The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("the Government") is concerned to ensure that all personal data submitted through the Efficiency Unit website (“EU web”) are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance

The Government will record visits to EU web without collecting any personal identifiable information of users. Such general statistics are collected for the compilation of statistical reports and the diagnosis of problems with or concerning computer systems to help the Government improve EU web.

Search service on EU web is provided by Yahoo! Hong Kong Limited ("Yahoo!"). We are advised by Yahoo! that it does not collect personal identifiable information while serving search results through EU web. Yahoo! will share the anonymous data it collects through the search service with the Government for compiling traffic analysis on government websites. The Government will not match the data obtained from any such search activity with any personal data possibly held by the Government.

This Privacy Policy has been translated into Chinese. If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the English version and the Chinese version, the English version shall prevail.

May 2008