Warning & Disclaimer

The information contained herein on our website is intended for the purpose of providing general information to those who are interested in knowing more about our practice and services for clients. Neither any information contained herein shall be deemed or treated as legal advice or otherwise; nor shall we be held responsible for any loss or damages suffered by anyone placing reliance on the information contained herein. Please consult a solicitor for any legal assistance or you may contact us at office@kcho-fong.com for any further questions. We assume no liability for any consequence of reliance.

Copyright

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Users are also prohibited from introducing data by whatever means to the Site that would or would likely modify the content or appearance of the data, the presentation or organization of the Site, or the works featured on the Site.

Email Disclaimer

Our email message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. Access to our email by anyone else is unauthorised. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mis-transmission. Should anyone receive our email message and the attachment thereto in error, he/she should immediately notice us, delete and destroy the email from his/her system. The recipient must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if he/she is not the intended recipient. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.

Our office generic address ‘office@kcho-fong.com’ is mainly established for receiving general enquiries from clients. It is strictly not to be used for the service of any documents which may attract legal implications in terms of court proceedings and litigation procedures. Once a client’s case is opened, we will define at the earliest stage in our retainer letter the “effective means” of communication via a particular email address/telephone number/fax number/postal address for future contact. Our firm will not be liable for any negligence of not reading the documents relating to arbitration proceedings if the client send out the notice to us via our office generic address.

Use of personal data

In order to ensure that the processing of all the personal data are adequately and accurately protected and to comply with proper storage methods as wet out in the requirements in the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance”) and also for your fully understanding of the guidelines of the provision of personal information to us, please read the following Code:

Purpose of Collection and Guidelines

• We will use the collected information in accordance with the purpose of collection of information as described.
• It’s voluntary to provide personal information to us. But if you do not provide sufficient personal information, we may not be able to process your application or to provide service to you.
• We may use your personal information (including your name, telephone, fax, e-mail, mailing address and affiliation / company / school) for future contact, research, analysis, statistics and collect suggestions for promotional purposes.
• We will not sell, transfer, or disclose your personal information without your consent to any third parties.
• You are entitled to require us to stop using your personal data for the above said purposes and we will not charge you.

Access, update and application to stop the use of personal data for the above said purposes for promotion

Apart from the scope of the exemption of the Ordinance, you have the right to make inquiries to us regarding updating or stopping us from using your personal information for promotional purposes except for those who have already made the delete request to us from our database after proper usage. If wish to make such a request, please call our manager Ms. Chan at 852 -2810 0707 or email us at office@kcho-fong.com.