Important Notices

About This Site

This website is produced and maintained by the Correctional Services Department ("CSD") of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("the Government"). The HTML standard has been applied to the webpages on this website, and users can access them with any browser that complies with the standard. However, how a webpage is displayed differs between browsers, computers and operating systems. For the best viewing, we suggest using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome.

Disclaimer

The information provided by the Government on this website is for a general, indicative purpose only. The Government will not be liable for any errors in, omissions from, or misstatements or misrepresentations concerning, (whether express or implied), any such information, and will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on the information delivered on this website.

To facilitate access by users to information provided by or via other parties, this website may provide or assist in providing links to external websites through its pages. Provision of, or assistance in providing, these links gives rise to no statement, representation or warranty, express or implied, that the Government agrees or does not disagree with the contents of any such external sites and the Government will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on the contents of any such external websites delivered on or via this website.

CSD uses translation software to translate the Traditional Chinese version of its pages into Simplified Chinese version on this website. If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between these two versions, the Traditional Chinese version shall prevail. The Government will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on the Traditional Chinese version or the translated Simplified Chinese version delivered on this website.

By using this website, you agree to accept unconditionally the terms of this Disclaimer and as they may be revised and/or amended from time to time by the Government without prior notice to you. Please check this page regularly for any revisions and/or amendments which may be made.

Copyright Notice

Unless otherwise indicated, the Government is the owner of the copyright in all contents available on this website, including but not limited to all text, graphics, drawing, diagrams, photographs and compilation of data or other materials.

To encourage wider distribution of the contents contained in this website, you can, for any non-commercial purpose, freely browse, display, download and print in their original format any materials on this website where the Government is the owner of the copyright in such materials, provided that you give proper attribution to the Government or this website and reproduce this Copyright Notice in all copies. The Government reserves all rights that are not expressly granted in this Notice. The prior written consent of the Government is required if you want to use the aforesaid materials in any way other than that permitted above. Such requests should be addressed to CSD via email at email@csd.gov.hk。

For the avoidance of doubt, the permission in the paragraph above does not extend to any materials on the linked websites or any contents on this website, the copyright of which belongs to a third party. Authorisation or permission to use such contents would need to be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

The Government will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on the contents delivered on or via this website.

Accessibility Statement

This website adopts web accessibility design and conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA standard. We are committed to ensuring that our website conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA requirements to the maximum extent possible. However, as this website contains some archive materials that are not frequently used, not all Level accessibility features have been incorporated. Should you have any enquiries or comments on its accessibility, please contact us by email at email@csd.gov.hk