Dear users, the OceanClub community (hereinafter referred to as "OceanClub", "we", "us", or "our") values user privacy. Please read this OceanClub Privacy Statement (hereinafter referred to as this "Statement") carefully before browsing the OceanClub website (oceanclub.org; hereinafter referred to as this "Website") and using the specific services of this Website. By using this Website, you agree to this Statement and permit that this Website can collect, use, and disclose your personal data in accordance with this Statement. This Statement describes how OceanClub processes your personal data, but it may not address all possible data processing scenarios. OceanClub may inform you of product- or service-specific data collection through supplementary policies or notices provided before collection.

This Statement describes:

1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Data

2. Cookies

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

4. How We Disclose Your Personal Data

5. How We Access & Control Your Personal Data

6. Your Choice

7. Information Release by Users

8. Special Conventions on Information of Minors

9. Third-Party Providers and Their Services

10. How We Protect and Retain Your Personal Data

11. How Your Personal Data Is Transferred Globally

12. Updates to This Statement

13. Contact Us

This Statement applies only to your personal data collected by this Website. Please note that this Website may contain links to other websites, and we recommend that you carefully read the privacy statements of the websites you are browsing. We do not assume any responsibility for the privacy protection practices of these other websites.

1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Data

Personal data refers to any information that enables OceanClub to identify you as a natural person.

Your personal data is essential for us to provide you with these services you require and/or fulfill our contractual obligations to you. If you do not provide the following information, some or all related functions will be suspended:

(1) Member registration: We will collect the following information you enter on the member registration page: your nickname, country/region, city, email address, mobile number (optional for users outside China), company, position, industry, and password.

(2) Personal profile: You can choose to provide your profile picture, first name (optional), last name (optional), field of expertise (optional), role, and mood message. Related data will be displayed in your Profile and you can view and modify your member information and set your nickname.

(3) Activity sign-up: When you sign up for an online or offline activity of OceanClub or an activity organized by a third party, we will collect the following information you enter on the activity sign-up page: your first name, last name, country/region, city, email address, mobile number (optional for users outside China), company, position, industry, and password. If you sign up for an activity organized by a third party, the aforementioned information will be collected by the activity organizer.

(4) Posts, articles, and activity records: To help you track OceanClub activities that you participate in and related materials, and search for posts you publish or add to favorites, related records will be saved and displayed in My favorites, My events, My Posts, and My articles.

(5) Posting and submission: When you publish posts or articles on OceanClub, or submit articles to user journals of OceanClub, your nickname, country/region, city, email address, mobile number (optional for users outside China), company, position, industry, field of expertise, and password will be collected.

(6) Point management: According to the point collection rules, the following behavior will be recorded and processed to increase the points under your account: member registration, providing complete profile information, activity sign-up, sign-in, publishing posts and articles, publishing comments, giving likes, adding to favorites, sharing, download, member referral, article submission, etc.

(7) Redeeming points for gifts: Your name, personal address, and mobile number will be collected.

2. Cookies

To ensure this Website works properly, we may at times store small data files called cookies on your computer or mobile device. Like many other websites or Internet service providers, OceanClub uses cookies to improve user experience. Session cookies are deleted after each access, while persistent cookies are retained after multiple accesses. Cookies allow websites to remember your settings, such as the language, font size, and other browsing preferences for your computer or mobile device. This means that you do not need to reset the preferences for every visit. Without cookies, websites would consider you as a new visitor each time you open the web page. For example, if you are redirected to another web page from a website you have already signed in to and then return to the original website, it will not recognize you and you must sign in again.

