Our Privacy Policy was updated on 25 April 2018 and will take
effect on 25 May 2018. If you do not agree with these changes and no
longer wish to use our services, you may cancel your account by emailing
us at privacy@xiaomi.com. We have revamped the Privacy Policy front and
back so that from this date onwards, this Privacy Policy can provide
privacy details on how we manage your personal information for all
Xiaomi products and services, unless a separate privacy policy is
provided for a specific Xiaomi product or service.
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and let us know if you have any questions.
Our commitment to you
This Privacy Policy sets out how Xiaomi Inc. and its affiliated
companies within the Xiaomi Group (“Xiaomi”, “we”, “our” or “us”)
collect, use, disclose, process and protect any information that you
give us when you use our products and services located at www.mi.com,
en.miui.com, account.xiaomi.com, MIUI and our Suite of applications that
we offer on our mobile devices, for a list of these applications,
please click here.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be
identified when using Xiaomi products and services, it will only be used
in accordance with this Privacy Policy and/or our terms and conditions
for users.
The Privacy Policy is designed with you in mind, and it is
important that you have a comprehensive understanding of our personal
information collection and usage practices, as well as full confidence
that ultimately, you have control of any personal information provided
to Xiaomi.
In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information
that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual,
either from that information alone or from that information combined
with other information Xiaomi has access about that individual. Such
personal information may include but not limit to the information you
provide to us or upload, the information specific to you that may be
assigned by us, your financial information, social information, device
or sim-related information, location information, log information.
By using Xiaomi products and services or other acting permitted by
the applicable laws, you are deemed to have read, acknowledged and
accepted all the provisions stated here in the Privacy Policy, including
any changes we may make from time to time. In order to comply with
applicable laws, including local data protection legislation (e. g.
General Data Protection Regulation in Europe Union), we will
specifically seek prior explicit consent to the particular processing
(e. g. automated individual decision-making) of special categories of
personal data. Furthermore, we are committed to protecting the privacy,
confidentiality and security of your personal information by complying
with applicable laws, and we are equally committed to ensuring that all
our employees and agents uphold these obligations.
Ultimately, what we want is the best for all our users. Should you
have any concerns with our data handling practice as summarized in this
Privacy Policy, please contact privacy@xiaomi.com to address your specific concerns. We will be happy to address them directly.
If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or
practices, please contact us at privacy@xiaomi.com. If you have an
unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed
satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute
resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request .
What information is collected and how can we use it?
Types of information collected
In order to provide our services to you, we will ask you to
provide personal information that is necessary to provide those services
to you. If you do not provide your personal information, we may not be
able to provide you with our products or services.
We will only collect the information that is necessary for
its specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further
processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. We may
collect the following types of information (which may or may not be
personal information):
- Information you provide to us or upload
(including your contact details): we may collect any and all personal
information you provide to us, like your name, mobile phone number,
email address, delivery address, ID card, driver license, passport
details, Mi Account details (e.g. your security related information,
name, birthday, gender), order, invoicing details, materials or data you
may sync through Mi Cloud or other apps (e.g. photos, contact lists),
information in relation to creating an account and participating in the
MIUI Forum or other Xiaomi platforms, phone numbers you insert into your
contacts or to send a message, feedback, and any other information you
provide us.
- Information specific to you that may be assigned by us: we may collect and use information such as your Mi Account ID.
- Information specific to you that may be assigned by Third Party Service Providers: we may collect and use information such as your advertising ID assigned by Third Party Service Providers.
- Financial information: information related to completing purchases. For example, bank account number, account holder name, credit card number etc.
- Social information: information related
to your social activities. For example, current employer, current job
title, education background, professional training background etc.
- Device or SIM-related information:
information related to your device. For example, IMEI number, IMSI
number, MAC address, Serial number, MIUI version and type, Android
version, Android ID, screen display information, device keypad
information, device manufacturer details and model name, network
operator, connection type, hardware usage information such as battery
usage, device temperature.
