China Global Television Network (collectively referred to as "CGTN" or “we,” “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting your personal data at all times. Therefore, we will comply with the EU (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) of the People's Republic of China and other applicable personal data protection laws, adopt security protection measures to formulate the CGTN Privacy Policy (hereinafter collectively referred to as "this Privacy Policy") to protect your personal data. Please read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with the User Agreement.

This Privacy Policy applies to visits to our websites, the data collection and processing performed, and the use of our products and services. This Privacy Policy covers how we collect and process your personal data when you log on to and use our website services worldwide.

According to the applicable personal data protection laws, the information of data controllers and data protection officers is as follows:

Name of data controller:
Company: China Global Television Network Corporation
Address: Room2210, Building 2, No.1 Xidawanglu, Chaoyang District, Beijing,
People's Republic of China
Data Protection Officer in Europe
Name: iuro Attorneys at Law represented by Dr. Andreas Maetzler
E-Mail: cgtndpo@cgtncorp.com

We remind you:

Before you use CGTN products and services to provide personal data, please read this Privacy Policy carefully, confirm that you fully understand and agree to use it, and ensure that you have fully understood the meaning of its contents and the corresponding legal consequences. By signing, or clicking "Agree" or other similar option, and providing us with your personal data, you are deemed to have accepted this Privacy Policy.

The CGTN products and services described in this Privacy Policy may vary depending on your phone model, system version, software application version, etc. The final products and services are based on the CGTN products and services you use.

Among them, we use bold font or other reasonable ways to identify the terms that are (may be) significant to your rights and interests, and you should focus on reading them. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us via Part 10 of this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy will help you understand:

1.Definitions and legal basis
2.How we collect and process your personal data
3.How we provide, disclose and store your personal data
4.How we protect your personal data
5.Your rights
6.How we process minors' personal data
7.How your personal data is transferred globally
8.Use of cookies and similar technologies
9.How this policy is updated
10. How to contact us

Section 1. Definitions

Personal data: refers to any data related to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly through identifiers such as name, identity card number, location data, network identifier, etc., or through specific personal attributes of the body, mind, genes, state of mind, economy, culture, society and so on.

Special categories of personal data: refers to personal data such as racial or ethnic origin, political views, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, labor union membership, and other personal data, as well as personal genetic data, biometric data, health data, sex life, sexual orientation and other related data.

Section 2. Legal Basis

We collect and process your personal data in strict compliance with the law and the provisions of this policy, we do not normally collect personal data directly from any other source than the data subject, and we collect and process your personal data for the purposes described in this privacy policy. In cases where the collection of special categories of personal data, cross-border transfers of data, etc. are (potentially) of significant relevance to your rights and interests, we will notify you by means of enhanced notification or instant alerts (e.g., pop-up reminders) and obtain your explicit consent.

We will generally collect, use, disclose or otherwise process your personal data with your consent or in accordance with the law for the purposes described in this policy, including but not limited to the following circumstances:

1. The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

2. Processing is necessary for the performance of the contract with you or for the performance of the actions you require prior to entering into the contract;

3. Processing is necessary for compliance with legal requirements and fulfilling legal obligations;

4. Processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person;

5. Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

6. Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party.

We collect and process your personal data in accordance with applicable personal data protection laws such as GDPR, CCPA and PIPL. We collect and use your personal data for the following purposes as described in this Privacy Policy. We do not carry out automated decision-making algorithm activities or personalized recommendations based on the personal data we collect from you.

Section 1. The purpose and type of personal data we collect from you when you use CGTN products and services and agree to this Privacy Policy

When you use the product through mobile devices (non-APP), we may call your acceleration sensor, direction sensor and gravity sensor permissions to detect screen direction changes and perform horizontal and hard screen switching for video playback. The corresponding business functions are provided to you through your sensor information (individual sensor information is not personal data). Please be aware that the individual device sensor information does not involve anyone's location information and cannot be combined with other information to identify a particular natural person.

