Legal Information

GENERAL DISCLAIMER

This system is made available by Hong Kong College of Pathologists. Neither the Hong Kong College of Pathologists nor any of its member or employee, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.  Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Hong Kong College of Pathologists or any member thereof and all rights are reserved by their respective owner(s). The views and opinions of originators expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Hong Kong College of Pathologists thereof. 

TERM OF USE

Information from this server resides on a computer system funded jointly by the Hong Kong College of Pathologists and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Chemical Pathology.  Anyone using this system and/or any system owned by the Hong Kong College of Pathologists or the Department of Chemical Pathology consents to monitoring of this use by system or security personnel. This server exists strictly to support the professional, educational, and administrative activities of the members of the Hong Kong College of Pathologists and all other uses of this server, its services, or any information found on it is strictly prohibited.  If you have questions as to appropriate uses of this site, server or any information found on it, please contact Hong Kong College of Pathologists at webmaster@hkcpath.org or call (852) 2990-1804.

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

These web pages are copyright by the Hong Kong College of Pathologists. All material is owned by the Hong Kong College of Pathologists, unless otherwise specified. All rights are reserved. If you wish to use an image or text on these pages, please contact the webmaster.  The Hong Kong College of Pathologists' grants the right to use information and images contained within these pages if: 

  • You are using the material for an educational institution.
  • You are using the material for your own private use.
  • You are not using this material for any commercial reasons.

PRIVACY POLICY

We collect no personal information about you when you visit any computer within the hkcpath.org domain unless you choose to provide this information to us.  However, we collect and store certain information automatically.  What we collect and store automatically is:

  • the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer from which you access the Internet (i.e. 123.234.111.222) whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
  • the date and time you access our system
  • the pages you visit (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)
  • the Internet browser that you are using to view our site (such as Netscape, I.E., etc)
  • and, the Internet address of the Website from which you linked directly to our site.

We use this information to count the number and types of visitors who use our site, how our pages and links are used and, ultimately, to help us make our site more useful to you. 

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff to this home page, except when required by authorized law enforcement investigation, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical information. 

COMMENTS SENT BY E-MAIL

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail message containing your comments or questions. We use this information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. There are times when your message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other Hong Kong College of Pathologists office bearers or employees who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations or business.