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The People's Daily Privacy Policy (this Policy) explains how we collect,
use, share, disclose and process your personal information through your
use of our client and website (collectively as "Service"). The terms
"Personal Information" and "Personal Data" share the same meanings under
this Policy, defined as any data that can be used independently or in
combination with other data to readily identify, contact, or locate you.
Some unexhausted examples are your name, address, email address, or
phone number. Personal Data in this Policy does not include data that
has been aggregated and/or de-identified after which a third party would
be unable to easily identify a particular individual.
We endeavor to optimize our Service as well as protect your privacy. If
you are a child under 16, you shall acquire your parents or legal
guardian's permission before using our Services or providing information
to us.
We'll show you how we protect your privacy through the following
sections:
We, People's Daily, headquartered in Beijing, PRC, owns People's Daily client and website. We will provide you with all-English news and information and introduce Chinese stories to you, to make China's voice heard by the world and build a news and information platform between China and the world. We will collect, use, share, disclose and process your personal information in line with this Policy. Please contact us as at feedback@pdnews.cn with any questions and/or reasonable requests regarding your personal information.F
We collect your profile photo and user ID when you log into our Service with your Facebook,Twitter or WeChat account. Profile photo in Facebook Twitter or WeChat will be the profile photo of your account in our Service with your consent. You will not be required to log in or upload any profile photo or have a user ID if you merely use the basic functions in our Service, such as browsing and searching.
We collect your behaviors information when you use our Service, such as browsing history, search history, comments, collections, likes etc.
We collect information about you when you give feedback and choose to reveal your name, email address and/or photo to us.
We collect your device information (such as device model, operation system, device settings, unique device identifier), and location information (including IP address, GPS location) based on the authorization in your installation and usage of our client.
We collect the web logs information created through your usage, such as search history, IP address, language preference, the date and time you access to our Service.
"Xiaoice" is an artificial intelligence dialogue service provided by
Microsoft. You can click on the bottom of People's Daily client and have
a dialogue with xiaoice. Based on the understanding of content by the
artificial intelligence, xiaoice can actively send you news information
relevant to your discussion topics.
We need your permission to access to your camera and/or microphone
before you send photos to Xiaoice and/or have a voice conversation with
Xiaoice. If we do not have your authorization, you may only use the
function of text chat. The chat history with Xiaoice will only be stored
in your device's local database and will not be uploaded and stored in
our severs.
Your consent will be necessary in some circumstances under which you will have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, however, if the consent is withdrawn, we may not be able to continue to provide the service you requested.
We also process your personal information in order to fulfil a contract we have with you. For example, we would use your information to provide you with access to our Service.
We may use your information where there are legitimate interests to do
so. For example, we will analyze your reading habits and preferences to
recommend more news to you according to your interests, making our
Services more user-friendly.
We only rely on legitimate interests if the reason for using your
information is fair and lawful. Where we want to rely on legitimate
interests as a legal basis, we will carry out a balancing test between
our legitimate interests and your privacy rights. Our legitimate
interests in processing personal information include:
There may be situations where we need to use your information to comply
with legal and regulatory obligations or defend claims.
You are welcome to contact us for further information on the legal
grounds that we rely on in relation to any specific processing of your
personal information.
We will use information about your behavior to make feature tags. Based on such feature tags, we will conduct the portrait for a crowd of users to recommend customized news.
We and the advertisers will use your personal information to recommend the advertisements you may be interested in to you. You can manage your advertisements by advertising settings. If you do not want to see tailored advertisements, you can turn it off in privacy settings correspondingly.
We will use your device information to provide you with better products
or services and personalized information display service. Besides, we
also use the personal information gathered by cookies and similar
technologies to provide you with personalized service.
In the table below we have listed the main reasons we process your
information and the legal grounds that are available to us. The specific
legal ground we use will depend on the purpose the information is used
for. Please keep in mind that if the legal ground listed is no longer
available to us, we may be able to rely on other grounds.
We will store your personal information collected and generated in the course of operation within the territory of the People's Republic of China in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
We will store your information for a period necessary for the purposes
set out in this Policy, or when we have a legitimate reason for doing
so. If you ask us to delete your information before the end of the
period, we may not be able to do so due to technical, legal, regulatory
or contractual constraints.
If you wish to close your account, we will do this as soon as reasonably
possible subject to any applicable terms and conditions.
We will not share your personal information with other companies, organizations or individuals other than the service provider of the client and the website of People's Daily, except under following circumstances:
We may share your personal information with other companies, organizations or individuals with your explicit consent.
We may share your personal information with other companies, organizations or individuals required by laws and regulations, resolving disputes, or responding to requests from administrative or judicial authorities.
We may share your personal information with third-party providers. For example, your personal information will be shared with the livestreaming service providers when you use livestreaming service. The third-party providers with whom your information would be shared are as follows:
We may share your personal information to joint controllers such as the advertisers, etc.
We will only share your personal information out of legal, proper, necessary, specific and explicit purposes, and we will only share necessary information needed to our Services. Our partners have no rights to use shared information for purposes irrelevant to their products and services. Any information that you provide on or to a third-party website or service is provided directly to the owner of the service and is subject to that party's Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to such services and we're not responsible for the content, privacy or security practices and policies of those services. To protect your information, we recommend that you carefully review the privacy policies of other services that you access.
