Privacy Policy
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Your trust is very important to us. We are well aware of the importance of personal information to you. We will take effective measures to protect the safety and controllability of your personal information in accordance with laws and regulations
Areys Co. Ltd. pays attention to protecting users’ personal information and personal privacy. The Policy covers the clauses between us and the user (hereinafter referred to as “you”) related to personal information (hereinafter referred to as “information”) in the use of services of AreysEmp.com (versions in different languages and different terminals (Web terminal and touch screen terminal).
Especially, the Policy does not apply to the services provided by any other third party for you that shall be subject to the privacy policy separately explained by it to you.
Before using our products or services, please read and understand the Policy carefully to help you understand how to protect your privacy right, especially the clauses marked in italics/bold/underline in bold. You should start using our products or services after confirming that you fully understand and agree with the Policy. Please focus on the important clauses hereof (possibly) closely related to your rights and interests that have been clearly marked to remind you. In case of any questions about the Policy, you can temporarily stop using our products or services and contact us through contact information published by us. Your use of the services provided by us means that you have agreed with our collection, processing, storage, use and protection of your personal information in accordance with the Policy.
I. Collection and Use of Information
In order to improve the service quality and user experience, we will retain the information on your service use and related usage methods. In light of different functions of products and different fields collected due to systems, your information we will collect and save on your use of corresponding products is explained as follows
(I) Personal information you actively provide in the process of providing you with products and/or services
In order to realize business functions of AreysEmp.com, we need to collect your personal information. The personal information you actively provide in the process of providing you with products and/or services to realize basic business functions of AreysEmp.com and the personal information collected to realize such functions are detailed below. If you refuse to provide the personal information required for realizing a certain function, you cannot use such function. Note: If you provide the personal information of another person, please ensure that you have obtained the authorization from such person.
1. Member services: In order to register as a member and use our member services, the member name and password to be used, and email address must be provided to create a platform account. If you only need to use browsing and search services, you are not required to register as our member or provide the above information
We mainly collect your name, email address, company name, website address, address, phone number, fax, country (or region), gender, and information you have published (including business information related to the company, product, and procurement requirement). We may manage subscriptions based on the combination of one or more of the above options in order to provide you with page displays and recommend personalized contents that better meet your needs.
2. Marketing activities: If you win a prize in a lottery or coupon collection activity, the winner’s name, phone number, receiving address, and nickname must also be provided, so that we can contact you when distributing the prize, but we will release the information on the winner in an anonymized manner.
3. Advertisement push: In order to better provide you with recommendation services, we may, through methods including but not limited to system notifications, short messages, and emails, reasonably send you commercial advertisements, the latest management and product information on the platform, and other service notifications that registered users must be informed of, or show you personalized third-party promotional information through the system. If you do not want to receive the above information, you can unsubscribe via the corresponding unsubscription function (or by calling the customer service hotline).
4. Customer services: When you contact us, we may record the conversation between you and us and collect other necessary information required for solving the problem in order to verify your identity and help you solve the problem.
5. Functions necessary for cloud exhibition-related services: When you participate in an online cloud exhibition via AreysEmp.com, we need to enable camera and microphone permissions of the equipment used by you to complete the complete video recording and accompanying functions in the recording process, and ask for your consent in the form of a pop-up notification when enabling such permissions for the first time; if you refuse to grant camera and microphone permissions, the video recording cannot be completed. In the live recording process, we will record and save all your dynamic and static images and show them to other users. Meanwhile, according to the corresponding national laws and regulations, we will monitor your video images in real time to ensure that your video contents comply with laws, regulations, public order and good customs.
6. Picture/video/file access and upload functions: You can use the tools for taking pictures and videos to normally upload pictures or videos to the material library, and quickly select the function of annex to inquiry when replying to inquiries
7. E-mail: You can chat with a supplier by email. We will obtain email receipt records to meet the instant communication reminder function.
8. Instant communication function: You can chat with a supplier through IM on pages for product browsing, bargaining, and supplier display. We may obtain chat records, and send IM message reminders, etc.
