Statement on Honor Reader and Privacy

Honor Reader is the product (or service) jointly operated by HUAWEI Software Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Yuewen Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "We") which allows you to download, read and manage e-books. We fully understand the importance of personal information to you and spare no efforts to ensure the safety and reliability of your personal information. We promise to take the relevant safety precautions to protect your personal information according to the mature safety standards inside the industry.

Please carefully read and learn the Statement on Honor Reader and Privacy before using our product (or service).

You shall make the commitment that you are the adult when using this product/service. If you are the minor, your guardian needs to approve of you to use this app and agree with the relevant clauses for application service.

If you have any questions, opinions or suggestions, please contact us through the customer service hotline: 400-830-8300/800-830-8300 (Tel.) or online customer service, or they could be submitted to our global offices. If you want to obtain the full list of our offices, please visit the page of Contact Huawei.

We set up the special department for personal information protection (or the commissioner for personal information protection), so that you can contact such department or commissioner via consumer_privacy@huawei.com.

In general, we will give the reply within a month.

If you are unsatisfied with our reply, particularly, our handling of personal information injures your lawful rights and interests, you can file a lawsuit to the competent people's court and make complaint to the industry self-discipline association or the relevant regulatory agencies of the government.

I. The methods we adopted to collect and use your personal information

Personal information refers to various data that can be used alone or combined with other information to distinguish the identity of specific natural person or reflect the activities thereof. Such data are recorded electronically or via other methods.

Personal sensitive information includes the ID card no., personal biological recognition information, bank account, property information, whereabouts, trade information and the personal information of children no more than the age of 14.

We only collect and use your personal information for the following purposes as described in this statement:

1. When you use Honor Reader as well as browse, download, read and manage e-book, we need to collect your following information to maintain and improve service and provide product stability: device information (device identifier, screen size, operating system, terminal model, mobile country code, resolution and system language), Honor Reader client information (client version no., client download channel and client open/close time), application messages (downloaded e-book list, e-book usage record, e-book search record, advertisement content display, click and downloading), network information (network connection status, network access method & type and IP address) and country/region.

Such information shall be the basic data necessary for the downloading, reading and management of e-book. Your information as below will be used by us for the personalized display of application browsing: device identifier, downloaded e-book list, e-book browsing & using record and e-book search record. If you do not provide such information, you are unable to use our service normally.

2. After you log into Huawei account, you are provided with the following services: comment to books, e-book purchase, sign in, activities with award and gift pack. For this purpose, we need to collect your Huawei account to recognize user identity. If you don't provide such information, you are unable to use above-mentioned functions normally, but other functions in Honor Reader can be normally used. If you are ready to provide extra information like portrait, nickname, it will conduce to better service and experience. Even if such information isn't provided, other functions in Honor Reader won't be impacted.

3. The e-books you downloaded are stored in the local storage of your mobile phone, because the storage is essential to this function. If you don't agree to storage permission, you are unable to use our services normally.

4. When you are awarded with the physical prizes from the activity, we need to collect the following contact information: phone, address and contact person. Phone information belongs to sensitive personal information, but we have to get in touch with you to dispatch the prizes, so if you don't provide such information, you are unable to use above-mentioned function, though other functions of Honor Reader won't be impacted.

We'll seek for your prior consent when your information will be applied to usages other than those stated in this statement.

We'll seek for your prior consent when the information collected for the specific purpose is applied for other purposes.

II. When your personal information has to be provided to the third-party service provider

The prizes from activities are dispatched by Huawei or the third-party activity partner and delivered by the third-party logistics service provider. Therefore, we need to provide your personal information to our activity partner and the third-party logistics service provider, which may cover address, phone and contact person.

III. Your right of data subject

In order to facilitate you to access to, modify and delete your personal information and protect your right to revoke the use of your personal information during the application of Honor Reader, there is the corresponding setting in our product design and you can refer to the following instructions. For any question, opinion or suggestion about your right of data subject, please contact us and exercise your rights with the liaison at the top of this statement.

(I) Access to personal information

Access to such basic information as Huawei account, portrait and nickname

1) Go to “Honor Reader” > “My”;

2) Click portrait;

3) Check information.

Access to mobile phone number

1) Go to “Honor Reader” > “My” > “Setting”;

2) Click “Bind your account to a mobile phone”;

3) Check information.

Access to such information as consumption records

1) Go to “Honor Reader” > “My”> “Account”;

2) Click “Consumption records”;

3) Check information.

Access to such information as browsing history

1) Go to “Honor Reader” > “My”

2) Click “Browsing history”;

3) Check information.

(II) Delete personal information

Delete browsing history

1) Go to “Honor Reader” > “My”

2) Click “Browsing history”;

3) Delete the records selected.

(III) Update personal information

Update such contact information as mobile phone

1) Go to “Honor Reader” > “My” > “Setting”;

2) Click “Bind your account to a mobile phone”;

3) Bind your account to a mobile phone

(IV) The setting of privacy function

1) Message prompt

When you are using Honor Reader’s service, we may present such information as activities, prizes and comments on the notification bar; you can access to “Honor Reader” > “My”> “Setting” > “Notification management” > “Benefit notice” or “Maturity notice” to close this function.

IV. Location and period of data storage

(I) Data storage location

The personal information collected and formed hereunder shall be stored within the territory of the People's Republic of China.

(II) Data storage period

We only keep your personal information during the period for realization of relevant purpose, and delete or handle your personal information on condition of anonymity after exceeding the following retention time, except for those specified by the laws and regulations.

The following information of you will be kept for 2 years: device information (device identifier, screen size, operating system, terminal model, mobile country code, resolution and system language), Honor Reader client information (client version no., client download channel and client open/close time), application messages (downloaded e-book list, e-book usage record, e-book search record, Huawei account no. and payment record).

When you cancel the account no., we will delete the relevant Huawei account no., nickname and head portrait.

Also, when our product or service is suspended, we will inform you by means of push notification and announcement. Meanwhile, your personal information will be deleted or under anonymity within the appropriate period.

V. How to update this statement

Huawei reserves the right to update this statement in good time. For any change in this statement, we'll present the statement updated via pop-up window. We'll collect, use and save your personal information as per the statement updated until we obtain your prior consent.

The statement takes effect from the date of update.

Date of recent update: February 22, 2018


Important hint: This privacy statement covers Honor Reader's statement and commitment about privacy. For more information about the right of data subject and measures on information security, etc, please read Huawei's Privacy Statement on Consumer Services.