Privacy Policy

In an era of free-floating digital information, your privacy is more important than ever.

Consistent with our professional responsibilities and applicable law, the China Collaborative Group Association (“CCG”) is committed to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of all information pertaining to its clients, potential clients, their affiliates and affiliated individuals. That is to say, discreet handling of information is as vital to our business as it is yours.

In taking serious precautions to safeguard your interests, we undergo all commercially reasonable steps consistent with industry practices to protect each client’s personal data by using established security standards and procedures. To prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction of such data, each office in the CCG network has established physical, electronic and managerial security procedures.

You should be aware that when you provide information to anyCCG’ professional, you are providing it to CCG as a whole. Your information may, therefore, be exported to, processed in and accessed from countries whose laws provide varying levels of protection, not always equivalent to that provided in your own country. Wherever your information may be used, the advisory does its utmost to ensure your privacy and the protection of personal data.

As a matter of best practices, the advisory enters into binding non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with all its clients. Therefore, we do not, under any circumstance, provide traditional business references of existing and/or prospective clients.

 

As a CCG client, it is not only our duty to serve you, it’s our privilege. To this end, we assure you that the advisory has adopted various protocols and technical safeguards to ensure the protection of your data across our worldwide network.

 

Access by Third Parties

Consistent with our professional and ethical obligations, CCG may allow others to access your information in order to process data on our behalf in connection with the conduct of our business or where disclosure of your information is in your interest or is otherwise permitted, required or authorised under applicable law.

Prior to allowing any third-party access to your information for the purpose of conducting our business, CCG will take all reasonable steps to ensure that such third party enjoys a sound business reputation and provides at least the same level of privacy protection that we offer to our clients.

Diversity

Diversity and inclusion are inherent values that drive our success.

CCG is globally minded and refuses to be held back by geographic or cultural boundaries, and endeavours to serve all persons, entities and stakeholders in formulating corporate business solutions.

We are at once an equal opportunity employer and service provider who does not discriminate on the grounds of sex, race, disability, family status, nationality, creed, political affiliation or any other factors. While this may read as standard boilerplate language, our livelihood depends on genuinely living up to such ideals.

As a corporate global citizen, we place great value on cross-cultural sensitivity and nuanced understanding. We put this understanding into real practice, remaining committed to viewing problems and challenges through multiple socio-cultural and systemic perspectives. This is the basis of our unique ability to advance highly creative client solutions that achieve successful outcomes.

In the full scope of these efforts, we attempt to function as a positive bridge builder between countries and cultures, fully serving our clients, their stakeholders and communities beyond. Such diversity and inclusion are fundamental to CCG and its business objective.

CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility as it ought to be.

CCG without question are committed to conducting business in accordance with established best practices in each of the countries we operate in. Inherent in this objective is living up to the principles that best serve our clients, business partners, employees and at-large stakeholders.

In lieu of making a ‘big show’ of externals—building playgrounds, sponsoring fundraisers or boasting of commitments to environmental sustainability—our mission in corporate responsibility is to provide services and solutions that position our clients to be innately socially responsible in the course of their business. Included in this is the pursuit of business strategies that contribute to social development by aligning corporate incentives with social and environmental goals serving the public interest. 

What we are talking about is paying employees fair wages, providing them with adequate health care and avoiding or ceasing activities destructive to the common good of society; it’s about working with clients to evolve beyond operating in an overly insular fashion, and foster outward creative thinking on how to solve problems by sharing knowledge and resources across sectors; it’s about identifying the costs, both literal and figurative, corporations transfer to society, and choosing to price them into an enterprise’s business.

Most notions of outward Corporate Social Responsibility exist largely as a marketing strategy under the guise of altruistic corporate behaviour. At CCG, we take a different, more strategically focused approach to CSR. At the end of each day, we hope to achieve outcomes whose benefits carry little fanfare but have far-reaching results for our clients and beyond.

Disclaimer

The fine print 

CHINA COLLABORATIVE GROUP ASSOCIATION. (“CCG”) maintains this website to provide general information about CCG, its lawyers, advisors and professional staff, and the services they provide to CCG clients, partner entities, authoritative bodies or the public at large. The materials on this website have been prepared by CCG for informational purposes only and are not legal advice. Internet subscribers and online readers receiving information through this website should not act on or rely on it without consulting professional legal counsel. CCG neither accepts requests for legal advice nor offers legal advice through its website. This information does not constitute an attorney-client relationship.

This website is not intended to be a source for legal opinions, advice or counsel, and you should not rely on any information provided in this website as such. The laws, legal authorities, rules and regulations referenced in this website are subject to revision and interpretation, and the materials on this website may not reflect the most current versions, provisions or interpretations of such laws, legal authorities, rules or regulations.

All information and materials on this website are for general informational purposes only; and such information and materials do not constitute or carry the force of legal opinions, advice or counsel. Any such opinions, advice or counsel are dependent upon the application of the law to the particular facts and circumstances of any given situation and should be given by a licensed attorney in the exercise of his or her professional judgment only after establishment of an attorney-client relationship and based on the exercise of the attorney’s professional judgment after consideration of such facts and circumstances. The legal developments, verdicts, settlements or accomplishments described in these materials should not be assumed an indication of future results.

 

You should not consider the information provided by CCG in this website to be an invitation for an attorney-client relationship, and you should always seek the advice of competent counsel in your home jurisdiction. CCG through this website by e-mail or otherwise does not enter into an attorney-client relationship with any online reader via online contact. Communicating with CCG through this website, by e-mail, or otherwise does not create an attorney-client relationship for any legal matter for which we do not already represent you. Accordingly, your communication may not be treated as confidential. If you are interested in having CCG represent you in a matter, please call +41-4156138. Before accepting the representation of your matter, CCG will need to satisfy itself that doing so does not create a conflict of interest.

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