Our Privacy Policy was updated on May 23, 2023.
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and let us know if you have any questions.
Introduction
Mi Push is a platform through which Xiaomi and its affiliated companies (hereinafter referred to as "Xiaomi" or "us") provide push notification services for third-party applications.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out the principles on which Mi Push operates, and constitutes an important part of Xiaomi Privacy Policy. In the event of inconsistency between this Privacy Policy and Xiaomi Privacy Policy with respect to Mi Push, the former shall prevail. For the terms and conditions not stipulated in this Privacy Policy, Xiaomi Privacy Policy shall prevail. Terms and conditions regarding the protection of minors, security measures, and cross-border data transmission can be found in Xiaomi Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is designed with your needs in mind, and you must have a comprehensive understanding of our personal information collection and usage practices while ensuring that ultimately, you have control of the personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy stipulates how Mi Push SDK collects, uses, discloses, processes, and protects the information provided to us by users when you use an application integrated with Mi Push SDK. Under 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 about that individual available to Xiaomi. We will use your personal information strictly following this Privacy Policy.
Ultimately, we want the best for all our users. Should you have any questions about our data handling practices as summarized in this Privacy Policy, please contact us via https://privacy.mi.com/support to address your specific concerns. We will be happy to hear from you. 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. Please see "Contact us" below.
1. What information we collect and how we use it
1.1 Personal information that we collect and use with your authorization
The purpose of collecting personal information is to provide you with Mi Push's basic push notification services, and to ensure that we comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other regulatory requirements. You have the right to choose whether or not to provide the information we have requested, but in most cases, if you do not provide your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with our products or services or respond to your queries. This information includes the following:
1. In order to promptly push relevant notifications provided by third-party applications to your terminal device, we will collect your device identification (GAID) and encrypted Android ID, as well as app information of applications using push services such as application package name, version number, and operation status.
2. In order to provide push notification services, send notifications about software updates or new product releases (including marketing information), evaluate the effectiveness of advertisements, etc., we will collect information about the creation, delivery, and click times of notifications, as well as temporarily save the content of notifications obtained from third parties and sent to you.
3. In order to push and display notifications related to your device and system, we will also collect device-related information such as Mi Push SDK version, device registration location, current network type, and Wi-Fi connection status. Of these types of information, current network type is only read locally on the device and will not be uploaded to the Xiaomi server.
4. You can change the way you receive push notifications by changing your notification settings. In order to provide you with push notifications based on your settings, we will collect information about these settings, including your choices regarding allowing or blocking notifications, Lock screen notifications, etc.
5. We may combine data we collect across services and from your different devices in order to deliver a consistent cross-device experience. We will use this information to analyze and develop statistical information related to the use of our products and services in order to improve them.
1.2 You are fully informed that we may collect and use personal information without your consent if:
(1) The personal information is vital to national security and defense;
(2) The personal information is vital to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
(3) The personal information is related to criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials, or execution of judgments;
(4) The personal information is essential for protecting major legitimate rights (including life and property) and interests of the personal information subject or other people, but it is difficult to obtain the subject's consent;
(5) The personal information collected is made public by the subject at their own discretion;
(6) The personal information is collected from public sources, such as news reports or government announcements;
(7) The personal information is necessary for us to sign the contract as required by you;
(8) The personal information is necessary to maintain the safe and steady operation of products and/or services provided, such as for discovering and handling faults of products and/or services;
(9) The personal information is required for legal news releases;
(10) The personal information is de-identified in the results of statistical or academic research based on the public interest.
1.3 Collection of personal information from third-party sources
When permitted by law, we will collect information about you from third-party sources. For example, third-party applications that use Mi Push services, on the precondition of obtaining your authorization to do so, provide us with your device identification information and the content of the notifications to be pushed to you.
1.4 Non-personally identifiable information
We may also collect other information that cannot identify a specific individual and which may not be defined as personal information. Such information may include statistical data generated when you use a specific service, such as network monitoring data (e.g. request time, number of requests, number of error requests, etc.) and app crash events. The purpose of such collection is to improve the services we provide to you. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, such aggregated data is not personal information as it cannot be used to identify you. The type and amount of information collected depends on how you use our products and/or services.
