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Legal Statement and Privacy Policy

Reminder

Baopals reminds you that: Before you use the services of Baopals Platform, be sure to prudently read and carefully understand this Legal Statement and Privacy Policy (“Terms”). If you have questions or concerns regarding the Terms, you may consult the customer service personnel of Baopals Platform. If you do not agree to the Terms or any contents of the Terms after you read it, you should stop using the services of Baopals Platform immediately. Once you use the services of Baopals Platform in any way, you will be deemed to have thoroughly understood and accepted all contents of the Terms.

Definition

Baopals Platform: refers to baopals.com website, Baopals WeChat Official Account (ID: Baopals) and Baopals APP.

Baopals: refers to either or all operators of Baopals Platform, including the operator of baopals.com – Shanghai PoGou Network Technology Limited (registration number: 913100000885141873).

Statement on Intellectual Property Rights

Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise stated by Baopals, all intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret) and related rights in, of, and to all products, technology, software, programs, data and other information (including but without limitation to words, images, pictures, photos, audios, videos, charts, colors, layout and electronic file) within Baopals Platform are vested in Baopals or its affiliated companies. Without the consent of Baopals, no one is permitted to use (including but without limitation to copy, transmit, display, mirror, upload and download) the said information.

Baopals Logo, “Baopals” and other related words, graphics and combination of words and graphics as well as other logos, marks, product names and service names within Baopals Platform are all trademarks of Baopals and its affiliated companies in China and other countries. Without written authorization of Baopals, no one may display, use or otherwise dispose of any of the said trademarks in any way.

Limitation on Liability

Whereas the services provided by Baopals Platform are of the nature of infomediary service , all information of shops and commodities on Baopals Platform (including and without limitation to names of shops, names of companies, liaisons and contact information, product description and specification, pictures and videos) are provided and uploaded by e-commerce platforms providing Baopals with its API, who and those shops operating on the named e-commerce platforms shall assume all legal responsibility for the said information.

Baopals Platform carries works (including contents on forum) for the purpose of transferring more information, which does not mean that Baopals agrees with the viewpoints in the works or has confirmed the trueness of the contents of the works.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Baopals respects intellectual property rights and opposes any act of infringement and pirating. If a holder of intellectual property rights thinks that any content on Baopals Platform (including but without limitation to commodity information released by any member of Baopals Platform) may infringe any of his/her legitimate rights and benefits, he/she may send a written notice to Baopals’ legal team at legal@baopals.com. After receiving the notice, Baopals will deal with such issue in time.

Privacy Right Policy

Baopals (hereinafter referred to as “We”) respects and strictly protect the personal information of the users. When you use the services of Baopals Platform, we will collect, use and share your personal information according to this Policy. This Policy contains terms and conditions on how we collect, store, use, share and protect your personal information. Through this Policy, we wish to clearly introduce to you how we deal with your personal information. Therefore, we advise you to read this Policy completely to understand the means of protecting your privacy right. If you have any doubt about this Policy, you’re welcome to contact us through the means of contact published on Baopals Platform. If you do not agree to any contents of this Policy, you should stop using the services of Baopals Platform immediately. If you use the services of Baopals Platform in any way, you will be deemed to have agreed that we could use and protect your personal information according to this Policy.

Scope of Application

To provide the users with better, higher-quality, more personalized services is our persistent pursuit. We also wish to provide more conveniences to your life through our services. This Policy is applicable to all services provided by Baopals Platform. When you visit Baopals Platform and/or log on any client concerned to use the services of Baopals Platform, this Policy will apply.

