Privacy Policy

To effectively protect users' privacy rights and interests and optimize the user experience, we have formulated this Privacy Policy in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and policies. This Privacy Policy will explain how we collect, use and store your personal information and what rights you have.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or related matters, you can contact us at any time by calling the customer service hotline, etc.

This Privacy Policy will help you understand the following:

1. The Information We Collect

In the course of your using our services, we will collect the information you actively provide when using the services or generated due to the use of the services in the following ways, so as to provide you with services, optimize our services and ensure the security of your account:

1.1

When you register for the service, you need to fill in your mobile phone number, nickname, gender and zodiac sign. Filling in this information is to help you complete the registration process and protect the security of your account. The mobile phone number is sensitive information, and collecting such information is to meet the real-name registration requirements of relevant laws and regulations. If you do not provide such information, you may not be able to use our services normally.

1.2

When you register for the service, to ensure your normal use of our services, maintain the normal operation of our services, improve and optimize our service experience, and ensure the security of your account, we will collect log information such as device model, operating system, unique device identifier, software version number, the way, type and status of accessing the network, network quality data, device accelerators (such as gravity sensing devices), operation logs, and service log information (such as the information you search for and view, service failure information, referral URLs, etc.). Such information is basic information that must be collected to provide services.

1.3

When you use functions such as Moments and Channels, the photos, comments, likes and other information you upload will be stored on our servers, as storage is necessary to realize this function. We will store them in an encrypted manner, and you can also apply to delete this information at any time. Unless you voluntarily choose or comply with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations, we will not provide the above information to the outside world or use it for purposes other than this function.

1.4

When you use functions such as searching Moments, searching chat rooms, and viewing Plaza Moments, we will collect your search records, reading records, access time, comments and interaction records, aiming to provide you with more accurate and personalized services and content.

1.5

Third-party services in the service are provided by external third-party entities, and we cannot obtain the information generated when you use such third-party services. If you refuse to provide the information required by the third party, you will not be able to use the third-party service, but it will not affect your normal use of other functions.

In addition, in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and national standards, we may collect and use your relevant personal information without your authorization and consent in the following circumstances:

  1. Directly related to national interests such as national security and national defense security; directly related to major public interests such as public security, public health and public information;
  2. Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments;
  3. Necessary to safeguard the major legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals such as life, property and reputation but it is difficult to obtain the consent of the person concerned;
  4. The collected personal information is voluntarily disclosed by you to the public;
  5. Collecting personal information from legally publicly disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure and other channels;
  6. Necessary for signing and performing contracts at your request;
  7. Necessary to maintain the safe and stable operation of the provided products or services, such as detecting and handling faults of products or services;
  8. Necessary for conducting legitimate news reports;
  9. Necessary for carrying out statistical or academic research for public interests, and when providing the results of academic research or descriptions to the outside world, de-identify the personal information contained in the results;
  10. Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.

Please understand that the functions and services we provide to you are constantly updated and developed. If a certain function or service is not mentioned in the above description and your information is collected, we will separately explain the content, scope and purpose of information collection to you through page prompts, interactive processes, website announcements and other ways to obtain your consent.

Please note that we will not actively obtain your personal information from third parties at present. If we need to indirectly obtain your personal information from third parties for business development in the future, we will clearly inform you of the source, type and scope of use of your personal information before obtaining it. If the personal information processing activities required for business development exceed the scope of authorization and consent you originally provided when providing personal information to the third party, we will obtain your explicit consent before processing such personal information of yours; in addition, we will also strictly comply with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations and require the third party to ensure the legality of the information provided by it.

2. Storage of Information

2.1 Place of Information Storage

In accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations, we will store the user's personal information collected within the territory of China in the territory of China.

2.2 Duration of Information Storage

In general, we only retain your personal information for the period necessary to achieve the purpose, for example:

When our products or services cease to operate, we will notify you through push notifications, announcements and other forms, and delete your personal information or anonymize it within a reasonable period of time.

3. How We Use Information

We may use the information collected through certain functions for our other services. For example, we may use the information we collect when you use a certain function or service of ours to provide you with specific content in another function or service, including but not limited to displaying advertisements, providing information security reminders for the content you have read, conducting indirect crowd profiling based on feature tags, and providing more accurate and personalized services and content.

To ensure the security of the service and help us better understand the operation of our application, we may record relevant information, such as the frequency of your use of the application, crash data, overall usage, performance data and the source of the application. We will not combine the information we store in the analysis software with any personal identification information you provide in the application.

If we use your personal information beyond the scope claimed at the time of collection and directly or reasonably related, we will inform you again and obtain your explicit consent before using your personal information.

4. External Provision

At present, we will not actively share or transfer your personal information to third parties. If there are other circumstances of sharing or transferring your personal information or you need us to share or transfer your personal information to a third party, we will directly or confirm with the third party to obtain your explicit consent for the above acts.

We will not publicly disclose the collected personal information to the outside world. If public disclosure is necessary, we will inform you of the purpose of this public disclosure, the type of disclosed information and the possible sensitive information involved, and obtain your explicit consent.

With the continuous development of our business, we may conduct transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and asset transfers. We will inform you of the relevant circumstances and continue to protect your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and no less than the standards set forth in this Policy, or require the new controller to continue to protect your personal information.

In addition, in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and national standards, we may share, transfer or publicly disclose personal information without the prior authorization and consent of the personal information subject in the following circumstances:

  1. Directly related to national security and national defense security;
  2. Directly related to public security, public health and major public interests;
  3. Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments;
  4. Necessary to safeguard the major legitimate rights and interests such as life and property of the personal information subject or other individuals but it is difficult to obtain the consent of the person concerned;
  5. Personal information voluntarily disclosed by the personal information subject to the public;
  6. Collecting personal information from legally publicly disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure and other channels.

5. Changes

We may revise this Policy from time to time. When the terms of this Policy are changed, we will show you the revised Policy in the form of push notifications, pop-ups, etc. when you log in and update the version. Please note that we will only collect, use and store your personal information in accordance with the updated Policy after you click the consent button in the pop-up window.

6. Protection of Minors

We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. In accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, if you are a minor under 18 years old, you should obtain the written consent of your parent or legal guardian before using the service. If you are the guardian of a minor and have any questions about the personal information of the minor under your guardianship, please contact us through customer service.

7. Dispute Resolution

When you have any disputes with us due to the implementation of this Policy, both parties should first try to resolve them through friendly negotiation; if negotiation fails, both parties have the right to file a lawsuit with a competent court.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact customer service for consultation, and we will resolve your problem in a timely manner.