This Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as "this Policy") is issued and becomes effective as of March 1, 2024. This Policy is a legally binding agreement between Shanghai Taige Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Taige Network" or "we") and the user (also referred to as "you") regarding the privacy protection matters related to the client product ShortReels (hereinafter referred to as "this Product"). By clicking to confirm this agreement or otherwise choosing to accept this agreement, you enter into an agreement with Taige Network and agree to accept all the following provisions of this Policy.
[Shanghai Taige Network Technology Co., Ltd.] is the registered copyright holder of this Product and enjoys the copyright of this Product in accordance with the law.
This Product is jointly operated by Taige Network to provide you with services and to exercise rights, perform obligations, and bear legal liability towards you in accordance with the law.
This Policy will help you understand the following contents:
1. How we collect and use your personal information
2. How we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information
3. How we protect your personal information
4. Your rights
5. How we handle children's personal information
6. How your personal information is transferred globally
7. How this Policy is updated
8. Application of this Policy
9. Dispute resolution
10. Contact us
Taige Network and the registered copyright holder of this Product attach great importance to the protection of personal information. When you use our products or services, we may collect and use certain information about you. Once you choose to use our products or services, it means that you acknowledge and accept the existing contents of this clause and any updates that may occur from time to time. If you do not agree, you should terminate the use of this Product's services. Please read and understand this "Privacy Policy" carefully before using our products.
I. How we collect and use your personal information
Personal information refers to various information recorded electronically or otherwise that can, alone or in combination with other information, identify a specific natural person or reflect the activities of a specific natural person.
Taige Network and the registered copyright holder of this Product will only collect and use your personal information when providing you with services for the following purposes, methods, and scope as stated in this Policy:
1. Application Function 1: Becoming a registered user
When you apply to become a registered user of this Product, you need to provide the following information: your device information.
You authorize us to continue using the above information during the period when you use this service. When you cancel your account, we will stop using and delete the above information.
2. Application Function 2: Display of operation logs within the application
When you use our services, this Product will record your operation logs, including browsing and click records, adding to watchlist, viewed episodes, and participated activities. You authorize us to continue using the above information during the period when you use this service. When you cancel your account, we will stop using and delete the above information.
3. Application Function 3: Security services
In order to provide you with stable and secure services, protect the security of your account property, and prevent identity theft, and for normal use of this Product's functions and services, when you use our products or services, we may automatically record certain information, including: device or software information: configuration information provided by your mobile device, web browser, or other programs used to access our services, your IP address, and software version information of your mobile device. If you do not agree to our recording of the aforementioned information, you may not be able to complete the risk control process and thus may not be able to use our products.
4. Application Function 4: Permission enabling
We promise not to collect your personal information beyond the scope or frequency required, and not to collect information that is not necessary or does not have a reasonable application scenario for the use of this Product's services.
When you use this Product, for the purpose of providing you with services, this Product may request the following permissions from your terminal device in certain scenarios of your use of the application. Of course, you may refuse to enable the following permissions, or turn off the following permissions of this Product in your phone's settings. Turning off the following permissions will not affect your use of other functions of this Product:
Access local storage: By enabling local storage permissions, cache necessary data from this Product into the application sandbox;
Access photos: You can directly select photos or images from your phone to set your avatar;
Enable wireless data: You can enable networking functions required by this Product by connecting to a wireless network or cellular network;
II. How we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information
(1) Sharing
We will not share your personal information with any company, organization, or individual other than Taige Network, the registered copyright holder of this Product, and their affiliates, except in the following cases:
1. Sharing with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will share your personal information with other parties.
2. We may share your personal information externally in accordance with laws and regulations, or as required by mandatory regulations of government authorities.
3. Sharing with authorized partners: To achieve the purposes stated in this Policy, some of our services will be provided by authorized partners. We may share certain personal information with partners to provide better customer service and user experience. We will only share your personal information for legitimate, proper, necessary, specific, and clear purposes, and only share personal information that is necessary to provide the service. Our partners have no right to use the shared personal information for any other purpose.
