Zhuji Hiest Motor Co., Ltd.(hereinafter collectively referred to as the “company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) declare that the company has formulated a privacy policy as set forth below for the handling of personal information which the company may collect when you visit our global website (https://www.hiestmotor.com/) (“website”) and any other handling of personal information to which the laws and regulations identified and that it will comply with the privacy policy and handle all personal information, including that of customers, in a safer and more appropriate manner.

This Privacy Policy stipulates the company’s basic guidelines for all personal information it collects and utilizes.

1.COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND REGULATIONS

When handling personal information, the company shall comply with the laws, regulations and guidelines of the country, including the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and this Privacy Policy. Terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings assigned to them under the laws.

2.OBTAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION

The company shall collect personal information using proper and fair means. We may collect the following categories of personal data and other information related to you: (i)identification data and business contact information, you share with us such as first name, last name, job/position/title, business email address, business address, telephone number, mobile telephone number, telefax number, private telephone number, gender, date of birth, etc; (ii)electronic identification data and information collected by the communications systems, IT applications and website browser such as information technology usage (system access, IT and internet usage), device identifier (mobile device ID, IP address, browser type, browser settings, time and URL accessed, cookies, etc).

Unless permitted by the laws as an exception, it shall (i) explicitly specify the purpose of use to you or disclose it to the public in advance, or (ii) promptly notify you of that purpose of use or disclose it to the public once the company has collected personal information. 

The company shall collect personal information within the scope necessary for achieving of the purpose of use concerned.

Unless permitted by the laws as an exception, the company shall obtain your consent to do so prior to collection of sensitive personal information.

3.USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Unless permitted by the laws as an exception, the company shall use personal information within the scope necessary for achieving the purpose of use prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

4.PROVISION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Unless permitted by the laws as an exception, the company shall not disclose or provide personal information to a third party. Unless permitted by the laws as an exception, the company shall (i) obtain your prior consent and/or (ii) use adequate safeguards to protect personal information,  when providing personal information to a third party in other countries.

5.MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The company shall take the necessary and appropriate safety measures to ensure the secure management of personal information, including the prevention of leakage, loss, and damage. It shall also exercise the necessary and appropriate supervision over the employees who handle personal information or those to which the company entrusts with its handling. The company has stipulated specific safety measures for personal information separately in its internal regulations.The company shall promptly discard or delete personal information if it has achieved the purpose of use thereof and the period of storage prescribed by the laws has expired. 

6.YOUR RIGHTS UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS

Under the laws, you have certain rights in relation to your personal information, including correction, addition, deletion, discontinuance of utilization, erasure, or discontinuance of provision to third parties. If any of such other treatment of personal information is requested by you or your representative, the company shall take action according to the provisions of the laws. 

7.REVIEW

With respect to the handling of personal information, the company shall review and improve the provisions of each article listed above as required.

8.UPDATES TO THIS DOCUMENT

This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time as a result of required developments. In case of such updates, we will undertake necessary actions to inform you about them depending on the importance of changes done. If and where required by applicable laws we will also ask for your consent to any material Privacy Notice changes describing our up-to-date practices.

Please check the “date of publication” to see when this Privacy Notice was updated.

Date of publication: January 9, 2023