Changan South takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting it.

This privacy policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please take the time to review this policy so that you understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Our website may contain links to other websites that may be of interest to you but which may be outside of our group.  Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to our websites and micro sites. Websites which are linked from our website may not have privacy policies or they may use your personal information in ways which are different to those set out in this policy. Changan South is not responsible for the content, privacy or security of other websites.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kind of personal data about you which includes:

Identity information i.e. your first and last name, title, marital status;

– Contact information i.e. your postal address, e-mail address, phone number;

– Profile data such as your username and password, purchases and orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;

– Usage data i.e. information about how you use our website, products and services;

– Marketing and Communications data i.e. your preferences in receiving marketing from us, our third parties and your preferences as to how we communicate those marketing information to you.

We use different methods to collect personal data about you in the following ways:

• Information provided by you by filling in forms on our websites, including any micro sites. This includes information provided for marketing purposes.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfillment of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our websites and micro sites and the resources that you access.
• Any data provided by you to us directly during a purchase transaction.
• Each time you visit our websites, micro sites or use one of our apps we will automatically collect personal data including device, content and usage Data. We collect this data by cookies and other similar technologies.
• We will collect telemetry data (e.g. battery life, engine temperature and distance travelled data) from your vehicle in order to provide you with technical and support services.

• use the particular feature, you will be asked to consent to your data being used for this purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time by disabling Location Services in your vehicle’s settings menu.
• We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data analyzed for browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data analyzed for browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

For the same purposes, Changan South may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalized service. They enable us:

• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customize our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognize you when you return to our site.

IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

HOW WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

The various lawful basis we rely on is explained below:

Consent means where you provide specific consent for us to provide you or to contact you about our products and services which we feel may be of interest to you, via the method you pick i.e. post/email/text/telephone call.

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.