- Application information:
information related to your software usage. For example, application
list, application status record (e.g. downloading, installing, updating,
deleting), application ID information, SDK version, system update
settings etc.
- Location information (only for
specific services/functionalities): various types of information on
your location. For example, region, country code, city code, mobile
network code, mobile country code, cell identity, longitude and latitude
information, time zone settings, language settings.
- Log information: information
related to your use of certain functions, apps and websites. For
example, cookies and other anonymous identifier technologies, IP
addresses, network request information, temporary message history,
standard system logs, crash information.
- Other information:
environmental characteristics value (ECV) (i.e. value generated from Mi
Account ID, phone device ID, connected Wi-Fi ID and location value).
We may also collect other types of information which are not
directly or indirectly linked to an individual and which is aggregated,
anonymized or de-identified. For example, the device model and system
version number of the user’s Xiaomi mobile phone device may be collected
when using a particular service. Such information is collected in order
to improve the services we provide to you.
How the personal information can be used
Personal information is collected for providing services and / or
products to you, and legal compliance on our part under applicable laws.
You hereby consent that we may process and disclose personal
information to our affiliated companies (which are in the
communications, social media, technology and cloud businesses), Third
Party Service Providers (defined below) for the purposes stated in this
Privacy Policy.
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Providing, processing, maintaining, improving and developing our
goods and/or services to you, including after-sales and customer support
and for services on your device or through our websites.
- Communicating with you about your device, service or any general
queries, such as updates, customer inquiry support, information about
our events, notices.
- Conducting marketing related activities, such as providing
marketing and promotional materials and updates. For more information on
marketing and promotional activities, please refer to the Direct
Marketing section below.
- Allowing you to post comments in public forums.
- Conducting promotional activities, such as sweepstakes and Facebook events.
- Analyzing and developing statistical information on use of our
products and services to better improve our products and services.
- Optimizing the performance of your device, such as analyzing the memory usage or CPU utilization of our applications.
- Storing and maintaining information about you for our business operations or legal obligations.
- Providing local services without communicating with our servers.
Here are more details on how we use your information (which may include personal information):
- Setting up your Mi Account. Personal
information collected when creating a Mi Account on our web sites or
through our mobile devices is used for creating the personal Mi Account
and profile page for the user.
- Processing your purchase orders.
Information relating to e-commerce orders may be used for processing the
purchase order and related after-sales services, including customer
support and re-delivery. In addition, the order number is used to cross
check the order with the delivery partner as well as the actual delivery
of the parcel. The receipt details, including name, address, phone
number and postal code are for delivery purposes. The email address is
used to send parcel tracking information to the user. The list of
purchased item(s) is used for printing the invoice and allowing users to
see what is in the parcel.
- Allowing you to participate in MIUI Forum.
Personal information in relation to the MIUI Forum or other Xiaomi
Internet platforms may be used for profile page display, interaction
with other users, participating in the forum.
- Providing Mi Cloud and other MIUI services.
Information (device or SIM card-related information including IMEI
number, IMSI number, phone number, device ID, device operating system,
MAC Address, device type, system and performance information and
location information including mobile country code, mobile network code,
location area code and cell identity) is collected for activating MIUI
services, e.g. Mi Cloud, call log sync, SMS sync, Find Device, for the
purposes of user authentication and activation of the services.
- Diagnosing activation failures:
Location related information is used for the purpose of assessing SIM
card activation failure (i.e. failure of SMS gateway and network) to
identify the network operator of that service, and notify the network
operator of that failure.
- Providing other MIUI services. Other
information collected for each of the MIUI services may be used for
performing the functions of that service, and to facilitate the
provision of that service for the benefit of the user, e.g. downloading,
updating, registering, performing or optimizing activities related to
MIUI services. For example, personal information collected by the Theme
Store may be used to provide personalized theme recommendation services
based on your downloading and browsing history.
- Finding your device: Xiaomi’s Find
Device feature helps you find and secure your phone if it is lost or
stolen. You can locate your phone on a map using location information
provided by your phone, wipe your phone, or lock your phone. We may
collect your location data directly from your mobile device, or in some
situations, from cell towers or Wi-Fi hotspots.
