Brighten strictly abides by laws and regulations, and follows the following privacy protection principles to provide you with more secure and reliable services:
• Safe and reliable:
We make every effort to prevent your information from leaking, damaging and losing through reasonable and effective information security technology and management process.
• Self selection:
We provide you with convenient information management options so that you can make appropriate choices and manage your personal information.
• Protection of communication secrets:
We strictly abide by laws and regulations to protect your communication secrets and provide you with safe communication services.
• Reasonably necessary:
In order to provide better services to you and other users, we only collect necessary information.
• Open and transparent:
We try to introduce our privacy policy to you in a concise and understandable way, so that you can clearly understand our information processing methods.
• Integrate privacy protection into product design:
We integrate the concept of privacy protection into all aspects of product and service R&D and operation.
The Brighten Privacy Policy mainly explains to you what information we collect, the purpose for which we collect information, and your rights.
You can read the Brighten Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Privacy Policy") to learn more about how we collect and use personal information, so that you can better understand our services and make appropriate choices.
If our specific products and services have specific privacy protection guidelines, you can consult the specific privacy protection guidelines to help you better protect your personal information.
The products and services applicable to this privacy policy are provided by Brighten (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. The registered address is 1-2, Floor 2, No. 89, West Third Ring Road North, Haidian District, Beijing.
Unless otherwise agreed, the terms used in this privacy policy have the same meanings as those in the Brighten Service Agreement.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
According to the requirements of laws and regulations, we follow the principles of legality, legitimacy, necessity and integrity, and only collect the personal information necessary for realizing the product functions. This information includes:
Information that you actively provide when using our services;
• When you register or use our products or services, you actively fill in or upload nicknames, mobile phone numbers, avatars, pictures, etc.
• Information submitted by you through our customer service or when participating in our activities.
• Some of our specific services may require you to provide specific personal information to realize relevant functions. If you choose not to provide such information, it will not affect your use of other functions in the product or service.
• log information
For example, when you use our services, in order to maintain the safe and stable operation of products and services, we may collect equipment information, software information, service log information and other related information.
• position information
For example, when you use location related services, we may record the location information of your device to provide you with related services.
The information provided by you or other users when using the service may include your geographic location information, such as the geographic marker information contained in the photos shared by you or others.
GPS location information is sensitive personal information. If you refuse to provide this information, it will not affect other functions of your products or services, but only functions related to geographical location.
• Other relevant information
In order to help you better use our products or services, we may collect relevant information with your explicit authorization. For example, if you choose to enable the import address book function, we may encrypt the name and phone number of your contact and only collect the encrypted information.
Information shared by other users includes your information
For example, photos published or videos shared by other users may contain your information.
We strictly abide by the provisions of laws and regulations and the agreement with users, and use the collected information for the following purposes. If we use your information beyond the following purposes, we will explain to you again and obtain your consent.
• Provide services to you;
• Meet your personalized needs, such as language settings, location settings, personalized help services;
• For example, we will use your information for authentication, security, anti fraud monitoring, archive backup, customer security services and other purposes. For example, the security software you download or install will detect malicious programs or viruses, or identify fraud information for you;
• Recommend to you the advertisements and information you may be interested in;
• Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our advertising and other promotional and promotional activities;
• Management software, such as software certification, software upgrade, etc;
• We invite you to participate in the survey on our services;
In order to enable you to have a better experience, improve our services or other purposes agreed by you, we may use the information collected through some services for our other services on the premise of compliance with relevant laws and regulations. For example, use your information when using one of our services for personalized service experience, user research analysis and statistics and other services.
In order 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, fault information, overall usage, performance data, and the source of the application. We will not combine the information we store in the analysis software with the personally identifiable information you provide in the application.
With the development of our business, the product functions and services we provide may be adjusted and changed. If the purpose of processing changes, we will explain to you again and obtain your consent.
Cookies, identifiers and related technologies are widely used in the Internet industry. According to the relevant provisions of laws and regulations, we or our third-party partners may collect your information by placing secure cookies, identifiers and related technologies, so as to provide you with better user experience and services. We will strictly require third-party partners to comply with the relevant provisions of this privacy policy.
How you manage your information
In the process of using our service, you can manage your information by consulting, copying, correcting, supplementing, deleting, etc. When you use our specific products and services, you can refer to their independent privacy protection guidelines, in which we specifically describe the ways and means of managing your personal information to help you better protect your personal information.
For example, if you want to stop sharing your geographic location information when using geographic location related services, you can stop sharing by turning off the mobile location function, software and hardware service providers and communication service providers. We suggest you read the relevant guidelines carefully.
When you exercise the above rights, we may require you to verify your identity to ensure the security of your account. If you have any questions, please contact us through the contact information listed in this privacy policy.
