Privacy Policy

Introduction

Singtown values the privacy of its users. When you use our services, we may collect and use your relevant information. Through this Privacy Policy, we would like to explain how we collect, use, store, and share this information when you use our services, and how we provide you with access, updates, control, and protection over this information. This Privacy Policy is closely related to the Singtown services you use, so we encourage you to read it carefully. When necessary, please make the choices you think are appropriate according to this Privacy Policy. We strive to use clear and concise language to explain the technical terms in this Privacy Policy, and we also provide further explanations via links to help you understand.

By using or continuing to use our services, you agree to the collection, use, storage, and sharing of your relevant information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information We May Collect

When we provide services, we may collect, store, and use the following information related to you. If you do not provide certain information, you may not be able to register as our user or enjoy certain services, or the services may not achieve the intended effects.

Information You Provide

• Personal information you provide when registering an account or using our services, such as your phone number, email, or bank card number;
• Information shared with other parties through our services, and information stored during your use of our services.

Information Shared by Others

• Information shared by others about you when they use our services.

Information We Obtain About You

We may collect the following information when you use our services:

• Log Information:Technical information that may be automatically collected by our system through cookies, web beacons, or other methods, including:
  • Device or software information, such as the configuration details provided by your mobile device, web browser, or other programs used to access our services, your IP address, and the version and device identification codes used on your mobile device;
  • Information searched or browsed during your use of our services, such as the search terms used on webpages, URLs of social media pages visited, and other information and content details you browsed or requested while using our services;
  • Information about mobile apps (APPs) and other software you have used, and information about your usage of those apps and software;
  • Information about communications made through our services, such as the accounts you communicated with, as well as the communication time, data, and duration;
  • Metadata contained in content shared through our services, such as the date, time, or location of photos or videos you have uploaded or shared.
• Location Information:Information related to your location collected when you enable location services and use location-based services:
  • Geographic location information collected through GPS or WiFi when you use our services on a mobile device with location functionality;
  • Real-time location information provided by you or other users, such as location details included in your account information, photos you or others have uploaded that show your current or past location, or geographic tag information included in photos shared by you or others;
  • You can stop the collection of your geographic location information by disabling location services.

How We May Use Information

We may use the information collected in providing services to you for the following purposes:

• To provide services to you;
• For identity verification, customer service, security precautions, fraud monitoring, archiving and backup purposes when we provide services, ensuring the security of products and services we provide to you;
• To help us design new services and improve our existing services;
• To better understand how you access and use our services, so we can respond to your personalized needs, such as language settings, location settings, personalized help services and instructions, or respond to you and other users in other ways;
• To provide you with more relevant ads instead of generally distributed advertising;
• To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of advertising and other promotional and marketing activities in our services;
• For software certification or managing software updates;
• To allow you to participate in surveys about our products and services.

To give you a better experience, improve our services, or other purposes you agree to, subject to relevant laws and regulations, we may use information collected through one service in an aggregated or personalized way for our other services. For example, information collected when you use one of our services may be used in another service to provide you with specific content, or to display information relevant to you rather than general broadcasts. If we provide options in related services, you can also authorize us to use the information provided and stored by that service for our other services.

How You Can Access and Control Your Personal Information

We will take all possible appropriate technical measures to ensure that you can access, update and correct your registration information or other personal information provided while using our services. When accessing, updating, correcting and deleting the aforementioned information, we may require you to verify your identity to ensure account security.

Information We May Share

Except in the following circumstances, we and our affiliates will not share your personal information with any third party without your consent:

• We and our affiliates may share your personal information with our affiliates, partners and third-party service providers, contractors and agents (for example, communication service providers that send emails or push notifications on our behalf, map service providers that provide location data) (they may not be located in your jurisdiction) for the following purposes:
  • To provide our services to you;
  • To achieve the purposes described in the 'How We May Use Information' section;
  • To fulfill our obligations and exercise our rights in the Singtown Service Agreement or this Privacy Policy;
  • To understand, maintain and improve our services.

If we or our affiliates share your personal information with any of the above third parties, we will endeavor to ensure that such third parties use your personal information in compliance with this Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures we require them to follow.

• As our business continues to develop, we and our affiliates may undergo mergers, acquisitions, asset transfers or similar transactions, and your personal information may be transferred as part of such transactions. We will notify you before the transfer.
• We or our affiliates may also retain, preserve or disclose your personal information for the following needs:
  • To comply with applicable laws and regulations;
  • To comply with court orders or other legal process requirements;
  • To comply with requirements from relevant government authorities;
  • For purposes reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, maintain public interest, or protect the personal and property safety or legitimate rights and interests of our customers, us or our group companies, other users or employees.