(II) Personal information we actively collect and use in the process of providing you with products and/or services
During your use of our services, in order to identify the abnormal status of your account, understand the suitability of products, and provide you with page displays and search results that better meet your needs, we may automatically collect the information on your use and store it as the web log, including:
1. Equipment information: We will, based on your specific operations during software installation and/or use, receive and record the information on the equipment used by you (including but not limited to operating system version, MAC address, equipment environment, CPU, memory information and IP address), and the information on the location of the equipment (including but not limited to GPS location authorized by you).
2. Service log information: When you use the products or services provided by our website or client, we will automatically collect the information on your use of our services and save it as the service log, including but not limited to browsing, click to view, trading, follow and sharing, information publishing, and operation, time, and abnormal information in business logs.
Note: Separate equipment information or service log cannot be used to identify a specific natural person. If we combine such non-personal information with other information to identify a specific natural person, or combine it with personal information, during the combination, such non-personal information will be treated as personal information; unless authorized by you or otherwise provided by laws and regulations, we will process such non-personal information in an anonymous and unidentifiable manner.
(III) Personal information we obtain from a third party
We may collect and use your personal information from a third party (our partners) within the scope of your authorization. We guarantee that we will process your personal information in strict accordance with the contract with the third party and the relevant laws and regulations. Meanwhile, you should read the third party’s privacy policy and user agreement in detail. If you refuse a third party’s collection, use or transmission of your personal information in the provision of services, it may lead to your disability to use the corresponding services of AreysEmp.com.
1. Third-party login: We may share your account information (avatar, nickname, and other information prompted on the page) with a third party with your consent, so that you can easily register or log in with a third-party account (such as Facebook/Linkedln/Twitter/Instagram/Google). In addition, we may obtain your third-party account information from a third party based on your authorization and bind it to your platform account, so that you can directly log in and use our products and/or services through the third-party account. We will use your relevant information within the scope of your authorization.
2. Follow and sharing: When you browse our website or client, you can add to favorites the products and/or services you are interested in, establish a follow relationship with the merchants/brands/other members you are interested in, and share information with other third parties through functional components provided by us. During your use of the above-mentioned functions, we will collect the service log including your favorites, follow relationships, and sharing history to achieve the above-mentioned functions and other purposes we have clearly notified you.
(IV) To realize the relevant business functions of AreysEmp.com, we will enable your equipment access permissions as follows:
When you use AreysEmp.com, for the purpose of providing you with services, we may obtain the following permissions from you. Of course, you can refuse to grant such permissions, or disenable such permissions for AreysEmp.com in settings of your phone. Disenabling such permissions will not affect your use of other functions of AreysEmp.com.
II. Use of Cookie and Similar Technologies
(I) Cookie
In order to ensure the normal operation of the website, provide you with an easier access experience, and recommend you contents that may be of interest to you, we will store on your computer or mobile device other local storages provided by Cookie, Flash Cookie or browsers (or associated applications) that usually include identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Cookie”). With the help of Cookie, the website can store data such as your preferences or goods in your shopping cart.
If your browser or additional browser services permit, you can modify the acceptance of Cookie or reject our Cookie. For details, please refer to AboutCookies.org. However, if you do so, in some cases, your safe access to our website may be affected, and you may need to change settings every time when you access our website.
(II) Similar technologies
In addition to Cookie, we will also use other similar technologies such as web beacons and pixel tags on our website.
For example, an email we send to you may contain an address link to the content of our website; if you click such link, we will track such click to help us understand your product or service preferences, so that we can proactively improve customer service experience.
Web beacons are usually a kind of transparent images embedded in websites or emails. With the help of pixel tags in emails, we can know whether emails have been opened. If you do not want your activities to be tracked in this way, you can unsubscribe from our emailing list at any time.
III. Sharing, Transfer, and Public Disclose of Information
(I) Sharing
We will not share your personal information with any company, organization or individual, except:
1. Sharing under statutory circumstances: We may share your personal information externally in accordance with laws and regulations, needs for litigation dispute resolution, or requirements stipulated by administrative or judicial organs in accordance with the law.
2. Sharing with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will share your personal information with other parties.
3. Sharing in the case of your active choice: We will, according to your choice, share with the related product or service providers the information disclosed by yourself or we can obtain from other legal public channels, and the necessary information related to transactions in your orders through AreysEmp.com to fulfill your transaction and after-sales service needs.
