The privacy policies of “China Hangzhou” (www.hangzhou.gov.cn), Hangzhou’s government portal, is aimed to protect the privacy of visitors’ to this website. Due to the direct and indirect interactions between this site and the internet users, the site hereby elaborates the protection policies on the personal information it collects and uses.

1. When you browse, read pages, or download information on this website, we automatically gather and store certain technical information (the domain name, the browser name, operation system, time of visit and web pages visited) about your visit. This information never identifies who you are.

2. When you register online for some activities, the site will request you to offer some personal information via forms or orders, which include:
 - Personal identification: name, sex, age, ID card (passport) number, telephone, mail address, address, post code and e-mail address.
 - Personal background: profession, education, income, marital status and family conditions.

Without your permission and confirmation, this site promises not to release the information to any other private organizations. However, under the state laws and local regulations, we may share the information with relevant governmental departments if necessary.

3. This site will employ technologies to strictly monitor and protect the private information from being lost, stolen or illegally changed. If necessary, the site will delegate network professionals to modify the materials after confirming with your. If you did not express objection within the time declared, the site will assume that your approval of the changes. However, you still have the right to ask the termination of these modifications later.

4. This website does not have control on the accuracy, promptness and completeness of the contents of the websites it links with.

5. When the government has to expose the relevant personal information to carry out some legal procedures, this site will do it for public safety and will be exempted.

6. This site will irregularly invites you to participate in some net survey to better city construction and social development. When you are involved, your information will be open to public. Please consider if you would like to register your personal information anyway.

7. Disclaimer
This site will be exempted from responsibilities under following conditions:
a) Your information is exposed for your telling others your passwords or sharing the account with others;
b) The private information is lost, stolen or illegally changed due to force majeure like hackings, virus intrusions, government controls and so on;
c) The private materials are exposed because of logging on the websites China Hangzhou has been linking with;
d) The complicated Chinese character version is automatically converted, for which this site cannot ensure 100% accuracy

The portal has the right to the modification and updating of the private policies. Please contact: xxzx@hz.gov.cn