We make every effort to ensure your information is protected and remains private. As the owner and operator of https://bestchinainfo.com (the “Website”) hereafter referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Best China Info”, “us”, “our” or “we”, we have provided this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, share and protect information about the users of our Website (hereafter referred to as “user”, “you” or “your”).
We will not use or share your personal information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy will inform you about the types of personal data we collect, the purposes for which we use the data, the ways in which the data is handled, and your rights with regard to your personal data.
1. What personal data we collect
1.1 Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
1.2 Social Media
You can link to our site using social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, and Wiki. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your sign-in information, name, and email address, to link between the sites. Services like Facebook and Twitter give you the option to post information about your activities on this website to your profile page to share with others within your network.
Social Media Sharing Our Services may now or in the future integrate with social sharing features and other related tools which let you share actions you take on our Services with other Apps, sites, or media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the social sharing service. Please refer to the privacy policies of those social sharing services for more information about how they handle the data you provide to or share through them.
Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting publicly to a social sharing service becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy settings that you set with the social sharing service. Once you have shared User Content or made it public, that User Content may be re-shared by others. If you remove information that you posted to the social sharing service, copies may still remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or if other users or third parties, using the social sharing service, have re-shared, copied or saved that User Content.
1.3 Device Information
When you use our Services through your computer, mobile phone or other device, we may collect information regarding and related to your device, such as hardware models and IDs, device type, operating system version, the request type, the content of your request and basic usage information about your use of our Services, such as date and time. We may also collect and store information locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and application data caches.
1.4 Location Information
When you use the Services we may collect your precise location data. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
1.5 Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
1.6 Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Use of Information Obtained from Third Parties
If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.
1.7 Analytics
Analytic Services Provided By Others.
We use google website developing tools such as Google analytics, google search console, and google AdSense to providing a better user experience for our visitors and for further develop our webite.
The information we share with Google aims for maintaining and improving, developing new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads you see on Google and on our partners’ sites and apps. See our Privacy Policy to learn more about how we process data for each of these purposes and our Advertising page for more about Google ads, how your information is used in the context of advertising, and how long Google stores this information.
Click to learn more about Privacy Policy of Google services.
1.8 Links to third-party websites
Our site includes links to other websites, whose privacy practices may differ from Best China Info. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.
2. What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
3. How we share information we collect
We may share the information we collect about you as described in this Privacy Policy or as described at the time of collection or sharing, including as follows:
With third-party Service Providers to enable them to provide the Services you request;
With third parties with whom you choose to let us share information, for example other websites or apps that integrate with our API or Services, or those with an API or Service with which we integrate.
With Best China Info subsidiaries and affiliated entities that provide services or conduct data processing on our behalf, or for data verification, data centralization and/or logistics purposes;
In response to a request for information by a competent authority if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or is otherwise required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process;
With law enforcement officials, government authorities, or other third parties if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements, Terms of Service, or policies, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Chinese New Year or others;
In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company;
If we otherwise notify you and you consent to the sharing; and
In an aggregated and/or de-identified form which cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We only use such data in the aggregate form and our analytical services do not record any personal information.
4. We may disclose Your Information:
To any person who, in our reasonable judgment, is authorized to receive Your Information as your agent, including as a result of your business dealings with that person (for example, your attorney);
Our service providers may collect data so that they may provide support for our internal and business operations, including handling of data processing, data verification, data storage, surveys, research, internal marketing, delivery of promotional, marketing and transaction materials, and our Services maintenance and security. These companies are authorized to use Your Information only as necessary to provide these services to us and are contractually obligated to keep Your Information confidential;
To third parties when you engage in certain activities through our Services that are sponsored by them, such as purchasing products or services offered by a third party, electing to receive information or communications from a third party, or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes, games or other programs sponsored, in whole or in part, by a third party. When we disclose Your Information to these third parties, Your Information will become subject to the information use and sharing practices of the third party, and the third party will not be restricted by this Privacy Policy with respect to its use and further sharing of Your Information;
As required by law or ordered by a court, regulatory, or administrative agency;
As we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, if we believe that you are violating any applicable law, rule or regulation, or are otherwise interfering with another’s rights or property, including, without limitation, our rights or property;
To enforce this Privacy Policy, and any other applicable agreements and policies;
To enforce or protect our legal rights.
Sharing Information With Law Enforcement.
5. How we protect your data
We deal with personal data according to data protection regulations.
We also endeavor to provide all necessary technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access and misuse at any time.
As far as we store or process personal data, this is done within a high security data center. To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption techniques (such as SSL) over HTTPS. Our servers are secured by firewall and virus protection.
Moreover, your information will not be used by third-party organizations or companies, except where necessary to provide our services or observe legal requirements.
6. Contact us
If you have any questions or if you would like to contact us about our processing of your personal information, including exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us via [email protected]
