Privacy Policy
(updated: 2020-12-14)
We respect you and protect your personal privacy based on laws and our daily morality of human being with ever improving effort and dedicated work for the purpose of our common interests and the social responsibility with ALL. The owners with all association members and personnel of IPNEXT® as an intellectual property law agency firm focusing on patent, trademark and copyright matters are the operator of this Website through which we promote our services to visitors. By visiting this Website, entering personal information into the form for contact, and/or browsing the Website you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. In addition to the Privacy Policy, your use of the Website is also governed by our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use and/or the Privacy Policy, discontinue use of this Website.
We receive and store any information you voluntarily enter on the Website or otherwise provide to us directly. The Personal Information that we may collect directly from you includes Contact Information, Geolocation Information, Preferences, and Social Media Information, etc.
Personal Information that are NOT identified is not subject to this Privacy Policy, and we and our Service Providers may treat it as non-Personal Information and use it without obligation to you except as prohibited by applicable law.
ii. Information Collected Automatically.
We receive and store certain information whenever you interact with our digital assets, including the Website, content served on our behalf on third party websites, or emails from us. Some of this information is collected by using “Automatic Data Collection Tools,” such as cookies, web beacons, and embedded web links. The information collected in this manner may include: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs and information on actions taken or interactions with our digital assets. In addition, some of our service providers may collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites using Automatic Data Collection Tools.
Please note that the anonymized information collected through Automatic Data Collection Tools cannot be associated with a specific individual and therefore is not Personal Information under this Privacy Policy. To the extent that we combine the anonymized information collected via Automatic Data Collection Tools with your Personal Information, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
The Automatic Data Collection Tools that may be used on the Website and the information collected by these tools include Log Information, Browsing Information, Web Beacons, Embedded Scripts, Location-identifying Technologies, Cookies.
Please see the Your Rights and Choices section of this Privacy Policy to learn about your ability, at any time, to opt out or limit the use of information collected via Automatic Data Collection Tools for marketing purposes.
2. Use of Information.
Collect and use your Personal Information to manage our relationship with you, improve our programs and services, and personalize your interactions with us. Examples of how we use your Personal Information and anonymized information collected via Automatic Data Collection Tools include:
Improving Member and Non-Member Experience: managing the Website and services we provide you, including your email subscriptions; corresponding with you, including, to respond to your requests, comments, and questions, or to provide member and nonmember services to you; publishing business directories (which may include business contact information); and facilitating the functionality of our Website and any other digital assets;
A. Administrative Communications: sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, information regarding changes to our policies, and support and administrative messages; B. Security: preventing and addressing fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm, and enforcing our Terms of Use and other legal rights; C. Research and Innovation: evaluating and improving the activities of our organization, including developing new initiatives, programs, and services; managing our communications; analyzing the effectiveness of and optimizing our outreach campaigns; analyzing our initiatives, programs, services, Websites, and any other digital assets. This may include the use of third-party web analytics services on our Website, such as those of Google Analytics. The analytics providers that administer these services use Automatic Data Collection Tools to help us analyze how visitors use our Websites, which allows us to better serve you; D. Compliance with Law: complying with applicable laws and regulations or requests by any judicial process or governmental agency having or claiming jurisdiction over …; E. Operation of our Organization: conducting ordinary business operations, and complying with industry standards and our policies; F. Direct Marketing: sending you outreach materials we think you may be interested in, including by email where you have consented to receive emails from us and delivered on our behalf over third-party websites. This may involve the use of Automatic Data Collection Tools, and we may share some of your information with marketing service providers and digital marketing networks in order to present content to you on our behalf other third party websites (for information about how to manage these communications and marketing efforts, please see Your Rights and Choices below); In general, we will use your information for any purpose allowed under applicable laws or in support of the above purposes. We will also use Personal Information to fulfill any other purpose disclosed at the time you provide Personal Information.3. Sharing of Information.
