Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Who we are

This website (www.sugi-international.com) is owned by Sugi International Limited (“Sugi”, “we”, “us” and “our”), a company incorporated with limited liability in Hong Kong, having its registered office at Units 2103-08 Two Harbour Square, 180 WAI Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

General

These Terms of Use may be amended by us at our sole discretion from time to time. These Terms of Use set out the terms and conditions applicable to your use of this website. By using this website, you accept these Terms of Use.

Your continued use of this website following any amendments to these Terms of Use will constitute your agreement to our amended terms.

Use of this website

We do not guarantee or assume any responsibility that access to this website will be available or be uninterrupted, or that this website is free of defects, viruses, or anything which may change, erase, add to, or damage your software, data, devices or equipment.

Restriction

You may not access or attempt to access any part of our website or server which is not available for public access.

You must not restrict or inhibit other users from using and enjoying this website, or alter the content, presentation, performance or any other aspect of this website.

Non-reliance of website content

The information on this website is for general information purposes only and does not purport to be accurate, adequate, current, reliable or comprehensive.

The information on this website may change at any time.

This website and its content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without any warranties of any kind, express or implied. Information on this website does not constitute any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, by Sugi whether in relation to our products, services or otherwise.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Sugi does not accept responsibility for any loss or damage whatsoever that may arise in connection with the use or inability to use this website, or reliance upon the materials and information appearing on this website.

Information submitted to us through this website is not encrypted and is not secure against interception. We do not accept liability for any communication which is intercepted or otherwise falls into the hands of third parties or for non-receipt, late receipt or corruption.

Link

For your convenience and information, this website may contain links to other websites, and other websites may contain links to this website. Sugi makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or any other aspect of the information contained in any third party website.

Sugi is not responsible for the operation or content of any linked website, external website or any external websites that link to this website. Sugi is also not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you have provided while visiting these external linked websites.

No link to another website should be construed as an endorsement or recommendation of any information, goods or services referred to, or indication of any affiliation between Sugi and any entity referred to.

We use technology known as “cookies” to collect information about your use of this website to personalise the website, to improve its performance and security, and for our marketing purposes. For more information, please see our Cookies policy.

Intellectual property rights

All content included on this website, such as works, images, pictures, dialogues, music, sounds, videos, documents, drawings, figures, logos, menus, web pages, graphics, colours, designs, diagrams, functions and software (collectively, "Content"), is the property of Sugi, its licensors or content providers, and is protected by intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, publish, distribute, display, modify, create derivative work from, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, the Content without the prior express written consent of Sugi.

Sugi shall have the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit in its sole discretion any reproduction, publication, distribution, display, modification, creation of derivative work from, or exploitation in any way of, in whole or in part, the Content. Sugi shall have the right, at any time, to claim the authorship of any Content posted on this Site and to object to any use, distortion or other modification of such Content.

Sugi owns all the copyright in respect of the Content, unless otherwise stated.

Privacy

In your use of this website, we may collect personal data about you. You may find out more about how we collect, hold, process and use your personal data by referring to our Privacy Policy.

We collect, use, and process personal data in compliance with the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (Cap. 486) and any other applicable privacy laws. If you have any concerns or questions regarding how we collect and use your personal data, you may contact sugi@sugi.com.hk.

Governing law and jurisdiction

Any dispute arising from these Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong. By using this website, you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.

Personal data we may collect

We may collect and process personal data about you when you visit the Site and make queries or submit requests through the Site.

In this Privacy Policy, your personal data means: your full name, email address, contact number, IP address or other unique device identifiers (where applicable), and other personal data you may provide.

It is voluntary for you to provide such personal data. However, failure to receive the personal data from you may affect your use and experience of the Site (for instance, we would not be able to respond to your queries).

Purpose and use

We may collect, hold, process, transfer and use your personal data for any of the following purposes:

to review and process any queries you make through the Site;
to record and monitor use of our Site;
to prevent and respond to actual or potential security threats, fraud or illegal activities;
to review and process your job application, if you have applied for employment with us through the Site in the relevant section.

Your personal data will generally be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to any other person without your consent, except for the purposes notified in this Privacy Policy for which your personal data was collected or if we are required to do so by applicable laws, regulations or professional rules of conduct.

Personal data collected by us may not be used for other purposes, unless:

you have expressly given your consent to the use for the relevant other purposes;
the purpose is directly related to the purpose for which the personal Data was collected; or
we are permitted to use the personal data for other purposes arising from an exemption or otherwise in accordance with applicable law and regulation.

Who do we share this data with?

Personal data may also be shared with third party service providers located within or outside of Hong Kong, who will process it on our behalf for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy in connection with the operation of our business such as:

IT services and software suppliers;
data analytics providers;
data entry and processing service providers;
hosting service providers; and
cloud service providers.

We may disclose personal data to related Sugi companies, including subsidiaries and affiliated companies within the our Group.

We will disclose personal data when required to do so by law and may also disclose such personal data in response to requests from law enforcement agencies or regulatory authorities.

Some persons to whom we transfer your personal data may be located outside Hong Kong, in locations that may not have in place data protection laws which are substantially similar to Hong Kong, and this may mean your personal data may not be protected to the same or similar level as that in Hong Kong.

IT Security

No data transmission over the Internet, a website, mobile application or via email or other message service can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data in accordance with the requirements of data protection legislation.

Retention of Data

We will keep your personal data for a reasonable time to fulfill the purpose for which the data was collected or comply with the relevant rules, regulations and laws of Hong Kong (and any other applicable privacy laws). Personal data which is no longer required will be destroyed.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

request a copy of your personal data held by us, unless we are exempted from complying with a data access request; and
request for us to make necessary corrections in respect of any personal data that you consider inaccurate after we have fulfilled a data access request from you. We may refuse a data correction request if we believe the personal data is accurate, an expression of opinion or the proposed correction is inaccurate

To exercise any of these rights, or to obtain other information, such as a copy of a legitimate interests assessment, you can get in touch with us – or our privacy officer – using the details set out below.

We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for processing any access or correction request.

Get in Touch

We hope that we can satisfy queries you may have about the way we process your data. If you have any concerns about how we process your data you can get in touch sugi@sugi.com.hk.

A cookie is a small data file that a web site can send to your computer or device when you visit a web site.

For detailed information on how we use cookies and the purposes for which we use then, please see our Cookies Policy.

Links to other sites

This Site contains links to other sites that are operated by third party companies with different privacy practices. You should remain alert when you leave our Site and read the privacy statements of other websites. We have no control over personal data that you submit to or receive from these third parties.

This Privacy Policy describes how www.sugi-international.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit the Site.

Respecting and protecting the Site’s visitors privacy and personal data is important to us. This Privacy Policy will help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard your personal data in our interactions with you.

Additional Information

Sugi complies with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) and any other applicable data protection legislation.