This agreement only applies to the online services (hereinafter referred to as "services") provided by Meizong (hereinafter referred to as "us") to Meizong users (hereinafter referred to as "you"), such as information display and commodity trading.
Release date: November 28, 2008.
Effective date: November 28, 2008.
This policy will help you understand the following:
1、 How do we collect and use your personal information
2、 How do we use cookies and similar technologies
3、 How do we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information
4、 How do we protect your personal information
5、 Your rights
6、 How can your personal information be transferred globally
7、 How to update this policy
8、 How to contact us
We deeply understand the importance of personal information to you and will do our best to protect the security and reliability of your personal information. We are committed to maintaining your trust in us, adhering to the following principles, and protecting your personal information: the principle of consistency of rights and responsibilities, the principle of clear purpose, the principle of selective consent, the principle of minimum sufficiency, the principle of ensuring security, the principle of subject participation, and the principle of openness and transparency. At the same time, we promise to take corresponding security measures in accordance with mature industry security standards to protect your personal information.
Please read and understand this Privacy Policy carefully before using our products (or services).
1、 How do we collect and use your information
Personal information refers to various types of information recorded electronically or in other ways that can be used alone or in combination with other information to identify the identity of a specific natural person or reflect the activities of a specific natural person.
We will only collect and use your personal information for the purposes described in this policy. When you turn off or stop using the relevant functions or services, we will cease to collect your personal information.
The following information you provide will continue to authorize us to use it during your use of this service. When you cancel your account, we will stop using and delete the above information. The above information will be stored within the territory of the People's Republic of China. If cross-border transmission is required, we will separately obtain your authorization and consent.
To achieve the purposes stated in this policy and provide you with better customer service and user experience, we may integrate third-party SDK services. When you use these services, your information may also be collected. When you turn off or stop using the relevant functions or services, the collection of your personal information will cease.
（1） Provide you with account services
To complete the account service, you need to provide the following information: your phone number, email, name, and password created. If you are unable to provide the above information, you may not be able to register an account or use this system.
（2） Equipment Security Management
To ensure the stable operation of the services we provide to you and prevent illegal access to your personal information, with your consent, we will collect your device model, operating system, geographic location, unique device identifier, login IP address, network access method, type and status, network quality data, operation logs, service failure information. These information are necessary for security purposes. If you do not agree to our collection of this information, we may not be able to achieve the purpose of hardware binding and reinforcement.
（3） Scan ID card and facial recognition service
To ensure the security of your account information and ensure that it is operated by yourself, it is necessary to obtain your biometric information (facial information, fingerprint information) and collect corresponding records generated during your use of our services in functional scenarios such as real name authentication and survival authentication. At the same time, in order to verify the accuracy of the information, we will verify your information, such as ID number number, biological information (face information, fingerprint information) and the institutions (government institutions, public institutions, commercial institutions) that have your information legally; We will verify the legitimacy of the information sources provided by these verification agencies. By clicking 'authenticate or agree', it is deemed that you agree and authorize us to obtain and use your above information for this service, and authorize us to use it for identity verification purposes.
（4） Provide service status notifications and query services
In order to comply with laws, regulations, and regulatory requirements, as well as to facilitate your inquiry of transaction status or historical records, we will archive your identity information, transaction information, and behavior information when using our website services, and strictly safeguard this information in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations.
When we use information for purposes not specified in this policy, we will seek your consent in advance.
When we want to use information collected for a specific purpose for other purposes, we will seek your consent in advance.
（5） Device permission call
To provide you with convenient and high-quality services, we may invoke your device storage permissions, album permissions, camera permissions, etc. Storage permissions are used for you to download and save pictures or videos of interest, album permissions are used for you to upload pictures or videos when posting information, and camera permissions are used for shooting pictures, recording videos, scanning QR codes, and other scenarios. You have the right to choose to disable the authorization for the above permissions at any time, but it may affect your normal use of some or all functions of our website.
2、 How do we use cookies and similar technologies
（1） Cookie
To ensure the normal operation of the service, we will store small data files called cookies on your mobile device. Cookies typically contain data such as login status and access history. With the help of cookies, services can store your membership status.
We will not use cookies for any purposes other than those stated in this policy. You can manage or delete cookies according to your preferences. You can clear all cookies saved on your mobile device, but if you do so, you will need to log in or set them again every time you visit our website.
