Your privacy is important to Sino Cloud. So
we¡¯ve developed a Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose,
transfer, and store your information. Please take a moment to familiarize
yourself with our privacy practices and let us know if you
have any questions.
Personal
information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single
person.
You may
be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with Sino
Cloud or a Sino Cloud affiliated company. Sino Cloud and its affiliates may
share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this
Privacy Policy. They may also combine it with other information to provide and
improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
Here are
some examples of the types of personal information Sino Cloud may collect and
how we may use it.
¡ì When you create an Sino Cloud ID, register your products, purchase
a product, or participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of
information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address,
and contact preferences.
¡ì The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted
on Sino Cloud¡¯s latest product announcements, and upcoming events. It also
helps us to improve our services, content, and advertising. If you don¡¯t want
to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by email us.
¡ì We also use personal information to help us develop, deliver,
and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
¡ì From time to time, we may use your personal information to send
important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our
terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important to your
interaction with Sino Cloud, you may not opt out of receiving these
communications.
¡ì We may also use personal information for internal purposes such
as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve Sino Cloud¡¯s products,
services, and customer communications.
We also
collect non-personal information − data in a form that does not permit direct
association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and
disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some
examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
¡ì We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip
code, area code, unique device identifier, location, and the time zone where a Sino
Cloud product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and
improve our products, services, and advertising.
If we do
combine non-personal information with personal information the combined
information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains
combined.
Sino
Cloud¡¯s website, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and
advertisements may use ¡°cookies¡± and other
technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies
help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our website
people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of
advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and
other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal
information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal
information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined
with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal
information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Sino Cloud
and our partners use cookies and other technologies to remember personal
information when you use our website, online services, and applications. Our
goal in these cases is to make your experience with Sino Cloud more convenient
and personal. For example, knowing your first name let us welcome you the next
time you visit the Sino Cloud Online Store. Knowing your country and language −
and if you are an educator, your school − helps us provide a customized and
more useful shopping experience. Knowing someone using your computer or device
has shopped for a certain product or used a particular service helps us make
our advertising and email communications more relevant to your interests. And
knowing your contact information, product serial numbers, and information about
your computer or device helps us register your products, personalize your
operating system, set up your iCloud service, and provide you with better
customer service.
If you
want to disable cookies and you¡¯re using the Safari web browser, go to Safari
preferences and then to the privacy pane to disable cookies. For other
browsers, check with your provider to find out how to disable cookies. Please
note that certain features of the Sino Cloud website will not be available once
cookies are disabled.
As is
true of most websites, we gather some information automatically and store it in
log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser
type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages,
operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use
this information to understand and analyze trends, to administer the site, to
learn about user behavior on the site, and to gather demographic information
about our user base as a whole. Sino Cloud may use this information in our
marketing and advertising services.
In some
of our email messages, we use a ¡°click-through URL¡± linked to content on the Sino
Cloud website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a
separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We
track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular
topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you
prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic
links in the email messages.
Pixel
tags enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read, and they
tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or
eliminate messages sent to customers.
At times
Sino Cloud may make certain personal information available to strategic
partners that work with Sino Cloud to provide products and services, or that
help Sino Cloud market to customers. Personal information will only be shared
by Sino Cloud to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it
will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.
Sino
Cloud shares personal information with companies who provide services such as
information processing, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products to you,
managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing
your interest in our products and services, and conducting customer research or
satisfaction surveys. These companies are obligated to protect your information
and may be located wherever Sino Cloud operates.
It may
be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public
and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for Sino
Cloud to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information
about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law
enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or
appropriate.
We may
also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is
reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our
operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or
sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the
relevant third party.
Sino
Cloud takes precautions ¡ª including administrative, technical, and physical
measures ¡ª to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and
misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and
destruction.
When you
use some Sino Cloud products, services, or applications or post on an Sino
Cloud forum, chat room, or social networking service, the personal information
you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by
them. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in
these instances. For example, if you list your name and email address in a
forum posting, that information is public. Please take care when using these
features.
Sino
Cloud makes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate,
complete, and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the
period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless
a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
We do
not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn
that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13 we will
take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.
Sino
Cloud websites, products, applications, and services may contain links to
third-party websites, products, and services. Our products and services may
also use or offer products or services from third parties. Information
collected by third parties, which may include such things as location data or
contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to
learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.
To make
sure your personal information is secure; we communicate our privacy and
security guidelines to Sino Cloud employees and strictly enforce privacy
safeguards within the company.
If you
have any questions or concerns about Sino Cloud¡¯s Privacy Policy or data
processing, please contact us.
Sino
Cloud may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the
policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along
with the updated Privacy Policy.
Last updated: May 21, 2012