This Website will not use cookies for any purposes not stated in this Statement. You can manage or delete cookies based on your preferences, and this includes deleting all cookies stored on your computer. Most web browsers provide the function to block cookies. However, by doing so, you have to change the user settings every time you visit this Website.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We mainly use your personal data for the following purposes:

(1) Allow you to publicly participate in the peer communication and training services provided by OceanClub based on your requirements, acquire cutting-edge information and achievements, download materials, and redeem points for gifts;

(2) Analyze how users use this Website and their usage habits, and improve services based on user experience, requirements, and feedback;

(3) Prevent illegal activities, potential illegal activities, and violations of Terms of Use of this Website;

(4) Fulfill the purpose for using specific information we disclose to you when collecting the information; and

(5) With your consent, provide or send electronic information to the mobile number, email address, etc. you provide on behalf of this Website's partners and other third parties.

4. How We Disclose Personal Data

We are committed to gaining and maintaining your trust in us. Therefore, we use commercially reasonable technical and other measures to help prevent your personal data from being lost, stolen, or tampered with. We will disclose your personal data to specific entities only in the following cases:

(1) Third-party business partners: With your consent, we may share your personal data with third-party business partners. For example, when we mail gifts to you, we will provide your name, personal address, and mobile number to a third-party courier company;

(2) Authorized third-party service providers: We may share information with third-party service providers who help us provide professional services, including customer support, and email and SMS app services; and

(3) Judicial, administrative, and law enforcement agencies such as courts and governments: We may disclose user information to such public authorities according to the requirements of such authorities or applicable laws and regulations.

5. How We Access & Control Your Personal Data

You shall ensure that all the personal data you submit to OceanClub is accurate. OceanClub is dedicated to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of personal data and keeping it up-to-date.

To the extent required by applicable laws, you may:

(1)       Request access to your certain personal data we store;

(2)       Require us to update or correct any inaccurate personal data;

(3)       Object to or restrict our use of your personal data; and

(4)       Ask us to delete your personal data from our database.

Subject to applicable laws, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when OceanClub processes your personal data with your consent. However, the withdrawal does not affect the legitimacy and effectiveness of our processing of your personal data with your consent before the withdrawal is made, nor does it affect our rights to process your personal data based on reasons other than your consent.

6. Your Choice

You can choose to browse and use the information on this Website without providing your personal data. However, as mentioned above, some information may be automatically collected. At the same time, you can use specific information and services on this Website only after providing relevant registration information.
If you have registered on this Website, you can view or edit the personal data you have submitted to this Website at any time. However, for security and identity verification purposes, you may not be able to modify the initial information and other verification information you provided during registration, such as the initial sign-in account.

7. Information Release by Users

Some services on this Website allow users to publish posts, participate in call for submissions, and contribute articles on hot topics. Please note that the aforementioned content becomes public information from the time it is published and approved. Please be careful about any comments, articles, and personal data you publish. Although we have taken various measures to protect your information, in some cases, the information may be used in a manner that does not comply with this Statement and applicable laws and regulations due to uncontrollable factors. In addition, the aforementioned information you publish must comply with the Terms of Use of this Website to ensure that the information complies with our standards and relevant laws and regulations.

8. Special Conventions on Information of Minors

We provide products and services mainly for adults. If you are a minor, we require you to ask your parents or legal guardians to carefully read this Statement, and to use our services or provide information to us with the consent of your parents or legal guardians.

9. Third-Party Providers and Their Services

To ensure user experience, you may receive content or web links from third parties other than OceanClub and its partners. OceanClub has no control over such third parties, and therefore we advise you to take care when accessing these links, viewing the content and/or using the products or services provided by third parties.

OceanClub has no control over the privacy policies and data protection policies of third parties that are not subject to this Statement. Before submitting your personal data to such a third party, please read and refer to said third party's privacy protection policies.

10. How We Protect and Retain Your Personal Data

OceanClub strictly protects the security of your personal data. We take appropriate physical, management, and technical measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss. For example, we use cryptographic technologies for data confidentiality, protection mechanisms to prevent attacks, and access control mechanisms to permit only authorized access to your personal data. We also provide training on security and privacy protection for employees to raise their awareness of personal data protection. We are committed to protecting your personal data; however, note that no security measure is completely infallible.

