As an independent Hong Kong law firm, we greatly value our local community and dedicate our time, expertise and resources in supporting Hong Kong and its people.

Over the years we have been heavily involved in our local community, supporting many charitable organisations, as well as sponsoring community, youth and sports teams and other initiatives and events. Our corporate social responsibility programme and pro bono efforts reflect who we are as a modern, caring firm that believes in giving back and making a difference together.

Corporate social responsibility

We participate in and support a number of CSR initiatives throughout the year with enthusiastic participation from all members of staff. Past initiatives have included supporting youth, low-income groups, ethnic minorities, the non-able bodied, and the underprivileged. For many years, we have proudly sponsored the Hong Kong Rugby Referees Society and one of Hong Kong’s largest youth football programmes, as well as other sporting events. Our support extends internationally, promoting life skills through rugby with the Laos Rugby Federation and in the Philippines. We are passionate about our annual sponsorship and participation in the Weez Walk with KELY Support Group, empowering vulnerable youth by promoting positive mental health, preventing suicide and substance abuse. We also regularly participate in the Hong Kong Legal Walk, host events for The Women’s Foundation and Pathfinders, and have served as mentors for Dream2Story’s The Foundry incubator program, empowering the next generation. We support environmental initiatives for example safeguarding Hong Kong’s coastline with beach cleanups and education with A Plastic Ocean Foundation and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, we proudly launched and co-hosted the inaugural MFDR Family Mediation Competition for future lawyers.

Pro-Bono legal advice and collaborations

We regularly receive Pro Bono and Community Work awards from the Law Society of Hong Kong reflecting our deep commitment to promote access to justice wherever we can. A number of the firm’s lawyers regularly volunteer to assist those otherwise unable to access legal services, with a focus on human rights, providing advice and representation across issues including housing rights, employment disputes, immigration matters, family disputes, domestic violence, and children’s rights. Key partnerships include our commitment to PathFinders, empowering vulnerable migrant mothers and children through pro bono counsel, fundraising for prenatal care/shelter/education, and volunteer engagement. We partnered with Equal Justice to build a pro bono website connecting charities/NGOs with those in need, and assist migrant domestic workers through Help for Domestic Workers. We were among the first firms to join the CLIX digital platform, connecting pro bono lawyers with community impact organisations.

