The Gardenotes platform (hereinafter referred to as "we") is an Internet information service brand of China Beijing Linguagua Technology Co., Ltd. We respect and protect the personal information and privacy of all Gardenotes users. In order to provide you with more accurate, personalized services and a safer Internet environment, we have clarified our principles for collecting/using/providing personal information to the outside world in accordance with relevant laws and regulations of various regions and EU GDPR requirements and technical specifications, and further elaborated rights related to your personal information.
This policy is closely related to our products and/or services you use. When you download, install, launch, browse, register, log in, use our products and/or services (hereinafter collectively referred to as "using our products and/or services") ”), we will process and protect your personal information in accordance with this policy. We try our best to explain the technical terms involved in this policy to you in concise and concise terms, so as to facilitate your understanding. We have used bold fonts to distinguish the terms in this policy that are (possibly) materially related to your rights and interests, please read them carefully.
Please read and fully understand this Policy before using/continuing to use our various products and services, and make appropriate choices in accordance with the guidelines of this Policy when necessary. If you do not agree with the content of this policy, it may cause our products and/or services to fail to operate normally, or fail to achieve the service effect we intend to achieve, and you should immediately stop accessing/using our products and/or services. Your use or continued use of the products and/or services we provide means that you fully understand and agree to the entire content of this "Gardenotes User Privacy Policy" (including updated versions).
The operator of the Gardenotes website and APP is China Beijing Linguagua Technology Co., Ltd.
The registered address is No. 101-79, Unit 2, Building 2, Block 6, Gujiaying, Yanqing Town, Yanqing District, Beijing, China.
Definitions For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Account means a unique account created for you to access our Services or a portion of our Services.
Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where "control" means owning 50% or more of the shares, equity or other securities entitled to vote for directors or other governing body.
Application means the software program Gardenotes provided by the Company.
Company (referred to in this Agreement as "Company", "we", or "our") refers to Gardenotes.
Device means any device that can access the Services, such as a computer, mobile phone or digital tablet.
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
Services are applications.
Service provider means any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals hired by the Company to facilitate the Services, provide the Services on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Services, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Services are used.
Third-party social media service means any website or any social networking website through which a user may log in or create an account to use the service.
Usage data means automatically collected data that is generated through use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
You means the individual accessing or using the Services, or, as applicable, the company or other legal entity accessing or using the Services on behalf of that individual.
1. How we collect and use your personal information
2. How we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information
3. How we store and protect your personal information
4. How do you manage your personal information
5. How to cancel your account
6. Special instructions on products and/or services provided by third parties
7. How do we use cookies and other similar technologies
8. Protection of Minors
9. How do we update the privacy policy
10. How to contact us
11. Others
You understand and agree that:
Gardenotes is a platform that teaches people how to grow flowers, vegetables, and pets. Users can learn the skills of raising flowers, vegetables, and pets through the App, and can record life details in the form of pictures and texts, share lifestyles, and form interactions based on interests. . In this policy, we will explain to you in turn the scope of personal information that each function may collect, the purpose of collection, the method of collection, and the possible consequences of refusing to provide personal information. Please be aware that when you refuse to provide the corresponding information necessary for the realization of various functions, you can still use other functions of GardenotesApp.
We will follow the principles of legitimacy, lawfulness, and necessity to collect and use personal information that you voluntarily provide during the use of our services or generated from the use of our products and/or services for the following purposes described in this policy. If we want to use your personal information for other purposes not specified in this policy, or use the collected information for other purposes based on a specific purpose, we will notify you in a reasonable way and ask you again before using it. Your consent. You can also check the details through this privacy agreement at any time.
1. Account registration and login
1.1. When you register and log in, if you use the one-click login function of your mobile phone number, based on our cooperation with communication operators, we will collect your [mobile phone number and network operator information] in order to provide you with fast Log in to the Services; your email address may also be collected, depending on how you registered for your account. At the same time, to help you complete the registration process, we may also collect your: " interest" and "name" to provide you with the initial service of Gardenotes.
1.2 . If you use a third-party account to log in, in order to meet the relevant functions and services, you decide to register through a third-party social media service or authorize us to access the third-party social media service in other ways, we may collect information that has been shared with you by the third party Personal data associated with social media service accounts, such as your name, email address . Please provide such information after careful consideration. If you refuse to provide it, you may not be able to use the corresponding functions normally. If you choose to provide such information and personal data during registration or otherwise, you allow Company to use, share and store such information and personal data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
1.3. You can also choose to fill in or change your avatar, name, gender, birthday, region, and profile to complete your information according to your own needs, but if you do not provide such information, it will not affect your use of this product and related services.
