Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 12, 2023
Last Updated: Nov 8, 2024

Introduction

You are welcome to use our products and services! Your trust is very important to us. We know very well the importance of personal information to you. We will, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and to the best of our ability, take corresponding security measures to protect your personal information.

Publishers Representatives Limited (hereinafter referred to as "we" or "us" or "PRL", a company incorporated in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) attaches importance to protecting the personal information and personal privacy of users. This Privacy Policy contains the relevant terms and conditions related to personal information (hereinafter "Info") between us and the user (hereinafter referred to as "you") when using the GlobalSources (globalsources.com) app (which is a mobile office app provided by PRL for English website members. There may be slight differences in the expression of App names in different app stores, hereinafter collectively referred to as "this app")

This app may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy notices and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these notices. Please check these notices before you submit any personal information to these websites.

Before using our products or services, please read carefully and understand this Privacy Policy, especially the terms in bold, to help you understand how to maintain your privacy. Do not use our products or services before you have fully understood and agreed to the terms. If you have any doubts about this Privacy Policy, you may suspend using this app and/or contact us through the contact information set out in this Privacy Policy. When you use our services, you are deemed to have agreed that we may collect, process, store, use and protect your Info in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy section will help you learn:

1. How We Collect and Use Your Info

2. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

3. How We Share, Transfer and Publicly Disclose Your Info

4. How We Protect Your Personal Info

5. How You Manage Your Info

6. How Your Info is Transferred Worldwide

7. How We Handle Minors' Info

8. What Rights do You Have

9. How This Privacy Policy Will Be Updated

10. How to Contact Us

1. How We Collect and Use Your Info

We will retain the information on the services you use and the way you use them to improve the quality of services and user experience.

1.1 Info you provide actively during our provision of products and/or services to you

We need to collect your information to realize this app's business functions. The following detailed Info you actively provide during our provision of products and/or services is the Info required to be collected for realizing the basic business functions and corresponding function of this app. If you refuse to provide such Info, the business function cannot be used. Please note that if you provide Info of others, please make sure that you have obtained the authorization from the relevant subject.

• Membership services: to register as a member and use our membership services, you need to provide the your e-mail and password to be used, name, company name and country (or region) to create a platform account. If you only need to use browsing and search services, you do not need to register as our member and provide the above Info. We mainly collect your name, e-mail, company name, website, address, telephone number, fax number and country (or region), and information released by you through this app (including commercial information related to the company, products, and procurement requirements). Such Info is collected to implement the service terms of this app and provide you with the services we offer, and so that potential partners or our staff can contact you in a timely manner to facilitate trade cooperation or solve possible problems. You can modify the above contents by logging in with your e-mail and password.

• Company and product information: You need to provide your company name, and your or your company's contact information so that potential partners or our staff can get in touch with you in time to facilitate trade cooperation opportunities, or solve possible problems.

• Payment: In order to complete the order payment, if you choose a financial institution to provide you with payment services, we will also share your third-party payment account with the corresponding financial institution of your choice.

• System services and other information: We may reasonably send you the latest platform management information and system service notifications and also product and service news, information and updates (e.g. via SMS, message pushes and emails). If you do not want to receive such information, you can unsubscribe or opt-out from the links or other methods provided in the communications you receive from us, or through the settings or other applicable methods provided in the app, or by contacting us (see Section 10 below for our contact information).

• Customer services: When you contact us, we may record your conversations with us and collect other necessary Info for resolving the problem in order to verify your identity and help you resolve the problem.

• Picture/document access and uploading function: you can use picture tools to normally upload pictures to the material library, and release/reply to the RFI/RFQ by quickly selecting the attached RFI/RFQ function.

1.2 Info we collect and use actively during our provision of products and/or services to you

During your use of our services, in order to identify the abnormal status of your account, understand the suitability of the product, and provide you with page displays and search results more suitable for your needs, we may automatically collect your usage information and store it as web log information. including:

• Device Information: We will receive and record, according to the specific operations during your installation and/or use of software (including any apps running in the background), information about the device you are using (including but not limited to the device model, version of the operating system, device settings, unique device identifier, device environment, mobile applications installed list, Mac address, IP address and operator information) and information about the location of your device (including but not limited to the GPS location authorized by you).

• Service log information: During your use of the products or services provided by our app's website, we will automatically collect the detailed information on how you use our services and will save it as a service log, including but not limited to information you browsed, contents you viewed, your transactions, contents you followed and shared, information you published, and your operations, time of operations and abnormity in the service log.