Personal Information Collection Statement

General
- The protection of our clients’ interests and the security and confidentiality of our clients’ information is at the heart of what we do. We will protect your personal data as a core value and principle of our practice.
- This personal information collection statement (“Statement”) informs you:
  - of the purpose for which your personal data (“Personal Data”) collected by us in connection with your use of our services and this website will be used following collection;
  - to whom your Personal Data will be transferred; and
  - to whom you may address Personal Data access or correction requests.
Types of Personal Data We Collect
- The categories and types of Personal Data Tanner De Witt may collect are:
  - IP address or other unique device identifiers;
  - full name;
  - email address;
  - telephone number;
  - address
  - country of nationality or citizenship; and
  - photograph, audio or visual images or recordings.
- It is voluntary for you to provide the Personal Data we have requested. However, failure to receive the Personal Data from you may result in Tanner De Witt being unable to provide effective legal services to you, or to include you in our marketing and business development activities.
- You must ensure that all information provided to us is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Personal Data you provide that is inaccurate or incomplete may adversely affect how we engage with you in the course of our business.
Purpose and Use
- We may collect, hold, process, transfer and use your Personal Data for any of the following purposes:
  - to provide legal services to clients or prospective clients;
  - to register you as a client of Tanner De Witt;
  - to review and process your job application, if you have applied for employment with us;
  - to process payments, billing and collection;
  - to manage access to our premises and for security purposes;
  - to protect the security of our communications and other systems;
  - to collect information about your preferences to improve the quality of our communications with you;
  - to request you to act as a referee for Tanner De Witt in professional surveys or directories;
  - to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings;
  - to comply with legal and regulatory obligations (including anti-money laundering obligations);
  - for insurance purposes;
  - to record and monitor your use of our website or our other online services for our business purposes (including analysis of usage, measurement of site performance and generation of marketing reports);
  - for legitimate business interests and purposes (including risk management, client relationship management, credit control management, business research and analysis, and other business purposes);
  - to prevent and respond to actual or potential security threats, fraud or illegal activities;
  - to review and respond to any complaints or queries you may have; and
  - for other directly related matters in the conduct of our business.
- We may also obtain your Personal Data in the course of providing you with our legal services or conducting our business, including from other publicly available sources (such as media providers, LinkedIn and similar social media platforms, and public registries).
- If we provide services or interact with you in the course of your employment, office or engagement with a company or business entity, we may directly market our services to you in that capacity and for the use of that company or business entity.
- Your Personal Data will generally be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to any other person without your consent, except for the purposes notified in this Statement for which your Personal Data was collected or if we are required to do so by applicable laws, regulations or professional rules of conduct. Tanner De Witt does not sell Personal Data you provide to us to any third-party.
- Personal Data collected by us may not be used for other purposes, unless:
  - you have expressly given your consent to the use for the relevant other purposes;
  - the purpose is directly related to the purpose for which the Personal Data was collected; or
  - we are permitted to use the Personal Data for other purposes arising from an exemption or otherwise in accordance with applicable law and regulation.
Transfer
- We may transfer your Personal Data to:
  - our employees, partners and officers;
  - any other entity that is controlled by Tanner De Witt and their employees and officers;
  - our insurers, bankers, auditors and external legal and financial advisors;
  - other service providers, suppliers, business partners and sub-contractors engaged by us in connection with the operation of our business such as:
    - administrative service providers;
    - human resource providers;
    - telecommunications providers;
    - IT services and software suppliers;
    - data analytics providers;
    - data entry and processing service providers; and
    - cloud service providers;
  - barristers, solicitors, other legal representatives, experts and other service providers engaged in a matter in which we are acting, which may include foreign law firms;
  - directories for ranking of professionals;
  - any professional body, regulator, or government body to whom Tanner De Witt is under an obligation or otherwise required to make disclosure under the requirements of any applicable law or regulation or as a matter of proper professional practice;
  - any enforcement authority to whom Tanner De Witt believes it appropriate to make disclosure;
  - persons or companies seeking references in respect of you, provided you have given your prescribed consent;
  - business contacts of Tanner De Witt in the course of performing our legal services for you (including marketing and business development activities); and
  - companies providing services for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing checks, credit risk reduction and other fraud and crime prevention purposes.
- Some persons to whom we transfer your Personal Data may be located outside Hong Kong, in locations that may not have in place data protection laws which are substantially similar to Hong Kong, and this may mean your Personal Data may not be protected to the same or similar level as that in Hong Kong.
Cookies
- A cookie is a small data file that a web site can send to your computer or device when you visit the Tanner De Witt website. You can find more information about cookies in this publication of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong.
- Cookies are used to make websites work in a better, more efficient way, usually by enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (e.g. by remembering your user preferences).
- We use cookies to:
  - remember your preferences on language, font size, colour scheme, so that the look and feel of our website is kept for your future visits;
  - analyse how you navigate our website to help us optimise its design;
  - track your behaviour and preferences so we can assess the kind of information and services you may be interested in from Tanner De Witt.
- We use:
  - session cookies which are unique to each visit you make to our website; and
  - persistent cookies which will not be deleted when you close your browser window and will be activated every time you visit our website.
- The cookies we use are either:
  - necessary cookies which are essential to our website to help you to move from page to page and use our website’s features;
  - functionality cookies which allow our website to remember choices you make, and provide more personal features; or
  - performance cookies which collect information about your use of our website and help us to improve the way it works.
- We use a limited number of third-party cookies, including
  - Google Analytics cookies: These cookies are used by Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to our website. Google Analytics stores internet protocol (“IP”) addresses on its servers in the US. These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to our website, and to track the pages that you visit during your session. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google hold this information and provide us access to it. This is the link to Google’s privacy policy.
  - E-marketing cookies: We use third-party applications from Zoho (cookie policy here) to send out marketing communications via email. If you click through from one of our emails to our website, we use additional cookies to connect your email to your use of our website.
  - LinkedIn Insight cookies: The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that enables LinkedIn campaign reporting and insights about website visitors. Its main uses are to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about LinkedIn members’ ad and website interactions.
- By continuing to use our website without notifying us of your refusal to use cookies or withdrawing your consent, you are agreeing to our use of cookies
- You may refuse the use of cookies or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. These settings are usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your internet browser, or by clicking “help” on your browser menu. Removal of cookies may affect your use and experience of our website.
- We only retain cookies for the duration needed for the function they are used. This function varies according to the cookie.
Access and Correction
- You have the right to:
  - request a copy of your Personal Data held by us, unless we are exempted from complying with a data access request; and
  - request for us to make necessary corrections in respect of any Personal Data that you consider inaccurate after we have fulfilled a data access request from you. We may refuse a data correction request if we believe the Personal Data is accurate, an expression of opinion or the proposed correction is inaccurate.
- If you wish to access or correct your Personal Data, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email at [email protected] or by post to:
  - Data Protection Officer Tanner De Witt 17/F Tower One, Lippo Centre 89 Queensway, Admiralty Hong Kong
- We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for processing any access or correction request.
Additional Information
- This Statement is intended to notify you of key points about your Personal Data by your use of our website. Learn more about our privacy policies at Tanner De Witt by contacting [email protected] and requesting the Privacy Policy relevant for you.
- Tanner De Witt may revise this Statement by amending this page. You should check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make.
- Tanner De Witt complies with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (“Ordinance”). Please visit the website of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (pcpd.org.hk) for more information about personal data privacy in Hong Kong.
- “Tanner De Witt”, “we”, “our” or “us” refer to the Hong Kong solicitors firm of Tanner De Witt. Tanner De Witt is regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong. Tanner De Witt is the data user.

