Published Date: August 26, 2025
The HONOR Talents Global Design Awards is a global contest operated by HONOR Device Co., Ltd (Suite 3401, Unit A, Building 6, Shum Yip Sky Park, No. 8089, Hongli West Road, Xiangmihu Street, Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China) (Hereinafter referred to as "HONOR" and "we", "us" or "our"), which will serve as your contracting entity and data controller. HONOR takes your personal information and privacy protection very seriously, and we will provide appropriate security protection measures for your personal information in accordance with legal requirements and mature industry-level security standards.
This Statement describes:
1. What Data Do We Collect About You?
2. How Do We Use Your Data?
3. How Do We Store Your Data?
4. How Do We Share Your Data?
5. What Are Your Rights and Options?
6. How to Contact Us?
1. What Data Do We Collect About You?
For HONOR Talents Global Design Awards, we shall collect and use your personal data only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Statement. Personal data refers to any data that enables us to identify you as a user.
We shall collect and process the following data:
•HONOR ID information: such as HONOR ID identifier, nickname, profile picture, the country authorized by HONOR ID when you sign in with your HONOR ID.
•Contest information, such as (i) your profile information (including gender, age range, country and introduction) and contact information (including your phone number and email address) which are collected when you participate in the contest, (ii) your contest submissions (images and videos) and the metadata thereof, such as entry name, category, track, design theme, current college (if it is a college entry), entry description which are collected when you are submitting your works, and (iii) contest identifier, if you are a prize/reward winner of the contest, your contact information (such as name, address, phone number, and email address), and scanned copy of passport may be requested. Such information may be collected after you win a prize/reward and will be used to send the prize/reward. We also collect the information that you provide to us and the content you send us, such as questions or information you provide for customer service support.
•Service usage information, such as uploaded contest entries and records (including your entries (images and videos) and the metadata thereof), clicks, timestamps of different usage activities, user agreement signing records, and customer communication (by email).
2. How Do We Use Your Data?
To provide you with the HONOR Talents Global Design Awards, and fulfill our contractual obligations to you, it requires us to collect and process your data for the purposes of customer relationship and administrative matters to facilitate and organize the contest, support and communication (such as allowing you to participate in the contest, sending important information about the contest, and contacting you if you win the prize), delivering prizes to winners, customer complaints handling, maintenance, software and system updates, identification, as well as diagnostics and repair purposes.
You need an HONOR ID and need to authorize us to access your HONOR ID information for you to log in to the contest website or participate in the contest. You shall guarantee that the personal information provided by you is complete and accurate. We shall contact you to verify your registration information if your submissions have been shortlisted or after the announcement of the award winners has been made. If an award cannot be distributed to you due to incomplete or inaccurate personal information, it shall be deemed that you have waived the right to claim the award, and no award shall be distributed to you.
3. How do we store your data?
Your personal data is stored in Germany, for the purposes of review and entry selection, we will access the data from China. Honor complies with all applicable legal requirements to safeguard your personal data transferred outside of the EEA and UK. To share data within our affiliate(s) we have entered into standard contractual clauses to ensure that an equivalent level of data protection applies to your personal data even where the EEA and UK data protection laws does not directly apply. You can obtain a copy of the EU standard contract Clauses here Publications on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) - European Commission (europa.eu) In addition if you are the winner, when we send you prizes/awards, we may transfer your contact information (such as name, address, phone number, email address) and your scanned copy of passport to China. To ensure the security of your personal data outside the EU/EEA, we strictly follow the data processing principles in Article 5 and the security measures requirements in Article 32 of GDPR, and adopt full-process encryption transmission technology, hierarchical access rights management and systematic employee data protection training system.
We will retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes defined in this Privacy Statement.
The specific retention time of your personal data in relation to HONOR Talents Global Design Awards is set out below:
•Personal data processed for customer relationship management, such as complaints, data subject requests, and contract management for up to six (6) years.
•Award records and information processed to fulfill our legal, tax, audit, and accounting obligations, and information about the winners of the HONOR Talents Global Design Awards, such as address, phone number, for six [6] years.
•The Contest information (such as your profile information and submitted entries information) for 12 months from the end of the HONOR Talents Global Design Awards or until you have deleted the entries yourself. Entries that have received an award will be stored for 12 months unless otherwise required by laws and regulations.
•The contact information of award-winners (including name, address, phone number, and email address) for 12 months from the end of the HONOR Talents Global Design Awards.
Once the retention period expires, we will delete or anonymize your personal data, unless otherwise required by laws and regulations.
In addition, when our products or services stop operating, we will notify you in the form of push notifications, announcements, etc., and delete or anonymize your personal information within a reasonable period of time.
