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Privacy Policy Thank you for visiting the official website of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.(The official website is hereinafter referred to as the 2008 Olympics website.) Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) respects your right of privacy and seeks to protect your right of privacy when you use the 2008 Olympics website service. Meanwhile, BOCOG considers that it shall take the responsibility to become an ideal of internet privacy right protection and set up relevant criteria in this regard. BOCOG respects the privacy of all the visitors to its website and those who use its online service. At the same time, BOCOG surely needs to collect some information about members and visitors of its website. This Privacy Policy applies to the interaction between you and the 2008 Olympics website, as well as matters related to your registration and use of BOCOG online service. Except the content listed in this Privacy Policy, the 2008 Olympics website's Terms of Service, and other guidelines published, BOCOG will not disclose personally identifiable information about any member and visitor of the 2008 Olympics website without permission. Please note that BOCOG and the 2008 Olympics website are located within the People's Republic China (PRC). This Privacy Policy accords with the best international convention of privacy right protection, but BOCOG does not guarantee that this Privacy Policy complies with the laws and regulations of the country you reside in. The 2008 Olympics website to which this Privacy Policy is applicable: This Privacy Policy is applicable to the following website run by BOCOG: http://en.beijing2008.com.In addition, BOCOG owns some other domains that are directed to the above-mentioned website. BOCOG will increase from time to time new websites, which are not listed above, and this Privacy Policy applies to all the new websites. Information BOCOG collects BOCOG collects two categories of information about the users. (1)Non-personally identifiable information: When visitors access the 2008 Olympics website, BOCOG will collect some general information. Except other content, the information includes the web pages the visitors visited, the sequenceof visits to those web pages, and the hyperlinks the visitors clicked on. Collection of this information will involve recording of the internet protocol (IP) address, operating system and browser software of each and every visitor to the 2008 Olympics website. Even though this information is not categorized as personally identifiable information, BOCOG can identify the Internet Service Providers (SP) of the visitors and the geographical location where the visitorsconnect to the Internet through the IP address.BOCOG also uses cookies. Cookies are known as small text files placed on the hard drives of the users'computers. Through cookies, BOCOG can determine which content or website visitors link, the time visitors spend on specific areas of the 2008 Olympics website, and BOCOG service visitors choose. Basically, cookies serve as warrants used by BOCOG computers or servers, which place the cookies on visitors? computers, to identify the visitors. Cookies can only be read by the servers that place them and cannot execute any code or virus. Cookies can help us provide you with better and more efficient service and individualized setting when you visit the 2008 Olympics website. Despite of all this, you have full control over whether or in what ways your browser allows the cookies. If you need further information on this aspect, please consult relevant document contained in your browser. (2)Personally identifiable information: In some areas of the 2008 Olympics website, such as when you register with the 2008 Olympics website for membership, BOCOG will need but not require you to provide personally identifiable information. (i.e. This information includes your name, address, email address, telephone number, and, if necessary, credit card information.)BOCOG will not intentionally gather personally identifiable information of children without parents' permission. (Herein, children are defined as minors under age 13.) BOCOG requests that the children's parents read this Privacy Policy before they register with the 2008 Olympics website. BOCOG encourages the parents or guardians to be present before and during the registration. BOCOG will not control the behaviours of the members or visitors of the 2008 Olympics website. Members and visitors of the 2008 Olympics website shall understand that if you disclose personally identifiable information at the bulletin, chatroom, message board or forums, the information will be collected by others and will be used by any other party than BOCOG to send unauthorized commercial mails to you. If you find that any member of the 2008 Olympics website collects or uses your or other users'information by improper means, please contact legal@beijing-olympic.org.cn. How does BOCOG use (and not use) the information BOCOG collects? Please spend some time learning the ways BOCOG uses the information it collects. You need to know one important message: BOCOG encourages all relevant third parties, including but without limitation to BOCOG associated parties and advertisers, to observe BOCOG policy on privacy right protection of the 2008 Olympics website's visitors and members and handle matters related to personal information in a responsible manner. However, BOCOG cannot and does not assume any responsibility for any feasance or nonfeasance taken by the third party, including the ways it uses the information obtained from BOCOG or on its own. Nevertheless, if you find that any third party associated with BOCOG (or as claimed so) is collecting or using your information by inappropriate means, please send an email to legal@beijing-olympic.org.cn. BOCOG will forward your email to the third party concerned.Non-personally identifiable information: BOCOG uses non-personally identifiable