4. Sharing with affiliates: For our ease of providing you with products and services based on your account, recommending information that may be of interest to you, identifying abnormal member accounts, and protecting your personal and property safety from infringements, your personal information may be shared with our affiliates and/or their designated service providers. We will only share necessary personal information, subject to the purposes stated herein. If we share your sensitive personal information or any affiliate changes the purpose of using and processing personal information, we will again ask for your authorization and consent.
5. Sharing with authorized partners: In order to provide you with more complete and high-quality products and services, certain services of AreysEmp.com will be provided by partners. Therefore, we may entrust authorized partners to provide you with certain services or perform functions on behalf of us. We will only share your information for the legal, legitimate, necessary, specific and clear purposes stated herein. Authorized partners can only have access to the information required for their performance of duties and cannot use such information for any other purpose. For those involving children’s personal information, we will not allow any sub-entrustment of partners.
(II) Transfer
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization or individual, except:
1. Sharing with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will transfer your personal information to other parties.
2. In the case of merger, acquisition, asset transfer, bankruptcy liquidation or similar circumstances, if the transfer of personal information is involved, we will require the new company or organization that holds your personal information to continue to be bound by the Policy, otherwise we will require such company or organization to ask you for authorization and consent again.
(III) Public disclosure
Your personal information is an important part of services we provide for you. We will assume the obligation to keep your information confidential in accordance with laws. We will publicly disclose your personal information only under the following circumstances:
1. After your explicit consent is obtained
2. Disclosure based on laws: We may publicly disclose your personal information under mandatory requirements of laws, legal procedures, litigations, or competent government authorities.
3. If we determine that you have violated laws and regulations or seriously violated the relevant agreements and rules of AreysEmp.com, or to protect the personal and property safety of AreysEmp.com users or the public from infringements, we may disclose your personal information in accordance with laws and regulations or with your consent.
4. In accordance with laws and reasonable business practices, when we plan to merge with or be acquired by other companies or conduct other capital market activities (including IPO and bond issuance), and we need to accept due diligence from other entities under other circumstances, we will provide your information for necessary entities, but we will require such entities to take reasonable measures to keep your personal information confidential by signing confidentiality agreements with them.
5. AreysEmp.com may disclose and share with third parties with a cooperative relationship the big data analysis information excluding identify contents upon statistical processing.
IV. Protection of Information
(I) To protect your information security, we strive to adopt physical, electronic and administrative security measures that meet industry standards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, public disclosure, use, modification, damage or loss. We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to ensure no collection of personal information that has nothing to do with the realization of service functions.
(II) Your information and data collected by AreysEmp.com may be stored and processed at the location of our company and/or our affiliates, or at the place of an entity that must know such information in our opinion. When you cancel your account, we will delete your personal information.
Unless otherwise required by laws and regulations, we will retain your personal information only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose, and delete or anonymize your personal information after the above retention period expires.
(III) The internet is not an absolutely secure environment. We strongly suggest that you should use a secure method and a complex password to help us ensure the security of your account.
When using services of AreysEmp.com, you will inevitably disclose your personal information to potential counterparties. Please properly protect your personal information and provide it to others only when necessary. If you find any leakage of your personal information, especially leakage of your account or password, please contact our customer service personnel immediately so that we can take corresponding measures.
Public information refers to any information that you voluntarily share publicly. Anyone can view or access such information during the use and non-use of AreysEmp.com. Please note that the information you voluntarily share when using our services may involve personal information of you or others or even sensitive personal information. Please consider more carefully whether to share or even publicly upload the relevant information during the use of our services.
The internet environment is not completely secure. We will do our best to ensure the security of any information you send to us. If our physical, technical, administrative or protective facilities are damaged, resulting in unauthorized access, public disclosure, tampering, or destruction of information and damage to your legitimate rights and interests, we will bear the corresponding legal liability.
(IV) After the occurrence of an information security incident, we will, as required by laws and regulations, promptly inform you of: basic information and possible impact of the security incident, handling measures we have taken or will take, suggestions that you can independently prevent and reduce risks, and remedial measures for you. We will promptly inform you of the information related to the incident by email, letter, telephone, and push notification. Where it is difficult to inform information entities one by one, we will issue an announcement in a reasonable and effective way.
Meanwhile, we will also proactively report the handling of information security incidents in accordance with the requirements of regulatory authorities.
