This is the Privacy Policy governing your use of the Goomaai site and the collection,
use, transfer and processing of your Collected Information by Goomaai Internet Solutions
(Hangzhou) Ltd and those affiliates which provide the relevant Value Services (collectively
referred to as "Goomaai", "we" or "us"). By using this Site, you consent to our
Privacy Policy set out below. All terms not defined in this document have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Terms of Use Agreement between you and Goomaai Internet
Solutions (Hangzhou) Ltd which by use of this Site you agree to accept.
Collection of information
Registration Information: At the time you register to become a Registered User of
the Site, you will be asked to complete a registration form which requires you to
provide information such as your name, address, phone/fax number, email address
and other personal information as well as information about your business ("Registration Information.")
Place an advertisement Information: If you submit any information to Goomaai to
be published on the Site through the Place an advertisement tools, including but
not limited to My Profile, Product Catalog, Trade Leads, TrustPass Profile and any
discussion forum, then you are deemed to have given consent to the publication of
such information ("Place an advertisement Information").
Payment Information: If you establish a credit account with us or our providers
or if you purchase a product or service from Goomaai or other Registered Users of
the Site or other vendors available through Goomaai, we may collect additional information,
including billing information, credit card numbers and expiration dates and tracking
information from cheques or money orders ("Payment
Information").
Account Activities Information: We record and retain the records of your Account
activities when you use the Goomaai services. If you make sale and purchase transactions
online through Goomaai’s web-based transaction platform including Values services,
we also collect information related to such transactions including the types and
specifications of the goods, pricing and delivery information, any trade dispute
records ("Account Information").
Statistical Information: In addition, we gather aggregate statistical information
about our Site and Users, such as IP addresses, browser software, operating system,
pages viewed, number of sessions, unique visitors and so forth. ("Statistical
Information").
Registration Information: Place an advertisement Information, Payment Information,
Account Activities Information, Statistical Information and any information we may
collect from you through the use of cookies (see Section 5 below), or from our affiliates
or from other parties or through any other means, shall collectively be referred
to as "Collected Information".
Our system also logs some basic and generic information about your computer, including
its:
• IP address (your computer's unique signature)
• Operating system (e.g. Windows NT)
• Browser software (e.g. Netscape Navigator)
We use this information about your computer to perform routine web site maintenance
and to generate various aggregate reports for internal analysis, research and monitoring
purposes, and to help us develop and enhance our web site and services for our users.
How We May User Information
General: We use your Collected Information to improve our marketing and promotional
efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product
offerings and to customize our Site's content, layout and service specifically for
you. We may use your Collected Information to service your Account with us, including
but not limited to investigating problems, resolving disputes and enforcing agreements
with us. We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any personally-identifying information
of our Users. We may provide your Collected Information to our affiliates and service
providers under contract (such as customer care) to support the operation of the
Site and our services. If you register or use services or products provided by our
affiliates, we will share with each other your Collected Information including the
information about your use of such affiliates’ services and products. We may share
certain aggregate information based on analysis of Collected Information with our
partners, customers, advertisers or potential Users. We may use your Collected Information
to execute marketing campaigns, promotions or advertising messages on behalf of
third parties; however, in these circumstances, your Collected Information will
not be disclosed to such third parties unless you respond to the marketing, promotion
or advertising message. Your Collected Information may be transferred, stored, used
and processed outside your home jurisdiction. In case of a merger with or transfer
of business to another business entity, we will transfer your Collected Information
to the entity which acquires the business (Should such a combination occur, we will
require that the new combined entity follow this Privacy Policy with respect to
your Collected Information).
Registration Information: We may use your Registration Information to provide services
that you request or to contact you regarding additional services about which Goomaai
determines that you might be interested. Specifically, we may use your email address,
mailing address, phone number or fax number to contact you regarding notices, surveys,
product alerts, new service or product offerings and communications relevant to
your use of our Site. We may generate reports and analysis based on the Registration
Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions.
Place an advertisement Information: All of your Place an advertisement Information
will be publicly available on the Site and therefore accessible by any internet
user. Any Place an advertisement Information that you disclose to Goomaai becomes
public information and you relinquish any proprietary rights (including but not
limited to the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in such information. You
should exercise caution when deciding to include personal or proprietary information
in the Place an advertisement Information that you submit to us.
Payment Information: Goomaai will share your Payment Information with banks or vendors
relevant to the transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed. In
addition, Goomaai may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness
and, in the process of such determination, Goomaai may make such Payment Information
available to banks or credit agencies. While Goomaai has in place up-to-date technology
and internal procedures to guard your Payment Information against intruders, there
is no guarantee that such technology or procedure can eliminate all of the risks
of theft, loss or mis-use. Goomaai shall not be liable to you or any other person
for any damages that might result from unauthorized use, publication, disclosure
or any other mis-use of Payment Information, including credit card information.
