Disclaimer Statement

UCWeb Inc.(hereinafter referred to as UCWeb) follows this privacy protection statement and all the related laws and regulations. We offer strict protection of your personal information we collect from UC Browser. We strongly recommend you to read this statement carefully and review it periodically.

In order to improve user experience and provide better service to our users, we will gather some information about the device you are using under the premise of appropriate protection of your privacy. This statement explains how this information will be collected and what do we use it for.

1. Information we collect

We collect this information to help us provide better service to our users, it may include some basic information (such as phone model) and some complex information (such as what advertisement do you think is most helpful).

We have two methods to collect:

The information you provide to us. Many services we provide require you to register a UC account. When you are signing up for the account, some personal information is needed, like names, phone numbers and photos.

We acquire some information when you use our service. We will gather some information of the services you use and the way you use them, for example, the time you visit our advertisement. This information includes:

1.1 Device Information

We will collect some information related to your device, such as the hardware information, version of operating system, language settings, IMEI, MAC address, IMSI and phone number obtained from your operator.

1.2 Logs

When you are using our services, we may collect some data and store it into server logs. It includes:

1) Your use of our service, such as the contents you search.

2) Your network requests, Internet protocol address, types of your browsers, language settings of your browser, the date and URL of your requests.

3) IP address

4) One or more cookies used to identify your browser uniquely.

5) We may collect some data of the browser crashes and use it for analysis and debugging.

1.3 Location Information

When you visit some websites that have positioning functions, we may collect and process the information about your actual location. We may use some positioning techniques to help you get your location, for example, we access to your GPS or sensors on your device so that we can provide you the information of Wi-Fi hotspots nearby.

2. Purposes

2.1 Processing of personal data shall be done for purposes of running, debugging, maintenance, and/or optimization of the service and/or to maintain customer relationships, such as providing more relative search results and advertisements to you.

2.2 For all the services we provide that require a UC account, we may use the names you provide in your profiles. If other users know about your email address or other information that can identify you, we may show them your public information of your profile, like your names and photos.

2.3 When you contact with UCWeb, we will save your communication records, it may help you solve any problems you may have. We may send you some emails about our services. For example, to inform you a new update is available.

2.4 We will use relevant information in accordance with this privacy policy.

2.5 Servers used to process personal information are deployed all over the world. Therefore, the servers we use to deal with your personal information might not be in your country or region.

3. Occasions

We may gather information on these occasions (including but not limited to). Unless there is other provision,all the new functions are restrained to this statement.

3.1 Auto-fill

When you input some keywords in the search bar, UC Browser will upload the keywords to the servers of UCWeb. In this way, "Recommend" function is able to recommend some words you may want to search.

3.2 Booster Mode

You can choose to use the Booster Mode of UC Browser. In this mode, the pages you visit will be handled by the servers of UCWeb. We will rearrange the layouts of the pages and compress the pages to fit your screen, moreover save your traffic.

3.3 Icons of My Navigation

If you visit a new website and this website is in My Navigation, UC Browser will upload the URL of this site to our servers, download and display the corresponding icon, makes it more convenient to visit this site.

3.4 Security Service

The security service (including scanning of websites and downloads) provided by UC Browser UC, it may upload some information and data (like URLs of the site you visit or download link) to UC Cloud Security Data Center, they will be used to remind you when you visit a malicious site or when download a malware.

3.5 App Update Notifier

You can choose to use App Update Notifier in UC Browser to help you check, download, search, share latest and secure apps and games. UC Browser will collect the names and build number of installation packages on your phone as well as your IMEI, compare them with the data on our servers. If new versions of these apps are found, we will remind you to update. We will never save these data or match them with any personal information.

3.6 Bookmark Sync

You can save your backup of your bookmarks in the servers of UCWeb. Once you use this function, UCWeb will provide this service to you. In order to ensure the security of your data, UCWeb takes strict security measures to protect your data.

3.7 User Experience Improvement Program

After you install UC Browser on your device, we will ask you to join our User Experience Improvement Program, you can refuse to join the program by modifying settings. If you choose to accept, the browser will upload some data of your use to our servers (such as button clicks, preferences, IMEI, MAC address, crash logs), but none of them involves your browsing history, cookies and personal data. We will analyze the data and use it to improve our product.

3.8 Feedback

When you are using UC Browser, you can give us some feedback. When you commit your feedback, we will collect your phone model, build number of the browser and version of your operating system and use them for figuring out some solutions. The contact you leave in your feedback will only be used for our customer service, we will never share your contact with any other third party.

3.9 Navigation

To provide better navigation to our users, UC Browser will read navigation data from UC servers timely and may get your location information at the same time.

3.10 Wallpaper push

UC Browser will download recommended wallpaper for you to customize your browser.

3.11 Check for updates

UC Browser will occasionally communicate with the servers of UCWeb, check for available updates. The browser will ask you to download the update if a new one is found. You can refuse to download the update. If you choose to update the browser, you can enjoy the latest and most stable version of UC Browser in the first place.

4. We may share users' personal information under some circumstances.

We will never share your personal information with any other company, organization or individual, expect for the situations below:

4.1 With your agreement. We will only share sensitive information which you allow us to.

4.2 For external processing. We may provide users' personal information to reliable merchants or organizations related to UCWeb, we will require them to follow our instructions and obey to our privacy policies so that they can deal with the information.

We may share non-personal identification information with the public and our partners (publishers, advertisement clients or related websites). For instance, we may share some information with the public to show the use of our services.

If UCWeb involves in any merge, acquisition or asset sales, we will keep the information confidential and inform affected users before we transfer any personal information.

5. Exemption Clauses

The above personal information shall not be publicized, edited or disclosed without lawful authorization by the user unless the publication, the editing or the disclosure is done –

(1) In accordance with national laws, regulations or rules; or

(2) By enforcement of applicable terms of use (including the investigation of possible breaches of terms); or

(3) By detection, prevention or processing fraudulence, safety or technical problems.

The protection of your rights shall be extended to the extent failure to protect is the result of any following Force Majeure events, and you will be timely informed of –

(1) Hacking attacks;

(2) Significant impacts caused by telecom operators;

(3) Network or website closure caused by governmental regulations;

(4) Virus attacks;

(5) Events (for example, natural disasters, acts of war or terrorism) those are unforeseen or irresistible beyond reasonable control.

6. Revision of privacy policies

With the development of the browser, if there are material changes to this statement or in how we will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. By continuing to use this service, you accept to the new revision.

7. Contact us

If you have any doubts about the services of this product, or you have any suggestions and advices, you are welcome to contact us. Customer Service:+86-020-66826682, Official Website: www.ucweb.com

UCWeb Inc.