Privacy Policy regarding Honda RoadSync
1. About This Police
We will process your personal data in compliance with every applicable law and any laws that replace them in the future. For the applicable law with respect to personal data protection in the jurisdiction you are located, please refer to the Jurisdiction-Specific Addenda below.
In this privacy policy (this “Policy”), we provide information based on such laws related to processing your personal data. This Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data that you provide to us, or that we obtain about you from other sources, will be processed by us for our service of Honda RoadsSync (the “Service”). Please take the time to read and understand this Policy.
This Policy may be changed from time to time. Any updated versions of this Policy will be posted on our website at https://honda-hk.com/news/37. Please review it regularly. This Policy was last updated on 28th January, 2026 .
This Policy applies to users of Honda RoadsSync located in Hong Kong Specific Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”) and/or Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (“Macau”).
2. Information about us
For the purpose of the applicable data protection laws, we, as data controller (“we”, “us” and “our”) with respect to your personal data, are committed to respecting your privacy. As to the information of the respective data controller in Hong Kong and Macau, please refer to the Jurisdiction-Specific Addenda.
3. Definitions
In this Policy:
(a) your “personal data” means any data which relates to you and from which you can be identified. It may include your name, personal identifiers, voice, contact details, location data, movement data, device information, other personal information, photographs, expressions of opinion about you or indications as to our intentions about you and the information set out in Section 4 below;
(b) “data subject” means the individual who is the subject of the data being or to be processed;
(c) our “affiliates” includes our subsidiaries, our parent companies, and any subsidiaries of our parent companies; and
(d) “processing” means any activity or operation that is carried out in respect of your personal data, such as collecting, storing, using, transferring, amending, augmenting, rearranging or deleting it , whether by automated means or otherwise, and “process” and “processed” shall be construed accordingly;
(e) “sensitive data” means any data which relates to your philosophical or political beliefs, political association or trade-union membership, religion, privacy and racial or ethnic origin, and data concerning health or sex life, including genetic data.
4. How we collect your personal data and what personal data we collect
We will process the following personal data about you. In connection with the Service, we collect information about you from your online device that you use to receive the Service, without the processing of any sensitive data. In addition, we also collect information about you that you give us in writing, by e-mails, or by other means. The information we will process includes:
- location data obtained from IP addresses, such as region, country, city (including latitudes and longitudes) (“Location Data”);
- information collected through sensors of your devices used for the Service such as accelerometers, gyros, magnetometers, light, proximity (“Information from Sensors”);
- your user ID, Google Play install ID, e-mail address (“User IDs”);
- movement records such as total distance, average speed, starting point and stopping point of a movement, universally unique identifiers (“uu ID”), trip ID, app session ID, time, latitude, longitude, accuracy, speed, speed accuracy, distance, bearing, bearing accuracy, altitude, vertical accuracy, location provider, Geohash, device time, etc. (“Travel Records”);
- usage environment of your devices, such as properties (including model number, brand name, manufacturer name, OS version, carrier name, screen height and width, screen dpi, screen orientation, etc.), settings, online connection status, and other detailed information about your devices used for the Service (e.g. vehicle, headset, smart phone and other devices connected via Bluetooth or Wifi, network) (“Information about Usage Environment”);
- usage status such as whether you are calling, being navigated, playing music, or message mode, call mode, event uu ID, time (“Information about Usage Status”);
- usage history such as time stamp, uu ID, installation properties, advertising ID (“Usage History”).
5. Purpose and legal basis of processing personal data
We process the personal data that we hold about you for the following purposes or directly related to the following purposes:
- To provide or improve the quality of the Service;
- To conduct usage analysis, to develop new services and products;
- To communicate with you, including to deal with your questions, messages or requests, and to manage your complaints; and
- To comply with laws and regulations applicable to us.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is:
- Performance of a contract or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract
- Where the processing of your personal data is necessary for the pursuance of our legitimate interests, and has been taken into account your rights and interests as required under local-data-protection rules.
- Where the processing of your personal data is necessary to comply with our legal obligations
- Consent. This is where you have given consent for us to process your personal data.
We will only use your personal data to the extent that it is necessary to do so to fulfil the purposes described above.
6. Disclosure of personal data to recipients
We may share your personal data with recipients in the situations described below:
- Employees of ours and our affiliates who are authorized and need to access this data; and
- Our external vendors or contractors, including developers of online tools, service providers for the operation of the Service, and cloud service providers
.7. Transfers of personal data outside Hong Kong or Macau
The personal data that we collect from you may be transferred to, stored at or processed at, a destination outside the jurisdiction you are located (i.e. Hong Kong or Macau); this especially applies to transfers to Honda Motor Co., Ltd.’s headquarters. in Japan and/or the recipients set out in Section 6 in their respective countries of operation.
Where we transfer your personal data outside Hong Kong or Macau, we will ensure that:
(a) we will take reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence to ensure that the personal data concerned is given equivalent protection to that provided for by the applicable Hong Kong or Macau law (as the case may be); or
(b) we obtain your explicit consent to such transfer for the purposes which are set out in Section 5 herein.
If you are located in Macau, we will fulfil the obligation of notification to the public authority, namely the Personal Data Protection Bureau regarding the processing of data (including the transfer of data).
You can obtain more details about the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the jurisdiction you are located (i.e. Hong Kong or Macau) (including a copy of the standard data protection clauses which we have entered into with recipients of your personal data) by contacting us in accordance with Section 12 below.
