Privacy Policy
This website (hereinafter the “Website”) is provided by Dalian CDS Solar Energy Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter “us” or “we”).
We are a Chinese company and the server for this website is located in the United States. The website maintenance company we commissioned is a Chinese company. At the same time, we will do our best to make this site comply with the regulatory requirements of other countries, especially the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe.
Handling of personal data
In the following we wish to provide you with information on how we handle your personal data when you use our Website. Unless otherwise indicated in the following chapters, the legal basis for the handling of your personal data results from the fact that such handling is required to make available the functionalities of the Website requested by you.
I Using our Website
1. Accessing our Website
When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain data to our web server. This is done for technical reasons and required to make available to you the requested information. To facilitate your access to the Website, the following data are collected, briefly stored and used:
- IP address
- Date and time of access
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of request (specific site)
- Status of access/HTTP status code
- Transferred volume of data
- Website requesting access
- Browser, language settings, version of browser software operating system and surface
Moreover, to protect our legitimate interests, we will store such data for a limited period of time in order to be able to initiate a tracking of personal data in the event of actual or attempted unauthorized access to our servers.
2. Setting of cookies
a. What are cookies?
This Website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the memory of your terminal via your browser. They store certain information (e.g. your preferred language or site settings) which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our Website.
b. What cookies do we use?
We differentiate between two categories of cookies: (1) functional cookies, without which the functionality of our Website would be reduced, and (2) optional cookies used for website analysis and marketing purposes. The following tables contain a detailed description of the cookies we use:
Functional cookies
Name |
Type |
Description |
Expiry |
tk_ni / tk_ai / tk_qs |
Other |
Gathers information for our own, first party analytics tool about how our services are used. A collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. |
session |
security_session_verify |
Security |
Web application firewall. Helps protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet. |
2 days |
woocommerce_cart_hash |
Product/Shop |
Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
session |
woocommerce_items_in_cart |
Product/Shop |
Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
session |
wp_woocommerce_session_ |
Product/Shop |
Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. |
2 days |
woocommerce_recently_viewed |
Product/Shop |
Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget. |
session |
store_notice[notice id] |
Product/Shop |
Allows dashboard users to dismiss Marketplace suggestions, if enabled. |
session |
woocommerce_snooze_suggestions__[suggestion] |
Product/Shop |
Web application firewall. Helps protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet. |
2 days |
woocommerce_dismissed_suggestions__[context] |
Product/Shop |
Count of suggestion dismissals, if enabled. |
1 month |
tk_ai |
Product/Shop |
Stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the dashboard (/wp-admin) area and is used for usage tracking, if enabled. |
session |
_icl_current_language |
Language |
Stores the current language |
24 hours |
_icl_current_admin_language_{hash} |
Language |
Stores the current WordPress administration area language. |
24 hours |
_icl_visitor_lang_js |
Language |
Stores the redirected language. |
24 hours |
wpml_browser_redirect_test |
Language |
Tests if cookies are enabled. |
24 hours |
wpml_referer_url |
Language |
Stores the last requested URL on the front-end. |
24 hours |
wpml_admin_referer_url |
Language |
Stores the last requested URL on the back-end. |
24 hours |
Optional Cookies
Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry |
sc_is_visitor_unique |
Statcounter |
These StatCounter cookies are part of the StatCounter Web Analytics platform. We use StatCounter to determine how people are using my website. For more details about how these cookies work, see https://statcounter.com/about/cookies/. |
In two years |
__cfduid, is_unique, is_visitor_unique, etc. |
Statcounter |
These StatCounter cookies are part of the StatCounter Web Analytics platform. We use StatCounter to determine how people are using my website. For more details about how these cookies work, see https://statcounter.com/about/cookies/. |
Various expiry dates |
c. Subject to your consent
We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent. Upon your first access to our Website, a banner will appear, asking you to give us your consent to the setting of optional cookies. If your consent is given, we will place a cookie on your computer and the banner will not appear again as long as the cookie is active. After expiration of the cookie’s lifespan, or if you actively delete the cookie, the banner will reappear upon your next visit to our Website and again ask for your consent.
d. How to prevent the setting of cookies
Of course you may use our Website without any cookies being set. In your browser, you can at any time configure or completely deactivate the use of cookies. This may, however, lead to a restriction of the functions or have adverse effects on the user-friendliness of our Website. You may at any time object to the setting of optional cookies by using the respective objection option indicated in the Cookies Consent Center.
3. Website Analysis: Statcounter
Statcounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.
Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:
- Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
- IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
- Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
- Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
- Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)
Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called “is_unique”) may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.
You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse same here:
http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/
For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy the:
https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy
4. Use of contact forms
You can contact us directly via the contact forms available on our Website. In particular, you may provide us with the following information:
- Name, surname and title
- Country
- Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, phone number)
- Message
We collect, process and use the information provided by you via the contact forms exclusively for the processing of your specific request.