Account Activities Information: We use Account Activities Information to provide
the services that you request. We may also generate reports, statistics and analysis
based on Account Activities Information to enhance and improve our Site and services.
We may also use Account Activities Information to determine your credit-worthiness.
Statistical Information: We use Statistical Information to help diagnose problems
with and maintain our computer servers, to manage our Site, and to enhance our Site
and services based on the usage pattern data we receive. We may generate reports
and analysis based on the Statistical Information for internal analysis, monitoring
and marketing decisions. We may provide Statistical Information to third parties,
but when we do so, we do not provide personally-identifying information without
your permission.
Disclosure of Information
We may publish records of complaints and any penalties, actions or proceedings against
Members. We further reserve the right to disclose your Collected Information to
relevant authorities where we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be infringing
or threatening to infringe, or who may otherwise be causing injury to or interference
with, the title, rights, interests or property of Goomaai, our Users, customers,
partners, other web site users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
We also reserve the right to disclose Collected Information in response to a subpoena
or other judicial order or when we reasonably believe that such disclosure is required
by law, regulation or administrative order of any court, governmental or regulatory
authority.
If we have reason to believe that a User is in breach of the Terms of User Agreement
or any other agreement with us, then we reserve the right to make public or otherwise
disclose such User's Collected Information in order to pursue our claim or prevent
further injury to Goomaai or others.
Co-Branded Relationships
We have established relationships with other parties to offer you the benefit of
other products and services which we ourselves do not offer. We offer you access
to these other parties either through the use of hyperlinks to their sites from
our Site, or through offering "co-branded" sites in which both ourselves and these
other parties share the same uniform resource locator, domain name or pages within
a domain name on the Internet. In some cases you may be required to submit information
for purposes of registering or applying for products or services provided by such
third parties or co-branded partners. The privacy policy of such other parties may
differ from ours, and we may not have any control over the information that you
submit to such third parties or co-branded sites. We therefore encourage you to
read that policy before responding to any offers, products or services provided
by such other parties.
Third party service providers
You may notice that some services available through our website are "Powered by"
or "Provided by" other third party content or technology service providers. We contract
with these third party providers to help us provide you with better value and service.
To fully access and use such services, you may sometimes be required to register
for them or to otherwise provide certain information and data. In order to provide
you with the services in question, such information and data may have to be made
available to the third party provider, who may then process or update such information
and data and transmit them back to us. We are highly selective in choosing these
third party providers, and they are allowed to use your information and data only
for the purpose of and in connection with providing the services which we have contracted
with them to provide.
Important Notice:
Although we adhere to industry standard practices to protect your personal information
and confidential data, we cannot ensure that such information and data will never
be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
COOKIES
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie
file of the browser on your computer's hard disk, so as to help the website remember
who you are, amongst other things.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has
come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique
number.
Use of cookies on our website
Cookies help us to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly,
and to make our website more convenient and useful to you. Most major websites use
cookies.
Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Nor will acceptance of cookies
on our website result in you receiving any e-mail from us. However, when you signed
up for our services, you may have chosen to receive promotional or other types of
e-mails from us.
Two types of cookies are used on our website:
Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies
that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you close the browser.
Persistent Cookies: These are stored in
your computer and remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer. The
storage period will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.
How and why we use cookies on our website and what
information we collect
Session Cookies:
• To allow you to access stored information within a registration process.
• To allow you to carry information across pages of our website and avoid you having
to re-enter information. For example, to help automatically fill in your inquiry
or other forms with your contact and other applicable details.
• To use cookies to identify you and enable us to access your Registration Information,
Place an advertisement Information or Payment Information so you do not have to
re-enter it
• To identify you as a member, customer or referred user of an alliance or business
partner, when you log-in using a unique reference code previously issued to you.
• To determine if you have already visited or logged-in to our website.
• To record the category or type of user to which you belong, based upon the services
for which you have registered, subscribed or paid for.
• To determine which of our relevant computer servers you will be directed to.
• To ensure that you do not receive "pop-up" banners or advertisements, if you have
opted not to receive such "pop-ups" during the session.
• To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users
use our website and to help us improve the structure, services and features of our
website. You will not be personally identified in this way.
Persistent Cookies:
• To help us recognize you as a unique visitor when you return to our website, for
trend reports and analysis, or to allow us to tailor content to match your preferred
interests, or to avoid or minimize showing you the same content repeatedly.
