TopBlocks Privacy Policy
TopBlocks and its global affiliates (collectively,
"TOPBLOCKS", "we", "us", and "our")
respect your privacy. Therefore, we have developed a Privacy Statement
(hereinafter referred to as "this Policy") that covers how we
collect, use, disclose, protect, store and transfer your personal data when
using our websites, products or services. Please take a moment to read and
understand our Privacy and let us know if you have any questions.
Personal data means any electronic or
other information which alone or jointly with other information can be used to
identify a natural person or make him/her identifiable. This Statement explains
how TopBlocks processes your personal data but does
not cover all processing scenarios as you will be informed in specific
processing activity. Therefore, before using a specific product or service, it
is recommended that you read the privacy notice or supplementary statement
released by TOPBLOCKS for that product or service to understand how it
processes your personal data.
This Policy applies only to websites,
product and services that display or mention this Statement.
This Statement describes:
- How TOPBLOCKS Collects
and Uses Your Personal Data
- How TOPBLOCKS Uses
Cookies and Similar Technologies
- How TOPBLOCKS Shares Your
Personal Data
- How TOPBLOCKS Protects
Your Personal Data
- How You Can Manage Your
Personal Data
- How TOPBLOCKS Protects
Children's Personal Data
- Links to Third-Party
Websites, Products, and Services
- International Transfers
of Your Personal Data
- Updates to This Statement
- How to Contact Us
I. How TOPBLOCKS
Collects and Uses Your Personal Data
A. Personal Data Collected by TopBlocks
Personal data means any data that, either
on its own or jointly with other data, can be used to identify a natural
person. You directly provide us with such data when you use our websites,
products, or services, or interact with us by, for example, contacting us for
support. We may also obtain data by recording how you interact with our
websites, products, or services. For example, we may use technologies like
cookies or receive use data from software running on your device. As permitted
by law, we may also obtain data from public and commercial third-party sources,
for example, purchasing statistics from other companies to support our
services. The personal data we collect includes name and email addresses,
depending on how you interact with TopBlocks, for
example, the website you visit or the products and services that you use. We
also collect the information you provide to us and the content of messages you
send us, such as the query information you provide, or the questions or
information you provide for customer service support. In addition, we may also
collect Non-identifiable data, which refers to data that cannot be used to
identify an individual, for example, the statistics on website visits,
application downloads, and product sales volume.
Before using our products or services, you
may need to provide personal data. You do not have to provide your personal
data to TopBlocks, but in some cases, the
non-provision of certain personal data will cause the inability to provide you
with some related products or services.
B. How TOPBLOCKS Uses Your Personal Data
TOPBLOCKS may use your personal data for
the following purposes:
(1) Provide personalized user experience
and content.
(2) Send you information about products
and services you might be interested in, invite you to TopBlocks's
promotional activities and market surveys, or send marketing information to
you. If you do not want to receive such information, you can opt out at any
time.
(3) Collect user feedback. The feedback
you choose to provide is important to help TOPBLOCKS improve its services. To
process your feedback, we may use the personal information you provide to
contact you and keep records.
(4) Carry out internal auditing, data
analysis, and research; analyze business operation efficiency and measure
market shares; and improve TopBlocks's products and
services.
(5) Ensuring the security of our products,
services and customers or users.
(6) Process pursuant to laws and
regulations, e.g. tax, authority requests.
(7) Other purposes within specific
services or with your consent.
II.How TOPBLOCKS Uses Cookies and Similar
Technologies
TopBlocks' websites, online services, interactive
applications, email messages, and advertisements may use "cookies"
and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies
help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites
people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of
advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and
other technologies as non‑personal information. However, to the extent that
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal
information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal
information.
A. Cookie
A cookie is a text file stored by a web
server on a computer or mobile device, and the content of a cookie can be
retrieved and read only by the server that created the cookie. Cookies are
unique to the browser or mobile application you are using. The text in a cookie
often consists of identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters.
Sometimes, TOPBLOCKS stores cookies on
computers or mobile devices for the purpose of improving user experience,
including the following scenarios:
(1) Personalization cookies: Storage of
your preferences and settings. A website can use cookies to save settings, such
as the language setting and font size on your computer or mobile device, and
other browser preferences.
