Last Updated: [2] September 2020
Xi’an NovaStar Tech Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies (hereinafter referred to as “NovaStar” or “we“) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Therefore, we developed a Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal data while you use our websites (including the forum), products or services. Please read carefully and familiarize yourself with our privacy practices before using our products (or services) or providing your personal data.
This policy will help you understand the following:
I Definitions
II How We Collect and Use Your Personal Data
III How We Use Cookies
IV How Long We Keep Your Personal Data
V How We Disclose Your Personal Data
VI How We Protect Your Personal Data
VII Your Rights with Regards to Your Personal Data
VIII How We Process Children’s Personal Data
IX Third-Party Service Providers and Their Services
X How Your Personal Data Is Transferred Globally
XI How This Privacy Policy is Updated
I Definitions
“Affiliated Company” refers to a company that is related to NovaStar due to joint ownership or control.
“Third Parties” refer to companies or persons who do not have a related relationship arising out of joint ownership or control with NovaStar (i.e., a non-affiliated company) or other non-related persons. Third parties can be financial or non-financial companies, or persons other than you and NovaStar.
“Personal Data” refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
II How We Collect and Use Your Personal Data
We collect data to improve operational efficiency and to optimize your product experience. Our channels for collecting personal data include: (1) you provide your data to us directly, (2) we obtain certain data about how you interact with our products or website, and/or (3) we obtain certain data about you from third parties. The data we collect depends on the environment in which you interact with NovaStar, the choices you make, such as your privacy settings and the products and services you use.
(1) Personal data directly provided by you
The services we provide require you to provide certain personal data directly to us. For instance:
We may ask you to provide personal data under other circumstances, such as when you sign up for our training session, register to receive our newsletter, or participate in promotional or marketing activities organized by us or our business partners. The information you provide helps us design and improve the products and services. We may match your personal data with third-party data to better understand your needs.
(2) Service usage information
In addition to the information you provide, we may also collect information about your use of our services through software on your device and other means. We may collect:
We may also collect other information about your use of our services — such as the version of the application being used, the website visited, and how you interact with the content provided through our services.
(3) Obtaining data from a third party
To the extent permitted by law, we may obtain your personal data from public or commercial sources and may combine that with other personal data we collected or will collect.
(1) We may process your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, to perform our obligations to you under our user agreement and/or service contract,
(2) We will strictly abide by the terms of this Privacy Policy and any updates to it (which will be notified to you in advance) where it uses your personal data. Your personal data will only be used for the purposes determined at the time.
(3) When we want to use the information for other purposes not covered by this Privacy Policy, we will obtain your consent in advance. When we want to use information which was collected for a specific purpose for other purposes, we will obtain your consent in advance. We will not provide personal data and behavioural data to third parties without your consent.
(4) We do not take any decisions involving the use of algorithms or profiling that significantly affects you. If certain of our services require us to do so in the future, we will inform you in advance.
III How We Use Cookies
Cookies are small text files which are transferred from our websites, applications or services and stored on your device. NovaStar’s websites, online services and interactive applications may use “cookies”. Cookies not set by this site will not be accessible to us. For more information, please see our Cookie policy at [insert Link to Cookie Policy].
IV How Long We Keep Your Personal Data
Our retention period for personal data is the minimum time necessary to realise the purpose of collection unless a longer retention period is required by law. Beyond the above retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.
V How We Disclose Your Personal Data
(1) Affiliated Companies: your personal data may be shared with NovaStar’s affiliated companies. We only share necessary personal data subject to the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. If the affiliated companies wish to change the purposes of processing, they will ask for your consent again.
(2) Sharing with other third parties: to realise the purposes stated in this Policy, some of our services will be provided by other third parties. We may share some personal data with them to provide better services and user experience. Where a merger, acquisition or bankruptcy liquidation takes place, if the transfer of personal data is involved, we will ask the new company or organization which obtains your personal data to be subject to this Privacy Policy, otherwise we will ask such company or organization to obtain your consent again.
We will only share your personal data for lawful, legitimate, necessary, specific and clear purposes, and only personal data necessary for service provision will be shared. Our partners are not allowed to use the shared personal data for any other purposes.
(1) After we obtain your explicit consent;
(2) Disclose in accordance with laws: we may disclose your personal data if it is compulsorily required by laws, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal proceedings, legal actions or government agencies, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
VI How We Protect Your Personal Data
VII Your Rights to Your Personal Data
We respect your legal rights to your personal data. We list below your legal rights and the measures we take to protect these rights.
You can exercise your rights by submitting a request to privacypolicy@novastar.tech. In principle, we do not charge a fee for your reasonable request. However, for multiple and repetitive requests that exceed reasonable limit, we may charge a reasonable fee to cover some costs depending on the nature of the request. We may refuse requests that are manifestly unfounded, unreasonably repetitive, or require disproportionate technical effort (for instance, require the development of new systems). In addition, we may not respond to requests that directly concern significant issues of public interest or may cause serious damage to the legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals or entities.
VIII How We Process Children’s Personal Data
IX Third-Party Services Providers and Their Services
X How Your Personal Data Is Transferred Globally
(1) the recipient of the personal data is located within a country that benefits from a full “adequacy” decision of the European Commission;
(2) the recipient may have adhered to binding corporate rules (only for intragroup transfers);
(3) the recipient has signed a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the European Commission, obliging them to protect your personal data; or
In the absence of these appropriate safeguards, we will ask you for your explicit consent for cross-border transmission of your personal data. In the meantime, security measures such as encryption, de-identification will be adopted for the safety of your personal data.
The personal data that we collect from you may also be otherwise transferred to, and stored at, destinations outside the EEA or UK. It may also be processed by individuals operating outside of the EEA and UK who work for our affiliates or for one of our suppliers.
In all cases, however, we will ensure that any transfer of your personal data is compliant with the applicable data protection law.
XI How This Privacy Policy Is Updated
We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If there is any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website or by sending you an email notice or in a form we deem appropriate.
XII Contacting us
Xi’an NovaStar Tech Co., Ltd. is the controller of your personal data and its designated EU representative is NovaStar Technology Europe B.V. If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us at:
DEF101, Lingyi Square, Xi’an Software Park, #72 2nd Keji Rd., Xi’an, 710075, Shaanxi, China
Email: privacypolicy@novastar.tech
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