8. Storage limit of personal data
We will retain the personal data that we collect about you while we provide you with our Service for a period not longer than is necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose (including any directly related purpose) for which the data is or is to be used except where we are required by law to retain it for a longer period, in which case, we will retain it for that period. Specifically, we will apply the retention period stated below for each of the specific categories of personal data we collect for the Service:
Location Data: 5 years after Your last use of the Services
Information from Sensors: 5 years since the controller collects
User IDs: 5 years after Your last use of the Services
Travel Records: 5 years after Your last use of the Services
Information about Usage Environment: 5 years after Your last use of the Services
Information about Usage Status: 5 years since the controller collects
Usage History: 5 years since the controller collects
"Your last use" means the last time you launch the application on your devices used for the Service. Attention, if you stop using the Services for 5 years, all your personal data will be deleted automatically.
You may also request earlier deletion at any time by contacting us using the information about us indicated below in Section 12; we will comply within 30 days unless a longer statutory retention period applies.
If you have uninstalled and reinstall the application for the Service and then use an e-mail address that you did not use for such uninstalled application for the Services, the personal data collected from such uninstalled application for the Service may not be inherited and will be deleted after 5 years from Your last use of such uninstalled application.
9. Your rights
You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you. These rights may vary depending on where you are located and which data protection laws will apply to the relationship between you and us, but would typically include:
(a) the right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data which we hold about you, and ;
(b) the right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
(c) the right to given reasons if a requested referred to (a) or (b) above is refused;
(d) the right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances. This may include (but is not limited to) circumstances in which:
(i) it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it; or
(ii) you object to our processing of your personal data for our legitimate interests, and our legitimate interests do not override your own interests, rights and freedoms;
(iii) we are only entitled to process your personal data with your consent, and you withdraw your consent.
(e) the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. This may include (but is not limited to) circumstances in which:
(i) you dispute the accuracy of your personal data (but only for the period of time necessary for us to verify its accuracy);
(ii) we no longer need to use the personal data except for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
(iii) you object to our processing your personal data for our legitimate interests (but only for the period of time necessary for us to assess whether our legitimate interests override your own interests, rights and freedoms);
(f) the right to object to us about our processing of your personal data at any time;
(g) the right to receive any personal data which we process about you on the basis of your consent or on a contract (as opposed to any other legal ground) and where the processing is carried out by automated means in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or request that we transmit that data to a recipient where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal data which you have provided to us;
(h) the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time. Please note, however, that we may still be entitled to process your personal data if we can rely on another legal ground for doing so.
(h) the right to claim compensation for any damages caused by unlawful processing of your personal data.
You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the information about us indicated below in Section 12. You can also lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.
10. Obligation to provide personal data
Providing your personal data is not mandatory under law, but if you do not provide your personal data essential for providing the Service to us, you may not be able to use the Service.
11. Overview of data protection standards in Japan and consent for transfers of personal data outside Hong Kong or Macau and related processing
We collect, use, process and analyze your personal data described above in Section 4 for the purposes set out in Section 5 above or directly related purposes (the “Purpose”). To achieve the Purpose, we must transfer your personal data to Japan for processing by Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and/or to respective countries of operation of the recipients provided for in Section 6. [Accordingly, we are obtaining your consent for the transfer of your personal data to, among others, Japan and related processing comprehensively on the application of your devices used for the Service.] Please note that Japan may not ensure adequate data protection standards in light of the data protection rules of your country of residence. The overview of data protection standards in Japan is as follows:
(1) Applicable data protection law
Act on the Protection of Personal Information
(2) Data protection authority
Personal Information Protection Commission
(3) Rights of data subjects
Under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, data subjects have the rights (under certain requirements) set forth below:
· To receive personal data
· To request corrections of or additions to personal data
· To request that personal data be deleted
· To require that personal data processing or the disclosure of personal data to a third party be ceased
(4) Other safeguards
The Act on the Protection of Personal Information includes provisions that provide the following requirements to protect personal data:
· Lawful and fair collection
· Purpose limitation
· Data accuracy
· Implementation of appropriate security measures
· Restrictions on transfers to third parties
· Restrictions on transfers to third parties in foreign countries
By agreeing this Policy, you understand the data protection standards in Japan and explicitly agree us to transfer my personal data to Honda Motor Co., Ltd.’s headquarters and/or Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in Japan and/or the recipients set out in Section 6 in their respective countries of operation for the purposes setting out in Section 5 herein or directly related purposes.
12. Contacts
If you have any questions about this Policy, your rights, or any other issues regarding the protection of your personal information, you can reach us using the information about us in the Jurisdiction-Specific Addenda below.
Jurisdiction-Specific Addenda
Hong Kong |
We will process your personal data in compliance with every applicable law and any laws that replace them in the future, including without limitation to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in Hong Kong. (a) Hong Kong data controller: Honda Motor (China) Co., Ltd. (b) Our office address: Suite 3201-4, Tower 2, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (c) Our email address: 2w_sales@hmc.honda.com.cn |
Macau |
We will process your personal data in compliance with every applicable law and any laws that replace them in the future, including without limitation to the Macau Personal Data Protection Act in Macau and fulfil the obligation of notification to the public authority, namely the Personal Data Protection Bureau. (a) Macau data controller: Honda Motor (China) Co., Ltd. (b) Our office address: Suite 3201-4, Tower 2, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (c) Our email address: 2w_sales@hmc.honda.com.cn |