(2) Advertising cookies. TOPBLOCKS uses
cookies to collect information about your online activities and interests and
provide you with advertisements that correlate most highly with you.
(3) Statistical cookies. With cookies, TOPBLOCKS
can collect information about your use of our websites and other applications,
either for a single visit (using a session cookie) or for repeated visits
(using a persistent cookie).
B. Other Local Storage
TOPBLOCKS and some third parties may use
other local storage technologies, for example, local shared objects (also
called "Flash cookies") and HTML5 local storage, in certain products
and services. Similar to cookies, these technologies store information on your
device and can record some information about your activities and preferences.
However, these technologies may use different media from cookies. Therefore,
you may not be able to control them using standard browser tools and settings.
For details about how to disable or delete information contained in Flash
cookies, click here.
D. Do Not Track
Many web browsers provide a Do Not Track
function that can release Do Not Track requests to websites. Currently, major
Internet standardization organizations have not established policies to specify
how websites should handle these requests. If you enable Do Not Track in your
browser, all TopBlocks' websites will respect your
selection.
III. How TOPBLOCKS
Shares Your Personal Data
We do not share personal data with other
companies, organizations and individuals unless one of the following
circumstances applies:
(1) Sharing with consent: After obtaining
your consent, TOPBLOCKS will share the information that you have authorized
with specified third parties or categories of third parties.
(2) Sharing pursuant to laws and
regulations: TOPBLOCKS may share your information as required by laws and
regulations, for resolving legal disputes, or as required by administrative or
judiciary authorities pursuant to law.
(3) Sharing with TopBlocks'
affiliates: Your information may be shared within TopBlocks'
affiliates only for explicit, and legitimate purposes, and the sharing is
limited only to information required by services. For example, we verify the
global uniqueness of accounts before allowing them to be registered.
(4) Sharing with business partners: Some
products and/or services are provided to you directly by our partners. TOPBLOCKS
also may share your information with them, they may use your information to
provide you with products and/or services you request, make predictions about
your interests and may provide you with advertisements, promotional materials
and other materials
(5) Sharing with service providers: TOPBLOCKS
also may disclose your information to companies that provide services for or on
behalf of us.
(6) TOPBLOCKS will share your information
when there is a reasonable requirement to do so, for example, to meet request
of applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable government.
In scenarios 3 to 6, TOPBLOCKS will ensure
that the lawfulness of this sharing and sign stringent non-disclosure
agreements (NDAs) and/or data processing clauses with the companies,
organizations, and individuals with whom personal data is shared, requiring
them to comply with this Statement and take appropriate confidentiality and security
measures when processing personal data.
IV. How TOPBLOCKS
Protects Your Personal Data
TOPBLOCKS attaches great importance to the
security of your personal data and has adopted standard industry practices to
protect your personal data and prevent it from unauthorized access, disclosure,
use, modification, damage, or loss. To this end, TOPBLOCKS takes the following
measures:
(1) We take reasonable and feasible
measures to ensure that the personal data collected is minimal and relevant to
what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed. We
retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes
stated in this Statement and privacy notice of specific product or service,
unless extending the retention period is required or permitted by law.
(2) We deploy access control mechanisms to
ensure that only authorized personnel can access your personal data. In
addition, we control the number of authorized personnel and implement
hierarchical permission management on them based on service requirements and
personnel levels.
(3) We strictly select business partners
and service providers and incorporate personal data protection requirements
into commercial contracts, audits, and appraisal activities.
(4) We hold security and privacy
protection training courses, tests, and publicity activities to raise
employees' personal data protection awareness.
TOPBLOCKS is committed to protecting your
personal data. Nevertheless, no security measure is perfect and no product,
service, website, data transfer, computing system, or network connection is
absolutely secure.
To cope with possible risks, such as
personal data leakage, damage, and loss, TOPBLOCKS has developed several
mechanisms and control measures, clearly defined the rating standards of
security incidents and vulnerabilities and corresponding processing procedure. TOPBLOCKS
has established a dedicated emergency response team to implement security
planning, loss reduction, analysis, locating, and remediation, and to perform tracking
operations with related departments based on security incident handling
regulations and requirements.
