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AptosNews ("We" or "Aptos®") takes the privacy of its users and the protection of personal information very seriously. When you use the Aptos services operated by us, we may collect and use information about you. We want this Aptos Privacy Policy ("this Privacy Policy") to explain to you how we collect, use, store, and share this information when you receive our services, and the ways in which we provide you with access to, update, control, and protection of this information.
We realize how important your personal information is to you and we do our best to keep it safe and secure. We are committed to maintaining your trust in us. At the same time, we are committed to taking appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in accordance with the industry's proven security standards.
Please read and understand this Privacy Policy carefully before using our services. If you do not agree with the content of this Privacy Policy, it will result in our inability to provide you with complete service and also please stop using our products and services immediately. By using or continuing to use the products or services provided by us, you consent to our collection, use, storage and sharing, disclosure, and protection of your personal information in accordance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy will help you understand the following:
I. Scope of Application of this Privacy Policy
II. How we collect, use and store your personal information
III. How we use cookies and similar technologies
IV. How we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information
V. How we protect your personal information
VI. Your rights
VII. Protection of minors' personal information
VIII. Notifications and amendments
IX. How to contact us
I. Scope of Application of this Privacy Policy
(a) This Privacy Policy applies to the products and services we provide to you through our website, clients, applets, development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for use on third-party websites and apps, and in new forms as technology evolves. This Privacy Policy also applies to our and our Affiliates' products or services that utilize Aptos products or services (e.g., logging in with an Aptos account, etc.) that do not have a separate privacy policy. If we and our affiliates have a separate privacy policy for the products or services they provide to you, that privacy policy applies to that product or service, regardless of whether you are a browsing user (visitor) or a registered user.
(ii) Please note that this policy does not apply to the following:
1. Information collected by third-party services (including any third-party websites) accessed through our services;
2. Information collected through other companies and organizations that perform advertising services on our Services;
3. When you and the contributors/creators on Aptos enter into a cooperative agreement, or when the contributors/creators provide any services or deliver any service results, the relevant information that you voluntarily provide, share, or disclose to the contributors/creators on Aptos based on the purpose of the transaction has nothing to do with us. We hereby kindly remind you that you should exercise reasonable caution when providing information to contributors/creators and be careful in providing your personal information.
II. How we collect, use and store your personal information
Personal Informationmeans information recorded electronically or otherwise that, alone or in combination with other information, identifies a specific natural person or reflects the activities of a specific natural person.
Sensitive personal informationThis refers to personal information that, if disclosed, illegally provided or misused, may jeopardize the safety of persons and property, and is highly likely to lead to damage to a person's reputation, physical or mental health, or discriminatory treatment.
Personal information covered by this privacy policy includes: basic personal information (including personal name, gender, address, personal telephone number, e-mail address);Personal identification information (including ID card information and business license information).;Personal biometric information (facial features); network identification information (personal information subject account number, e-mail address, and passwords related to the foregoing, personal digital certificates, etc.);Personal property information (including bank account number, Alipay account number, transaction and consumption records, top-up amount and account balance)); address book; personal Internet access records (including web browsing records, software usage records, and clicking records).Where the bolded portion is the sensitive personal information involvedThe
(i) We will only collect your personal information for the following purposes:
1、Help you become our users
If you use our services, you need to register for an Aptos account. When you register, you can complete the registration through your own cell phone number, e-mail address, we will send SMS verification code or email to verify your identity is valid. And you can improve the relevant network identification information (avatar, nickname, password), we collect this information in order to help you complete the registration and help to provide you with personalized work recommendations and better service experience. If you refuse to provide such information, you will not be able to register for an Aptos account and you will only be able to use the browsing and searching services.
You may use a third-party platform account (WeChat/Weibo/QQ) to log in. If you use a third-party platform account to log in, we may obtain information about that third-party account based on your authorization (subject to the content of your authorization). We collect the above information to provide you with account login services and to protect your account security. If you refuse to authorize such information, you may not be able to use some of our products and/or services normally, but it will not affect your normal use of the basic functions of our products and/or services.
You can provide us with the corresponding identity information (ID card, business license, household registration and other identity document information), biometric features (static or dynamic facial features) to complete the real-name authentication according to the authentication requirements. Static facial features (handheld ID photos, ID card portrait face) are only used for our violation investigation, in accordance with the law to cooperate with the judicial authorities to obtain evidence, or other scenarios that are explicitly authorized by you to use.
