April 23, 2007
At Dazibao we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Dazibao Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, Dazibao's "services"). In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information, which are accessible from the navigation bar to the left of this notice.
Dazibao adheres to the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce's safe harbor program.
If you have any questions about this
Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to
us at Privacy Matters, c/o Dazibao Inc., 5815 Will Clayton
Parkway,Houston,Texas,77338
,USA.
Information we collect and how we use it:
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as Dazibao Search. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information
you provide - When you sign up for a Dazibao Account or other
Dazibao service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for
personal information (such as your name, email address and an account
password). For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we
also request credit card or other payment account information which we
maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other
Dazibao services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain
services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such
information.
- Dazibao cookies - When
you visit Dazibao, we send one or more cookies - a small file
containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely
identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our
service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as
how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Dazibao features
and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
- Log information - When you use
Dazibao services, our servers automatically record information that
your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server
logs may include information such as 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.
- User communications - When you
send email or other communication to Dazibao, we may retain those
communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated sites - We offer some
of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal
information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Dazibao in
order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance
with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy
practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
- Links - Dazibao may present links
in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have
been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our
search technology, customized content and advertising. For more
information about links and redirected URLs, please see our FAQs.
- Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by Dazibao. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
Dazibao only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process personal information by referring to the privacy notices for particular services.
Dazibao processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Dazibao may not be able to provide those services to you.
Dazibao only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Dazibao in the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Dazibao, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If Dazibao becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to Dazibao employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Dazibao processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Dazibao services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users' personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Dazibao regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or Dazibao's treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Dazibao Inc., 5815 Will Clayton Parkway,Houston,Texas,77338,USA. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is Dazibao's policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Dazibao and an individual.
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at Privacy Matters, c/o Dazibao Inc., 5815 Will Clayton Parkway,Houston,Texas,77338,USA.
