1.
What is personal information?
"Personal
information" is information that you provide to us which personally
identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, or other
data which can be reasonably linked to such information by Dazibao.
You
may access some of our services by signing up for a Dazibao Account and providing us with some personal
information (typically your name, email address and a password). This account
information will be used to authenticate you when you access Dazibao services
and protect your account from unauthorized access by others. We may share
personal information among our various services in order to customize content
and enhance our services for you. No account information is shared with anyone
other than Dazibao except as specified in the Privacy Policy or with your
consent.
You
can edit or terminate your account at any time through your Dazibao Account
settings.
A
"cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is
sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website
again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store
user preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse
all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website
features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Like
most Web sites, our servers automatically record the page requests made when
users visit our sites. These "server logs" typically include your web
request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date
and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify
your browser.
Here
is an example of a typical log entry where the search is for "cars",
followed by a breakdown of its parts:
123.45.67.89
- 25/Mar/2007 10:15:32 - http://www.dazibao.com.cn/search?q=cars - Firefox
- 123.45.67.89 is the Internet
Protocol address assigned to the user by the user's ISP; depending on the
user's service, a different address may be assigned to the user by their
service provider each time they connect to the Internet;
- 25/Mar/2007 10:15:32 is the date
and time of the query;
- http://www.dazibao.com.cn/search?q=cars
is the requested URL, including the search query;
- Firefox
- 740674ce
5. What information does Dazibao receive if I
click on a link displayed on Dazibao?
When
you click on a link displayed on Dazibao, the fact that you clicked on the link
may be sent to Dazibao. In this way, Dazibao is able to record information
about how you use our site and services.
We
use this information to improve the quality of our services and for other
business purposes. For example, Dazibao can use this information to determine
how often users are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often
they proceed to later results. Similarly, Dazibao can use this information to
determine how many times an advertisement is clicked in order to calculate how
much the advertiser should be charged.
6. What is sensitive information?
"Sensitive
personal information" includes information we know to be related to
confidential medical information, racial or ethnic origins, political or
religious beliefs or sexuality and tied to personal information.
7. What is aggregated non-personal
information?
"Aggregate
non-personal information" is information that is recorded about users and
collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an
individually identifiable user.
8. URLs and embedded information
Some
of our services send the uniform resource locators ("URLs") of web
pages that you request to Dazibao. When you use these services, Dazibao will
receive and store the URL sent by the web sites you visit, including any
personal information inserted into those URLs by the web site operator. Some Dazibao
services (such as Dazibao Toolbar) enable you to opt-in or opt-out of sending
URLs to Dazibao, while for others (such as Dazibao Web Accelerator) the sending
of URLs to Dazibao is intrinsic to the service. When you sign up for any such
service, you will be informed clearly that the service sends URLs to Dazibao,
and whether and how you can opt-in or opt-out.
For
example, when you submit information to a web page (such as a user login ID or
registration information), the operator of that web site may "embed"
that information - including personal information - into its URL (typically,
after a question mark ("?") in the URL). When the URL is transmitted
to Dazibao, our servers automatically store the URL, including any personal
information that has been embedded after the question mark. Dazibao does not
exercise any control over these web sites or whether they embed personal
information into URLs.
9. What protections do I have against
intrusions by the government into my use of Dazibao services?
Dazibao
does comply with valid legal process, such as search warrants, court orders, or
subpoenas seeking personal information. These same processes apply to all
law-abiding companies. As has always been the case, the primary protections you
have against intrusions by the government are the laws that apply to where you
live.
