Release date: December 24, 2024

Effective date: December 24, 2024

WuxiaStory Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "we") understands the importance of personal information to you and will do our best to protect the security and reliability of your personal information. We are committed to maintaining your trust in us, adhering to the following principles, and protecting your personal information: the principle of consistency of rights and responsibilities, the principle of clear purpose, the principle of selective consent, the principle of minimum sufficiency, the principle of ensuring security, the principle of subject participation, and the principle of openness and transparency. At the same time, we promise to take corresponding security measures in accordance with mature industry security standards to protect your personal information.
Please read and understand this Privacy Policy carefully before using our products (or services).

How do we collect and use your personal information

Personal information refers to various types of information recorded electronically or in other ways that can be used alone or in combination with other information to identify the identity of a specific natural person or reflect the activities of a specific natural person. We will only collect and use your personal information for the following purposes as described in this policy.

Register as a user

To complete the account creation, you need to provide the following information: your name, email address, username and password created, etc.
During the registration process, providing the following additional information will help us provide you with better service and experience: name, gender, age, email address, etc.
But if you do not provide this information, it will not affect the basic functions of using this service.
The above information you provide will continue to authorize us to use it during your use of this service. When you cancel your account, we will stop using and delete the above information.
The above information will be stored within Japan. If cross-border transmission is required, we will separately obtain your authorization and consent.

Internal data analysis and research, third-party SDK statistical services, to improve our products or services

We collect data based on your interactions with us and the choices you make, including your privacy settings and the products and features you use. The data we collect may include SDK/API/JS code version, browser, Internet service provider, IP address, platform, timestamp, application identifier, application version, application distribution channel, independent device identifier, iOS advertising identifier (IDFA), Android advertising main identifier, network card (MAC) address, international mobile device identifier (IMEI), device model, terminal manufacturer, terminal device operating system version, session start/stop time, language location, time zone and network status (WiFi, etc.).

How do we share, transfer, and publicly disclose your personal information

Share

We will not share your personal information with any other company, organization, or individual, except in the following circumstances:

Sharing with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will share your personal information with other parties.
We may share your personal information with external parties in accordance with laws and regulations or mandatory requirements of government regulatory authorities.
Sharing with our affiliated companies: Your personal information may be shared with our affiliated companies. We will only share necessary personal information and are bound by the purposes stated in this privacy policy. If affiliated companies want to change the purpose of processing personal information, they will seek your authorization and consent again.
Shared with authorized partners: Only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy, some of our services will be provided by authorized partners. We may share some of your personal information with our partners to provide better customer service and user experience. For example, the company we hire to provide third-party data statistics and analysis services may need to collect and access personal data for data statistics and analysis.
In this case, these companies must comply with our data privacy and security requirements. We will only share your personal information for legal, legitimate, necessary, specific, and clear purposes, and will only share personal information necessary for providing services.
We will sign strict confidentiality agreements with companies, organizations, and individuals with whom we share personal information, requiring them to handle personal information in accordance with our instructions, this privacy policy, and any other relevant confidentiality and security measures.

Transfer

We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization, or individual, except in the following circumstances:

Transfer with explicit consent: After obtaining your explicit consent, we will transfer your personal information to other parties;
When it comes to mergers, acquisitions, or bankruptcy liquidation, if there is a transfer of personal information, 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 the company or organization to seek your authorization and consent again.

Public Disclosure

We will only publicly disclose your personal information in the following situations:

After obtaining your explicit consent;
Legal Disclosure: We may publicly disclose your personal information in the event of legal, procedural, litigation, or mandatory requirements from government authorities.

How do we protect your personal information

• We have implemented industry standard security measures to protect the personal information you provide, preventing unauthorized access, public disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss of data. We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to protect your personal information. For example, when exchanging data (such as credit card information) between your browser and the "service", it is protected by SSL encryption; We also provide HTTPS secure browsing for our website; We will use encryption technology to ensure the confidentiality of data; We will use trusted protection mechanisms to prevent data from being maliciously attacked; We will deploy access control mechanisms to ensure that only authorized personnel can access personal information; And we will hold security and privacy protection training courses to enhance employees' awareness of the importance of protecting personal information.
• We will take all reasonable and feasible measures to ensure that unrelated personal information is not collected. We will only retain your personal information for the period necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this policy, unless an extension of the retention period is required or permitted by law.
• The Internet is not an absolutely secure environment, and email, instant messaging, and communication with other users are not encrypted. We strongly recommend that you do not send personal information through such methods. Please use a complex password to help us ensure the security of your account
• The Internet environment is not 100% secure. We will try our best to ensure or guarantee the security of any information you send us. If our physical, technological, or management protective facilities are damaged, resulting in unauthorized access, public disclosure, tampering, or destruction of information, which damages your legitimate rights and interests, we will bear corresponding legal responsibilities.
• After the unfortunate occurrence of a personal information security incident, we will promptly inform you of the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the disposal measures we have taken or will take, suggestions for you to independently prevent and reduce risks, and remedial measures for you in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations. We will promptly inform you of the relevant situation of the event through email, letter, phone, push notifications, etc. When it is difficult to inform individual information subjects one by one, we will adopt reasonable and effective methods to publish announcements. At the same time, we will proactively report the handling of personal information security incidents in accordance with regulatory requirements.

Your rights

According to the relevant laws, regulations, standards in your local area, as well as the common practices in other countries and regions, we guarantee that you exercise the following rights over your personal information:

• You have the right to access your personal information, except for exceptions provided by laws and regulations. If you want to exercise your data access rights, you can view them through the personal information page in the application.
• Correction of your personal information: When you discover errors in the personal information we process about you, you have the right to request us to make corrections. You can make modifications through the personal information page of the application.
• You can request to delete your personal information from us in the following situations:

If our handling of personal information violates laws and regulations;
If we collect and use your personal information without your consent;
If our handling of personal information violates our agreement with you;
If you no longer use our products or services;
If we no longer provide you with products or services. When you cancel your account through the application, you will receive a request to delete your personal information. If we decide to respond to your deletion request, we will also notify the entities that have obtained your personal information from us and request them to delete it in a timely manner, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations or these entities have obtained your independent authorization. When you delete information from our service, we may not immediately delete the corresponding information from the backup system, but will delete this information when the backup is updated.
User account cancellation requires submission to our platform for review before it can be cancelled.

How to update this privacy policy

We may make adjustments or changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted on our website with a marked update time. Unless otherwise required by laws, regulations or regulatory provisions, the adjusted or changed content will take effect 7 days after notification or publication. If you continue to use any of our services or access our related websites after the adjustment or change of the privacy policy, we believe that this represents that you have fully read, understood, and accepted the revised privacy policy and are bound by it.

Our company's contact information is as follows:

Company Name: WuxiaStory Co., Ltd.
Office Address: Room 512, 12 Causeway Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Contact email: caohu757@outlook.com
Email for reporting illegal and harmful information: caohu757@outlook.com
Thank you for taking the time to learn about our privacy policy!