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Effective Date -- Feb 1, 2008
This privacy statement ("Privacy Policy") covers the Website www.mymyad.com (the "Site"), owned and operated by HongYang Internation Ltd . ("Company", "we", "us", "our"). Your privacy is important to us and we appreciate your expectation that we will share information about you carefully and responsibly. This Privacy Policy describes our practices with respect to your or your company's personally identifiable information. Specifically, this Privacy Policy sets forth (i) the types of personal information collected by Company, (ii) how Company collects user information, (iii) how Company uses personal information, (iv) how Company protects personal information, (v) with whom, if anyone, user information is shared, and (vi) how you may access, verify, and if necessary, correct personal information Company has collected about you. By visiting the Site and/or using the Company services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, you may not access the Site or otherwise use the Company services.
What Personal Information Does Company Collect?
We collect the following types of personal information from our users:
A) Information You Provide to Us
- We receive and store personal information you choose to enter on the Site, or provide us in any other way, such as by telephone or by electronic mail. For example, when you register for our services, we collect personal information about you. This information may include your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and credit card number. We may combine the information we collect from you with information about you that we receive from other online and offline sources, such as from our merchant partners, in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of the Company services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of our combining of such information. In addition, if you voluntarily complete a detailed publisher or advertiser questionnaire, we collect personal information about you. This information may include your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number, as well as general information about your business. In general, the more information you feel comfortable giving us, the more we can customize the Site and Company services to meet your needs.
B) Automatic Information
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our Website are visited and by how many people. Our cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is. The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of the Site's most attractive features.
- We automatically receive and store certain other types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, our servers track the type of Web browser you are using, where you travel within the Site, and the page to which you link from the Site. If you are a publisher using Company's services, Company may access, index, and cache requests made from your mobile sites, applications and device platforms to our system, including by automated means. Generally, our service automatically collects usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to the Site and its components. This data is only used in the aggregate. This type of collective data enables us to figure out how often customers use parts of the Site, so we can make the Site and Company services appealing to as many customers as possible.
- Many companies offer programs that help you to visit Websites anonymously. While Company will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available
- When your customers connect to the Company services on their mobile device, if their mobile phone service provider uniquely identifies the device, Company will receive this information. Company may use this unique mobile device identification information to offer these customers extended services and/or functionality. Certain Company services may require our collection from your customers of the phone number, and/or other unique identifiers, for their device. We may associate that phone number to the mobile device identification information and to other information we have collected from and about these customers; however we will not use that number for telemarketing. Some mobile phone service providers are required to operate a system that will record the physical location of devices that use their service. Depending on the mobile phone service provider, Company may automatically receive this information.
How Does Company Use the Personal Information it Receives?
In addition, as noted above, we use the information we collect to better understand what products and services are of interest to our users. To this end, we may use personally identifiable information in an aggregate form to gain a broader perspective of what preferences our users have, and to measure interest in the various areas of the Site.
Does Company Share the Personal Information it Receives?
Company does not share your personal information except as approved by you or as described below:
- Agents and Service Providers: Company may engage other companies and individuals to perform services on our behalf. Examples of these services include processing credit card payments, sending postal mail and e-mail to you, and analyzing data. While these agents and service providers may have access to your personal information in connection with the performance of services for Company, they may not use such information for any purpose other than providing such services to Company.
- Protection of Company and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our User Agreement; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell all or certain of our assets or business. In such transactions, your personal information may be one of the transferred business assets.
- Aggregate Information: Company may share aggregate personal information about you with advertisers, publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties.
How Secure Is the Personal Information I Provide?
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to protect the security of your personal information during transmission, which encrypts the information you input. You can further help to ensure your security by taking a few simple precautions. For instance, you should protect against unauthorized access to your Site username and password and to your computer. You should also be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. We have taken certain physical, electronic, contractual and managerial steps to safeguard and secure the information we collect from our users and store on our servers.
What Information Can I Access?
Upon your request, we will provide you with access to, and the ability to correct, certain information about you, such as your username and password, contact information, transaction information and credit card account information. You can access or correct this information in the Account section of the Site.
Third Party Websites
The Site may permit you to link to other Websites on the Internet, and other Websites may contain links to the Site. These other Websites are not under our control. The privacy and security practices of Websites linked to or from the Site are not covered by this Privacy Policy, and Company is not responsible for the privacy or security practices or the content of such Websites.
Children
The Site is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any children under 13.
User Agreement
If you decide to visit the Site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our User Agreement, including limitations on damages and application of People's Republic of China law.
Changes
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time, at our sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Site so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
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