We understand how important personal information is to you, so we are always committed to keeping your personal
information safe.
This NextShort Privacy Policy (also referred to as the "Policy") is intended to explain that when you use
NextShort and other related applications, websites and other products and/or services provided by our company
(hereinafter referred to as "NextShort Services" or "our Services"), our rules for the collection, use, storage,
processing and protection of your personal information and how you exercise your rights as the subject of your
personal information.
If you have any questions about this policy, you can contact us at any time.
Table of Contents
- I. How do we collect and use your Personal Information
- II. How do we share and disclose your Personal information
- III. How do we store and protect your Personal information
- IV. Your rights and choices
- V. Protection of minors
- VI. About this Policy
- VII. Contact us
- VIII. Dispute Resolution
I. How do we collect and use your Personal Information
A. Collection of personal information
When you use our services, we collect and use some personal information about you. The types of
information we collect and how we use it depend on how you use our services, and we may collect personal
information from you in different ways.
1. Information you provide to us
- Account information: We collect personal information you provide when
registering/logging in, including your mobile phone number or email address, password, date of
birth. You can also fill in your gender, nickname, profile picture and other information during
registration or subsequent use. You should ensure the accuracy of such information. We collect
this information to provide you with account registration and login services and to protect your
account security and improve your online profile.
- Exchange information: When you make a text comment on content such as audio and
video, we will collect the text content of the comment and related afterinformation (such as the
sender of the comment, transmission time, IP address). We do this to ensure that review content
is displayed properly and to fulfill our purpose of ensuring content security, detecting crime
and protecting our users.
- Picture information: [Details not provided]
- Survey and promotional information: If you choose to participate in our
surveys, promotions, contests or marketing activities, we will collect information from you,
such as your name, contact details, contact address, etc.
- Information provided when contacting us: When you contact us, for the security
of your account and system, we may require you to provide relevant personal information to
verify your user identity. After successful verification, we will provide you with customer
service based on your contact information (phone number/email address/other contact information
provided by you), your communication information with us (including text/pictures/audio and
video), and other necessary information related to your needs. During this process, we will
collect the above personal information you provide in order to resolve the questions you have
raised.
2. Information we collect automatically
- Device information: We collect information about your device for accessing our
services, we automatically collect information about your device, This includes your IP address,
device type, device model, device name, advertising device identifier, device ID, viewer type
and settings, operating system, language settings, mobile network information (including carrier
name and phone number), application version information, storage information, and other
technical information. We collect this information in order to achieve the most basic product
business functions, to protect your account and system security, to provide you with a
consistent and consistent service.
- Use information: When you use the NextShort service, we automatically collect
information about the videos you watch, the words you search for (including voice messages), the
number of times you view and interact with videos and ads, when and how often you use our
services, your interactions with other users, information about your purchases, information you
bookmark/share, and information about your settings (such as your age, gender, interests, etc.)
and/or other information about your interaction with our website. We collect this information in
order to provide you with the content you require. At the same time, in order to better
understand users, we will use this information to analyze your video viewing preferences, etc.,
in order to recommend you in real-time better video and advertising content and services that
you may be more interested in.
- Your location information: We collect your location information when you use
our services in order to perform useful functions, such as recommending better video and
advertising content in your area. We will infer your approximate location from your IP address.
- Log information: We will automatically collect log information about your use
of NextShort Services, which may be obtained through the use of cookies, web beacons, log files,
programming codes, electronic tags, or any other means.
3. Information from third parties
- Third-party account information: If you use a third-party platform account
(e.g., Facebook/Google/Apple ID/Google ID, etc.) to log in to our services, we will obtain your
account information (including name, profile picture, mobile phone number, email, etc., subject
to your authorization) from third-party platforms, to create or log in to NextShort for you, to
provide the services that logged-in users enjoy, and to secure your account against security
risks.
- Information of third-party payment institutions: If you purchase our VIP
service, other paid content, etc., the third-party payment service providers that cooperate with
us (such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, MasterCard, etc.) will provide us with your payment
information or the update of payment information to verify your payment status and smoothly
provide you with the purchased service; please note that we only collect your purchased product
information, payment serial number, and channel ID, and do not collect any of your bank card
account number, payment password, or other payment information.
- Information obtained from publicly available sources: Such as government public
information, public information on social media platforms, etc.