（2） Network Beacon
Our website may also contain some electronic images (hereinafter referred to as "network beacons"), which can help the website calculate the number of users browsing the webpage or access certain cookies. We will collect information about your browsing activity through network beacons, such as the page address you visited, the location of the referenced page you previously visited, your browsing environment, and display settings.
（3） Network Proxy
If you access third-party services through our website or client, we cannot guarantee that these third parties will take protective measures as required by us. In order to ensure the security of your account, we may use dedicated network protocols and proxy technologies (referred to as "dedicated network channels" or "network proxies"). Through this approach, we can help you identify known high-risk sites, reduce risks such as phishing and account leaks, and better protect the common interests of you and third parties.
（4） About SDK Services
1. To achieve the purposes stated in this policy and provide you with better customer service and user experience, we may integrate third-party SDK services. When you use these services, your information may also be collected. When you turn off or stop using the relevant functions or services, the collection of your personal information will cease.
2. The aforementioned "information" includes your identity information, account information, credit information, transaction information, tracking information, electronic device information, and electronic device operation log information.
3. To ensure the security of your information, we have a confidentiality obligation towards the above-mentioned information and will make every effort to take various measures to ensure information security.
4. This clause shall come into effect upon your signature and shall have independent legal effect, unaffected by the establishment or change in the validity status of the contract or agreement to which this clause belongs.
Third party SDK:
The third-party SDK service currently connected is WeChat authorized login. This service is designed for users to obtain your verification status during registration and login processes. If users refuse our collection of relevant information, they can click "Do not allow" or "Cancel" on the relevant authorization interface, and we will not collect the relevant information.
3、 How do we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information
（1） Sharing
We will not share your personal information with any other company, organization, or individual, except in the following circumstances:
1. Sharing with explicit consent: With your explicit consent, we will share your personal information with other parties.
2. We may share your personal information with external parties in accordance with laws and regulations or mandatory requirements of government authorities.
3. Regarding judicial or government departments. According to laws, regulations or mandatory government provisions, users' personal information must be provided to relevant judicial or government departments.
4. Shared with authorized partners: Some of our services will be provided by authorized partners solely for the purposes stated in this policy. We may share some of your user information with our partners to provide better customer service and user experience. We will only share your user information for legal, legitimate, necessary, specific, and clear purposes, and will only share user information necessary for providing services. In order to better operate and improve technology and services, you agree that we and authorized partners may use the collected information for other services and purposes in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
We will sign strict confidentiality agreements with companies, organizations, and individuals with whom we share personal information, requiring them to handle personal information in accordance with our instructions, this privacy policy, and any other relevant confidentiality and security measures.
（2） Transfer
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization, or individual, except in the following circumstances:
1. Transfer with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will transfer your personal information to other parties;
2. When it comes to mergers, acquisitions, or bankruptcy liquidation, if there is a transfer of personal information, we will require the new company or organization holding your personal information to continue to be bound by this privacy policy. Otherwise, we will require the company or organization to seek your authorization and consent again.
（3） Public disclosure
We will only publicly disclose your personal information in the following situations:
1. After obtaining your explicit consent;
2. Legal Disclosure: We may publicly disclose your personal information in the event of legal, procedural, litigation, or mandatory requirements from government authorities.
4、 How do we protect your personal information
（1） We have implemented industry standard security measures to protect the personal information you provide, preventing unauthorized access, public disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss of data. We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to protect your personal information. We will use encryption technology to ensure the confidentiality of data; We will use trusted protection mechanisms to prevent data from being maliciously attacked; We will deploy access control mechanisms to ensure that only authorized personnel can access personal information; And we will hold security and privacy protection training courses to enhance employees' awareness of the importance of protecting personal information.
（2） The Internet environment is not 100% secure. We will try our best to ensure or guarantee the security of any information you send us. If our physical, technological, or management protective facilities are damaged, resulting in unauthorized access, public disclosure, tampering, or destruction of information, which damages your legitimate rights and interests, we will bear corresponding legal responsibilities.
（3） After the unfortunate occurrence of a personal information security incident, we will promptly inform you of the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the disposal measures we have taken or will take, suggestions for you to independently prevent and reduce risks, and remedial measures for you in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations. We will promptly inform you of the relevant situation of the event through email, letter, phone, push notifications, etc. When it is difficult to inform individual information subjects one by one, we will adopt reasonable and effective methods to publish announcements.
