Privacy statement

(i) considering and processing your present and/or future employment application(s) including pre-employment checks and background screening/vetting;

(ii) conducting employment checks whenever appropriate during employment;

(iii) conducting background screening/vetting prior to your provision of Services and whenever appropriate during the period of your provision of Services;

(iv) managing your provision of Services including granting of access to the Bank or HSBC Group systems and premises;

(v) assisting with applications for work permits, licences and/or registrations with any governmental, regulatory or other authorities or self-regulatory or industry bodies or associations of financial service providers in connection with your employment or your provision of Services;

(vi) determining and reviewing salaries, incentives, bonuses and other benefits;

(vii) considering and administering appraisals, promotions, training, secondments, assignments or transfers;

(viii) considering eligibility for and administration of staff loans, health benefits, retirement benefits and other benefits and entitlements;

(ix) providing the name, title, office telephone number, and other business contact details in the ordinary course of our business;

(x) conducting internal analytical and statistical studies concerning human resources related matters, including assessing the demographics of the employee population;

(xi) providing employee references;

(xii) monitoring and administering compliance with our internal rules;

(xiii) meeting obligations, requirements or arrangements of the Bank and/or any member of the HSBC Group, whether compulsory or voluntary, to comply with or in connection with:

(1) any law, regulation, judgment, court order, voluntary code, sanctions regime, within or outside the Macau Special Administrative Region (“Macau”) existing currently and in the future (“Laws”);

(2) any guidelines, guidance or requests given or issued by any legal, regulatory, governmental, tax, law enforcement or other authorities, or self-regulatory or industry bodies or associations of financial services providers within or outside Macau existing currently and in the future and any international guidance, internal policies or procedures;

(3) any present or future contractual or other commitment with local or foreign legal, regulatory, judicial, administrative, public or law enforcement body, or governmental, tax, revenue, monetary, securities or futures exchange, court, central bank or other authorities, or self-regulatory or industry bodies or associations of financial service providers or any of their agents with jurisdiction over all or any part of the Bank and/or HSBC Group (together the “Authorities” and each an “Authority”) that is assumed by, imposed on or applicable to the Bank and/or any member of the HSBC Group; or

(4) any agreement or treaty between Authorities;

(xiv) complying with any obligations, requirements, policies, procedures, measures or arrangements for sharing data and information within the Bank and/or HSBC Group and/or any other use of data and information in accordance with any programmes for compliance with sanctions or prevention or detection of money laundering, terrorist financing or other unlawful activities;

(xv) conducting any action to meet obligations of the Bank and/or any member of the HSBC Group to comply with Laws or international guidance or regulatory requests relating to or in connection with the detection, investigation and prevention of money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, corruption, tax evasion, fraud, evasion of economic or trade sanctions and/or any acts or attempts to circumvent or violate any Laws relating to these matters;

(xvi) meeting any obligations of the Bank and/or any member of the HSBC Group to comply with any demand or request from the Authorities;

(xvii) administering any other human resources related matters;

(xviii) dealing with matters concerning your personal health and safety; and (xix) purposes relating thereto.

(i) any member of the HSBC Group;

(ii) any agents, contractors, sub-contractors, insurers/insurance brokers, professional advisers or associates of the Bank and/or the HSBC Group (including their employees, officers, agents, contractors, sub-contractors, service providers and professional advisers);

(iii) any third party service providers (including their employees and officers) who provide services to the Bank and/or any member of the HSBC Group in connection with the operation or maintenance of our business (including but not limited to performance of pre-employment check or background screening/vetting, provision or administration of benefits and services entitled by employees, and share scheme administration);

(iv) any Authorities;

(v) any persons under a duty of confidentiality to us which have undertaken to keep such data confidential;

(vi) any persons seeking employee references in respect of employees with the required consent of the employee concerned in accordance with the Act;

(vii) any persons to whom we are under an obligation or required or expected to make disclosure for the purposes set out in, or in connection with, paragraph (e)(xiii), (e)(xiv) or (e)(xv) above;

(viii) any actual or proposed purchaser(s) of all or part of our business or, in the case of any merger, acquisition or other public offering, the purchaser(s) or subscriber(s) for our shares; and

(ix) any of your emergency contacts.

Such data may be transferred in and to a place outside Macau.

(g) If you are also a customer of the Bank, attention is drawn to the relevant personal data privacy notice to customers.

(i) to check whether we hold data about you and to access such data;

(ii) to require us to correct any data relating to you which is inaccurate; and

(iii) to ascertain our policies and practices in relation to data and to be informed of the kind of data held by us.