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Privacy Policy

This policy explains what China Buying Desk does with information you submit through this website or share during an engagement.

Information we collect

  • Information you submit through the inquiry form on this site, including your name, company, work email, product or category, sourcing stage, approximate order value, stated concerns and any optional details you provide.
  • Information you send us by email or share during a call, including specifications, quotations, supplier names, quantities and commercial terms.
  • Standard technical information generated when a website is served, such as request and error logs used to keep the site working.

How we use information

  • To respond to your inquiry and assess whether an engagement is a fit.
  • To perform agreed sourcing, benchmarking, verification, negotiation or coordination work.
  • To maintain business records of engagements and correspondence.

Confidentiality

  • Commercial information you share, including specifications, pricing, quantities, customer context and supplier identities, is treated as confidential and is used only for the purpose of your engagement.
  • Where a supplier must be contacted to complete the work, only the information necessary to obtain an accurate quotation is disclosed. Your identity is not disclosed to suppliers without a business reason to do so.
  • A mutual non-disclosure agreement can be signed before detailed information is exchanged. Ask for one at any point.

Sharing with third parties

  • We do not sell your information and we do not share it for advertising purposes.
  • Information may be processed by service providers that host this website, store submitted inquiries or deliver email on our behalf.
  • Information may be disclosed where required by applicable law.

Retention and security

  • Inquiry submissions and engagement records are retained for as long as needed for the engagement and for reasonable business and record-keeping purposes.
  • Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect stored information. No method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your choices

  • You can ask us to correct or delete the information you submitted, subject to records we are required or reasonably need to retain.
  • You can ask what information relating to you we hold.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to dustin@chinabuyingdesk.com.