence or advice to your client(s);
    • for our company's statistics and research purposes on the condition that the resulting statistics or results of the research will not be made available in a form which will identity the data subjects or any of them; and/or
    • any other legitimate purposes as may be required, authorized or permitted by law.

     
  4. Direct marketing
    We would like to use your name and contact details to send you marketing materials about our company's services, but we must obtain the consent (or an indication of no objection) of persons who become our clients after 1 April 2013 before we can do so. If you do not want to receive our marketing materials, please send our company an email stating this to info@expertwitness.asia to opt out.
     
  5. Retention of your personal data
    We will retain your personal data only for so long as is necessary for fulfilling the purpose for which they were collected. After that time, your data will be deleted.
     
  6. Disclosure
    Your personal data will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to any other person without your consent. However, your data will be used or disclosed to third parties for the purposes for which they were collected. Your personal data may also be disclosed where we are required to do so by law.
     
  7. Security
    We shall use our company's best endeavours to ensure your personal data are not subject to unauthorised access.
     
  8. Your right of access to and to correct personal data
    You are entitled, in accordance with the Ordinance's requirements, to check whether we hold data about you and to have access to those data. If any of these data are incorrect or inaccurate, you have the right to correct or update them. Requests for access to or to correct personal data should be addressed to the Manager of our company in writing. In accordance with the Ordinance, we are entitled to charge a reasonable fee for processing any data access or correction requests.