4. Do we share your data?
We may share your data in the following circumstances:
• Sharing with the affiliate(s):
For fulfilling the purposes of your participation in the HONOR Talents Global Design Awards, we will transfer your HONOR ID information, contest information, service usage information to HONOR affiliates and subsidiaries or other designated trusted businesses or persons operating under contract and acting on behalf of us.
5 What are your rights and choices?
You have the following data subject rights and choices regarding your personal data.
5.1 Right of Access
You can view your information regarding the HONOR Talents Global Design Awards that we have collected from you in the following ways:
(1) You can go to Personal Center to view your Account information, such as HONOR ID information (nickname, profile picture or video, and country) and additional information about the participant's account in the contest (such as gender, age range, and contact information such as a phone number and/or email address).
(2) You can go to My Gallery to view your contest submissions (images and videos and the metadata thereof)
For additional access requests, please contact us. We will contact you to verify your identity in order to proceed with your request.
5.2 Right of Rectification
In order to keep your data up-to-date and accurate, you can access and modify your data by going to Personal Center or My Gallery on the website. In the following two circumstances, you will be restricted to modify your data in order to ensure the fairness of the contest:
(1) You cannot modify short-listed or award-winning submissions.
(2) You cannot modify submissions after submission Deadline (which means the contest has entered the selection and review phase).
For additional rectification requests, please contact us. When making a request, you should specify the scope of the data that you want to rectify. We will contact you to verify your identity in order to proceed with your request.
5.3 Right of Portability
You can port the data about the contest submissions (images/video) that you have provided to us in My Gallery on the website.
For additional data portability requests, including data processing in visitor mode, please contact us. We will contact you to verify your identity in order to proceed with your request.
5.4 Right of Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten")
You can erase your data by going to My Profile, and My Gallery on website. In the following two circumstances, you will be restricted to modify in order to ensure the fairness of the Awards.
You may at any time:
• Delete your personal data of contest participation extra account information, such as contest participation account information (such as gender, age group, country, introduction, and contact information such as a phone number and/or email address) in My Profile on the website.
• Delete your submissions in My Gallery on the website. In order to ensure the fairness of the Awards, there are the following restrictions on what you can delete:
(1) You cannot delete short listed or award-winning submissions.
(2) You cannot delete submissions after the submission deadline, as the competition is still ongoing at this point.
• Delete your personal data in HONOR Talents Global Design Awards by going to My Profile > Delete account. You will be requested to delete your previous submissions first.
• Object to the processing of your data, as described in Section 5.5. As a result, we shall erase the data that falls within the scope of your valid objection if we no longer have legal basis to continue processing the data.
• Contact us if you think the processing of your personal data is unlawful and your data should be erased.
We will erase or anonymize your personal data without undue delay when necessary based on your aforementioned actions and in accordance with the retention periods detailed in Section 3.
5.5 Right of Objection
If you want to object to the processing of your data for analytical, development or marketing purposes, please contact us.
When making the request, please specify the scope of the request and provide us with the email address or phone number that you used to log in to your HONOR ID.
We will contact you to verify your identity in order to proceed with your request.
5.6 Right to Restrict Processing
If you want to restrict the processing of your personal data, please contact us. You have the right to restrict the processing of your data in the following circumstances:
• Your data is unlawfully processed, but you do not want to erase it.
• You have a legal claim that you need to establish, exercise, or defend, and you requested us to keep your data when we would not keep it otherwise.
• Your request for objection is pending our verification.
When making the request, please specify the scope and the grounds for the request and provide us with the email address or phone number that you used to log in to your HONOR ID.
We will contact you to verify your identity in order to proceed with your request.
6. How to Contact Us?
If you need to exercise your privacy rights, lodge a complaint, or consult with our Data Protection Officer (DPO) about privacy protection, please contact us by visiting the Privacy Questions page, we will reply as soon as possible.
If you are a user located in the EU/EEA, you can also contact our European Data Protection Officer at:
Address:
Honor DPO Office
Honor Technologies Germany GmbH
Toulouser Allee 27
40211 Düsseldorf
Germany
If you are a user located in the European Union/European Economic Area, you can contact Honor Technologies Germany GmbH, our dedicated representative with its address at Toulouser Allee 27, 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany.
If you believe that we are not processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Statement or the applicable data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country/region.
Note: This Privacy Statement applies to this HONOR Talents Global Design Awards only. For our privacy commitments in relation to other products and services, please see the applicable privacy notice of those products and services. If you want to learn more about Honor’s privacy commitments in general, please read our the Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy.