Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

The Chinese Literature and Arts Society (“CLAAS”) takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is intended to provide you with information regarding CLAAS collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information (“Information”). This Policy applies to all websites owned and controlled by CLAAS and its affiliates, and all websites that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Site”), and to all services available on the Site. If you do not understand any aspects of this Policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your Information by CLAAS as described in this Policy.

SCOPE; THIRD PARTY SITES

This Policy applies only to Information we collect at and through the Site. Our Site may contain links to third party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by CLAAS. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites or their services. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal information.

ADDITIONAL TERMS

Additional terms may apply to your use of the Site. Please reference the CLAAS Terms and Conditions located at https://theclaas.org/terms/, which apply to your use of the Site and may include terms which are listed but not defined in this Policy.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICY

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without notice to you, or without your consent, where required by applicable law. We will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice as we deem appropriate. We will also keep prior versions of this Policy in an archive for your review.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

CLAAS collects certain information when you inquire about our properties and our services, when you communicate with us, when you use our services, when you interact with us through social media, and when you visit our Site. We seek to limit the collection and use of information required to deliver our services, which includes advising you about our properties, services, and other opportunities, and to provide our services and administer our business.

Information You Provide to Us When you Use our Site

Although in most cases you are not required to share Information with us when you use our Site, you may provide the following Information to us:

    • First and last name

    • Title

    • Company name

    • Email address

    • Phone number

    • The content of any message that you send to us through the Site

Information You Provide When you Use our Investor Portal

When you use our investor portal, we collect your name and email address in order to set up your account on the portal. You may optionally also provide your phone number to enable multi-factor authentication. You may update certain contact details through the portal, such as your mailing address. Additionally, you may have the option to establish a direct relationship with our portal provider. In such cases, your relationship with the portal provider is independent and is governed by the portal provider’s applicable terms and privacy policy.

Information You Provide to Us When You Use our Shift Site

If you use our Shift website, we may collect the following information from you:

    • First and last name

    • Work email address

    • Employer name

    • Office location

    • Information about your use of Shift services, including but not limited to additional terms and agreements relating to amenity and other Shift services that you have agreed to

    • Your communication with us and through the Shift website

    • Events you have registered for or attended

Information We Collect Automatically

As is true with most websites, we collect certain information (some of which may be considered “Information” under certain privacy laws) automatically when you use our Site (including, without limitation, our Shift website), such as:

    • IP address

    • Browser type

    • Computer or device type

    • Unique device identifiers for mobile devices or tablets

    • Operating system version

    • The website from where you navigated to our Site

    • Time and date of using, accessing, or otherwise interacting with our Site

    • The pages on our Site that you view, any search terms that you enter, and how you interact with our Site

    • The name of your Internet service provider

COOKIES AND ANALYTICS

Like most websites, we use cookies and analytics providers to collect certain non-personally identifiable information about how our Site is used. We and our analytics providers use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information when you interact with our Site through your computer or mobile device, and in certain cases when you communicate with us through email. Our vendors and service providers may also use these tools when providing services to us. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that website to recognize your browser. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies. We also use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, tracking user trends and providing relevant content and advertising to you. 

By using this Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by our and our vendors’ analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For example, our analytics providers include, without limitation, Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us understand how visitors use our Site and to compile reports on website activity. For more information regarding Google Analytics please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. For information on how to opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our visitors, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser at this time. 

USE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

We collect Information so that we can provide services to you and provide information that you request from us. This includes responding to inquiries and questions, communicating with you, providing services such as tenant services associated with our Shift website, verifying your identity and employment, and providing information about our properties and our business. If you use our Shift website services, in addition to the above, we may also use your Information to suggest certain events and amenities tailored to you.

We may also use your Information to: (i) analyze, operate and improve the Site, our services, and our business; (ii) customize the content you see when you use the Site, or the services that we offer to you; (iii) conduct market analysis, traffic flow analysis and related reporting to third parties; and (iv) for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your Information.

We may also use Information as we believe may be necessary or appropriate for certain essential purposes, such as: (i) to comply with applicable law and legal process; (ii) to respond to requests from public and governing authorities; (iii) to detect, prevent, or investigate potential security incidents or fraud; (iv) to enforce our Terms of Service or any other contract; (v) to protect our operations or those of our affiliates; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, property, security and/or that of third parties; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Any information that we collect that does not constitute “Information” (meaning, it is not personal information and cannot identify you), may be used and disclosed by CLAAS without restriction of any kind. Additionally, we may de-identify Information so that it no longer identifies you (and is no longer considered “Information”), which we also may also use and disclose without restriction.

ADVERTISING

We may use how you browse our Site in order to show you ads for CLAAS or our advertising partners that are more relevant to your interests. We may use cookies and other information to provide relevant interest-based advertising to you. Interest-based ads are ads presented to you based on your browsing behavior in order to provide you with ads more tailored to your interests. These interest-based ads may be presented to you while you are browsing our Site or third-party sites not owned by CLAAS.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We share your Information with our third-party service providers who provide services to us, such as website hosting, data analysis, analytics, marketing, IT services, email delivery services, and other services, in order to enable them to provide such services.

We may share your Information as necessary for the essential purposes described above and in other contexts with your consent.

Your Information may also be disclosed to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION AND CHOICES

You can access, update, or delete certain Information we have about you by contacting us at [email protected]. You can opt-out of receiving marketing and promotional e-mails from CLAAS by using the opt-out or unsubscribe feature contained in the e-mails.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

CLAAS uses commercially reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your Information. However, since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot guarantee, ensure, or warrant the security of any Information you transmit to us. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed, or that Your Information won’t be intercepted while being transmitted, by breach of any of our security measures.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Site is directed to persons 18 years of age or older and you must be 18 years of age in order to access the Site. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not access the Site or provide any Information about yourself to us. CLAAS does not knowingly collect or solicit any Information from persons under 18 years of age. If CLAAS becomes aware that a child under 18 years of age has provided Information to CLAAS, CLAAS will delete such Information.If you believe that we might have any information from a person under 18, please contact us as directed below in the “Contact Us” section below.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at [email protected].

CLAAS Ltd.