Privacy Policy

 

Foundation for Shared Impact Limited (“FSI”, “us”, “we”) is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and security of the personal information we hold by complying with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance with respect to the management of personal information. We are committed to ensuring that all our employees and agents uphold these obligations.

Our personal information collection practices are set out below, detailing the type of information we gather and track, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared. This Privacy Policy also applies to personal data that is collected, processed, or used by FSI’s service providers for service delivery on our behalf.

Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

At times you may be asked to provide us with personal data about yourself including your name, contact information, credit card payment details, etc., in order for you to:

• make a donation
• inquire and/or register for an event, training, programme, or activity
• submit your application for employment or volunteering opportunities
• respond to a donor survey
• subscribe to an e-newsletter

Depending on the nature of the activities in which you may take part, some of the information we request from you will be mandatory, while the supply of other information may be optional. At the time of collection of your personal data, we will indicate what is mandatory and what is optional. If you choose not to submit the mandatory information, we may not be able to provide the related services or products requested by you.

By submitting to FSI your personal data, you consent to FSI’s usage of your data in connection with the provision of services or products that you wish to acquire and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any Personal Information Collection Statement provided to you on or before the collection of your personal data.

Transfer of Personal Data

For operational reasons, we may use external third parties to support our service provision, which may consist of credit card payment processing, customer enquiries handling, packaging and delivery, and marketing and communication activities on our behalf (we will never provide your personal data to any third party service provider for the purposes of enabling that third party to market its own products or services to you). The personal data we transfer to our service providers (whether inside or outside Hong Kong) is provided strictly on a need-to-know basis, and the security and confidentiality of all personal data is safeguarded by contractual means between FSI and our service providers.

In order to improve the quality of our service, we also from time to time use your personal data for statistics and survey purposes. All reports we share or publish do not contain personally identifiable information. Your privacy is protected.

Website Cookies

When you visit our website we will record your visit only as a “hit”. The webserver makes a record of your visit that includes your IP4 addresses (and domain names), the types and configurations of browsers, language settings, geo-locations, operating systems, previous sites visited, and time/duration and the pages visited (“visitor data”). We use the visitor data for the purpose of maintaining and improving our websites such as to determine the optimal screen resolution, which pages have been most frequently visited etc. We use such data only for website enhancement and optimisation purposes. We do not use, and have no intention to use, the visitor data to personally identify anyone.

You can choose to disable such cookies by changing your browser settings.

Use of Personal Data for Direct Marketing

FSI would like to be able to contact you to keep you informed of FSI and FSI’s campaigns, activities, upcoming events and programmes, and fundraising appeals to support FSI’s programmes.

You can indicate your preference not to receive such information by contacting us at any time by emailing info@shared-impact.com to inform us that you wish to cease receiving such further marketing materials. 

Retention and Disposal of Personal Data

FSI strives not to maintain personal data for longer than necessary in order to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. As a general rule, we store in our database:

• donation and sales records for at least 7 years
• personal particulars of event and programme participants, campaign supporters, and volunteers for 3 years
• unsuccessful applications for jobs, volunteering and programme activities for 1 year

Access to and Changes to Your Personal Data

Under the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, you have the right to request access to and correction of your personal data that is held by us. If you wish to access or correct your personal data, please make such requests in writing by sending an email to info@shared-impact.com.

FSI endeavors to process the request via email within 14 calendar days of receipt. 

Security

Any information provided to FSI by users is held with the utmost care and security, and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy and any relevant Personal Information Collection Statement, or in accordance with the prior consent of the relevant individual. FSI employs a range of techniques and security measures to protect the information maintained on our system from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. WHILE FSI ENDEAVORS TO TAKE ALL REASONABLE AND NECESSARY STEPS TO SECURELY HANDLE AND MAINTAIN OUR DATABASE, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF THE INFORMATION AND THEREFORE ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY IN THIS REGARD.

Links

FSI’s website contains links to other sites operated by third parties. We cannot be responsible for and have no control over the privacy policies or the content of these websites.

Disclosure of Personal Data for Legal Purposes

FSI reserves the right to disclose any personal data if so required or permitted by law.

Changes

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. The amended Privacy Policy applies from the date it is posted on our site and will govern the way in which we collect and use personal data from the date of the change. 

Your Acceptance of This Policy

By using our sites, submitting employment or volunteer applications, responding to surveys, inquiring and/or registering for our events, training, activities, programmes, and e-newsletters, you consent to the collection and use of information by FSI in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

This Policy was last updated on 28 February 2025.

Contact Us:

This website is owned by FSI. Please feel free to contact us via email at info@shared-impact.com.

 

Personal Information Collection Statement

 

Foundation for Shared Impact (“FSI”) collects and uses your personal data in accordance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.

Purpose

Your personal data is collected by FSI for the purposes of:

1. Processing, administering, and communicating with you regarding any donations made by you to FSI/ your enquiry, complaint, or application to attend an event, training, programme, or activity organized by FSI/ any volunteering activities that you have applied for or participated in that are held or administered by FSI/your subscription to the newsletter or other publications released by FSI/ your application to an employment opportunity at FSI;
2. Conducting research and generating statistics to enhance FSI’s services and activities;
3. Informing you of FSI’s campaigns, events, programmes, activities, and fundraising appeals;
4. Complying with applicable laws or regulations.

Transfer and Disclosure

FSI may transfer and disclose your personal data to service providers (within or outside Hong Kong) to support our service provision including back-end, administrative, communication, or IT services to FSI (including but not limited to payment gateways for credit card processing, research companies for donor and participant satisfaction surveys). FSI does not provide your personal data to any third party for the purposes of enabling that third party to market its own products or services to you.

Mandatory Information

You must provide the information marked with an asterisk on the online form (*), or otherwise specified as “required”. If you do not provide the mandatory information, we may not be able to provide the related services or products requested by you.

Access and Correction of Data

You have the right to request access to or correct your personal data held by FSI. If you wish to access or correct your personal data, please make such requests in writing by sending an email to info@shared-impact.com.

Marketing

FSI would like to keep you informed of FSI and FSI’s campaigns, activities, trainings, upcoming events and programmes, and fundraising appeals to support FSI’s programmes.

If you do not wish to receive our email updates, kindly let us know by emailing info@shared-impact.com.