XINHUA MYANMAR PRIVACY NOTICE

Thank you for using XINHUA MYANMAR (collectively “App” or “we,” “us,” or “our”), which is owned and operated by Xinhua New Media Culture Communication Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Xinhua News Agency. Your privacy is very important to us. To better protect your privacy, we are providing this notice explaining our privacy policy (this Policy), which describes how we collect, use, share, disclose and process your personal data through your use of XINHUA MYANMAR.

INFORMATION WE GATHER

Through XINHUA MYANMAR, you can engage in various activities like reading news stories, publishing your opinions, joining votes, entering contests, and taking part in quizzes. Your personally identifiable information may be collected to engage in these activities.

WHAT TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT

We collect the following types of data:

Identity data such as your gender, age

Location data such as the city where you are located, the country you reside in

Technical data such as your IP address, the device you are using, the browser you are using

Usage data such as how you use our application, what news you have read and when

If you are using the Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) functionality of our application, while biometric data can be created by picture or video of your visage, we do not collect such data.

HOW WE GET YOUR DATA AND WHY WE NEED IT

We process your personal data in accordance with the legal basis under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and the Cybersecurity Law (CSL) of the People’s Republic of China.

The purposes of our collection and use of the personal data are specified as follows:

USE OF INFORMATION

We will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your e-mail address without your permission. This also applies to any information that personally identifies you, except as noted immediately below. We do, however, share information about our audience in aggregate form. For example, we may want to know how long the average reader spends on our apps, or which features get the most attention.

TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA AND PURPOSES

Identity data

To provide you with a more tailored experience of our application, such as recommended news that would be more interesting for you

Usage data

To provide you with a more tailored experience of our application, such as recommended news that would be more interesting for you

Location data

To improve our services and to make our application compatible with your device

Technical data

To improve our services and to make our application compatible with your device

HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

1. Location of information storage

We will store your personal data 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.

2. Period of information storage

We will store your data 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.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will not share your personal data with other companies, organizations or individuals other than the service provider of the App, except under following circumstances:

1. Sharing with your consent

We may share your personal data with other companies, organizations or individuals with your explicit consent.

2. Sharing required by law

We may share your personal data with other companies, organizations or individuals required by laws and regulations, resolving disputes, or responding to requests from administrative or judicial authorities.

3. Sharing with third-party providers

We may share your personal data with third-party providers. For example, your personal data will be shared with the livestreaming service providers when you use livestreaming service.

The third-party providers with whom your data would be shared are as follows:

Service providers: we engage service providers to support our business and improve our Service. These service providers include: the providers for delivery of our digital content and marketing; the provider of livestreaming service; business partners with whom we deliver co-branded services, provide content, or to host events, conferences and seminars; third parties that help us deliver services or act on our behalf.

4. Sharing with joint-controller

We may share your personal data to joint controllers, who can also determine the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, such as the advertisers, etc.

We will only share your personal data 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.

CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFER

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.

The collected information may be 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 on the App. 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 should direct any questions, concerns or complaints regarding the processing of personal information at: [email protected]. We will duly handle your questions. However, please note that our Service may not be available to you if you reject international information transfer.

DATA SECURITY

We have adopted proper security measures in compliance with industry standards to protect the privacy and security of your personal data, to prevent personal data 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 the App; we use encryption technologies to improve security of personal data; we use reliable protection systems to prevent attacks; we deploy an access control system to ensure that only authorized person can access to personal data; and we will train our employees on privacy protection as well as how to handle and manage your data appropriately.

If your personal data 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 e–mail, mail, phone calls and/or alerts. If we cannot reach to all affected individuals, we will publish announcements in proper and effective ways.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the rights under applicable laws to have access to your personal data and to ask us to rectify, erase and restrict the use of your personal data. You also have the rights to object to your personal data being used, to ask for the transfer of personal data you have made available to us and to withdraw consent to the use of your personal data. 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 laws of the People’s Republic of China, and may have similar rights under the laws of other countries.

1. Right to access

You have the right to make a written request for details of your personal data and a copy of that personal data.

2. Right to rectification

You have the right to have inaccurate information about you corrected or removed.

3. Right to erasure

You have the right to have certain personal data about you erased.

4. Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request that your personal data would only be used for restricted purposes.

5. Right to object

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data 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.

6. Right to data portability

You have the right to ask for the personal data you have made available to us to be transferred to you or a third party in machine-readable format.

7. Right to withdraw consent

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 data prior to the withdrawal of your consent.

8. Right to compliant

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 [email protected] with details of your request. If you have any questions about these rights, you may also contact us at the above e–mail.

UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

Our Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on our main Privacy Policy page. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use your personal data, the change will be posted thirty (30) days prior to taking effect and registered users will be notified via e-mail. We employ measures designed to protect the security of your personal identifying information.

HOW TO CONTACT US

For any questions or comments regarding our information or security practices, you may contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail to XINHUA MYANMAR, New Media Center, Xinhua News Agency, 57 Xuanwumen Xidajie, Beijing, 100803