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Privacy Policy Last updated: 8 March 2022
We care about protecting and respecting your privacy. In order to serve you better and provide you with the best customer experience, we need to collect some personal data about you. This Privacy Policy will help you understand how we collect and use your personal data, who we share your personal data with, and how you can control the way your personal data is collected and used by us. If you access or use our website (http://www.mannings.com.hk) (which we will refer to as “Site” or “Mannings online store” in this Privacy Policy) as a visitor/guest, or register for an account in our Site (“User Account”), then this Privacy Policy is deemed to be agreed by you and will apply to you. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please stop using our Site and do not register for a User Account. Sometimes, we may send you a new notice to explain how we may use your personal data in specific situations, and will always give you the choice to opt out of such uses.
Mannings online store is owned and operated by The Dairy Farm Company, Limited trading as Mannings (“Mannings”, “we”, “us” and “our”), the data controller. Personal data we collect about you will be used in line with this Privacy Policy.
Your personal data will either be provided by you, collected by us, or our direct or indirect subsidiaries or affiliates (“Dairy Farm Group”), or captured automatically when you access or use our Site. For example, we collect your personal data when you complete your User Account application, when you purchase a product, when you send us emails or when you browse our Site.
Our Site is only intended for people over the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not use our Site, or apply for a User Account.
It may be necessary for you to provide us with certain personal data in order for you to use our Site. We will let you know when such data is essential. All other personal data is up to you to provide or not, as you prefer.
If you register for a User Account on our Site (“Member”), some of the personal data we may collect about you includes:
We may use online tracking technology such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and other similar technologies to automatically collect information about:
You have the right to disable any of these online tracking technologies. To learn more about how we use the above data, please see the section below on Online tracking technology.
We also collect some of your personal data whenever we communicate with you (e.g. email content, contact information, etc.), or when you complete any voluntary surveys and questionnaires we may send you from time to time (e.g. your demographic information and feedback).
We will only use your personal data for the purposes set out below.
To help administer and maintain your User Account, including:
To assist you when you contact us, such as responding to and investigating any of your questions or concerns, and monitoring and improving our customer support services, and to assist you with any delivery, refunds or exchanges for any Orders.
To provide you with marketing and promotional materials (“Marketing Communications”), if you choose to receive them. Please see the section on Direct Marketing below for more information.
To create personalised Marketing Communications tailored to your interests and preferences, and to provide you with the best possible customer experience in relation to our Site and your User Account. We may also use data analytics tools to determine whether our or any Dairy Farm Group members’ offers, advertisements and promotions are effective, as well as to determine whether you may be interested in new products or services, or to customise the content and types of offers, products, services and rewards that we present to you.
We may use your personal data to understand and improve our Site or our operations, or our Dairy Farm Group members’ operations, through various means, such as the use of analytics tools, research, surveys and feedback forms. This will enable us and our Dairy Farm Group members to enhance services or products, develop new features and benefits, and assess and amend business, marketing and strategic operations and plans.
We may use your personal data to investigate or handle any incidents, claims or disputes, or as otherwise required by law or requested by any law enforcement or regulatory authorities, courts or other governmental agencies. We may also use your personal data in relation to any legal proceedings concerning you.
To administer, process and manage your Orders, including any delivery, arrangement for collection, refunds or exchanges.
To protect your privacy, we will endeavour to only share with third parties data which has either been aggregated and anonymised or which otherwise does not contain your name or contact details. However, there may be limited circumstances where we will share data (which may include your personal data) with third parties who may or may not be located overseas, as detailed in this section. By using our Site, or applying for a User Account, you agree to allow us to share your personal data with third parties and to the cross-border transfer of your personal data in accordance with this section. Regardless of where we store or process your personal data, we are committed to protecting it and will take reasonable steps to safeguard it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws.
Your personal data may be transferred to any Dairy Farm Group members for any of the purposes we have set out above. However, we will not provide your personal data to any Dairy Farm Group member in order for them to send you marketing materials regarding their own products and services, unless we obtain your prior consent.
