Better Design Award is dedicated to protecting and maintaining your privacy. We may collect and use your information when you use our products and/or services. As a global award, we will take appropriate security measures in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to keep your personal information safe and controllable.

This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") applies to your use of our official website (such as https://bdaward.com, the "Official Website" or the "Website") and your interaction with us. We collect your personal information online (including various forms of websites, wechat public accounts, applications, etc.) or offline (including various scenarios such as exhibitions, conferences, training, visits, telephone communication, etc.). We may also provide you with a separate privacy policy or statement to inform you about how we collect and process your personal information for certain products, services and other specific circumstances provided by us. If there is any conflict or inconsistency between the above separate privacy policy or statement and this privacy policy, in principle, such separate privacy policy or statement shall take precedence over this privacy policy. Unless otherwise mentioned or agreed.

Please be sure to read this privacy policy carefully and ensure that you fully understand and agree to this privacy policy before starting to use this site. If you go to this website through a third party or you visit a third party website through this website and use the services provided by it, the privacy policy of that third party is not related to this website. Please note that we have no control over the products or services provided by third parties or the personal information they process. The protection of your personal information during the use of third-party products or services does not apply to this policy. This policy also does not apply to any information that you choose to provide to third parties, and you are advised to obtain more information about their privacy policies by reviewing or contacting such third parties. If you find that these web pages created by third parties or applications developed by third parties are risky, we recommend that you terminate the relevant operations to protect your legitimate rights and interests.

This policy will help you understand the following:

Ⅰ. How do we collect and process your personal information

Ⅱ. How do we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information

Ⅲ. How do we store and protect your personal information

Ⅳ. How do you exercise your rights regarding personal information

Ⅴ. Protection of minors' personal information

Ⅵ. Cross-border transfer of personal information

Ⅶ. Update of this Policy

Ⅷ. How to contact us

Ⅰ. How do we collect and process your personal information

1. Definition

In this Policy, "Personal Information" means information recorded electronically or otherwise relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, excluding information that has been anonymized. Sensitive personal information is personal information that once leaked or illegally used, is likely to lead to the violation of the human dignity of natural persons or harm to personal and property safety. This includes genetic or biometric information, biological recognition, religious or philosophical beliefs, political views, racial or ethnic origin, specific identities (such as trade union membership), medical health, whereabouts, financial accounts, and personal information about minors under 14 years of age.

2. How do we collect your personal information

1  Personal information that you voluntarily provide to us

a. Registration information: when you register an account on the official website, you need to provide us with the following information: account name, email address, mobile phone, and create a password; when you log in to the Baidu general account directly on the official website of the Better Design Award, we will automatically collect your above information.

b. Application information: if you apply for BDA, you need to provide us with your personal information and the information of your company (such as your name, email, telephone/mobile number, address, work unit, position, product information, etc.) so that we can verify your identity and obtain the complete information of your award application to complete the subsequent evaluation work.

2  Information automatically obtained when you use our website and other services

In order to fulfill legal obligations related to network security and improve your user experience and security when using our products or services, we may automatically collect data such as your device type, IP address, and browsing records on the official website when you use services such as the official website.

3  Information obtained from third party partners

Where permitted by applicable law, we may obtain information from third parties or public sources that you generate or share when using the services of third party partners, such as third-party accounts that you authorize to log in to use our services or third-party platform information that you authorize to import such as account, nickname, etc. We will use your personal information in accordance with our agreements with third parties and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

3. How do we process your personal information

1  The purposes for which we process your personal information:

a. Based on your consent, to provide basic information for our award evaluation;

b. Comply with applicable statutory obligations as necessary to comply with the law;

c. Conduct financial and other necessary compliance reviews as required by law;

d. Analytical activities based on your consent to improve the quality of our products and services;

e. Handle and respond to complaints as necessary to protect your interests and/or our legitimate interest in processing and responding to complaints about products or services;

f. As necessary by law to record, trace our products or services, or manage our website;

Ⅱ. How do we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information

1. Share

In order to ensure the stable operation of products or services, protect your user experience, and for other lawful and reasonable purposes, we may share your personal information with third parties under the following specific circumstances, and we will require third parties with whom we share personal information to process your personal information in accordance with applicable legal requirements:

1  you make your own request;

2  have obtained your consent in advance;

3  we may share the information you provide when participating in our marketing or promotional activities with co-organizers, sponsors and other event partners;

4  in order to maintain and manage our website and other media, improve your user experience, and fulfill network security obligations, we may share your information with network service providers;

5  we may share your personal information in accordance with applicable laws, or as required by administrative, judicial and other regulatory authorities to fulfill other legal obligations.