1.4. If you successfully register a Gardenotes account, we will display your name, avatar, region, and profile information in the Gardenotes application and website.
2. To provide products and/or services to you
2.1. Information browsing, posting, likes, collections, and sharing functions
2.1.1. When you use the functions of publishing and editing content, we will ask you to authorize storage (album, media and other files), camera (camera), and microphone (recording) permissions. If you refuse to provide authorization, you will not be able to use the corresponding function, but it will not affect your normal use of other functions of Gardenotes. In order to improve the upload speed of content, enrich the publishing function and optimize the experience, before you click "Publish Notes", we will temporarily load the content you edit to the server. If you log out of editing the page, or if you do not publish your notes for other reasons, we will delete the relevant content immediately.
2.1.2. When you use the posting, commenting, liking, favorite, and sharing functions , the text, photos, comments, likes, favorites, and sharing records you post will be stored in our server, because the storage is to achieve this. required for a function. You can also delete this information at any time within the application.
2.2. Safe operation and risk control verification. In order to ensure the safe operation of software and services, prevent your personal information from being illegally obtained, more accurately prevent fraud and protect account security, we will collect your device information [including: device model, device name, geographical location, storage (album) , media and other files), language settings, sensors, operating system and application version, network device hardware address (MAC address), login IP address, method of accessing the network, network quality data, mobile network information (including carrier name ), product version number, if you do not agree to our collection of the aforementioned information, you may not be able to complete the risk control verification. Please understand that in order to dynamically detect whether there is any abnormal login in your account, every time you switch Gardenotes to the background or restart the program, we may read it again, and we will control the frequency of reading within a reasonable range.
2.3. Search function. When you use the search function of Gardenotes, we will not collect your query keywords, reading records, visit time and interaction records.
2.4. Positioning function. When you turn on the device location function and use the related services provided by Gardenotes based on geographic location (including content publishing and data editing), we may collect information about your geographic location after obtaining your separate consent through a pop-up window. Geographical location information is personal sensitive information. If you refuse to provide this information, you will not be able to use the above location-based related services , but it will not affect your normal use of other functions of Gardenotes.
2.5. Interactive functions and services.
2.5.1. When you follow the account you are interested in, browse, comment, like, bookmark, and share content, we will collect the account you follow and the aforementioned information , and show you the content posted by the account you follow;
2.5.2. When you choose to add friends by scanning the code, we may request camera (camera) permission from you . The camera (camera) permission is a sensitive permission. Refusing to provide it will only make you unable to add friends by scanning the code. affect the use of other functions.
2.6. Customer service function. When you contact our customer service or submit an application for our products and/or services, our system may record the communication records between you and customer service. For the security of your account and system, we may require you to provide relevant personal information that matches the personal information you provided before to verify your user identity. After the verification is successful, we may collect your communication information with us (account information, pictures/videos/text information and related information provided by you to prove relevant facts), your contact information and your communication records with us, including Online communication records, telephone recordings , so as to solve problems for you as soon as possible and improve our products and/or services. At the same time, we may take the initiative to contact you by phone, text message, in-site message and related methods to communicate with you about the problems that arise during the use of our products and services.
2.18. Summary of device permission calls
We summarize the main device permissions that Gardenotes will call on you in the process of providing services as follows. You can choose to turn off some or all permissions in the settings function of the device. In different devices, the permission display method and closing method may be different. For details, please refer to the instructions or guidelines of the device and system developer:
| device permissions | Corresponding business function | Functional Scenario Description | Can be closed |
| network permissions | Internet access | Read and update content in real time | Yes, the APP content cannot be read and updated in real time after closing, and the APP cannot be used normally. |
| camera (camera) |
1. Change the avatar 2. Content notes 3. Scan |
1. Change the avatar 2. Take photos or videos when posting content 3. Scan QR codes related to adding friends or activities |
Yes, after closing, only the corresponding function will be affected, and other functions of the APP will not be affected |
| Storage (albums, media, and other files) |
1. Registration certification 2. Content publishing 3. Content preservation 4. Data editing |
1. Upload photos or videos during registration and authentication 2. Read and store album and media content when publishing content 3. Log information recording, information cache 4. Read the content of the album when editing the profile and selecting the avatar picture |
Yes, after closing, only the corresponding function will be affected, and other functions of the APP will not be affected |
| Get device information | Register an account | Used to read your device phone number to facilitate account registration | Yes, you may not be able to automatically register an account through your mobile phone number |
3. We may obtain your personal information indirectly from third parties
If you log in with an account of a third-party platform, after you explicitly authorize the account binding , the third-party platform will synchronize with us the avatar, nickname, name, region (if any), and gender (if any) you use on the platform. ) to allow you to log in and use Gardenotes directly.
