Privacy Policy

Last updated on 21 August 2025

 

Welcome to the official website of Ant International (“we”, “our”, or “us”). We respect your privacy and aim to be transparent about how this website operates and the limited information we collect. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies solely to our corporate website. Our other business pillars and brands maintain their own privacy policies to govern how personal data is handled in connection with their products and services.

 

1.  What Personal Information We Collect About You

When you visit our website, we may collect personal information about you, including:

•      Device and browser information (e.g. type, version, operating system, and IP address); and

•      Website usage data via cookies and similar technologies.

 

2.  How We Obtain Your Information

We obtain information automatically when you access or interact with our website. This may occur through standard web server logs, cookies and analytics tools to understand site traffic and functionality.

 

 

3.  How We Use Your Information

We may use the personal information collected:

•      to maintain and secure our website;

•      to monitor site traffic and improve user experience;

•      to conduct research, statistical analysis, analytics, business planning, and business intelligence purposes, including analytics to understand visitor interactions;

•      to enable, build, provide, operate and test products and services;

•      to manage our business, including billing, invoicing, account management, reconciliation, collection, audit purposes and internal reporting;

•      to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, for the purposes of legal proceedings, for compliance, regulatory and investigative purposes;

•      for security, authentication and risk control purposes, to assess, detect, investigate, prevent, remediate or report data breaches, fraud, other potentially prohibited or illegal activities and violations of our agreements and policies, industry standards, guidelines, laws and regulations, to protect the integrity and maintain the security of our services, products and platforms, to protect our rights or property and those of others and to prevent any harm or financial loss to us or others;

•      to make disclosures as may be required by any rules, law, regulation, subpoena, court order, other legal process or contractual or commercial requirements, including to regulatory authorities, government officials, or courts;

•      for any proposed or actual merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, financing, sale joint venture, assignment, transfer, disposition or similar transaction, including the sale of business, assets or stock; and

•      otherwise for everyday business purposes, to comply with law, or in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.

 

4.  With Whom We Share Your Personal Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade any personal information collected via this website.

We share your personal information to operate and manage our business, including for the purposes indicated under the “How We Use Your Personal Information” section above. Thus, for example, we may share your information with:

•      service providers elected by you;

•      third parties where you have instructed us to share information with them;

•      our affiliates;

•      any agent, contractor or third party service provider that we work with in providing or to support the website. For example, we may work with hosting and analytics providers;

•      law enforcement agencies, insurers, government and regulatory or supervisory authorities and any other organizations to which we are under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirements of any applicable law, regulation or commercial arrangement;

•      parties relevant to litigation proceedings and the assessment of claims or disputes, including courts;

•      individuals and entities involved in any merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, financing, or similar transaction with us, including in the event of the sale of all or part of our assets; and

•      our own and others' professional advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants, auditors, and trustees).

 

5.  How We Store and Protect Your Personal Information

We will keep your personal information in accordance with our policies and for as long as it is necessary for the purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may retain your personal information for a longer period if it is necessary to comply with laws and regulations applicable to us. The criteria we use to determine the appropriate retention periods are:

•      regulatory requirements that we are subject to;

•      whether a legal claim could be brought against us;

•      necessity of information to provide the website, and products and services;

•      the type, nature, and sensitivity of your personal information being processed; and

•      the legal basis for processing – e.g., consent.

We use a variety of security measures and technologies designed to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction, consistent with applicable data protection and privacy laws and regulations.

 

6.  Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Using Your Personal Information

Where applicable, we process personal information based on:

•      legal and regulatory obligations.

•      your consent, for example when you give consent to our use of cookies in order to measure and improve our sites.

•      our legitimate interests in:

•   maintaining the functionality and security of our website;

•   understanding and improving website performance; and

•   for other purposes including those set out in the “How We Use Your Information” section above.

 

7.  International Transfers of Your Personal Information

We are a global business and your information may be processed outside of the country where you live. These other countries might have data protection regulations that are different from those in your country. Regardless of where your information is processed, we take measures to comply with applicable data protection laws related to such transfer.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom (UK) or Switzerland, any transfers of your data to third countries will be in accordance with standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission or approved under UK or Swiss data protection laws (often called “SCCs”), or other lawful methods available to us under applicable laws. For your reference, information regarding the EU SCCs can be found here, and details about the UK SCCs are available here.

 

 

8.  Your Rights and How to Contact Us

If you wish to exercise data subject rights such as access, correction, or deletion of personal data collected through Ant International brands’ products and services, please refer to the privacy policy of the relevant Ant International brands, which provides the contact details for the Data Protection Officer. As this Privacy Policy only relates to personal data collected through this corporate website, such rights are generally exercised through our operating brands.

At present, this website only collects device, browser and website usage data via cookies and similar technologies. If you wish to withdraw consent to our use of analytics cookies, our cookie notice explains how to do this.

 

9.  Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any substantive or material change in this Privacy Policy by updating this webpage or by publishing announcements on our website. You can review this Privacy Policy any time at the homepage of this website.

Once posted on our website, the new Privacy Policy will become immediately effective unless stated otherwise.

 

10.       Contact

In this Privacy Policy, “Ant International” means Ant International (Cayman) Holding Limited. If you have any questions, opinions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at antint-legalnotice@ant-intl.com.

 

11.       Language

This Privacy Policy may be made in languages other than English solely for ease of reference. In the event of any conflict between the English language version and any other language version of it, the English version shall prevail to the maximum extent permitted under applicable laws.