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Privacy Policy

  • Chinalawlist.com is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all individuals who use our site.

  • Our goal is to provide an Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you.

  • In order to achieve this goal, from time to time we may collect information during your visits.

  • This Privacy Policy is designed to help you learn more about the personal information we collect, who we might share it with, and how we protect it.

Note: Additional terms and conditions, if any, regarding the collection and use of your information may also be provided to you before you sign up for a particular Chinalawlist.com service - privacy policies for those services will be linked from those particular areas or sections of our site.

1What Information Do We Collect? Chinalawlist.com collects personal information in three ways - through information provided directly from our users, from information collected through web server logs and through cookies.

2Information Supplied by Our Users Chinalawlist.com collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address and telephone number. Chinalawlist.com may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, and legal interests. Chinalawlist.com does not collect any of this unique information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information.

3Information from Web Server Logs Chinalawlist.com records and saves information about you from our web server logs such as your Internet [Protocol] (IP) address, the time day you visited and your browser type. This information is used to verify our records and to provide better services to you.

4Information from Cookies In order to offer and provide you with personalized services, Chinalawlist.com may use “cookies” to store and help track your information. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies you as a unique user. Chinalawlist.com will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order. Note: Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies. You should be aware though that some parts of the Chinalawlist.com Web sites and services may not function properly if you refuse cookies.

5Links to Other Sites Chinalawlist.com encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to visit from Chinalawlist.com so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Chinalawlist.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Chinalawlist.com site.

6Use or Disclosure of your Personal Information to Third Parties and Co-Brand Partners Chinalawlist.com will not willfully disclose any individually identifiable information about you to any third party without first receiving your permission. Chinalawlist.com may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Chinalawlist.com, protect and defend the rights or property of Chinalawlist.com or act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Chinalawlist.com or members of the public. Certain Chinalawlist.com services and content may be co-branded with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Chinalawlist.com and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services. In such cases, either a joint privacy statement or a link to the other company’s privacy statement will be provided, which will provide you with information about how the other company will use the information and how you can contact the other company with requests to access the information or other inquiries. The Chinalawlist.com Lawyer Directory will be sharing all user information with Cornell’s Legal Information Institute for their version of the lawyer directory. We may also co-brand the lawyer directory with other third parties, but will not share information marked private or non-public email addresses with those other third parties.

7Content Submitted Or Made Available For Inclusion On The Service With respect to content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, this information will be made public on the Internet. “Publicly accessible” areas of the Service are those areas of the Chinalawlist.com network of properties that are intended by Chinalawlist.com to be available to the general public. By way of example, publicly accessible areas of the Service would include the Chinalawlist.com Lawyer Directory, Wikis, Message Boards and Chinalawlist.com developed Websites and Blogs.

8Protecting Your Information While Chinalawlist.com is committed to protecting your personal information, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information.

9Correcting Inaccuracies When you sign up for Chinalawlist.com’s products and service, we may send you an e-mail confirming your new account. The message will be sent to the address that you supplied to us at the time of sign-up and will describe ways for you to change or delete the account information provided. Remember to keep the confirmation e-mail as it will also contain information that will help you in case you run into problems accessing our services. We welcome your comments or questions. Send us an email and we will revert to you very soon to address your concerns on China privacy related laws.

You are welcome to contact us for any inquiries about China privacy related laws.