Larkkey
device Privacy Policy
Welcome aboard!
Thank you for purchasing our Larkkey device
hardware and are starting to use the Larkkey device software and all its
functionalities! Any information you share with us (e.g. for creating a Larkkey Account) will help us to provide you with services
related to Larkkey device and to improve them to make them even better. We
explain here our ways of collecting and using information, and how we protect your privacy. In this
privacy policy,“personal data” means information that can be used to identify an
individual, either from that
information alone, or from that information
and other information we have access to about that individual. We collect both
personal and non-personal data to enable and facilitate the best user
experience possible.
What information is collected and how do we
use it?
Types of Personal Data Collected
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In order to provide our services to you, we will ask you to provide necessary
personal data that is required to provide those services. If you do not provide
your personal data, we may not be able to
provide you with our products or services.
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Set up and log in of Larkkey Account.Personal
data that are collected for creating a Larkkey Account may include your email
address or mobile phone number, device related
information (e.g. IMEI number) and various location related information (e.g. location area code, mobile network and country codes).
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Purchasing your Larkkey products.When
you make purchases through the Larkkey e-commerce website, we may collect your Larkkey Account ID (or mobile phone number or email address
used to create your Larkkey Account),
name, phone number, delivery address and order details, etc. Larkkey provides logistics services
to deliver the products purchased on the e-commerce website. Larkkey has an
after sales system to handle after sales related matters as well as an after
sales centre for walk-in support services for users. When you use these
services, we may also collect the
order number,invoice date, list of purchased items and your contact
details in order to process the services.
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Activating Larkkey device.When
you activate the Larkkey device, we may collect your age, height, weight and gender. We may also collect other details you
provide as part of your profile such as your birthday, picture and signature.
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Sync Larkkey device data.When
you synchronise the Larkkey device data, e.g. to Larkkey device Cloud Service, we may collect data relating to your
activities and functionalities of Larkkey device, such as those obtained from our sensors and features on
Larkkey device, your sleeping patterns, movement data and smart alarm related
information.
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Sharing your content.When
you share content or send information to family and friends, we may collect personal information of
those people, such as their names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and mailing addresses (if we need to send a product to them). You hereby represent and warrant that you
have obtained necessary consent for use of third parties’ personal data if you choose to provide them to us. When
you share content or invite users to use Larkkey device, please note that other users may see personal data you
share.
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Processing the services.In
providing the above services, we may also collect data
in relation to your device, including your Larkkey
device ID, firmware version, device OS version, model and system, and visiting IP and time.
How the Personal Data is used
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To provide you with our products and
services, processing your orders, performing contractual obligations between
you and us, to ensure the functions
and safety of our products, to verify your identity, to prevent and trace fraudulent or
inappropriate usage
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To develop our products and services, together with general and statistical information
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To communicate with you, including providing you with notifications
on products and services that are updated or launched
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To provide marketing and promotional
materials to you on our products and services (please note that you may unsubscribe anytime)
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To personalise product design and to
provide you with services tailored for you, for example,
recommending and displaying information and advertisements regarding products
suited to you, and to invite you to
participate in surveys relating to your use of Larkkey device
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To conduct investigations regarding our
products and services
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If you participate in our lottery, contest or other promotions, we may use your personal data to manage
such activities
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To provide maintenance services, monitor software licenses, to improve our products or analyse the
efficiency of our operations
Other Information
We
use statistical data that does not specifically identify you (non-personal data) to help in our operations and improve our products and
services and provide a better user experience for you. Here are some of the
non-personal data we may collect and how we use them:
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When you create a Larkkey Account, download our software, register in our e-commerce website, participate in online surveys or interact
with us in other ways, we may collect your
language preferences, postal code, area code number and time zone in which
you use our products and services, and
your profession.
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When you opt-in to participate in our User
Experience Improvement Program, we may gather statistics
relating to your use of our products functions, on an anonymous basis. This may include information
relating to your use of our official website, products and services. If there is an abnormal shutdown
or breakdown, we may collect
information relating to your mobile device to diagnose the problem.
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When you use our services or functions that
are based on location information,
e.g. carry out a location search,
take advantage of advertising, use weather functions, access information based on maps, etc., we may collect your geographical information.
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When you use our website, online services, interactive applications, email messages and advertising, we may use cookies and other technical elements (e.g. pixel labels) to collect and store non-personal data. These enable us
to provide you with a better experience and improve our overall service quality, e.g. in saving your preferred language
settings, sending emails in a
readable format, to determine whether the
emails have been opened or not, etc.
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When you use the Internet browser in using
our products and services, we may collect log
information, e.g. IP address, browser type, language, reference source, operating system, date and time marking and click rate data.
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When you first use and activate your
Larkkey device, the device’s unique identification code and approximate geographical
information may be collected.
You have control over your information!
We
recognise that privacy concerns differ from person to person. Therefore, we provide examples of ways we make
available for you to choose to restrict the collection, use, disclosure or processing
of your personal data and control your privacy settings, such as controlling the settings under the User
Experience Improvement Program, Location Access
functions, and your Larkkey
Account.
Access,
Updating or Correcting Your Personal Data
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You have the right to request access and/or
correction or any other personal data that we hold about you. When you update
your personal data, you will be asked to
verify your identity before we proceed with your request. Once we obtain
sufficient information to accommodate your request for access or correction of
your personal data, we shall process in
accordance with the laws of your country. While we try our utmost in acceding
to your requests, unreasonably repetitive
or unrealistic requests or those that put others’
privacy at risk may be declined.
