Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Formica Group Website Privacy Policy Notice
Effective, 2025
Formica Group respects the privacy of visitors to its
websites and other individuals whose personal information we collect, use or store.
This Formica Group Privacy Notice ("Privacy
Notice") sets out the privacy practices of Formica Group, its
subsidiaries, affiliates and companies (including Formica (Asia) Limited),
each of whom are independent data controllers ("Formica",
"us" or "we").
We provide this Privacy Notice, to demonstrate our
commitment to protect your privacy. We reserve the right to update the Privacy
Notice at any time, without notice. We encourage you to visit this page
periodically and review the then current version.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy
Notice, please use the "contact us" section below.
The Information Collected by Formica
Personal information means information that identifies you
or allows us to contact you, like your name or email address, and includes
“personal data” as may be defined under applicable data protection laws, such as
the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of Hong Kong. The personal
information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following
categories:
A) Information that you provide voluntarily
Certain parts of our website may ask you to provide personal
information voluntarily: for example, we may ask you to provide your contact
details in order to subscribe to marketing communications from us, and/or to
submit inquiries to us. We may also ask you to provide feedback or a
testimonial which we may display on our website or in other promotional
materials, with your agreement. The personal information that you are asked to
provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to
you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
More information:
We may collect and store personal information, such as your
name, e-mail address and phone number to respond to questions, and to process
or fill orders or requests. We may use this information to provide goods and
services that you request and to let you know of additional goods and services
about which you might be interested. We also use this information to customize
your experience using our website.
We may also retain transaction and experience information,
such as information about your transactions with us, as well as information
about our communications with you. Examples include your account history,
requests for information and our responses. We may match user information we
collect with other data available from other sources in order to carry out our
business and to provide our goods and services and to conduct advertising and
promotions more effectively.
For product or service orders, Formica may need additional
information in order to process or to fulfill your order or request. Except as
otherwise stated in this Privacy Notice, Formica will not share your personal
information with third parties without your permission, except as otherwise
necessary to (i) process or fulfill your order, (ii) respond to your request or
answer your enquiries, or (iii) comply with any applicable law, court order or
other judicial process.
Formica may use one or more third party payment processors
to facilitate product ordering and payment. Formica may not gather your
personal information when you arrange payment through one of these processors.
Rather, that information is gathered, stored and processed by the third party
payment processor. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that any third party
payment processors protect your personal information in accordance with this
Privacy Notice. We will disclose on the website when you are using a third
party payment processor’s services.
We may ask you for personally-identifying information at
other times, such as if and when you communicate with us, or request that we
communicate with you.
B) Information that we collect automatically
When you visit our website, we may collect certain
information automatically from your device. In some countries, including
countries in the European Union and/or European Economic Area (“EU/EEA”), this
information may be considered personal information under applicable data
protection laws.
Specifically, the information we collect automatically may
include information like your IP address, device type, unique device
identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g., country
or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect
information about how your device has interacted with our website, including
the pages accessed and links clicked.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand
the visitors who come to our website, where they come from, and what content on
our website is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal
analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website to
our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and
similar tracking technology, as explained further in our Cookies Notice.
C) Information that we obtain from third party sources
From time to time, we may receive personal information about
you from third party sources (including from companies that provide marketing
lead information), but only where we have checked that these third parties
either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to
disclose your personal information to us.
The types of information we collect from third parties
include your name and contact information and we use the information we receive
from these third parties to provide you with information about our products and
services, our industry insights and other direct marketing purposes. However,
we will not use your personal information for direct marketing purposes unless
we have obtained you express consent in accordance with the Personal Data
(Privacy) Ordinance.
The Way Formica Uses your Personal Information
We collect, use, disclose and/or process the personal information
collected about you for a variety of reasons, including for the following
purposes, as applicable:
1. To respond to your requests
or provide you with information requested by you.
2. To communicate with you
about updates to Formica's services.
3. To provide, support,
personalize, maintain and enhance the services.
4. To comply with and enforce
applicable legal requirements, agreements and policies.
5. To prevent, detect,
identify, investigate, respond and protect against potential or actual claims,
liabilities, prohibited behavior and criminal activity.
6. To allow businesses or third
party websites we’re affiliated with, who may sell or provide products or
services to you through or in connection with the services (either alone or
jointly with us).
7. For other business purposes
such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness
of our services and to enhance, customize and improve our features, products
and services.
8. To perform other activities
consistent with this Privacy Notice.
More information:
If you place a request for products or services, we use your
personal information to:
1. process your order for our
products or services, as well as to process or collect your payment for the
order;
2. deliver or perform the
products or services you purchased or requested, including our couriers or
delivery agents calling or messaging you to obtain your delivery instructions;
3. verify and carry out payment
transactions in relation to your orders;
4. facilitate your use of
payment-related services;
5. process your returns or
refunds;
6. process your enquiries and
resolving any feedback or complaints;
7. register and maintain your
account with us, and to verify the details you have provided, if you have
signed up for an account;
8. personalise and improve your
customer experience when visiting our website(s)
If the products or services are from a retail partner, we
may provide your relevant information to that retail partner for purposes of
the transaction.
