PRIVACY POLICY

Lynk & Co Automobile International Sales Co., LTD, [No 28, Xingbin Road, Zhongyi Ningbo Ecological Park, Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province, China] (hereinafter referred to as “Lynk & Co” or “We”) respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website and we collect your data to guarantee that you can use the services we provide normally and improve the service quality. We do this by making appropriate use of the data.

Please read the Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as “the Policy”) carefully, and understand how we collect and use your data in detail, so as to know our service better and make appropriate choices.

Your personal data will not be disclosed to anyone other than Lynk & Co, its affiliated or associated companies, agencies and licensees of any of these companies, and any other companies with which Lynk & Co has directly or indirectly arranged services for your benefit. It will be treated in compliance with applicable laws and regulations relating to data protection now or hereafter in effect. It will be used only in the connection with the marketing of Lynk & Co products and services and related products and services.

You have the right to find out what data we hold about you and make corrections if necessary; you also have the right to ask us not to use the data. We will make all practical efforts to respect your request. However, certain legislation, especially related to safety issues or financial regulation (e.g. when dealing with Lynk & Co Financial Services) might prevent this.

1. What personal data might be collected by us and why do we collect this data?

2. How will we store your personal data?

3. Where will your personal data be stored?

4. Our commitment to Children's Privacy.

5. Whether we share your personal data with others?

6.What about Internet Security?

7. How do you access and correct your personal data?

8. Cookies Policy.

9. What else rights do you have?

10. How to contact us?

11. Updates of the privacy policy

1. What personal data might be collected by us and why do we collect this data?

We intend to give you as much control as possible over your personal data. In general, you can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any data about yourself. There are times, however, when we may need data from you, such as your name and location. It is our intent to let you know before we collect data from you on the Internet. We will collect your personal data on the premise of obtaining your consent.

We will collect anonymous data about how you use the website. This is a common standard procedure for any website on the Internet. The data collected does not personally identify you but may be helpful to us for marketing purposes or improving the service we offer.

To improve the service we offer, we need to collect your IP address and create the unique identifier code for you and make a record to make analytic statistics. Meanwhile, we will also collect anonymous data about the referring website (for example Google search) or the referring banner that leads you to the www.lynkco.com websites.

To improve the function and service of our website, we might collect data during your visit or record the options that you have chosen to take. We will make analytic statistics about the above-mentioned data, but we will not use this data to identify you nor make analysis of you.

When you send your opinions and suggestions to us via our email address we need to collect your name, gender, phone number, email address, location information (country/region, area), and your opinions and suggestions, for the convenience to get in touch with you, follow up your opinions and suggestions, and give you feedback about the related improvement measures and solutions. 

If you apply for test drive, we will collect your Name, Phone Number, Gender, Location, Email Address.for the convenience to contact you and provide you the test drive service. 

When you search for the local dealer, we will collect your geographical location information, to show you the suitable dealer information.

If you choose to give us the personal data that we may need via the Internet, it is our intent to let you know how we will use such data. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this data used as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your request.

The website can collect data about you in two ways: either directly requesting it from you or by automatically recording data about your visit to this website. 

2. How will we store this data?

Data is stored in a secure environment protected by a combination of physical and technical measures. There is no general public access to this data.

Lynk & Co will store this data in a secure and protected environment for we believe it will help us to better understand how we can serve you, and respect your request. We will store your personal data within a reasonable time necessary for us to provide the service. In addition, legislation might oblige us to store this data for a certain period of time. To understand how you can amend, or update data stored about you, please refer to the appropriate question in this section.

3. Where will your personal data be stored?

Lynk & Co operates in many countries across the world. To enable us to offer consistent service to you, wherever you may be, we manage our Internet sites from one central site. 

Please note that, currently your personal data will be stored in the UAE. If we need to transfer your personal data to a third country, we will notify you separately and transfer after obtaining your consent.

We hope that you can understand that the headquarter of Lynk & Co is located in China, in order to provide better service and collect your questions and suggestions, we will receive and deal with your data subject rights request and the contents of your email within China, and the contents of your email may include your name, contact information, email address, the contents of your rights request and your questions and suggestions, and the other data which you may provide to us via the email upon our request. The above-mentioned personal data will be accessed by the Chinese employees of Lynk & Co to give feedback to you and respond to your rights request. Meantime, when Chinese employees of Lynk & Co respond to your data subject rights request, we may access to your personal data contained in your rights request. We will take adequate security measures and authorization management, so as to safeguard the security of your personal data. 

At the same time, in order to provide you the test drive service, the staff of Lynk & Co in China will get access to your personal data and share your personal data with the local dealer so that the dealer can contact you and provide you the above-mentioned service.

4. Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is important. For that reason, we never on our own initiative collect or maintain data from those we actually know are under 14. If we find that the data we collect include children’s personal data, we will delete such data promptly. 

5. Whether we share your personal data with others? 

You should know that, we need to share your personal data(including your Name, Phone Number, Gender, Location, Email Address) you provided while applying for test drive with our local dealer, who will contact you and arrange your test drive.

Except the above said situation, we will not share your personal data to any third party. If we need to provide your personal data to others, we will notify you separately.

6. What about Internet Security?

The Internet is not a secure system and you should always be cautious about the data you disclose whilst on-line. Personal data collected by our website is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public. In some cases, the personal data is encrypted by appropriate secure technology before we process your personal data.

7. How do you access and correct your personal data?

If you wish to access your personal data that you have provided to us, you can contact us via the contact information of the Policy, and we will deal with your request actively.