At present, our authorized partners include the following major types:
1) Suppliers, service providers, third-party agents, and other partners. We send information to suppliers, service providers, third-party agents, and other partners that support our business globally. This support includes providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our services are used, measuring the effectiveness of services, providing customer service, or conducting academic research and surveys. With your prior explicit consent, we may share your viewing records with third-party agents after encryption and anonymization. If you do not agree to share the aforementioned information, it will not affect your normal use of this Product.
2) Advertising and analytics service authorized partners. Unless we obtain your permission, we will not share your personal identity information (meaning information that can identify you, through which we can contact you or identify you) with partners that provide advertising and analytics services. However, we may share the following personal information after anonymization with advertising and analytics service authorized partners, including: network identification information (IP address), software version number, software package name, device connection information (telecom operator, network environment), device attribute information (device manufacturer, device model, operating system version, device serial number), in order to help them improve the effective reach of advertisements without identifying you personally.
(2) Transfer
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization, or individual, except in the following cases:
1. Transfer with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will transfer your personal information to other parties;
2. In the event of a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy liquidation, if the transfer of personal information is involved, we will require the new company or organization holding your personal information to continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy; otherwise, we will require that company or organization to seek your authorization and consent again.
(3) Public disclosure
We will only publicly disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:
1. With your explicit consent;
2. Based on legal disclosure: We may publicly disclose your personal information in response to laws, legal procedures, litigation, or mandatory requirements of government authorities.
(4) Types of personal information that may be involved in external sharing: device identification code, product version information; types of personal information that may be involved in public disclosure: watched episodes, viewing duration.
We are aware of the corresponding legal liabilities borne by external sharing, transfer, and public disclosure of personal information, and we will take reasonable measures to ensure the security of personal information.
III. How we protect and store your personal information
(1) Technical protection measures
We attach great importance to the security of your personal information and will strive to adopt various reasonable security measures that meet industry standards to protect your information, so that your information will not be leaked, damaged, or lost, including but not limited to SSL, encrypted storage of privacy information, and access control of data centers. We will use encryption technology to improve the security of personal information; we will use trusted protection mechanisms to prevent personal information from malicious attacks; we will deploy access control mechanisms and strive to ensure that only authorized personnel can access personal information.
(2) Security management system
We have an industry-advanced data-centric data security management system that revolves around the data lifecycle, improving the overall system security from multiple dimensions such as organizational construction, system design, personnel management, product technology, and personal information security impact assessment.
We also strictly manage employees or outsourced personnel who may have access to your information, including but not limited to adopting different access controls based on different positions, signing confidentiality agreements with them, and monitoring their operating activities.
(3) Account protection
Your account has security protection features; please keep your account and password information properly. If you find that your account has been stolen or personal information has been leaked, please contact us promptly so that we can take corresponding measures.
(4) Information security incident handling
Despite the aforementioned security measures, we also ask you to understand that there is no "perfect security measure" on the information network.
In the unfortunate event of a personal information security incident, we will inform you in accordance with legal requirements: the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the measures we have taken or will take, suggestions for you to independently prevent and reduce risks, and remedies for you. We will inform you of the relevant situation by phone or notification. When it is difficult to inform each data subject individually, we will make a public announcement in a reasonable and effective manner. At the same time, we will also report the handling of personal information security incidents to the regulatory authorities as required.
(5) Retention period
We only store your personal information within the territory of mainland China. We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to ensure that irrelevant personal information is not collected. We will only retain your personal information for the shortest period necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this Policy and as required by law, unless an extended retention period is required or permitted by law.
After your personal information exceeds the retention period, we will delete your personal information or anonymize it in accordance with laws and regulations.
IV. Your rights
In accordance with relevant Chinese laws, regulations, and standards, we guarantee that you can exercise the following rights over your personal information:
(1) Access your personal information
You have the right to access your personal information through the user center. Please refer to (VI) How we respond to your requests, except for exceptions provided by laws and regulations.
(2) Correct your personal information
When you find that the personal information we process about you is incorrect, you have the right to request us to correct it. For how to correct personal information, please refer to (VI) How we respond to your requests.