4. Exceptions to Authorized Consent
According to relevant laws and regulations, in the following situations, we may collect and use some necessary personal information without your authorization and consent:
(1) Necessary to perform statutory duties or obligations; in some cases, the company may need to disclose your personal data if required by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities (such as courts or government agencies);
(2) It is necessary to respond to public health emergencies, or to protect the life, health and property safety of natural persons in emergency situations;
(3) Implement news reports, public opinion supervision, etc. for the public interest, and process personal information within a reasonable range;
(4) Process personal information that is disclosed by individuals or has been legally disclosed within a reasonable range in accordance with the provisions of the "Personal Information Protection Law" in each region;
(5) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.
(6) Commercial transactions. Your personal data may be transferred if the company is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and is subject to a different privacy policy.
Security of Your Personal Data The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Although we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
1. Sharing:
For your personal information, we will not share it with any company, organization or individual, unless one or more of the following situations exist:
(1) We have obtained your authorization in advance;
(2) proposed by you;
(3) Necessary sharing with business partners:
You understand and know that in order to provide you with more complete and high-quality products and services, we will authorize business partners to provide you with some services. In this case, we may share some of your personal information with our partners to provide better customer service and user experience. Please note that we will only share your personal information for legal, legitimate, necessary, specific, and clear purposes, and will only share personal information necessary to provide services. We will conduct security assessment and processing on the output form, circulation and use of information data to protect data security. At the same time, we will strictly supervise and manage our partners. Once we find that they have violated the rules of handling personal information, we will immediately stop cooperation and pursue their legal responsibilities.
(4) With affiliated companies : We may share your information with our affiliated companies, in which case we will require these affiliated companies to abide by this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or have common control with us.
(5) With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact with other users in public areas, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly released externally. If you interact with other users or register through a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, picture and description of your activity. Likewise, other users will be able to view a description of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.
Currently, our partners include the following types:
A. Advertising and statistical analysis partners: In order to help with advertising or decision-making suggestions, improve the effective reach of advertising, and further understand user needs, we may cooperate with partners who entrust us to carry out information promotion and advertising, or statistical analysis Partners share de-identified device information or statistics that are difficult or impossible to link to your real identity. Please be informed that for your information security, we currently only cooperate with partners who have signed strict data security and confidentiality agreements.
B. Content audit service provider: In order to ensure the safety of the content posted by users on the Internet information platform, we may share the content information you publish on the platform with an entrusted third-party content audit service provider.
C. Cooperative third-party SDK service provider: When you use the functions provided by third parties in GardenotesAPP, we may access the software development kit (SDK) provided by the third party to realize related functions. At this time, the third-party SDK service provider may collect your relevant personal information. We will do our duty of prudence and conduct strict security monitoring on the aforementioned third-party SDK to protect the security of personal information:
a. One-click login function: In order to provide you with account login-one-click login function, third-party service providers may obtain your necessary device information, network-related information, geographic location, storage (albums, media and other files) ( including information collected in the background state);
b. Third-party account login function: In order to provide you with a third-party account login function, third-party service providers may obtain your necessary device information, network-related information, geographic location, storage (albums, media and other files) (including collected in the background state) information;
c. Geographic location service: to provide you with geographic location services (content publishing, editing of receiving information when shopping, data editing)
d. Cloud storage service: In order to provide you with cloud storage services (pictures, audio and video content you upload to Gardenotes will be stored in the cloud and related scenarios), third-party service providers may collect your device information, network-related information, operating business information;
e. Account security service: In order to protect the account and property security of you and other users, and protect your and our legitimate rights and interests from illegal infringement, third-party security service providers may collect your necessary equipment information, network-related information, operating information, etc. Provide account security services through merchant information, log information, storage (photo album, media and other files) (including collection in the background state).
