SEMI CHINA WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
By visiting SEMI China Websites, or otherwise using our Services, you acknowledge that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy. Your use of SEMI China Websites or Services, and any dispute over personal information protection, is subject to this Policy, our Terms of Service including its applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes. OurTerms of Serviceare incorporated by reference into this Policy.
If you are visiting websites of other countries or regions under SEMI group, or otherwise using the services under that websites, please review the specific privacy policy published on the relevant website to understand how your personal information is being processed. For example, if you visit the website of SEMI Global Headquarters at www.semi.org, your personal information processing activities will be governed by the SEMI Privacy Policy published on the global website.
(I) Personal Information We Collect about You
We collect personal information about you directly from you, from third parties, and automatically through your use of SEMI China Websites and Services.
(a) Personal Information We Collect Directly from You
The scope of personal information that we collect about you depends on your interaction with our services.
(i) ECS Application
You may apply to join our Elite Customer Service (ECS) to participate in our professional exhibitions; enjoy discounts on the purchase of SEMI reports; SEMI standards, publications, events, and related products; receive the latest information in the semiconductor field instantly; be invited to attend important industry conferences; and enjoy the global services we provide for you. During your application for our ECS, we will collect the primary contact information of your company, including title, name, position, email, and phone number. If the contact information you provide is not your own information, please inform the relevant personnel and obtain their consent before providing the above personal information to us.
(ii) Register for SEMI Certified Safety Engineer Level Assessment
You may register and apply for the SEMI Certified Safety Engineer Level Assessment, during which you need to fill out the relevant assessment application form and submit to our working staff. We will collect your name, position, email address, phone number, company name, company address, company’s nature, the industry your company belongs to, highest level of education, highest education certificate number, working background (the name of each workplace and start date and departure date of each work experience), relevant qualifications, and the items for which you are applying for assessment.
(iii) Apply for Subscription
You can apply for our free subscription service. When you subscribe to our publications (such as "Semiconductor Manufacturing"), we will collect your name, position, department, phone number, company name, company address, postal code, email address, home address, reader number, your management level, your main job responsibilities, the industry your company belongs to, the number of employees in your company, and your subscription channel, to provide you with electronic subscription service or paper subscription service. When you subscribe to our news updates (such as SEMI China Daily News), we will collect your email address.
(iv) Publish Your Contact Details
You can publish your contact details on our product promotion platform so that individuals or companies with relevant product/service demands can get in touch with you. For this purpose, you need to provide your name (it doesn't have to be your real name, you can choose the name to be uploaded by yourself), phone number, email address, and company address. After your submission, the above information will be published on SEMI China Websites.
(v) Register for Our Activities or Contact Us
If you register with us for our events, we may collect your: email, country/region, phone number, first name, last name, company name, position, mailing address, name of the event, date of the event, and information about your communications preferences, subscription intentions, survey responses, etc. The scope of personal information processing for each event may be different, please refer to each event for detailed information. If you have any questions about our personal information processing activities, please contact us via [email protected]. Moreover, you could also refer to SEMI Event Privacy Policy for further details on what personal information we collect from you and how we process such personal information.
We may also collect personal information from you when you contact us, attend one of our events, or otherwise interact with SEMI China Websites or Services. The personal information we collect from you under these scenarios may vary depending on your specific interactions with SEMI China Websites or Services, but we will obtain your prior consent before we process your personal information if required by applicable laws and regulations.
(b) Personal Information We Collect Automatically
We automatically collect the following information about your use of our Services through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies, including tracking technologies designed for mobile devices: your domain name; your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; the length of time you visit SEMI China Websites and/or use our Services; and the referring URL, or the webpage that led you to SEMI China Websites.
We may combine this information with other information that we have collected about you, including, where applicable, your username, name, and other personal information. Please see the section “Cookies and Other Similar Technologies” below for more information.
(II) How We Process Your Personal Information
We use your information, including your personal information, for the following purposes. You may refer to SEMI Event Privacy Policy if you want to have further information on how we process your personal information after you register for an event.