- Information obtained from other sources: You acknowledge that we cannot and
will not obtain unauthorized access to your personal information collected by third parties. If
we need to collect your personal information indirectly from a third party due to business
cooperation, we will ensure that the information is collected and used legally in multiple ways:
(1) We will take measures including but not limited to agreements and other measures to ensure
that the third party has obtained your consent or collected your personal information within the
scope permitted by relevant laws and regulations; (2) We (or a third party) will express to you
the source, type, purpose, method, and business function used for your personal information
before collection, and the scope of authorization (if the mode and scope of use exceed the scope
of your original authorization, we will obtain your authorization and consent again); (3)
Require the third party to make a commitment to the legality of the source of personal
information at the level of agreements and other aspects. If the third party violates the act,
we will clearly ask the other party to bear the corresponding legal responsibility; (4) Our
professional security team performs security hardening on personal information. We will protect
indirectly acquired personal information with means and measures that are no less protective
than those we apply to the personal information of our own users.
B. Use of personal information
We may use the information collected in the NextShort Service for the following purposes depending on the
type of information:
- (a) The contract between us and you, the need to perform the contract and the enforcement of the
agreement between us and you;
- (b) Provide, process, maintain, develop and improve NextShort services (including video content,
advertising, user-paid services, etc.);
- (c) Providing personalized recommendation services (including film and television content,
advertising);
- (d) Assess your application (where relevant) and respond to your
questions/inquiries/feedback/disputes;
- (e) Processing your registration and login requests, verifying and executing transactions in
connection with your online payments;
- (f) Allow you to participate in interactive features of the platform (such as comments on audio and
video content);
- (g) Communicating with you, including sending you commercial marketing information, notices of
operational activities, notices of text updates to the Agreement, etc. For one or more of your
contact information (such as email, telephone, email, contact address) provided or collected by you
in the course of using the Services, we may use it to contact you in our operations, to send you
security verification information, product and service updates, event information, offers, user
experience surveys, etc. You may unsubscribe by the means provided in Section (5) of Chapter IV of
this Policy;
- (h) To monitor, prevent, or investigate any fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that
harm NextShort, you, or the public, to protect the security of your accounts and systems, and to
improve the security and reliability of NextShort's services;
- (i) Market research and trend analysis, comprehensive statistics, data analysis, processing and
surveys related to NextShort services;
- (j) Other purposes for which we otherwise disclose to you at the time we collect your information,
or for which you have given your consent.
C Cookie Clause
Cookies are small files containing strings that are transmitted and stored (usually encrypted) on your
computer, mobile device, or other device when you log in to and use a website or other web content. Cookie
class technologies are other technologies that can be used for similar purposes to cookies, such as Web
beacons, proxies, embedded scripts, etc. In this policy, we refer to all such technologies collectively as
"cookies." In general, we use cookies to collect personal information about you when you register to log in
and use our services, such as: your habits of visiting the website, your browsing information, your login
information, etc.
We use cookies mainly to simplify the operation steps (such as maintaining login status, etc.), protect your
account information and the security of our products, measure and analyze the pages you click on and how you
use the platform, record your preferences, recommend to you your personal needs and content that may be of
more interest to you, improve the performance of the website, monitor the visitor traffic and operation of
our website, measure, analyze and optimize the website to improve the advertising performance and other uses
of our platform to enhance the user experience and improve our services.
You can use the functionality of your browser or device to manage or delete cookies that have been stored on
your computer, mobile device, or other device. Some of our services can only be achieved through the use of
cookies, if you refuse to use or delete, you may not be able to use our relevant services normally or obtain
the best service experience through our services, and it may also have a certain impact on your information
protection and account security.
How do we share and disclose your Personal information
1. You share your own information
You may share your personal information or other information with third parties (including unspecified
objects) based on the NextShort Service, such as when you use the sharing feature in our Services, you may
choose to share the information through email, text messages, social applications (such as Facebook, etc.)
or other applications. The information you share with third-party applications is controlled and processed
by the third party and is subject to its terms of Service and privacy policy. If the information is leaked
or used due to your sharing behavior, it has nothing to do with us, and you need to bear the corresponding
legal responsibility.