- Recording location information in photos.
You have the ability to record your location information while taking a
photo. This information will be visible within your photos folder and
the location will be put into the header of your photos. If you do not
wish to have your location recording while taking a photo, you may turn
this off at any time within the camera settings of the device.
- Providing messaging functions (e.g. Mi Talk, Mi Message).
If you download and use Mi Talk, information collected for Mi Talk may
be used for activating this service and identifying the user and message
recipient. In addition, chat history is stored for the convenience of
re-loading historical chats after a user has re-installed apps, or for
synchronization across devices. Information (sender’s and recipient's
phone numbers and Mi Message IDs) may be used for Mi Message for
activating the services and enabling the service to function, including
routing of messages.
- Providing location based services. In
the course of using MIUI services, location information may also be used
by us or Third Party Service Providers to serve you the correct version
of the service and provide accurate details about that location for the
best possible user experience, e.g. weather details, location access
(as part of the Android platform). You may turn this off at any time by
going into the device settings or discontinue use of that application.
- Improving user experience. Some opt-in
features, such as the User Experience Program, allow Xiaomi to analyze
data about how users use the mobile phone and MIUI services, so as to
improve the user experience, such as sending crash reports.
- Allowing you to use Security Center.
Information collected may be used for security and system up-keeping
functionalities in the Security Center, such as advertising blocker,
virus scan, power saver, blocklist, cleaner, etc. Some of these
functionalities are operated by Third Party Service Providers.
Information (which is not personal information like virus definition
lists) is used for virus scan functions.
- Providing Push Service. Mi Account ID
and IMEI numbers will also be used to provide the Xiaomi push service to
evaluate advertising performance and send notifications from MIUI about
software updates or new product announcements, including information
about sales and promotion. Furthermore, under entrust of selected third
party (the data controller of your personal information), the Xiaomi
push service may also evaluate advertising performance or send
notifications by using your Mi Account ID and IMEI numbers. You consent
to our use of your personal information for the purpose of sending you
pushing services (whether by messaging within our services, by email or
by other means) that offer or advertise our products and services and/or
the products and services of selected third parties. You may opt out of
this at any time through changing your preferences under “Settings”, or
through the selected third party you consent.
- Verifying user identity. Xiaomi uses the ECV value to verify the user identity and ensure there is no log-in by hackers or unauthorized persons.
- Collecting user feedback. The feedback
you choose to provide is valuable in helping Xiaomi make improvements to
our services. In order to follow up on the feedback you have chosen to
provide, Xiaomi may correspond with you using the personal information
that you have provided and keep records.
- Sending notices. From time to time, we
may use your personal information to send important notices, such as
communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and
policies.
- Conducting promotional activities. If
you enter into a sweepstake, contest, or similar promotion, e.g. via
Xiaomi’s Facebook page or other social media platforms, we may use the
personal information you provide to administer those programs.
- Conducting analysis of your device to provide better user experience. Xiaomi may conduct the hardware or software analysis, so as to further improve the performance of your device.
Direct marketing
- We may use your name, phone number, and email address, Mi Account
ID and IMEI number to provide marketing materials to you relating to
goods and services of Xiaomi companies and our business partners which
offer network, mobile applications and cloud products and services. To
provide better user experience, we may recommend above-mentioned
products, services and activities based on information about your
purchase history, website browsing history, birthday, age, gender, and
location. We will only so use your personal data after we obtain your
prior explicit consent and involve a clear affirmative action or
indication of no objection in accordance with local data protection
laws, which may require separate explicit consent. You have the right to
opt out of our proposed use of your personal data for direct marketing.
If you no longer wish to receive certain types of email communications
you may opt-out by following the unsubscribe link located at the bottom
of each communication. We will not transfer your personal data to our
business partners for use by our business partners in direct marketing.