(4) When you choose to participate in marketing activities organized by us, our affiliates or third parties on the platform, you may be required to provide your name, gender, mailing address, contact information, and bank account information. This information may involve sensitive personal information, and refusing to provide it may affect your participation in relevant activities, but will not affect other functions . Only with your consent, we will share this information with affiliated parties or third parties to ensure that you receive consistent services during the event, or entrust a third party to cash out rewards to you in a timely manner.
(5) Necessary sharing with our affiliates: We may share your personal information with our affiliates. We will only share necessary personal information, and such sharing is subject to the purposes stated in this policy. If the affiliated company wants to change the purpose of processing personal information, it will ask for your authorization and consent again;
2. Transfer:
Transfer refers to the transfer of control over your personal information to another company, organization or individual. Unless we obtain your explicit consent, we will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization or individual. Except for the following situations:
(1) Your consent has been obtained in advance;
(2) proposed by you;
(3) If the company merges, splits, dissolves, or is declared bankrupt, it may involve the transfer of personal information. In this case, we will inform you of the name or name and contact information of the recipient and require the new party to hold your personal information companies and organizations continue to be bound by this policy. If the recipient changes the purpose and method of processing personal information, we will require it to obtain your express consent again.
(4) Circumstances stipulated by other laws and regulations.
3. Public Disclosure:
Public disclosure is the act of releasing information to the society or unspecified groups of people. In principle, we will not publicly disclose your personal information. But the following exceptions:
(1) Display necessary relevant desensitized information when publishing account winning and punishment notices;
(2) After obtaining your express consent.
4. Exceptions to the authorization and consent of sharing, transferring, and publicly disclosing personal information
According to relevant laws and regulations, we may share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information without your prior authorization and consent in the following situations:
(1) It is necessary for the conclusion and performance of a contract with an individual as a party, or it is necessary for the implementation of human resources management in accordance with the labor rules and regulations formulated by law and the collective contract signed by law;
(2) Necessary for the performance of statutory duties or obligations;
(3) It is necessary to respond to public health emergencies, or to protect the life, health and property safety of natural persons in emergency situations;
(4) Implement news reports, public opinion supervision, etc. for the public interest, and process personal information within a reasonable range;
(5) Process personal information disclosed by individuals or otherwise legally disclosed within a reasonable range in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Information Protection Law;
(6) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.
Please understand that in accordance with the current legal provisions and regulatory requirements, sharing and transferring anonymized personal information, and ensuring that the data recipient cannot restore and re-identify the subject of personal information, does not need to notify you and obtain your consent.
1. Storage:
Storage location: We store the personal information obtained in the United States or Canada.
Storage time: We promise to always store your personal information within a reasonable and necessary period in accordance with the law. After the above period, we will delete or anonymize your personal information.
If we stop operating, we will stop collecting your personal information in a timely manner, notify you of the notice of cessation of operation by delivery or announcement one by one, and delete or anonymize your personal information held.
2. Protection:
In order to protect the security of your personal information, we will strive to adopt various security measures in line with industry standards to protect your personal information to minimize the damage, theft, disclosure, unauthorized access, use, disclosure and change of your personal information risks of. We will actively establish a data classification and grading system, data security management norms, and data security development norms to manage and standardize the storage and use of personal information, and ensure that no personal information irrelevant to the services we provide is collected.
Your account has security protection function, please keep your account and password information properly. Gardenotes will ensure that your information will not be lost, misused and altered by backing up to other servers, encrypting user passwords and related security measures. Despite the aforementioned security measures, please also note that there are no "perfect security measures" on the information network. In order to prevent the occurrence of safety accidents, we have formulated a proper early warning mechanism and emergency plan in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations. If a security incident does occur, we will promptly inform you of the relevant situation by email, letter, phone call, push notification and other related methods. When it is difficult to notify the personal information subject one by one, we will take a reasonable and effective way to issue an announcement. At the same time, we will also actively report the handling of personal information security incidents in accordance with the requirements of the regulatory authorities, and closely cooperate with the work of government agencies.
When our products or services cease to operate, we will stop collecting personal information in a timely manner. We will notify you of the above changes through push notifications, announcements and related forms, and delete your personal information within a reasonable period of time or perform anonymization processing (the so-called "anonymization processing" refers to the technical processing of personal information, The process of making the subject of personal information unidentifiable, and the processed information cannot be restored. The information obtained after personal information is anonymized does not belong to personal information.)
We attach great importance to and do our best to protect your rights to your personal information.