2、Provide you with goods or services information display
In order to show you information about the goods or services you are interested in, or to show you the goods or services you may wish to find when you search for them, we may collect your order information, browsing information, and analyze data to form a user profile. We may also obtain other information about you that is reasonably necessary to provide our services and to improve the quality of our services, including information you provide when you contact our customer service, information you send us in response to a questionnaire when you participate in a survey, and information we obtain when you interact with our affiliates and partners. We may correlate information collected from your various devices so that we can provide you with consistent service across those devices. We may combine information from one service with information from other services in order to provide you with services, personalized content and recommendations. If you do not wish to be influenced by personalized content, you may choose to browse and find goods and services by category on the product display page. We may also provide you with non-personalized options in our search results, such as sorting by price, sales volume, etc.; we will not provide personal information about you to third parties without your express consent.
3、Provide you with search, collection, add purchase function
As you browse Aptos or the Client, you may choose to favorite and comment on works and/or services of interest. In the course of your use of the above features, we collect service log information including records of your favorites and add carts for the purpose of implementing the above features and other purposes we expressly advise. You can delete your favorite and add shopping cart information in your favorite and add shopping cart.
4、Help you complete the order and order management
When you purchase a specific work and/or service through Aptos, we will generate an order for you to purchase that work and/or service through our system. During the ordering process at Aptos, you will be required to provide, at a minimum, your account nickname, the specific work, and your contact information, and the order will contain the name of the work you are purchasing, the work number, the order number, the time of purchase, the type of authorization, and the amount of money you are paying. We collect this information in order to help you with your purchases. We collect this information in order to assist you in completing your transaction, to protect your transaction security, to allow you to check your order information, to provide customer service and after-sales service, and for other purposes that we expressly advise you of.
In order to order works and/or services for others through Aptos, you will need to provide the foregoing personal information of such actual user and ensure that the consent of the actual user has been obtained.
In order to make it easier for you to understand and manage your order information, we will collect order information generated in the course of your use of our services for the purpose of displaying it to you and making it easier for you to manage your orders.
You can view and manage your order information through the "Buyer Center".
5、Help you complete the payment
After you place an order, you can choose Aptos recharge balance to pay, if the recharge balance is insufficient, you can recharge through Alipay, WeChat, bank transfer and sales revenue. The payment function itself does not collect your personal information, but in order to enable us to learn and confirm the progress and status of your payment in a timely manner, and to provide you with after-sales and dispute resolution services, you agree that we may collect information related to the progress of the payment according to the transaction object that you have selected.
6、Provide you with customer service and dispute handling
When you contact us or mention the sale, after-sales, dispute handling, complaints or provide suggestions, in order to provide you with better service and protect your account security, our customer service (including telephone customer service, online customer service) and after-sales function will use your account information and order information to verify your identity.
In order to facilitate contact with you, help you solve the problem as soon as possible or record the handling of related issues and results, we may save your communication with us, communication/call records and related content (including account information, order information, other information you provide to prove the relevant facts, or contact information you left), if you refuse to provide may lead to your inability to use our customer service and other user response mechanisms. .
7、Provide you with information disclosure and comment function
You can publicly post information through the commenting or other information posting functions we provide to you, including graphics, posting ratings and comments, and uploading, posting, and selling information about your work as a contributor/creator.
Please be aware that the information you post publicly may contain personal information or even sensitive personal information about you or others, such as when you choose to upload an image containing personal information when making a review. Please consider more carefully whether to share or even publicly share such information when using our services. If you publicly post information that involves the personal information of others, you will need to obtain the consent of others before posting.
8、Provide you with security
We always strive to provide security for our users' information to prevent loss, leakage, and unauthorized access. We use a variety of security measures to keep your information safe. For example, we use encryption technology (SSL), de-identification processing and other means to protect your personal information. We continually upgrade our technology to strengthen our security capabilities to prevent the disclosure of your personal information. For example: we may determine the risk of your account by understanding your browsing information, order information, account login status and other means, and may record some links that we believe are risky, we will also collect access to the traffic and rank the possible risks.
9. If we cease to operate Aptos products or services, we will promptly cease activities that collect your personal information, notify you of the cessation of operations by way of individual delivery or announcement, and delete or anonymize personal information held by us in connection with the shuttered business.
