The law of Vietnam respects and protects the right to privacy so
the collection, use and publication of information and data from the users of
internet services must have the consent of such users.
In general, the web search portal service providers like foreign
investor have their Term of Use and Privacy Policy which publish the scope of
data collection and use, the methods of data protection and the responsibility
of the service provider. Any user must accept those Term of Use and Privacy
Policy before using the service. The Term of Use and Privacy Policy are the
binding agreements between the service provider and the user.
We assume that foreign investor uses the cookies, e.g. HTTP
cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie for collecting and saving the data from
the restaurants and users with the purpose of providing web search results and
improving its’ services, the law of Vietnam does not require the service
provider to apply for a database license, other than the signed Term of Use and
Privacy Policy.
Re. maintaining local servers, the Government of Vietnam has been
providing the stricter and stricter regulations on the Internet and
telecommunication service provider, especially the requirements on maintaining
local servers. Generally speaking, the electronic information webpage and
general electronic information webpage are required to have server system
located in Vietnam to meet the information inspection, testing, storage and
supply requested by the competent state agency or for resolving the customer complaints
about service provision.
However, it needs to
understand exactly what and how foreign investor will do relating to data
collection to provide an entire advice whether foreign investor need to
maintain a local server or not.