Thank you for using our novel application, OKNovel. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This agreement details how we collect, use, share, and protect your information.
1. Information Collection
When using this application, we collect the following types of information based on your behavior:
1.1 Registration Information: When you create an account or log in as a guest, we collect personal information you provide, including but not limited to your email address, username, and password. This information is used for account management and identity verification.
1.2 Behavioral Data: When you use this application, we automatically collect information about your usage, which may include the pages you visit, features used, access times, duration of stay, books added to your shelf, searches, user feedback, and other interaction information. This data is used to analyze user behavior and improve the application's functionality and user experience.
1.3 Device Information: We may collect information related to your device, such as device model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and IP address. This information helps us ensure the compatibility and security of the application.
1.4 Location Information: If you consent, we may collect your location information to provide location-based services and content recommendations. You can control the sharing of location information through your device settings.
1.5 Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information to help us analyze user behavior and provide personalized content and advertisements.
2. Information Use
We use the information collected primarily for:
2.1 Sending you important account information, service updates, promotional activities, special offers, and relevant notifications. We may also collect other information you provide us, including feedback when you contact customer service, survey responses when you participate in surveys, and information we acquire through interactions with our affiliates and partners, to improve our products or services.
2.2 Conducting data analysis and research to understand user behavior, providing you with a personalized reading experience, optimizing application features, maintaining and improving our services, and enhancing user satisfaction. For information collected from your various devices, we may link them together to combine information from different services to provide you with better services.
2.3 Providing you with security assurances.
To enhance the security of our services, we may log relevant information, including the frequency of your application use, error messages, overall usage, performance data, and the source of the application, to comprehensively assess account and transaction risks, perform identity verification, detect and prevent security incidents, and take necessary record-keeping, auditing, analysis, and disposal measures as required by law.
2.4 Other purposes and uses.
In the following cases, we will seek your consent in advance as required by laws and regulations: 1. We will use information for other purposes that are not specified in this policy; 2. We will use information collected for specific purposes for other uses.
3. Information Sharing
We are committed to not selling your personal information. We may share your information with third parties under the following circumstances, allowing them to process such information in accordance with our instructions, privacy policies, and other relevant confidentiality and security measures. If we share your information with third parties, we will take encryption, anonymization, and other measures to ensure the security of your information.
3.1 Service Providers: To provide necessary services, we may share information with partners, such as data analysis services.
3.2 Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information in cases where the law permits or requires.
3.3 Business Transfers: If the application undergoes a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your information may be transferred as an asset.
4. Information Security
Protecting users' personal information is a fundamental principle of our platform, and we will take reasonable measures to protect users' personal information. Except as dictated by laws or as specified in this agreement, we will not disclose or reveal users' personal information to third parties without user consent. We use professional encryption for storage and transmission of relevant information to ensure the security of user personal information. However, please note that internet transmission is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of your data during transmission. We will employ various security technologies and procedures to establish comprehensive management systems to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
4.1 For data security during transmission, we use encryption technologies such as Transport Layer Security Protocol and HTTPS to prevent risks of sniffing and interception; we establish a secure environment for collecting privacy data, ensuring confidentiality and integrity.
4.2 For data security during storage, we categorize and classify data, implementing independent and encrypted storage measures for users' sensitive personal information.
4.3 For secure access and use of data, we implement strict access control mechanisms, employing multi-factor authentication technologies and monitoring actions that can process your information to avoid unauthorized access and use.
4.4 Other measures to ensure data security.
5. User Rights
According to applicable laws, you may have the following rights:
5.1 Access and obtain your personal information.
5.2 Update or correct inaccurate data.
5.3 Withdraw your consent to our processing of your data.
5.4 Request deletion of your personal information and account. We will retain some of your data for a reasonable time as necessary; after account deletion, you may lose access to some or all of OKNovel.
To exercise these rights, please contact us via email at developer@codescie.com.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information as necessary to fulfill the service purposes or legal requirements.
7. Policy Updates
To provide you with better services, we will update this privacy agreement periodically based on product and website updates and legal requirements. Any changes will be posted on this page. We recommend that you regularly review this agreement to stay informed about the latest information.
8. In-App Purchases
If you are a paid user, we may collect your payment information. This information is necessary to complete commercial transactions on our platform. We use this information to enable and fulfill your transactions. If you choose to use any third-party services to complete and pay for your order, you will directly provide your credit card number to that third party. Please check the relevant application store for terms and notifications regarding processing such data. To correctly account for the amounts tied to your account, we will record the items purchased, the purchase time, and the amount spent.
Prior to VIP service activation or auto-renewal enrollment, please review the OKNovel Subscription Service Agreement.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or feedback regarding this privacy policy, please contact us via email at developer@codescie.com.
Thank you for choosing to use OKNovel.