• To save or record your Login ID and/or password (at your option), so that you
do not have to repeatedly log-in when you visit our website.
• To help our system identify who you are, if you have opted to "remember me" during
the log-in process.
• To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users
use our website and to help us improve the structure, services and features of our
website. You will not be personally identified in this way.
• Within research surveys, to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire
too often, or after you have already done so.
Third Party Cookies:
Third parties also serve or use cookies through this website. These cookies do not
carry any personally identifiable information and are used for the following purposes:
• To assist with tracking and analyzing our website's user behavior.
• To show our advertisements on various sites on the Internet. The third party remarketing
vendors concerned use cookies to serve our advertisements based on a user's prior
visits to our website. Users may opt out of a third party remarketing vendor's use
of cookies by visiting the relevant advertising opt-out page of that particular
remarketing vendor's website (e.g. Google advertising opt-out page or Dapper advertising
opt-out page etc., as applicable), or by visiting the general Network Advertising
Initiative opt-out page (where applicable).
Web Beacons
Some pages on our website may contain images known as "web beacons" (also known
as "clear gifs"), some of which may be served by third parties. They allow us to
count users who have viewed these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information,
including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the
page on which the web beacon resides. These web beacons do not carry any personally
identifiable information and are merely used to track the effectiveness of a particular
campaign.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
There are a number of ways to manage your cookies. You can decide to accept or decline
cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can also set-up your browser
to warn you every time a cookie is sent, so that you can review the cookie before
you decide whether or not to accept it.
For example, if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7 or 8:
• Click on "Internet Options" from the "Tools" menu in your browser.
• Select the "Privacy" tab.
• Select a setting for the internet zone which you want and click "Apply" then "OK".
• Or click on "Advance", then Select "Override automatic cookie handling, then select
the options you want, click "OK", and then click "OK".
If you are using Firefox:
• Click on "Options..." from the "Tools" menu in your browser.
• Select the "Privacy" tab.
• Select a setting for "Accept cookies from sites" and "Accept third-party cookies",
then "OK".
• Or click on "Advance", then Select "Override automatic cookie handling, then select
the options you want, click "OK", and then click "OK".
If you are using other versions or other browser software, then you can select "cookies"
from the "Help" function in your browser for information on how to manage your cookies
settings.
If you use different computers in different locations to access our website, you
will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
Some of our site services or features require cookies. If you disable or do not
accept cookies on our website, you may not be able to use, access or participate
in such site services or features fully or at all.
Deleting Cookies
You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your
browser.
For example, if you are using Internet Explorer 6:
• Exit Internet Explorer 6, and then exit any instances of Windows Explorer.
• Click "Start", click "Run", type "inetcpl.cpl", and then press ENTER.
• In the "Settings" box, click on the "View Files..." button at the bottom.
• You will now see a list of all the temporary files that Internet Explorer has
stored in your computer for quick access. This is also where all cookies are stored.
• Select the cookie file(s) which you wish to delete, then hit the "Delete" button
on your keyboard. Press "Yes" at the prompt to confirm your deletion.
If you are using Internet Explorer 7:
• Exit Internet Explorer 7, and then exit any instances of Windows Explorer.
• Click "Start", click "Run", type "inetcpl.cpl", and then press ENTER.
• On the "General" tab, click "Delete" under Browsing History in the Internet Properties
dialog box.
• In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click "Delete Cookies".
• In the Delete Cookies dialog box, click "Yes".
If you are using Internet Explorer 8:
• Exit Internet Explorer 8, and then exit any instances of Windows Explorer.
• Click "Start", click "Run", type "inetcpl.cpl", and then press ENTER.
• On the "General" tab, click "Delete" under Browsing History in the Internet Properties
dialog box.
• In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click to clear all of the check boxes
except for the "Cookies" check box.
• Click "Delete".
If you are using Firefox:
• Click on "Options¡" from the "Tools" menu in your browser.
• Select the "Privacy" tab.
• Click "Show Cookies..."
• You can either click "Remove All Cookies" to remove all cookies
• Or you can remove selective cookie by select and click "Remove Cookie"
If you are using other versions or other browser software, then you can select "cookies"
from the "Help" function in your browser for information on where to find your cookie
folder to delete your cookies.
Minors
The Site and its contents are not intended to be targeted to minors under applicable
law and we do not intend to sell any of our products or services to minors. However,
we have no way of distinguishing the age of individuals who access our Site and
so we carry out the same Privacy Policy for individuals of all ages. If a minor
has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent,
the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the information.