Your personal data may be shared with our or any Dairy Farm Group members' service providers (including agents and contractors) who process personal data on our behalf to help us administer and operate our Site, to fulfil, administer and process your Orders, to conduct data analytics, to help aggregate and anonymise the personal data, or to carry out any of the purposes set out above. These may include IT vendors, back-office and front-end or ancillary service providers, marketing agencies, data management and analytics service providers, and customer contact services. Our service providers may contact you on our behalf or on behalf of our Dairy Farm Group members, for any of the purposes set out above. We only use trustworthy service providers, who are under a duty of confidentiality to us and/or member of the Dairy Farm Group, and are only permitted to use your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When necessary, we may share your personal data with our professional advisors, including lawyers, accountants, financial advisors and insurers. Your personal data may also be shared with third parties in connection with any merger, acquisition, consolidation, restructuring, sale of assets, financing or any other similar scenarios involving the transfer of some or all of our business assets.
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (“Hong Kong”). We strive to handle your personal data in accordance with any data privacy laws that we believe apply to us. Your personal data may be shared with regulatory authorities, courts and other governmental agencies to comply with any legal or regulatory requirements, orders or requests. AnchorAny dispute concerning the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.
Aggregated or anonymised data that does not include any personally identifiable information, may be used by us, any members of the Dairy Farm Group or other third parties for various purposes, including enabling them to better understand customer needs or to improve and adapt their operations, products and services, or for the purposes of industry benchmarking, machine learning, research or analytics.
If you have opted to receive offers and promotions from us, we may use your personal data to:
We may send you direct Marketing Communications and market research invitations by email, through your User Account, when you access the Site, or through online banner advertisements, post, SMS, telephone or WhatsApp Messenger. Before providing you with direct marketing communications, we will always ask for your consent. You can choose at any time not to receive any direct Marketing Communications from us. Please see the section on Your rights below.
If you have agreed to receive Marketing Communications from us, members of the Dairy Farm Group may occasionally act as our service providers and send Marketing Communications on our behalf. However, we will not provide your personal data to the members of the Dairy Farm Group for them to send you marketing materials regarding their own products or services, unless you allow this. If any members of the Dairy Farm Group wish to send you any marketing materials regarding their own products and services directly, then they must obtain your separate consent for this. We are not involved in any marketing done directly by any members of the Dairy Farm Group that concerns any Reward Programmes, or products or services offered or provided by them. If you agree to receive any marketing materials from any members of the Dairy Farm Group, then please carefully read our respective member of the Dairy Farm Group's own privacy policies.
We take the confidentiality and security of your information seriously. We take all reasonable steps, including the implementation of technical and physical security measures, to ensure that all your personal data held by us is kept secure and safe from any loss or unauthorised disclosure, use and modification. All transactions under the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy are based on the encryption of data exchanged between you and us on our secure Site.
We will keep your personal data only for so long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless the law requires us to keep it for a longer period. Once we no longer need your personal data, we will either irreversibly anonymise or securely delete it on our servers.
You have the right to access and correct your personal data held by us, at any time, by sending an email to our Data Protection Officer at personaldata@dairy-farm.com.hk . In order to ensure that your personal data is kept as accurate as possible, please notify us at the email address above of any changes to your personal data.
At any time, you can ask us to stop using your personal data to send you direct Marketing Communications, or you can customise how you would like to receive direct Marketing Communications from us. You can exercise your rights to do this by:
We will stop using your personal data to send you Marketing Communications in accordance with your request. However, we may still send you non-promotional communications such as information concerning the administration of your User Account, and may use non-personally identifiable information collected via cookies and other tracking technology to display marketing information via online advertising banners on websites and apps visited by you. We are not involved or responsible for any marketing materials sent directly by our Dairy Farm Group members that concern any Reward Programmes, or products or services offered or provided by them. If you would like to stop receiving any marketing materials from our Dairy Farm Group members, then please contact them directly in order to unsubscribe from their mailing lists.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, applications, online media and advertisements when you visit a website. We use cookies and other similar identification technologies such as web beacons and pixel tags on our Site, emails and online advertisements for various purposes, including verifying users; remembering user preferences and settings to enhance your experience when you return to our Site; delivering relevant content and advertisements based on your preferences, location and usage patterns; monitoring, evaluating and optimising the operation of our Site; tracking and measuring the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns; and analysing traffic on our Site and the websites of our Dairy Farm Group members. You can exercise your right to choose whether or not to accept cookies by adjusting your browser settings to modify your cookie preferences. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but you are free to remove or block all browser cookies. However, if you turn off your cookies, some of our services may not function properly and you will not be able to receive the most efficient and personalised experience.
