Site Policy

Our website may provides hyperlinks to other locations or websites on the internet. These hyperlinks lead to websites published or operated by third parties who are not affiliated with or in any way related to SRE. The purpose to include them in our site is to enhance your viewing experience and for information purposes only. We endeavored to select reputable websites and sources of information for your convenience.

However, by providing hyperlinks to an external website or webpage, SRE shall not be deemed to endorse, recommend, approve, guarantee or introduce any third parties or the services/ products they provide on their websites, or to have any form of cooperation with such third parties and websites unless otherwise stated by SRE.

Any link to websites that contain downloadable software are provided for your convenience only. SRE will not hold responsibility against any difficulties you may encounter in downloading the software or for any consequences from your doing so.

Please be mindful that when you click on a link and leave our website, you will be subjected to the terms of use and privacy policies of the website you are going to visit.

Hyperlinks from SRE to its partner website
We may also include hyperlinks to other SRE partner website for your convenience. The products and services offered on these websites may be limited to persons located or residing in only that particular jurisdiction. In addition, the content on these linked websites may not be intended for persons located or residing in jurisdictions and restrict the distribution of such content. The terms and conditions of these websites may differ and hence you will be advice to read carefully on the applicable terms and conditions before using the website.

Hyperlinks from external websites to our site
You must obtain the prior written approval from SRE before creating a hyperlink in any form from a third party website to any SRE website. SRE may or may not give such approval at its absolute discretion. In normal circumstances, we may only approve a hyperlink which displays plainly our name or website address. Any use or display of our logos, trade names and trademarks as a hyperlink may not be approved unless in very exceptional circumstances.

SRE is not responsible for the setup of any hyperlink from a third party website to any SRE website. Any links so set up shall not constitute any form of cooperation with, or endorsement by, SRE of such third party website. Any link to our website shall always be an active and direct link to our website and shall be made directly to the home or index page of our website only.

SRE is not liable for any loss or damage incurred or suffered by you or any third party arising out of or in connection with such link. For further trademarks and copyright information, please refer as follows.
SRE reserve the right to rescind any approval granted to link through a plain-text link or any other type of link, and to require the removal of any such link to any of the SRE websites, at our discretion at any time.

Trademarks and Copyright
The content and information contained within our website or delivered to you in connection with your use of your website is the assets of SRE and any other third party (where applicable). The trademark, trade names and logos (the "Trade Marks") that are used and displayed on our website include registered and unregistered Trade Marks of us and other third parties. Nothing on our website shall be constructed as granting any license or right to use any Trade Marks displayed on our website. We retain all proprietary rights on our website. Users are prohibited from using the same without written permission of SRE of such or such other parties.

The materials on this website are protected by copyright and no part of such materials may be modified, reproduced, stored in retrieval system, transmitted (in any form or by any means), copied, distributed, used for creating derivative works or used in any other way for commercial or public purposes without the Bank's prior written consent.

Note: If there is any discrepancies between the English and Chinese versions, the English version shall apply and prevail.

[Last updated: June 1, 2006]