Terms of Use

CITF Portal

Grant of Licence

The CIC hereby grants to you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use of the Application exclusively by you and for your personal non-commercial use. This Agreement is effective until terminated. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by stopping using the Application.

Upon any termination, you agree to immediately destroy all copies of the Application, any accompanying documentation, and all other associated materials. The CIC reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time if you are in breach of any of the terms of this Agreement.

The CIC may, at any time and without giving notice to you, make any change, correction and / or improvement to the Application, stop providing this Application or any feature of this Application to you or to users generally, or impose usage limits for the Application.

Please refer to CIC website on CIC Privacy Policy Statement http://www.cic.hk/eng/main/disclaimer/

Ownership of the Application

Notwithstanding the grant to you of a license to use the Application pursuant to this Agreement, the CIC retains all right, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) on all text, graphic images, logos, icons, sound clips, video clips, data compilations, page layout, underlying code (including object and source codes), software and any other materials in and to the Application. Any act of “mirroring” the Application or the materials contained therein on any device and/or server without the prior written permission of CIC, or modifying or reusing the text or graphics on the Application is prohibited. The CIC reserves all rights not expressly granted under this Agreement.

You will not, nor allow third parties to (i) make and distribute copies of the Application (ii) attempt to copy, reproduce, alter, modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, transfer, exchange or translate the Application; or (iii) create derivative works of the Application of any kind whatsoever.

Username and Password

You are required to create a user account to use the Application, the user name and password will be decided on your own. You undertake to keep the password and the username as confidential information and will not disclose any of this information to any other person under any circumstances. You agree and acknowledge that any use of the Application by any person whatsoever (whether authorized by you or not) with your password and username shall constitute and be deemed the use of the Application by you. You shall be held solely and fully liable to the CIC for any loss and damages arising from your disclosure (whether intentionally or unintentionally) and any authorized and/or unauthorized use of your password and username.

Personal Information Collection Statement

1. The information you provide to the CIC, including any personal data as defined in the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("PDPO"), will be used solely for purposes related to the activities of the CIC). The information would be used for the following matters:
   1. assessing your CITF application
   2. where your CITF application has been approved, publishing on the CITF website for public information;
   3. allowing the CIC to conduct research and surveys;
   4. serving as reference materials of the CITF Secretariat; and
   5. disclosure to any authorities in relation to investigation or prosecution of any offence.
2. The CIC will not transfer your personal data to any third parties (except the Development Bureau of the HKSAR Government and relevant authorities for the purpose of processing the application) without your prior consent. By entering into this Agreement, you are deemed to have given prior consent to any transfer of your personal data by the CIC to any third parties in the situations set out in (a) through (e) above.
3. It is obligatory for you to supply the CIC with your personal data. The CIC may be unable to process and/or consider your application if you do not provide complete information.
4. You are entitled to request access to and correction of any errors in your personal data. If you wish to do so please write to the Assistant Director – Registration Services, Construction Industry Council at 38/F COS Centre, 56 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon.

Links and information

The Application may contain links to other websites, applications, platforms and / or resources provided by third parties. These links are provided for your information and / or easy access only. The CIC has no control over the contents of those sites or resources or information and accept no responsibility for them or for any direct or indirect loss or damage that may arise from use of such links and information.

Disclaimers

While the CIC endeavours to ensure the accuracy of the information in the Application, no express or implied warranty is given by the CIC as to the accuracy of any part of the information. The CIC shall not be liable for loss or any damage (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business or loss of profits) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use the Application, or any information or link contained in it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using the Application or any such information or link.

The CIC does not warrant that the functions contained in the Application will be uninterrupted or free of defects and / or faults, nor the Application and its related programmes will be compatible with all equipment (hardware or software) which you may use. You agree that CIC shall have no liability in relation to any direct or indirect loss and damage caused to the relevant device or information contained in the device.

The CIC may revise at any time without prior notice to you. Some of the provisions contained in this Agreement may also be superseded by provisions or notices published in the Application. Your continued use of the Application after any changes to this Agreement will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you do not agree with any changes or additions the CIC makes, you are to immediately terminate this Agreement by stopping using the Application.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Language

In the event that there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese versions of this Agreement, the English version shall prevail.