• To provide our Services to you, to communicate with you about your use of our Services, to respond to your inquiries, to fulfill your orders, and for other customer service purposes.
• To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using our Services.
• As permitted by local law, for marketing and promotional purposes. Specifically, we use your information to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you.
• As permitted by local law, to gain insight into how users interact with our Services, which may assist us in determining appropriate advertising.
• To better understand how users access and use our Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis.
• To improve our Services.
• For research purposes, such as to research industry trends related to our Services.
(III) How We Process Your Sensitive Personal Information
In accordance with applicable laws and regulations, your web browsing information (such as web pages you view or links you click) may be deemed as sensitive personal information. We will implement strict measures to protect your sensitive personal information. If you want to object or request restrictions on the processing of such sensitive personal information, please refer to below “Our Use of Cookies and Other Similar Technologies” section to see how to disable cookies. Please note that if you reject/restrict our processing of your web browsing information, certain functions of SEMI China Websites may be affected.
(IV) How We Entrust, Share, Transfer or Publicly Disclose Your Personal Information
(a) Providing Your Personal Information to Entrusted Parties
We may engage service providers to process your personal information on behalf of us, such as IT service providers and website/system server hosting companies, etc. These entrusted parties are obligated to keep your personal information confidential and may only use your personal information for the purposes described in this Policy. We will require these entrusted parties to strictly abide by our measures and requirements on personal information protection, including but not limited to processing personal information according to relevant agreement entered into between us.
(b) Sharing Your Personal Information with Third Parties
In accordance with applicable laws and regulations, or when required by administrative/judicial authorities, we may provide your personal information to relevant administrations, judicial organs, or organizations with corresponding authorizations. Apart from that, we will not share your personal information with any other personal information processors, otherwise we will obtain your prior consent in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
(c) Merger, Division, Dissolution and Bankruptcy
In the event of a merger, division, dissolution or declaration of bankruptcy scenario, involving the transfer of personal information, we will require the recipient holding your personal information to adhere to this Policy, otherwise we will require such recipient to seek your consent again.
(d) Public Disclosure
Apart from the circumstances described herein, we will not disclose your personal information publicly except:
• when we have obtained your explicit consent; or
• when mandated by relevant legislations, legal proceedings, court orders or as per obligatory demands of a competent authority.
(V) Our Use of Cookies and Other Similar Technologies
We and our third-party service providers use cookies and other similar technologies to track information about your use of SEMI China Websites or Services. We may combine this information with other personal information we collect from you (and our third-party service providers may do so on our behalf).
Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate SEMI China Websites and Services, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities at SEMI China Websites and Service. There are two types of cookies: session and persistent cookies.
• • Session Cookies. Session cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser or turn off your computer. We use session cookies to allow our systems to uniquely identify you during a session or while you are logged into SEMI China Websites. This allows us to process your online transactions and requests and verify your identity, after you have logged in, as you move through SEMI China Websites.
• • Persistent Cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you have closed your browser or turned off your computer. We use persistent cookies to track aggregate and statistical information about user activity, and to display advertising both on SEMI China Websites and on third-party sites.
Disabling Cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to SEMI China Websites who disable cookies will be able to browse certain areas of SEMI China Websites, but some features may not function.
(VI) Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags and Other Technologies
Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with SEMI China Websites to, among other things, track the activities of visitors of SEMI China Websites, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of SEMI China Websites. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML e-mails to our customers, to help us track e-mail response rates, identify when our e-mails are viewed, and track whether our e-mails are forwarded.
(VII) Third-Party Ad Networks
We use third parties such as network advertisers to display advertisements on SEMI China Websites, to assist us in displaying advertisements on third party websites, and to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to SEMI China Websites as well as other websites. This enables us and these third parties to target advertisements by displaying ads for products and services in which you might be interested. Third party ad network providers, advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. These third-party cookies and other technologies are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. We may provide these third-party advertisers with information about your usage of SEMI China Websites and our services, as well as aggregate or non-personally identifiable information about visitors to SEMI China Websites and users of our service.