How We Collect Information

We collect information in order to provide you with better, higher-quality, and more personalized services. We collect information by the following means:

  1. Information provided by you to us The information you fill in and/or submit when you register an account of Baopals or use the services of Baopals Platform, including your name, gender, date of birth, Passport ID, telephone number, email, address, Bank account information related to payment, and any additional information (such as the province and city you’re in, postal code, etc.) .
  2. Information collected by us when you use the service of Baopals Platform. In order to provide you with optimal service, we will collect information concerning the services you are using, which includes:

    When you use the services of Baopals Platform or visit the web pages of Baopals Platform, Baopals will automatically receive and record the information on your browser and computer, including but without limitation to your IP address, the type of the browser, the language used, date and time of visit, information on characteristics of software and hardware and records on the web pages required by you; when you download or use any client software of Baopals or any of its affiliated companies, or access to mobile web pages to use the services of Baopals Platform, Baopals may read information related to your position and the mobile equipment you’re using, including but without limitation to model of equipment, identification code of equipment, operating system, resolution and telecom operator.

    In addition to the information above, we may collect any other information about you in order to provide services to you and improve our service quality, including any information provided by you to our customer service team, your answers to our questionnaire, and any information collected by us when you interact with any affiliated company or partner of Baopals. Meanwhile, in order to improve safety when you use the services of Baopals Platform, prevent any phishing website from fraud more accurately, and block Trojan viruses, we may judge the risk of your account by knowing your habit of accessing web and information software commonly used by you, and may record some URLs which we deem to have risks.

  3. Information from any third party

    To provide you with better, higher-quality, more personalized services, or provide services to you together with Baopals, or prevent Internet fraud, the affiliated companies and partners of Baopals will share your personal information with Baopals according to law, any agreement with you, or with your consent in advance.

    You acknowledge and agree that any of the following information is not governed by this Policy:

    1. Key words input by you when you use the search services of Baopals Platform;
    2. Transaction data on Baopals Platform collected by Baopals when you do not select the function of "Buying Anonymously" and/or "Assessing Anonymously" including but without limitation to bid, closing information and assessing particulars;
    3. Credit assessment, acts in violation of laws, regulations or the rules of Baopals, and measures taken by Baopals against you;
    4. Enterprise name and other industrial and commercial registration information as well as information on natural persons as operators as required to be disclosed by laws and regulations.

  4. Collection and Use of Image Information

    This section of our Privacy Policy provides details about the collection and use of image information from our users.

    When you use our app, we may collect image information that you upload or provide. This could include images you take with your device's camera, images you select from your device's photo library, or images you provide in other ways.

    The images you provide to us are primarily used for the following purposes:

    1. Personalizing your experience with our app.
    2. Improving the performance and functionality of our app, including debugging, internal operations, and research to provide and improve our services.
    3. 3. Assisting with product returns, tracking packages, or helping users find specific products.

    We process this image data in accordance with applicable legal requirements and our legitimate business interests.

    Your images remain your property. We do not claim any ownership rights in the images you provide. We only retain your images for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise required by law.

    We use reasonable security measures to protect your images against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction. However, no transmission of data over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure, so we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

    If you have any questions about our collection and use of image information, please contact us at support@baopals.com.

    By using our app and services, you agree to this Privacy Policy, including our collection and use of image information as described in this section.

How We Use Information

We collect your information for the purpose of providing you with services and improving the service quality. Therefore, we will use your information for the following purposes:

  1. Various services you are using, as well as maintenance and improvement of these services;
  2. Recommending to you any contents which you may be interested in, including but without limitation to sending product and service information to you, or displaying personalized third party promotion information to you through the system, or sharing information with the partners of Baopals with your consent in advance so that they send information about their products and services to you;
  3. We may use your personal information to prevent, discover and investigate fraud, any act endangering security, illegal activity, or any other act which violates any agreement, policy or rule of us or any of our affiliated companies so as to protect the legitimate rights and benefits of you, any other user of us, us or any of our affiliated companies;
  4. We may combine your personal information from one kind of service with information from any other kind of service so as to provide you with more personalized services, for example, use, share or disclose your personal information so as to provide you with broader society of friends;
  5. Any other purpose as permitted by you.

