Xiamen HiTHIUM Energy Storage Technology Co. Ltd. and its affiliates (hereinafter referred to as “HiTHIUM” or “we”) recognizes that privacy is important to you, and will do our best to protect your privacy. In order to provide you with specific services, we may collect and use your personal information or personal sensitive information (hereinafter collectively referred to as “personal information”). HiTHIUM's Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as “this policy” or “this privacy policy”) aims to explain to you how we collect, use, store, share, and protect your personal information and other matters related to information protection, and we will, meanwhile, underline the sensitive personal information in this Privacy Policy to remind you to pay attention, please be sure to read and understand this policy before submitting your personal information to HiTHIUM.

This policy applies to HiTHIUM’s website that displays this policy or links to this policy, the visit to HiTHIUM, and the products or services provided by HiTHIUM. If you do not agree with the contents of this policy, please do not provide your personal information in the relevant scene, and stop visiting and using our services and related web pages. Continuing to visit and use our services and related web pages means that you agree with the contents of this policy.

This Privacy Policy will help you understand the followings:

Ⅰ How your information will be collected
Ⅱ How your information will be handled and protected
Ⅲ The rights you enjoy
Ⅳ How your information is transferred across borders
Ⅴ How we use cookies and similar technologies
Ⅵ Protection of Minors
Ⅶ How this Privacy Policy is updated
Ⅷ How to contact us

I. How your information will be collected

HiTHIUM collects your personal information only to provide you with specific services more efficiently, if you voluntarily fill in your personal information for the purpose of contacting HiTHIUM to obtain related services, HiTHIUM respects and endeavors to protect the personal information you provide when you are using our website.

(A) When you browse or visit HiTHIUM's website or contact HiTHIUM

Under normal circumstances, you do not need to provide any private information and data (hereinafter referred to as “personal information”) to browse HiTHIUM's website. When you visit HiTHIUM's website, it means that you agree that HiTHIUM collects, counts, analyzes and reasonably applies your login time, IP address, access times, page stay time, keyword searches, downloads and other website access browsing information and habits.
HiTHIUM provides visitor contact channels (i.e. “Contact Us”), and may collect your name, company name, phone number, detailed needs in order to provide you with services or send important notices. You fill in the phone number, e-mail and other contact information on this website, will be deemed to agree to accept HiTHIUM to the above phone number, e-mail contact or send you the information. You agree that HiTHIUM and its subsidiaries may contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you (unless you have indicated that you do not want to receive such messages).

(B) When you visit HiTHIUM's workplace

In order to effectively manage visitors and verify the identity of visitors, HiTHIUM may collect your name, ID card, date of visit, contact information, employer, and reason for visit, etc. from you.

(C) When you are our suppliers/customers or will become our suppliers/customers

In order to carry out business cooperation, HiTHIUM may take the initiative to collect the name, phone number, email address and other contact information of the supplier/customer contact person during the contact process.

(D) When you are interested in becoming our business partner

HiTHIUM takes an embracing stance to recruit talents through online recruitment or offline recruitment. When you are interested in becoming our business partner, we may collect your name, phone number, email address, gender, date of birth (age), location, ID card, country/region, nationality, place of origin, photo, career intention, work experiences, education background, internship experiences, project experiences, language ability, self-description and awards, as well as other information you volunteer to provide.

Ⅱ. How your information will be handled and protected

HiTHIUM will strictly abide by the laws and regulations, and the relevant regulations of the government and regulatory authorities regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. HiTHIUM promises not to illegally rent or sell your personal information. You need to pay special attention to the fact that this policy applies only to the personal information that HiTHIUM collects from you, and HiTHIUM is not responsible for any services operated and information collected by third parties.

(A) Data Collection and Use

We collect and process your personal information in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations, following the principles of lawfulness, legitimacy, necessity and good faith.

In the process of your browsing, visiting and using this website, we will record your browser and equipment information, including but not limited to your IP address, browser type, language used, date and time of access, information of hardware and software characteristics, etc., in order to optimize the access experience and page performance, to carry out the access statistics of the website usage, as well as to prevent and discover behaviors that endanger network security.

The personal information collected when you visit HiTHIUM's office is mainly used to verify the identity of the visitor and manage the visitors.

In the process of talent recruitment, we may use the personal information you provide for background check, selection and management.

Our services will strictly comply with laws and regulations, and we may use your personal information for the purposes required by laws and regulations, court orders or other legal procedures, or authorized government agencies.

(B) We will take reasonable and sufficient protection measures to safeguard the security of your personal information:

• Only the staff authorized by HiTHIUM and with the need to know have access to your personal information, and all of these staffs shall comply with our internal code of personal data confidentiality.
• In the event of personal information leakage, we will promptly activate the data protection emergency response plan and notify you of the relevant information in a timely manner.

