PRIVACY STATEMENT OF CHERY WEBSITE

The entity responsible for the processing of personal data referred to below is Chery Automobile Co., LTD(hereinafter referred to as “Chery”, “we” or “us”), a private company with limited liability established under the law of CHN, having its statutory seat in CHN. To ensure compliance with applicable data protection legislation, Chery is the data controller of this personal data. We give top priority to the protection of your personal data, and we process your data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. This statement provides comprehensive information about the processing of personal data when you use our website.
This Privacy Statement does not apply to:
In this Privacy Statement, we will explain to you:
We use the collected personal data when you visit our web applications to manage and meet with your service and information requests, to make our products and services as effective as possible, and to protect our IT systems from attacks and other illegal activities.
To communicate with you:
Data Processing Purpose
To respond to any feedback, requests, questions, or complaints you may have regarding our products and services (in person, online, telephone, email, etc.)
Type of Personal Data
Type of Personal Data Legal Basis for Processing
To ensure information security, and to understand and improve our products and services.
Data Processing Purpose
To detect and defend against unauthorized access to data, and to enhance information security
Type of Personal Data
Legal Basis for Processing
Necessary for our legitimate interests: to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IT systems
Data Processing Purpose
To upload crash logs for troubleshooting
Type of Personal Data
Legal Basis for Processing
Where you have provided your consent
Data Processing Purpose
To understand and analyze website UI behavior and usage, so as to improve our services
Type of Personal Data
Analytics data (aggregated data on UI behavior, usage and analytics of website.
Legal Basis for Processing
Other circumstances
Data Processing Purpose
To demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements
Type of Personal Data
Legal Basis for Processing
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
On our websites, we incorporate social plugins from popular social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube. Here's how they work:
- When you visit our websites, social media plugins are initially deactivated. This means no information is transmitted to the network operators. If you want to use any of these networks, simply click on the respective plugin to establish a direct connection to their servers.
- If you're logged into your user account on a social network when you activate the plugin, the network can recognize your visit to our websites and associate it with your account. To prevent this, please log out of the network before activating the social plugin. The social network cannot detect your visits to other websites of ours unless you activate its social plugin on those sites too.
- When you activate a social plugin, the network directly transfers the available content to your browser, which integrates it into our websites. During this process, data transfers controlled by the respective social network may occur. Your connection to a social network, the data transfers between the network and your system, and your interactions on the platform are governed solely by the network's data protection provisions.
- The social plugin remains active until you deactivate it or delete your cookies. For more information about cookies setting, please read our Cookies Notice.
Please note that our website may feature links to external websites beyond our control, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. If you access these websites through the provided links, the operators of those websites may collect information from you according to their own privacy policies, which may differ from ours.
3.1 Affiliates and subsidiaries
To assist, operate, enhance, and fulfil services on our behalf based on our legitimate interests to outsource certain operations, we share personal data with our affiliates and subsidiaries.
3.2 Services providers and business partners as data processors:
We share data with our services providers and partners to maintain our business operations, our relationship with you, and provide you with our services:
Categories of providers:IT-providers and their sub-processors
Reason for Sharing:Personal data is transferred to IT-providers who supply general business support systems to us, such as software and data storage providers.
Categories of providers:Authorised retailer(s) (and its sub-processors)
Reason for Sharing:Personal data is transferred to authorised retailer(s) for the purpose of communication and administration of the handover of cars (if applicable).
Categories of providers:Marketing and advertising suppliers
Reason for Sharing:To assist, operate and fulfil services with marketing services or with digital advertising.
3.3 Law enforcement and government authorities
To fulfil our legal obligations, we may be required to disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or lawful requests from government authorities conducting investigations. This includes compliance with law enforcement requirements, regulatory inquiries, and the verification or enforcement of our policies and procedures. We may also disclose information in emergency situations to prevent or halt potentially illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activities. When we receive a request for personal data from a law enforcement authority, we assess the necessity and proportionality of the requested information.
In principle, the personal data we collect is stored in the countries of your place of residence, your data will be stored at our data center located in 【location】.
Your personal data may be processed outside your country of residence. Regardless of where your personal data is processed, we apply the same protections as described in this Statement. We transfer your personal data in accordance with the legal frameworks required by different jurisdictions. Recipients of your personal data are required to adhere to the same level of privacy safeguards as mandated by applicable data protection laws. These include, but are not limited to:
a . Adequacy decisions, such as:
b . Agreements, such as:
5.1 Right to withdraw consent
Where you have given consent for the processing of your personal data, you may withdraw your consent at any moment with effect for the future.
