Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement explains and describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing personal information that we may receive or that you may provide when you visit our websites. If you have additional questions regarding the processing of your personal information or information security, please contact us at hk@gil-global.com

Our Group Personal Data Policy applies to all GIL companies within the GIL Global worldwide. In this Privacy Statement, ‘Gil’ refers to GIL (HK) Limited, GIL Beijing, and any other GIL company whose websites link to this Privacy Statement. Every GIL company must respect privacy and protect the personal information that is entrusted to it. This Privacy Statement explains how GIL collects, uses, maintains, protects, and discloses personal information from our websites or as part of our services. Please note that depending on the nature of the services we provide to you, this Privacy Statement will be supplemented with specific privacy policies and notices as required by applicable laws. Other GIL companies may have their own privacy statements, although their practices are always governed by the Group Personal Data Policy. If you are interested in the practices of a particular GIL  company, please check the “privacy” link on that GIL company’s website or contact us at hk@gil-global.com

Personal Information
Use of Personal Information
Cookies Policy
Security of your information
Third Party Privacy
Data Retention

This Privacy Statement explains our practices with regard to “Personal Information” collected by GIL for its business purposes. Personal Information include any information that can be used (directly or indirectly) to identify, locate or contact you from that information alone or in combination with other information we process or can reasonably access. We may collect the following types of Personal Information:

  • your personal identification information (which may include your name and passport information, your  IP address, politically exposed person (PEP) status, personal data available in the public domain, details of your financial information, sources of wealth and  your assets and such other information as may be necessary for GIL to provide its services and to complete its client due diligence process and discharge its AML/CFT obligations)
  •  “Contact Information” that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name, username, mailing address, telephone numbers, email address or other addresses that allow us to send you messages.
  • “Relationship Information” that helps us do business with you, such as the types of products and services that we provide to you or that may interest you, information on your company’s size, geographic locations, creditworthiness, and demographics.
  • “Transaction Information” about how you interact with GIL, including purchases, inquiries, customer account information, and information about how you use the GIL websites and applications.
  • if you apply for a position with us we may collect information relating to your past employment, professional qualifications and education, your nationality and immigration/residential status, opinions from third parties about you (such as references) and other details about you which may be gathered during the recruitment process.  We may also review publically available information about you on your social media accounts.

GIL may use your Personal Information to:

  • Fulfill your requests for services or products and for related activities, such as service and product delivery, customer service, account management, support and training and to provide other services related to your relationship with GIL;
  • Provide our corporate clients with services or products and for related activities, such service and product delivery, customer service, account management, support and training and to provide other services related to their relationship with GIL;
  • Provide you with marketing communications and offers for services and products from GIL and in some cases, our partners, including offers targeted based on your interests, business characteristics, and location, in each case, subject to your consent where required under applicable law;
  • Comply with laws, regulations, and guidelines applicable to us and/or other members of the GIL Global;
  • Administer surveys, market research, and promotional events;
  • Determine if you are eligible for certain products, services, or offers;
  • Provide you with additional information that may be of interest, such as GIL news and announcements and technical service bulletins;
  • Manage our everyday business needs, such as payment processing and financial account management, product development, contract management, website administration, forum management, fulfillment, analytics, security and fraud prevention, corporate governance, reporting and legal compliance, business continuity, and complaint, claim or litigation management; and
  • consider job applicants for employment.

We may not always rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your Personal Information although we will seek your consent before sending third-party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

When you visit our website or use our mobile applications, we collect certain Transaction Information by automated means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons.

For example, when you visit our website, we place cookies on your computer. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return. They also help us provide a customized experience and enable us to detect certain kinds of fraud. In many cases, you can manage cookie preferences and opt-out of having cookies and other data collection technologies used by adjusting the settings on your browser. All browsers are different, so visit the “help” section of your browser to learn about cookie preferences and other privacy settings that may be available.

We collect many different types of information from cookies and other technologies. For example, we may collect information from the device you use to access our website, your operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located. Our server logs also record the IP address assigned to the device you use to connect to the internet. An IP address is a unique number that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to GIL and the website you visit after you leave our site.

In many cases, the information we collect using cookies and other tools is only used in a non-identifiable way, without any reference to Personal Information. For example, we use information we collect about all website users to optimize our websites and to understand website traffic patterns.

In some cases, we do associate the information we collect using cookies and other technology with your Personal Information. This Privacy Statement applies to the information when we associate it with your Personal Information.

 

GIL has implemented an information security program that contains administrative, technical, and physical controls that are designed to safeguard your Personal Information. For example, we use industry-standard encryption technology to secure sensitive Personal Information when it is being collected and transmitted over the internet as well as firewalls, site monitoring and intrusion detection software.

Please note that you should also take steps to protect yourself and your Personal Information, especially online. When you register at GIL websites, choose a strong password, and do not use the same password that you use on other sites. Do not share your password with anyone else. GIL will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. Also remember to sign out of the website and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your Personal Information and correspondence if others have access to your computer.

This Privacy Statement only addresses the use and disclosure of information by GIL. Other websites that may be accessible through this website have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Our affiliates, suppliers and business partners have their own privacy policies too. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by all third parties prior to providing them with information or taking advantage of an offer or promotion.

We will only retain Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we will consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of Personal Information, the purposes for which we process Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.