PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated on March 1, 2021

INTRODUCTION

Hainan Maritime Silk Road International Communication Co., Ltd (collectively "HICN","we", "us" or "our") devotes to provide high-qualified and valuable internet service to worldwide users. We highly respect your right to privacy and value the protection of your Personal Information when you visit our website (https://www.hicn.cn) or use our services.

We have made this Privacy Policy under the Civil Code, the Cybersecurity Law (CSL), Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) and relevant laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), we have also incorporated relevant content of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union. In this Privacy Policy, we explain to you how we collect, use, store, share, protect and delete your Personal Information and how you should exercise your rights in relation to it. Please read through and understand this Privacy Policy carefully, especially for sentences highlighted in bold. If you are a minor under the age of 18, you should read this Privacy Policy under guidance of your parents or other guardian. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you can not use certain features of our Website (for example, "Let’s talk"), but you still can browse the news and video of our Website.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

2.HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

3.WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

4.DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

5.WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD PARTIES?

6.HOW DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

7.WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

8.DO WE UPDATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

9.HOW TO CONTACT US?

1.WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

In this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" means personal information stipulated by PRC laws and regulations, refers to all kinds of information related to identified or identifiable natural persons recorded by electronic or other means, excluding the information processed anonymously, including name, ID number, phone number, email, address, account password, property status, whereabouts and trajectory etc. In this Privacy Policy, "Personal Sensitive Information" refers to the personal information that is likely to result in damage to the personal dignity of any natural person or damage to his or her personal or property safety once disclosed or illegally used, including such information as biometric identification, religious belief, specific identity, medical health, financial account and whereabouts and tracks, as well as the personal information of minors under the age of 14.

We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you visit our Website or use our services. The Personal Information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Website (such as receiving help through our user support channels; participation in user surveys or contests; and facilitation in the delivery of our services and to respond to your inquiries), the choices you make and the services you use.

We may collect the following categories of your Personal Information and other Personal Information with your consent or other legal basis.

2.HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use Personal Information collected via our Website for a variety of purposes described below. We process your Personal Information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into our perform contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations.

  • To protect our Services. We may use your Personal Information as part of efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).

  • To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contracts.

  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to user. We may use your Personal Information to provide you with the requested service.

  • To respond to user inquires/offer support to users. We may use your Personal Information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our services.

3.WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In general, we will not share your Personal Information with anyone, but we may share your Personal Information with third parties based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent. We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your Personal Information for a specific purpose.

  • Legal Obligations. We may disclose your Personal Information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

  • Vital Interests. We may disclose your Personal Information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

  • Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

  • Affiliates. We may share your Personal Information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

4.DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

When you use our Website, we may use cookies or similar tracking technologies to collect and track information about your behaving online and your use of our Website for internal purposes, such as to improve our Website.

The tracking technologies we use are common and are often used in other web pages or mobile applications that you visit. You can refuse to accept browser cookies by making the appropriate settings on your browser, but if you block cookies, some features of our Website may be disabled or not work properly.

We use statistical tools provided by third parties to analyze your use of our Website so that we can improve user experience of our Website and better serve our users and potential users.

  • Baidu Statistics: Baidu Statistics collects usage information from our Website and provide us an anonymous analysis report, including flow analysis, source analysis, usage analysis, etc.

About how Baidu Statistics collect and process your Personal Information, you can go through their privaicy policy (https://tongji.baidu.com) to get more details.

5.WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD PARTIES?

Our Website and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third party. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third party. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.

6.HOW DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We will store your Personal Information collected in China on servers located in China in accordance with applicable PRC laws and regulations.

We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your Personal Information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee the hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your Personal Information. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, transmission of Personal Information to and from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the Website within a secure environment.

7.WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

For the collection and use of your Personal Information, you have certain privacy rights under applicable data protection laws, which may include the right:

  • to request to be informed of your Personal Information collected;

  • to request access and obtain a copy of your Personal Information;

  • to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Information;

  • to restrict the processing of your Personal Information;

  • to data portability (if applicable); and

  • to object to the processing of your Personal Information (if applicable).

If you wish to access, correct, update, request us to delete your Personal Information or exercise other statutory rights of data owners under applicable laws and regulations, you can contact us at any time by the methods listed in the "How to Contact Us" section at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

If we are relying on your consent to process your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than your consent.

8.DO WE UPDATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to meet legal, technical, and commercial changes. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we may notify you by posting a notice of such changes on our Website. You can know about when this Privacy Policy is updated through the "last updated on" section in the first part of this Privacy Policy. Continuing to visit our Website or use our services or providing us with your Personal Information after our Privacy Policy updates means that you are accepting the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not accept our updated terms in the Privacy Policy, you can not use certain features of our Website (for example, "Let’s talk"), but you still can browse the news and video of our Website.

9.HOW TO CONTACT US?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by email at [PrivatePolicyHIMC@163.com], or mail to [9th Floor, Hainan Daily Building, NO.30 Jinpan Road, Haikou, Hainan, China.].

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