A. Introduction
We place great importance on and are committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors. This policy sets out in detail how we deal with personal information.
When you first visit our website, if you agree to the terms of this policy for us to use cookies, it means that you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our website thereafter.
B. Copyright Notice This document is created based on a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
C. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, saved, and used:
Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visit and use of this website, including traffic source, access time, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information you fill in when registering on our website, such as your email address;
Information you fill in when creating a personal profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and work information;
Information you fill in when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;
Information you fill in when using services on our website;
Information generated by your use of our website, including the time, frequency, and circumstances of use;
Information related to your purchases, use of services, or transactions conducted through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;
Information you post on our website, intended to be posted on the internet, including your username, profile picture, and the content you post;
Information contained in your communications with us via email or our website, including the content of communications and metadata;
Any other personal information you send to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain the consent of the person whose personal information is being disclosed, in accordance with this policy, to disclose and use that person's personal information.
D. Use of Personal Information
Personal information submitted through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
Managing our website and business;
Presenting a personalized website to you;
Providing our website services to you;
Sending goods purchased through our website to you;
Providing services purchased through our website to you;
Sending billing, invoicing, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
Sending business communications that are not for marketing purposes;
Sending email notifications that you have specified;
If you have subscribed, we will send you our email newsletters (if you no longer need the newsletter, you can inform us at any time;
Sending marketing information to you, including information about our business and third-party businesses that we think you may be interested in, by message or, with your consent, by email or similar technology (if you no longer need marketing information, you can inform us at any time;
Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from the information;
Dealing with inquiries or complaints on our website;
Ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;
Checking compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging services;
And for other purposes.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish your personal information and use it for other purposes as permitted by you. You can limit the publication of your information on our website through privacy settings and can adjust using the privacy controls on the site. We will not provide your personal information to any third party for direct marketing without your express consent.
E. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to our employees, managers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or distributors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group (which includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:
Within the scope required by law;
In connection with any current or potential legal proceedings;
In order to obtain, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the prevention of fraud and reducing credit risk);
Providing personal information to buyers (or potential buyers) of our business or assets;
To any relevant party whom we reasonably believe may be required to disclose personal information by a court or other competent authority, and the court or authority may require the disclosure of personal information.
Unless otherwise provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International Data Transfer
The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries/regions where we operate in order for us to use such information in accordance with this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries/regions, which have different data protection laws from those in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
The information you post on our website or submit for publication may be accessible globally via the internet. We cannot guarantee to prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information as described in Section F.
G. Retention of Personal Information
Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure compliance with legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
We will not retain personal information for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed or for any other purpose.
Without prejudice to clause G-2, we will usually delete personal data falling into the following categories on the following dates/times:
Personal data type will be deleted on {date/time} and
{additional date/time}.
Subject to the provisions of this Section G, we will retain the following files containing personal data (including electronic files):
Within the scope required by law;
If we believe that these files may be relevant to any current or potential legal proceedings;
In order to obtain, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the prevention of fraud and reducing credit risk.
H. Security of Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of personal information.
We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge and accept that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to the website.
I. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our private messaging system on our website.
J. Your Rights
You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you; such information should be provided subject to the following conditions:
Payment of a fee {if applicable, please fill in};
Provision of valid identification documents (please adjust this text according to the use, we usually accept a notarized copy of a passport and an original utility bill showing the current address).
Within the scope allowed by law, we may retain the personal information you request. You can at any time request that we do not use your personal information for marketing. In practice, you will usually have explicitly consented in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an option to opt-out of using personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third-Party Websites
Our website contains hyperlinks and details of third-party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and rules of third parties.
L. Updating Information
If the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated, please inform us.
M. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing a string of characters that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, the identifier is sent back to the server. Cookies may be "permanent" cookies or "session" cookies: permanent cookies will be stored by the web browser and will remain valid for a set period, unless the user deletes them before their expiry; for session cookies, when the web browser is closed, the session cookie will expire at the end of the user session. Cookies usually do not contain any information that can identify a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in or obtained from cookies. {Choose accurate wording to indicate whether we only use session cookies on our website / only use permanent cookies, or use both session and permanent cookies.}
The names and purposes of the cookies we use on our website are as follows:
We use Google Analytics and AdWords on our website to identify computers when users are in these situations {including when visiting the website / tracking users as they navigate the website / using a shopping cart on the website / improving website usability / analyzing website usage / managing the website / preventing fraud and increasing website security / personalizing the website for users / targeting ads based on user interests};
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies, for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by going to "Tools" -> "Internet Options" -> "Privacy" and then clicking "Advanced";
In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools" -> "Options" -> "Privacy", selecting "Custom Settings for History" from the drop-down menu, and then unchecking "Accept cookies from sites";
In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content Settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" tab.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies stored on your computer, for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools" -> "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Custom Settings for History", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies";
In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking "Settings" -> "Show advanced settings" and "Clear Browsing Data", then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plugin data", and then clicking "Clear Browsing Data".
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