Please understand that we may not be able to meet all your requirements due to technical limitations, legal or regulatory requirements, and we will give feedback within the period specified by laws and regulations. At the same time, we will continue to optimize our products and services to protect your rights.
In the process of cooperation with the third party, we will abide by the law and handle relevant data safely and prudently according to the principle of minimum necessity.
We will strictly restrict the third party involved in data processing in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations. They are required to strictly comply with our measures and requirements on data privacy protection, including but not limited to processing according to the data protection agreement, letter of commitment and relevant data processing policies to ensure data security.
For the purpose of providing services for you, we may entrust a third-party service provider to process your personal information, which will process your personal information in strict accordance with the purpose entrusted by us and the relevant entrustment agreement.
We will strictly protect your personal information, and will not actively disclose your personal information to the public, nor actively share information that can be used to identify your personal identity with partners, unless otherwise agreed by you or stipulated by laws and regulations, such as:
• It is necessary for the conclusion and performance of a contract to which an individual is a party, or for the implementation of human resources management in accordance with the labor rules and regulations formulated by law and the collective contract signed according to law;
• Necessary for performing legal duties or obligations;
• It is necessary to respond to public health emergencies or protect the life, health and property safety of natural persons in emergencies;
• Implement news reporting, public opinion supervision and other behaviors for the public interest, and handle personal information within a reasonable range;
• Dispose of personal information disclosed by individuals or other legally disclosed personal information within a reasonable range according to the law;
• Other circumstances stipulated by laws and administrative regulations.
With the continuous development of our business, when the merger, acquisition, asset transfer and other transactions lead to the transfer of your personal information to a third party, we will inform you of the relevant situation through push notification, announcement and other forms, and continue to protect or require the new manager to continue to protect your personal information in accordance with laws and regulations and standards not lower than those required by this privacy policy.
Information Notice
When you use our services, we may send you email, SMS, information or push notifications.
You can choose to unsubscribe on the device according to our relevant prompts. If there is personalized push information for a specific product or service, please refer to the specific privacy protection guidelines for that product or service for more information, or turn off personalized recommendation.
Service related announcements
We may issue service related announcements to you when necessary (for example, when a service is suspended due to system maintenance).
You may not be able to cancel these service related announcements that are not advertising in nature.
Location and duration of information storage
Where information is stored
We comply with the provisions of laws and regulations, and store the personal information collected and generated in the People's Republic of China in China.
Period for storing information
Generally speaking, we only retain your personal information for the shortest time necessary for the purpose, except for the following circumstances:
• To comply with applicable laws and regulations;
• To comply with the provisions of court judgments, rulings or other legal procedures;
• To comply with the law enforcement requirements of relevant government agencies;
When our products or services stop operating, we will notify you in the form of push notifications, announcements, etc., and delete or anonymize your personal information within a reasonable period of time.
We provide appropriate security for your information to prevent loss, improper use, unauthorized access or disclosure of information.
We strictly abide by laws and regulations to protect users' communication secrets.
We will use various security measures within a reasonable security level to ensure the security of information.
For example, we use encryption technology, anonymous processing and other means to protect your personal information.
We have established special management systems, processes and organizations to ensure information security.
For example, we strictly restrict the scope of people who access information, require them to abide by confidentiality obligations and conduct reviews.
In case of personal information leakage and other security incidents, we will launch emergency plans to prevent the expansion of security incidents, and notify you in the form of push notifications, announcements, etc.
In order to provide a richer advertising experience, we may provide you with personalized advertising services. You can receive relevant advertising content in Brighten and third-party websites, applications and other channels. You can refer to the privacy protection guidelines of specific products for more information. If you do not want to receive personalized advertising, you can also close it according to the guidelines in the specific product.
The products and services applicable to this privacy policy are provided by Brighten (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Some services have specific privacy guidelines/statements that more specifically describe how we handle your information in the service.
If there is any inconsistency between this policy and the privacy guidance/statement of a specific service, please refer to the specific privacy guidance statement.
Please note that this policy does not apply to services provided by other companies or individuals.
Your use of such third-party services must be subject to its privacy policy (not this policy), and you need to carefully read its contents.
We have set up a special personal information protection team and a person in charge of personal information protection. If you have any questions, complaints or suggestions about this privacy policy or matters related to personal information protection, you can contact us through the customer service personnel, and we will review the issues involved as soon as possible, and give feedback within 15 working days or the period specified by laws and regulations.
We may revise this privacy policy from time to time.
If such changes will result in substantial impairment of your rights under this privacy policy, we will prompt you at a prominent position on the page before the changes take effect. Privacy Protection Guidelines for Specific Products and Services If the purpose, method and type of personal information processed are changed, your consent will be obtained again.