www.hmd-china.com (the “Website”) is run by HMD (Shanghai) Engineering Consultancy Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as “HMD” or “we”). Listed on this page is our policy on the collection, use and disclosure of the personal information from our website users.

We undertake to protect the privacy of the users of this website. When you accept the services provided by us, we may need to collect and use your information. It is our hope that this Privacy Policy will explain to you what information we collect during your use of our services, and how we collect, use, store and share such information, and the methods available to you to access, update, control and protect such information. This Privacy Policy relates to your legal personal rights and you are expected to fulfill your duty of care rationally by carefully reading through it. When necessary, you can make you choice under the guidance of this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy uses relevant technical terms which we try to explain to you with brief and concise descriptions. We also provide hyperlinks redirecting to further explanations of the terms to facilitate your comprehension of them. We have indicated the provisions relating to your legal personal rights using bold face letters and remind you of such provisions by rational methods.

Your commencement or continuation of using this website means you give consent to our collection, use, storage and share your information according to this Privacy Policy.

Should you have any question on this Privacy Policy or issues relating to this policy, please contact us on www.hmd-china.com. Your personal information will solely be used by us in our provision of services and improvement of the website.

Collection and Use of Information

During your use of our website, we may ask you to provide certain Personally Identifiable Information(PII) in order to facilitate our contact with you or authentication of your identity. If you fail to provide such information, you may be unable to sign up as our users, or unable to enjoy some of our services, or unable to get desired service results.

The situations in which you are required to provide PII are limited to your completion of a contact information sheet, your sign-up for the company's activities, your submission of job applications on our website, and the share of your information with other parties using our services. We will not collect PII in any circumstances other than the above-mentioned ones. The above-mentioned PII includes but is not limited to your name, e-mail address and telephone number (“personal information”).

We may collect the following information when you use our services:

Log information, i.e., the technical information automatically collected by the system by means of cookies, web beacons, and/or other methods when you use our services, including:

device or software information, for example, the configuration information of the device with which you access our service equipment, including but not limited to your IP address, version and equipment identifier of your mobile device.

Information you have searched or browsed on our website.

The account with which you can use our service to communicate and the message communicated.

Information contained in the content shared by you using our services, such as photos, videotapes, and texts.

You can disable or manage cookies or web beacons in your browser settings. However, please be advised that, if cookies or web beacons are disabled, we may not be able to provide service properly and as a result your experience may be adversely affected.

Usage of the Collected Information

The information collected by us will be used for the following purposes:

providing services to you;

conducting identity authentication and security audit to ensure the secure use of your account

improving our service quality;

analyzing information and providing supportive services such as special information push according to your individualized demand.

software certification or management software upgrading;

product and/or service surveys by us.

Information Security and Disclosure

We keep your personal information for a period required for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy and within the time limit stipulated by applicable laws and regulations.

We will fulfill our duty of care as far as possible and take security protection measures that are most effective in terms of information protection in order to prevent information loss, acquisition or abuse by a third party. Considering the unique nature of the Internet, it is impossible for us to guarantee 100% security of the information however hard we try to fulfill our duty of care, and your understanding of this will be appreciated. So please be advised that your information may, in spite of our utmost efforts to fulfill our duty of care, be lost or acquired or used by a third party for various reasons that cannot be avoided.

Moreover, we may have to disclose your information as required by judicial procedures or administrative execution procedures. Such disclosure in line with provisions of law will be made in good faith. The above-mentioned include but are not limited to disclosures required by judicial investigation and evidence collection or requested by administrative organ for law enforcement according to legal procedures.

We shall not be held liable for the disclosure of your personal information in the above-mentioned circumstances.

Access to and Control of Your Personal Information

We will take every feasible technical approaches to ensure you can properly access, update and correct your registration information or other personal information. When you try to access, update, and/or correct your personal information, we may conduct security authentication correspondingly in order to safeguard the security of your account.

Share of your personal information

Neither we nor our associated companies will share your personal information with any third party without your prior written permission unless we and our associated companies are merged, spun off, or our equity shares/assets are transferred; in such cases, your personal information may be transferred as a result. Whenever a transaction like this takes place, we will notify you afterwards.

Hyperlinks redirecting to other websites

This website contains hyperlinks that redirect visitors to other websites. Please be advised that, we are not responsible for the behaviors of such third party websites, including but not limited to their practice in privacy protection. It is advisable that you keep cautious when clicking any of such third party hyperlinks and always read through the privacy policy of every website you intend to visit. This privacy policy only applies to the information collected by us on this website.

Our website may contain cookies and/or web beacons placed by advertisers or other cooperation partners. These cookies and/or web beacons may collect user information other than your personal identity for analyzing users' utilization of services, sending intriguing ads to you, or assessing the results of advertising service. The collection and use of information by these third party cookies and web beacons are not subjected to this Privacy Policy; rather, they are subjected to the third party's privacy policy. We are not responsible for the cookies and/or web beacons of third parties.

Applicable Scope of the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all services of ours, with the exception of certain special services. The privacy policies for these special services are available when you receive such services from us. Should the provisions of such privacy policies contradict the provisions of this Privacy Policy, the special services' privacy policies shall prevail.

Please be advised that this Privacy Policy does not apply to

information collected by a third party website with third party services that are accessible via our services; and information collected by advertising agencies which deliver ads via our services.

Change of this Privacy Policy

HMD may update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will publish the latest privacy policy on the website so that you can be informed of any changes to the policy. It is advised that you review this privacy policy from time to time in order to find out any latest changes. Your continuation of using our services means you agree with our updated Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

Should you have any question about this privacy policy, please contact info@hmd-china.com.

This privacy policy was last revised on January 1, 2018.