Cookies and other technologies
- What information is collected and how we can use them:
Technologies such as cookies, tags, and scripts are used by Xiaomi and
our Third Party Service Providers. These technologies are used in
analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements
around the website and to gather demographic information about our user
base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these
technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated
basis.
- Log Files: As true of most websites, we
gather certain information and store it in log files. This information
may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet
service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system,
date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We do not link this
automatically collected data to other information we gather about you.
- Advertising: We partner with our Third
Party Service Providers to either display advertising on our website or
to manage our advertising on other sites. Our Third Party Service
Provider may use technologies such as cookies to gather information
about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide
you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. We
will obtain your prior explicit consent and involve a clear affirmative
action before providing this advertising service to you. If you wish to
not have this information used for the purpose of serving you
interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here http://preferences-mgr.truste.com.
- Mobile Analytics: Within some of our
mobile applications we use mobile analytics software to allow us to
better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your
phone. This software may record information such as how often you use
the application, the events that occur within the application,
aggregated usage, performance data, and where crashes occur within the
application. We do not link the information we store within the
analytics software to any personal information you submit within the
mobile application.
- Local Storage – HTML5/Flash: We use
Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 or Flash to store content and
preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain
features on our Sites or to display advertising based upon your web
browsing activity also use HTML5 or Flash cookies to collect and store
information. Various browsers may offer their own management tool for
removing HTML5 LSOs. To manage Flash cookies, please click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html .
With whom we share your information
We do not sell any personal information to third parties.
We may disclose your personal information on occasion to
third parties (as described below) in order to provide the products or
services that you have requested.
Disclosure may be made to Third Party Service Providers and
affiliated companies listed in this section below. In each case
described in this section, you can be assured that Xiaomi will only
share your personal information in accordance with your consent. Your
consent to Xiaomi will engage sub-processors for the processing of your
personal information. You should know that when Xiaomi shares your
personal information with a Third Party Service Provider under any
circumstance described in this section, Xiaomi will contractually
specify that the third party is subject to practices and obligations to
comply with applicable local data protection laws. Xiaomi will
contractually ensure compliance by any Third Party Service Providers
with the privacy standards that apply to them in your home jurisdiction.
Sharing with our group and third party service providers
From time to time, in order to conduct business operations smoothly
in providing you with the full capabilities of our products and
services, we may disclose your personal information from time to time to
other Xiaomi affiliated companies (in communications, social media,
technology or cloud businesses), or our third party service providers
which are our mailing houses, delivery service providers,
telecommunications companies, data centers, data storage facilities,
customer service providers, advertising and marketing service providers,
agents acting on behalf of Xiaomi, [related corporations, and/or other
third parties] (together “Third Party Service Providers”). Such Third
Party Service Providers would be processing your personal information on
Xiaomi’s behalf or for one or more of the purposes listed above. We may
share your IP address with third parties when using certain mobile
applications on our device in order to provide you with some of the
services you requested. If you no longer wish to allow us to share this
information, please contact us at privacy@xiaomi.com.
Sharing with our group’s ecosystem companies
Xiaomi works together with a cool group of companies, which
together form the Mi Ecosystem. The Mi Ecosystem companies are
independent entities, invested and incubated by Xiaomi, and are experts
in their fields. Xiaomi may disclose your personal data to the Mi
Ecosystem companies so as to provide you with and improve the exciting
products and services (both hardware and software) from the Mi Ecosystem
companies. Some of these products and services will still be under the
Xiaomi brand, while others may use their own brand. The Mi Ecosystem
companies may also share data with Xiaomi from time to time in relation
to products and services under the Xiaomi brand and other brands owned
by Xiaomi to provide hardware and software services, and to create
better functions and user experience. Xiaomi will take appropriate
organizational and technical measures to ensure the security of personal
data during the process of sharing of information, including but not
limited to the encryption of your personal data. If Xiaomi is involved
in a merger, acquisition or asset sale of all or a portion of our
assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our
website, of any changes in ownership, uses of your personal information,
and choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Sharing with others
Xiaomi may disclose your personal information without further consent when required under applicable law.
