Brightown APP Privacy policy
We respect the privacy of our customers. When you use our services, we may collect and use your information. By this Privacy Policy, we wish to explain how we collect, use, store and share such information when you use our services, and how we provide you with methods to access, update, control and protect such information. As this Privacy Policy is closely related to the services you use, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and make choices you think appropriate. We try to keep the technical terms covered in this Privacy Policy as concise as possible and provide links to further explanations for your understanding.
By using or continuing to use our services, you agree that we collect, use, store and share your relevant information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If there should be any questions concerning this Privacy Policy or related matters, please contact us.
The information we might collect
When we provide services, we may collect, store and use the following information about you. If you do not provide relevant information, you may not be able to enjoy some of our services or achieve the results that the services are intended to achieve.
The information you provide
Relevant personal information you provide with us when you use our services, such as telephone number, email or bank card number;
The shared information that you provide to other parties through our services and the information that you store when using our services;
The information that other parties might share;
The shared information about you provided by other parties when using our services;
Your information we have obtained;
When you use the Service, we may collect the following information:
Log information: it means technical information that the system may automatically collect through cookies, Web beacons or other means when you use our services, including:
Device or software information, such as configuration information provided by your mobile device, web browser or other programs used to access our services, your IP address and the version and device identification number used by your mobile device;
Information searched or viewed while using our Services, such as the search terms you use on the web, the URL address of the social media page you visit, and other information and content details you browse or request to provide while using our Services;
Information about mobile applications (Apps) and other software that you have used, and information about your use of such mobile applications and software;
Location information: it refers to the information collected about your location when you enable the device location function and use our location-based services, including:
When you use our service through mobile devices with positioning function, you collect your geographical location information through GPS or WiFi, etc;
Real-time information about your geographic location provided by you or other users, such as information about your location in the account information provided by you, Shared information uploaded by you or others showing your current or previous geographic location;
You can stop the collection of your geo-location information by turning off the location feature.
How we might use information
We may use the information we collect in the course of providing services to you for the following purposes:
To provide services to you;
To use our services for authentication, customer service, security prevention, fraud monitoring, archiving and backup purposes to ensure the security of the products and services we provide to you;
To help us design new services and improve our existing ones;
To enable us to better understand how you access and use our services, so as to respond to your personalized needs, such as language settings, location settings, personalized help services and instructions, or other aspects of the response to you and other users;
To provide you with more relevant ads instead of commonly placed ads;
To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of advertising and other promotional and promotional activities in our services;
Software certification or management software upgrade;
To let you participate in surveys about our products and services
In order to provide you with a better experience, to improve our services or other uses you agree to, subject to the relevant laws and regulations, we may use the information collected through one of our services in a pooled or personalized manner for our other services. For example, information collected when you use one of our services may be used in another service to provide you with specific content or to show you information that is relevant to you and is not universally pushed. If we provide an option in the relevant service, you may also authorize us to use the information provided and stored in the Service for our other services.
How do you access and control your personal information
We will do everything possible to take appropriate technical measures to ensure that you can access, update and correct your registration information or other personal information provided when using our services. When accessing, updating, correcting and deleting the above information, we may require you to authenticate to protect the account.
The information we might share
We will not share your personal Information with any third parties without your consent, exceptions are as follows:
We may share your personal information with third party service providers, contractors and agents (such as communication service providers that send email or push notifications on our behalf, mapping service providers that provide us with location data) (who may not be in your jurisdiction) for the following purposes:
To provide you with our services;
To achieve the purpose described in the "How we might use Information" section;
To fulfill our obligations under this Privacy Policy and to exercise our rights;
To understand, maintain and improve our services.
If we share your personal Information with any of these third parties, we will endeavor to ensure that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures that we require them to comply with when using your personal information.
Your personal information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, transfer of assets or similar transaction as our business continues to grow. We will inform you before such operations.
We may also retain, preserve or disclose your personal Information for the following purposes:
To comply with applicable laws and regulations;
To compliance with court orders or other legal proceedings;
To comply with the requirements of relevant government agencies;
USES that are reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, safeguard the public interest, or protect the personal and property safety or legitimate rights and interests of our customers, us and other users.
