Privacy Policy
Handling of non-personal data
If you are only browsing the Electronic Customs Declaration System Website (the “Website”) of the Economic and Technological Development Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government (“we”, “us” or “our”) and any of its pages without running the electronic services used by the authenticated users of the Website, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you.
When you browse or download information from the Website, the computer system used by the Website may automatically record the following technical data: your domain name and IP address; your access date and time; the web pages you have browsed; and the referring website’s domain name if you access the Website via hyperlinks from other websites. The information is collected solely for statistics and analysis purposes, and will not be used for tracking down visitors unless it is found that such access is a malicious attack against the Website.
To provide you better Internet services, the Website will use cookies to record users’ activities on the Website (cookie means a small piece of readable information stored by a website in your personal computer browser; only the website that originally set the cookie can read its content). Such information will save the specific types of information that you prefer in order to facilitate personalization of the Website for your future uses. If the cookies detection feature is activated in your browser, there will be a warning message whenever a cookie is saved.
We respect the privacy of your personal data and will handle them in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law or Law No. 8/2005. Personal data may be required if you use the electronic services of the Website. The information to be provided may vary with the services. We handle all personal data based on the following principles:
- Your personal data are collected by us for our functions or activities and the needs of the relevant electronic services.
- We will take all practical measures to keep your personal data secure, confidential and accurate; the relevant data will only be kept for as long a period as necessary.
- The personal data you provided will only be used by us for the activities within our terms of reference and relevant electronic services. Such data may also be transferred to other public or private entities with your consent.
- Only the authorized personnel can access or handle your personal data.
- You have the right to access or correct your personal data.
- If you provide personal data, we will encode them for safety before transmitting them.
When you contact us via e-mail, you must be aware that the transmission of such information (including personal information) on the open network runs a certain risk of being seen or used by unauthorized third persons.
Certain content of the Website will link externally to other websites, such as Macao’s government authorities, foreign governments or public organizations, and local or foreign private organizations. Clicking these links to other websites means you have already left the Website. Since the privacy policies of these websites may differ from ours, we do not take any responsibility for the contents and privacy policies of those websites. You are therefore recommended to read carefully the privacy statements of these websites.
Any changes to this policy will be posted by us on the Website by replacing the older version with the new one, with the date of update indicated in the document.