Despite the implementation of the above protection measures, we still cannot guarantee the absolute safety of your personal information conveyed on the Internet, so we cannot absolutely guarantee that the personal information you provide to us through our website is safe at all times, and you agree that you will not attribute the responsibility of information leakage to HiTHIUM as a result.

If you are aware of any security vulnerabilities on our website, please contact us promptly so that we can take appropriate measures as soon as possible.

(C) How we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information

In order to ensure the security of your personal information, we keep your personal information strictly confidential, and HiTHIUM will not share your personal information with other companies, organizations or individuals unless the laws, regulations and regulatory authorities’s special regulations. If there is a need to share your personal information with a third party, we will follow the following principles:

• Obtain your explicit consent in advance
• Provide information to law enforcement agencies and government agencies in accordance with the circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations;
• In order to better provide you with services, if we share your personal information with a third party, we will sign a strict data processing agreement with the third party, requiring them to comply with the national as well as HiTHIUM's personal information protection standards.
• In case of mergers, acquisitions or bankruptcy and liquidation, if the transfer of personal information is involved, we will require the new company or organization holding your personal information to continue to be bound by this policy, or we will require the company or organization to ask for your authorized consent again.

Ⅲ. The rights you enjoy

(A) According to the law, you also enjoy the following rights, and HiTHIUM will provide you the approaches to exercise the following rights:

• The right to access your personal information held by us;
• To update or correct any of your personal information that is inaccurate;
• To object to our use of your personal information;
• To require us to restrict or delete your personal information.
• To constrain automated decision-making by information systems;
• Require us to transfer your data.

(B) You have the right to request us to delete your personal information if one of the following circumstances exists:

• The purpose of the processing has been achieved or it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose of the processing;
• The statutory or agreed retention period has expired, unless laws and regulations require otherwise for the retention of personal information;
• you withdraw your consent to the processing of personal information based on your consent;
• We process your personal information in violation of laws and regulations or in violation of an agreement;
• In other cases stipulated by laws and regulations.

If the retention period stipulated by laws and regulations has not expired, or if deletion of personal information is technically difficult to achieve, we will stop the processing except for storage and necessary safety protection measures.

We will fully cooperate with your reasonable requests. However, for repeated requests that exceed reasonable limits, we will charge a certain cost depending on the circumstances. We may refuse requests that are unlawful. If you need to exercise any of your rights, please contact us via Section 8 of this Policy and we will respond to your request, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

IV. How your information is transferred across borders

Generally, we will handle your personal information in the country/region where you use the product or service. In some cases, we may also transfer your personal information to countries/regions other than those where the information is collected, including but not limited to the countries/regions where HiTHIUM and its subsidiaries are located in. The personal information protection laws of these countries/regions may be different, if it is necessary to provide your personal information out of the country due to business needs, we will provide your personal information to the foreign entities under the fulfillment of the obligations stipulated in the applicable laws, and will take all the reasonable and necessary measures to ensure the security of your personal information.

V. How we use cookies and similar technologies

Our website uses Cookies and other similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and allows us to improve our site.

Cookie is a small alphanumeric and numeric file that we store in the memory or on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you give your consent, which can then be used as a tag to identify the computer or mobile device.

Cookies can store user preferences, which are stored on your device and remain valid when you restart your browser. For example, we use persistent cookies to record your choice of language and country/region, font size or other settings. This allows you to visit our website the next time without reconfiguring.

You can clear all cookies saved on your computer or simply delete the cookies stored on your device, but if you do this you will need to change the settings each time you visit our website. Most browsers have a function to block cookies. If you wish to manage cookies via your browser, you can refer to the following descriptions of browser developers or research from the Internet. For more information about cookies, you can also check the AboutCookies.org website.

If your browser is set up with a Do Not Track feature, our service sites will respect your choice.

We do not use cookies for purposes other than those purposes described above.

VI. Protection of Minors

The services of this website are mainly provided to users who have reached the age of legal majority. If you are a minor, we ask you to ask your parents or other guardians to read this policy carefully and to use our services or provide information to us with the consent of your parents or other guardians.

VII. How this Privacy Policy is updated

This Website Privacy Policy may be updated periodically, and the date of the last update is indicated on this page. You agree that our information collection and privacy statements may be modified from time to time in the future (without prior notice to you). We strongly encourage you to visit this page from time to time to review the Privacy Policy for any updates or changes. Your continued access to, and use of, our Services and related websites represents that you accept the updates to our Privacy Policy.

VIII. How to contact us

If you have any questions, comments, requests, or complaints about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us in the following ways:
Telephone: +86 0592-6050365
Email: hithium @hithium.com
We will respond within fifteen working days.

September 6, 2023
Xiamen Hithium Energy Storage Technology Co. Ltd.