Information not requiring consent
- We may share anonymized information and statistics in aggregate
form with third parties for business purposes, for example with
advertisers on our website, we may share them trends about the general
use of our services, such as the number of customers in certain
demographic groups who purchased certain products or who carried out
certain transactions.
- For the avoidance of doubt, Xiaomi may collect, use or disclose
your personal information without your consent if it is and only to the
extent it is allowed explicitly under local data protection laws.
Security safeguards
Xiaomi’s security measures
We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is
secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure or other
similar risks, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic and
managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect
on your mobile device and on Xiaomi websites. We will use all
reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information.
For example, when you access your Mi Account, you can choose to use
our two-step verification process for better security. When you send or
receive data from your Xiaomi device to our servers, we make sure they
are encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) and other algorithms.
All your personal information is stored on secure servers that are
protected in controlled facilities. We classify your data based on
importance and sensitivity, and ensure that your personal information
has the highest security level. We make sure that our employees and
Third Party Service Providers who access the information to help provide
you with our products and services are subject to strict contractual
confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they
fail to meet such obligations. We have special access controls for
cloud based data storage as well. All in all, we regularly review our
information collection, storage and processing practices, including
physical security measures, to guard against any unauthorized access and
use.
We will take all practicable steps to safeguard your personal
information. However, you should be aware that the use of the Internet
is not entirely secure, and for this reason we cannot guarantee the
security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred
from you or to you via the Internet.
We will take upon the personal data breach, notifying the breach to
relevant supervisory authority or under some circumstances, notifying
the personal data breach to the data subjects by complying with
applicable laws, including your local data protection legislation.
What you can do
- You can play your part in safeguarding your personal information
by not disclosing your login password or account information to anybody
unless such person is duly authorized by you. Whenever you log in as a
Mi Account user on Xiaomi websites, particularly on somebody else's
computer or on public Internet terminals, you should always log out at
the end of your session.
- Xiaomi cannot be held responsible for lapses in security caused
by third party accesses to your personal information as a result of your
failure to keep your personal information private. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, you must notify us immediately if there is any unauthorized
use of your account by any other Internet user or any other breach of
security.
- Your assistance will help us protect the privacy of your personal information.
Retention policy
Personal information will be held for as long as it is necessary to
fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required or
permitted by applicable laws. We shall cease to retain personal
information, or remove the means by which the personal information can
be associated with particular individuals, as soon as it is reasonable
to assume that the purpose for which that personal information was
collected is no longer being served by retention of the personal
information. If further processing is for archiving purposes in the
public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or
statistical purposes according to the applicable laws, the data can be
further retained by Xiaomi even if the further processing is
incompatible with original purposes.
Accessing other features on your device
Our applications may need access to certain features on your device
such as enabling emails to contacts, SMS storage and Wi-Fi network
status, as well as other features. This information is used to allow the
applications to run on your device and allow you to interact with the
applications. At any time you may revoke your permissions by turning
these off at the device level or contacting us at privacy@xiaomi.com.
You have control over your personal information
Controlling settings
Xiaomi recognizes that privacy concerns differ from person to
person. Therefore, we provide examples of ways Xiaomi makes available
for you to choose to restrict the collection, use, disclosure or
processing of your personal information and control your privacy
settings:
- Toggle on/off for the User Experience Program and Location Access functions;
- Log in and out of the Mi Account;
- Toggle on/off for the Mi Cloud sync functions; and
- Delete any information stored on Mi Cloud through www.mi.com/micloud
- Toggle on/off for other services and functionalities which deal with sensitive or personal information.
You may obtain more details in relation to your device’s security status in the MIUI Security Center as well.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal
information for the abovementioned purposes, you may change your mind at
any time by writing or emailing us at privacy@xiaomi.com.
Access, update, correct, erase or restrict processing your personal information
- You have the right to request access to and/or correction of any
other personal information that we hold about you. When you update your
personal information, you will be asked to verify your identity before
we proceed with your request. Once we obtain sufficient information to
accommodate your request for access to or correction of your personal
information, we shall proceed to respond to your request within any
timeframe set out under your applicable data protection laws.
