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. The Policy sets out what Personal Data we collect, how we use and share the Personal Data collected by us and your rights in relation to such data.
We are required by law to provide you with information about the purposes for which we use your information and the legal justification for us to use that information as follows:
You have given your consent to us using your information. Using your information is in our legitimate business interests (provided these interests are balanced against your rights).
1.1 Website operation
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.
1.2 Customer service
When you send your opinions and suggestions to us via our email address, we need to collect your Name, Gender, Phone Number, Email, Location information (country/region, area), and your opinions and suggestions, for the convenience to get in touch with you and give you feedback about the related improvement measures and solutions.
1.3 Test drive
If you apply for test drive, we will collect your Name, Phone Number, Gender, Location (Country/region), Email, your intended dealer, for the convenience to contact you and provide you with the test drive service.
1.4 Search for dealer
When you search for the local dealer, we will collect your Geographical Location, to show you the suitable dealer information.
1.5 Newsletter
When you choose to subscribe the Newsletter, we will collect your Email to send you newsletters and other information about products and services that you may be interested in, provided this is in line with your marketing choices. You can unsubscribe from the bottom of the email you receive at anytime by following the instructions. Once you choose to unsubscribe, we will stop sending you any emails and delete your email for Newsletter purpose from our system.
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.
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 section 7 of the Policy.
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. .
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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.
We may disclose personal data we process for the following purposes and in the following ways, to the extent permitted by law and depending on such purpose(s) or way(s):
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.
We may share the data with our Affiliates, for all the same purposes described in the section 1 about how we use information above.
Except the above said situation, we will not share your personal data with any third party. If we need to provide your personal data to others, we will notify you separately.
The Internet is not a secure system and you should always be cautious about the data you disclose whilst online. Personal data collected by our website is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public.
If there is an internet security incident affecting our website, we will timely notify you of the basic information and risks about the incident, the measures we have taken or will take, and the suggestions on how to lower the risks on your own. We will timely notify the affected Users of the Internet security incidents through push notification, letter or call. When it is difficult to give notifications to the Users one by one, we will post warning information by making an announcement on the platform.
You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
Access. You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we are processing about you, which we will provide back to you in electronic form. For your own privacy and security, in our discretion we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
Rectification. You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we process about you rectified.
Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete personal data that we process about you, except we are not obligated to do so if we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Objection. Where the legal justification for our processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relatingto your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.
Withdrawing Consent. If you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge. This includes cases where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. You can unsubscribe from the bottom of marketing emails at any time. The legality of the processing of your personal data prior to you withdrawing your consent remains unaffected by this.
Depending on the country and region you locate, you may also have the following rights to your personal data:
Restriction. You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data where you believe such data to be inaccurate, our processing is unlawful or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose, but where we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish for us to delete it.
Portability. You have the right to obtain personal data we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such data to another data controller, where this is (a) personal data which you have provided to us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent (such as for direct marketing communications) or to perform a contract with you.
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 as soon as possible. Please find more details on how to make any of these requests in relation to your personal data in the ‘How to contact us’ section of this Privacy Notice.
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.
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.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0+:
– 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.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0+:
– 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
In Safari 2.0.+:
– Choose Preferences from Safari menu
– Select Security icon
– Cookie settings are shown in window
– 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
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.
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 [email protected]. Please provide detailed description to your questions and demands, we will endeavor to deal with your request within 30 days.
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.
The Privacy was last updated: July 2023.
