Terms and Conditions

Disclaimer and Other Important Notices

This website is operated by Admiralty Asset Management Limited (collectively referred to as “Admiralty Asset”, “we”, “us” or “our”) and access to this website is subject to the following terms and conditions. Use of this website constitutes your agreement to be bound by all such terms and conditions without limitation or qualification. Admiralty Asset may at any time revise these terms and conditions without the obligation to give notice.  All information contained in the website including this disclaimer information has not been reviewed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (the “SFC”).

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT PROCEED TO ACCESS OR USE THIS WEBSITE.

Admiralty Asset is licensed by the SFC for Type 1 (Dealing in Securities), Type 4 (Advising on Securities) and Type 9 (Asset Management) regulated activity under the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong) (“SFO”). Subject to the license condition, Admiralty Asset can only provide its services to “Professional Investors” as defined under the SFO and other subsidiary legislation. The information this website is intended for Professional Investors ONLY.

No Offer or Recommendation

All information published on this website are for your information only and nothing contained in or on this website should be construed as an offer, solicitation of an offer or recommendation, to acquire, purchase, subscribe for, dispose of or otherwise deal in any security, commodity, product or investments. The information published on this website does not constitute investment advice. Nothing on this website constitutes a representation about the suitability or appropriateness of any advisory product or service. You must carefully evaluate and assess the merits and risks of any investments and assess the suitability or appropriateness of any advisory product or service. Where in doubt, you should consult professional advisers accordingly.

Local Restrictions

This website is directed only at users within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR“) and the information in this website is not intended to be, whether in part or in full, made available to, for use by, copied, reproduced or redistributed in any form to any person in any jurisdiction where such use would be contrary to law or regulation. All persons and entities accessing the website do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with applicable local laws and regulations. The website is not directed to any person in any jurisdiction (including, the United States of America) where the publication or availability of the website may be prohibited, by reason of that person’s nationality, residence or otherwise. Persons under these restrictions must not access this website. For investors outside Hong Kong SAR, you can also contact local intermediaries for further information. Also, you should note that not all investments, products or services provided in this website are available in all jurisdictions.

Information On This Website

Admiralty Asset has taken reasonable care to ensure that the information contained on this website is accurate, current, complete, fit for its intended purpose and compliant with relevant legislation and regulations and, where applicable, the laws of the country of your residence as at the date of issue.

However, errors or omissions may occur due to circumstances beyond Admiralty Asset’s control and no warranty is given, or representation made, regarding the accuracy, validity or completeness of the information on this website and no liability is accepted by such persons for the accuracy or completeness of such information. You must conduct your own due diligence and investigations rather than relying on any of the information in this website. Any person who acts upon the information contained on this website does so entirely at his own risk.

Information posted on this website is current only as at the date it is first posted and may no longer be true or complete when viewed by you. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Admiralty Asset does not guarantee, represent or warrant the accuracy, adequacy, completeness or validity of the information and materials in this website, or that this website or any information or materials are free from any virus or other malicious, destructive or corrupting code, agent, program or macros. Admiralty Asset expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions in such information and materials. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Admiralty Asset expressly disclaims liability from any expressed or implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement of third party rights. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Admiralty Asset shall in no event be liable or responsible for any damages, loss or expense including without limitation, direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages or economic loss arising from or in connection with any use, access or inability to use this website or any contents contained in this website howsoever caused.

To the extent that this website contains any expression of opinion or forecast, such opinion or forecast is based on sources reasonably believed by Admiralty Assets to be reliable, but is not guaranteed or warranted as to its current validity, accuracy or completeness.

Risk Warning

You should note that investment involves risks. Past performance, forecast, prediction or projection on the economy or securities markets is not necessarily a guide to future performance. The value of investments and the income from them, if any, may rise or fall and cannot be guaranteed. All investments are subject to investment and foreign exchange risks including the possible loss of the principal amount invested. Please refer to the offering documents that may be obtained from Admiralty Asset for details. You should ensure you fully understand the risks associated with the investment and should also consider your own investment objective and risk tolerance level. If in doubt, please seek independent financial and tax professional advice before making any investment decisions.

No Waiver of Admiralty Asset Rights

No act, delay or omission by Admiralty Asset shall affect its right, powers and remedies under applicable laws and regulations.