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Terms of Use

Who We Are

This website (https://www.tannerdewitt.com/) belongs to Tanner De Witt (“we”, “us” and “our”), a firm of solicitors established as a partnership in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”) and regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong.
A list of our partners can be obtained from this website or from the Law Society of Hong Kong.

General

These Terms of Use may be amended by us at our sole discretion from time to time. These Terms of Use set out the terms and conditions applicable to your use of this website. By using this website, you accept these Terms of Use.
Your continued use of this website following any amendments to these Terms of Use will constitute your agreement to our amended terms.

Client Engagement Process

Your use of this website, the receipt of any information from this website, or submission of any information by e-mail or through this website is not intended to create nor does it create a solicitor-client relationship between you and Tanner De Witt.

Any e-mail or communication sent through this website is neither confidential nor protected by privilege. Do not send us any confidential information until you have received from Tanner De Witt a written statement that Tanner De Witt represents you and a formal client relationship has been established. Tanner De Witt will only accept your confidential information when Tanner De Witt confirms we represent you as a client.

Before accepting any new clients or new matters, Tanner De Witt must ascertain if there are any actual or potential conflicts with any of our existing or former clients.

If you wish to engage us to act for you in any matter, please send to us your full name, the names of actual or potential counterparties, and a brief description of the matter (e.g. “commercial agreement” or “employment advice”) (“Conflict Check Information”) without revealing any confidential information to [email protected]. Unless and until you become our client, we do not assume any confidentiality obligation with respect to any Conflict Check Information provided to us.

Fraud Alert

Third parties may impersonate Tanner De Witt, our partners or staff for fraudulent purposes. Third parties may also create, for fraudulent purposes, websites that impersonate us. While Tanner De Witt makes every effort to detect and thwart impersonation attempts, we cannot and do not take responsibility for fraud committed by third parties. You should therefore take reasonable precautions against fraud, including those suggested below.

To prevent fraud, you should ensure that the domain name of our website is correctly displayed as “https://www.tannerdewitt.com/”, and that e-mails purporting to come from us contain the domain name “@tannerdewitt.com” and not a variation of it.

Tanner De Witt will never notify you by e-mail, text messages, pre-recorded voice messages, or by any means through our website that our bank account details have changed. Any communication or information on our website stating that we have done so may be an attempt by a third party to defraud.

Tanner De Witt will never request payment or transfer by unsolicited telephone calls, text messages, pre-recorded voice messages or by any means through our website. We may make requests for payments (e.g. payment for costs on account for our services) by e-mail, but you will always have the opportunity to verify that the request is genuine by other means (e.g. telephone call with us) prior to payment.

If you have any doubts about our payment details or requests for payment, please contact our accounts department or the partner responsible for your matter by telephone.

Anti-Corruption

Tanner De Witt has zero tolerance of bribery and corruption. All Tanner De Witt employees, consultants and partners must not offer or receive gifts or hospitality that could improperly influence, or be perceived to influence, our decision-making, independence and those of others. We do not directly or indirectly engage in bribery or corruption in any form.

Use of This Website

We do not guarantee or assume any responsibility that access to this website will be available or be uninterrupted, or that this website is free of defects, viruses, or anything which may change, erase, add to, or damage your software, data, devices or equipment.

Restrictions

You may not access or attempt to access any part of our website or server which is not available for public access.

You must not restrict or inhibit other users from using and enjoying this website, or alter the content, presentation, performance or any other aspect of this website.

