Privacy Statement
- Fu Chong Motors (Hong Kong) Company Limited and Fu Chong Motors (Macau) Company Limited ("Fu Chong", "we", "our" or "us") (affiliates of Zung Fu Company Limited) appreciate your interest in us and our products and services. Your privacy is important to us and we wish to explain our privacy policy so that you may feel comfortable visiting our website https://hk.smart.com/en/ and using our products and services. By visiting our website and any of its pages or using our products and/or services, you are agreeing to the terms described in this policy.
- We collect, process and store information you enter on our website or give us in any other way, including
when you purchase a product from us or use our services, contact our Showrooms or Service Centres, through
car shows, contests and promotions or subscribe to our newsletters, etc. Such information may comprise
personal data as defined under the applicable personal data laws as amended from time to time ("Data") and
include but not limited to:
- Your personal information such as your name, age group, phone number, email and/or address;
- Your credit or debit card information and billing information, including name of cardholder, card number, expiry date and billing address; and
- Certain Data (particularly relating to your contact information) that are required for specific purposes. If you fail to supply such Data, we may be unable to engage with you for the intended purposes or provide the relevant products and services in full or at all.
- We do not intend to collect information from minors. However, as we cannot distinguish the age of persons who access our website, our privacy policy applies to all who access our website. If a child has provided us with Data without the consent of his/her parent or guardian, the parent or guardian should contact us (please see section 11 for details) to request the removal of the information.
- The Data provided by you will be used by us for the purpose(s) for which it was requested (and for
directly related purposes), including:
- Application, administration, continuation and termination of the use of our products or services;
- Considering or fulfilling requests or application of any nature submitted by you, whether online, over the phone or through other channels;
- Administering contests and sweepstakes, including disclosing the winner of any such contests;
- Enforcement of any contract;
- Subject to your consent, for direct marketing use as outlined in section 5 below;
- Meeting the requirements to make disclosure to any governmental, legal or regulatory authority under the requirements of any law binding on us; and
- Enabling us to better understand the demographics of our customers and users, and provide products/services better tailored to your needs and preferences.
- We may collect and submit as applicable a copy of your Identity Card or other identification documents to the relevant transport authorities for vehicle registration and licensing purposes, and to insurance company for insurance arrangements. We may also request your identity card number / driving license number for identity verification purposes but not for any other purposes.
- Like many websites, we automatically receive certain types of information when your web browser accesses our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages you visit on our website, which website you came from or go to and the date and length of your visit. We may use and evaluate such information for the purposes of website administration and understanding our customers better.
- We intend to use your Data for direct marketing purposes as specified in section 5.2 below, but we may not so use your Data unless we have received your consent (which includes an indication of no objection).
- We intend to use your Data including your name, phone number, email and/or address to contact you about
the following:
- products, services and promotional events offered by Fu Chong and affiliated companies (including Zung Fu Company Limited); and
- other direct marketing use that we notify you (in the relevant data collection form or through other channels) from time to time.
- We will not disclose your Data to any third parties for direct marketing purposes without your consent.
- Should you not want us to use your Data for the above direct marketing purposes or if you wish to access or correct your Data, please let us know via any one of the free response channels in section 11. You can also choose not to receive such marketing materials by selecting the unsubscribe option which we provide in each email, SMS or MMS sent to you, or otherwise inform us.
- We do not sell or trade your Data with third parties and we strive to protect your privacy. Fu Chong
Motors (Hong Kong) Company Limited will be the primary handler of Data originated from Hong Kong, whereas Fu
Chong Motors (Macau) Company Limited will be the primary handler of Data originated from Macau. Your Data may
however be shared between Fu Chong Motors (Hong Kong) Company Limited and Fu Chong Motors (Macau) Company
Limited, and may be transferred within or outside Hong Kong or Macau to third parties as follows for the
purposes stated in section 3 above and this section 6 (or any directly related purpose):
- other companies (including branch offices, subsidiaries, holding companies, associated companies or affiliates) within our group of companies, including Zung Fu Company Limited;
- governmental, legal or regulatory authorities;
- our legal and financial advisers;
- third party service providers engaged by us to assist with debt collection, payment services, data analytics, customer services and other purposes as stated above;
- insurance companies for the application of and other matters relating to car insurance;
- credit information, reference bureau or financial service companies for the application of and other matters relating to financial services and/or related products; and
- our assigns or successor in title.
- Except as mentioned in section 6 above, your Data, however stored, will be accessed by our employees or service providers who are authorized to do so.
- Where Data is stored electronically, it will be kept password-protected in the Fu Chong computing facilities (including servers and back-up tapes), and accessible only by authorized personnel of Fu Chong or service providers. Data encryption will be applied where appropriate.
- Employees and service providers designated to handle Data will be instructed to do so only in accordance with this privacy policy.
- We shall take reasonable steps to keep your Data as accurate, complete, and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used. Data that is used on an ongoing basis, including information that is disclosed to third parties (please see section 6 for details), will generally be kept accurate and up-to-date. You can update or correct the Data held by us in accordance with section 11.
- Data provided by you is retained if the purpose for which the Data was collected still exists, it is so required by law, statute or regulation, or it is in the public interest.
- When you access our website, we store information about your visit in a small text file called a "cookie" on your hard disk. This helps us to identify you and remember your preferences the next time you visit our website.
- Only information that you have provided will be stored in the cookie, and only the website which created the cookie can read it.
- You can configure your Internet browser not to accept cookies, or to alert you every time a cookie is offered, letting you decide whether or not to accept it. However, some features of our website may not be available if you prevent the use of cookies.
- Our privacy policy does not extend to third party websites that may be linked from our website.
- You may at any time request access to or update/correct your Data held by us. You may also ask us to delete your Data from any active mailing or distribution list.
- To exercise any of your rights above, please contact our Customer Relations at smart.cs@zungfu.com or (852) 28957288.
- We may revise this privacy policy from time to time by updating this version.
- The privacy policy is written in English and Chinese languages. In the event of any inconsistency, the English version shall prevail.