Privacy Policy

1. Privacy Notice

This privacy notice describes how CPop CDrama (hereby CPCD) collects data that may identify you and how we process it as you browse our website. Upon collecting any of your data beyond the scope described here, you may see other privacy notices if available. Should there be any update to what described here, you may see changes in this section and hence, it is advised to check this page from time to time.

2. Personal Data Collection

Upon using this website, your data may be collected in following approaches:

2.1 Data and information that identify who you are directly. This may include, but not limited to, your name, address, email address, username and password.

2.2 Data and information that identify who you are indirectly. Once you visit to our website and / or interact with our site through a web browser, information regarding your device, browser, your mobile device and your Internet Protocol (IP) address may be automatically received and recorded. In addition, other information and data such as your time zone settings, your location data, your preference on languages, the operating system you are using, the platform you use and the links you may have clicked on our website or the links you may have sent to others via social media platforms, instant messaging app or email may also be received and recorded.

On top of that, a user ID may also be created that can indetify you indirectly which will be used to collect data about how you use our website or your activites on third-party sites, apps and other platforms. We may also use such information with your user account (should there be one) to identify you indirectly.

2.3 Location Data. You geo-data may be collected that can identify where you are upon collecting of such information. Your choice of language and country may also be received and recorded. Such data collected may also be associated with any other data we have collected on the site.

2.4 Profile Data. Your username and password and other information you have provided, given that you are a registered user, may also be collected. This may include, but no limited to, your interests, choices you made, links you clicked, preferences, feedback you provided as well as responses to the survey. Should you be a registered user, your publicly available data such as username and bio may be visible to other users on the site but not the email address.

2.5 Marketing, Advertising and Communication Data. This type of data may include, but not limited to, how you subscribe to the website and newsletter as well as your preferences on how you want to be shown ads (if available).

2.6 Financial Data. We do not sell anything on our website. However, upon clicking any link on our site, you may make purchase and financial transactions on such website, your financial and payment data will be collected there.

2.7 Special Data. Should we conduct any special survey, the data you provid through such surveys shall be received and collected. However, such information will never be shared with any third-party with no explicit consent from you.

3. Aggregated Data

3.1 In terms of the data we use to aggregate, it may include, but not limited to, the number of your visit to our website and its frequency. We may use such data to analyse it further for statistical purpose. It may also be shared with relevant third parties such as Google Analytics.

3.2 Such aggregated data may also be shared with our partners, service providers and other third parties to understand how people browse and visit our site. We shall obtain how to improve our site further and provide you with more relevant information based on user behaviour provided by such data aggregation.

3.3 In order to analyse the data on the website in efficient manner, data you provided may be associated with data from other users. Based on such aggregated data, we may then develop a set of data to establish segments of data to analyse user demographic and other behaviours. Upon aggregation, all such data will be handled in accordance with the scope provided in this privacy notice.

4. Personal Data Collection

4.1 Direct personal data collection occurs when you provide your information such as username and email address whenever it is relevant, fills in our survey, use user accounts to comment, opt in for any subscription, fills in the form to contact us or any other such manners.

4.2 Automatic personal data collection occurs when there is an interaction between you and our website. Via cookies and similar approach, where you click, device you use, what you browse may be recorded and saved.

4.3 Receiving your personal data occurs when third parties such as advertising networks and relevant service providers provide us with the data they collect that may be related to you. Such data may also be provided to us when you make further actions on other websites including third-parties that you may have visited via a link on our website.

4.4 If you access our sites using your Facebook or Google accounts, such credentials may automatically collected. The collected data may include, but not limited to, your username, profile image and email address. All the public information you provided to such service may also be collected in accordance with respective third-party policies.

5. Personal Data Usage and Legal Basis

All the collected data shall only be used for the purpose of collection as it stated, unless otherwise stated. All the collection, processing and aggregation will be strictly according the lawful basis.

5.1 Your personal data may be shared with third-party service providers such as Google Analytics. They shall then use such data to analyse, process and  provide us a better understanding on your user behaviours in terms of data analytics, advertising services and more.

5.2 Should you provide consent, such collected data may be shared with third parties which may be used for respective purposes.

5.3 Upon clicking links or commenting on our site, such collected data may be shared with third parties.

5.4 Should there be business merging or being acquired by any other business, such collected data maybe shared to the partner business and / or acquirer. Such new content owner may continue to use your data.

5.5 In the situation of law enforcement, such collected data may be disclosed to relevant law organization with or without your consent, based on the court order or the legal requirements. 

6. Marketing Data

All the data collected as mentioned above may be used in decision making process of providing you with better content and services. Should you opt in for any subscription, you may receive relevant emails and you may opt out at any time as well. 

