Readink privacy policy

Last updated: Dec 26, 2023

We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We want to empower you to make the best decision about the information that you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and keep information that can identify you (“Personal Information”) when you create an Readink account and use Readink.app (the “Site”), or our mobile applications, to post content to the Readink community, including stories you create and comment (the “Services”).

Your service provider is Owego CO.,Limied , TX 9-329-453 , UNIT D18 3/F WONG KING INDUSTRIAL BUILDING NO.2-4 TAI YAU STREET KL. We recognizes you’re your privacy is very important, and we take it seriously. Your privacy and trust are very important to us, and it is our commitment to being transparent about the use of collected information.

This Privacy Policy describes Readink’s policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information or personal data, and the choices you can make about how we use this information when you access or use our Site, Application, and/or Services.

Note that Readink’s Terms of Service apply to this Privacy Policy. By accessing or using the Readink website and application, you are consenting that you unconditionally accept this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms found on this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Readink Services.

The use of the Website and Services and this Agreement is governed by and shall be construed and enforced under the laws of Hong Kong, China, without applying any conflicts of law principles that would require application of the law of any other jurisdiction. You agree to submit to the personal non-exclusive jurisdiction in Hong Kong, China and any other court of competent jurisdiction chosen by us.

By creating an account with Readink, using the services, or submitting any personal information via the services, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described below in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the use of your personal information, please stop using the services.

What we collect, Why we use and How we collect this Personal Information ？

Information that is necessary for the use of our services, such as your username, email address, date of birth, password and so on.

A. If you register on Readink via third parties like Facebook and Google, they send us information that is necessary for your use of our services, such as your account name and email address.

We use this Personal Information to:

1. Create your Readink account and provide you with our services.

2. Identify you across the services (e.g. when you sign in, post a story).

3. Provide you with technical support services.

4. Communicate with you (e.g. letting you know about upcoming changes or improvements).

5. Send you marketing emails, unless you opt-out.

6. Display the information as part of your Readink profile.

7. Optimize the algorithm for better understanding of our users, our services improvement, and new features development.

8. Personalize and customize your story discovery experience.

9. Understand how much you are satisfied with our services.

10. Investigate and prevent reported issues, illegal activity, and breaches of our Terms of Service.

11. Assist with preventing spam, fraud, abuse, and other prohibited activities.

12. Display relevant and customized advertisements and improve your ad experience.

13. Secure your privacy.

B. Information you choose to give to us, such as your real name.

We use this personal information to:

1. Display the information as part of your Readink profile

2. Calculate anonymous, aggregate statistics to better understand our users, improve our Services, and develop new features

C. Information we automatically collect from your use of our Services, including:

 IP address

 Cookie data

 Device information

 Browser type

 Operating system

 Pages visited

We use this Personal Information to:

1. Personalize and customize your story discovery experience.

2. Understand how much you are satisfied with our Services.

3. Optimize the algorithm for better understanding of our users, our Services improvement, and new features development.

4. Investigate and prevent reported issues, illegal activity, and breaches of our Terms of Service.

5. Assist with preventing spam, fraud, abuse, and other prohibited activities

6. Display relevant, tailored advertisements and improve your ad experience.

7. Secure your privacy.

D. How do we collect the data:

When you interact with our Site, Application, and/or Services, we collect information that could be used to identify you (“Personal Data”). Some of the information we collect is stored in a manner that cannot be linked back to you (“Non-Personal Data”).

When you log in, we collect information that we store with your account (typically your nickname, email address, and a password for your account), which we treat as personal information. This log information may include but not limited to your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and cookie data. If you log into Readink with a social networking credential, such as with a third-party account, we will ask permission to access basic information from that account, such as your name and email address. You can stop sharing that information with us at any time by removing Readink’s access to that account. When you do not log in to our services, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the application and device you’re using. This collection helps us do things such as maintain your language preferences across browsing sessions.

We collect your payment information if you are a paying customer. This information is required to complete a commercial transaction on our Applications and our Sites. We use this information to enable and fulfill your transaction. If you choose to use any third-party’s service to finalize and pay for your order, you will provide your credit card number directly to the third-party. The privacy policy of the third-party will apply to the information you provide on its website.

If you choose to participate in our survey, we may request certain Information (including Personal Data and Non-Personal Data) from you, and this information will be used to provide personalized help and instructions. `

The information we collect and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.

If you do not consent to it, please stop using the Services.

This is important; we hope you will take time to read it thoroughly.

What is Personal Information?

"Personal Information" is any information that can identify you. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, age, gender, marital status, health information, financial status, credit card information and credit history.

What do we collect and Why do we use it?

If you’re just browsing our Site, we don’t collect any Personal Information about you. To create an account on Readink and use our Services, certain Personal Information needs to be collected and processed. That may include username, date of birth, email address, and password, depending on the type of the Services you are using.

We take the personal information above as private by default. It won’t be displayed on the Site (unless you make corresponding information public via your account settings), or revealed to other Readink users, or rented or sold to anyone unless the data has been anonymized.

Your email address is required when creating your Readink account, while you have the option not to disclose any Personal Information to us. In that case, certain Services may be unavailable.

Why do we collect and use your email?

We use email as an important way to communicate with you. You can manage your email notification preferences, such as messages and follower alerts, by adjusting your preferences in the Notifications section of your account Settings. You may also opt out or unsubscribe from any future email communications from within a link provided in each email we send you. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.