（4） When our products or services cease operation, we will notify you in the form of push notifications, announcements, etc., delete your personal information or anonymize it within a reasonable period of time, immediately stop collecting personal information, and close third-party application service interfaces to prevent third-party services from collecting and continuing to use personal information. At the same time, we will proactively report the handling of personal information security incidents in accordance with regulatory requirements.
5、 Your rights
According to relevant laws, regulations, standards in China, as well as common practices in other countries and regions, we guarantee that you exercise the following rights over your personal information:
（1） Accessing your personal information
You have the right to access your personal information, except for exceptions provided by laws and regulations. If you wish to access your personal profile information in your account, you can access relevant name, account, and other information by visiting My Account.
（2） Correct your personal information
If you wish to modify your personal basic information, you can cancel the account of this membership number and register again.
（3） Delete your personal information
In the following situations, you can request us to delete your personal information:
1. If our handling of personal information violates laws and regulations;
2. If we collect and use your personal information without your consent;
3. If our handling of personal information violates our agreement with you;
4. If you no longer use our products or services, or if you cancel your account;
5. If we no longer provide you with products or services.
If we decide to respond to your deletion request, we will also notify the entities that have obtained your personal information from us to delete it in a timely manner, unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, or if these entities have obtained your independent authorization. When you delete information from our service, we may not immediately delete the corresponding information from the backup system, but will delete this information when the backup is updated.
（4） Change the scope of your authorized consent
Each business function requires some basic personal information to be completed (see "1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information" in this policy). For the collection and use of additional personal information, you may give or revoke your authorization and consent at any time.
After you withdraw your consent, we will no longer process the corresponding personal information. But your decision to withdraw consent will not affect the personal information processing previously carried out based on your authorization.
（5） Personal Information Subject Account Cancellation
Application for account cancellation. After account cancellation, we will cease to provide you with products or services and, upon your request, delete or anonymize your personal information. Except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations.
（6） In response to your above request
We will respond promptly to your reasonable requests. We may refuse requests that are unnecessarily repetitive, require excessive technical means (such as developing new systems or fundamentally changing current practices), pose risks to the legitimate rights and interests of others, or are highly impractical (such as involving information stored on backup tapes).
We will not be able to respond to your request in the following situations:
1. Related to the fulfillment of legal and regulatory obligations by personal information controllers;
2. Directly related to national security and defense security;
3. Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
4. Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;
5. The personal information controller has sufficient evidence to indicate that the personal information subject has subjective malice or abuse of rights;
6. For the purpose of safeguarding the significant legitimate rights and interests of personal information subjects or other individuals, such as life and property, but it is difficult to obtain their consent;
7. Responding to the request of the personal information subject will result in serious damage to the legitimate rights and interests of the personal information subject or other individuals or organizations;
8. Involving trade secrets.
6、 How can your personal information be transferred globally
The personal information we collect and generate will be stored within the territory of the People's Republic of China and will not involve transfer abroad.
7、 How to update this policy
Our privacy policy may change.
Without your explicit consent, we will not reduce the rights you are entitled to under this privacy policy. We will post any changes made to this policy on this page.
For significant changes, we will also provide more prominent notifications (including for certain services, we will send notifications explaining the specific changes to the privacy policy).
The significant changes referred to in this policy include but are not limited to:
1. Our service model has undergone significant changes. Such as the purpose of processing personal information, the type of personal information processed, and the way in which personal information is used;
2. We have undergone significant changes in ownership structure, organizational structure, and other aspects. Changes in ownership caused by business adjustments, bankruptcy mergers and acquisitions, etc;
3. The main objects of personal information sharing, transfer or public disclosure have changed;
4. There has been a significant change in your right to participate in personal information processing and the way you exercise it;
5. When the responsible department, contact information, and complaint channels for handling personal information security change;
6. When the personal information security impact assessment report indicates the presence of high risks.
We will also archive the old version of this policy for your reference.
8、 How to contact us
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us through the following methods:
http://www.meizong.com/about/contact.html
Normally, we will reply within three working days.
If you are not satisfied with our response, especially if our personal information processing behavior has harmed your legitimate rights and interests, you can also seek solutions through the following external channels: reporting to the consumer rights protection department, regulatory authorities, or filing a lawsuit with a court of competent jurisdiction.