Non-Reliance of Website Content

The information on this website is for general information purposes only. It does not constitute professional advice, whether legal or otherwise, and does not purport to be accurate, adequate, current, reliable or comprehensive.

The information on this website may change at any time. Although Tanner De Witt attempts to ensure that the information in this website is current, Tanner De Witt does not guarantee its currency and completeness as there may be developments, delays, errors or omissions.

You should exercise and rely solely on your own skill and judgment in your use of the information on this website. You should seek legal or other professional advice before acting or relying on any of the information on this website.

Information on this website does not constitute any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, by Tanner De Witt or any of its solicitors or employees, whether in relation to our services or otherwise.

Any views presented through this website are the views of the individual author, and may not necessarily reflect the views of Tanner De Witt or any of its other solicitors or employees.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Tanner De Witt does not accept responsibility for any loss or damage that may arise in connection with the use or inability to use this website, or reliance upon the materials and information appearing on this website.

Information submitted to us through this website is not encrypted and is not secure against interception. We do not accept liability for any communication which is intercepted or otherwise falls into the hands of third parties or for non-receipt, late receipt or corruption. Please let us know at [email protected] if you wish to communicate with us via secure means.

Links

For your convenience and information, this website may contain links to other websites, and other websites may contain links to this website. Tanner De Witt makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or any other aspect of the information contained in any third party website.

Tanner De Witt is not responsible for the operation or content of any linked website, external website or any external websites that link to this website. Tanner De Witt is also not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you have provided while visiting these external linked websites.

No link to another website should be construed as an endorsement or recommendation of any information, goods or services referred to, or indication of any affiliation between Tanner De Witt and any entity referred to.

You are only permitted to link to this website if you have obtained the prior written permission of Tanner De Witt. Tanner De Witt reserves the right to withdraw its permission in relation to any linking to this website.

Cookies

We use technology known as “cookies” to collect information about your use of this website to personalise the website, to improve its performance and security, and for our marketing purposes. For more information, please see our Personal Information Collection Statement.

Intellectual Property Rights and Trademarks

All intellectual property and trademarks subsisting in or appearing on this website belong to us or have been lawfully licensed to us for use on this website. All intellectual property rights are reserved.

Tanner De Witt owns all the copyright in respect of the content on this website, unless otherwise stated.

Save for content belonging to third parties, you may read the contents and make copies of this website for your own personal non-commercial use.

You may also give copies of reasonable extracts on an occasional basis free of charge to your contacts for their personal and non-commercial use provided that:

(a) Tanner De Witt is acknowledged as the source;

(b) the content (including text, video or audio contents) is not altered in any way;

(d) you agree that the sharing of our content will not be inaccurate, misleading or used in any illegal manner.

Any other use or copying of the contents of this website is prohibited unless Tanner De Witt gives its prior written consent. To obtain consent please contact [email protected].

Copyright in some content of this website may belong to third parties and such content has been produced on this website with their permission.

Unless otherwise specified, you may not copy, distribute, or otherwise communicate or make available to the public or a section of the public any content appearing on this website which belongs to a third party or use such content for a commercial purpose. You should contact such third parties directly for permission to copy, distribute such content or use such content for commercial purposes.

You agree that we can use, disclose, adopt and modify all and any information (including ideas, concepts, know-how, proposals, suggestions, comments and other communications) provided by you to us through the website without any payment to you.

You hereby waive and agree to waive all and any rights and claims in relation to our use, disclosure, adoption or modification of any or all of such information provided by you.

Privacy

In your use of this website, we may collect personal data about you. You may find out more about how we collect, hold, process and use your personal data by referring to our Personal Information Collection Statement.

We collect, use, and process personal data in compliance with the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (Cap. 486). If you have any concerns or questions regarding how we collect and use your personal data, you may contact [email protected].

Complaints

If you are a client and wish to raise any concerns, please contact in the first instance the partner with overall responsibility of your matter, or if preferred, another partner at Tanner De Witt.

If you are not a client and have any concerns about this website or any other matter in relation to Tanner De Witt, please contact us at [email protected].

Practice Promotion

The content of this website is required to comply with the Solicitors’ Practice Promotion Code as published by the Law Society of Hong Kong from time to time. No information in this website should be interpreted as containing any adverse remark or implication concerning any solicitor or solicitors, that Tanner De Witt or any of its solicitors are experts in any field of practice or generally, or that Tanner De Witt has a certain “success rate”.

You have a free choice of solicitors and should exercise your independent judgment in deciding to engage Tanner De Witt or any other solicitors.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Any dispute arising from these Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong. By using this website, you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.

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