Please note that the device information or the service log information cannot be used to identify a specific natural person when used alone. This type of non-Info, when used by us in connection with other information to identify a specific natural person, or with other Info, will be considered as Info, and will be anonymized or de-identified by us, except as otherwise authorized by you or provided for by applicable laws and regulations.

1.3 We may obtain your info from third parties

We may collect and use your Info from third parties (our partners) within the scope of your authorization or consent. We will ensure that your Info is handled in strict accordance with the contracts with such third parties and relevant legal requirements. Meanwhile, please carefully read the respective privacy policies and user agreements of the third parties in detail. If you refuse the collection, use or communication by a third party of your Info when the third party is providing services, you might not be able to use the corresponding services of this app.

• Following and sharing: in the process of browsing our app's website, you can choose to add the products and/or suppliers you are interested in to your favorites, and you can share information with other third parties through the function components provided by us. In the process of the above functions being used, we will collect the service log information, for the purpose of realizing the above functions and other purposes explicitly notified by us.

1.4 To realize relevant business functions, your device access will be enabled

When you use this software, this software may obtain your authority below to provide you with services. You may either refuse to grant the following authority or close the following authority of the software in the mobile settings. Closing the authority will not affect the use of other functions of this software.

The authority to access your device that might be activated to realize the relevant business functions is set out below on a case-by-case basis:

1.5 Other purposes

We may use your Info:

• To verify your identity and prevent, detect or investigate the acts that might have fraud, endanger security, are illegal or breach our or our affiliates' agreements, policies or rules to protect the legitimate rights and interests of your, other users, us or our affiliates.

• To let you participate in surveys relating to our products and services.

• To provide you with applicable services, and to improve your user experience and our service quality.

• In accordance with or to comply with applicable law and regulations.

• For other purposes agreed or authorized by you.

1.6 Exceptions to authorization or consent

We may collect and use some necessary Info without your authorization or consent under the following circumstances, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations:

• where it is related to our compliance with the obligations under applicable laws and regulations;

• where it is directly related to national security or defense security;

• where it is directly related to public security, public health or major public interests;

• where it is directly related to criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials and enforcement of court decisions;

• where it is difficult to obtain your consent but the purpose is to protect your or other individuals' vital legitimate interests such as life and property;

• where the Info involved is disclosed to the public by you;

• where it is necessary according to the long-term and cumulative contracts between you and us;

• where your Info is collected from legally and publicly disclosed information, such as legitimate news and reports, and government information disclosure channels;

• where it is necessary for maintaining safe and stable operation of our products and/or services, such as identification or disposal of product or service failures;

• other circumstances as provided for by applicable laws and regulations.

2. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

2.1 Cookie

To ensure normal operation of the app's website, provide you with a better user experience, we will store, in your computer or mobile device, cookies, Flash cookies or browsers (or associated applications) which typically provide local storage for identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters, among others (collectively "Cookies"). With the help of Cookies, our app's website can store data about your preferences or products in your shopping cart, etc.

As long as your browser or browser add-on service permits, you may modify the acceptance level of Cookies or reject our Cookies. For details, see About Cookies.org. However, if you do so, your safe access to our app's website may be affected in certain circumstances, and you may need to modify user settings each time you visit our website.

2.2 Cookie Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, we also use web beacons, pixel tags and other similar technologies on our app's website.

For example, the email we send you may contain an address link that links to the content of our app's website. If you click on the link, we will track the click to help us understand your product or service preferences so that we can proactively improve our customers' service experience.

A web beacon is usually a transparent image embedded in a website or email. With the help of the pixel tags in the email, we can know whether the email has been opened. If you do not want your activities to be tracked in this way, you can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time.

3. How We Share, Transfer and Publicly Disclose Your Info

3.1 Sharing

We will not share your Info with any companies, organizations or individuals, with the following exceptions:

• Sharing in statutory circumstances: we might share your Info externally in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, as required for litigation or dispute resolution, or the requirements put forward by administrative and judicial organs under the law.

• Sharing with explicit consent: we will share your Info with other parties with your explicit consent.

• Sharing based on your active choice: for the Info that is publicized by you or that we can obtain from other legally open channels, as well as the Info you provide through this app, we will share the necessary Info relating to the transaction in your order with the provider of the relevant products or services based on your choice, so as to achieve your needs for the transaction and after-sales services.

