Privacy and Security

Sino Wealth Securities Limited's (SWSL) Privacy Principles

Our business has been built on trust between our customers and ourselves. To preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, we maintain the following privacy principles:

• We only collect personal information that we believe to be relevant and required to understand your financial needs and to conduct our business.
• We use your personal information to provide you with better customer services and products.
• We may pass your personal information to other Sino Wealth Group companies or agents, as permitted by law.
• We will not disclose your personal information to any external organisation unless we have your consent or are required by law or have previously informed you.
• We may be required from time to time to disclose your personal information to Governmental or judicial bodies or agencies or our regulators, but we will only do so under proper authority.
• We aim to keep your personal information on our records accurate and up-to-date.
• We maintain strict security systems designed to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information by anyone, including our staff.
• All Sino Wealth Securities Group companies, all our staff and all third parties with permitted access to your information are specifically required to observe our confidentiality obligations.

By maintaining our commitment to these principles, we at Sino Wealth Securities will ensure that we respect the inherent trust that you place in us.

Your Privacy Matters to Us

This section provides specific details of how we treat any personal information you might wish to provide us when you visit this site.

Data Security

• Security is our top priority. Sino Wealth Securities will strive at all times to ensure that your personal data will be protected against unauthorised or accidental access, processing or erasure. We maintain this commitment to data security by implementing appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to safeguard and secure your personal data.
• Our web servers are protected behind "firewalls" and our systems are monitored to prevent any unauthorised access. All practical steps will be taken to ensure that personal data will not be kept longer than necessary and that Sino Wealth Securities will comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region concerning the retention of personally identifiable information.

Security Assurance

• Both you and Sino Wealth Securities play an important role in protecting against online fraud. You should be careful that your account details including your Username and/or Password are not compromised by ensuring that you do not knowingly or accidentally share, provide or facilitate unauthorised use of it. Do not share your Username and/or password or allow access or use of it by others. We endeavor to put in place high standards of security to protect your interests.
• You should safeguard your unique Username and Password by keeping it secret and confidential. Never write them down or share these details with anyone. Sino Wealth Securities will never ask you for your Internet Account Password, in order to ensure that you are the only person who knows this information. If you think your Username and/or password has been disclosed to a third party, is lost or stolen and unauthorised transactions may have been conducted, you are responsible to inform us immediately.

Collection of Personal Information

• Use of Cookies
  Your visit to this site may be recorded for analysis on the number of visitors to the site and general usage patterns. Some of this information will be gathered through the use of "cookies". Cookies are small bits of information that are automatically stored on a person's web browser in their computer that can be retrieved by this site. Cookies can make the site more useful by storing information about your preferences on particular sites, thus enabling website owners to provide more useful features for their users. The information collected by "cookies" is anonymous aggregated research data, and contain no name or address information or any information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, e-mail or any other means. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to disable cookies or inform you when they are set. However, by disabling them, you may not be able to take full advantage of our website.

Notice to Customers Relating to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the 'Ordinance')

1. From time to time, it is necessary for customers to supply Sino Wealth Securities with data in connection with the opening or continuation of accounts and the establishment or continuation of securities services or compliance with any laws or guidelines issued by regulatory or other authorities.
2. Failure to supply such data may result in Sino Wealth Securities being unable to open or continue accounts or establish or continue or provide securities services or comply with any laws or guidelines issued by regulatory or other authorities.
3. The purposes for which data relating to a customer may be used are as follows:
   1. the daily operation of the services and credit facilities provided to customers;
   2. conducting credit checks (including without limitation upon an application for credit (including margin finance) and upon periodic or special reviews of the credit;
   3. ensuring ongoing credit worthiness of customers;
   4. designing financial services or related products for customers' use;
   5. determining the amount of indebtedness owed to or by customers;
   6. collection of amounts outstanding from customers;
   7. meeting the requirements to make disclosure under the requirements of any law binding on Sino Wealth Securities or under and for the purposes of any guidelines issued by regulatory or other authorities with which Sino Wealth Securities is expected to comply;

Note: In case of discrepancies between the English and Chinese versions, the English version shall apply and prevail.

IMPORTANT: By accessing this web site and any of its pages you are agreeing to the terms set out above. Thank you for choosing Sino Wealth Securities.