1. Independent decision to receive information
When following, it will be displayed according to the account information you actively choose to follow, and you can choose to follow or unfollow according to your needs.
2. Information about access, acquisition, correction and deletion of copies of personal information
Through the design of the interactive interface, we provide you with channels to access, obtain, correct and delete relevant personal information. You can set it in the following ways:
(1) Access, obtain, and correct your personal information through [I-Edit], including avatar, nickname, gender, permanent residence, birthday, and personal profile; and whether to display
(2) Access, obtain, and delete relevant information through [Me-Notes/Favorites/Likes].
(3) Completely delete all information of your account through [Me-Settings-About-Cancel Account], this operation is irreversible, and the data cannot be recovered after deletion.
In addition to the above, in any of the following circumstances, we shall actively delete your personal information, and you also have the right to request us to delete it:
(1) The purpose of processing has been achieved, cannot be achieved or is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose of processing;
(2) We have stopped providing products or services, or the retention period has expired;
(3) You have explicitly withdrawn your consent;
(4) If you have sufficient reasons to believe that we have processed your personal information in violation of laws, administrative regulations or agreements;
(5) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and administrative regulations.
3. Change or withdraw the scope of authorization
You can change or withdraw the scope of authorization through [My-Settings], including: 1) Show my gender; 2) Show my age; 3) Show my regional location
You can also change or withdraw your authorization for notification, network, camera (camera), geographic location, camera (camera), storage (album, media and other files), phone status permissions through the operating system of the device itself, and different device models The functions may vary, and we will collect personal information according to the settings you change or withdraw your authorization. If you withdraw your authorization, we will no longer collect information related to these permissions, but please note that this will result in some or all functions is not available. At the same time, your decision to change or withdraw your authorization will not affect our previous processing of personal information based on your authorization.
4. Conditional right to transfer of personal information
If you need to transfer your personal information to other platforms, companies or organizations, you can contact us through the methods disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We will review your request and we will provide you with a means to transfer the appropriate personal information.
5. Constrained information system automatic decision-making
In some business functions, we may only make decisions based on non-manual automatic decision-making mechanisms including information systems and algorithms. If these decisions significantly affect your legal rights, you have the right to request an explanation from us, and we will also provide appropriate remedies.
6. Contact us for management
You can delete your account through [Me-Setting-About] and select [Destroy Account]. After the account is destroyed, your personal information will be removed from Gardenotes and cannot be restored.
Gardenotes may include third-party products and/or services or link to information and/or services provided by third parties. Before using the third-party products and/or services, you need to jump to the corresponding applet or third-party page. Your use of the third-party service (including any personal information you provide to the third party) is subject to the third-party's terms of service and privacy policy (not this policy), and you need to carefully read its terms and decide whether to accept . Please properly protect your personal information and only provide it to others when necessary. This policy only applies to the information we collect, save, use, share, and disclose, and does not apply to any services provided by third parties or information usage rules of third parties. Third parties are solely responsible for their behavior when using your information .
Use of Cookies
When you accept cookies, Gardenotes will set or access cookies on your computer and related mobile devices so that you can log in or use the services or functions of the Gardenotes platform that rely on cookies.
Underage users (especially those under the age of 14) should read the following terms carefully accompanied by their guardians, and the guardians will make a decision on whether to accept or reject this policy after fully understanding:
1. If the user is a minor under the age of 18 (especially a child user under the age of 14), he should read this agreement and use Gardenotes related services under the guardianship, guidance and consent of the guardian.
2. We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. When minors fill in their personal information, please strengthen their awareness of personal protection and treat it with caution. Please use Gardenotes related services correctly under the guidance of their guardians.
1. In order to provide you with better services, we will update the terms of this policy according to product updates and relevant requirements of laws and regulations, and these updates will form part of this policy. Without your explicit consent, we will not reduce your rights under this policy currently in effect.
2. If this policy is updated, we will notify you through push notifications on the APP client, when logging in or other reasonable means, so that you can keep abreast of the latest version of this policy.
If you have any complaints, suggestions, or questions about personal information protection, or you have any questions about this policy, you can contact us in the following ways, and we will review the issues involved as soon as possible, and reply within fifteen days after verifying your user identity Reply within two working days: customer@yucaiji.com .
1. For any dispute arising from this Policy and our handling of your personal information, you may sue to the People's Court of Yanqing District, Beijing, China.
2. If you think that our personal information processing behavior has damaged your legal rights, you can also report it to the relevant regulatory agency.