• Sharing with affiliates: your Info may be shared with our affiliates and/or service providers designated by them to facilitate our provision of products and services to you based on the account, identify the abnormalities in the membership account, and protect your personal property from infringement. We will only share necessary Info and are bound by the purposes stated herein. In case that there is a need for us to share your sensitive Info, or our affiliates need to alter the purpose or the way of processing your Info, we will seek your authorization or consent again.

• Sharing with authorized partners: in order to provide you with products and services that are perfect and of high-quality, certain services of this app will be provided by the partners. Therefore, we may entrust authorized partners to provide you with certain services or to perform our functions on behalf of us. We will only share your Info for the lawful, legitimate, necessary, specific and explicit purposes stated herein. The authorized partners may only have access to the Info required for their performance of their duties, and may not use such Info for any other purpose. We will not permit our partners to sub-transfer any Info about a child.

At present, our authorized partners include the following types:

a)Partners providing advertisement monitoring, data statistics and data analysis services.

Without your permission, we will not share your identity information with our partners that provide advertising and analysis services. Our partners will help us process information related to advertising coverage and effectiveness, but we will not provide them with your identity information, or we will de-identify such information so that it does not identify you personally. The above partners may combine the above information with other data they have legally obtained to provide the advertising services or implement our decision-making.

b)Suppliers, service providers and other partners.

We will send information to suppliers, service providers and other partners who provide us with business or operational support, including providing technical infrastructure services, hardware and software product services or system product services, analyzing how our services are used, evaluating the effectiveness of our advertising and services, providing customer services or payment facilities, conducting academic research and surveys, and providing third-party products that need to be accessed by logging in to this app and using services of authorized software or this app.

In the process of dealing with sensitive Info, we will take technical measures to process the Info, and disconnect your association with specific information such as your identity so as not to identify a specific individual. If you refuse to provide Info that is necessary for our partners to provide services, you might not be able to use the services provided by the partners through this app.

3.2 Transfer

We will not transfer your Info to any company, organization, or individual except under the following circumstances:

• Transfer with explicit consent: we will transfer your Info to other parties with your explicit consent;

• When the transfer of Info is involved in a merger, acquisition, asset transfer, bankruptcy liquidation, or similar situation, we will require the new company or organization to which your Info is transferred to continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy; otherwise we will require the new company or organization to seek your authorization or consent again.

3.3 Public disclosure

Your Info is an important part of our services for you. We will abide by the legal provisions to keep your Info confidential. We will only publicly disclose your Info under the following circumstances:

• After we obtain your explicit consent;

• Statutory disclosure: we may publicly disclose your Info in situations where there are mandatory requirements under applicable laws, regulations, legal procedures, litigation, or competent government departments.

• Upon confirming your violation of applicable laws or regulations or severe violation of relevant agreements or rules of this app, or for the purpose of protecting the personal and property safety of this app's users or the public from damage, we may disclose your Info to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations or with your consent.

• According to the legal provisions and reasonable commercial practices, when we plan to merge with other entities or be acquired or carry out other activities on the capital market (including IPO and bond issuance), and when we need to accept due diligence conducted by other subjects under other circumstances, we will provide your Info for the necessary subjects, provided that we will sign a confidentiality agreement with such subjects, requiring them to take reasonable confidentiality measures for your Info.

• This app may disclose to the public and share with any third party in partnership with this app the big data analysis results being removed of personal identification data through statistical processing.

3.4 The third-party services

Cases involving the embedding of third-party codes or plug-ins for transmission of information are as follows:

Our application will be embedded with the SDK or other similar applications of authorized partners to enable you to use the services and functions described above. When providing you with products and services, third parties might ask for the following authority. Please carefully read and observe the user agreements and privacy policies of the third parties.

Noted:

In order to provide you with one-click sharing service, our App has integrated Umeng+ U-Share SDK , which will collect your device identifiable information (such as IMEI/android ID/IDFA, etc.) and public information of social account in order to share information with 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 in https://www.umeng.com/policy to learn privacy policy of Umeng+.

Some third-party SDKs or similar applications that we access may collect your Info. For example, when you use services provided by third parties in our services, you agree that such third parties may collect and process your Info. The situations where individual services are connected to third-party SDKs may vary. For details of individual services' specific connection to third-party SDKs, please consult the specific clauses and related pages for individual services at corresponding service pages. You may also choose to contact us through the contact information specified in this Policy. We will answer you within 7 working days.

