Privacy Policy

Your privacy is and will always be enormously important to GUANGZHOU HEYGEARS IMC.INC, our affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “HeyGears”, “we” or “us”). Our Privacy Policy is designed to provide transparency into our data practices in a format that is easy to read and navigate. Please read the sections below to understand how we collect, use, share, and safeguard your information in order to offer you the best service.

1.     The Personal Information We Collect

2.     How we use your Personal Information

3.     Sharing Your Personal Information

4.     Retention

5.     Your Rights to access, rectify, or delete

6.     International Transfer

7.     Cookies

8.     Children’s Privacy

9.     Security Measures

10.     Data Protection officer

11.     Miscellaneous and Contact Us

1. The Personal Information We Collect

1.1Information you give to us. You acknowledge and agree to provide following information (if any):

a.Personal or company information: name, company name, email address, phone number, country or region, title, industry;

b.Communication information with HeyGears or our customer service;

c.Log-in IDs and passwords. Your Log-in IDs and passwords are encrypted with a one way function before our collection. They are completely invisible, including to our customer service team. We also recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone;

d.Record instances of system bugs, instability and crashes reported to us for the purpose of documentation, improvements and repairs;

e.Digital model of the patient’s mouth and the patient’s name you provide when using our dental services;

1.2The log information we will automatically collect about your login and use of the Service: IP address, type of browser, language used, date and time of access, software and hardware characteristics, user identifier, etc.

1.3Personal Information generated through the service or otherwise includes:

a.Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your orders on or through the Service, including order numbers and transaction history.

b.Product printing performance, including but not limited to, the number of prints you make, the amount of supplies you use, and the number of consumables in stock.

c.Software processing records and usage data, such as dental design service, scan-to-model, blueprint studio, etc.

1.4Information That We Receive From Third Parties:
We collect personal information of you from third parties including our related companies, our business partners (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram). Exactly what information we receive will depend on your privacy settings with the applicable platform, but would typically include basic public profile information such as: Website speed, Conversions by device, regions, Conversions by the browser, etc.

1.5Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy and Cookie Statement or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
You agree that HeyGears shall send the verification code(s) to the mobile number and email address provided by you. Please confirm that the information filled in is complete, true and accurate. If the information provided is incorrect, HeyGears may not be able to contact you at first notice and provide the services you apply for.

2. How we use your Personal Information

2.1You acknowledge and agree that HeyGears may use your information:

a.to provide desired products or subscription services;

b.to provide you with service-related communications;

c.to provide you with products or services that we consider may be of interest to you;

d.to improve our products or services, or for personalization research;

e.to conduct data analysis, such as investment behavior or trend analysis, marketing or customer surveys, financial analysis);

f.to operate, evaluate and improve the business of HeyGears, such as developing new products and services, managing communications, evaluating the effectiveness of sales, marketing and advertising, analyzing and improving products, services and website;

g.to send messages to your designated liaisons with your prior consent;

h.to prevent and investigate fraud or any illegal activities;

i.to comply with legal or compliance requirements or HeyGears policies.

j.providing customer service support, such as responding to your queries, feedback and managing claims and/or disputes;

k.providing/supporting general services, facilitating communication between you and HeyGears;

l.Other purposes. We may use your information for any other purpose disclosed to you prior to you providing us your personal information or which is reasonably necessary to provide the Services or other related products and/or services requested, with your permission or upon our direction.

m.Cookies or other similar technologies may be used to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests (see section 7. Cookies below for more information).

3. Sharing Your Personal Information

3.1Your personal information is an essential part of HeyGears business and we shall not share or disclose your personal information except as set forth below:

a.Within Our Corporate Organization. HeyGears is a global brand and HeyGears entities operate from a number of locations around the world.We may share your personal information with our related group companies for business maintenance and personalization continuity purposes.

b.Service Providers.HeyGears may engage outside companies or individuals to provide certain products or services on behalf of HeyGears, including but not limited to providing product information, and services such as operation, maintenance, IT platform and/ or technical services, data security or backup services, sending letters or emails, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing search results and links.In such cases, HeyGears may share your personal information with third Parties. You agree that we shall share information with OneTrust(https://cookiepedia.co.uk/giving-consent-to-cookies) to tailor the Privacy Policy and Cookies settings you when visiting the Site, Webpower (https://www.webpowerchina.com/en/privacy) , Google(https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage) and Hotjar (https://www.hotjar.com).Third Party Payment Processors: We may use third party processor companies to provide payment services when you visit the our online store. These companies may use information about your visit to our site to provide payment services and to verify your payment.

c.Consent.We may disclose your personal information for any purpose with your consent. You will be notified when your information may be disclosed to a third party, and will be able to elect not to share this information with the third party.

d.To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance. We have the right to disclose your personal information or as required by law, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, judgement, rulings, request from a regulator, request from government or any other legal process served on us. We also may disclose your information where we reasonably believe that the disclosure is necessary to enforce our agreements or policies, deal with dispute or if we believe that disclosure will help us protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our employees or our customers.