Section 2. Exceptions to consent

CGTN will process your personal data with your consent and regard your consent as the legal basis for collecting and processing personal data. The purpose of processing personal data and the types of personal data that need to be processed are explained in detail above. If you have any questions about our personal data processing activities, please feel free to contact us through the contact information published in Part 10 of this policy.

Please be informed that, according to applicable laws and regulations, CGTN has the right to process your personal data without obtaining your prior consent in the following circumstances:

1. Processing that must be carried out to perform a contract to which the personal data subject is a party or to meet the pre-requirements put forward by the personal data subject in entering into the contract;

2. Processing necessary to fulfill the legal obligations assumed by the controller of personal data;

3. Processing necessary to protect the vital interests of personal data subjects or other natural persons;

4. Processing necessary for the public interest or to carry out the official powers conferred on the controller of personal data;

5. Processing that must be carried out based on the legitimate interests of the controller of personal data or third parties. Personal data should be protected if the requirements of the rights, fundamental rights and freedoms of the subject of the personal data are more important than the aforementioned legitimate interests, especially where the subject is a child, that is, the aforementioned exception without prior consent for the processing of personal data does not hold.

Section 1. Share

We will not share your personal data to any company, organization or individual, except for the following:

1. Shared under the condition of obtaining separate consent. After obtaining your separate consent, we will provide your personal data to other parties.

2. In the event of a merger, acquisition or bankruptcy or liquidation involving the provision of personal data to the successor of the company's rights and obligations, we will separately inform you of the situation and request that the new company or organization holding your personal data continue to be bound by this privacy policy, or we will require the company or organization to seek your authorized consent again.

Section 2. Publicly disclose

We will only publicly disclose your personal data if:

1. When it is necessary for our business and after obtaining your consent.

2. Publicly disclose based on law: We may disclose your personal data when compelled to do so by law, legal proceedings, litigation or government authorities.

Section 3 Storage

1. We will store the collected personal data on our servers according to the requirements of laws and regulations. At the same time, we securely store the personal data we collect in accordance with laws and regulations and the most advanced cybersecurity practices.

2. We store personal data only for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of processing or to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations. Will not exceed the time necessary to process personal data, unless a longer period of time is required for legal, regulatory or procedural purposes. However, when the technical and organizational measures required by law are met, and are only used for public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics, they will be stored for a long time.

3. After the retention period expires, your personal data will be deleted from the system or anonymized.

4. For countries with localized storage requirements, we will actively communicate with your country or region to jointly achieve localized storage.

Section 1.We have used security and organizational measures that meet industry standards to protect the personal data you provide from unauthorized access, public disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss. We have passed the rating of China's Network Security Level Protection (Level III), and have established a good coordination and communication mechanism with regulators and third-party evaluation institutions to timely resist and deal with various information security threats, so as to provide a comprehensive guarantee for your information security. We use encryption technology to ensure the confidentiality of data; We use trusted protection mechanisms to protect our data from malicious attacks; We deploy access control mechanisms to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to personal data. We have established a dedicated privacy compliance organization and a management system for employees and suppliers. We regularly hold security and privacy protection training courses to enhance employees' awareness of the importance of protecting personal data.

Section 2. In case of an unfortunate personal data security incident or data leakage, we will inform you in a timely manner in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations: the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the disposal measures we have taken or will take, the suggestions you can independently prevent and reduce risks, remedial measures for you, etc. We will inform you of the incident in a timely manner by mail, letter, telephone, push notice, etc. When it is difficult to inform the personal data subjects one by one, we will take a reasonable and effective approach to publish the announcement. If you have any questions about our personal data protection, such as if you have discovered that your personal data has been compromised, please contact us immediately via the contact information in Section 10 so that we can take action accordingly. At the same time, we will also actively report the disposal of personal data security incidents in accordance with the requirements of regulators.

