Privacy Policy

 

Protecting Your personal information is our priority. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) governs Your access and use of BCom’s Site available at the following URL address: baocommunications.com (the “Site”) and the services related to or offered on the BCom platform (the “Platform”) which can be accessed by creators (the “Creators”) after having registered at the following URL address: baocommunications.com , and by clients by subscribing to the Platform by executing and agreement with BCom (hereinafter collectively, the “Services”), and governs collection and processing of Your data by BCom and any of its affiliates.

 

For the purposes of the “Privacy Policy”, unless otherwise noted, all references to “BCom” will therefore include Bao Communications LLC and their affiliates.

 

  1. General Information

By using and accessing the Services, You either as an individual or a single entity (“You” or “Your” as applicable), hereby fully consent to all terms of the Privacy Policy.

 

The Services are not accessible to children under the age of 16. Therefore, by using and accessing the Services, You warrant that You are over the age of 16. If You are under 16 years of age, do not use or access the Services at any time or in any manner.

 

  1. Data Collection

“Data” shall mean any information indicated by You voluntarily by using and/or accessing the Services which may include:

 

Use of the Site: when You use the Site, Data about Your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by BCom. This information can include: Your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Site addresses.

 

Registration and/or subscription to the Platform: when registering and/or subscribing to the Platform, You will transmit to BCom Your name, address and email address. BCom may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to You, such as Your age and gender.

 

Log-in through social media: If You access or log-in to the Site and/or Platform through a social media or other service or connect the Site and/or Platform to a social media or other service, the information BCom collects may also include Your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, any information or content You have permitted the social media service to share with BCom, such as Your profile picture, email address or friends lists, and any information You have made public in connection with that social media service. When You access the Site and/or Platform through social media services or when You connect the Site and/or Platform to social media services, You are authorizing BCom to collect, store, and use such information to perform the Services.

 

Social Media Data as described under Section 6 of the Privacy Policy.

 

The Data shall not be public unless shared by You within Your BCom account. Please keep in mind that if You directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through BCom’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Such disclosure will be made under Your sole responsibility.

 

You may connect Your BCom account to third party accounts. By connecting Your BCom account to Your third party account, You acknowledge and agree that You are consenting to the continuous release of information about You to others (in accordance with Your privacy settings on those third party sites). If You do not want Your Data to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature. You may disconnect Your account from a third party account at any time. You can learn how to disconnect Your accounts from third-party Sites by visiting Your Account Information page.

 

The Site and/or the Platform may link to websites operated by third parties that BCom does not control. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by BCom through the Site or Services and does not apply to these third party websites, any Data You choose to disclose to these third party websites will be made under Your sole liability. BCom does not monitor, control, or endorse the Data collection or privacy practices of any third parties. BCom encourages You to review the privacy statements of Sites You choose to link to from BCom so that You can understand how those websites collect, use and share Your information.

 

BCom is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Site and/or the Platform.

 

  1. Use of the Data

BCom collects and uses the Data to operate the Site and the Platform and to deliver the Services supplied upon subscription to the Platform, that You have requested and, from time to time, to inform and/or propose to You other products or services available on the Platform. Furthermore, BCom uses the Data to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Site and the Platform such as to determine what BCom services are the most popular.

 

BCom may also contact You via surveys to conduct research about Your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

 

Your Personal Information will be processed by BCom in the United States and China.

 

  1. Transfer of the Data

In order for BCom to suggest Creator’s profiles to Clients, the name, age and gender of all Creators registered on the Platform will automatically be displayed within the Platform upon creation of a Creator BCom account.

 

BCom may, from time to time, contact You on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to You. In those cases, the Data (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) will only be transferred to the third party, including without limitation certain information received from Your social media platform login, upon Your prior authorisation.

 

BCom may also share the Data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send You email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using Your personal information except to provide these services to BCom, and they are required to maintain the strict confidentiality of the Data.

 

BCom may disclose the Data, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on BCom or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of BCom; (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of BCom, or the public and (d) as necessary to perform the services requested by You.

 

Other than set forth herein, BCom does not sell, rent or lease the Data to third parties.

