Driven by requests from its customers,
D&B delivers products and services
through the Internet faster and more
efficiently than ever before.
This Privacy Policy describes the
privacy policies applicable to D&B
HK Internet websites at www.dnb.com.hk
("Website") and any other collection of
personal data by D&B in Hong Kong by
any means whatsoever. In the event that
D&B has provided a separate Personal
Information Collection Statement to you,
or D&B and your company have entered
into a separate agreement, to the extent
that there is any inconsistency between
this Privacy Policy and the terms of
such Personal Information Collection
Statement or agreement, then the terms
of the Personal Information Collection
Statement or agreement, as applicable,
shall take precedence.
Data Collection Practices
We collect some information about
visitors to the Website indirectly
through standard web logs, including IP
address, what browser is being used
(e.g., Netscape), and the domain name
from which a visitor entered the site
(e.g., www.yourcompany.com or
www.youruniversity.edu). We normally use
this information in the aggregate to
administer and improve our web site.
Some data may be traceable to an
individual, but we do not normally seek
to identify individuals who are using
the Website unless we believe that
someone is using our Website improperly.
Some existing customers come to our
Website with IDs and passwords already
assigned. Others who register at our
Website; or who submit an online order
request for D&B to provide certain
products or services; or who otherwise
contact us to subscribe, order or
request further information on D&B's
products or services, are asked to
provide standard contact information for
us to contact them in their official
capacity, such as name, title, company
name, mailing and email addresses, and
telephone numbers. We may also collect a
credit card number from those who
register through the Website to buy
products and services on behalf of their
company.
Data Retention
D&B will retain your information
for as long as your account is active or
as needed to provide you services. If
you wish to cancel your account or
request that we no longer use your
information to provide you services,
please contact D&B at enquiryhk@dnb.com. We will retain and use your
information as necessary to comply with
our legal obligations, resolve disputes,
and enforce our agreements.
Purposes of Collection and Use
If you provide any personal data to us,
you are deemed to have authorised us to
collect, retain, transfer, process and
use personal information about you for
the following purposes:
(a)
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to provide sales, marketing or
promotional information to you
in your official capacity within
your company, about any of
D&B's, its affiliates' our
customers' products and services
for use by your company in a
business-to-business context.
Such sales, marketing or
promotional information about
D&B products and services
are not intended to be for the
benefit of or use by you as an
individual – they are aimed at
and intended to be used by your
company. If you wish to stop
receiving commercial electronic
email messages from us in the
future, please send an email to unsubscribe.hk@dnb.com
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(b)
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for use in D&B's internal
database, for providing and
administering a D&B D-U-N-S®
Number for your company, and for
providing any other services or
products requested by you, your
company or any other
representative of your company,
or to provide products and/or
services to our other customers;
and
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(c)
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to analyse and compile
information for D&B's
internal analyses, such as
researching and identifying
market segments and needs;
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(d)
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to make such disclosures as may
be required by applicable law or
in response to a court order or
subpoena or when otherwise
legally required;
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(e)
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to complete business
transactions, to fulfil and
confirm orders for products and
services or subscriptions for
any products or services, to
administer individual accounts,
update D&B's databases,
provide customer support, answer
your queries or requests for
further information, and meet
government regulatory
requirements;
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(f)
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to share your personal
information (whether inside or
outside the country in which the
personal data was collected)
with:
(i)
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contractors who
directly support the
Internet services and
who only use the
information on our
behalf in accordance
with this Policy;
and
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(ii)
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D&B's affiliates,
credit card processors,
auditors, lawyers or
other contractors, or
who are obligated to
only use the personal
information on our
behalf for the purpose
of the disclosure (which
will be in line with
paragraphs (a) to (e)
above), and
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who are required to
destroy or return the
personal information
when it is no longer
needed. These third
parties' own privacy
notices govern any
information that they
may collect on their
own; and
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(g)
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to disclose your personal
information as appropriate to
protect the Website or our legal
rights, or in connection with a
sale or merger involving the
D&B assets or businesses for
which the information is
maintained.
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(h)
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to review and process your
application of becoming a
D&B Mystery Shopper as a
vendor service provider.
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If you provide any personal data to us
in relation to another individual, you
warrant that you have been authorized by
that individual to provide such personal
information to D&B for D&B to
collect, retain, transfer, process and
use that personal information in
accordance with the same purposes stated
in paragraphs (a) to (h) above, and
references to "you", "your" or "your
personal information" shall be
interpreted as references to "him/her",
"his/her" and "his/her personal
information", respectively, in relation
to the individual who the personal
information concerns.
Cookies
We sometimes use an Internet device
called a cookie to store login or other
information on your computer. A cookie
is a small amount of information that a
website transfers to your computer's
hard drive. We use cookies to simplify
your access and to tailor our services
to your needs and interests. For some
services, we offer users the choice of
having an ID or password stored in a
cookie so that you do not need to
re-enter it when you return to the site.
Choice
D&B's business information products
are licensed to authorized resellers and
third party users for various business
decision making purposes. A company
representative who registers at the
website may be offered an opportunity to
obtain a D&B D-U-N-S® Number for the
company and may also be added to our
database. Any person included in the
D&B database may ask to be excluded
from business lists licensed for
business-to-business marketing purposes.
For more information, contact D&B
Customer Service.
Confidentiality and Security
Safeguards
Your personal data held by us shall be
kept confidential in accordance with
this Privacy Policy. D&B takes
technical, administrative and physical
steps to protect against anticipated
hazards such as unauthorized access to
and disclosure of individually
identifiable information. D&B does
not store users' personally-identifiable
information on its web servers. All
reasonable efforts are made by D&B
to ensure that any personal data held by
D&B is stored in a secure and safe
place, and accessed only by its
authorized employees or authorized third
parties in accordance with this Privacy
Policy. D&B employees, affiliates
and third party service providers are
required to treat personal information
as confidential information and may not
disclose it to unauthorized third
parties. D&B employees, affiliates
and third party service providers are
also under an obligation to maintain
internal security measures to protect
the personal information from
unauthorised or accidental use,
disclosure, modification or destruction.
Employees and third party service
providers who violate D&B's privacy
policies are subject to a range of
disciplinary actions and/or
consequences.
Data Quality
Data quality is at the heart and soul
of any successful information company.
Working to ensure that data is
up-to-date and accurate benefits the
data subject and D&B. To help ensure
quality data, D&B employs extensive
measures, including direct contacts with
businesses and quality review at both
the point of collection and at the end
of the data collection process.
Data Subject Rights
At Dun & Bradstreet, we are
committed to respecting the data and
digital rights of natural persons in
both their personal and professional
capacities. We have established basic
principles and operating standards for
the data subject rights, please see
Functional Policy Statement:
Global Data Subject Rights
. D&B will use the principles and
standards of this policy to protect the
subject rights in the processing of
personal data in accordance with
applicable law.
Access and Correction
You may contact D&B Hong Kong
Customer Service to see or change any of
your personal information held by
D&B; to opt out of receiving email
updates about D&B products and
services for your company, or to be
removed from or amend any of your
personal information held on the D&B
database.
Changes to Dun & Bradstreet's
Data Privacy Practices
If we make material changes to our data
privacy practices, we will post these
changes on our website in order to keep
you informed of how we collect, use,
manage, disclose, and protect Data. Such
changes will be posted in this online
privacy notice and the policy effective
date will be updated accordingly.
To learn about our comprehensive
database or if you have any further
information on our Privacy Policy,
please contact us in:
Hong Kong at 2561-6333 or send us a
message at enquiryhk@DNB.COM
Last updated on 18 August 2023