Thank you for using Xinhua News App (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 News App.
Through Xinhua News App, 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.
We collect the following types of data:
We collect your profile photo and user ID when you log into our Service with your Facebook,Twitter or WeChat account. Profile photo in Facebook Twitter or WeChat will be the profile photo of your account in our Service with your consent. You will not be required to log in or upload any profile photo or have a user ID if you merely use the basic functions in our Service, such as browsing and searching.
To provide the sharing function, our product integrates Ushare SDK. The SDK will collect the identifiable information of your device and the public information of your social account you need to share.
We collect your behaviors information when you use our Service, such as browsing history, search history, comments, collections, likes etc.
We collect 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.
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. Device information includes device systems, device manufacturers, device brands, unique device identifier.
Your consent will be necessary in some circumstances under which you will have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, however, if the consent is withdrawn, we may not be able to continue to provide the service you requested.
We also process your personal information in order to fulfil a contract we have with you. For example, we would use your information to provide you with access to our Service.
We may use your information where there are legitimate interests to do so. For example, we will analyze your reading habits and preferences to recommend more news to you according to your interests, making our Services more user-friendly. We only rely on legitimate interests if the reason for using your information is fair and lawful. Where we want to rely on legitimate interests as a legal basis, we will carry out a balancing test between our legitimate interests and your privacy rights. Our legitimate interests in processing personal information include:
There may be situations where we need to use your information to comply with legal and regulatory obligations or defend claims.
You are welcome to contact us for further information on the legal grounds that we rely on in relation to any specific processing of your personal information.
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:
We will use information about your behavior to make feature tags. Based on such feature tags, we will conduct the portrait for a crowd of users to recommend customized news.
We will use your device information to provide you with better products or services and personalized information display service.
| Type of Personal Data | Purpose | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Login Information | Profile photo in Facebook Twitter or WeChat will be the profile photo of your account. To provide sharing function. |
| 2 | User's behavior information | To recommend customized news |
| 3 | Device Information | To provide push service and sharing function |
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.
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.
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:
We may share your personal data with other companies, organizations or individuals with your explicit consent.
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.
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.
SDK: To provide you with one-click sharing service, our app has integrate a Ushare SDK supported by Umeng+ which will collect your device identifiable information (such as IMEI/Android ID IDFA,etc.) and the public information of your social account. For your information security, we have made data security confidentiality agreements with Umeng+, who will strictly abide by our data privacy and security requirements. We will not share your personal identifiable information unless authorized by you. For more information, please log on to https://www.umeng.com/policy to learn about the privacy policy of Umeng+.
To track and collect bugs, our app has integrate a Tencent Bugly SDK which will report errors with your identifiable information (such as IMEI/Android ID IDFA,etc.) to https://android.bugly.qq.com We will not share your personal identifiable information unless authorized by you. For more information , please log on to https://bugly.qq.com/docs/user-guide/instruction-manual-android/?v=1.0.0
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.
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: XinhuaNews_Support@xhsxmt.com. We will duly handle your questions. However, please note that our Service may not be available to you if you reject international information transfer.
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.
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.
You have the right to make a written request for details of your personal data and a copy of that personal data.
You have the right to have inaccurate information about you corrected or removed.
You have the right to have certain personal data about you erased.
You have the right to request that your personal data would only be used for restricted purposes.
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.
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.
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.
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 XinhuaNews_Support@xhsxmt.com with details of your request. If you have any questions about these rights, you may also contact us at the above e-mail.
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.
For any questions or comments regarding our information or security practices, you may contact us by e-mail at XinhuaNews_Support@xhsxmt.com or by mail to Xinhua News App, New Media Center, Xinhua News Agency, 57 Xuanwumen Xidajie, Beijing, 100803