Section 3. Some search engines, social media, friendship links and other products or services may contain network links operated and maintained by third parties, but we have no control over such third parties. Please note that any data you provide to a third party will be subject to the terms of that third party's privacy policy or personal data protection policy. We recommend that you understand and inquire before providing any data to third parties. We assume no responsibility for the content, conduct or policies of third parties. The presence of a third party link on some of our products and services does not mean that we agree with the content, behavior or policies of the third party.

In accordance with the law and practices prevailing in other countries and regions, we guarantee that you exercise the following rights with respect to your personal data:

Section 1. Access, review and copy your personal data

You have the right to access your personal data, except for exceptions required by law and regulations.

You can send an email to ask us about your personal data. We will respond to your request no later than one month after validation.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, or machine-readable format

1. The personal data is collected and processed based on your consent;

2. The data is collected and processed for the purpose of fulfilling the contract you have entered into with us;

3. The data is collected and processed through automatic means.

At the same time, you have the right to request us to transfer your personal data to a third party. We will transfer your relevant personal data directly to the third party you specify, as long as it is technically feasible.

You can exercise your rights by sending an email. However, please note that exercising the above rights should not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others. In addition, if the personal data you request to provide or transfer has been deleted, or if we are not allowed to provide or transfer your relevant data according to relevant laws and regulations, we will not be able to respond to the above rights.

Section 2. Delete your personal data

You can request us to delete your personal data if:

1. If we process personal data in violation of laws and regulations;

2. If we collect and use your personal data without your consent;

3. If our processing of personal data violates the agreement with you;

4. If the purpose of processing your personal data has been achieved, cannot be achieved or is no longer necessary to achieve the processing purpose (for example, you no longer use our products or services, etc.);

5. When we terminate our website services and operations;

6. You have withdrawn your consent to our authorization to process your personal data.

If we decide to respond to your deletion request, we will also notify the entities that have obtained your personal data from us and request that they delete it in a timely manner, unless otherwise required by law or regulation, or unless those entities are independently authorized by you.

Section 3. Correct your personal data

You have the right to ask us to make corrections when you find that the personal data we process about you is incorrect or incomplete.

If you are unable to correct this personal data in the manner described above, you may send an email to us. We will respond to your request no later than one month after validation.

Section 4.You may restrict our processing of your personal data if:

1. You challenge the accuracy of personal data and allow the controller to verify the accuracy of personal data within a certain period of time;

2. The processing is illegal, and you oppose the deletion of the personal data and request to restrict the use of the personal data;

3. You no longer need the personal data for processing purposes, but you need the personal data to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

4. You have raised an objection to data processing and are waiting to verify whether the legitimate interest is more important than the interests of the data subject.

Section 5. Right to object and right to withdraw consent

If we process your personal data as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests; You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data when performing a task in the public interest or based on official authority, or for reasons relating to your particular circumstances. You can exercise your rights by sending an email.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time, including withdrawing consent for certain types of personal data processing or consent based on a specific purpose of personal data processing. However, please note that this withdrawal does not have retroactive effect. After receiving your request, we will promptly delete your relevant data in accordance with Part 3 of Section 4. You can withdraw your consent by sending an email.

Section 6. Responding to your request and appeal

In order to protect the security of your personal data, you may need to prove your identity, and we will process your request after verifying your identity. We will respond to your request within one month.

We may reject requests that are gratuitously repetitive, require excessive technical means (e.g., require the development of new systems or fundamentally change existing practices), pose a risk to the legitimate interests of others, or are highly impractical.

Section 7. California residents have the following specific legal rights:

We recognize and protect your legal rights under the CCPA and other California laws. You may exercise your rights at any time in accordance with Section 4 of this Policy. In addition, you also have:

1. Right to Know about Participating in Data Sharing in Exchange for Financial Incentives
If we provide financial incentives before collecting your personal data, we will obtain your consent in advance

2. The right to choose not to sell personal data to third parties
You have the right to choose not to sell your personal data to any third party. Please be aware that this right does not apply to the situation where we share personal data with service providers. Service providers are parties we entrust to perform functions on our behalf, and they have a contractual obligation to use personal data only within the scope of their functions as agreed in the contract.

