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Last Updated: 10 May 2025    Effective Date: 10 May 2025

This page explains clearly and plainly how the Ching Sum website uses cookies and similar browser storage, what each type does, and the choices available to you.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device when you visit. They allow the site to remember certain information about your visit, such as whether you have already seen a notice or which pages you viewed.

Our website also makes use of localStorage, a similar browser-based storage mechanism. Unlike session cookies, localStorage data remains on your device until it is cleared. We use it solely to remember whether you have acknowledged our cookie notice, so we do not show it to you on every visit.

No cookies or localStorage entries on this website store personal data such as your name, contact details or financial information.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

Always Active

These cookies are necessary for the website to function. Without them, certain parts of the site — such as page navigation and secure form submission — would not work properly. They do not collect information that identifies you as an individual.

Examples: Session state management, security tokens, load-balancing identifiers.

Duration: Session (deleted when you close your browser).

Functional Storage (localStorage)

Preference-Based

We use localStorage to store a single flag — cookieConsent — which records whether you have acknowledged our cookie notice. This prevents the banner from reappearing on subsequent visits and makes your experience quieter.

What is stored: A text value of "accepted" under the key cookieConsent. Nothing else.

Duration: Persistent until you clear your browser's site data for this domain.

You can clear this entry at any time by going to your browser's settings and removing site data for ching-saum.pro. The notice will then reappear on your next visit.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

With Consent

If you choose to accept analytical cookies, we may use anonymised data about how visitors use our site — such as which pages are visited most often and where visitors arrive from — to improve the content and layout of our website over time.

This data is aggregated and does not identify any individual visitor. We do not use it for advertising purposes.

Duration: Up to 12 months. You may withdraw consent at any time (see Section 5).

3. Cookies Set by Third Parties

Our website embeds a Google Maps iframe on the home page to help visitors locate our residence at 31 Discovery Bay Road, Discovery Bay, Lantau Island. When the map is displayed, Google may set its own cookies on your device in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy. We have no control over these cookies and recommend reviewing Google's privacy terms for full details.

We do not embed social media buttons, advertising networks or other third-party tracking on this website.

4. Cookies We Do Not Use

To be clear, the following types of cookies and tracking technologies are not used on this website:

  • Advertising or retargeting cookies
  • Cross-site tracking or behavioural profiling
  • Cookies that collect sensitive personal data
  • Fingerprinting scripts or supercookies
  • Any third-party marketing pixels

5. Your Choices

You are always in control of cookies on your device. Here are the options available to you:

Cookie Notice

When you first visit the site, a notice will appear at the bottom of the page. Clicking Accept stores the cookieConsent flag in your browser's localStorage so the notice does not reappear. If you close the notice without accepting, no flag is set and the notice will appear again on your next visit.

Browser Settings

All major browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies. Please consult your browser's help pages for guidance:

Please note that disabling essential cookies may prevent some parts of the website from working as intended.

6. Data Retention

The localStorage entry for cookie consent (cookieConsent) remains on your device until you clear your browser's site data. We do not receive, store or process this data on our servers — it exists only within your browser.

Anonymised analytics data, where collected with consent, is retained for a maximum of 12 months before being deleted or further anonymised.

7. Hong Kong Context

This website is operated from Hong Kong. Our use of cookies and browser storage is consistent with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) of Hong Kong. We handle any data associated with cookies in line with our Privacy Policy.

We do not transfer cookie-derived data to parties outside Hong Kong without appropriate safeguards.

8. Changes to This Policy

If we change how we use cookies or add new types of storage, we will update this page and revise the "Last Updated" date at the top. We encourage you to review this page occasionally to stay informed.

Continued use of our website after any update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about how we use cookies, or would like to request further information, please reach out:

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