Our Site may contain links to other third party websites and applications, including those of our Dairy Farm Group members (“Third Party Sites”). We do not own or control, and are not responsible for the privacy practices of those Third Party Sites. We encourage you to remain alert if you follow any links to leave our Site, and to review the privacy policies of those Third Party Sites so that you are aware of how your personal data may be collected and used by such third parties.
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy to reflect new technologies, regulatory requirements or any other changes that may be necessary. We will notify you of any updates in accordance with your preference settings and, where required by law, obtain your consent. We will inform you by emailing you at the email address you provided us, and/or by posting a notice of these changes on our Site.
If you have any questions or comments concerning this Privacy Policy, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at personaldata@dairy-farm.com.hk.
Personal Information Collection Statement
We value your privacy and want to be transparent with why we collect your personal information, including without limitation to your name, telephone number, email address and residential address ("Personal Information"). .
If you access or use this website (http://www.mannings.com.hk) (which we will refer to as “Site” or “Mannings online store”) or register to create an account ("User Account") to use this Site, then you are deemed to have agreed to this Personal Information Collection Statement (“PICS”). This Site is owned and operated by The Dairy Farm Company, Limited, the data user and an affiliate of Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited ("DFIHL"). You must be at least 18 years old to use this Site.
What do we collect?
It may be necessary for you to provide us with certain personal data in order for you to use our Site. For example, we collect your personal data when you create a User Account, browse or make purchases through the Site, seek consultations or communicate with us through applications or social media and when you send us emails. We will let you know when such data is essential. All other personal data is up to you to provide or not, as you prefer.
How do we use your information?
We will use your personal information to:
1. administer and maintain your User Account and provide customer support (e.g. update your account, verify your identity, create a single profile about you by combining your personal data already held by us, DFIHL or any affiliates of DFIHL ("DFI Retail Group"), providing you with a log-in ID for your User Account, maintaining, updating, administering and processing a record of your activities on this Site, complete any transactions including processing or facilitating payments, send you updates about new features and benefits, communicate with you, and provide consultation services to you);
2. in accordance with Section 9 of the Privacy Policy, provide you with marketing and promotional materials if you choose to receive them, create personalized communications tailored to your interests and preferences, and provide you with the best possible customer experience;
3. improve our operations through various means, such as the use of data analytics tools, research, surveys and feedback forms; this will enable us to enhance our services or products, develop new features and benefits, and assess and amend business, marketing and strategic operations and plans; and
4. investigate or handle any incidents, claims or disputes, defend or bring any claims or actions, or comply with applicable law or any requests from any regulatory authority, court or government agency.
Who do we share your information with?
To fulfil any of the above purposes, we may share your personal data with our DFI Retail Group members, professional advisors, any DFI Retail Group members' service providers, and regulatory authorities, courts and other governmental agencies. The service providers process personal data on our behalf to help us administer and operate this Site, conduct data analytics, aggregate and anonymise personal data, or carry out any of the above purposes. We may also share your personal data with any third party in connection with a merger, acquisition, consolidation, restructuring, sale of assets, financing or any similar scenarios. However, we will not share your personal data with any third party for them to send you any direct marketing materials regarding their own products or services.
Your rights
You have the right to request access to and correction of your personal data held by us at any time, by sending an email to our Data Protection Officer at personaldata@dairy-farm.com.hk.
We may send you direct Marketing Communications and market research invitations by email, through your User Account, when you access the Site, or through online banner advertisements, post, telephone, SMS or WhatsApp Messenger. Before providing you with direct marketing communications, we will always ask for your consent. You can choose at any time not to receive any direct Marketing Communications from us. Please see the section on Your rights below.
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