Privacy Policy
Govicture (the “Product”) is a smart equipment product and service We fully respect and will protect the privacy of our users. While providing quality services to you, we will collect, use, disclose, store and protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy (this "Policy"). In connection with this Policy, we wish to provide you with an introduction to how we process your personal information and provide you with access to and control over your personal information.
This Policy will help you understand the following:
For the purposes of this Policy, "personal information" refers to means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
Please read this Policy carefully before using this Product and submitting your personal information, so as to understand our practices with respect to customer privacy. If you have any questions about this Policy or have any complaints or suggestions, please contact us at the contact information disclosed in this Policy.
How we collect and use your personal information
Govicture collects information in order to operate more efficiently and provide you with a better product experience. The personal information is collected from (1) your direct provision of personal information, (2) data we record about how you interact with our products, and (3) third parties which we obtain your personal information indirectly.
The information we collect depends on the environment in which you interact with Govicture, the choices you make, including your privacy settings, and the products and features you use.
Some of our services will need you to provide us with your information directly:
Data we record about how you interact with our products
In addition to the information you provide directly, we may also collect information about your use of our services through your equipment and other means, in order to analyze the status of your use of our products. For example, we may collect:
Please be noted that due to your use of the Product, the Product may collect information containing others’ personal information, including other persons’ facial and voice information, which will be depended on your use of the Product under certain circumstances. Please obtain the consent of such persons in advance when you use the Product and reasonably expect that such other persons’ information will be collected.
We obtain your personal information indirectly from a third party
Please note that in the specific circumstances disclosed above, certain personal information about you may be received and stored by third-party service providers working with us. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that such third parties do not use this information for any other purpose.
How do we use your personal information?
When we fulfill our obligations to you under the user agreement and/or service contract, or our bound legal obligations, or we think it is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of us or any third party through evaluation, we will process your personal information for the purposes described in this Policy with your consent.
We will use your personal information in strict accordance with this Policy and its updated versions. Your personal information is only used for the purposes explicitly stated upon collection and to the extent, you agreed. Any use for other purposes shall be subject to your prior consent.
The relevant scenarios of use of your personal information are as follows:
If we intend to use the information for other purposes not specified in this Policy, we will seek your consent in advance. We will also seek your prior consent when we use information collected for a specific purpose for other purposes. We will not provide personal information and behavioral data of users to third parties without their consent.
We may also provide additional information about our personal information practices through product notes, supplementary privacy statements, or notices before or during data collection. Some of our websites or features may have a separate privacy statement that specifically describes how these websites or features process personal information. If there is a conflict between the notice or the privacy statement of a specific website or feature provided at the time of collecting information and this Policy, the specific notice or supplementary privacy statement will prevail.
A cookie is a small file that our application or service transfers and stores on your device. The Product may use cookie technology. Cookies may be stored on your device for a shorter or longer period of time, or even years. Except for using cookies set by the browsers, we don't set any cookies in websites, applications or services.
Govicture uses cookies or similar tracking technologies to better understand how often you use the product, what happens within the product, cumulative usage, performance data, and overall audience profile of the user group so that we can analyze trends, manage websites, and track user behavior on the site.
Managing cookies and cookie preferences must be done within the settings/preferences in your browsers. Here are some guidelines on how to do this in commonly used browser software:
For more information about cookies and instructions on how to set up your browser to accept, remove, or disable cookies, see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Beacons and pixel labels
In addition to cookies, we will use similar technologies on our websites such as beacons and pixel labels. For example, we may send you an email that contains a click URL that links to the content of our website. If you click on the link, we will track the click to help us understand your product or service preferences and improve customer service.
A beacon is usually a transparent image embedded in a website or email. With pixel labels in an email, we may identify whether the email is open. If you do not want your activity to be tracked in this way, you may opt-out of our mailing list at any time.
Do Not Track
Many web browsers have the Do Not Track feature that allows you to send Do Not Track requests to websites. Currently, major Internet standards organizations have no policy in place to govern how websites should respond to such requests. But if your browser has enabled the Do Not Track feature, all our sites will respect your choices.
Our authorized partners include the following types:
Govicture respects your rights to your personal information. The following is a list of your rights under the law and how we will protect them. Please note that for security reasons, we may verify your identity before processing your request.
You can query and access your personal information through the following channels: Govicture personal information page, app feedback, and sending customer service email (email address: service@govicture.com).
You can rectify your personal information through: service@govicture.com
You can erase/delete your personal information by the following means: [app feedback and send customer service email (email address: service@govicture.com)
You can execute your right to restriction of processing by sending an email to: [email address:service@govicture.com
Upon providing formal authorization, you can exercise your right to data portability by sending an e-mail to:service@govicture.com
You may decline your offer by sending an email to the following address(email address:service@govicture.com).