(3) Delete your personal information
Under the following circumstances, you may request us to delete your personal information:
1. Our processing of personal information violates laws and regulations;
2. We collect and use your personal information without your consent;
3. Our processing of personal information violates the agreement with you;
4. You no longer use our products or services, or you cancel your account;
5. We no longer provide you with products or services.
For how to delete personal information, please refer to (VI) How we respond to your requests. If we decide to follow your request, we will also notify the entities that obtained your personal information from us to delete it promptly, unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations or unless these entities have obtained your independent authorization.
After you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete the corresponding information from backup systems, but we will delete it when the backup is updated.
(4) Withdraw consent and disable usage functions
You can change the scope of your authorization for us to continue collecting personal information by disabling device functions, or withdraw your authorization. You can also withdraw all authorizations for us to continue collecting your personal information by canceling your account. For how to withdraw consent and disable usage functions, please refer to (VI) How we respond to your requests.
(5) Cancel account
You can cancel your account by going to "My" - "System Settings" - "Cancel Account". You may cancel your previously registered account at any time; see the "Cancellation Notice" for details.
After cancellation, we will stop providing products or services to you and delete your personal information, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations.
Under the following circumstances, in accordance with legal requirements, we will not be able to comply with your request for deletion of personal information:
1. Directly related to national security and national defense security;
2. Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
3. Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;
4. There is sufficient evidence to show that you have subjective malice or abuse of rights;
5. Responding to your request will cause serious harm to the legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals or organizations;
6. Involving trade secrets.
(6) Respond to your above requests
You can choose to turn off the permissions you wish to close through the "Settings" function on your phone.
You can also click "My" - "About Us" - "Contact Customer Service" and then make a phone call to contact customer service for operations such as personal information inquiry, personal information correction, personal information deletion, account cancellation, and withdrawal of consent. For security, you may need to provide a written request or otherwise prove your identity. We may first require you to verify your identity before processing your request.
We will respond within fifteen working days. If you are not satisfied, you may also appeal by contacting customer service.
V. How we handle children's personal information
Our products, websites, and services are primarily intended for adults. We attach importance to the protection of children's and minors' personal information. If you are a minor under the age of 18, before using the relevant services of this platform, you should read and agree to this Privacy Policy together with your parents or other guardians under their supervision and guidance, and use our services or provide information to us only with the consent of your guardian.
In cases where we collect personal information of minors with parental or guardian consent to use our products or services, we will only use, share, transfer, or disclose this information as permitted by laws and regulations, with explicit parental or guardian consent, or as necessary to protect the minor. If we discover that we have collected personal information of minors without prior verifiable parental consent, we will delete the relevant information as soon as possible.
VI. How your personal information is transferred globally
At present, we do not transfer or store your personal information across borders. If cross-border transfer or storage becomes necessary in the future, we will inform you of the purpose of the transfer, the recipient, security measures, and security risks, and obtain your consent.
VII. How this Policy is updated
After this Privacy Policy is updated, this platform will show you the revised Privacy Policy and content by notification, pop-up, or website announcement when you log in or update the version, so that you can stay informed of the latest version of this Privacy Policy. We will strictly follow the privacy policy disclosed to you to carry out personal information processing activities. If the purpose of use of personal information changes, we will obtain your consent again. If you continue to use our services, it means that you agree to accept the revised contents of this Policy.
VIII. Application of this Policy
All services of this Product are subject to this Policy.
When you first log in to this Product, we will prompt you to read this Policy and obtain your consent. Unless otherwise agreed or provided by law, this Privacy Policy does not apply to products or services linked to other third parties by Taige Network or the registered copyright holder of this Product. Your use of these third-party services (including any personal information you provide to these third parties) will be governed by the terms of service and privacy policies of those third parties (rather than this Privacy Policy). Please read the third parties' terms carefully. Please protect your personal information properly and provide it to third parties only when necessary.
IX. Dispute jurisdiction
The establishment, validity, performance, interpretation, and dispute resolution of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the mainland of the People's Republic of China.
If any dispute or controversy arises between you and us, it shall first be settled through friendly negotiation; if negotiation fails, it shall be submitted to the Beijing Arbitration Commission for arbitration in accordance with its arbitration rules. The arbitration award shall be final and binding on both parties.
X. Contact us
Company name: Shanghai Taige Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Registered address: Room 1002-7, No. 323 Guoding Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the use of the product or this Privacy Policy, you may contact us through the above contact information.