Severance

If any provision of this terms and conditions is not or ceases to be legally binding and enforceable, it will not affect the legality, binding effect or enforceability of any other terms and conditions.

Access to the Website

Admiralty Asset reserves the right to deny in its sole discretion any user access to this website or any portion thereof without notice.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

By accessing this website and/or using the services offered through this website, you agree that the laws of the HKSAR, shall govern such access and the provision of such services, and you agree to submit irrevocably to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the HKSAR.

IMPORTANT: By accessing this website and any of its pages you are agreeing to the terms set out above.

NOTE: In case of inconsistency or ambiguity between the English and Chinese versions, the English version shall apply and prevail.

Trademarks and Copyrights Policy

Admiralty Asset either owns the intellectual property rights in the underlying HTML, text, images, audio/video clips, and other content that is made available to you on this website or has obtained the permission of the owner of the intellectual property to use the information on this website.

Admiralty Asset grants you a limited licence to display on your computer, print, download, and use the information on this website for non-commercial, personal, or educational purposes only, provided that:

  • you agree that the Admiralty Asset is not liable for any liability you incur as a result of using of this limited licence;
  • you do not modify any of the information available on this website;
  • you include with and display on each copy the associated copyright notice and this limited licence.

No other use is permitted without the express written permission of Admiralty Asset. Nothing in this notice confers any right in any copyright of Admiralty Asset or other copyright owner’s content provided on this website.

Admiralty Asset’s Website Privacy and Cookie Policy

Privacy

Admiralty Asset respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. Our privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data and your privacy rights. Our privacy policy aims to give you information on how Admiralty Asset collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you make an enquiry through the contact form.

We use cookies on this website. Information on our cookie policy is set out below.

The data we collect

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

We may collect, use, store and transfer your personal data from the enquiry form if you make an enquiry on our enquiry form webpage, we ask for personal data (person/company name, contact person, and contact person’s phone and email address).

Legal grounds for use of personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.

We rely on consent as a ground for processing your personal data. We only process your personal data for the specific purposes referred to below. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

In relation to enquiries, we rely on our legitimate interests as a ground for processing your personal data. This is necessary for the purpose of facilitating contact between you and us for our provision of legal services. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

If subsequently, we enter into a contract with you, we will need to process your personal data for the purpose of performance of a contract.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

In relation to your personal data provided on the enquiry form webpage, we will use such data for directly communicating with you in relation to your enquiry.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Your duty to provide us with accurate data and inform us of changes

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please ensure that the data you provide us is accurate. In addition, please keep us informed if your personal data changes.

Data retention period

The data will be stored for the following periods:

  • in relation to data provided for enquiries, until you no longer consent to the processing of your personal data.

If you are engaged by us, we are required to follow the record keeping rules under the Securities and Futures (Keeping of Records) Rules (Chapter 571O of the Laws of Hong Kong) and other relevant guidance and regulations.

Cookies

Admiralty Asset currently uses “cookies” on this website to monitor traffic patterns and improve this website. Our cookies do not collect or disclose any personal information about the person using the browser. They are only used to detect the fact that a given visitor has been to our site before in the past. In other words, these cookies help us to differentiate between first time and repeated visitors.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files sent from our website and stored on your browser. For more information on cookies, please see https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. We are not responsible for the content of https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

What type of cookies do we use?

We place strictly necessary cookies on your browser to ensure that our website delivers you information speedily, securely and optimally. You must accept these cookies to be able to access our website. These cookies expire at the end of your session on Admiralty Asset’s website.

Our website may also use third party services, who may set their own cookies on your browser.

Cookies – consent, withdrawal and disabling

We rely on consent as the ground for using cookies. We will only use cookies for the specific purposes referred to above. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

You may refuse consent or withdraw your consent to the use of cookies at any time by disabling cookies. You may disable cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. If you want to remove previously stored cookies, you may clear your browser’s cookies. Please refer to your browser’s help menu for instructions on how to disable and/or remove cookies. For further information, please see https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. We are not responsible for the content of https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Please note that if you disable cookies, our website may not function properly.

Disclosure of your personal data to third parties

We will not disclose your personal data to any other third parties unless we are obliged to under a court order or other legislative or regulatory requirement, as well as any applicable rule or guideline issued by the SFC or other regulatory body.

Transfer of personal data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”)

Since we operate in Hong Kong, your personal information will be transferred and processed outside of the EEA. In the absence of an adequacy decision in relation to Hong Kong and appropriate safeguards under Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) , there are possible risks associated with such transfers. These risks include that you may not be able to exercise your legal rights (see below), and that your data may not be processed in accordance with the principles under the GDPR (i.e. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner; collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed; accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data). However, Admiralty Asset will take measures to safeguard your personal data and comply with the provisions of the GDPR.

Your legal rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

  • the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and where that is the case, access to your personal data;
  • the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data and have incomplete data completed;
  • the right to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay in certain circumstances, including where the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected, where you withdraw your consent, where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where your personal data has been unlawfully processed or where your personal data has to be erased to comply with a legal obligation;
  • the right to obtain restriction of processing in any of the following circumstances: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) where you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it;
  • the right to receive your personal data which you have provided to us (in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format) and the right to transmit those data to a third party, only where the processing is carried out by automated means and the lawfulness of the processing is based on your consent or necessity for the performance of a contract;
  • the right to object to processing of personal data in certain circumstances, including where we are relying on our own or a third party’s legitimate interests to process your personal data, except where we can demonstrate legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms;
  • the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, except where it is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between yourself and us;
  • the right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data; and
  • the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (however, we would value the opportunity to address your concerns before you approach a supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance).

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right or authority to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Third party links

Our website contains links to other websites, if you follow a link to another website or share a webpage on third party social media applications, this may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control third party websites and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their privacy and cookie policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy and cookie policy of every website you visit.

Amendments to this privacy and cookie policy

We may update this privacy and cookie policy from time to time to reflect our practices.

Contact us

If you have any queries, please contact us using the dedicated contact form.

Hyperlinks to Admiralty Asset’s Website

Admiralty Asset welcomes the creation of hyperlinks to this website and will be pleased to know your website address if you wish to have it linked to this website. Under Admiralty Asset’s hyperlink policy and unless otherwise approved by Admiralty Asset, all links to this website shall be connected to the front page of this website. Thus, only the name, Admiralty Asset Management Limited, and website address of Admiralty Asset, https://admiralty-am.com shall be displayed.

If you wish to link an external website to a specific page of Admiralty Asset website, you must first obtain the prior written approval of Admiralty Asset which may be given subject to conditions. Admiralty Asset will assess each request on a case-by-case basis. Under the Admiralty Asset’s hyperlink policy, Admiralty Asset has the sole discretion to determine the way in which the hyperlink is to be structured and how the name of the specific page of this website should be displayed.

Admiralty Asset is not obliged to establish a reciprocal link to your website following the establishment of a hyperlink from your website to this website unless Admiralty Asset consents to do so.

Admiralty Asset is not responsible for the setup of any hyperlink from a third party website to that this website, hence any hyperlinks to this website shall not constitute or be construed as any form of co-operation with Admiralty Asset or endorsement by Admiralty Asset of a third party website. Admiralty Asset is not liable for any loss or damage incurred or suffered by you or any third party arising out of, in connection with or as a result of any such links.

Hyperlinks from Admiralty Asset’s Website

Some pages of this website and the materials on this website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites or web pages. Under Admiralty Asset hyperlink policy, use of these hyperlinks to any external website or web page is at your own risk. Hyperlinks are created for convenience. To the extent that any information on this website relates to a third party or information on other websites which you may access through this website, such information has been provided by that third party and is the sole responsibility of such third party and Admiralty Asset accepts no liability for any accuracy or quality of such information. Admiralty Asset is not responsible for any broken link to any website linked with this website.  The hyperlinks contained on https://admiralty-am.com are accurate on the date of publication and may change.

Under Admiralty Asset’s hyperlink policy the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Admiralty Asset of the linked sites and Admiralty Asset is not liable for any loss or damage incurred or suffered by you or any third party arising out of, in connection with or as a result of any access to or interaction with any other websites via Admiralty Asset website.

Admiralty Asset reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law for breaches of any of the above terms and conditions.

IMPORTANT: By accessing this website and any of its pages you are agreeing to the terms set out above.

NOTE: In case of inconsistency or ambiguity between the English and Chinese versions, the English version shall apply and prevail.