Information security
We retain your personal information only for such period as is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy and for such period as is required by laws and regulations.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to prevent information loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure. For example, in some services, we will use encryption techniques, such as SSL, to protect the personal information you provide. However, please understand that due to the limitations of technology and various malicious means that may exist, in the Internet industry, even if all efforts are made to strengthen security measures, it is not always possible to guarantee the security of information 100 percent. You need to understand that the system and communication network you access to our services may cause problems due to factors beyond our control.
The information you share
Our services, allows you to share your information not only with your own social network, but also with all users publicly. For example, the information you upload in our service or release (including personal information you share, the list you build), your responses to information uploaded or published by others, as well as location data and log information related to such information. Other users of our services may also share information about you (including location data and log information). In particular, our social media services are designed to enable you to share information with users around the world, enabling shared information to be delivered in real time and widely. As long as you do not delete shared information, the information will remain in the public domain; Even if you delete it, such information may be independently cached, copied, or stored by other users or unaffiliated third parties not under our control, or by other users or such third parties in the public domain.
Therefore, please carefully consider the content of information uploaded, published and communicated through our services. In some cases, you can control the scope of users who have access to the information you share through the privacy Settings of some of our services. If there is a request to remove your information from our services, please do so in the manner provided by these special Terms of Service.
Sensitive personal information you share
Certain personal information, such as your race, religion, appearance, personal health and medical information, may be considered sensitive because of their specific nature. Sensitive personal information is protected more strictly than other personal information.
Please note that the content and information you provide, upload or publish while using our services, such as photos of your social activities, may reveal sensitive personal information about you. You need to carefully consider whether to disclose relevant sensitive personal information when using our services.
You agree to handle your sensitive personal Information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
How might we gather information
We or our third-party partners may collect and use your information through cookies and web beacons and store such information as log information.
We use our cookies and web beacons for the purpose of providing you with a more personalized user experience and services and for the following purposes:
To remember your identity. For example: Cookies and Web Beacons help us identify you as one of our registered users, or save any information you provide us about your preferences or other information;
To analyze your use of our services. For example, we can use cookies and web beacons to know what activities you do with our services, or which pages or services are most popular with you;
To advertise optimization. cookies and web beacons help us provide you with ads that are relevant to you based on your information rather than general advertising.
While we use cookies and Web beacons for the above purposes, we may provide, after statistical processing, non-personally identifiable information collected through cookies and Web beacons to advertisers or other partners for analyzing how users use our services and for advertising services.
Cookies and Web beacons placed by advertisers or other partners may be placed on our products and services. These cookies and Web beacons may collect non-personally identifiable information about you for use in analyzing how users use the services, sending you ads that may be of interest to you, or for evaluating the effectiveness of the advertising services. The collection and use of such information by such third-party cookies and Web beacons is not subject to this Privacy Policy, but is subject to the privacy policy of the relevant user, and we shall not be liable for the cookies or Web beacons of such third party.
You can reject or manage cookies or Web beacons through browser settings. However, please note that if you disable cookies or Web beacons, you may not enjoy the best service experience, and some services may not work properly. At the same time, you will receive the same number of ads, but those ads will be less relevant to you.
Advertising services
We may use your relevant information to provide you with advertisements that are more relevant to you.
We may also use your information to send marketing information to you through our services, email or other means to provide or promote the following goods and services of us or third parties:
Our services, our associates and partners of goods or services, including instant messaging services, online media, interactive entertainment services, social network services, and payment services, Internet search services, location and map service, application software and services, data management software and services, online advertising services, finance, Internet and other social media, entertainment, e-commerce, information and communication software or services (collectively "web services");
Third-party Internet service providers, and associated with the following third party products or services: food and dining, sports, music, movies, TV, live performances and other arts and entertainment, book, magazine and other publications, clothing and accessories, jewelry, cosmetics, personal health and hygiene, electronics, collectibles, housewares, appliances, home decoration and ornament, pets, cars, hotels, transport and tourism, banking, insurance and other financial services, the member points and rewards program, and we think that may be associated with your other goods or services.
If you do not wish us to use your Personal Information for such advertising purposes, you may request us to discontinue using your personal Information for such purposes through the relevant tips we provide in our advertisements or the guidelines we provide in our specific services.