- A copy of your personal data collected and processed by us will
be provided to you upon your request free of charge. For any extra
requests of the same information, we may charge a reasonable fee based
on actual administrative costs according to the applicable laws.
- If you would like to request access to your personal data held by
us or if you believe any information we are holding on you is incorrect
or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the
email address below. Email: privacy@xiaomi.com
- For details relating to the personal information in your Mi
Account, you may also access and change them at http://account.mi.com or
by logging into your account on your device.
- If you are Europe Union user under General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to obtain from us the erasure of
your personal information. We shall consider the grounds regarding your
erasure request and take reasonable steps, including technical measures,
if the grounds apply to GDPR.
- If you are Europe Union user under GDPR, you have the right to
obtain from us the restriction of processing your personal information.
We shall consider the grounds regarding your restriction request. If the
grounds apply to GDPR, we shall only process your personal information
under applicable circumstances in GDPR and inform you before the
restriction of processing is lifted.
- If you are Europe Union user under GDPR, you have the right not
to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing,
including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or
similarly significantly affects you.
- If you are Europe Union user under GDPR, you have the right to
receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used format
and transmit the information to another data controller.
Withdrawal of consent
- You may withdraw your consent for the collection, use and/or
disclosure of your personal information in our possession or control by
submitting a request. This may be done by accessing your Mi Account
management center at account.xiaomi.com/pass/del. We will process your
request within a reasonable time from when the request was made, and
thereafter not collect, use and/or disclose your personal information as
per your request.
- Please recognize that your withdrawal of consent could result in
certain legal consequences. Depending on the extent of your withdrawal
of consent for us to process your personal information, it may mean that
you will not be able to enjoy Xiaomi’s products and services.
Transfer of personal information outside of your jurisdiction
To the extent that we may need to transfer personal information
outside of your jurisdiction, whether to our affiliated companies (which
are in the communications, social media, technology and cloud
businesses) or Third Party Service Providers, we shall do so in
accordance with the applicable laws. In particular, we will ensure that
all transfers will be in accordance with requirements under your
applicable local data protection laws by putting in place appropriate
safeguards. You will have the right to be informed of the appropriate
safeguards taken by Xiaomi for this transfer of your personal
information.
Xiaomi is a China-headquartered company operating globally. As
such, complying with applicable laws, we may transfer your personal data
to any subsidiary of the Xiaomi group worldwide when processing that
information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We may
also transfer your personal data to our third party service providers,
who may be located in a country or area outside the area of the European
Economic Area (EEA).
Whenever Xiaomi shares personal data originating in the EEA with a
third party which may or may not be a Xiaomi entity outside the EEA, we
will do so on the basis of EU standard contractual clauses or any other
safeguards provided for in the GDPR.
Xiaomi may use overseas facilities operated and controlled by
Xiaomi to process or back up your personal information. Currently,
Xiaomi has data centers in Beijing, United States, Germany, Russia and
Singapore. These overseas jurisdictions may or may not have in place
data protection laws which are substantially similar to that in your
home jurisdiction. You have understood that the risks under applicable
data protection laws are different and we may transfer to and store your
personal information at our overseas facilities. However, this does not
change any of our commitments to safeguard your personal information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Miscellaneous
Minors
- We consider it the responsibility of parents to monitor their
children’s use of our products and services. Nevertheless, it is our
policy not to require personal information from minors or offer to send
any promotional materials to persons in that category.
- Xiaomi does not seek or intend to seek to receive any personal
information from minors. Should a parent or guardian have reasons to
believe that a minor has provided Xiaomi with personal information
without their prior consent, please contact us to ensure that the
personal information is removed and the minor unsubscribes from any of
the applicable Xiaomi services.
Order of precedence
If you have agreed to our applicable User Agreements, in the
event of inconsistency between such User Agreements and this Privacy
Policy, such User Agreements shall prevail.
