TERMS OF USE

How we use your Data

We may collect, retain and use your Data for the following purposes:

(a)      to verify your identity;

(b)     to process your application to subscribe to our Services;

(c)      to carry out matching procedures, as defined under the Ordinance;

(d)     to verify your eligibility to our offers of Services, games and/or promotions or other events;

(e)      to provide, activate and/or renew Services and/or relevant services that you may have subscribed for;

(f)      to provide you with promotional benefits, updates, offers and invitation to events;

(g)      to promote and market our Services to you;

(h)     to provide suitable advertisement and website contents to you;

(i)       to provide suitable products or services to you;

(j)       to conduct credit checks and detect fraudulent activities in compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Cap. 615) or any other relevant regulations and in relation to other compliance purposes;

(k)     to perform research or analyses so that we may improve and optimise the Services that can be made available to you;

(l)       to conduct surveys and marketing, promotional, behavioural scoring for business operations and/or planning purposes;

(m)    to carry out market and product analyses in order to generate statistical or actuarial reports (containing aggregated data that does not relate to any identified or identifiable individual);

(n)     to maintain and develop our business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems;

(o)     to maintain, enhance and develop our products and service offerings;

(p)     to comply with applicable laws in or outside Hong Kong as may be required by applicable government authorities, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory or investigation bodies, in relation to the supply of Services to you, including to assist in the prevention, detection of crime or possible criminal activities; and

(q)     to distribute our publications and research materials as well as those of our business partners and counterparties.

 

Our legal basis for using your Data including how we disclose your Data

We have a legitimate interest in properly administering the Services. In addition, our use of your personal data may be necessary for the performance of the Services that you have requested. In order to provide the Services that you have requested, we may, to the extent permissible under applicable laws and regulations, disclose your Data to organisations or parties outside of EES (which may be within or outside of Hong Kong) (collectively, “Organisations”). Your Data is disclosed to these Organisations for the strict purpose of enabling us to supply our Services to you but is not applicable to any Organisations which are not owned by EESor of which its company policies are not controlled by EES as well as any persons employed or managed by EES.

In some circumstances as mentioned above, we may need to ask for your consent to use your Special Data where required by law to do so.

These Organisations provide support services to our businesses and operations including without limitation:

(a)      customer enquiries;

(b)     mailing operations;

(c)      information technology services;

(d)     installation, maintenance and repair services;

(e)      marketing, advertising and telemarketing services;

(f)      market research;

(g)      customer usage and behavioural analysis;

(h)     process management;

(i)       surveys; and

(j)       website usage analysis, etc.

We take the required steps to ensure that these Organisations are bound by appropriate confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your Data and that they use your Data for the sole purpose of carrying out the services for which they have been engaged, and not for their own or other purposes (including direct marketing).

In addition, we may disclose your Data:

(a)      to your authorised representatives and/or your legal advisers when requested by you to do so;

(b)     for the purposes of providing administrative, payment, collection, business, legal and/or operational support, to the following parties:

(i)       telecommunications network operators;

(ii)     our affiliates, overseas offices, assignees, transferees and representatives;

(iii)    our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors, lawyers and insurers;

(c)      to government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law;

(d)     to any proposed or actual participant, assignee or transferee of all or any part of the relevant member of our operations or business; and/or

(e)      to charities or non-profit organisations, etc.

 

Direct Marketing (if applicable)

We may, in compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations and licence requirements, use your Data (including without limitation name, contact information, phone number, residential/office address and email address), for us (including EES and its respective subsidiaries, affiliates and associated companies) and our respective dealers, suppliers, licensors, providers and/or business partners (collectively, “Service Providers”) to provide you with direct marketing content (pursuant to which we may or may not receive remuneration in return), including sending to you notices and/or updates about gifts, discounts, privileged offers, benefits and promotions related to Services offered by us and/or the Service Providers, including without limitation: esports, games and entertainment. Marketing may be carried out in a variety of ways (such as in the form of a letter, email, digital SMS, MMS, instant message, app push notification, by telephone, social media or advertisements on websites or other means).

Before using and providing your Data for the purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy Statement, where we are required by law to obtain your written consent, and in such cases, only after having obtained such written consent, may we use and provide your Data for any promotional or marketing purpose.

We will honour each individual’s request to not use his/her Data for the purposes of direct marketing. You may opt-out from receiving direct marketing material and/or communications from the relevant Service and/or any notices from EES. At the same time, you may resume receiving the same (if you have previously opted-out of receiving such material and/or communications from the relevant Service) by making a written request to our Data Protection Officer together with your registered name and service account number, registered telephone number or login name (as applicable).

 

Transfer of Data outside Hong Kong

At times it may be necessary and/or prudent for us to transfer your Data to places outside of Hong Kong, for instance, for the prevention, detection or investigation of crime or for storage, processing and other purposes for which the Data were collected. In the event that we do transfer your Data outside of Hong Kong, we will do so in compliance with the prevailing requirements of the Ordinance, other relevant regulations and the GDPR where applicable.

