Privacy Policy of Talka

Last updated: September 1, 2024

Version effective date: September 1, 2024

In order to better protect your rights, we have updated the "Talka APP Privacy Policy".

Introduction

Talka (hereinafter referred to as "we") attaches great importance to the privacy and personal information protection of users. When you use our products or services, we may collect and use your relevant information. We hope to explain to you through the Weimeng APP Privacy Policy ("this Privacy Policy") how we collect, use and protect this information when you use our products or services. This Privacy Policy applies to the Weimeng APP service business platform. This Privacy Policy does not apply to services provided to you by other independent third parties. For example, when a third party on our platform relies on our platform to provide you with services, the personal information you provide to the third party is not subject to this Privacy Policy, and we do not assume any responsibility for any third party's use of the information provided by you. Before using our products or services, please be sure to read and thoroughly understand this Privacy Policy, and use the relevant products or services after confirming that you fully understand and agree. If you do not agree to any content of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately stop using our platform services. Once you start using our products or services, it means that you have fully understood and agreed to this Privacy Policy.

Part I. Definitions

User: Hereinafter referred to as "you" or "User", refers to the individual or organization that registers, logs in, uses, browses, and obtains the services under this Agreement. Personal information: Personal information in this Agreement refers to various information recorded electronically or otherwise that can identify a specific natural person or reflect the activities of a specific natural person alone or in combination with other information. The personal information involved in this privacy policy includes: basic information (including personal name, birthday, gender); personal image, voice and picture; personal Internet records (such as click records in the APP), etc.

Part II. Privacy Policy

1. How we collect your information. We will collect and use your personal information for the following purposes as described in this Privacy Policy (obtaining user device-related privacy permissions is to detect whether there are abnormal users entering, and will not be used for other purposes):

(I) Information you provide to us. Information you fill out or submit when you register an account on our platform or products and when you use the related services we provide, including your name, gender, date of birth, interests and hobbies, and related additional information. Please note: Many of our services allow you to share information not only with your own social network, but also publicly share your relevant information with all users of the service, such as the information you upload or post on our platform (including your public personal information, the list you create), your response to information uploaded or posted by others, and location data, video, and audio information related to this information. Other users who use our services may also share information related to you (including location data and audio information). In particular, our social media services are designed to enable you to share information with users around the world, and you can transmit shared information in real time and widely. As long as you do not delete the shared information, the relevant information will remain in the public domain; even if you delete the shared information, the relevant information may still be independently cached, copied or stored by other users or unrelated third parties that are not controlled by us, or saved by other users or third parties in the public domain. Therefore, please carefully consider the content of the information you upload, publish and communicate through our services. In some cases, you can control the scope of users who have the right to view your shared information through the privacy settings of some of our services. If you want to delete your relevant information from our services, please contact us.

(II) Information collected during your use of the service. In order to provide you with better services, we will collect your relevant information, including: When you use the services of our platform or visit the platform web pages, we will automatically receive and record your Internet access information within the platform, including but not limited to the language you use, access date and time, click records within the APP and other data; if you download or use our or our affiliates' client software, or visit the mobile web pages to use the services of our platform, we may read your location information. We will collect the content and information you upload through our platform, such as uploaded or taken text, shared photos, audio and video recordings, and the date, time or location of such information. In addition to the above information, in order to improve the quality of service, we may also collect other information from you, including but not limited to the relevant information you provide when you contact our customer service team, the questionnaire response information you send to us when you participate in the questionnaire survey, and the relevant information you provide when interacting with our affiliates and partners.

2. What permissions will we obtain from you?

In order to ensure the normal use of some functions, we will obtain some of your permissions after obtaining your consent during use. Such permissions include:

(1) Camera: Upload profile pictures and portrait photos, post community updates, send messages, and take photos and upload them;
(2) Microphone: for interactive communication in the live broadcast room;
(3) Album: upload avatars and portrait photos to personal profiles, publish community updates, send pictures through messages, etc.;
(4) Notification push: user interaction reminders, upgrade notices and other message push;
(5) Storage: mainly used for caching some pictures and videos;
(6)ANDROID ID, IMEI, MAC address: bind device, communicate and chat;
(7)IDFA: Tracks the effects of advertising and user behavior;
(8)Auto-start: A third-party SDK monitors system startup and network change broadcast receivers, and the user starts the system automatically and logs in again when the network changes.

III. How we use information

In order to improve our service quality, we may use your information for the following purposes:

1. Provide services to you;
2. Used for identity authentication, customer service, security prevention, fraud monitoring, archiving and backup purposes to ensure the security of the products and services we provide to you;
3. Software certification or management software upgrade;
4. Other purposes with your permission.

IV. How we share information

We are obliged to keep your information confidential and will not sell or rent any of your information. We will only share your information with third parties under the following circumstances:

1. Obtain your consent or authorization in advance;
2. According to the provisions of laws and regulations or the requirements of administrative or judicial agencies;
3. Share your personal information with our affiliated companies;
4. Provide your personal information to trusted partners and ask them to take confidentiality measures for such information in accordance with our instructions and this Privacy Policy;
5. Only by sharing your information can we provide the services you need or handle disputes or conflicts between you and others;
6. If you violate relevant laws, regulations or the relevant agreements and rules of our platform, you need to disclose it to a third party;
7. To safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of us and our affiliates or users.

