Privacy Policy

The Health Bureau is committed to fully complying with the data protection principles and all relevant provisions under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("the Ordinance"). When we collect personal data from you, we will provide you with a Personal Information Collection Statement on or before the collection in an appropriate format and manner (e.g. in the same paper form or web page that collects the personal data).

The Health Bureau undertakes to ensure that all personal data submitted through the Health Bureau website are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Ordinance. We will record your visits to the Health Bureau website without collecting or storing any personal identifiable information of you. General statistics so collected are for the compilation of statistical reports and the diagnosis of problems with or concerning the computer systems for the sole purpose of website enhancement.

In particular, cookies are used by the Health Bureau to collect statistics about the number of visits to our website and the users’ preference of websites and online services offered by the Health Bureau. A cookie is a piece of data stored in your computer’s hard drive when you visit our website. It is primarily an anonymous unique identifier for a computer without collecting any of your personal information. 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 our website, such as saving your preferences in browsing the website and accessing some online services on the website.