10、You should be fully aware that we do not need your authorized consent to collect and use personal information in the following cases:
(1) Directly related to national security and national defense security;
(2) Related to public safety, public health, and significant public interest;
(3) In connection with the investigation, prosecution, trial and enforcement of sentences for crimes;
(4) When it is difficult to obtain the consent of the subject of the personal information or other individuals for the purpose of safeguarding their important legitimate rights and interests, such as the life or property of the subject of the personal information or other individuals;
(5) The personal information involved is disclosed to the public by the subject of the personal information or the guardian himself/herself;
(6) Your personal information collected from lawful public disclosure of information, such as lawful news reports, government information disclosure and other channels;
(7) Necessary to enter into and perform a contract at your request;
(8) Necessary for maintaining the safe and stable operation of the products and/or services provided, such as detecting and dealing with malfunctions of the products and/or services;
(9) Necessary for legitimate journalism;
(10) When an academic research organization carries out statistical or academic research necessary for the public interest and provides the results of academic research or description to the public, it de-identifies the personal information contained in the results;
(11) Other cases stipulated by laws and regulations.
(ii) How we use your personal information
1、Our rules for using your personal information
(1) We may use the personal information we collect to fulfill the functions of our products and/or services as agreed in this Privacy Policy;
(2) We will obtain your prior consent if we use the information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy or if we use the information collected for a specific purpose for other purposes.Please understand that the products and/or services we provide to you are subject to change. If you choose to use other products and/or services that are not listed in this Privacy Policy, we will explain the purpose, manner and scope of the collection of your personal information and ask for your consent before collecting your personal information by way of an agreement, a page reminder, etc. If you do not agree to provide the aforementioned information, you may not be able to use the product and/or service, but it will not affect your ability to use the existing product and/or service. If you do not agree to provide the aforementioned information, you may not be able to use the product and/or service, but it will not affect your use of existing products and/or services..;
(3) After collecting your personal information, we will de-identify the information by technical means, and the de-identified information will not be able to identify the subject.Please understand and agree that we have the right to use de-identified information in this context.;Without disclosing your personal information, we have the right to analyze and commercially exploit the user database..;
(4) We may compile statistics on the use of our products and/or services and may share these statistics with the public or third parties to show trends in the overall use of our products and/or services. However, these statistics do not contain any identifying information about you.
2. We may use the information collected in the course of providing services to you for the following purposes:
(1) When you log on to Aptos, we use the network identification information you provide to identify and confirm your identity;
(2) For data analysis in order to provide you with a better service;
(3) for authentication, customer service, security, fraud monitoring, archiving and backup purposes in connection with the provision of our services, to ensure the security of the products and services we provide to you, to help us design new services, and to improve our existing services;
(4) to enable us to better understand how you access and use our Services in order to tailor our response to your individual needs or otherwise respond to you and other users of our Services; to allow you to participate in surveys initiated about or through our products and services, which participation in surveys will be at your sole discretion, and to make choices about what information you provide;
(5) For purposes of security, lawful investigation, etc;
(6) Dispute mediation and handling at Aptos;
(7) We may use your information for data aggregation, analysis, mining (including commercial exploitation).However, this information is anonymized and does not identify you..;
(8) In order to provide our users with a better experience, improve our services, or for other purposes that you have agreed to, and subject to relevant laws and regulations, we may use the information collected through one of our services in a way that aggregates information or personalizes it for our other services. For example, your information collected when you use one of our services may be used in another service to provide you with specific content or to show you information that is relevant to you and not generally pushed;
Please note that unless you delete or withdraw your consent (i.e., refuse our collection and use through system settings), the information you provide while using our services will continue to authorize us to use it to the extent consistent with this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our services. After you cancel your account, we will delete your information or anonymize it at your request, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations;
(9) Other purposes in accordance with laws and regulations or with your consent or authorization.
(iii) How we store your information
1、Storage place: We store your personal information in the People's Republic of China in accordance with laws and regulations. If cross-border storage is required, we will separately obtain your authorization consent.
2、Storage period: We will take reasonably practicable measures to avoid collecting and processing irrelevant personal information as much as possible. Except as otherwise agreed by law or relevant regulations, we will retain your information for the period necessary for the purpose of providing our services, except if you request us to delete or cancel your account immediately, or as otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations. We are not required to obtain your authorized consent or notification for the storage period and processing of anonymized information.
