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The Housing Bureau ("The HB") is concerned to ensure that all personal data submitted through our webpage ("www.bhu.gov.hk") are handled in strict adherence to the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PD(P)O).
Collection of Information
The HB will record the visits to www.bhu.gov.hk by using cookies and page tagging without collecting any personal identifiable information of users.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data created in a computer when a person visits a website on the computer. It often includes an anonymous unique identifier. A cookie can be used to identify a computer. It, however, is not used to collect any personal information. In other words, it does not have the function of identifying an individual user of the website.
Cookies are used by the HB to collect statistics about the number of visits of users to www.bhu.gov.hk and the users' preference of websites and online services offered on www.bhu.gov.hk.
You may choose to accept or reject cookies. If you reject the cookies, you will not be able to use some of the functions of www.bhu.gov.hk, such as saving your preferences in using the www.bhu.gov.hk.
Provision of Personal Data
For different purposes and at different times you may be invited to provide personal data to the HB through www.bhu.gov.hk on a voluntary basis.
Personal information may include name, telephone number, mailing address or e-mail address. The HB 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 HB will not disclose your personal data to any third parties without your prior consent.
www.bhu.gov.hk uses SSL protocol to encrypt data during network transmission to protect your personal data. All personal data you provide to the HB via www.bhu.gov.hk are secured, and access to them is restricted to authorised personnel only.
Personal Data Access/Correction Request
Data Access Request
By Post – by completing a OPS003: Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance Data Access Request Form and mail it to the Departmental Data Protection Officer via the Dedicated Team on Subdivided Units of the Housing Bureau.
Address: 30/F, Revenue Tower, 5 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Fax: 3702 0928
Fee
The Dedicated Team on Subdivided Units may impose a fee for complying with a data access request.
Data Correction Request
After obtaining a copy of his or her own personal data or that of a person of whom he/she is acting on behalf, the data subject or a relevant person acting on behalf of a data subject, may, in accordance with PD(P)O, request in writing the correction of the personal data which is considered as inaccurate.
Search Service
Search service on www.bhu.gov.hk is provided by an independent contractor of the HB. We are advised by the independent contractor that it does not collect personal identifiable information while serving search results through www.bhu.gov.hk. The independent contractor will share the anonymous data it collects through the search service with the HB for compiling traffic analysis on government websites. The HB will not match the data obtained from any such search activity with any personal data possibly held by the HB.