information in an integral fashion. By conducting statistical analysis on the general traits and behaviours of the 2008 Olympics website's members and visitors and by means of statistical gathering and interest surveys of visitors to specific areas of the 2008 Olympics website, BOCOG will establish higher quality and more efficient online service. BOCOG will provide statistical information based on this data for advertiser, associated parties and other current or potential business partners. BOCOG will use these integrated data to inform the third party of the number of people who see and click on the link directed to their websites.The 2008 Olympics website contains links to other internet sites, which include the site(s) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), of other national and regional Olympic Committees and of Olympic sponsors, and other relevant sites as well. These sites may be owned or run by BOCOG, or maybe not. Unless otherwise specified, BOCOG does not take any responsibility for the practice of these sites with regard to privacy right protection or their content, including the use of any information (i.e. IP address, browser or operating system)gathered by these sites as visitors to the 2008 Olympics website click on the links of these sites thus logging onto these sites. Even if this information does not indicate your identity, BOCOG strongly suggests that you learn these sites'practice of protecting the right of privacy. Personally identifiable information: BOCOG will notify potential registrants of the 2008 Olympics website that personally identifiable information will be collected during the registration. You will be given such a notice simultaneously when you register with the 2008 Olympics website. Besides, this Privacy Policy serves as a notice itself, since it informs you of the collection of this information under such circumstances. If you wish to become a member of the 2008 Olympics website while not choosing to exit the registration procedure, you can still choose not to receive publicity materials from BOCOG and/or other associated parties, advertisers,or other business partners during the registration process.If you do not choose to reject such publicity materials during the registration process, BOCOG reserves the right to disclose any personally identifiable information of yours to the third party, who offers products or service that BOCOG believes interests you. If you decide not to receive the publicity materials from the third party any longer, please make direct contact with it or send BOCOG an email at legal@beijing-olympic.org.cn. BOCOG sends its own E-mail business messages only to those people who choose rejection to this kind of messages in their registration. In addition to other advantages, this limitation enables the clear marking of original authors of the messages and provides an opportunity for you to choose rejection to this kind of messages in the future in your registration.Besides, BOCOG sometimes uses personal data to "lock in" the objective of the publicity messages, that means to define the type of ads and sponsorship messages according to the category of receivers. For instance, if a sponsor wants to display its ads only to females, BOCOG will use related registered data to ensure that the enterprise?s ads be displayed only to females. Last, BOCOG may use personal data to "precast" forms and display these forms for BOCOG and/or sponsors to gather personal data. In any case, the precast forms will not automatically send out any data to any ads agency or third party. These data can be sent out only when you ask to do so, i.e. you need to click the "submit" button or other buttons to send out messages.If any visitor violates website service regulations or other published guidelines, or participates in (or reasonably suspected to participate in) any illegal activities, the website reserves the right to disclose the information of the relevant visitor in the registration record, and the right to disclose this information abiding by the requests of the governmental or law-enforcement agencies, even if the website has not received any summons, letter of authorization or other requests of governmental or low-enforcement authorities.The website will coordinate with law-enforcement agencies to seek the person(s) suspect of capitalizing on the website servers or services for illegal activities. The website also reserves the right to report to law-enforcement agencies any suspected illegal activities in order to wage investigation and treatment. If a BOCOG sponsor or a third party wages a joint promotion or prize-giving activity with BOCOG, BOCOG and the third party will post related privacy information at the area where the rules of the promotion and prize-giving activity are announced and the area of registration. If the privacy information collides with the website's Privacy Policy, the Privacy information is applicable to the promotion or prize-giving activity. Revision or deletion of personal information; business transfer: If you want to delete your personal identifiable information from BOCOG databank, please Email to legal@beijing-olympics.org.cn to contact the website and the website will take reasonable measures to meet your request. For your information, there will be a certain amount of residual messages in BOCOG databank, visitor record and other recorded documents. These messages may or may not contain this kind of personal identifiable information. The residual messages will be used for business purposes. However, BOCOG reserves the right to re-contact the website's previous users from time to time. Any questions? If you have any questions regarding the above-mentioned right of Privacy Policy, please E-mail to legal@beijing-olympics.org.cn to contact BOCOG or mail to the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, 267 Beisihuanzhonglu,Haidian, Beijing, 100083, with Legal Affairs Department as addressee.

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