 

The safety of your Data is important to us

All required efforts are made to ensure that any Data held by us is stored in a secure and safe place and is accessible only by our authorised employees or other Organisations referred to in this Privacy Policy Statement.

When we pass your Data to third party Organisations for them to process, we seek to ensure that they have appropriate security measures in place to keep your Data safe and to comply with applicable principles in relation to data protection. Some of the people we share your Data with may process it overseas. You can contact us for more information about the safeguards we use to ensure that your Data is adequately protected in these circumstances.

 

Retention of your Data

We will retain your Data in accordance with our internal policies. Our policies are in compliance with the Ordinance and the GDPR where applicable, and cover the following principles:

(a)      Data will only be retained for as long as is necessary to fulfil the original or directly related purposes for which it was collected, unless the Data is also retained to satisfy any applicable legal, regulatory or contractual obligations; and

(b)     Data are purged from our electronic, manual and other filing systems based on the above criteria and our internal procedures.

 

Links

Our websites and mobile applications (if any) may contain links to other websites, webpages and mobile applications operated by third parties. We have no control over the content of the linked websites, webpages and mobile applications or the way in which the operators of those websites, webpages and mobile applications deal with your Data, and are not responsible for the content of such third party websites, webpages or mobile applications. You should review the privacy policy of such third party websites, webpages and mobile applications to understand the ways in which your Data may be used by those third parties.

 

Your right to access, correct and delete Data

We take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the Data we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that Data depends to a large extent on the Data you provide. You have a right to request access to, and correction of, your Data and we recommend that you:

(a) let us know if there are any errors in your Data; and

(b) keep us up-to-date with changes to your Data.

If you wish to access or amend any of your Data we hold, or request that we delete any of your information that is no longer necessary for the provision of our Services, you may contact us in the manner as set forth under the “How to Contact Us” section.

You may exercise your right of access and correction by writing to our Data Protection Officer at the details stated in the “How to contact us” section below.

You may decline to share Data with us and/or withdraw any consents which you may have provided, in which case, we may not be able to provide you with some of our Services.

At any time, you may object to us holding or processing your Data, on legitimate grounds, save and except as otherwise permitted by the applicable law.

 

Conditions to upload content

When you submit content to or share material with EES, you must only submit/share your own original content. If your content contains the work(s) of others (e.g. music, images and/or video), you must have obtained the necessary rights or permissions to use that material. You also undertake not to use our websites and/or social media to upload, post, email, offer or otherwise transmit any contents that infringe any proprietary rights or intellectual property rights including, without limitation, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright of any party.

If your content clearly identifies anyone else, you will need to ensure that the persons concerned have consented to the content being used by EES. Where your content clearly identifies children under the age of 16, you must ensure that their parent or guardian has provided their consent as set out above.

According to EES’s rules, you should not submit or share any material or information:

(i)       That is knowingly false or misleading, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, threatening or invasive of a person’s privacy or unlawful in any way;

(ii)     Which you do not own or for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals as may be required by law;

(iii)    Which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, files that contain viruses, corrupted files or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer);

(iv)    Impersonating any person or entity, or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with anyone or any entity;

(v)     Deleting any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded; and/or

(vi)    Falsifying the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; and/or

(vii)  Advertising or offering to sell any goods or services, or conducting or forwarding surveys, contests or chain letters, or downloading any file posted by another user of EES websites that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such a manner.

EES reserves its right to reject or remove or edit any inappropriate information from its websites or social media records. If in doubt, please do not share your contents with EES . If you post on, or transmit to, any of our websites or social media platforms any material of the type prohibited under the above paragraphs or any applicable laws and regulations, and EES incurs any costs, expenses, liability or losses as a result then you agree to indemnify EES for all such costs, expenses, liability and/or losses.

You should be aware that EES is entitled to reveal your identity (or any information which it has about you) to any third party who is claiming that any of that material violates any of their rights or to any government or regulatory authority that may request EES to do so.

 

Sensitive Data

Unless specially required or requested by us, please do not send or publish any personal sensitive data (e.g. contents in relations to race, political views, religious or other beliefs, health record, criminal record or chamber membership, etc.) to us or through our websites or social media platforms. If we specially required or requested your provision of sensitive data, we must obtain your prior express consent.

 

How to contact us

For all issues and enquiries regarding our compliance with our obligations under the Ordinance and the GDPR where applicable, and any request for access to, correction or deletion of your Data, please contact our Data Protection Officer in writing at:

 

ER Esports Limited

10/F, Yue Hing Building, 103 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

or via email to: info@eresports.com

To raise an issue regarding our handling of your Data, please contact us in order that we can attempt to resolve your issue.

This Privacy Policy Statement may be amended from time to time and all handling of Data will be governed by the most recent version of this Privacy Policy Statement, available on our website. If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese versions of the Privacy Policy Statement, the English version will prevail.

We keep our privacy policy statement under regular review. This privacy policy statement was last updated in December 2020.