2. We share your information
In general, we do not share your personal information with third parties, but in one or more of the following
circumstances, we will share your information with the following third parties in accordance with the legal
requirements of your jurisdiction:
- You take the initiative to share the request or with your prior consent to share;
- Information sharing with business partners
- a. Service providers, such as: marketing agencies providing marketing services, payment agencies
providing payment services, logistics service providers, other partners providing service function
support, such as: Apple Pay, Google Pay, Salesforce, etc.;
- b. Data processors (including data processors that provide online advertising data monitoring, data
statistics, data analysis, and other services), in order to analyze/maintain/improve our services
and provide you with better content, we may work with designated partners who provide such services
(e.g., Comscore, Google) share information about you in aggregate form (e.g., video playback
history, AD display history, terminal model, your city, etc.). The above information does not
involve your personally identifiable information, please rest assured that we will not share your
personally identifiable information with you unless we have your consent;
- c. Advertising partners, such as: In the process of advertising business cooperation with Google,
Smaato, OpenX, and other partners, we will share device ID, advertising device identification
symbol, user age and gender label, IP address, and other information to help them make advertising
or decision-making suggestions, improve the effective advertising reach rate, and further understand
the needs of users; As part of our advertising partnership with Liveramp (https://liveramp.com), we
provide Liveramp with privacy-protected identifiers to better show you ads that are appropriate for
you. A privacy identifier means that we convert the original information (such as an email address
or phone number) into a value to ensure that the original information is not disclosed. Liveramp
uses its technology solution to match privacy-protecting identifiers with their RAMPids in real-time
for personalized advertising. If you want to opt out, please set it through the in-app function. We
promise that we will not share personal information that can identify you without your consent.
- d. Operate event service partners, for example: when conducting joint marketing activities with
third parties, share information such as winners/winners in joint marketing activities (such as:
your name and other information), so that they can timely issue prizes/gifts to you.
- f. Third Party SDK service providers: Our products may contain third-party SDKs or other similar
applications, if you use such services provided by third parties on our platform, you agree that
they will directly collect and process your information (such as in the form of embedded code,
plugins, etc.). The collection and processing of information by these service providers are subject
to their own privacy terms and do not apply to this Policy. However, we also make efforts to review
the business access credentials of the third party and strive to require the legal compliance and
security of the service provider. In order to maximize the security of your personal information, we
strongly recommend that you review the privacy policy of any third-party SDK-like services before
using them. In order to protect your legitimate rights and interests, if you find that such SDK or
other similar applications are risky, we recommend that you immediately terminate the relevant
operations and contact us in a timely manner.
- g. Other business partners
- Sharing your information as required by law or regulation
- (1) In some cases, we may share your personal information with third parties (such as judicial
authorities, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, or other similar third parties) in order
to protect you, our legitimate rights and interests, or social public interests, property, or safety
from damage in accordance with the law and the requirements of regulatory authorities;
- (2) In some cases, only by sharing your personal information can we achieve the functions of our
services or provide the services you need, or handle disputes or disputes related to you;
- (3) Sharing your personal information in accordance with relevant agreements (such as online
agreements, platform rules, etc.) or legal files signed between you and us;
- (4) The information we share is de-identified information, and the third party receiving the
information sharing cannot re-identify the identity of the information subject, or the personal
information is disclosed to the public by you, or we collect it from a legally open channel;
- (5) Other laws and regulations, regulatory requirements of the situation.
- Third parties in connection with certain transactions
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, division, bankruptcy, asset transfer, or
similar transaction, and your personal information may be transferred as part of such transaction, we
will notify you and require the new holder to continue to comply with and implement the full contents of
this NextShort Privacy Policy (including purpose of use, rules of use, security measures, etc.).
Disclosure of Personal Information
We will not publicly disclose your personal information except for the need to make penalty announcements for
illegal accounts, fraud, etc., display relevant information when announcing the list of winners/winners, comply
with the provisions of court decisions or other legal procedures, comply with the requirements of relevant
government agencies or legally authorized organizations, and make necessary disclosure based on legal
requirements and other reasonable reasons. If there are reasonable reasons for public disclosure, we will inform
you of the purpose and type of publicly disclosed information before public disclosure, and we will make public
disclosure after obtaining your authorization and consent.
Please be aware that even if we have obtained your authorization and consent, we will only publicly disclose your
personal information for legal, legitimate, necessary, specific, and clear purposes, and try to de-identify the
personal information in the publicly disclosed content.