 

  1. Use of Cookies/Targeted Advertising

BCom or third parties authorized by BCom (such as advertisers and analytics companies), may use tracking technology such as “cookies” to help personalize Your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on Your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to Your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to You, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to You. For more information about cookies, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by indicating Your choice in the cookie banner displayed when connecting to the Site and/or the Platform. If You choose to decline cookies, You may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the BCom services or websites You visit.

 

You can choose to limit Behavioral Advertising on the Site by clicking http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and opting-out of cookies placed by those vendors listed. After You opt-out, You will still see advertisements but the advertising may not be as relevant to Your interests. If You change Your computer, change Your browser, or delete Your cookies, You will need to renew Your opt-out.

 

  1. Social Media Data

6.1. YouTube Data

As a Creator, You acknowledge and agree that the BCom uses YouTube’s API to collect and store all information and data available within Your YouTube account including, without limitation, the title of Your YouTube channels, their date and country of creation, images and description, number of views, number of videos, number of comments, number of subscribers (“YouTube Data”). Therefore, by using the Platform, You notably agree to be bound to the Google Privacy Policy available at the following URL address: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

 

The YouTube Data is collected to (i) confirm Your subscription to the Platform and to (ii) compute statistics regarding Your BCom activity. Your YouTube Data is stored in BCom’s servers and shared with BCom’s privileged partners for statistical purposes.

 

You can revoke at any time BCom’s access to Your YouTube Data via the Google security settings page available at the following URL address: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions.

 

6.2. Instagram Data

As a Creator, You acknowledge and agree that BCom collects and stores all information and data available within Your Instagram account including, without limitation, the title of Your Instagram channels, their date and country of creation, images and description including Your stories, number of views, number of pictures, number of comments, number of subscribers (“Instagram Data”).

 

The Instagram Data is collected to (i) confirm Your subscription to the Platform and to (ii) compute statistics regarding Your BCom activity. Your Instagram Data is stored in BCom’s servers and shared with BCom’s privileged partners for statistical purposes.

 

You can revoke at any time BCom’s access to Your Instagram Data by sending an email to BCom at: hello@baocommunications.com

 

6.3. TikTok Data

As a Creator, You acknowledge and agree that BCom collects and stores all information and data available within Your TikTok account including, without limitation, the handle of Your TikTok account, their date and country of creation, images and description including your posts, number of views, number of pictures, number of comments, number of subscribers (“TikTok Data”).

 

The TikTok Data is collected to (i) confirm Your subscription to the Platform and to (ii) compute statistics regarding Your BCom activity. Your TikTok Data is stored in BCom’s servers and shared with BCom’s privileged partners for statistical purposes.

 

You can revoke at any time BCom’s access to Your TikTok Data by sending an email to BCom at: hello@baocommunications.com

 

6.4. Facebook Data

As a Creator, You acknowledge and agree that BCom collects and stores all information and data available within Your Facebook account including, without limitation, the handle of Your Facebook pages, their date and country of creation, images and description including Your stories, number of views, number of pictures, number of comments, number of subscribers (“Facebook Data”).

 

The Facebook Data is collected to (i) confirm Your subscription to the Platform and to (ii) compute statistics regarding Your BCom activity. Your Facebook Data is stored in BCom’s servers and shared with BCom’s privileged partners for statistical purposes.

 

You can revoke at any time BCom’s access to Your Facebook Data by sending an email to BCom at: hello@baocommunications.com

 

  1. Security and storage of the Data

BCom secures the Data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure by unauthorized third parties and ensures that will take all appropriate measures to limit the risk that it may be lost, damaged or misused.

 

Data is stored on secured third party servers in the USA. The Data is kept only as long as necessary for the purposes set out above. After that point, Data is kept only for statistical and evidence purposes and shall not be used for any other reason. Once such period is expired, the Data is destroyed.

 

  1. Your rights

You are entitled to access, correct and ask for Your Data to be deleted by requesting to do so via Your Personal settings and Account Information or by sending a letter to the following address: Bao Communications LLC – 132 West 31th St. 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10001 – U.S.

 

You can also opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail You receive, by choosing Your preferred settings at the following URL address: baocommunications.com or by sending us an email to: hello@baocommunications.com

 

At this time BCom does not respond to browser ‘Do Not Track’ signals, as BCom awaits the work of interested stakeholders and others to develop standards for how such signals should be interpreted.