3. The right to be free from discrimination
You can exercise all rights at any time, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

4. California Shine the Light Law
California residents have the right to request information about third parties to whom the company disclosed certain types of personal data for the latter’s direct marketing purposes in the previous calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like us to stop such personal data disclosures, you can send an email to us.

Our products, websites and services are primarily aimed at adults. Minors are not permitted to create their own user accounts without the consent of a guardian, and if we become aware that personal data of minors has been collected without prior verifiable parental consent, we will endeavor to delete the data as quickly as possible.

We will strictly comply with the legal requirements of the different countries and regions regarding the personal data of minors and with any lower age thresholds set by law.

Our business is global, and your data may need to be stored or processed by us in countries other than your country, including countries where there is different legal protection for your data and where you have fewer legal rights. For example, we will transfer the data collected from you to China, where we will store or process the data.

Before transferring your personal data across borders, we will prompt you again and obtain your separate consent in an enhanced notification or instant prompt (such as a pop-up window).

Although such jurisdictions may have different data protection laws, we will ensure that your personal data is adequately and equally protected through organizational and technical measures and by entering into data cross-border transmission agreements with foreign recipients of personal data. In addition, we will carry out security measures such as personal data security impact assessments before cross-border data transfer, and adopt technical and management measures to effectively fulfill data security protection obligations.

Section 1. When you visit our website, your cookies will be collected and processed by us and by Google Analytics on our behalf. Google Analytics uses statistics collected from our website and how you use our website to analyze clickthrough, geographic distribution of users, and more.

Section 2. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer to recognize and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard disk, tablet or mobile device. When you visit our website, we may collect your data through cookies or similar technology.

Section 3. When you visit our website, we will send cookies to your device and to Google and our servers. We do not use cookies for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy.

Section 4. You can change your web browser settings to opt out of our cookies. You can delete all existing cookies on your device by clearing your browser's browsing history. This will delete all cookies from all websites you have visited. Please note that you may also lose some of your saved data. Because most web browsers include the ability to manage cookies, you can change your web browser settings at any time to opt out of our cookies.

Section 5.These cookies are essential so that you can move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies services you have asked for cannot be provided. See list of strictly necessary cookies. You cannot disable strictly necessary cookies. They are essential for the site to work.

The contents of this Privacy Policy may change. If such changes are material, we will automatically consider your consent withdrawn until you agree again to the terms of our Privacy Statement. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your express consent. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. We will archive older versions of this Privacy Policy for your review.

For significant changes, we also provide more significant notifications.

Significant changes referred to in this Privacy Policy include, but are not limited to:

1. Significant changes in our functional modules, such as the purpose of processing personal data, the type of personal data processed, and the use of personal data;

2. Significant changes in our ownership structure, organizational structure, etc., such as changes in owners caused by business adjustments, bankruptcy mergers and acquisitions, etc;

3. Changes in the main objects of personal data sharing, transfer or public disclosure;

4. There has been a significant change in your right to participate in the processing of personal data and the manner in which it is exercised;

5. When there are changes in the responsible department, contact information and complaint channels for handling personal data security.

You may contact us regarding this privacy statement, our website or any other question that is not related to your exercise of your privacy rights via:

1. China Global Television Network

Email: cgtn@cgtn.com

Address: No. A1, Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Postal code: 100026

2. China Global Television Network UK Representative

Address: 11th Floor,Building 7,Chiswick Park,London W4 5YG, UK

E-mail: dataprotection@cgtn-europe.com

3.Data Protection Officer in Europe

Name: iuro Attorneys at Law represented by Dr. Andreas Maetzler

Address for Requests: 11th Floor, Building 7, Chiswick Park, London W4 5YG, UK

E-Mail: cgtndpo@cgtncorp.com