You may opt-out of many third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”). For more information regarding this practice by NAI members and DAA members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt-out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI and DAA members, please visit their respective websites: www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp (NAI) and www.aboutads.info/choices (DAA).
Opting out of one or more NAI member or DAA member networks (many of which will be the same) only means that those members no longer will deliver targeted content or ads to you. It does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content or ads on SEMI China Websites or other websites. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing. Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI or DAA opt-out may no longer be effective. Additional information is available on NAI’s and DAA’s websites accessible by the above links.
(VIII) User Generated Content
We invite you to post content on SEMI China Websites, including your comments, pictures, and any other information that you would like to be available on SEMI China Websites. If you post content to SEMI China Websites, all of the information that you post will be available to all visitors to SEMI China Websites. If you post your own content on SEMI China Websites or Services, your posting may become public and we cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.
(IX) Third-Party Links
SEMI China Websites and Services may contain links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites.。
(X) Security of Your Personal Information
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures that are designed to provide an appropriate level of security taking into account the risks that are presented by the relevant processing, in particular from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal information transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
Meanwhile, we have established a comprehensive incident response plan for personal information security. When a personal information security incident occurs, we will immediately activate the plan, take measures to prevent the harm from spreading, eliminate security risks, and report to competent authorities in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. You may be held legally responsible where you have failed to take reasonable care resulting in lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.
(XI) For How Long Will We Use Your Personal Information?
We will retain your personal information for the shortest period necessary to achieve the purposes as stated in this Policy. Further, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations, we will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate business records, and enforce our agreements. After the expiry of the retention period, your personal information will be deleted or anonymized. Please contact us if you require more information about how we apply these criteria in specific cases.
(XII) Cross-border Transfer of Your Personal Information
In principle, the personal information collected and generated in mainland China will be stored domestically. We will not export your personal information out of mainland China unless upon your separate consent and satisfy requisite conditions required by applicable laws and regulations. If you have registered for our events, please refer to SEMI Event Privacy Policy to have further information on how we may transfer your personal information overseas.
(XIII) Access To Your Personal Information
You may modify personal information that you have submitted by logging into your account and updating your profile information. Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified or deleted may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of SEMI China Websites for a period of time.
(XIV) What Rights and Choices Do You Have Regarding Use of Your Personal Information?
(a) Right to Access and Obtain a Copy of Your Personal Information
You have the right to request that we provide you with access to or a copy of your personal information unless otherwise specified by applicable laws and regulations.
(b) Right to Rectification
If your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you may request us to update and rectify your personal information.
(c) Right to Erasure
Under the following circumstances, you have the right to request us to delete your personal information (i) if the purpose of processing has been achieved, is impossible to be achieved, or it is no longer necessary to achieve such purpose of processing; (ii) if we cease to provide products or services to you, or the retention period for personal information has expired; (iii) if you withdraw your consent (if consent is the basis of processing); or (iv) if we process your personal information in violation of applicable laws and regulations or the agreement with you.
(d) Right to Restrict or Object to Processing of Your Personal Information
You have the right to restrict or object to our processing of your personal information. In such event, please contact us through the contact details set out in the Section “Contact Us”. If you want us to explain about the rules of processing your personal information, you may also contact us directly.
(e) Right to Withdraw Consent
If we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw consent to future processing at any time.
(f) Right to Request Explanation
If you want us to explain about the rules of processing your personal information, you may also contact us directly through the contact details set out in the Section “Contact Us”.
(g) Right to Portability
You have the right to request that we transfer your personal information to entities appointed by you in accordance with the requirements as set out under applicable laws and regulations.
(XV) Children Under 14
Our Services are not designed for children under 14. If you are a minor under the age of 14, please do not use SEMI China Websites or Services. If we discover that a child under 14 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems.
(XVI) Contact Us
f you have questions about the privacy aspects of our Services or would like to make a complaint, please contact us at [email protected]. Your request or complaint will be handled by us within 15 business days and we may need to verify your identity where necessary.
(XVII) Changes to this Policy
This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to this Policy on SEMI China Websites. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on SEMI China Websites, or sending a note to registered users at the email address of record.