Emails and messages we may send
Email and push messages
When you use our services, we may use your information to send email, news or push notifications to your devices. If you do not wish to receive these messages, you may choose to unsubscribe on your device following our relevant tips.
Announcements relating to services
We may send you notices relating to the service when necessary, such as when a service is suspended due to system maintenance. You may not be able to cancel these announcements that are related to the service and are not of a promotional nature.
Exceptions to the privacy policy
Our services may include or link to social media or other services (including websites) provided by third parties. Such as:
You use the "share" button to share certain content to our services, or you use the third-party connection service to log in to our services. These functions may collect relevant information about you (including your log information) and may cookies on your computer device to enable the above functions to function properly;
We provide you with links through advertising or other means of our services that allow you to access third party services or websites.
Such third-party social media or other services may be operated by the relevant third party or by us. Your use of such third-party social media services or other services (including any personal information you provide to such third parties) is subject to such third party's Terms of Service and privacy Policy (other than the General Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy), which you need to read carefully. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect and does not apply to the services provided by any third party or the rules governing the use of the information provided by any third party. We are not responsible for the use of the information provided by you by any third party.
Juveniles use our services
We encourage parents or guardians to guide juveniles under the age of 18 to use our services. We recommend that juveniles encourage their parents or guardians to read this Privacy Policy, and that juveniles seek parental or guardian consent and guidance before submitting personal information.
The scope of application of the privacy policy
Privacy policy
We respect the privacy of our customers. When you use our services, we may collect and use your information. By this Privacy Policy, we wish to explain how we collect, use, store and share such information when you use our services, and how we provide you with methods to access, update, control and protect such information. As this Privacy Policy is closely related to the services you use, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and make choices you think appropriate. We try to keep the technical terms covered in this Privacy Policy as concise as possible and provide links to further explanations for your understanding.
By using or continuing to use our services, you agree that we collect, use, store and share your relevant information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If there should be any questions concerning this Privacy Policy or related matters, please contact us.
The information we might collect
When we provide services, we may collect, store and use the following information about you. If you do not provide relevant information, you may not be able to enjoy some of our services or achieve the results that the services are intended to achieve.
The information you provide
Relevant personal information you provide with us when you use our services, such as telephone number, email or bank card number;
The shared information that you provide to other parties through our services and the information that you store when using our services;
The information that other parties might share;
The shared information about you provided by other parties when using our services;
Your information we have obtained;
When you use the Service, we may collect the following information:
Log information: it means technical information that the system may automatically collect through cookies, Web beacons or other means when you use our services, including:
Device or software information, such as configuration information provided by your mobile device, web browser or other programs used to access our services, your IP address and the version and device identification number used by your mobile device;
Information searched or viewed while using our Services, such as the search terms you use on the web, the URL address of the social media page you visit, and other information and content details you browse or request to provide while using our Services;
Information about mobile applications (Apps) and other software that you have used, and information about your use of such mobile applications and software;
Location information: it refers to the information collected about your location when you enable the device location function and use our location-based services, including:
When you use our service through mobile devices with positioning function, you collect your geographical location information through GPS or WiFi, etc;
Real-time information about your geographic location provided by you or other users, such as information about your location in the account information provided by you, Shared information uploaded by you or others showing your current or previous geographic location;
You can stop the collection of your geo-location information by turning off the location feature.
How we might use information
We may use the information we collect in the course of providing services to you for the following purposes:
To provide services to you;
To use our services for authentication, customer service, security prevention, fraud monitoring, archiving and backup purposes to ensure the security of the products and services we provide to you;
To help us design new services and improve our existing ones;
To enable us to better understand how you access and use our services, so as to respond to your personalized needs, such as language settings, location settings, personalized help services and instructions, or other aspects of the response to you and other users;
To provide you with more relevant ads instead of commonly placed ads;
To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of advertising and other promotional and promotional activities in our services;
Software certification or management software upgrade;
To let you participate in surveys about our products and services
In order to provide you with a better experience, to improve our services or other uses you agree to, subject to the relevant laws and regulations, we may use the information collected through one of our services in a pooled or personalized manner for our other services. For example, information collected when you use one of our services may be used in another service to provide you with specific content or to show you information that is relevant to you and is not universally pushed. If we provide an option in the relevant service, you may also authorize us to use the information provided and stored in the Service for our other services.