5. Subscription to our newsletter
Mailchimp transfers data to the United States of America. Mailchimp is certified according to US-EU Privacy Shield, which ensures an adequate level of data protection. When subscribing to our email newsletter, you may be asked to enter your email address and/or name or other details to help you with your experience. We are using MailChimp services for maintaining mailing lists and sending out newsletters. As a newsletter subscriber, IP address, the emails you open, and the links you click within those emails will be recorded, so that we can more accurately recommend and optimize content. In our newsletters, we analyze metrics such as opening rates, clicks and click rates. It is therefore essential to transfer to MailChimp your email address, first name and last name (if the latter are provided). The Privacy Policy of MailChimp is available under the following link: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy
6. Playback of YouTube videos
For integrating videos, the website uses the provider YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
We have integrated YouTube videos with YouTube’s expanded data privacy mode. This means that YouTube does not store information about visitors unless they watch the video. If you click the video, your browser will transmit data to YouTube and the company will know that you have watched the video. If you are logged in to YouTube, this information will also be assigned to your user account. You can prevent this by logging out of YouTube. The connection between the browser and YouTube servers is required to display the respective video. In the course of this, YouTube will record and process the IP address, date and time, as well as the web page visited, among other data.
You can obtain further information on the collection and use of data as well as on your rights and protection options with regard to this here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. We have no knowledge of the collection of data by YouTube, and we have no influence on it. You can obtain further information at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
7. Google web fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA for the uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using has to connect to the servers of Google. This informs Google that our website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google web fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a predominant legitimate interest on our part within the meaning of article 6 section 1 lit. f GDPR.
Your computer will use a standard font if your browser does not support web fonts.
For more information about Google web fonts please see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and the privacy policy of Google: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
8. Google Maps
This site uses the mapping service Google Maps via an API. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and an easy findability of the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
9. External services or content on our Website
We include third-party services and/or content on our Website. When you use such third-party services or when third-party content is displayed, communication data are exchanged between you and the respective provider for technical reasons.
The respective provider of the services or content may also process your data for own additional purposes. To the best of our knowledge, we have configured the services and content of providers known to process data for own purposes in such a way that either any communication for other purposes than to present their services or content on our Website is blocked, or communication only takes place once you have actively opted to use the respective service. However, since we have no control over data collected and processed by third parties, we are not in a position to provide binding information regarding the scope and purpose of such processing of your data.
II Transfer of personal data for commissioned processing
For the processing of your data we will to some extent use specialized service contractors. Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processor agreements, they will only process personal data upon our instruction and strictly in accordance with our directives.
III Processing of personal data outside the EU / the EEA
Your data will in part also be processed in countries outside the European Union (“EU“) or the European Economic Area (“EEA“), which may have a lower data protection level than European countries. In such cases, we will ensure that a sufficient level of protection is provided for your data, e.g. by concluding specific agreements with our contractual partners (copy available on request), or we will ask for your explicit consent to such processing.
Information regarding your rights
The following rights are in general available to you according to applicable data privacy laws:
- Right of information about your personal data stored by us;
- Right to request the correction, deletion or restricted processing of your personal data;
- Right to object to a processing for reasons of our own legitimate interest, public interest, or profiling, unless we are able to proof that compelling, warranted reasons superseding your interests, rights and freedom exist, or that such processing is done for purposes of the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;
- Right to data portability;
- Right to file a complaint with a data protection authority;
- You may at any time with future effect revoke your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data. For further information please refer to the chapters above describing the processing of data based on your consent.
If you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to the contact form or mail to our website management company indicated below.
Security
Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws.We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change, or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.
Children
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the online privacy of children under 13 years of age. This site are not directed toward individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that such individuals do not provide personally identifying information through our websites. Additionally, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of 13, unless or except as permitted by law. If we learn that personal information has been collected from a user under 13 years of age on or through this site, then we will take the appropriate steps to cause this information to be deleted. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has registered on this site or you believe has otherwise provided personal information to this site, please contact us to have that child’s account terminated and information deleted.
United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Notification process
If you are contacting us about material included on this site, please include the information noted below in your notification. Please consult your legal counsel or review the U.S Digital Millennium Copyright Act see 17 U.S.C. Section 512 to confirm these requirements:
- Your physical or electronic signature
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
- Information which will help us locate the material on our product or service
- Your complete contact information, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act as the owner or on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
If your notification does not substantially comply with this format, we may be unable to properly analyze and respond.
Please remember that knowing misrepresentation that the material or activity is infringing, or that it was removed in error may be liable for damages.
Please send a email to the address listed below and contact our website management company. Please include your contact information and a detailed description.
Contact
For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, please send a email to the address listed below and contact our website management company:
WNC TECHNOLOGY
Lingang Songjiang science and Technology City
Email: support@zzkj.net.cn
Amendment of Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates of our Privacy Policy will be published on our Website. Any amendments become effective upon publication on our Website. We therefore recommend that you regularly visit the site to keep yourself informed on possible updates.
Last updated: December 29, 2019