The above third-party social media or other services are operated by the relevant third parties. If you use such third-party social media services or other services (including providing any information for such third parties), you shall be bound by the third parties' own service terms and information protection statement (not this Policy), and you need to read them carefully. This Policy applies only to the Info we collect and does not apply to the services provided by any third party or third-party information use rules. If you find any risk in such third-party social media or other services, it is recommended that you terminate the relevant operations to protect your legitimate rights and interests and contact us in a timely manner.

4. How We Protect Your Personal Info

4.1 In order to safeguard your Info security, we will endeavor to protect your Info by using physical, electronic, and managing security measures in line with industry standards to prevent unauthorized access or damage to, or public disclosure, use, modification or loss of your Info. We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to ensure that no Info irrelevant to the realization of services and functions is collected.

4.2 The Info and materials about you collected by this app may be stored and processed at the location of our company and/or our affiliates, and may also be stored and processed at the information subjects who we deem necessary to know such information.
We will delete your Info after you de-register your account.
We will only retain your Info for a period necessary for achieving the purposes described in this Policy, and delete or anonymously dispose of your Info upon expiration of the above period, unless otherwise required by applicable laws and regulations.

4.3 Since the Internet is by no means an absolutely secure environment, we strongly recommend that you assist us in ensuring your account security by safe means and using complicated passwords.
When using this app's services, you will inevitably disclose your Info to the potential counterparty. Please protect your Info properly and provide it for others only in the necessary circumstances. If you find a leakage of your Info, especially your account name or password, please contact our customer service immediately so that we can take appropriate measures.
Public information refers to any information that you voluntarily and publicly share. Anyone can view or access such information during use and future use of this app. It should be noted that the Info you voluntarily share in using our services may involve Info or even sensitive Info about you or others. Please consider more carefully whether you share or even make public relevant Info when using our services.
The Internet environment is not 100% safe. We will do our reasonable best to ensure the safety of any Info you send to us. If your legitimate rights or interests are damaged due to any unauthorized access to, or public disclosure, falsification or destruction of your Info as a result of damage to our physical, technical, or managing or protective facilities, we will bear corresponding legal liability.

4.4 If, unfortunately, any Info security incident occurs, we will, in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations, promptly notify you of: the basic information about and possible impact of the incident, measures we have taken or are about to take, suggestions for you on how you should prevent and reduce risks by yourself and remedies to be offered to you. We will promptly notify you of relevant information about the incident by email, letter, telephone or push notification or, if it is difficult to notify each Info subject, make a public announcement in a reasonable and effective manner.

4.5 Whilst we cannot guarantee to keep your data 100% secure, we are committed to protecting you (and us) from unauthorized access to, or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, destruction of personal information that we hold.

• We regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical, logical and organizational security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems and data stores.

• Our regular reviews include engaging external security consultants to test effectiveness of implemented security measures.

• We restrict access to personal information to our employees, contractors and agents who need access to the relevant personal information in order for them to process it for us and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.

• We implement strong access control mechanisms, such as two-factor authentication, identity & access management in addition to strong password policies.

• Where appropriate, we use technical solutions such as encryption, pseudonymization and anonymization to further protect data at rest and in transit.

On your part, we encourage you to use a unique and strong password to protect your account, activate the two-factor authentication (2FA) feature that we provide, limit access to your device and log out after using our services.
At the same time, we will also actively report how the Info security incidents are handled in accordance with the requirements of regulatory authorities.

5. How You Manage Your Info

We attach great importance to your attention to Info and make every effort to protect your right to inquiry, correct and delete your Info, de-register an account, and withdraw your consent, so that you have sufficient capabilities to guarantee your privacy and security.

You can access and manage your Info by:

5.1 Inquiring, correcting and supplementing your Info

You have the right to inquiry, correct or supplement your Info. You can do so by yourself in the following ways:

You can view, modify and supplement your personal information in Personal Information-My Account after logging in to your account on the computer.

5.2 Deleting your Info

You may delete some of your Info by the ways specified in "5.1 Inquiring, correcting and supplementing your Info."

You can submit a request to delete your Info to us under the following circumstances:

• If our processing of Info violates applicable laws or regulations;

• If we collected and used your Info without your consent;

• If our processing of Info breaches our agreement with you;

• If you no longer use our products or services or you have voluntarily cancelled your account;

• If we no longer provide you with products or services permanently.

When we decide to respond to your deletion request, we will also inform entities obtaining your Info from us and ask them to delete the same without delay, unless otherwise provided for by applicable laws and regulations, or such entities have obtained your independent authorization.

