HSBC Privacy Principles

Our business has been built on trust. To preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, we maintain the following privacy principles:

• We only collect personal information that we believe to be relevant and required to effect the recruitment process
• We use your personal information to provide you with a better understanding of the career opportunities that are available with HSBC
• We will not disclose your personal information to any external organisation
• We aim to keep your personal information on our records accurate and up-to-date.
• We maintain strict security systems designed to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information by anyone, including our staff.
• All HSBC Group companies, all our staff and all third parties with permitted access to your information are specifically required to observe our confidentiality obligations

By maintaining our commitment to these principles, we at HSBC will ensure that we respect the inherent trust that you place in us.

Your privacy matters to us

This section provides specific details of how we treat any personal information you might wish to provide us when you visit this site.

Data Security

• Security is our top priority. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ('the Bank') will strive at all times to ensure that your personal data will be protected against unauthorised or accidental access, processing or erasure. We maintain this commitment to data security by implementing appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to safeguard and secure your personal data.
• Our web servers are protected behind "firewalls" and our systems are monitored to prevent any unauthorised access. We will not send personal information to you by ordinary email. As the security of ordinary email cannot be guaranteed, you should only send email to us using the secure email facility on our website. All practical steps will be taken to ensure that personal data will not be kept longer than necessary and that the Bank will comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements concerning the retention of personally identifiable information.

Collection of Personal Information

• Use of Cookies, Spotlight Tags and Web Beacons etc

Your visit to this site may be recorded for analysis on the number of visitors to the site and general usage patterns. Some of this information will be gathered through the use of "cookies". Cookies are small bits of information that are automatically stored on a person's web browser in their computer that can be retrieved by this site. Cookies can make the site more useful by storing information about your preferences on particular sites, thus enabling website owners to provide more useful features for their users. The information collected by "cookies" is anonymous aggregated research data, and contain no name or address information or any information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, e-mail or any other means. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to disable cookies or inform you when they are set. However, by disabling them, you may not be able to take full advantage of our website, including HSBC Internet Banking.

HSBC may also work with third parties (such as Google and WebTrends, amongst others) to research certain usage and activities on parts of our web site on our behalf. Google and WebTrends use technologies such as spotlight monitoring, web beacons and "cookies" etc to conduct this research. The information collected through technologies such as cookies, spotlight tags and web beacons etc. are used to find out more about our users, including user demographics and behaviour and usage patterns, for more accurate reporting and to improve the effectiveness of our marketing. Information recorded through the use of these devices are aggregated and then shared with us.

To find out more about the use of cookies and the information-gathering practices and opt-out procedures of Google and WebTrends, please visit their respective websites.

Google - www.google.com
WebTrends - www.webtrends.com

Our Information Collection Statement

The Statement is intended to notify you why personal data is collected, how it will be used and to whom data access requests are to be addressed.

Why we collect your data - we collect your personal information to correctly map and provide the relevant career opportunities available with HSBC

IMPORTANT: By accessing this web site and any of its pages you are agreeing to the terms set out above. Thank you for choosing HSBC.