Privacy Policy

 

Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. and its affiliates worldwide (hereinafter referred to as "Yutong", “we” or "us") attach great importance to the protection of your personal data and privacy. When you use our Internet of Vehicles (IoV) service, we may collect your data. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because it includes how we collect, store, use, share and protect your data, so as to provide you with smooth experience when using our vehicle products.

This Privacy Policy is applicable to the Internet of Vehicles services provided by us, including YUTONG V+ Fleet, YUTONG V+ ITS YUTONG Etruck and other websites or APPs.

The data we may collect mainly include your personal data and vehicle data. However, these rules are not all applied to you.

The privacy policy will help you understand the following:

I. Your data we may collect

II. How we use your data

III. How we share your data

IV. How we store your data

V. Cross-border transfer of your data

VI. Data processing records

VII. How you access and manage your data

VIII. How we protect your data

IX. Protection of personal data of minors

X. Disclaimers for third-party products and services

XI. Updates to the Privacy Policy

XII. How to contact us

I. Your data we may collect

We may collect the following data about you in the process of providing IoV services:

1. When you purchase IoV services

In order to provide services for you when you purchase the Internet of Vehicles service, we may collect the following personal data about you: company name, company address, name, gender, job title, contact phone number, cell phone, email address, payment method and bank account information, etc.

2. User registration

After you receive the vehicle, you do not need to register yourself and we will provide you with an IoV account and password for login. You can change the password according to your needs. During the registration process, we will not collect any personal data from you.

3. When you use the IoV service

When you use the IoV service, we do not collect your personal data in principle, but may collect the following data about your vehicle.

Vehicle data

vehicle status (including GPS/Vehicle production number/ VIN)

Mileage on the day

Charging status

Operating mode

Vehicle speed

Accumulated mileage

Driving duration on the day

Main motor voltage

Main motor current

Main motor temperature

Main motor speed

Using period of battery

Rated battery electricity

A/C temperature

Start time of charging

End time of charging

Input energy

Total voltage

Total current

Gear position

Battery cell overvoltage alarm

Battery cell undervoltage alarm

Accelerator pedal status

Brake pedal status

Door status

Traction motor temperature

Motor controller input voltage

Motor controller DC bus current

Alarm data

Motor overheat fault

­­­­Overcurrent

Battery cell high voltage alarm

High-voltage loop interlocking fault

Serious fault of battery system

Seriously high temperature fault of battery

Battery cell LV alarm

System high temperature alarm

Low SOC alarm­­­

Low insulation resistance alarm

Five-in-one: output with phase loss, separate type:

Five-in-one: accelerated overcurrent, separate type: overload

Output with phase loss

Main motor controller communication fault

Communication fault of steering motor controller

Traction battery communication fault

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. When you use the APP and website services

In order to help us analyze the usage of product functions, better improve our products and services, and enhance your user experience, we will collect the following information: Running process information, application identifier, application version, application distribution channel, language location, time zone, network status and type, device information (IMEI, SIM card IMSI, Android ID, IDFA, OpenUDID, GUID, OAID, GAID, ICCID, MAC address, IP address, brand, mobile phone manufacturer, operating system version, device model, device version, screen information (direction, resolution, DPI), power quantity, software installation list, device sensor information, log information (third-party developer defined log, Logcat log, APP crash stack information) browser information (name, version), CPU architecture type, whether the device is rooted, disk space occupation size, SD card space occupation size, memory space occupation size, accessed pages and operations, etc.

We will apply for camera permission or album permission (iOS)/storage permission (Android) and device information permission of the device. The purpose of applying for camera and album permissions is to upload abnormal photos of vehicles in functions such as vehicle inspection. If you refuse this authorization, the above-mentioned functions will not work normally, but your normal use of our products and services that do not need to apply for camera and album permissions will not be affected.

II. How we use your data

1. Communicate with you

(1) Inform you of important safety-related data about your vehicle or new energy products;

(2) Notify the service personnel in case of vehicle failure or accident;

(3) Send you data and changes of products, services, terms and policies;

(4) Inform you of our marketing activities;

(5) Respond to your inquiries and satisfy your requests.