III. How we use cookiessand similar technologies
(i) Use of Cookies
1. To personalize your online experience and make it easier for you to access. We may send one or more small data files called cookies to your computer or mobile device. The cookies assigned to you are unique and can only be read by the web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We send you cookies to simplify repeated logins, to store your preferences to help you optimize your selection of and interaction with advertisements, to help determine your login status, and for account or data security.
2. We will not use Cookies for any purpose other than those described in this Privacy Policy. You can manage or delete cookies according to your own preferences, you can clear all cookies stored on your computer, most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies according to your own needs, or you can clear all cookies stored in the software, but if you do so, you may need to personally change your user settings each time you visit Aptos, and all the corresponding information you have previously recorded will be deleted, as well as the information you have previously recorded. However, if you do so, you may need to change your user settings each time you visit Aptos, and any information you have previously recorded will be deleted, which may have an impact on the security of the services you use.
(ii)Web beacons and pixel tags
In addition to cookies, we use other similar technologies such as web beacons and pixel tags on our website. For example, the emails we send you may contain a click-through URL that links to content on our site, and if you click on that link, we track the click to help us understand your product or service preferences and improve customer service.
Four,How we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your information
(i) Sharing
1、We will not share your personal information with any companies, organizations and individuals outside of Aptos, except in the following cases:
(1) Obtain your prior express consent or authorization;
(2) Provision is made when necessary in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, legal procedures, and mandatory administrative or judicial requirements;
(3) To the extent permitted by law or regulation, necessary to protect against harm to the interests, property or safety of Aptos, Aptos' affiliates or partners, you or other Aptos users or the public;
(4) The core functionality of our products and/or services or the provision of the services you require can only be achieved by sharing your information;
(5) Handling disputes or controversies between you and others for you at your request;
(6) Provided in accordance with the relevant agreements signed with you (including the electronic agreement signed online and the corresponding platform rules) or other legal documents;
(7) Used on the basis of academic research;
(8) Used in the public interest in accordance with laws and regulations.
2. You agree that we may share your necessary information with our affiliates to provide and develop our products and services. However, we will only share information that is necessary and subject to the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Our affiliates will again seek your authorized consent to change the purpose for which the information is processed.
We and our affiliates will not share your personal information with any third party without your consent, except in the following circumstances: we and our affiliates may share your personal information with our affiliates, partners, and third party service providers, contractors, and agents (such as communication service providers that send emails or push notifications on our behalf, and location data providers that provide us with mapping service providers who provide us with location data) for the following purposes:
(1) To provide you with our services;
(2) To fulfill the purposes described in the section "How we use your personal information";
(3) To fulfill our obligations and exercise our rights under the Aptos Service Agreement or this Privacy Policy;
(4) Understand, maintain and improve our services.
If we share your information with any of the above third parties, we will only share your personal information for the lawful, legitimate, necessary, specific, and express purposes as stated in this Privacy Policy, we will endeavor to ensure that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures we require them to comply with in their use of your information, and we will investigate their data security capabilities and environments, and with their We will investigate their data security capabilities and environment, enter into strict confidentiality agreements with them, and will only share information that is necessary for them to fulfill their responsibilities, and we will require them by agreement not to use this information for any other purpose.
As we continue to grow our business, we may enter into mergers, acquisitions, asset transfers, or engage in similar transactions, and your information may be transferred as part of such transactions, and we will require the new holder to continue to comply with this policy or we will require it to re-obtain your authorization.
(ii) Transfers
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization, or individual, except in the following cases:
1、Transfer with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will transfer your information to other parties;
2、Involved in mergers, acquisitions or bankruptcy and liquidation, if it involves the transfer of information, we will require the new company or organization holding your information to continue to be bound by this privacy policy, or we will require the company or organization to seek authorization from you again for consent.