What can other Readink users see?

Our Services are designed to help you share information with the Readink community. Any personal information that you voluntarily choose to include in a publicly accessible area of the Service will be available to anyone who has access to that content (including other Readink users), such as your username, the description you create, and stories you write.

We may use this information to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in, to develop new products and services for the Readink community, and to customize the content we show you, including ads. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide through Readink public to the rest of the Readink community.

How do we share your Personal Information?

We may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers, but only where it’s necessary to provide any of the Services to you (e.g., email providers, server providers, etc.). When we share data with third-party services that support our delivery of the Services, we require that they protect your Personal Information to the same standards we do.

We do not and will not release, rent or sell your Personal Information, except in the following very limited situations:

 To comply with an applicable law (including investigations of any crime), regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request;

 To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies, including investigation of potential violations;

 To protect the rights, property, or safety of Readink, our employees, our users, or the public;

 If Readink is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, in which case we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any Personal Information and give affected users notice before Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We never post anything to your Facebook or other third-party accounts without your permission.

Where do we store your Personal Information?

Our Services are mainly provided from our offices in Singapore. However, Personal Information that you submit through the Services may be transferred to countries other than where you reside (for example, to our servers in the United States) for processing and storage. In addition, our third-party service providers also may process or store your Personal Information on servers outside your country, including in the US.

By using any of the Services, or submitting any Personal Information via the Services, you authorize Readink and its authorized service providers to use and process your Personal Information in these countries. Please be aware that the privacy protections and the rights of authorities and Government agencies to access your personal information in some of these countries may not be equivalent to those in your country.

Access to your personal information

If you wish to access any Personal Information that we hold about you, or request that we correct the Personal Information that we hold about you, you may contact us via email at legal@Readink.app. We will comply with such requests to the extent required by law or our policies, and subject to any limitations in our systems.

If you want to delete your data, you can request deletion of your data at any time by contact us at legal@Readink.app . We will evaluate such requests on a case by case basic. We may keep some of your data for as long as reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests, including fraud detection and prevention and to comply with our legal obligations including tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations. Sometimes, your request will only be satisfied by closing your account.

You have the ability to delete your Account, and you should understand that upon deletion of your Account, you will lose the right to access or use all or part of the Platform.

To access, modify or delete the Personal Information you have provided to us, please log in and update your profile.

How does Readink protect my Personal Information?

We are continuously implementing and updating physical, organizational, contractual and technological security measures to protect your Personal Information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. They only employees who are granted access to your Personal Information are those with a business “need-to-know” or whose duties reasonably require such information. On all Readink platforms, we support encryption on all transmissions to protect Personal Information submitted on our Site.

What happens to your Personal Information when you leave Readink?

If you need to close your account, please email to legal@Readink.app. Your account will first be deactivated for a period of six months. When your account is deactivated, while it is not viewable on Readink, all of your public contributions and comments to the Readink community will remain (except that they will be anonymized).

For six months after deactivation, it is still possible to restore your account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated, including re-associating your comments and contributions to your profile. After six months, we permanently delete your Personal Information from our systems, except that your anonymized comments and contributions will remain on the Service.

Advertising and analytics services provided by others

We may allow third-party partners to serve personalized ads on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services. The ads may be based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, information you enter such as demographic data, usage data and other information we collect from you. These ads may also be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests. These third-party partners will collect, use, store, share or otherwise process your information solely for the purpose of providing you personalized ads. We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of tracking technologies that may be placed on your device you use to access the services provided by such non-affiliated third parties. If you do not agree on such third-party partners’ privacy policy or are unwilling them to process your personal information, please do not agree or accept this Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, we also provide advertisers and/or advertisement agencies with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing. To provide you with personalized ads, we also share certain information with these third parties, such as your IP, GAID, device version, country code, and network type. We also work with third-party partners who help us provide and improve the App and our Services. We do not sell any of your information to anyone. We also impose strict restrictions on how our partners can use and disclose the information we provide.

Children Under the Age of 13

No one under age 13 may provide any information to Readink. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13.If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you are a parent or guardian and learn that your minor child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us deleting the details.

Non-personal information

Readink uses cookies, tracking pixels and similar technologies on our Service to collect information that cannot identify you as an individual (“non-personal information”) that helps us provide our Service to you and to learn how our Service is used. We also use these technologies to help deliver promotional messages and ads for relevant Readink products and services.

When you visit the Site or use the Service, we use cookies and we also automatically collect various types of information by the use of “clear gifs” or “web beacons”. Cookies allow us to “remember” what you have done before and personalize the Service for you, and the automatically collected data provides us with Site usage statistics and other traffic data that is used to help diagnose problems, analyze trends and administer the Site and the Services. When placing cookies or using web beacons and clear gifs, Readink does not collect Personal Information, and we do not combine the information we do collect by these means with other Personal Information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is. Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our Site. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

We may share non-personal information publicly and with various third parties like publishers or advertisers. For example, we may share information with advertisers or publicly to show trends about the general use of our Services.

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent; in other cases, please note that your continued use of the Services after any change means that you agree with, and consent to be bound by, the revised Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any changes in this Privacy Policy and do not wish your Personal Information to be subject to the revised Policy, you will need to close your account and/or stop using the Services.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at legal@Readink.app