How do you access and control your personal information
We will do everything possible to take appropriate technical measures to ensure that you can access, update and correct your registration information or other personal information provided when using our services. When accessing, updating, correcting and deleting the above information, we may require you to authenticate to protect the account.
The information we might share
We will not share your personal Information with any third parties without your consent, exceptions are as follows:
We may share your personal information with third party service providers, contractors and agents (such as communication service providers that send email or push notifications on our behalf, mapping service providers that provide us with location data) (who may not be in your jurisdiction) for the following purposes:
To provide you with our services;
To achieve the purpose described in the "How we might use Information" section;
To fulfill our obligations under this Privacy Policy and to exercise our rights;
To understand, maintain and improve our services.
If we share your personal Information with any of these third parties, we will endeavor to ensure that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures that we require them to comply with when using your personal information.
Your personal information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, transfer of assets or similar transaction as our business continues to grow. We will inform you before such operations.
We may also retain, preserve or disclose your personal Information for the following purposes:
To comply with applicable laws and regulations;
To compliance with court orders or other legal proceedings;
To comply with the requirements of relevant government agencies;
USES that are reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, safeguard the public interest, or protect the personal and property safety or legitimate rights and interests of our customers, us and other users.
Information security
We retain your personal information only for such period as is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy and for such period as is required by laws and regulations.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to prevent information loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure. For example, in some services, we will use encryption techniques, such as SSL, to protect the personal information you provide. However, please understand that due to the limitations of technology and various malicious means that may exist, in the Internet industry, even if all efforts are made to strengthen security measures, it is not always possible to guarantee the security of information 100 percent. You need to understand that the system and communication network you access to our services may cause problems due to factors beyond our control.
The information you share
Our services, allows you to share your information not only with your own social network, but also with all users publicly. For example, the information you upload in our service or release (including personal information you share, the list you build), your responses to information uploaded or published by others, as well as location data and log information related to such information. Other users of our services may also share information about you (including location data and log information). In particular, our social media services are designed to enable you to share information with users around the world, enabling shared information to be delivered in real time and widely. As long as you do not delete shared information, the information will remain in the public domain; Even if you delete it, such information may be independently cached, copied, or stored by other users or unaffiliated third parties not under our control, or by other users or such third parties in the public domain.
Therefore, please carefully consider the content of information uploaded, published and communicated through our services. In some cases, you can control the scope of users who have access to the information you share through the privacy Settings of some of our services. If there is a request to remove your information from our services, please do so in the manner provided by these special Terms of Service.
Sensitive personal information you share
Certain personal information, such as your race, religion, appearance, personal health and medical information, may be considered sensitive because of their specific nature. Sensitive personal information is protected more strictly than other personal information.
Please note that the content and information you provide, upload or publish while using our services, such as photos of your social activities, may reveal sensitive personal information about you. You need to carefully consider whether to disclose relevant sensitive personal information when using our services.
You agree to handle your sensitive personal Information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
How might we gather information
We or our third-party partners may collect and use your information through cookies and web beacons and store such information as log information.
We use our cookies and web beacons for the purpose of providing you with a more personalized user experience and services and for the following purposes:
To remember your identity. For example: Cookies and Web Beacons help us identify you as one of our registered users, or save any information you provide us about your preferences or other information;
To analyze your use of our services. For example, we can use cookies and web beacons to know what activities you do with our services, or which pages or services are most popular with you;
To advertise optimization. cookies and web beacons help us provide you with ads that are relevant to you based on your information rather than general advertising.
While we use cookies and Web beacons for the above purposes, we may provide, after statistical processing, non-personally identifiable information collected through cookies and Web beacons to advertisers or other partners for analyzing how users use our services and for advertising services.
Cookies and Web beacons placed by advertisers or other partners may be placed on our products and services. These cookies and Web beacons may collect non-personally identifiable information about you for use in analyzing how users use the services, sending you ads that may be of interest to you, or for evaluating the effectiveness of the advertising services. The collection and use of such information by such third-party cookies and Web beacons is not subject to this Privacy Policy, but is subject to the privacy policy of the relevant user, and we shall not be liable for the cookies or Web beacons of such third party.
