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The Environmental Protection Department ("the EPD") is concerned
to ensure that all personal data submitted through The Green Garage Website
("our website") are handled in accordance with the relevant
provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.
The EPD will record visits to our website without collecting any personal
identifiable information of users. Such general statistics are collected
for the compilation of statistical reports and the diagnosis of problems
with or concerning computer systems to help the EPD improve our website.
For different purposes, you may be requested to provide personal data
to the EPD through our website on a voluntary basis. The EPD will specify
the collection purpose and intended usage of your data when it invites
you to provide such information and advise you how you may request access
to or correction of the personal data provided.
Unless permitted or required by law, the EPD will not disclose your personal
data to any third parties without your prior consent. When you browse
our website, cookies may be temporarily stored in your computer's hard
drive, and will be removed after you close your browser. The purpose of
using cookies is for internal navigation only. We will not collect any
personal data from you under this circumstance. You have a choice not
to accept the cookies by configurating your internet browser settings,
but if you do so, you may not be able to acquire full functionality of
our website.
Search service on our website is provided by Yahoo! Hong Kong Limited
("Yahoo!"). We are advised by Yahoo! that it does not collect
personal identifiable information while serving search results through
our website. Yahoo! will share the anonymous data it collects through
the search service with the EPD for compiling traffic analysis on government
websites. We will not match the data obtained from any such search activity
with any personal data possibly held by the EPD.
All personal data you provided to the EPD via our website are secured,
and access to them is restricted to authorised personnel only.
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