7. Data Protection 

7.1 Personal data collected in above described manners are stored in a way that prevents loss or accessed by unauthorized users. Such protection includes being altered and disclosed without your consent as well.

7.2 All the data collected via this website will be accessed by only by our full or part-time employees, freelancers and third parties who needs to access based on above mentioned reasons. Every person who accesses such information are subjected to confidentiality agreement and data may be processed only in a way that is mentioned in the scope of this privacy notice.

7.3 While we make our best effort to prevent unwanted access and provide our best security measures, this shall not be considered as guarantee that there will be no data breaches. Should any data breach occur, you will be informed as per legal requirements. 

8. Personal Data Retaining 

8.1 All the personal data collected on this website may be saved as long as we need it, for any purposed described above. The amount of the time we decide to keep may be related to nature and sensitivity of such data as well as how great the potential risk can be and how much we require it to process for further purposes of the website. All such decision will be based in accordance with relevant legal requirements.

8.2 For analysing and research purpose, collected data will be anonymized in a way that it will be challenging to associate it with you directly. In such cases, such data will be saved and processed for an indefinite period.

9. Third-Party Services

Content on this website and links in such content may include, but not limited to, leading to social media services or any other websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, Google and more. Clicking on any link on this website may let such sites collect and share your data which we have no control over in terms of the usage on such sites. Hence, we strongly suggest you to read respective privacy notices on such sites upon your clicks and/or visits. 

10. Cookies Policy

Cookies are the files that includes text about small data that are sent from the web server when you browse a web session. It is then stored on your computer and further used by such websites in your consecutive interaction with such sites. With cookies, your browser can be automatically identified whenever you interact with a website. 

Web beacons are either a tag, a pixel tag or a clear GIF that is sent back to the web server to share the information of your interaction on the website. The use of "Cookies" hereby imply both Cookies and Web Beacons as well as other similar technical functions.

You may disable cookies on websites and apps. Upon doing so, certain features of certain sites shall not be available. 

10.1 Essential Cookies

Cookies on this website are used to identify you as a unique user. With cookies, we can decide which content or ads will be more relevant to you, analyse traffic and user perferences on ads and content on our website, understand what makes you visit our site, know what makes you leave our site and more. We use what cookies provide to serve you with better content and services on this site.

There are several different types of cookies including, but not limited to, Session cookies that records your interaction with the website once you visit the site and session cookies are deleted when you log out from the site and your browser is closed, Analytics cookies that helps our site and other third parties such as Google Analytics with analysing the data on the website for statistical purposes and Consent cookies that records your choice of consent for third party cookies.

Via these essential cookies, what we collect include, but not limited to, a unique ID associated to your device, type of your device, your IP address, type of your browser, the operating system you use, lending links, content you browse on our site, link clicks on our site, when those actions happened and your preference on location, time zone and language. 

10.2 Affiliate Links via Third-Party Cookies

On our site, there may be third-party cookies that belonged to our partners such as advertising networks, advertising servers, advertising agencies, related technology vendors and relevant research firms. Such cookies and related affiliate links may collect your personal data for various purposes that is not overseen by us.

With such cookies, our ad partners use the data collected to show you more relevant ads to your preference and your needs. Such personalized ads may be shown to you either on our site or when you visit third-party sites and apps by clicking links on this site. Such cookies are created and placed on your devices by third-parties and we have no control whatsoever on that. They might have a different set of privacy policies and we are not responsible for any breach of privacy occurred by such third-party cookies. You are recommended to read different privacy policies on third-party sites and apps should you visit them. You may also disable any types of cookies as it suits your needs.

11. Legal Rights

Here are relevant legal rights that you may exercise regarding the collection of  your personal data on our site. You have the right to

11.1 Request Access: a copy of your personal data saved by us may be lawfully requested 

11.2 Request Correction: editing or correcting information about you may be requested

11.3 Request Erasure: deletion of your personal data may be requested

11.4 Object to Processing: objection may be made. However, our legitimate right and interest in processing your information based on above mention policies and consent may override your rights. 

11.5 Withdraw Consent: your previously provided consent may be withdrawn at any given time.

11.6 Request Restriction of Processing: suspension of processing your data may be requested should the data accuracy is questionable, processing your data is not in accordance with your legal rights, you need us to keep a set of your data for legal claim despite us not requiring it or you object processing your data during the process of analysing the legal rights of both parties

11.7 Request Transfer: transferring the automated data recorded with your consent to you or a third-party may be requested. 

11.8 Object to Automated Decision-Making: objection to actions of automated decision-making such as identifying you via data profiling may be requested should you have the legal effects because of such actions. However, exercising such right is not valid when it is essential to enter or perform a contract with you and / or it is based on your explicit consent.

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