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We normally provide such services for free
but reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee.
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If you believe any information we are
holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us as soon as possible by Feedback.
Withdrawal of Consent
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You may withdraw your consent for the
collection, use and/or disclosure of
your personal data in our possession or control by submitting a request. This
may be done by accessing your Larkkey Account management center. We will
process your request within a reasonable time from when the request was made, and thereafter not collect, use and/or disclose your personal data as
per your request.
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Please recognise that your withdrawal of
consent could result in certain legal consequences. Depending on the extent of
your withdrawal of consent for us to process your personal data, it may mean that you will not be able to
enjoy Larkkey’s products and services.
Who do we share your information with?
Unless
we tell you in this privacy policy, we
will keep your personal information confidential. We may disclose your personal
data on occasion to third parties in order to provide the products or services
that you have requested. Some of these third parties may be located outside
your home country.
Disclosure
may include the scenarios listed in this section below. In each case described
in this section, you can be assured that
Larkkey will only share your personal data in accordance with your consent. You
should know that when Larkkey shares your personal data with a third party
under any circumstance described in this section, Larkkey will ensure that the third party is subject to
practices and obligations to comply with the relevant data protection and
privacy laws of your country. Larkkey will contractually ensure compliance by
any foreign Third Party Service Providers with the privacy standards that apply
in your home jurisdiction.
Disclosure to Others
Larkkey
may disclose your personal data without further consent if required or
permitted by law in the following cases:
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cases in which the disclosure is required
or authorized based on the applicable laws and/or regulations;
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cases in which the disclosure is necessary
to respond to an emergency that threatens the life, health or safety of the individual or another individual;
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cases in which the disclosure is necessary
for the prevention of crime or legal proceedings;
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cases in which the purpose of such
disclosure is clearly in the individual’s interests, and if consent cannot be obtained in a
timely way;
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cases in which the disclosure is necessary
for any investigation or proceedings;
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cases in which the disclosure is to any
officer of a prescribed law enforcement agency upon production of written
authorisation signed by the head or director of that law enforcement agency, or a person of a similar rank, certifying that the personal data is
necessary for the purposes of the functions or duties of the officer; and/or
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cases in which the disclosure is to a
public agency and such disclosure is necessary in the public interest.
Information Not Requiring Consent
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We may share anonymised information and
statistics in aggregate form with third parties for business purposes, for example with advertisers on our
website, or we may tell our
business partners the number of customers in certain demographic groups who
purchased certain products or who carried out certain transactions.
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For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that we are permitted by law
to collect, use or disclose your
personal data without your consent,
such permission granted by the law shall continue to apply.
Information Safety Safeguards
We
are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. In order to
prevent unauthorised access, disclosure or other
similar risks, we have put in place
reasonable physical, electronic and
managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We
have put in place the following security procedures and technical and
organisational measures to safeguard your personal data:
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Your personal data is stored on secure
servers that are protected in controlled facilities.
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All data saved in the back-end is
classified into different levels based on the importance and sensitivity of the
data, e.g. whether the data
contains personal data.
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In the data centers, clusters that contain sensitive data are grouped
together in the network topology, and
will be placed in rooms with additional physical security protection.
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Data exchanged between Larkkey devices and
servers are encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”).
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There is an optional two-step verification
process when users access their Larkkey Account.
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There is regular review of information
collection, storage and processing
practices, including physical
security measures, to guard against
unauthorized access to systems.
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Access is restricted to Larkkey employees
and Third Party Service Providers who need to know that the information in
order to process it, and who are subject to
strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or
terminated if they fail to meet such obligations.
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There are also access controls for all server
clusters used for cloud-based data storage and process.
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Most data used for Larkkey’s products and/or services is stored in a storage system.
By using column family based access control mechanism, Larkkey’s employees are only
allowed access to the data column families they are granted access to.
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Please note also that for the above, Larkkey may use overseas facilities
operated and controlled by Larkkey to process or back up your personal data.
Currently, Larkkey has data centres
in Beijing and Singapore. As a result, we
may transfer to and store your personal data at our overseas facilities.
However, this does not change any
of our commitments to safeguard your personal data in accordance with this
Privacy Policy.
Information
safety is very important to us. We will take all practicable steps to safeguard
your personal data. Through our protective measures above, especially encrypted storage and
transmission, your data is as secure
as it can be. Certain details of encrypted data cannot be accessed by anyone
except by you.
When this Privacy Policy applies
Our
Privacy Policy does not apply to products and services offered by a third
party. TLarkkey products and services may include third party’s products or services. When you use such products or
services, they may collect your
information too. For this reason, we
strongly suggest you to read the third party’s
privacy policy as you have taken time to read ours. We are not responsible for
and cannot control how third parties use personal data which they collect from
you. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to other sites linked from our services.
Minors
We
consider it the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s use of our products and services. Nevertheless, it is our policy not to require personal data
from minors or offer to send any promotional materials to persons in that
category. Larkkey does not seek or intend to seek to receive any personal data
from minors. Should a parent or guardian have reasons to believe that a minor
has provided Larkkey with personal data without their prior consent, please contact us to ensure that the
personal data is removed and unsubscribe them from any of the applicable
Larkkey services.
Updates To The Privacy Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on all the Larkkey websites, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Such changes to our Privacy Policy shall apply from the time that we post the same on the Larkkey websites. Your continued use of products and services on the websites, mobile phones and/or any other device will be taken as acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy. We will seek your fresh consent before we collect more personal data from you or when we wish to use or disclose your personal data for new purposes.