Additionally, we collect information such as unique device identifier, device model, MIUI version number, and information related to in-app activity. We use this information in an aggregated form to provide you with more useful information and to understand which parts of our websites, products, and services you are most interested in. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, such aggregated data is not personal information as it cannot be used to identify you. However, if we combine non-personal information with personal information, such information will be treated as personal information.
2. How we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information
2.1 Sharing
We do not sell any personal information to third parties.
We may sometimes share your personal information with third parties (as described below) in order to provide or improve our products or services, including offering products or services based on your requirements. Further information about data sharing is set out below.
2.1.1 Sharing that you actively choose or request
With your consent or at your request, we will share your personal information within the scope of your consent/request with specific third parties designated by you.
2.1.2 Sharing information with our group
In order to successfully conduct business operations and to provide you with all the functions of our products or services, we may share your personal information from time to time to other Xiaomi affiliates.
2.1.3 Sharing with third party service providers and business partners
To help us provide you with products and services described in this Privacy Policy, we may, where necessary, share your personal information with our third party service providers and business partners.
This includes our delivery service providers, data centers, data storage facilities, customer service providers, advertising and marketing service providers and other business partners. These third parties may process your personal information on Xiaomi's behalf or for one or more of the purposes of this Privacy Policy. We are committed to ensuring that the sharing of personal information necessary for providing services to you is solely for legitimate, legal, necessary, specific, and explicit purposes. Xiaomi will conduct due diligence and have contracts in place to ensure that third-party service providers comply with the applicable privacy laws in your jurisdiction. There may be occasions that third-party service providers have their sub-processors.
To provide performance measurement, analysis, and other business services, we may also share information (non-personal information) with third parties in aggregated form. We use the information we have to help advertisers and other business partners evaluate the effectiveness and coverage of their advertising and services, and understand the types of people who use their services and how people interact with their websites, apps, and services. We may also share general usage trends of our services with them, such as the number of customers in a particular group of people who purchase certain products or engage in certain transactions.
2.1.4 Other
In accordance with legal requirements, legal procedures, litigation and/or requests from public agencies and government agencies, Xiaomi may need to disclose your personal information. If the disclosure is necessary or appropriate for national security, law enforcement, or other matters of public importance, we may also disclose information about you.
In order to enforce our terms or protect our business, rights, assets or products, or to protect users, or if the disclosure is reasonably necessary for the following purposes (detecting, preventing and resolving fraud, unauthorized use of the product, violations of our terms or policies, or other harmful or illegal activities), we may also disclose information about you. (Xiaomi may collect, use or disclose your personal information if it is and only to the extent it is permitted under applicable data protection laws). This may include providing your personal information to public or government agencies; communicating with third-party partners about the reliability of your account to prevent fraud, violations, and other harmful behaviors.
2.2 Transfer
Xiaomi will not transfer your information to any subject except in the following cases:
• Where we have obtained your explicit consent;
• If Xiaomi is involved in the merger, acquisition, or sale of all or part of its assets that may affect your personal information, we will notify you of any changes in the ownership, use, and any choice you may have regarding your personal information by email and/or by posting a prominent notice on our websites or other appropriate means.
2.3 Public disclosure
Xiaomi may publicly disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:
• Where we have obtained your explicit consent, or you have disclosed the information via our services such as on social media pages or public forums; and
• Public disclosure based on law or reasonable grounds: including laws and regulations, legal procedures, litigation, or at the request of the competent government departments.
3. Retention policy
We retain personal information for information collection purposes as described in this Privacy Policy and in the privacy policies of specific services. This information will be retained for the necessary amount of time, or in compliance with applicable legal requirements. We will cease to retain, and thus delete or anonymize personal information once the purpose of collection is fulfilled, or after we confirm your request for erasure, or after we terminate the operation of the corresponding product or service. An exception to this is personal information that we are processing for public interest, scientific, historical research or statistical purposes. We will continue to retain this type of information for longer than its standard retention period, where permitted based on applicable laws, even if further data processing is not related to the original purpose of collection. The content of notifications obtained from third-party applications and pushed to you will be stored for 30 days and then deleted.
