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Practices

The following practices are adopted by the Immigration Department to ensure compliance with the PD(P)O -

• The Principal Immigration Officer [Records and Data Management] is designated as the Departmental Contact Officer who is responsible for liaison with government departments and outside bodies on matters relating to privacy policy, and also for monitoring and overseeing the compliance with the PD(P)O.
   
• Requests for data access and data correction under the PD(P)O are handled in accordance with the provisions of the PD(P)O.
   
• A statement of Purpose of Collection of Personal Data is included as far as practicable in application forms for services provided by the Department. Such a statement may also be displayed in the form of notice in immigration premises.
   
• Log books are kept to record all refusals of the data access and correction requests and the particulars of the reasons for the refusals.
  
  
• Data Access Request (DAR) Forms for access to personal data held by the Immigration Department are -

• obtainable from the Information and Liaison Section on the 2/F, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong; and
   
• available for download from departmental homepage at the address "http://www.immd.gov.hk/ehtml/ops003.htm".