If any personal data incident occurs, TOPBLOCKS
will notify you, pursuant to relevant legal and regulatory requirements, of the
basic information about the security incident and its possible impact, measures
that TOPBLOCKS has taken or will take, suggestions about active defense and
risk mitigation, and remedial measures. The notification may take the form of
an email, text message, push notification, etc. If it is difficult to notify
data subjects one by one, we will take appropriate and effective measures to
release a Security Notice. In addition, we will also report the handling status
of personal data security incidents as required by supervisory authorities.
V. How You Can
Manage Your Personal Data
Access, rectification, deletion, data
portability, restriction of processing, objection to processing.
Legislation in some countries and regions
to which TOPBLOCKS provides products and services or from where TOPBLOCKS processes
personal data, provides that data subjects the rights request (hereinafter
referred to as "requests") in regards to the accessing, rectifying,
deleting or erasure, porting, restricting, and objecting, the processing of
related personal data by TOPBLOCKS retains.
VI. How TOPBLOCKS
Protects Children's Personal Data
We consider it the responsibility of
parents to monitor their children's use of our products and services.
Nevertheless, it is our policy not to require personal information from
children or offer to send any promotional materials to persons in that
category.
TOPBLOCKS does not seek or intend to seek
to receive any personal information from children. Should a parent or guardian
have reasons to believe that a child has provided TOPBLOCKS with personal
information without their prior consent, please contact us to ensure that the
personal information is removed, and the child unsubscribes from any of the
applicable TopBlocks' services.
VII. Links to
Third-Party Websites, Products, and Services
TopBlocks' websites, application software,
products, and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and
services. TopBlocks' products and services may also
use or provide products or services from third parties.
All links to third-party websites,
products, and services are provided for users' convenience only. We are not
responsible for and cannot control how third-parties use personal information
which they collect from you. Our privacy policy does not apply to other sites
linked from our services.
You need to determine your interaction
with such links on your own. Before submitting your personal data to third
parties, please read and refer to these third parties' privacy policies.
VIII.
International Transfers of Your Personal Data
Our products and services are delivered
through resources and servers located in different places, to offer our
products and services, we may need to transfer your personal data among several
countries. Authorized TOPBLOCKS personnel and third parties acting on our
behalf may access, use and process personal data collected from you in a
country/region that is different from the country/region where you entered the
personal data, which may have less stringent data protection laws. When we
transfer your personal data to other countries/regions, we will protect that
the personal data as described in this Policy or as otherwise disclosed to you
at the time the data is collected (e.g. via privacy notice or supplementary
statement of specific product or service).
TOPBLOCKS has implemented global privacy
practices for processing personal data protected under various data protection
laws. TOPBLOCKS transfers personal data between the countries in which we operate
in accordance with the standards and conditions of applicable data protection
laws, including standards and conditions related to security and processing.
With respect to personal data coming from
the EU, we comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate
safeguards for the transfer of personal data to countries outside of the
European Economic Area ("EEA"). We use a variety of legal mechanisms,
such as standard contractual clauses to implement the cross-border transfer of
your personal data; or implement other safeguards provided for in the GDPR.
IX. Updates to
This Statement
TOPBLOCKS reserves the right to update
this Policy at any time.
Should this Statement be revised from time
to time, TOPBLOCKS will release the change notice via various channels, for
example, posting the latest version on our official website: https://www.topblocks.io.If
we make any material changes we may notify you by means of a notice on this
website.
"Material changes" in this
Statement include but are not limited to:
(1) Material changes in our service modes,
for example, purposes of personal data processing, types of processed personal
data, and ways of using personal data
(2) Material changes in our ownership
structure, organizational structure, etc., for example, ownership changes
caused by business adjustment, bankruptcy, or acquisition
(3) Changes in the main objects of
personal data sharing, transfer, or disclosure
(4) Material changes in your rights
regarding personal data processing and the ways in which you can enjoy those
rights
(5) Changes of TopBlocks'
departments, contacts, and complaint channels responsible for the security of
personal data processing
(6) High risks identified in personal data
security impact assessment reports
X. How to
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns
about our Sites, Products or Services, our use of your information or this
Policy, please contact us by visiting https://www.topblocks.io/contact-us or submitting it to contact@topblocks.io.
Note: Due to differences in local laws and
languages, the local versions of TopBlocks' Privacy Policy
may be different from this version. In the case of any conflicts, the local
versions shall prevail.
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