After relevant information has been deleted by you, with or without our help, we may not be able to delete the corresponding information from the backup system immediately due to the restriction of applicable laws or regulations or security technologies. We will retain your Info in a safe manner and further isolate it from other information till the backup can be deleted or anonymized.

5.3 Changing the scope of your authorized consent

Each business function requires some basic personal information to be completed (see Part 1 of this policy). For the collection and use of additional collected personal information, you may give or withdraw your consent at any time. When you withdraw your consent, we will no longer process the corresponding personal information. However, your decision to withdraw your consent will not affect the processing of personal information from your previous authorization.

5.4 De-registering your account

You can contact the online customer service or ask for help from the(852) 8121 2000customer service hotline to assist you in applying for de-registering your account.

After you voluntarily de-register your account, we will stop providing you with products or services, delete your Info according to applicable laws and regulations, or anonymize it.

5.5 Restricting automated decision-making by information system

For some business functions, decisions are made solely based on an automated decision-making mechanism such as information system and algorithm. If these decisions significantly affect your legitimate rights and interests, you have the right to ask for our explanation and we will make proper remedies.

5.6 Responding to your above-mentioned requests

For security, you might be required to submit written requests or prove your identity by other means. We might ask you to verify your identity before handling your requests.

In general, we will respond in 7 days. If you are not satisfied, you can file a complaint via online customer service or by dialing the (852) 8121 2000customer service hotline. We may reject requests that are not directly related to you, or unnecessarily repetitive or require massive technological input (such as developing new systems or modifying the existing practices fundamentally), or are detrimental to the legitimate rights and interests of others, or are very impracticable.

We will not be able to respond to your request under the following circumstances:

• Where it is related to national security or defense security;

• Where it is related to public security, public health or major public interests;

• Where it is related to criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials and enforcement of court decisions;

• Where there is sufficient evidence that the Info subject is subjectively malicious or abuses his or her rights;

• Where responding to your request will cause serious harm to your legitimate rights and interests, or those of other individuals or organizations;

• Where trade secrets are involved.

6. How Your Info is Transferred Worldwide

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a location outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or one of our service providers. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely, in accordance with this privacy notice, and will only transfer your personal information to other countries that are either:

• Recognized by the European Union as providing an adequate level of data and legal protection, for example, to the US under the EU - U.S. Privacy Shield which covers the protection of personal information transferred to the US.
  (https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=OVERVIEW)
• Or by ensuring that transfers to other Non-EU counties are protected by appropriate contractual commitments.

You have the right to request more information about the safeguards we have put in place. Please contact the DPO.

7. How We Handle Minors' Info

The products, website and services of this app are mainly targeted for adults, so minors are not our target users (the age of minors is determined according to the applicable laws and regulations of the country (or region) where you are located and the cultural practices of different countries and regions) and we will not deliberately collect the Info of minors. Meanwhile, we urge the guardians to take the initiative in participating in and paying attention to the activities, interests and hobbies of minors. If this app discovers that the Info of a minor is collected without prior consent of the guardian, such Info will be deleted.

8. What Rights do You Have

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. Specifically, you have the right to request:

8.1 Access to Your Data

You can ask us to:

• Confirm whether we are processing your personal information
• Give you a copy of that data
• Provide you with other information about your personal information, such as what data we have, what we use it for, who we disclose it to, whether we transfer it abroad and how we protect it, how long we keep it for, what rights you have, how you can make a complaint, where we got your data from and whether we have carried out automated decision making or profiling, to the extent that information has not already been provided to you in this notice.

8.2 Rectification

• You can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal information in our files. We may seek to verify the accuracy of the data before rectifying it.

8.3 Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)

You can ask us to erase your personal information, but only where:

• It is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected; or
• You have withdrawn your consent (where the data processing was based on consent); or
• It follows a successful right to object; or
• It has been processed unlawfully; or
• It is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

We are not required to comply with your request to erase your personal information if the processing of your personal information is necessary:

• For compliance with a legal obligation; or
• For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

In the context of marketing, please note that we will maintain a suppression list if you have opted out from receiving marketing content to ensure that you do not receive any further communications.

8.4 Restriction

You can ask us to restrict (i.e. keep but not use) your personal information, but only where:

• Its accuracy is contested, to allow us to verify its accuracy; or
• The processing is unlawful, but you do not want it erased; or
• It is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, but we still need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
• You have exercised the right to object, and verification of overriding grounds is pending.