5.2 Right to access your personal data
You may request from us the rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data concerning you. We make reasonable efforts to keep personal data in our possession or control, which are used on an ongoing
5.3 Right to rectification
You may request from us the rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data concerning you. We make reasonable efforts to keep personal data in our possession or control, which are used on an ongoing basis, accurate, complete, current and relevant, based on the most recent information available to us.
5.4 Right to restriction
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5.5 Right to portability:
You have the right to receive your personal data provided to us and, where technically feasible, request its transfer to another organization. This right applies if we process your personal data through automated means, based on your consent or for the performance of a contract you are a party to. Your personal data must have been provided by you, and this right should not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others. You can receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. The transmission of your personal data to another organization is subject to technical feasibility.
5.6 Right to erasure
You have the right to request that we delete the personal data we process about you. We must comply with this request unless the processing of your personal data is necessary for:
5.7 Right to object
You have the right to object, at any time, to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided that the processing is not based on your consent. If you exercise this right, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing is necessary for legal claims. If you object to the processing, please let us know if you also wish for your personal data to be erased.
5.8 Right to be informed
You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. We have prepared this Statement for this purpose, and you will be informed of any changes to this Statement.
5.9 Right to lodge a complaint
You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority or with any other data protection authority in the EU. However, we would appreciate it if you first contact us to try to solve your issue – you can find our contact details in Section 8.
We retain data related to our provided services in accordance with legal obligations. If you are a customer, we will keep your data for the duration of any contractual relationship you have with us, and, where permitted, beyond the end of that relationship for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement.
We retain the data we collect from or about you for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Once the data is no longer necessary for these purposes, we either delete it or retain it in an anonymized form. In determining the appropriate retention period, we take into account various criteria, including the type of services requested by or provided to you, the nature of our relationship with you, the potential impact on the services we provide to you if we delete certain data about you, and the retention periods mandated by law.
We strive to maintain high security standards and have implemented robust technical and organizational measures to protect your data, in accordance with the current, general state of technology. We ensure that your personal data is adequately secured against loss, falsification or unauthorized access. However, please note that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. While we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee 100% security of your data transmitted to us.
Once we have received your personal data, we use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorized access. In the unfortunate event of a personal data incident, we will report it and take remedial measures in accordance with the requirements of the law and regulatory authorities.
We do not knowingly collect or use any Personal Data from children (we define ‘children’ as minors younger than 16) without prior, verifiable consent which is given or authorized by the holder of parental responsibility over the child. We do not knowingly allow children to order our vehicles, communicate with us, or use any of our online services.
If you become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us: website@jaecooglobal.com. We will take all reasonable measures to delete the information as soon as possible and to not use such information for any purpose, except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required by law.
If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, we recommend reading through this Privacy Statement first. To make a query, raise a concern, or exercise your data subject rights, please feel free to contact us via:
E-mail Address: website@jaecooglobal.com
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We take your privacy seriously and aim to respond to you within one month or within the timeline specified by the relevant local privacy protection law, after confirming your identity. If you believe that we have not adequately addressed your complaints or concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
Cookies may be used when visiting our web applications. Technically, these are so-called HTML cookies and similar software tools such as web/DOM storage or local shared objects (so-called "flash cookies"), which we refer to collectively as cookies.
Cookies are small text files that do not cause any damage to your end device. They are stored either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your end device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your personal device until you delete them by yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.
Cookies are stored on your desktop, notebook or mobile device when you visit our web applications. From this, we can recognize, for example, whether there has already been a connection between the device and our application, take into account your preferred language or other settings, offer you certain functionalities (e.g. online store offers, vehicle configurations) or recognize your interests on a usage basis. Cookies may also contain personal data.
The use of cookies also depends on the settings of the web browser you are using (e.g. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox). Most web browsers are preset to automatically accept certain types of cookies; however, you can usually change this settings. You can delete existing cookies at any time. You can delete Web/DOM storage and Local Shared Objects separately. How this works in the browser or device you are using, you can find out in the instructions of the respective manufacturer.
The consent (= approval) to as well as the rejection or deletion of cookies are tied to the device being used and also to the web browser being used in each case. If you use multiple devices or web browsers, you can make the decisions or settings differently for each.
If you decide against the use of cookies or delete them, it is possible that not all functions of our web applications or individual functions will be available to you only to a limited extent.
The following data trackers and cookies are used by 【IP address of this Chery website】:
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Description:Google Analytics
Cookie generated by Product:Google Analytics
Category of Cookie:Google Analytics
We may update this Privacy Statement, for example, to reflect changes in our business operations and measures for protecting personal information. If we make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will notify you. Where changes to this Privacy Statement significantly impact the nature of our data processing or have a substantial effect on you, we will provide sufficient advance notice, allowing you the opportunity to exercise any applicable rights.