We do not sell or otherwise disclose Personal Information we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Policy or as we disclose to you at the time the Personal Information is collected. 。。。 We may share your Personal Information with your consent or at your direction, for purposes disclosed at the time it was provided, or as follows:
A. With our Service Providers: Our service providers may receive, or be given access to your Personal Information in connection with their work on our behalf. These service providers are prohibited from using your Personal Information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance, although we may permit them to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for other purposes. B. Compliance with Law or Protection of Life or Property: We may share your Personal Information to comply with the law or other legal processes, and where required, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also share your Personal Information to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of ..., the Website or any third party; C. Corporate Transactions: We may share your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale, or any other type of acquisition or business combination of all or any portion of our assets, or in connection with a transfer of all or a portion of our organization to another; We may share aggregated information which does not identify you, anonymized information collected via Automatic Data Collection Tools, or de-identified information about you with our affiliates, organizational partners, or other third parties for any purpose, including direct marketing purposes (review Your Rights and Choices below for more information about limiting such uses). Aggregate statistics about traffic patterns may be used for internal review or shared with our service providers for analysis, among other things.
4. Your Rights and Choices.
a. Accessing Your Information.
You may access, update, or remove certain Personal Information that you have voluntarily submitted to us through the Website by sending us an email here. We may require additional information from you to allow us to confirm your identity. Please note that we will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
b. Cookies Generally.
Regular cookies generally may be disabled or may be removed by tools available as part of most commercial browsers, and in some instances blocked in the future by selecting certain settings. Browsers offer different functionalities and options; so you may need to set them separately.
Please be aware that some parts of the Website may not work if you disable or remove cookies and that when you revisit the Website, your ability to limit browser-based cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals or other mechanisms.
c. Automatic Data Collection Tools for Analytics and Direct Marketing.
You may exercise choices regarding the use of Automatic Data Collection Tools from Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpag... or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
You may exercise choices regarding receipt of interest-based advertising by submitting opt outs. Some of the advertisers and service providers that perform marketing-related services for us may participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. To learn more about DAA how you can exercise certain choices regarding Interest-based Advertising, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices. Some of these companies may also be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). To learn more about the NAI and your opt out options for their members, see http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Please be aware that, even if you are able to opt out of certain kinds of Interest-based Advertising, you may continue to receive other types of ads. Opting out only means that those selected members should no longer deliver certain internet-based advertising to you, and it does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads (e.g., from other ad networks). … is not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third parties’ opt out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs.
d. Communications.
You can opt out of receiving certain promotional emails from us at any time by following the instructions as provided in emails to click on the unsubscribe link, or contacting us here with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field of the email.
e. Access to and Modification of Personal Information.
In some jurisdictions, you may have the right to access or modify your Personal Information, including the right to: obtain confirmation that we hold Personal Information about you, request access to and receive information about the Personal Information we maintain about you, receive copies of the Personal Information we maintain about you, update and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information, object to the processing of your Personal Information, and have the information blocked, anonymized or deleted, as appropriate. These rights are only available if you reside in, or access the Website from, certain jurisdictions and may be limited in some circumstances by the local laws and regulations in those jurisdictions or others.
To exercise these rights, please email us here or send us a letter to: mail@ipnext.cn. Requests must include “Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state/province, postal code and country. This information will be used to communicate with you regarding your request and verify the applicable jurisdiction. Please note that in some jurisdictions where the above rights apply is not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the email address or mail address provided above.
5. Data Security.
We take reasonable measures to help protect Personal Information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Service.
6.International Transfer.
IPNEXT® is based in the China, the Website is hosted in the China, and the servers and other equipment and facilities that support this Website are located in the China If you are accessing the Website from outside of the China, please be aware that information collected through the Website may be transferred to, processed, stored and used in the China. Data protection laws in the China may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Website or provision of any information to us therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing and storage of your information, including Personal Information, in the China as set forth in this Privacy Policy.7. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting of the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website and our other services indicates your consent to the Privacy Policy then posted. We will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date that it was most recently updated. If the changes are significant, we may elect to post a prominent notice on the Website to notify you of the updated Privacy Policy or, in certain circumstances, we may seek your consent all, or specific provisions of, the updated Privacy Policy, including via email.
8. Contact Us.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please email or send your mail to us: mail@ipnext.cn