Updates to the privacy policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and may update this
privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we
make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email
(sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or post the
changes on all the Xiaomi websites or through our mobile devices, so
that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it.
Such changes to our Privacy Policy shall apply from the effective date
as set out in the notice or on the website. We encourage you to
periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy
practices. Your continued use of products and services on the websites,
mobile phones and/or any other device will be taken as acceptance of the
updated Privacy Policy. We will seek your fresh consent before we
collect more personal information from you or when we wish to use or
disclose your personal information for new purposes.
Do I have to agree to any third party terms and conditions?
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to products and services offered
by a third party. Xiaomi products and services may include third
parties’ products, services and links to third parties’ websites. When
you use such products or services, they may collect your information
too. For this reason, we strongly suggest that you read the third
party’s privacy policy as you have taken time to read ours. We are not
responsible for and cannot control how third parties use personal
information which they collect from you. Our Privacy Policy does not
apply to other sites linked from our services.
Here are third party terms and privacy policies that apply when you use these specific products:
- By using PayPal or other third party check-out services
to finalize and pay for your order, you are agreeing to the third party
check-out service provider’s privacy policy will apply to the
information you provide on their website.
- By using the Virus Scan feature in the MIUI Security
Center, you are agreeing to one of the following three terms based on
your choice of service.
- Avast Privacy and Information Security Policy: https://www.avast.com/privacy-policy
- License Agreement for AVL SDK for Mobile: http://co.avlsec.com/License.en.html?l=en
- Tencent’s Terms of Service: http://wesecure.qq.com/termsofservice.jsp
- By using the Cleaner feature in MIUI’s Security Center,
you are agreeing to one of the following two terms based on your choice
of service.
- Cheetah Mobile’s Privacy Policy: http://www.cmcm.com/protocol/cleanmaster/privacy-for-sdk.html
- Tencent’s Terms of Service: http://wesecure.qq.com/termsofservice.jsp
- By using the advertising services in several specific
applications in MIUI, you are agreeing to one of the following two terms
based on your choice of service.
- Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/
- Facebook’ Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update?ref=old_policy
- By using the Google Input Method, you are agreeing to Google’s terms: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy
- By using the SwiftKey Input Method, you are agreeing to SwiftKey’s terms: http://swiftkey.com/en/privacy
Social media (features) and widgets
Our websites include social media features, such as the Facebook
Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive
mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP
address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie
to enable the Feature to function properly. Social media features and
Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our
websites. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the
privacy policy of the company providing it.
Single sign-on
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to log in to our
website using sign-on services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID
provider. These services will authenticate your identity, provide you
the option to share certain personal information (such as your name and
email address) with us, and to pre-populate our sign up form. Services
like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your
activities on this website to your profile page to share with others
within your network.
About our systematic approach to manage your personal information
If you are Europe Union user under GDPR, Xiaomi will provide
systematic approach to manage personal data deeply engages our people,
management processes and information systems by applying a risk
management methodology. According to the GDPR, for instance, (1) Xiaomi
set up a Data Protection Officer (DPO) in charge the data protection,
and the contact of DPO is dpo@xiaomi.com; (2) procedure like data
protection impact assessment (DPIA).
Contact us
If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or
any questions relating to Xiaomi’s collection, use or disclosure of your
personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at the
address below referencing “Privacy Policy”:
Xiaomi Singapore Pte. Ltd.
20 Cross Street, China Court #02-12
Singapore 048422
Email: privacy@xiaomi.com
Thank you for taking the time to understand our Privacy Policy!
What’s new to you
We have made several major edits throughout the “Privacy Policy” as follows:
- We updated the types of personal information that we collected
and the purposes of collecting such information. For example, we
collected hardware usage information to conduct statistical analysis and
optimize the performance of your devices.
- By complying with GDPR and providing better data privacy
protection, we updated the relevant content about users’ rights under
GDPR, and how we process the personal information for our Europe Union
users. We also described our data privacy management method
additionally.
- We updated the relevant content of third parties’ products and
services which may be involved during the use of our products and
services.