You can reject or manage cookies or Web beacons through browser settings. However, please note that if you disable cookies or Web beacons, you may not enjoy the best service experience, and some services may not work properly. At the same time, you will receive the same number of ads, but those ads will be less relevant to you.
Advertising services
We may use your relevant information to provide you with advertisements that are more relevant to you.
We may also use your information to send marketing information to you through our services, email or other means to provide or promote the following goods and services of us or third parties:
Our services, our associates and partners of goods or services, including instant messaging services, online media, interactive entertainment services, social network services, and payment services, Internet search services, location and map service, application software and services, data management software and services, online advertising services, finance, Internet and other social media, entertainment, e-commerce, information and communication software or services (collectively "web services");
Third-party Internet service providers, and associated with the following third party products or services: food and dining, sports, music, movies, TV, live performances and other arts and entertainment, book, magazine and other publications, clothing and accessories, jewelry, cosmetics, personal health and hygiene, electronics, collectibles, housewares, appliances, home decoration and ornament, pets, cars, hotels, transport and tourism, banking, insurance and other financial services, the member points and rewards program, and we think that may be associated with your other goods or services.
If you do not wish us to use your Personal Information for such advertising purposes, you may request us to discontinue using your personal Information for such purposes through the relevant tips we provide in our advertisements or the guidelines we provide in our specific services.
Emails and messages we may send
Email and push messages
When you use our services, we may use your information to send email, news or push notifications to your devices. If you do not wish to receive these messages, you may choose to unsubscribe on your device following our relevant tips.
Announcements relating to services
We may send you notices relating to the service when necessary, such as when a service is suspended due to system maintenance. You may not be able to cancel these announcements that are related to the service and are not of a promotional nature.
Exceptions to the privacy policy
Our services may include or link to social media or other services (including websites) provided by third parties. Such as:
You use the "share" button to share certain content to our services, or you use the third-party connection service to log in to our services. These functions may collect relevant information about you (including your log information) and may cookies on your computer device to enable the above functions to function properly;
We provide you with links through advertising or other means of our services that allow you to access third party services or websites.
Such third-party social media or other services may be operated by the relevant third party or by us. Your use of such third-party social media services or other services (including any personal information you provide to such third parties) is subject to such third party's Terms of Service and privacy Policy (other than the General Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy), which you need to read carefully. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect and does not apply to the services provided by any third party or the rules governing the use of the information provided by any third party. We are not responsible for the use of the information provided by you by any third party.
Juveniles use our services
We encourage parents or guardians to guide juveniles under the age of 18 to use our services. We recommend that juveniles encourage their parents or guardians to read this Privacy Policy, and that juveniles seek parental or guardian consent and guidance before submitting personal information.
The scope of application of the privacy policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all of our services except certain services. These specific services will be subject to specific privacy policies. Specific privacy policies for certain services will be more specific about how we use your information in such services. The privacy policy for this particular service forms part of this Privacy Policy. If there is any inconsistency between the privacy policy of a particular service and this Privacy Policy, the privacy policy of that particular service shall apply.
Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to:
Information collected by third party services (including any third-party websites) accessed through our Services;
Information collected through other companies or agencies that advertise their services within our services.
Modification
We may amend the terms of this Privacy Policy in due course. Such amendments form part of this Privacy Policy. If such amendment results in a material reduction of your rights under this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by a prominent notice on the home page or by sending you an email or otherwise prior to the amendment taking effect. In such circumstances, if you continue to use our services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy as amended.
This Privacy Policy applies to all of our services except certain services. These specific services will be subject to specific privacy policies. Specific privacy policies for certain services will be more specific about how we use your information in such services. The privacy policy for this particular service forms part of this Privacy Policy. If there is any inconsistency between the privacy policy of a particular service and this Privacy Policy, the privacy policy of that particular service shall apply.
Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to:
Information collected by third party services (including any third-party websites) accessed through our Services;
Information collected through other companies or agencies that advertise their services within our services.
Modification
We may amend the terms of this Privacy Policy in due course. Such amendments form part of this Privacy Policy. If such amendment results in a material reduction of your rights under this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by a prominent notice on the home page or by sending you an email or otherwise prior to the amendment taking effect. In such circumstances, if you continue to use our services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy as amended.