4. Your rights
4.1 Controlling settings
We recognize that privacy concerns differ from person to person. Therefore, we provide examples of methods Mi Push makes available to you to restrict the collection, use, disclosure, or processing of your personal information and control your privacy settings:
- In general, if you wish to no longer receive push notifications from a third-party application, you can turn off push notifications in the application's settings;
- You can also opt out of Mi Push notification services in accordance with other control settings (if any) stated in the privacy policy of the third-party application.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for the aforementioned purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to us or contacting us at https://privacy.mi.com/support.
4.2 Your rights to your personal information
Depending on applicable laws and regulations, you may have the right to access, rectification, erasure, and certain other rights in relation to personal information that we hold about you (hereinafter referred to as the request).
If you wish to access, rectify, or erase your personal information, please make a request to the third-party application in accordance with the specific requirements of the relevant third-party application. After receiving the request from the third-party application, we will respond to your request within the time specified by applicable data protection laws. You can also contact us by mail or by visiting https://privacy.mi.com/support.
The request should meet the requirements of applicable laws and the following conditions:
- Your request should be submitted through our dedicated request channel, and for the protection of your information security, your request should be in writing (unless the local law explicitly recognizes the oral request);
- Your request should provide sufficient information to enable us to verify your identity and ensure that the applicant is the subject or legally authorized person of the requested information.
Once we obtain sufficient information to confirm that your request can be processed, we shall proceed to respond to your request within any timeframe set out under your applicable data protection laws. In detail:
- Based on the requirements of applicable 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 for relevant information, we may charge a reasonable fee based on actual administrative costs according to and if permitted by the applicable laws.
- If any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, you are entitled to have your personal information corrected or completed based on the purpose of use.
- Based on the requirements of applicable laws, you may have the right to request the deletion or removal of your personal information. We shall consider the grounds regarding your erasure request and take reasonable steps, including technical measures. Please note that we may not be able to immediately remove the information from the backup system due to applicable legal restrictions and/or security technology limitations. If this is the case, we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until the backup can be cleared or be made anonymous.
We have the right to refuse to process requests that are not meaningful, manifestly unfounded or excessive, requests that damage others' right to privacy, extremely unrealistic requests, and requests that require disproportionate technical work, as well as requests not required under local law, regarding information that has been made public, and regarding information given under confidential conditions. If we believe that certain aspects of the request to delete or access the information may result in our inability to legally use the information for the aforementioned anti-fraud and security purposes, the request may also be rejected.
4.3 Withdrawal of consent
- You may withdraw your consent previously provided to us for a particular purpose by submitting a request, including collecting, using, and/or disclosing your personal information in our possession or control. Based on the specific service you are using, you can withdraw your consent by contacting us via https://privacy.mi.com/support. 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 note that your withdrawal of consent may result in certain legal consequences. Additionally, you may not be able to continue receiving the full benefit of Xiaomi's products and services, depending on how much authority you grant us to process your information. The withdrawal of your consent or authorization will not affect the validity of our processing carried out upon your authorization up until the point of withdrawal.
4.4 Cancellation of services
You may cancel a specific product or service as specified in this Privacy Policy. Alternatively, if no requirements are specified, you can contact us to request termination at
https://privacy.mi.com/support.
5. 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, contact us via https://privacy.mi.com/support or at the address below. Please include "Privacy Policy" in your contact message. When we receive privacy or personal information requests about accessing or downloading personal information, we have a professional team to solve your problems. If your question itself involves a significant issue, we may ask you for more information. If you are not satisfied with the response you received from us in relation to your personal information, you can hand over the complaint to the relevant data protection regulatory authorities in your jurisdiction. If you consult us, we will provide information on the relevant complaint channels that may be applicable based on your actual situation.
Addresses:
Xiaomi Singapore Pte. Ltd.
#019, 9th Floor, Building 6, 33 Xi'erqi Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China 100085
Xiaomi Singapore Private Limited
20 Cross Street, China Court #02-12 Singapore 048422
For users in India:
Xiaomi Technology India Private Limited
Building Orchid, Block E, Embassy Tech Village, Outer Ring Road, Devarabisanahalli,
Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560103, India
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA)
Xiaomi Technology Netherlands B.V.
Prinses Beatrixlaan 582, The Hague 2595BM Netherlands
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
Thank you for taking the time to read our Privacy Policy!
What’s new to you
We have made several updates as follows:
- We have explained more clearly what personal information we collect and how we use it
- We have explained more clearly your rights
- We have explained how we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information
