Statement About Petal Ads and Privacy
Last updated: October 30, 2022

Petal Ads comprises services provided by Huawei Software Technologies Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huawei", "we", "us", or "our") that display personalized ads to you. We take your personal information and privacy seriously, and are committed to taking appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in accordance with relevant laws and established industry security standards.

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Important Notes
1 How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

With your consent, we will display personalized ads to you and process related information. We will ensure the security of your personal information when displaying personalized ads to you.

Information described below may be used to provide you with the advertising services:

To provide you with personalized ads, the Services will use personal information you provide to Huawei and its partners to create user profile groups (advertising segments that group users with similar characteristics), and we will match ads that you may be interested in against what segments you are assigned to in your user profile. Your profile segments will be linked with a random advertising identifier (OAID) of your device, and there will be at least 5,000 users in your group. Your personal information described below may be used for targeted segmentation:

In addition, to improve the quality of advertising services and provide a better user experience, we will collect your personal information in relation to the operations and use of the advertising identifier. Such information will not be shared with any third parties.

The Services know nothing about your health, payments, contacts, call logs, or emails, and will not provide such information to our partners.

2 Sharing with Third Parties

In the ad placement process, we share some of your personal information with our partners such as the advertisers and their agencies according to the principle of minimization. We will protect your personal information and prevent our partners from identifying you as an individual by signing pertinent agreements with our partners, requiring our partners to comply with applicable privacy and security laws, take appropriate physical, technical, organizational, and administrative protective measures, and use the data provided by Huawei in compliance with the agreements. For details, see the Details About Entrusted Ad Information Processing.

3 Managing Your Personal Information

We highly respect your concerns regarding personal information, and you are provided with the following data subject rights and options.

3.1 Opt out of seeing personalized ads

The Services will ensure your rights of choice and control concerning personalized ads in accordance with the law. You can choose to turn on Disable personalized ads on the Ads settings screen on your device.

If you turn on Disable personalized ads, the Services will not deliver personalized ads to you. At the same time, links to your advertising identifier will be removed and your personal information will be unlinked from the advertising identifier. Afterwards, you may still receive ads, but they will be less relevant to you.

You can reset the advertising identifier to clear your personal information linked with it. To reset the advertising identifier on your device, go to the Ads settings screen and touch Reset Ad-ID.

You can access the Ads settings screen in the following ways to manage your personal information:

3.2 Opt out of seeing location-based ads

We do not store or use your precise location information, but only your general location category (such as a university campus or shopping mall). You can choose not to receive location-based ads by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System services, and disabling Location-based Ads, or by disabling Location Services on your device directly. If the System services or Location-based Ads option is not present on your device, you will not receive location-based ads.

If you have any further requests, questions, comments, or suggestions regarding your rights as a data subject, please contact us using the contact information provided under the "Contacting Us" section of this Statement.

3.3 Manage profile segment information

You can view and manage your user profile segment information from Privacy Center, thus controlling what ads you may see.

If you turn on Disable personalized ads or reset the advertising identifier, we will no longer link your existing user profile segment information.

4 Protection of Minors

We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. Huawei will provide services and protection for minors in strict accordance with national laws and regulations. If you are a minor, your parents or legal guardians must agree to your use of this app, and agree to the applicable terms and conditions. Parents or legal guardians should also take appropriate precautions to protect minors, including monitoring their use of this app.

In particular, if you are a child (a minor under the age of 14), the Services will not push personalized ads to you.

5 Information Storage Location and Retention Period

The Services are only available on devices sold in the People's Republic of China. The personal information collected and generated under the Services will be stored in the People's Republic of China and will not be transferred outside the borders. Your personal information will be retained for up to two (2) years.

In the event that we discontinue our products or services, we will notify you in the form of a push notification, announcement, or by other means, and delete or anonymize your personal information within a reasonable period of time.

6 Contacting Us

We have appointed the person responsible for personal information protection who you can contact from here. You may also contact us by visiting the Privacy Questions page or calling the customer service hotline (950800). We will reply as soon as possible.

Our registered address: Huawei Software Technologies Co., Ltd., No. 101, Software Avenue, Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210012.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, especially if you feel that our processing or handling of your personal information has violated or infringed on your legal rights and/or interests, you may seek external resolution, whether by filing a lawsuit with the people's court in the relevant jurisdiction, submitting a complaint to the industry self-regulation association or relevant government regulatory agencies, or by other means. You may also consult us regarding the available channels for voicing your complaint.

Huawei's collection and use of your personal information is governed by our privacy policy. For more information, please refer to the Huawei Consumer Business Privacy Statement.

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