We rely upon third parties for important elements of our
operations so we will provide your personal information, such as your name,
address, and account information to these third parties so that they can do
their job, such as service providers, financial service providers, and
marketing companies that help us market our products. We will take appropriate
steps to protect your information in these circumstances. These third parties
may also have their own privacy policies but are not permitted to use the data
for their own purposes.
We may also share the information we collect about you with
third parties including retailers, credit card issuers and processors, banks
and other financial institutions and government agencies.
During the normal course of doing business, Formica may
share your personal information within the Formica Group as necessary in
order to service your accounts or orders you place with us and for the other
purposes set out above.
We may use your personal information to improve our
marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to
improve our content and product offerings and to customize the content, layout
and services of our website.
We may use your personal information to deliver information
to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests. We may ask you to
voluntarily provide additional information regarding your personal or business
interests, experience or requests, which we may use to customize our service
for you.
We may use your e-mail address, your mailing address, and
phone number to contact you regarding administrative notices, new product
offerings and communications relevant to our products and services. If you do
not wish to receive these communications, please contact us as indicated below
in this Privacy Notice.
We may also use or disclose your personal information to
resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our Terms of Use or purchase
agreements. At times, we may review status or activity of multiple users to do
so. We may disclose or access your personal information whenever it is
believed, in good faith, that the law so requires or if we otherwise consider
it necessary to do so to maintain service and improve our products and
services.
Who Formica shares your personal information with
We may disclose your personal information to the following
categories of recipients:
1. Affiliated Companies. We may share your personal
information with companies that are affiliated with us (for example companies
that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with us). We may
also share personal information that is collected between websites that we,
or our affiliates, control.
2. Service Providers. We may share your personal information
with companies that perform services for us, such as fulfilling orders,
delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mails, analyzing customer data,
providing marketing assistance, investigating fraudulent activity, conducting
customer surveys, and providing customer service.
3. Behavioral Advertisers. We may permit third party
behavioral advertisers to use technology to collect information about your use
of our website so that they can provide advertising about products and services
tailored to your interest. That advertising may appear either on our website,
or on other websites.
4. Potential Buyers. We may share your personal information
if we sell all, or part, of our business, sell all, or part, of our business
assets, or are otherwise involved in a merger or business acquisition.
5. Any other parties to comply with a legal obligation; to
protect the legal rights of (or otherwise participate in a legal process
pertaining to) our company, our employees, our agents, our clients, and our
affiliates, to protect the safety and security of our visitors, or to protect
against fraud; or with your consent.
Security
We employ reasonable and current security methods to prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of
information.
If you establish an account with us through this website,
your account information and profile will be password-protected. It is
recommended that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Our personnel will
never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an
unsolicited e-mail. Remember to sign out of your account and close your browser
window when you have finished your session. This is to help ensure that others
cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer
with someone else or are using a computer in a public place where others may
have access to it.
Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information
online, for example on message boards, through e-mail or in chat areas that
information can be collected and used by others, no data transmission over the
Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. As a
result, while we try to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or
guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at
your own risk.
Retention
We retain personal information we collect from you where we
have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so or to comply with applicable
legal requirements.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process
your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is
not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in
backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and
isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Your Privacy Rights and choices
You can access the personal information that we
collect online and maintain through normal updating methods. To update, correct
or delete any of your personal information, you can contact privacy@formica.com.
In addition to the above, depending on the jurisdiction you
are resident in, you may have the following data protection rights:
1. If you wish to access, correct, update or request
deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting
us here.
2. In addition, you can object to processing of your
personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal
information or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can
exercise these rights by contacting us here.
3. Subject to applicable law, you have the right to opt-out
of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this
right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing
e-mails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing (such as postal
marketing or telemarketing), then please contact us here.
4. Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal
information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time.
Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we
conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your
personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other
than consent.
5. You have the right to complain to a data protection
authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more
information, please contact your local data protection authority.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals
wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable
data protection laws.
Children
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18.
If a child has provided us with personal information without parental or
guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the
information.
Third Party Practices
The privacy policy of an advertiser, payment processor or
service provider you may contact through our site may differ from the Privacy
Notice. We encourage you to read that policy before responding to the offer or
dealing with that party.
Sending Personally Identifying Information outside of Hong Kong
As Formica is multi-national group of companies, there are
occasions where your personal information may be transmitted or shared outside
of Hong
Kong. Your personal information may be transmitted or shared outside of Hong Kong
for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to, the purposes set out
above.
Where personal information is sent, by Formica, outside of Hong Kong,
Formica shall take reasonable steps to ensure the transfer of such personal
information is secure; and that adequate safeguards are put in place to ensure
that it is processed securely when held outside of Hong Kong. If you would like more
information about these adequate safeguards, please contact us on the details
in the contact section below.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information
relating to EEA individuals
If you are a visitor from the EEA, our legal basis for
collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on
the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect
it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from
you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal
information to perform a contract with you or where the processing is in our
legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or
fundamental rights and freedoms.
If you have questions about or need further information
concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal
information, please Contact Us.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your
personal information, please contact privacy@formica.com.