The Top China Supplier Trade Platform (TCS, “We”, “Our”, or “Us”) hereby announces its Privacy Policy to protect your personal information and handle relevant complaints efficiently when you use our website (the “Website”) or our services (the “Services”) and when you exercise your data protection rights.

Please note that we have a separate cookie policy, which you may visit for more information about how we use cookies on our Website.

In the following table we will indicate which kind of data will be processed if you use the respective Service.

We provide networking services, i.e. enable business to business contacts if in each single case agreed upon by both sides, and information services. When we provide our Services and when you visit our Website we may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

We may get the data from the following sources:

• Yourself: We may collect data during trade exhibitions (e.g. if you provide us with your details handing over your business card) or through other events (online and offline), in which you may provide us with your contact details or, if you provide us with your details via our website (e.g. when you register with us).
  
• Your employer or colleague: We may get your data from your employer or a colleague of yours who has registered with our network and wants your employers' company to connect with potential business partners.
  
• External databanks: We may buy business contacts from third party service providers. In this case we make sure the data has been collected in accordance with the applicable law.

We will not disclose your information to third parties for their own independent marketing or business purposes without your consent.
However, we may disclose your information to the following entities:

• affiliated companies: We may share your data with entities of our group.
• business partners. We may share your information with trusted business partners, including but not limited to your potential business partners. These entities may use your information to provide you with the Services you request, analyze your interests and provide you with promotional materials, advertisements and other materials.
• service providers. We may also disclose your information to companies that provide Services on our behalf, such as companies that help us with billing or send emails on our behalf. These entities cannot use your information for purposes other than providing Services on our behalf.
• assignees: In connection with any restructuring, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposal of any or all of our business, assets or stock we may disclose or transfer to any affiliated company or third party (and their respective advisors) any data that we process.
• We m① Answering requests
  ② correspondence ay also disclose data to third parties in the following circumstances: (a) to comply with any law, regulation or rule of the countries in which TCS does business, including any law outside your country of residence, (b) to comply with any legal process, (c) to satisfy any claim of any governmental or other public authority, including any governmental or public authority outside your country of residence, (d) to enforce our Terms of Use, (e) to protect our own business and that of our affiliates, (f) to protect the rights, privacy, security and property of TCS, TCS affiliates, you or others, and (g) to enable us to use the legal remedies available to us or to limit the damages we suffer.

For users located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) , Avenue Louise 168, Brussels, Belgium, [[email protected]], is responsible for the processing. Our lawful basis for processing your personal information is:

If you do not provide certain information to us, we may, in some circumstances, be unable to comply with our obligations or provide you with the Services that you request. We will tell you about the implications of not providing certain information.

You are entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to object to our processing of your information if based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR), e.g. if we use it for marketing purposes.
You may also request restriction of processing of your personal data, and request access to, correction, erasure and portability of your own personal data. Where we are using your information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.
To exercise your EU data protection rights please get in touch at [[email protected]]. In addition, Data Protection Officer can be contacted at [[email protected]].

We take appropriate steps to ensure that we process and retain information about you based on the following logic:

• at least the duration for which the information is used to provide you with a Service (e.g. your registration with us); or
• as required under applicable law (e.g. tax law);
• only for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, is processed, or longer if required under any contract, by applicable law, or, in anonymized form, for statistical purposes, subject to appropriate safeguards.

We offer a variety of choices about how we use your information. You can make choices about whether to receive promotional communications from us by following the “Unsubscribe” instructions included in the communication. In addition you can also make choices by changing your settings in the “My Profile” column at any time.

We take protection of your information seriously and have put in place appropriate organizational and technical measures to safeguard the information we collect in connection with the Services. Our security measures are state of the art. Although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, however, please note that no website, Internet transmission, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure. And we are not liable if the information is leaked due to your negligence such as losing your device or mishaps outside of our control.

Topchinasupplier is based in China, and your use of our Website and Services will involve the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information to and in China. Please note that the information protection laws and other applicable laws of countries outside the European Economic Area, to which your information may be transferred, might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. We will take appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable law, to ensure that your personal information remains protected. Such measures include the use of EU Standard Contractual Clauses to safeguard the transfer of information outside of the EEA or other methods. For more information, please contact us at [[email protected]].

Our Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to the Services, or changes in the applicable law. We will post a notice on our Website to notify you in advance of material changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at [[email protected]], China is responsible for the processing. In addition, for EEA users, Data Protection Officer can be contacted at [[email protected]]. EEA users can also contact the competent data protection authority as the responsible supervisory authority.