INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, with a place of business at 5/F Building 22E Science Park East Avenue Hong Kong. (“we”, “us” and “our”) operate the website tclcom.com (“Website”) and other applications and APIs (collectively the “Service”). Our Service uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Service. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use the Service and also allows us to improve the Service. By continuing to use the Service (or any part thereof), you are agreeing to us placing cookies on your computer.

WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and may be stored on any of your internet enabled devices e.g. your computer, smartphone or tablet – like a memory for a web page. Our websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non‑personal information. However, to the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy as below.

This means we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

· the internet domain and IP address from where you access the Service;

· the type of browser software and operating system used to access the Service;

· the date and time you access the Service;

· if you linked to the Service from another website, the address of that website; and

· the pages you enter, visit and exit the Service from.

Our Privacy Policy published on tclcom.com sets out full details of the other information we collect and how we use your personal information.

USE OF COOKIES

We use the following cookies:

· Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Service. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Service;

· Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around and use the Service. This helps us to improve the way the Service works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies are also used to help us understand what interests our users, and measure how effective our advertising is;

· Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Service. This enables us to personalize Our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences, for example, your choice of language or region;

· Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Service, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Service and any material displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose; and

· other cookies which it collects in its website or app:

Name of cookie	Purpose	Expiry
_ga	The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.	2 years
_gid	This cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected is anonymous.	1 day
_gat	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.	10 minutes
__utma	Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.	2 years
__utmb	Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.	30 minutes
__utmc	Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.	Session
__utmt	Google analytics cookies for tracking activity they do note collect personal data.	10 minutes
__utmz	Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used.	6 months
_gat_gtag_UA_XXXXX	Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. – the value is different for each third party application that has Google Analytics plugged in.	1 minute
lang	Set the web page display language according to its value.	1 year

Please note that some cookies on the Website and other parts of the Service are managed by third parties, including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You should refer to the third parties’ own cookie and privacy policies for information about how they may use your information. You may configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. For example, on Microsoft Internet Explorer you can disable or delete cookies by selecting “Tools/Internet Options”.

In particular, we use Google Analytics cookies to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes, and to help improve the overall experience of our Service.

We use Google Analytics, a third-party web analysis service provided by Google Inc, which uses “performance cookies” and “targeting cookies” to analyze how you use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, this website uses Google Analytics with the expansion ‘_anonymize()’ which means that Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union.

On behalf of us, Google will use the information collected for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as described above. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB# . You may disable the use of Google Analytics by using the link disable Google Analytics. This link creates an opt-out cookie which prevents the further processing of your data. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy. If you do not accept the use of these cookies, we cannot guarantee how our Website will perform for you.

You can find more information about the Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie usage

MANAGING COOKIE SETTINGS

You can block cookies by activating the setting within your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please be aware if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Service.

If you wish to withdraw your agreement at any time, you will need to delete your cookies using your browser settings for each browser you use.

For more information about how to do this, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/clear-cookies-installed.html , or follow the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

To block Google Analytics cookies specifically, you can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” provided by Google. If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies may affect all users of that computer.