2. Provide you with products or services

(1) Implement our orders: handle payment, deliver, and evaluate your financing needs;

(2) Monitor vehicle performance;

(3) After-sales services such as roadside assistance and maintenance;

(4) Handle, assist and provide relevant customer support.

3.Verify the accident cause

When a vehicle accident occurs, locate the vehicle, and verify the accident cause and the vehicle condition at that time.

4. Improve and enhance our products and services

(1) Product system upgrading;

(2) Satisfaction surveys;

(3) Research, analyze and improve the performance of products, and develop new technologies related to products.

III. How we share your data

We limit how and with whom we share your personal data, and we will not share your personal data with any company, organization or individual, except the following circumstances:

1. Obtain your explicit consent;

2. In order to assist, improve and perform our services, we may share your personal data with affiliates, dealers, service providers, satisfaction survey agencies, etc.

3. To comply with mandatory requirements of laws and regulations, requirements of courts or government authorities, safeguard the social and public interests, or protect the personal and property safety or legitimate rights and interests of our customers and employees.

Our sharing of your data to third parties is subject to the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy, and your authorization will be sought again if our sharing will change the purposes for which personal data is processed. You may also withdraw your consent at any time and your personal data will no longer be shared.

 

IV. How we store your data

In principle, your data is stored in our IDC server room (private cloud) / Ali public cloud operated by our company in the People's Republic of China.

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), your vehicle data will be stored in our ECS in Germany.

Wherever our servers are located, we will take appropriate organizational and security measures to protect data security. We will not retain your data longer than necessary, unless an extension of the retention period is needed or permitted by law. Different retention periods apply to different types of data. For example, vehicle journal account data will be retained for 1 year and vehicle statistics data will be retained for 3 years. If the retention period expires, we will completely delete your relevant data from our system or anonymize it to ensure that it cannot be recovered or traced back to you personally. Notwithstanding this provision, we may retain your data for the purpose of assisting any governmental and judicial investigations to file or support legal claims or civil, criminal or administrative proceedings.

V. Cross-border transfer of your data

We are a global company and as such we operate on a global scale. In order to provide services to you, we sometimes need to share your data with our offices, branches, subsidiaries, affiliates, service providers outside your country and others. We comply with the laws on the transfer of personal data between countries/regions to ensure that your data can be protected regardless of its location.

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that your personal data is transferred in accordance with applicable privacy laws. When processing the data beyond the originally collected or hosted areas, Yutong promises to ensure that all transfers of personal data are subject to relevant safeguards (if applicable) to maintain adequate protection of personal data.

VI. Data processing records

Yutong's system maintains necessary records of data sharing, transmission, and processing, including third-party data, disclosed data, and time of disclosure, etc., which are generated by our software during data processing. Records are generally made in electronic form. According to requirements of regulatory authorities, we can provide accessible data processing records as controllers or processors and when necessary.

VII. How you access and manage your data

We attach great importance to your data and do our best to protect your right to access, correct and delete your personal data, so that you have the full capacity to safeguard your privacy and security.

Your rights include:

Access to data

If you want to access your website or account data, order data, vehicle use data and others, you can contact us to access your personal data as set forth in the "Contact Us" below.

Right to correct

When you find that there is an error in your personal data processed by us, you have the right to correct or update the incorrect or incomplete data, provided that your identity is verified and that the correction does not affect the objectivity and accuracy of the data. You may contact us in the ways listed in the "Contact Us" below.

Right to be forgotten

If we collect, use and share your personal data with others in violation of laws and regulations or your agreement, you have the right to ask us to delete it. You can contact us according to the methods listed in the "Contact Us" below.

Right to restrict processing

In some cases, you can restrict our processing of your personal data. If you object to the marking of stored personal data in order to restrict the subsequent processing of such data, please contact us through the methods listed in the "Contact Us" below.

Data portability

In some cases, you have the right to receive the personal data you provide to us in a structured, common and machine-readable form and/or to transfer such data to third parties. If you have such a request, please contact us in the ways listed in the "Contact Us" below.

Right to refuse

You have the right to refuse:

-Processing (including analysis) of your personal data at any time for the purpose of direct marketing;

-In other cases, we will continue to analyze your personal data if the processing is in our legitimate interest.

