Common use of Purposes of Collection Clause in Contracts

Purposes of Collection. The Company may use your personal data (whether provided by you or any other person, and whether provided before or after the date you receive this document) for the following purposes: (a) activities relating to operating your account such as purchasing, investing, advising, exchanging, acquiring, disposing of and generally dealing in and with all kinds of securities and options on your behalf, carrying out transactions at your instructions, ongoing account administration and contacting you; (b) activities relating to the processing of your application to open an account with the Company and maintaining your account, including but not limited to client verification, anti-money laundering and other client due diligence procedures, conducting credit reporting, processing your application for grant of credit or margin facilities or the continuation and review of such credit or margin facilities; (c) maintenance and verification of particulars and data; (d) any other purpose relating to the provision of investment and/or other financial services and facilities by the Company and/or any holding company, subsidiary or affiliate (within or outside Hong Kong)(the “Group”); (e) to provide you with information about your account and account statements; the (f) to conduct research and statistical analysis; and (g) complying with the obligations, requirements or arrangements, whether voluntary or mandatory, for disclosing and using data, including notification requirements that apply to the Company or any member of the Group, according to any law binding or applying to them within or outside Hong Kong or pursuant to any treaty or undertaking between any governmental, regulatory, tax, law enforcement or other authorities within or outside Hong Kong, and in particular the reporting and exchange of information requirements pursuant to the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”)’s standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (“AEOI”).