III. How do we store and protect your Personal Information
A. Storage of Personal Information
Storage Location
Currently, NextShort has a data center in Hong Kong. You understand and agree that under the conditions and terms
described in this Policy, we may transfer and store your personal information in the above data centers in
accordance with applicable law, and although the data centers may be located in different jurisdictions with
different personal information protection standards, we will strive to protect your personal information in
accordance with more stringent standards. We will try our best to avoid the risk of leakage of your personal
information.
As described in this Policy, we may share your personal information with third parties, who may be located
outside Hong Kong. We will transfer your personal information after meeting the requirements of applicable laws
and regulations for cross-border transfer.
Storage Period
Generally speaking, we only store your personal information in memory for the shortest period necessary for the
purpose of providing our services. After the above storage period is exceeded, we will delete or anonymize your
personal information in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations. However, in the
following circumstances, we may change the storage period of information in order to comply with legal
requirements:
- To comply with applicable laws and regulations and other relevant provisions;
- To comply with court judgments, orders, or other legal procedures;
- To comply with the requirements of relevant government authorities or legally authorized organizations;
- We have reason to believe that we need to comply with relevant laws and regulations;
- For the implementation of the relevant service agreement or this policy, to maintain the public interest, to
protect our, our affiliates, our partners, other users, or employees' personal property safety or other
legitimate rights and interests of reasonable necessary purposes.
In particular, if you are a Canadian user and we use your personal information to make a decision that directly
affects you, we will retain that information for at least one year after use so that you have a reasonable
opportunity to access it. Even if you change or cancel your consent to the collection, use, sharing, or
disclosure of your personal information by us, we may retain such information if there is a legitimate reason to
do so.
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.
B. Protection Measures for Personal Information
We adopt industry-standard security technical measures and supporting organizational structure and management
system to protect your personal information security, in order to minimize the risk of your information being
leaked, damaged, misused, unauthorized access, unauthorized disclosure, and change. Our specific protection
measures include:
1. Technical Measures for Data Security
- We adopt cryptographic technology such as transport layer security protocol to prevent transmission links
from being sniffed and eavesdropped.
- We adopt safety storage measures such as data classification and hierarchical disposal.
- We strictly control the data permission system, adopt multiple identity authentication technology, monitor
data processing behavior, and avoid illegal access and unauthorized use of data.
- We monitor the entire process of the data life cycle to prevent unauthorized access, public disclosure, use,
modification, human or accidental damage, or loss of users' personal information.
2. Data Security Organization and Management Measures
- We have set up a special personal information protection responsibility department and have formulated
relevant internal control management systems such as business data security use norms and data cooperation
norms to minimize the authorization rights of authorized employees.
- We organize employees to participate in information security protection training on a regular basis, as well
as other feasible security organizational and management measures, such as locking personal information
storage areas and restricting employee access to storage areas.
3. Handling Security Incidents
We have set up the NextShort Security Emergency Response Center and have formulated a number of security
management systems and emergency response plans, clarifying the reporting process and emergency response and
disposal process of security incidents. In the event of an unfortunate personal information security incident,
we will initiate an emergency plan to prevent the expansion of the security incident and inform you by phone,
push notification, announcement, email, etc.
Please be aware and understand that the Internet is not an absolutely secure environment and, despite the
safeguards described above, we cannot fully guarantee or guarantee the security of our Services themselves or
any information you provide to us. If your personal information is leaked, it may affect your personal and
property safety. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to help us keep your account safe by using a secure method
and a complex password. If you find that your personal information has been compromised, please contact us
immediately so that we can take appropriate measures to protect your information security.
IV. Your Rights and Choices
You have various rights under applicable laws and regulations regarding your personal information in our
services, and are free to make choices, and your rights and choices may include, but are not limited to:
(1) Access to Your Personal Information
You have the right to inquire about or access your personal information in relation to our services, including by
contacting us directly or directly within the products. The information inquiry and access functions provided in
our products include:
- Query/Access Account Information: You can log in to your personal account at any time
through the related product page to access the personal information in your account, including: avatar,
nickname, etc.
- Query/Access Usage Information: You can access some of your usage information at any time
through the related product page, including: favorites, viewing history, etc.
(2) Correct/Amend Your Personal Information
You have the right to correct/modify some of your personal information in our Services according to the
operational instructions and settings provided on the Product Features page, or you can contact us directly to
correct or modify your relevant personal information.