(iii) Public disclosure
We will only publicly disclose your personal information under the following circumstances and with industry-standard security measures in place:
1、Disclosure of information specified by you in accordance with your needs and in the manner of disclosure to which you have expressly consented;
2. If we are required to provide information about you by law, regulation, mandatory administrative enforcement or judicial request, we may publicly disclose your information based on the type of information requested and the manner in which it is disclosed. Subject to laws and regulations, when we receive a request to disclose information as described above, we may require that legal documents, such as a subpoena or letter of inquiry, be produced. We strongly believe in being as transparent as possible about the information we are asked to provide, to the extent permitted by law. We carefully scrutinize all requests to ensure that they have a legal basis and are limited to data that law enforcement authorities have a legal right to obtain for the purposes of a specific investigation. Where permitted by law or regulation, the documents we disclose are protected by encryption keys;
3, if we determine that you have violated the laws and regulations or serious violations of the relevant agreements and rules of Aptos, or in order to protect the personal and property safety of Aptos users or the public from being infringed upon, we may be in accordance with the laws and regulations or with your consent to disclose your personal information, including the relevant violation of the law and the measures Aptos has taken against you;
4、Disclosure based on the application of other platform users or any third party and the provision of prima facie evidence: When you and other users of Aptos have a legal dispute, or any third party believes that your behavior violates their legitimate rights and interests, and intends to file a legal action, we may disclose your personal information to the applicant after the applicant has provided the basic evidence, and at the same time, we will keep a record of the disclosure by the applicant, so as to prepare for your At the same time, we will keep a record of the disclosure by the applicant for you to check the disclosure of your personal information at any time.
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We take the security of personal information very seriously and take all reasonably practicable steps to protect your personal information.
(i) Technical measures for data security
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure of information. For example, in some of our services, we will utilize encryption technology (e.g., SSL) to protect the information you provide to us. Please understand, however, that due to technological limitations and risk prevention, we cannot always guarantee that information is 100% secure, even when we have maximized our security measures. You should be aware that the systems and communication networks you use to access our services may be subject to problems due to circumstances beyond our control.
We have set up a dedicated team responsible for the research and development and application of a variety of security technologies and procedures, etc., we will carry out security assessment of the person in charge of security management and personnel in key security positions, we have established a comprehensive information security management system and internal security incident disposal mechanism, etc., and we will adopt appropriate security measures and technical means in line with the industry standards for storing and protecting your information in order to prevent it from being lost, received unauthorized access, use, destruction or leakage.
We will train and assess our employees' awareness of data security and security capabilities, we will authenticate the identity of employees who handle personal information and control their authority, and we will sign confidentiality agreements with employees and partners who have access to your information to clarify the job responsibilities and code of conduct, and if there is any violation of the confidentiality agreement, we will immediately terminate the labor or cooperative relationship with us, and we will be pursued for related legal responsibilities, and we will impose confidentiality requirements on the We also put forward confidentiality requirements for personnel who have access to personal information when they leave their posts.
(ii) Personal information security response mechanisms
In the unfortunate event of an information security incident, according to our security management system, the event of information leakage, destruction or loss is categorized as a major security incident, and once it occurs, the company's emergency plan will be activated, which will be handled by a joint emergency response team composed of a number of departments, including the Technology Department, the Information Security Department, and the Legal Department. In accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations, we will promptly inform you of: the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the measures we have taken or will take to deal with it, the suggestions you can independently prevent and reduce the risk, and the remedial measures for you, etc. We will report the incident to you in a timely manner. We will promptly inform you of the situation related to the incident by email, letter, phone call, push notification, etc. When it is difficult to inform the subject of the information one by one, we will take a reasonable and effective way to make a public announcement.
We will also proactively report on the handling of information security incidents as required by our regulators.
(iii) Your own awareness of security protection
We also ask you to understand that in the Internet industry, due to the limitations and rapid development of technology and the possible existence of a variety of malicious means of attack, even if our organization does its best to strengthen the security measures, it is not always possible to ensure that the information is 100% secure. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you take active measures to protect the security of your information, including but not limited to the use of complex passwords, regular password changes, and not to disclose their account passwords and other information to others.
VI. Your rights
(i) Access rights
In principle, you can access your personal information in the following ways:
1、Account Information: You can log in to your account at any time, access or edit the profile information in your account, change your password, add security information, account association or identity authentication.
2, the use of information: you can check the order information, etc. in our website, client and other services, you can also contact us to delete this information through the way provided at the end of this privacy policy, we will provide after verifying your identity, but laws and regulations agreed otherwise, except.
3, other information: If you encounter operational problems in the process of this visit or if you need to obtain other aforementioned information content can not be known, you can contact us through the end of this privacy policy provided by the way, we will be in the verification of your identity to provide, but laws and regulations otherwise agreed upon, except.