If you are a child under 16, you cannot create your personal account
without permission from your parents or legal guardian and you shall
obtain a parent or a legal guardian's permission before using our
Services or providing information to us.
We will only use, share, transfer or disclose the personal information
of users under 16 as permitted by laws and regulations, with your parent
or guardian's explicit permission, for the purpose of protecting users
under 16.
Since our Service is global by nature, it may be necessary for us to
transfer your information to our affiliates or third parties with whom
we have a cooperative relationship for our legitimate business purposes,
and such information may be maintained on computers and/or other servers
located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental
jurisdiction in whole or in part where the privacy laws and technology
level may not be the same as those in your jurisdiction.
Please note that the laws vary by jurisdiction, so the privacy laws
applicable to the places where your information is transferred or
stored, used, or processed, may be different from the privacy laws of
the jurisdiction you reside in.
Your personal information may be collected in EU/EEA and then
transferred to, and stored in the People's Republic of China. By
choosing to visit the Service or provide information to us, you agree
that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy
Policy will be governed by the laws of China and the adjudication of any
disputes arising in connection with us or our Service will be in
accordance with the Terms of Use located here at http://en.pdnews.cn.
Additionally, with the development of business scale, your personal
information may be transferred to other jurisdiction outside EU/EEA. The
information we collected may be processed by our cooperating partners
outside EU/EEA. When we transfer your information globally, we guarantee
that your information will be transferred securely and lawfully. We have
taken appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal information
will be protected in accordance with this Policy and we hereby ensure
that any third party acting as our agent would do the same.
Users in EU/EEA should direct any questions, concerns or complaints
regarding the processing of personal information at: feedback@pdnews.cn
We will duly handle your questions. However, please note that our
Services may not be available to you if you reject international
information transfer.
We have adopted proper security measures in compliance with industry
standards to protect the privacy and security of your personal
information, to prevent personal information from being accessed without
permission, disclosed, used, edited, damaged or lost. For example, we
use Security Sockets Layer (SSL) to secure information transfers between
your browsers and servers; we use HTTPS when you browse client of the
People's Daily; we use encryption technologies to improve security of
personal information; we use reliable protection systems to prevent
attacks; we deploy an access control system to ensure that only
authorized person can access to personal information; and we will train
our employees on privacy protection as well as how to handle and manage
your data appropriately.
If your personal information breaches, we will inform you according to
relevant laws and regulations of the basic situation, possible
influence, our remedial solutions taken or will be taken, and offer
self-protection or self-prevention suggestions to you and make necessary
remedial measures. We will communicate with you by email, mail, phone
calls and/or alerts. If we cannot reach to all affected individual, we
will publish announcements in proper and effective ways.
You have the rights under European and other applicable laws to have
access to your personal information and to ask us to rectify, erase and
restrict use of, your personal information. You also have the rights to
object to your personal information being used, to ask for the transfer
of personal information you have made available to us and to withdraw
consent to the use of your personal information. You may find further
information on how to exercise your rights set out underneath.
We honor your rights under applicable data protection laws. You have
following rights under European laws, and may have similar rights under
the laws of other countries.
You have the right to make a written request for details of your personal information and a copy of that personal information.
You have the right to have inaccurate information about you corrected or removed.
You have the right to have certain personal information about you erased.
You have the right to request that your personal information would only be used for restricted purposes.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information based on the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or we have let you know the processing is necessary for our or a third party's legitimate interests.
You have the right to ask for the personal information you have made available to us to be transferred to you or a third party in machine-readable format.
You have the right to withdraw any consent you previously gave us. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal information prior to the withdrawal of your consent.
You may make a complaint to the supervisory authority.
These rights are not absolute and they do not always apply in all cases.
In response to a request, we will ask you to verify your identity if we
need to, and to provide information that helps us to understand your
request better. If we do not comply with your request, whether in whole
or in part, we will explain why.
To exercises any of these rights please contact us at feedback@pdnews.cn
with details of your request. If you have any questions about these
rights, you may also contact us at the above email.
Cookies are small bits of data or code that are used to identify your
devices when you use and interact with our Services. Cookies are often
only used to record temporarily your personal information to identify
you for sending your personalized service.
We also use similar technologies such as token to record your personal
information in our application of client temporarily. The token can be
used as a processing mechanism and can not be opened or closed by you.
It could filter illegal requests by checking to avoid network attacks
and to verify the lawfulness of the identity of the user. If the token
is not used, your system security will not be guaranteed.
You can manage website cookies in your browser settings, and you always
have the choice to change these settings by accepting, rejecting, or
deleting cookies. If you choose to change your settings, you may find
that certain functions and features will not work as intended on the
Services. All browser settings are slightly different, so to manage
cookies, you should refer to the relevant settings within your browser.
We understand that you may want to know more about cookies. Here are
some useful resources that provide detailed information about types of
cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie
preferences: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please
click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete
cookies in some commonly used browsers:
From time to time we make changes to this Policy. This may be in relation to changes in the law, best practice, changes in our Services or treatment of your personal information. Where necessary, we will notify you of these changes. We will always display clearly when the Privacy Policy was last amended on our client and website.
If you have any requests for your personal information or any queries about these practices, please contact our e-mail feedback@pdnews.cn.