(3) Delete Your Personal Information
You have the right to delete your personal information in relation to our services, including by contacting us
directly or deleting it directly within the products. The deletion features available within our products
include:
- Delete Usage Information: You can delete part of your usage information at any time through
the relevant product page, such as by clicking "My - Viewing History" to delete your viewing history
information.
- Delete Your Account: You can delete your account by contacting us directly.
If we collect, use or share your personal information in violation of the law or the agreement with you, you can
directly request us to delete your personal information or ask us to notify the third party receiving the
information to delete your personal information, except that the data has been anonymized or otherwise provided
by laws and regulations.
You understand and agree that: After you or we assist you in removing the relevant information from our services,
we may not be able to immediately delete the relevant information from the backup system due to applicable legal
and security technology limitations, in which case we will securely store your personal information and isolate
it from any further data processing. This information is deleted or anonymized until the backup system is
updated.
(4) Others
If you encounter any problems in exercising the above rights, you can contact us through the contact information
provided in this policy, and we will help you solve the problem within a reasonable time after verifying your
identity or within the time prescribed by the laws of your jurisdiction, except as otherwise provided by laws
and regulations or as otherwise agreed in this Policy. In addition to the above rights, if the laws of your
jurisdiction grant you other rights to personal information, we will try our best to ensure the realization of
your rights. In particular, if you are a resident of the State of California and we apply the CCPA, we will
protect and implement your consumer rights in accordance with the provisions of the CCPA.
V. Protection of Minors
You must be at least 18 years old to use NextShort services.
We take the protection of minors' personal information very seriously. The age definition and privacy protection
rules for minors vary in different jurisdictions. If you are at least 18 years of age but are still a minor
under the laws of your jurisdiction, you should read this Policy with the guidance of your guardian, who agrees
to this policy, and submit your personal information with the consent of your guardian. Please be aware that due
to the characteristics of the Internet and the user's right to anonymity online, it is difficult for us to
verify the authenticity of your guardian's consent one by one. Therefore, if you are a user in the foregoing
situation, please consciously obtain your guardian's consent.
If you believe that we have collected personal information from minors without their consent, please contact us
using the contact details provided in this Policy.
VI. About This Policy
(1) Scope of This Policy
Our Services may be available through, or use features operated by, third party platforms, or may contain or link
to websites operated by third parties whose information processing rules are determined by them and may differ
from ours. Third party websites, applications, platforms, etc., have independent privacy policies, and this
policy does not apply. Therefore, it is recommended that you read its privacy policy carefully and carefully.
For example, when a link to a website operated by a third party appears in our App, we will notify you or mark
it as a "third party product", "third party service" or similar expression.
(2) Updates to This Policy
Based on the continuous innovation and development of NextShort's business model and technical features, we may
update the terms of this NextShort Privacy Policy from time to time and give notices in accordance with
applicable laws and regulations, which may include one or more ways to publish notices, push messages, pop-ups,
emails, etc. Allow you to review the updated Privacy Policy before choosing to continue using our Services, and
make your own decision on whether to continue using our Services. If such updates involve us collecting more
personal information from you, or changes in the purposes and methods of using/sharing personal information or
receiving the information from third parties, we will again obtain your consent. We encourage you to review this
policy each time you use our services. To check when this policy was last updated, please refer to "When this
version was updated" at the top of the page.
VII. Contact Us
(1) If you encounter issues related to privacy protection when using our services or have any questions about
this policy (including questions, complaints, suggestions, etc.), you can submit feedback online
(2) We will reply to you after we receive your question, and after verifying your user identity within the
request response period stipulated by the laws of your jurisdiction, under normal circumstances, we will not
charge you a service fee for this.
VIII. Dispute Resolution
If any provision of this Policy is found/ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, that particular
provision will be removed from this Policy, but such invalidity will not affect the effect of the remaining
provisions of this Policy. The remainder of this policy will continue.
The Parties agree that this Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Policy (including but not limited to the implementation of
this Policy) shall be settled amicably through negotiation. Either party may also submit the dispute to the
Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC") for arbitration in accordance with SIAC's arbitration Rules
in force at the time of filing the application for arbitration ("SIAC Rules"). The place of arbitration shall be
Japan and the arbitral Tribunal shall consist of one (1) arbitrators. The language of arbitration shall be
Chinese. For the avoidance of doubt, friendly consultation is not a prerequisite for submitting a dispute to the
Japan International Arbitration Center for arbitration. The arbitral award shall be final and binding upon the
parties.
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