We will retain your personal data for the shortest period necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this Statement unless an extension of the retention period is required or permitted by law. The data retention period may vary depending on the service. The criteria we use to determine the retention period are as follows: the time required to retain personal data to fulfill business purposes, including providing services, maintaining corresponding business records, controlling and improving the performance and quality of services, ensuring the security of systems and services, handling possible user queries or complaints, and locating problems; whether you agree to a longer retention period; whether the laws, contracts, and equivalent documents contain special requirements for data retention. We will maintain your registration information as long as your account is necessary for service provision. You can choose to deregister your account. After you deregister your account, we will stop providing you with services through your account and delete or anonymize your relevant personal data within the shortest period necessary, provided that it is not otherwise stipulated by special legal requirements.

11. How Your Personal Data Is Transferred Globally

OceanClub is a global open data storage technology community. OceanClub may collect your personal data in the country/region where you use OceanClub services, process the collected personal data in the region where OceanClub server is deployed, or access the collected personal data in the country/region where OceanClub or its partners are located. These countries/regions may have different personal data protection laws. In such cases, OceanClub will take measures to ensure that the collected personal data is handled according to the requirements of this Statement and applicable laws.

The OceanClub website server is deployed in Hong Kong, China. Therefore, personal data collected by OceanClub will be stored in Hong Kong, China.

12. Updates to this Statement

We will update this Statement according to the changes in the laws and regulations on websites, to ensure that our operating practices and related services comply with the latest laws and regulations. We will update the Last Update Date stated at the end of this Statement when we revise this Statement. Please view it regularly to keep up with any updates. Your continued use of this Website after the updates shall be deemed as your full acceptance of the updated Statement.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Statement or the protection of your personal data, please contact us by sending emails to [email protected]. We will try our best to reply to you within a reasonable period of time.

 

Last Update Date: August 2024

This Terms of Use ("TOU") is an agreement entered into by and between the OceanClub community (hereinafter referred to as this "Community", "Community", or "OceanClub") and Community service users (hereinafter, "users", "you", or "your"). Please read this TOU carefully before you use the services provided by this Community. If you do not agree to this TOU or any amendment made in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations for websites, you shall stop using the services provided by this Community. Once you use the services provided by this Community, you are deemed to have (a) fully understood and agreed to the contents of this TOU, including any amendments made by this Community to this TOU at any time, and (b) become a Community user.

1. Service Content

1.1 This Community provides users with interaction and communication services, including but not limited to publishing information about the storage industry, browsing the content in this Community, releasing and replying comments, giving likes, and sharing relevant content.

1.2 The Community website may contain links to third-party websites. Access to any third-party websites is at your own risk, and this Community is not responsible for the accuracy, integrity, completeness, or reliability of any product information, data, opinions, pictures, statements, or suggestions on these third-party websites. This Community provides these links only for your reference. This does not imply that this Community endorses or recommends any of the information on these third-party websites.

2. Rights and Obligations of Users

2.1 If the information you provide when you use the Community services is not authentic, up-to-date, complete, or accurate, your OceanClub community account may be frozen or deregistered, or you may be denied registration of your account. You will need to bear any consequences and losses.

2.2 When using the Community services, you shall not use this Community and/or content in this Community for any illegal or prohibited purpose, or for any end in connection with any illegal purpose, or to abet any illegal activity or activity that infringes the rights of OceanClub or any third party.

2.3 You shall not take any action that creates heavy loads for this Community, including but not limited to loads on its infrastructure, systems, and networks.

2.4 When using this Community and its content, you agree to abide by relevant laws and ethical standards. You shall not use this Community and its content to create, read, reproduce, or disseminate any information that is illegal or infringes the rights of others; or to engage in any activities that endanger cyber security or computer systems.

3. User Consent

3.1 You understand and agree that once your account is deregistered, you will not be able to sign in to this Community or enjoy the services and benefits of the account.