4. Retention

We will retain your personal information in following ways:
·Retention in case of queries.We may retain your data for a reasonable period after you have inquired.
·Retention in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements.We will retain your data for as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so, to provide services or products to you, as required or permitted by applicable laws.
How long your data is kept for will also depend on how you use our website or services (for example if you are logged in as a member, we will keep your data until the termination of the service or until you request to delete the data, or you are visiting our website as a guest, we will keep your data for at least 5 weeks and what the information you provide to us is used for. For example, if you are a registered member, certain data will be retained for a length of time following termination or deletion of your account, in order to comply with applicable laws or in case of disputes.

5. Your Rights to access, rectify, or delete

5.1You have the right to access, rectify, or delete the personal information that we collect when you using our Services. The way you access, rectify, and delete information will depend on the specific service you use. To protect the security of your account, we may ask you to verify your identity when accessing, rectifying, and deleting information.

5.2There are instances where applicable laws or regulatory requirements allow or require us to refuse to provide or delete some or all of the personal information that we maintain. We may not accommodate a request to delete or change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. You have the right to request that we transfer the collected data to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

5.3You may, in your sole discretion, request us to restrict and object to the processing of your information with respect to certain non-basic functions or services by contacting us.

5.4You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. If you no longer wish for us to use your email account to send you marketing emails or non-transactional promotional materials, please directly click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our email messages to you or contact us (see the section 11. Miscellaneous and Contact Us).

6. International Transfer

We may share information globally, both internally within the HeyGears affiliates, and externally with our partners and with those you connect and share with around the world in accordance with this policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide the services set forth in the HeyGears and to globally operate and provide our Products to you. You hereby give us a consent and authorized us to transfer the data as indicated below.

6.1Visitors from China

6.2Visitors from the European Countries

6.3Visitors from California

7. Cookies

A cookie is a small file, usually containing an identifier, the name of a site, and some numbers and characters, that is stored by a web server on the computer, cell phone, or other smart device of the subject of personal information when the subject of personal information logs on to a website or views web content. When the subject of personal information visits the respective website again, the website can recognize the browser of the subject of personal information through the cookies. Cookies may store user preferences and other information.
For more information, please see Cookie Statement.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, children or minors (under the age of 13) without the consent of the child's parent or guardian. If you are a child or a minor, please ask your parent or guardian to read this Policy carefully and to obtain your parent's or guardian's consent before using our services or providing us with information. To the extent that a minor's personal information is collected for use of our products or services with the consent of a parent or guardian, we may collect, use, store, provide and protect the information only as permitted by law or regulation, with the express consent of the parent or guardian, or as necessary to protect the minor. If a child has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact privacy@heygears.com to remove the information.

9. Security Measures

We utilize a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. All user contact information is contained behind a "firewall" and only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special access rights to production systems. We only store personal information in electronic form.

No data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. As a result, while we use appropriate technical and organizational measures (e.g., Baidu analytics and Google analytics) to protect the information we hold for you, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit over the internet.

10. Data Protection officer

For further information regarding the processing of your personal data and your rights, please contact us by sending an e-mail to [privacy@heygears.com]. If you are not satisfied with the way we handled your request, you have the right to request the restriction of our use of your personal data and lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for the protection of personal data in your country of residence.

11. Miscellaneous and Contact Us

11.1Right to modify this Policy. We may change this Policy from time to time, to reflect how we are processing your data, and if we make changes, we will notify you by revising the effective date or last modified date at the bottom of this Policy. If we make significant changes that materially affect your privacy rights, we will provide advanced notice and make that clear on the HeyGears website or other HeyGears services, or by some other means of contact such as email, so that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use the Services. If you do not agree with the modified Policy, some of the functionality of our services may not be available to you.

11.2We aim to ensure that our privacy policy continually meets all legal requirements in order to maintain and honor your privacy. Emails: info@heygears.com

a.Please contact us as set out below if you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of HeyGears with respect to personal information, or if you have any queries or concerns about your dealings with the HeyGears’s service or our handling of your information. If you express any concerns that we have interfered with your privacy we will promptly respond to let you know who will be handling your matter and when you can expect a response.

b.You can also contact us as set out below if you wish to access or correct any personal information we hold about you. We may need to verify your identity. If we deny any request to access or correct personal information, we will provide our reasons. Where we decide not to make a requested correction to your personal information, you may ask us to note your request with the information.

Update: 2024.09.30

Last Version: 2024.04.26

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