(ii) Right to delete
You can request the deletion of your information from us by using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy, e.g. if you no longer want us to provide you with our services, unless the data has been anonymized or unless otherwise required by law or regulation.
(iii) Claims
If you need a copy of your data, you may contact us through the means provided at the end of this Privacy Policy and, after verifying your identity, we will provide you with a copy of the information (e.g., basic information, identification information) that you have on our Services, except as otherwise provided by law or regulation.
(iv) Right to withdraw consent
If you want to change the authorization scope of the relevant function, you can do so in the relevant function setting interface in our products or services. If you encounter any operational problems in this process, you can contact us through the methods provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
When you cancel the authorization to collect the relevant information, we will no longer collect such information, and can no longer provide you with the services corresponding to the above; however, you know and agree that, unless you exercise the aforementioned "right to delete", your actions will not affect the processing and storage of the information that we have based on your previous authorization.
(v)cancellation rights
You can cancel your account by contacting our customer service or through other means we publicize (but laws and regulations provide otherwise), once you cancel your account, you will not be able to use our full line of user products and services, so please be careful. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of you or others, we will determine whether to support your request for cancellation in conjunction with your use of the various products or services provided by us. Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, all information in your account will be cleared after you cancel your account and your information will be deleted at your request. When you are authorized to log in to our services through a third-party account (e.g., WeChat, etc.), you need to apply to the third party for account cancellation.
(vi) Exceptions
In the following cases, as required by law or regulation, we will not be able to respond to your request:
(1) Related to the fulfillment of the obligations of the controller of personal information under laws and regulations;
(2) Those related to national security and national defense security;
(3) Related to public safety, public health, and significant public interest;
(4) In connection with criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials and enforcement of sentences;
(5) If there is sufficient evidence of subjective malice or abuse of your rights;
(6) When it is difficult to obtain the consent of the subject of the personal information or other individuals for the purpose of safeguarding their vital legitimate rights and interests, such as life and property;
(7) Responding to your request will lead to serious damage to the legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals or organizations;
(8) Involving trade secrets.
VII. Protection of minors' personal information
1. We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information, and we presume that you are a person with full capacity for civil behavior when you use our products or services. If you are a minor under the age of 18, you should obtain the prior consent of your guardian before using our products and/or services. We protect the personal information of minors in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations.
2. We do not actively collect personal information from minors directly. In the case of collecting personal information from minors with the consent of their guardians, we will only use, share, transfer or disclose this information as permitted by law, with the consent of the guardian, or as necessary for the protection of the minor.
3、If there are facts proving that minors have registered to use our products and/or services without obtaining the consent of their guardians, we will consult with the relevant guardians and try to delete the relevant personal information as soon as possible.
VIII. Notifications and amendments
1. In order to provide you with better service and as our business develops, this Privacy Policy will be updated. However, we will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your express consent. We may update this Privacy Policy by posting it on the Aptos website (aptosnews.com) to issue updated versions and to alert you to such updates by means of a website announcement or other appropriate means before they become effective, and to visit Aptos to keep up to date with the latest Privacy Policy.
2. For major changes, we will also provide a more prominent notice (we will explain the specific changes to the privacy policy through, but not limited to, emails, text messages, or special reminders on the browsing page, etc.).
Material changes within the meaning of this Privacy Policy include, but are not limited to:
(1) Significant changes in our service model. For example, the purpose for which information is processed, the type of information processed, and how the information is used;
(2) We experience significant changes in our ownership structure, organizational structure, etc. For example, changes in ownership due to business restructuring, bankruptcy and mergers and acquisitions;
(3) Changes in the primary recipients of information sharing, transfer or public disclosure;
(4) Significant changes in your rights to participate in the processing of information and the manner in which you exercise them;
(5) In the event of a change in the department responsible for handling information security, our contact information and complaint channels;
(6) When the information security impact assessment report indicates a high risk.
IX. How to contact us
1、If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this Privacy Policy or matters related to your information, please contact us in the following ways
Email address of the person in charge of personal information protection:admin@aptoschina.com
2. In general, we will reply within 15 working days. If you are not satisfied with our reply, especially if our information processing behavior harms your legitimate rights and interests, you can also file a complaint or report to the regulatory authorities such as Netcom, telecommunications, public security and industry and commerce.
This version of the Privacy Policy is effective as of June 28, 2023