3.2 This Community may require you to provide further information for authentication or verification. Only after your account is authenticated and verified can you access your account services.

4. Privacy Protection

4.1 This Community deeply values your privacy and strictly protects your personal information, which is obtained with your permission. By using the services of this Community, you acknowledge and accept the OceanClub Privacy Statement, which constitutes an integral part of, and has the same legal effect as this TOU.

4.2 This Community will not disclose or share the personal information from your registration file to any third party without your permission, unless:

(1) this Community is required to do so in accordance with applicable laws and regulations;

(2) any administrative or judicial authority requires, subject to legal procedures, this Community to provide such information;

(3) this Community brings a claim, lawsuit, arbitration, or other legal proceedings against you to protect its legitimate rights and interests;

(4) a third-party right owner brings a claim, lawsuit, arbitration, or other legal proceedings against this Community in respect of infringement by the content published by you in this Community;

(5) you or your parent or legal guardian authorizes this Community to do so;

(6) your parent or legal guardian lawfully requires this Community to do so; or

(7) it is for the purpose of protecting public interests, or there are other circumstances in which it is necessary to reveal, edit, or disclose your personal information pursuant to laws.

4.3 Although this Community has made great efforts to protect your privacy, it cannot guarantee that existing security technologies can protect your information from all forms of interference. If information leakage occurs due to hacks, viruses, or other external factors, this Community shall not be held accountable.

5. Copyright

Unless otherwise specified, the copyright of the content in this Community belongs to OceanClub or relevant licensors. Without the prior written consent of OceanClub or the relevant parties, no content in this Community shall be reproduced, modified, promoted, distributed, photocopied, played, disassembled, reverse-engineered, decompiled, linked or transmitted with hyperlinks, loaded into other servers through mirroring, stored in an information retrieval system, or otherwise used for any other non-Community purpose by any person by any means.

6. Limitation of Liability

6.1 You understand and agree that you shall solely bear any risks of using the services of this Community. This Community does not assume any responsibility for your behavior.

6.2 This Community is not liable for any direct or indirect losses that you may suffer during the use of services provided by this Community, including but not limited to loss of profits and goodwill.

6.3 You shall not transfer, sell, or lend your account and password to others. Only the original registrant has the right to use an account. You shall bear all responsibilities for any actions performed using your account.

6.4 If you sign up for the offline peer communication activities released in this Community, you shall comply with the activity rules. This Community is not responsible for any changes to or potential risks of the offline activities.

6.5 Although this Community spares no effort to provide accurate materials and information (including but not limited to text, pictures, data, opinions, and suggestions), their accuracy, integrity, completeness, and reliability cannot be guaranteed. This Community does not assume responsibility for any errors or omissions in the materials and information, or provide any explicit or implicit guarantees for the materials and content, including but not limited to guarantees for their ownership or quality, or whether they infringe on the rights of any third party or contain any viruses.

7. Amendment and Termination of this TOU

7.1 This Community has the right to amend this TOU as required and publish the amendments in this Community. You should read this TOU regularly. If you disagree with any amendment, you shall immediately stop using the services of this Community.

7.2 If you violate any provision in this TOU, this Community has the right to immediately terminate the services provided to you and reserves the right to take legal action.

8. Miscellaneous

8.1 The establishment, effectiveness, interpretation, and dispute resolution of this TOU shall adhere to the laws of the People's Republic of China.

8.2 If any term in this TOU is deemed invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms shall remain in full force.

8.3 The headings in this TOU are for reference only and shall not affect the interpretation or binding force of this TOU.

8.4 If you discover any unauthorized use of your account or any other account security issues, change your account password immediately and keep the new password secure. If necessary, contact this Community via [email protected]. This Community is not liable for any consequences if your account is illegally used due to a hack or negligence on your part.

This TOU takes effect as of the date when you start to use the services of this Community and terminates upon your stop using the services of this Community.