Legal Statement

Online Privacy Statement

SHAOLIN (www.shaolin.org.cn)and its sub-websites respect your privacy. This Privacy Statement informs you of our privacy practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected online and how that information is used. This statement is readily available on our home page and at the bottom of every SHAOLIN Web page.

Collection of personal information

To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, SHAOLIN TEMPLE collects, exports, and uses personal information with adequate notice and consent, along with required filings with data protection authorities, when applicable, for example, when you want to register to join our membership. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include contact information such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address, and other unique information such as user IDs and passwords, and service preferences, contact preferences, educational and employment background, and job interest data.

In addition to the information you provide, SHAOLIN may also collect information during your visit to the SHAOLIN website through our Automatic Data Collection Tools, which include Web beacons, cookies, embedded Web links, and other commonly used information-gathering tools. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to our website such as your browser type and language, access times, and the address of the website from which you arrived at SHAOLIN website. We may also collect information about your Internet Protocol (IP) address, clickstream behavior (i.e. the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with SHAOLIN websites). An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers use IP addresses to communicate on the Internet, allowing users to browse and shop. SHAOLIN may also use some of these Automatic Data Collection Tools in connection with certain emails sent from SHAOLIN and therefore may collect information using these tools when you open the email or click on a link contained in the email.

Keeping your personal information secure

SHAOLIN takes seriously the trust you place in us. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of the information, SHAOLIN utilizes appropriate physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard the information we collect.

Our use of information

Events and networking investigation

The member name, ID card used in SHAOLIN allows you to log in, while the information including telephone, e-mail and address is for the reference of related activities and membership analysis, and it will not make for other purposes. Other data are limited to commercial and market analysis or academic purposes; we will not make use of information for other purposes unless the respondents agreed that all data could be used for data analysis.

When you initiatively register and become a member of our website, the data entered after that would be taken for reference of SHAOLIN services and activities. Other data generated (your IP, Browser, browsing memory, etc.) are collected and analyzed as a whole and are not for individual analysis.

Our use of cookies

A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Nearly all commercial websites use cookies.

The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized web pages for them. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

When using our Web site, cookies may be used to for each individual session to remember what you have in your shopping cart, whether you are logged in, etc. No personal information is stored in these cookies. For the following purposes and circumstances, we will write and read cookies in your browser under the premise of this policy principle:

To provide better, more personalized service, and to facilitate your participation in the activities of personal interaction.

Cookies will be set up when you register or log in, and modified when void

To track and analyze the number of visitors and browsing patterns，we can take it as reference to serve you better and understand your needs and interests.

How we share your information

We will never give your personal information to a third party unless written consent. If you access our affiliates or advertisers through our Web site, and engage in commerce with them, you may have to check their privacy policies. We will share your personal information with a third party under the premise of the policy principles as to the following three conditions:

When we need to share your data with a third party who provides the service or preference in order to offer you other services or preferential rights, , we will give a full description and notify you before information collection, and you can freely choose whether to accept this particular service or preference.

We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law when we believe that such action is necessary and conform to the law or comply with legal process.

When someone may breach our Terms of Service, or may damage or impede the SHAOLIN, our Web site users or a third party’s interest, and if we have reason to believe that it is indispensable to disclose this information for identifying, contacting, taking legal action to this person, and then we can expose the user’s personal information. In addition, the trust based on the goodwill for the necessary by the law, or for the maintenance and improvement of products, services and for management or other purposes, we also have the right to disclose or acquire the user’s personal information.

Modification on personal information and Self-protection

When you have registered on our website and become a member online, you are free to utilize your ID and password to modify the information provided before (Such as name, nickname, address, telephone, e-mail, etc.)

Except the personal data required for registration, other personal information you provided within SHAOLIN sites is not within the scope of this modification.

Please keep your password and personal information and not to expose it to anyone else, particularly, your passwords. After you have completed, please be sure to write-off your accounts. If you are sharing a computer with others or use a public computer, please be sure to turn off the browser window for preventing others from reading your personal information or letters.

Contacting us

We value your opinions. If you have comments or questions about our privacy statement, please send them to the SHAOLIN or write to us at the following address: Block AB 10/F, Xinwen Building, 85 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, China

Copyright Notices

All the contents published on SHAOLIN (www.shaolin.org.cn), including text, photographs, images, illustrations, sound recording films, video films or any other form of materials, etc. are subject to copyright laws of P.R.C and international copyright laws. Copyright of website contents belongs to SHAOLIN or its provider, the use of these materials only based on their written content..

The content and services provided by SHAOLIN can only be used for personal, non-commercial and you must comply with all relevant provisions, otherwise you may infringe the relevant copyright regulations and have to assume civil and criminal liability in accordance with the law.

Without the written consent or authorization by the copyright holder, the user may not change, distribute, transmit, resell, reproduce, convert, spread, perform and display, or use part or the entire site content or services to obtain the benefits.

The contents of website that users download or copy as well as services received are only for personal, non-commercial purposes. Prohibit any other use in the absence of access prior to the written permission of SHAOLIN or providers and authors.