Right to self-determine (independent decision making)

You have the right not to be restricted by a decision that relies solely on automated processing (including analysis). If you refuse automated decisions regarding your personal data, you can feed back to us in the ways listed in the "Contact Us" below.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please do the following:

• Send email, call or write - see below: "How to contact us";

• Tell us the rights you want to exercise and the personal data involved in the request.

Respond to your rights

To ensure your data security, we will first ask you to verify your identity before processing your request. In general, we will accept your request by e-mail within 7 working days and within 5 working days for requests by phone. After the acceptance, we will process your legitimate request within 15 working days, and may feed it back the processing results by phone, email and other channels.

In principle, we do not charge for your reasonable request, but we will charge a certain amount of cost for repeated requests that exceed the reasonable limit as appropriate. We may deny requests that are unnecessarily repeated, require excessive technical means (for example, requiring the development of new systems or fundamental changes to current practices), pose a risk to the legal rights of others, or are highly impractical (for example, involving data stored on backup tapes).

We will not be able to respond to your request in the following circumstances:

1. Related to the performance of the obligations of the controller of personal data under laws and regulations;

2. Directly related to national security or national defense security;

3. Directly related to public safety, public health, or vital public interests;

4. Directly related to criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials and enforcement of judgments, etc.

5. The personal data controller has sufficient evidence of subjective malice or abuse of rights by the personal data subject;

6. For the purpose of safeguarding the life, property and other significant legitimate rights and interests of the personal data subject or other individuals when it is difficult to obtain the consent;

7. Responding to the request of the personal data subject will lead to serious damage to the legitimate rights and interests of the personal data subject or other individuals or organizations;

8. Involve commercial secrets.

VIII. How we protect your data

We attach great importance to your data security and take all reasonable and feasible measures to protect your data. Technical measures for data security include:

1. We will adopt security protection measures that conform to industry standards, including establishing reasonable regulations, specifications and security technologies to prevent your data from being used or modified by unauthorized access, and avoid data damage or loss, such as vulnerability scanning systems, application firewalls, SSL digital certificates, database desensitization systems, anti-virus protection systems, etc.

2. We have established a data security management organization, built and improved the data security management system and privacy security management system, and taken necessary technical measures to effectively ensure the life cycle security of your personal data.

3. In order to deal with the possible risks such as data leakage, damage and loss, we have developed a number of systems to clarify the classification and grading standards of security incidents and security vulnerabilities and the corresponding handling procedures. We also set up a special emergency response team for security accidents. According to the requirements of security accident handling specifications, we launched security plans for different security accidents to stop losses, analyze, locate, develop remedial measures, and work with relevant departments to trace the source and fight back. We will inform you and the corresponding regulatory authorities of the suspicious situation of data security vulnerabilities according to laws.

IX. Personal data protection for minors

Our IoV services are primarily intended for adults, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from minors, except as required by applicable law. Without the consent of their guardians, minors are not allowed to provide us with personal data. If we find that we have collected personal data of minors without the prior verifiable consent of parents or guardians, we will seek to delete the relevant data as soon as possible. If parents or guardians have reason to believe that minors have submitted personal data to Yutong without their prior consent, please contact us to ensure that such data is deleted.

X. Disclaimers for third party products and services

In the course of using our products and/or services, you may access applications and other services provided by third parties, and we assume no responsibility for the collection and use of personal data by such third-party applications or services. We suggest that you carefully read the applicable terms and conditions (and any relevant privacy statement) and fully understand the rules for collecting and using your personal data before using such applications or services. If you have any questions about the use of your personal data by a specific third party, please contact the third party directly.

XI. Updates to the privacy policy

This Privacy Statement is released on March 20, 2024.

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time and then we will post an updated version on this page and notify you of any changes made to this Privacy Policy in a pop-up box or in a manner that is as prominent as the pop-up box. By clicking agreement, you agree to the revisions to this Privacy Policy.

XII. How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the data we hold about you, or to claim your legitimate rights as described above, please contact us by mail, email or telephone.

 

Contact Information

Address: Yutong Industrial Park, Shibalihe, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China

Emaildataprotection@yutong.com

TEL+86-371-85338999