We can continue to use your personal information following a request for restriction, where:

• We have your consent; or
• To establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
• To protect the rights of another natural or legal person.

8.5 Objection

You can object to any processing of your personal information which has our 'legitimate interests' as its legal basis, if you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our Legitimate Interests. Once you have objected, we have an opportunity to demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate interests which override your rights, however, this does not apply as far as the objections refers to the use of personal information for direct marketing purposes.

8.6 Data Portability

You can ask us to provide your personal information to you in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, or you can ask to have it 'ported' directly to another Data Controller, but in each case only where:

• The processing is based on your consent or the performance of a contract with you; and
• The processing is carried out by automated means.

8.7 Information about any automated processing

e.g. segmentation or profiling using your data. You can ask not to be subject to such processing.

8.8 Information about International Transfers

You can request details about international transfers of your data.

To exercise your rights, you can contact us as set out above. Please note the following if you do wish to exercise these rights:

• Objection

  We take the confidentiality of all records containing personal information seriously and reserve the right to ask you for proof of your identity if you make a request.

• Fees

  We will not ask for a fee to exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal information, unless your request for access to information is unfounded, repetitive or excessive, in which case we will charge a reasonable amount in the circumstances.

• Timescales

  We aim to respond to any valid requests within one month unless it is particularly complicated or you have made several requests, in which case we aim to respond within three months. We will let you know if we are going to take longer than one month. We might ask you if you can help by telling us what exactly you want to receive or are concerned about. This will help us to action your request more quickly.

• Exemptions

  Local laws, including in the EU member states, provide for additional exemptions, in particular to the right of access, whereby personal information can be withheld from you in certain circumstances, for example where it is subject to legal privilege.

You also have the right to complain to your supervisory authority (see 'How to Contact Us').

9. How This Privacy Policy Will Be Updated

This Privacy Policy describes and gives you clear and comprehensive information about the data that PRL collects from you, and provides an explanation of how and why we collect, use and manage that data.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679), the data controller is PRL (see Contact Details). PRL is based in Hong Kong and is responsible for data collected in relation to websites and tradeshows managed by PRL and/or its affiliates. You should be aware that although PRL may be principally responsible for looking after your personal data, information may be held in databases which can be accessed by other affiliated entities of PRL.

In order to provide you with better services, our business may change from time to time, and this Privacy Policy will also be adjusted accordingly. In order to keep it up to date and compliant with legal requirements. Please refer to the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page to see when this Policy was last revised. We may also notify you about significant changes by email, using the address you last provided or by posting an alert which will be displayed when you access our systems. This Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract that you have with us or between buyers and suppliers (or any rights you might have available under applicable data protection laws and regulations). In the foregoing case, by continuously using our services, you are deemed to have agreed to accept the revised Policy and be bound by it

The major changes referred to in this Policy include but are not limited to:

• Major changes in our service mode, such as the purpose of processing Info, the type of processed Info, and how Info is used;

• Major changes in the right of control, such as change of the Info controller due to M&A;

• Changes in the main objects of Info sharing, transfer or public disclosure;

• Major changes in your right to participate in Info processing and the way in which you exercise it;

• Changes in the department responsible for Info security or its contact information or the channels for filing complaints;

• Major changes in response to high risks as indicated in the Info security assessment report.

If you do not agree to such changes, you may choose to stop using this app's services; by continuing to use this app's services, you are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to be bound by the revised Policy. We will also archive the old version of this Policy; if you need to consult the old version, please contact us (see 'How to Contact Us').

10. How to Contact Us

The primary point of contact for all issues arising from this Policy, including requests to exercise data subject rights, is our Data Protection Officer. If you have a complaint or concern about how we use your personal information, please contact us in the first instance and we will attempt to resolve the issue as soon as possible. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted by:

• Email at dpo@globalsources.com

Alternatively, you may contact our Customer Services Department.

• Email at service@globalsources.com
• Phone (852) 8121 2000

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country (or region) or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection laws or regulations occurs.

• A list of EU Regulators may be found here:
  here:http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm
• A list of authorities participating in the Global privacy Enforcement network may be found
  here:https://www.privacyenforcement.net/about_the_network#members

If you are located in Hong Kong, you may lodge your complaint with us or to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong:
here:https://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/complaints/how_complaint/complaint/complaint.html

We will put your satisfaction first when making any changes. Finally, we encourage you to consult our Privacy Policy each time you use this app's services.