How We Share Information

We’re obliged to keep your personal information confidential and will not sell or rent any of your personal information to any third party for the purpose of the marketing of the third party, provided that we may share your personal information with the third party under any of the following circumstances:

  1. Obtaining your consent or authorization in advance;
  2. As required by laws and regulations or administrative or judicial organ;
  3. Sharing your personal information with any of the affiliated companies of Baopals;
  4. Providing your personal information to reliable partners so that they could deal with such information according to our instructions, the privacy right policies and any other applicable confidentiality and safety measures;
  5. If you’re an eligible complainant of intellectual property rights and file a complaint, disclosing your personal information to the complained as required by the complained so as to solve the potential dispute in time;
  6. Only if we share your personal information, we could provide services as required by you or deal with any dispute between you and any third party. For example, with respect to a transaction created by you in Baopals, if either party performs all or part of his/her obligations and requires disclosure of information, Baopals will provide the party with the contact information of the counterparty and other necessary information (as the case may be) so as to boost the consummation of the transaction or solving of any dispute;
  7. If you violate laws and regulations of China or related agreements or rules of Baopals, disclosing to any third party whenever necessary;
  8. Safeguarding legitimate rights and benefits of Baopals and its affiliated parties or users.

Use of Cookie and Beacon

To provide you with easier experiences, when you access relevant websites of Baopals Platform or use the services of Baopals Platform, we may identify your identity through small data files. In this way, we can help you omit inputting some existing registration information or judge the security of your account. These data files may be Cookies, Flash Cookies or local storage provided by your browser or affiliated application (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Cookies”).

Please understand that some of our services are only available through “Cookies”. If permitted by your browser or additional browser services, you may amend your degree of acceptance towards Cookies or refuse Cookies of Baopals, which may influence your safe access to related websites of Baopals Platform or use of the services of Baopals Platform under certain circumstances.

There are often some electronic images (called “GIF files” or "iBeacon") in web pages. The use of iBeacon may help the website calculate the number of the users who browse web pages or access to certain cookies. We will use iBeacon to collect information on you browsing web pages, such as the address of web pages you’re visiting, position of the reference page you previously accessed to, the period during which you stop on the page, your browsing environment and display setup.

Storage of Information

Your personal information and data collected by Baopals will be stored in the servers of Baopals and (or) its affiliated companies. This information and data may be sent to the country or region where you’re located or the place where Baopals collects such information and data, and will be accessed, stored and displayed at such place.

Protection of Your Personal Information

To guarantee the security of your personal information and prevent it from being disclosed, damaged or lost, we will take physical, electronic and management measures to protect your information, including but without limitation to SSL, storage encryption and control over access to data center. We also strictly manage the employees or contractors who may access to your personal information, including but without limitation to adopting post-based capacity control, signing confidentiality agreements with them, and supervising their operation. Baopals will use all available technologies to protect your personal information and prevent your personal information from being disclosed, damaged or lost.

Your account has security protection function. Please keep your account and passwords properly. Baopals will take such security measures as backup in other servers and encryption of passwords to guarantee that your personal information will not be lost, misused or altered. Notwithstanding the said security measures, you are reminded that there is no “perfect security measures” in information network.

When you use the services of Baopals Platform to engage in online transactions, you will have to disclose your personal information to the counterparty or potential counterparty, such as way of contact or postal code. Please keep your personal information properly and only disclose to others when necessary. If you find that any of your personal information is disclosed, especially your account or password, please contact the customer service personnel of Baopals in time so that Baopals could adopt relevant measures.

Juvenile Protection

We will neither knowingly collect information on any juvenile nor advice any juvenile to use our services. Unless permitted by law and approved by the guardian, the juvenile may not register an account or send their name, address, telephone or email address to us. If we collect any information about the juvenile negligently, we will delete as soon as possible when we become aware of it. If you think that we might hold information from or on any juvenile, please contact us.