You may also submit your request to withdraw your consent by sending an email to:service@govicture.com
If you do not want to accept our commercial advertising, you can cancel it at any time in the following way:
We will respond to your request within 30 days from the date of receiving your request and communicate with you in an appropriate way. We may extend the aforementioned period (up to 30 days), if necessary, and inform you of the reasons for the extension within 30 days from the date of receiving your request. If we have reason to believe that there is no need to take any measures against your request, we will inform you of our decision within 30 days from the date of receiving your request and explain it accordingly. If you are not satisfied with the reply you received, you can also complain or report to the competent supervisory authority in the jurisdiction, or bring a lawsuit to the judicial organ with jurisdiction.
We reserve the right to update or modify this policy from time to time. We will send you a change notification via a message reminder in our app.
This policy allows adjustments, but without your express consent, we will not weaken your rights in accordance with this policy.
Email Address: service@govicture.com
Please refer to Appendix 1.
Appendix 1: California Consumer Privacy Act Special Notice
This Special Notice is intended as an additional provision to our Govicture Privacy Policy (“the Policy”) and forms an integral part of the Policy applicable to residents of the State of California in the United States who visit and use our Govicture (hereinafter referred to as "California residents" or "you").
This Special Notice will explain to you:
Please read this Special Notice carefully and understand our practices for the protection of users’ personal information and privacy before using our products (or services) and provide personal information to us.
You have the right to know what categories of personal information we collect about you and the specific purpose for which we collect it. The categories and sources of your personal information we collected in the past 12 months are as follows:
Please be noted that due to your use of the Product, the Product may collect information containing others’ personal information, including other persons’ facial and voice information, which will be depended on your use of the Product under certain circumstances. Please obtain the consent of such persons in advance when you use the Product and reasonably expect that such other persons’ information will be collected.
We use the personal information we collect primarily for the following purposes:
We will not collect categories of personal information other than the information disclosed in this Special Notice without your consent, nor will we use the personal information collected by us for any purposes irrelevant to the abovementioned purposes.
You have the right to know if your personal information is being shared with any third parties. We may disclose your personal information to third parties for business purposes. We will sign agreements with such third parties in achieving those business purposes, requiring such third parties to perform obligations of confidentiality in relation to the personal information that we disclose to them, and not to use the personal information for any purpose other than the fulfillment of the agreements.
The details regarding your personal information that we have shared over the past 12 months are as follows:
Privacy Policy at https://developers.google.com/assistant/console/policies/privacy-policy-guide?authuser=1, Alexa Privacy Policy at https://www.amazon. com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496&pop-up=1.
You have the right to know whether your personal information has been sold. As defined in the CCPA, “sell,” “selling,” “sale,” or “sold” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
We do not sell personal information, and therefore we have not sold any personal information about you in the past 12 months.
In accordance with the CCPA, you have the following rights:
You can exercise your rights in the following way. We will give a response to your request as per CCPA once we receive, verify and confirm your request:
It should be noted that only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
It should be noted that according to the CCPA, we are not obligated to respond to requests for access or data portability of the same consumer more than twice in a 12-month period.
We may deny your deletion request if it is necessary for us or our service providers to retain your information based on the following circumstances:
We may need to verify your identity and the authenticity of your request before responding to your request. Verifiable consumer requests should:
We are unable to respond to your request or provide you with the personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authorization, and confirm that the personal information is related to you.
We will respond to your verifiable request within 45 days upon receipt or a longer period (up to 90 days) if necessary. In the latter case, we will notify you in writing with specific reasons and the extension period stated. We will give a written reply to your registered account if you are a registered user, or the written reply will be given by email or electronic means as you chose.
The feedback information we provide will only cover 12 months before the verifiable request is received. If we decide to refuse your request, we’ll explain the corresponding reason(s) in our reply. For your request for the right to portability, we will provide the personal information in an easy-to-use format and in a way allowing you to transfer the said information from one entity to another easily.
We will not charge any fee for processing or responding to your request unless your request is excessive or repetitive. If we confirm that the relevant fee will be charged in response to your request, we will inform you of the reasons and provide you with a cost estimate before replying to your request.
We will not discriminate against you because you exercise the rights granted by the CCPA. Unless otherwise stipulated by the CCPA, we will not:
However, if we provide some financial incentives permitted by the CCPA, such incentives may result in different prices, discounts, or quality levels. Any incentive we offer will be reasonably related to the value of your personal information to be collected. Where we offer these financial incentives, your participation is optional. If you choose to participate, your participation will be subject to relevant applicable terms, and you may withdraw at any time.
We will not disclose your personal information to any third parties for their direct marketing