Effective Date: 01/01/2024
1. Introduction
Welcome to BlockNews Asia. At BlockNews Asia ("we", "us", or "our"), we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors to our website www.blocknewsasia.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy outlines how we gather, use, communicate, disclose, and make use of personal information according to the standards of privacy protection.
2. Information We Collect
When you use our Site, we may collect various types of information:
- Personal Identification Information: Includes your name, email address, phone number, and social media account information that you voluntarily submit to us when registering or interacting with our services.
- Demographic Information: Information regarding your age, gender, location, preferences, and interests.
- Usage Data: Information on how you use the Site, such as the pages visited, the time spent on those pages, IP address, browser type, and version.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. These help us to improve and analyze our service and tailor it to your preferences.
3. How We Use Your Information
The information we collect helps us to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. Specifically, we use information for the following purposes:
- Service Provision: To administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and service improvement.
- Customer Management: To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our service and responding to your inquiries and comments.
- Communication: To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- Marketing and Advertisements: To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws and regulations, and requests from statutory and regulatory bodies.
4. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your personal information with the following entities:
- Subsidiaries and Affiliates: Our subsidiaries and affiliates to facilitate our global operations.
- Service Providers: Third-party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our business (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, and database management services).
- Legal Requirements: To comply with laws, to respond to lawful requests and legal processes, to protect the rights and property of BlockNews Asia, our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use.
- Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
5. Data Security and Retention
We take the security of your personal information seriously and have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and destruction. We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested, and thereafter as needed for legal or business purposes.
6. International Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.
7. Your Rights
You may have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you. These may include the rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of your personal information, or to object to certain uses of your personal information.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.
9. Contact Us
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:
contact@blocknewsasia.com