If you realize that the personal data you provided to us is incorrect, you can contact with us via the contact information listed in the Policy, and request a correction of your personal data. We will make correction after receiving your request as soon as possible. 

8. Cookies Policy

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly - most major websites use cookies. Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come; the "lifetime" of the cookie; and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

- To help us recognize you as a unique visitor (using a number, you cannot be identified personally) when you return to our website.

- To avoid displaying you the agreement or popups which you have already accepted by repetition.

- To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.

Disabling and Enabling Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. Should you wish to be alerted before a cookie is accepted on your hard disk, guideline instructions follow below:

In Internet Explorer 7.0+:

- Go to the 'Tools' menu

- Click on 'Internet Options'

- Click the 'Privacy' tab

- Move the slider to choose your preferred settings

- Select security level 'High' if you don’t want to receive cookies anymore

- Click on 'OK'

- Click the “General” tab

- Click “Delete” button on “Browsing History” section

- Click “Delete Cookies” button on “Delete Browsing History” popup

- This will delete all cookies

Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser will no longer send or receive new cookies based on security level that you have selected.

In Internet Explorer 6.0+:

- Go to the 'Tools' menu

- Click on 'Internet Options' - Click the 'Privacy' tab

- Move the slider to choose your preferred settings

- Select security level 'High' if you don’t want to receive cookies anymore

- Click on 'OK'

- Go into your cookies directory

- Delete all the files you have there, this will delete all cookies

Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser will no longer send or receive new cookies based on security level that you have selected.

In Mozilla Firefox 3.0+:

- Go to the ‘Tools” menu

- Click on ‘Options’

- Click on the ‘Privacy’ button

- Uncheck ‘Accept cookies from sites’ option if you don’t want to receive cookies anymore

- On the same window click ‘Clear now’ button to delete cookies

- Check ‘Cookies’ on ‘Clear Private Data’

- Click ‘Clear private data now’ button

Once you delete these files, you will have no more cookies and your browser will no longer send or receive new cookies according to your preference settings.

In Mozilla Firefox 2.0:

- Go to the Tools menu (or Edit on Linux)

- Click on the ‘Options’ (or Preferences on Linux)

- Select the Privacy icon in the left-hand panel

- Click on Cookies

- Choose your preferred settings

- Note that the option to block third-party cookies has been removed from Firefox 2's user interface.

In Mozilla Firefox 1.5:

- Go to the Tools menu (or Edit on Linux)

- Click on the ‘Options’ (or Preferences on Linux)

- Select the Privacy icon in the left-hand panel

- Click on Cookies

- Choose your preferred settings

In Safari 2.0.+:

- Choose Preferences from Safari menu

- Select Security icon

- Cookie settings are shown in window

- Choose your preferred settings

Safari 1.2.+:

- Choose Preferences from Safari menu

- Select Security icon

- Cookie settings are shown in window

- Choose your preferred settings

Opera 8.5.0

– Go to the "File" menu

- Click ’Preferences’

- Select ‘Privacy’

- Choose your preferred settings

If you are using Netscape 7.0+:

- Go to 'Edit' in the menu bar

- Click on 'Preferences'

- Click on ' Privacy & Security'

- Select the 'Cookies' field

- Choose your preferred settings

- Click on 'OK'

- Go to your 'Start' button

- Click on 'Find'

- Click on 'Files and Folders'

Type "cookies.txt" into the search box that appears

- Click 'Find Now'

- When the search results appear drag all files listed into the 'Recycle Bin', this will delete all cookies

- Now shut down and restart Netscape

Depending on your earlier choice you will either be prompted by new cookies or no cookies will be set or received.

Deleting cookies

You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:

Open 'Windows Explorer'

Click on the 'Search' button on the tool bar

Type "cookie" into the search box for 'Folders and Files'

Select 'My Computer' in the 'Look In' box

Click 'Search Now'

Double click on the folders that are found

'Select' any cookie file

Hit the 'Delete' button on your keyboard

If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select "cookies" in the "Help" function for information on where to find your cookie folder.

9. What else rights do you have? 

Right to access to, correct, and copy your personal data

You have the rights to make request to access to, correct, and copy your personal data we collected. You can raise the rights request to us via the contact information we listed in the Policy. We will deal with your request within 30 days. 

Right to destruction

If you wish to delete your personal data that you have already provided to us, you can contact us via the contact information in the Policy. We will deal with your request actively.

Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to withdraw your consent that you have given based on the Policy, you can contact us via the contact information in the Policy. We will deal with your request actively.

Depending on the country and region you locate, you may also have the right to data portability, and the right to restriction of processing and other rights endowed by the applicable laws and regulations regarding the personal data protection. We will safeguard your legitimate rights according to the stipulations of applicable laws. After receiving your rights request, we may verify your identity, and we will deal with your rights request or give feedback to you within 30 days as soon as possible. 

10. How to contact us? 

If you have any question about how Lynk & Co process your personal data or would like to contact relevant department responsible for personal data protection, please contact our Customer Service or send email to LynkCo.APAC@lynkco.com. Please provide detailed description to your questions and demands, we will endeavor to deal with your request within 30 days. 

11. Updates of the privacy policy

Our business changes constantly, so our Privacy Policy will be changed accordingly. You should check our website frequently to know the newest changes. Unless otherwise stated, the current Privacy Policy applies to all the services we provide to you and all the personal data we process during the service. We will strictly comply with the rules of the Privacy Policy. Without obtaining your consent, we will not make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or practices as to reduce the protection level of the personal data.

Effective time: February 2023