V. Use of Cookies

To provide you with an easier access experience, when you visit our platform website or use the services provided by our platform, we may identify you through small data files. This is to save you the step of repeatedly entering registration information or to help determine the security of your account. These data files may be cookies, Flash Cookies, other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications (collectively referred to as "Cookies"). Please understand that some of our services can only be realized by using "Cookies". If your browser or browser add-on service allows, you can modify the degree of acceptance of Cookies or reject our Cookies, but this action may affect your safe access to our platform-related websites and use of the services provided by our platform in some cases.

VI. How do we protect and store your personal information?

To ensure the security of your information, we strive to take various reasonable physical, electronic and management security measures to protect your information so that your information will not be leaked, damaged or lost, including but not limited to SSL, information encryption storage, and data center access control. We also take strict management measures for employees or outsourced personnel who may have access to your information, including but not limited to taking different authority controls according to different positions, signing confidentiality agreements with them, and monitoring their operations. We will provide corresponding security measures based on existing technologies to protect your information and provide reasonable security guarantees. We will do our best to prevent your information from being leaked, damaged or lost. Your account has security protection features, please keep your account and password information safe. We will ensure that your information is not lost, abused or altered by backing up to other servers, encrypting user passwords and other security measures. Despite the aforementioned security measures, please also understand that there is no "perfect security measure" on the information network. When using our platform services to conduct online transactions, you will inevitably have to disclose your personal information, such as account information and contact information, to the transaction counterparty or potential transaction counterparty. Please properly protect your personal information and only provide it to others when necessary. If you find that your personal information has been leaked, especially your account and password, please contact our customer service immediately so that we can take appropriate measures.

1. Before we collect your personal information indirectly from a third party, we will clearly require the third party in written form (such as a cooperation agreement, a letter of commitment) to collect and process (such as share) your personal information after obtaining your explicit consent, and require the third party to make a commitment to the legality and compliance of the source of personal information at the level of the written agreement. If the third party violates the regulations, we will clearly require the other party to bear the corresponding legal responsibilities;
2. Before we share your personal information with our business partners, we will strictly require our partners to fulfill their information protection obligations and responsibilities, and require our business partners to sign a data security protection agreement with us before cooperation. If our business partners violate the agreement, they will bear the corresponding legal responsibilities.;
3. We have established a reasonable, effective, scientific and sound security emergency response system, clarified the classification and grading standards for network security incidents, the security emergency response organization and responsibilities, and formulated appropriate emergency response plans according to the different types and levels of security incidents. We have clearly standardized the reporting process and emergency response handling process for security incidents, so as to facilitate timely and effective response and handling of various security vulnerabilities and emergencies, and work with relevant departments to trace and combat security incidents.;
4. If a personal information security incident unfortunately occurs, we will promptly inform you of the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the disposal measures we have taken or will take, suggestions for you to prevent and reduce risks on your own, and remedial measures for you in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations. We will promptly inform you of the relevant situation of the incident by email, letter, phone call, push notification, etc.。
5. Please be aware and understand that the Internet is not an absolutely safe environment. We strongly recommend that you use a safe method and complex password to help us ensure the security of your account. If you find that your personal information has been leaked, especially if your account or password has been leaked, please contact us immediately using the contact information provided at the end of this privacy policy so that we can take appropriate measures to protect the security of your personal information.

VII. Protection of Minors

The platform attaches great importance to the protection of the personal privacy information of minors. We will rely on the personal information provided by users to determine whether the user is a minor. Our products and services are mainly for adults. If you are a minor, before using our products and/or services, you should read this policy in the company of your guardian, and should ensure that you have obtained your guardian's consent to use our services and provide us with your information. Without the consent of their parents or guardians, minors are not allowed to create their own user accounts. If you are a minor, we recommend that you ask your parents or guardians to read this User Privacy Policy carefully and use our services or provide us with information only with the consent of your parents or guardians. In the case of collecting personal information of minors when using our products or services with the consent of their parents or guardians, we will only use, share, transfer or disclose this information when permitted by laws and regulations, with the explicit consent of parents or guardians, or when necessary to protect minors.

VIII. How to update this policy

In order to ensure that you can get better services and to adapt to the platform business adjustments and future development, this policy will also keep pace with the times and be updated accordingly. However, when updating, we will obtain your authorization in a separate and obvious way, otherwise we will maintain the rights granted to you by this policy. We will remind you of updates to relevant content in a reasonable, appropriate and obvious manner after we update our applications or official websites or issue official announcements, so that you can understand changes to your rights more quickly. For major changes, we will also provide more prominent notification methods (we will express policy updates to you through methods including but not limited to emails, text messages, announcements, homepage, or special reminders on the browsing page).

Major changes referred to in this policy include but are not limited to:

1. Our service model has undergone major changes, such as the purpose of processing personal information, the type of personal information processed, and the way personal information is used.;
2. We have major changes in ownership structure, organizational structure, etc. Such as changes in ownership caused by business adjustments, bankruptcy and mergers and acquisitions, etc.;
3. Changes in the main objects of sharing, transfer or public disclosure of personal information;
4. Your rights to participate in the processing of personal information and how to exercise them

IX. How to cancel an account

If you are sure that you will not continue to use any product, you can do so through My-Settings-Deregistration. After application, there is a 3-day cooling-off period. Login and deregistration during the cooling-off period will be automatically cancelled. If you do not log in during the cooling-off period, your deregistration will be successful.。