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Octopus or Alipay (Hong Kong) shall not be liable to, and under no circumstances shall any claims be made against Octopus or Alipay by, any of such users or any other person in any respect in connection with the Rebate Programme.

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The Environmental Protection Department ("the EPD") and Smart City Circular Economy Solutions Limited ("SCC", contractor of Stage 3 RVM Pilot Scheme) are committed to ensuring that all personal data submitted through the dedicated website of Stage 3 RVM Pilot Scheme ("our website") are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.

The EPD and SCC will record your visit to our website without collecting any personal identifiable information. For different purposes, you may be requested to provide your personal information, including but not limited to your name, telephone number and email address, through our website on a voluntary basis. If specific information is requested but not supplied, this Website may be unable to provide the requested service. We will specify the collection purpose and intended usage of your data when we invite you to provide such information and advise you how you may request access to, or correction of, the personal data provided. Unless permitted or required by law, we will not disclose your personal data to any third parties without your prior consent.

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Our website uses Transport Layer Security ("TLS") / Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") encryption technology to encrypt data during the network transmission. All personal data you provided to the EPD and/or SCC via our websites will be collected and handled in accordance with our general personal data practice in following the Data Protection Principles above, secured by TLS / SSL encryption technology, and access to them is restricted to authorized personnel only.

SCC does not collect personal identifiable information while serving search results through our website. SCC will share the anonymous data it collects through the search service for compiling traffic analysis on this website upon EPD's request. The EPD and SCC will not match the data obtained from any such search activity with any personal data possibly held by us.

If you wish to request access to or correction of your personal data provided to the EPD and/or SCC, you may complete the Data Access Request Form, and send it to enquiry@hkrvms3.com.hk.