Privacy Policy
MSIG takes your privacy very seriously. To ensure your personal information is secure, we communicate and enforce our privacy and security guidelines according to the relevant laws and regulations. MSIG takes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Furthermore, we will not sell your personal information to anyone without your consent. MSIG imposes very strict sanction control and only authorised staff on a need-to-know basis are given access to or will handle your personal data, and we provide regular training to our staff to keep them abreast of any new developments in privacy laws and regulations.
We will only retain your personal data in our business records for as long as it is necessary for business and tax purposes as permitted by the laws. We will require our agents, contractors or third parties who provides administrative or other services on our behalf to protect personal data they may receive in a manner consistent with this policy. We do not allow them to use such information for any other purposes. If you have any questions or inquiries regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. The updated version will be available by following the 'Privacy Policy' link on our website homepage at msig.com.hk. You should check the Privacy Policy regularly for changes.
Personal Information Collection Statement
Personal information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person. As our customer, it is necessary from time to time for you to supply us with your personal data in relation to the general insurance services and products ("the Product") that we provide to you and in order for us to deliver and improve customer service. This includes but not limited to the personal data contained in the proposal form or in any documents in relation to the Product or any claim made under the Product.
Mobile Devices
With your consent, we may send you push notifications about your insurance plan when you use certain location-based services provided by this mobile application. The application will ask you to turn on the Location Service of your smartphone in order to determine your location, but it will not store your location.
If you do not provide us with your personal data, we may not be able to provide the Product you need or process your request.
We may use your personal data for:-
In connection with any of the above purposes, the personal data that we have collected might be disclosed or transferred to the following persons and/or entities (who may be located within or outside of Hong Kong, or may process or store your personal data outside of Hong Kong):
In order to confirm the accuracy of your personal data, you agree to provide us with authorisation to access and to verify any of your personal data with the information collected by any federation of insurance companies from the insurance industry.
MSIG also intends to use your name, your address, your phone number and email address from time to time to provide marketing materials and conduct direct marketing (including but not limited to promotion, marketing and sales) of the Product. If you do not wish MSIG to use your personal data for these purposes, you should notify us by writing to our Data Protection Officer at 9/F 1111 King’s Road, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong. You may also notify us by filling in the “Enquiry form – Opt-out from direct marketing activities”. on our website. In your notification, you must identify yourself by providing us with your full name, HK ID number, contact number, together with your policy/certificate/ acknowledgement number if you have one. (Note: The instruction will override all previous instructions relating to direct marketing that have been given to MSIG.)
Under The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, you have the right to: (a) be informed of the kind of personal data held by us; (b) be informed of the main purposes for which personal data held by us are or are to be used; (c) request access to your personal data held by us; (d) request correction of your personal data held by us; and (e) ascertain our policies and practices in relation to personal data. If you wish to exercise these rights, please write to our Data Protection Officer at 9/F, 1111 King's Road, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong.
If you have any enquiries or require assistance with this Personal Information Collection Statement, please call us at +852 3122 6922.