Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We may collect and use your personal and non-personal information to communicate with you, provide our products and services to you, improve and develop our products and services, or evaluate your education, skills and experiences in considering you for a position at BlueDot or for a vendor or other relationship with us.

Personal Information

Personal information is data that can be used to identify or contact you. We may collect and use the following personal information that identifies or relates to you:

• account information (e.g., name; mailing address; phone number; email);
• payment information (e.g., credit and debit card information; bank information);
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history; search history, and information regarding your interaction with a website, application, or advertisement; IP address);
• education and experience-related information (e.g., education information; employment history; character and performance references);
• service and performance logs and other information received for products we provide to you that include images or acoustic data.

Non-Personal Information

We may also collect non-personal information about you. Non-personal information is information that does not, on its own, permit direct association with an individual person. It may include:

• service and performance logs and information for products we provide to you (information includes sensor data (including images and acoustic data), product identifying information, product performance information, including faults and safety-related information);
• your online activities (e.g., the type of web browser software you use; the name of the domain from which you access the Internet; the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our website; the date and time you access our website; which pages you have visited on our website; the search terms you use; the links on which you click).

2. How We Collect Your Information

We collect information from you in person, by telephone, text, email, via our website, from the products we sell or lease to you (with your consent), from publicly accessible sources, from third parties (e.g., sanctions screening providers; credit reporting agencies; customer due diligence providers), from cookies on our website, and via our IT systems (e.g., door entry systems and reception logs; automated monitoring of our website and computer networks).

3. How and Why We Use Your Information

We may use your information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; to provide the products and services you use; for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; for our other legitimate interests or those of a third party; or where you have given consent. Examples of how we use your information include, to:

• prevent and detect fraud against you and us;
• conduct checks to verify your identity;
• screen for financial and other sanctions or embargoes;
• comply with professional, legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business;
• improve and develop our products and services;
• ensure the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information;
• market our products and services.

4. Promotional Communications

We may use your information to send you updates about our products and services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and services. We treat your personal information with the utmost respect and do not sell or share it with third party organizations for their own marketing purposes.

You have the right to opt out of receiving our promotional communications at any time by:

• contacting us at bluedotstart@163.com; or
• using the "unsubscribe" link in emails or "STOP" number in texts.

5. Who We Share Your Information With

We may share your information with:

• our affiliates;
• service providers we use to help deliver our products or services to you, such as payment service providers and logistics companies;
• other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as our marketing agencies or website hosts;
• third parties approved by you, including third-party payment providers;
• credit reporting agencies;
• our insurers and brokers;
• our bank.

6. No Personal Information Is Sold or Disclosed for Marketing Purposes

BlueDot does not sell your personal information (and does not sell personal information of minors), and does not share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

7. Where Your Information Is Held

Your information may be held at our offices and those of our third party service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: "Who We Share Your Information With").

8. How Long Your Information Will Be Kept

We will keep your information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products or services to you or performing under a contract with you, or in accordance with any applicable requirement set forth in this policy. Thereafter, we will keep your information for as long as is necessary to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf; show that we treated you fairly; or keep records required by law.

9. International Transfers

BlueDot is headquartered in China and may have services or affiliated customers around the world. Your personal information may be transferred to other countries, which may not have similar privacy or data protection laws. However, regardless of where the information is stored, we will protect your information in the manner described in this policy and take steps to comply with applicable local laws, including conditions and restrictions on the transfer of personal information.

10. Keeping Your Information Secure

We have administrative, technical and physical security measures in place designed to prevent your information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. These measures include limiting access to your information to those who have a genuine business need to access it and who are subject to confidentiality obligations. We also require those processing your information to do so only in an authorized manner. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

11. How to Exercise Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to obtain confirmation regarding whether we process personal information about you, request access to and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you, receive copies of the personal information we maintain about you, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information, object to the processing of your personal information, and/or have the information blocked, anonymized, or deleted, as appropriate. To exercise these rights, please email us at bluedotstart@163.com.

12. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have additional privacy rights. Please contact us for more information.

13. Persons Located Within the European Economic Area

BlueDot complies with applicable data protection laws in the EEA, which, if applicable, practicable, and required under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, include the following rights: if our processing of personal information is based on your consent, you have a right to withdraw consent at any time for future processing; you have a right to request from us (where we act as a Controller as defined in the law) access to and rectification of your personal information; you have a right to object to the processing of your personal information; and you have a right to lodge a complaint with the applicable local public authority.

14. Our Commitment to Your Privacy

To make sure your information is secure, we communicate and enforce our privacy and security guidelines with our employees and applicable service providers.

15. Changes and Updates to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, we will contact you via your email contact information on file.

16. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us at bluedotstart@163.com