2. Transfer

We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization or individual, except in the following cases:

1 you make your own request;

2 have obtained your consent in advance;

3 with the development of our business, if we need to transfer personal information due to merger, separation, dissolution or bankruptcy, we will inform you of the name or name of the recipient and contact information. The recipient shall continue to protect your personal information in accordance with applicable legal provisions.

3. Public disclosure

We will only publicly disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

1  you make your own request;

2  have obtained your consent in advance;

3  where required by applicable law or in response to legal proceedings, we may publicly disclose your personal information to the relevant regulatory authorities.

Ⅲ. How do we store and protect your personal information

1. Storage of personal information

We will only retain your personal information for a reasonable period of time necessary to achieve the purposes described in this policy, unless there is a prior retention requirement by law or regulation. We determine the storage period of personal information mainly by referring to the following criteria and taking the older one as the criterion: to complete the service or transaction purpose related to you, maintain the corresponding business and transaction records to respond to your possible inquiries or complaints; to ensure the safety and quality of the services we provide to you; whether you agree to a longer storage period; whether there are any other special agreements or laws and regulations on the duration of data retention. After the retention period is exceeded, we will delete your personal information or anonymize it as required by applicable law.

2. Protection measures for personal information

The Better Design Award is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. In an effort to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy and ensure the proper use of personal information, we take appropriate physical and technical measures to protect your personal information. We may store personal information in places outside our direct control (such as on a colocation server or database that is the responsibility of the colocation service provider), in which case we require such provider to put appropriate physical and technical measures in place. The internet is not an absolutely secure environment, we recommend that you use a complex password, keep your password, account information, etc. confidential, and pay attention to the security of your personal information.

Ⅳ. How do you exercise your rights regarding personal information

Each time you provide personal information to us, please take care to confirm that the relevant personal information is accurate and take care to ensure that you are in a safe environment while provide personal information.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you have the right to exercise any or all of the following rights by contacting us through Article 8 of this Policy:

1. Access and copy the personal information we collect about you;

2. Correct or require us to correct personal information that you believe to be inaccurate or incomplete;

3. Delete or ask us to delete personal information about you;

4. Decide to refuse or restrict our processing of your personal information;

5. Ask us to explain the personal information processing rules;

6. Request the transfer of personal information to a designated personal information processor, and we will provide the means of transfer if the behavior meets the requirements of applicable laws and relevant regulatory authorities;

7. File a complaint with a regulatory authority.

Where permitted by applicable law, when we process your personal information based on your consent, you also have the right to revoke your consent at any time, but the withdrawal of consent will not affect the legality and effectiveness of our processing of your personal information based on your consent before the withdrawal, nor will it affect our processing of your personal information based on other appropriate legal bases.

Please be aware that according to the requirements of laws and regulations and the technical requirements of Better Design Award website, we may not be able to immediately delete the corresponding information you want to delete from the system, before this, we will only store the corresponding information and take necessary security protection measures in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations.

In order to ensure security, we may require you to provide a means to prove your identity and the legitimacy of your request, and we will respond to your request as soon as possible within a reasonable period of time after receiving your feedback and verifying your identity.

Please also understand that we need to process your request to the extent permitted and feasible by law, otherwise we may not be able to fulfill your request.

Ⅴ. Protection of minors' personal information

We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. Media such as our products, services and website are primarily for adults. If you are under the age of 18 or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, please do not register or provide us with any information about you on our official website, products and services such as weibo, wechat public account or other official platforms. We do not knowingly and illegally collect personal information from minors. If you find that we have inadvertently collected personal information from minors, please notify us immediately in accordance with Article 8 of this Policy, and we will take all reasonable measures to delete the relevant data as soon as possible, unless required by laws and regulations.

Ⅵ. Cross-border transfer of personal information

We are an international award, and in the course of organizing the award, we may transfer your personal information outside of your country or region to facilitate the work of the award. The country or region may have personal information protection laws, and we will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information within the scope of applicable legal requirements.

Ⅶ. Update of this Policy

This policy shall take effect from the date indicated at the beginning of this policy. In order to provide you with a better experience, our services are constantly developing and we reserve the right to amend this policy at any time to display our latest services and to be consistent with the latest regulatory requirements. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you in a prominent way on the privacy policy page of our website, and indicate the time of the most recent update at the top of this policy.

Ⅷ. How to contact us

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this Policy, or would like to exercise any of your rights under this Policy, you can contact us in the following ways, if you are not satisfied with the outcome of the processing after contacting us, you can submit a complaint to the competent regulatory authority.

Telephone: 0086 755-83205121

Email: service@bdaward.com

Address: Room 545-546, Building B6, Sino-Finnish Design Park, Fantasia Plaza, No. 3, Shihua Road, Futian Bonded Zone, Shenzhen