Information Security

We retain your personal information only for the period necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy and for the time limit required by laws and regulations.

We use various security technologies and procedures to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure of information. For example, in some services, we will use encryption technology (such as SSL) to protect the personal information you provide. However, please understand that due to technical limitations and various malicious means that may exist in the internet industry, even with our best efforts to strengthen security measures, it is impossible to always ensure 100% security of information. You need to understand that the systems and communication networks you use to access our services may have problems due to factors beyond our control.

Your Shared Information

Several of our services allow you to share your information not only with your social network but also with all users of the service. For example, information you upload or post (including personal information, lists you create), your responses to information uploaded or posted by others, and location data and log information related to this content. Other users of the service may also share information about you (including location data and log information). Our social media services are specifically designed to enable sharing of information with users around the world in real-time. If you do not delete shared information, it will remain in the public domain. Even if you delete shared information, it may still be cached, copied, or stored independently by other users or third parties outside our control.

Therefore, please consider carefully what information you upload, post, and communicate through our services. In some cases, you may be able to control who can view your shared information through privacy settings in some of our services. If you wish to delete your relevant information from our services, please follow the instructions provided in those services.

Sensitive Personal Information You Share

Certain personal information may be considered sensitive, such as your race, religion, personal health and medical information. Sensitive personal information is subject to stricter protection than other personal information.

Please note that content or information you provide, upload, or post when using our services (e.g., photos related to your social activities) may expose your sensitive personal information. You should carefully consider whether to disclose sensitive personal information when using our services.

You agree to the processing of your sensitive personal information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

How We Collect Information

We or our third-party partners may collect and use your information through cookies and web beacons and store this information as log data.

We use our own cookies and web beacons to provide a more personalized user experience and for the following purposes:

• Remembering your identity;
• Analyzing your use of our services;
• Optimizing advertisements based on your information.

We may also provide non-personally identifiable information collected through cookies and web beacons to advertisers or other partners for statistical analysis or advertising services.

Third-party advertisers or partners may place their own cookies and web beacons on our services. These third parties may collect non-personally identifiable information to analyze user behavior, deliver relevant advertisements, or evaluate the effectiveness of their ads. These third-party cookies and web beacons are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties, not this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for third-party cookies or web beacons.

You can manage or reject cookies or web beacons through your browser settings. However, please note that if you disable cookies or web beacons, you may not have the optimal service experience, and some services may not function properly. You may still receive the same amount of advertisements, but these will be less relevant.

Advertising Services

We may use your information to show you more relevant ads.

We may also use your information to send you marketing messages about our services or products, or those of third parties related to the following areas:

• Our products and servicesOur products and services, our affiliates and partners' products and services (e.g., social media services, internet search, entertainment, and other online services);
• Third-party products and servicesThird-party internet service providers and products or services related to food, sports, music, movies, TV shows, live performances, and more.

If you do not wish for your personal information to be used for advertising purposes, you can follow the instructions in the ad or in the service to stop this use.

Emails and Notifications

Email and Message Push

We may send you emails, news, or push notifications through your device. If you do not wish to receive these messages, you can unsubscribe via the relevant options.

Service-Related Announcements

We may send you service-related announcements when necessary (e.g., when we temporarily suspend a service for maintenance). You may not be able to opt out of these non-promotional service-related announcements.

Privacy Policy Exceptions

Our services may include or link to third-party social media services or other services (including websites). For example:

• You may use the 'share' button to share certain content to our services, or you may use third-party connection services to log into our services. These features may collect your information (including your log information) and may place cookies on your device to function properly.
• We may provide links through advertisements or other methods in our services, allowing you to access third-party services or websites.

These third-party social media or other services may be operated by the relevant third parties or by us. Your use of such third-party social media services or other services (including any personal information you provide to such third parties) is subject to that third party's terms of service and privacy policy (not the General Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy). You need to read their terms carefully. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect and does not apply to any third-party services or their information use rules. We are not responsible for any third party's use of information you provide.

Minor Use

We encourage parents or guardians to guide minors under 18 when using our services. We suggest minors seek their parent or guardian's consent before submitting personal information.

Scope of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all our services except where specific services have their own privacy policies. If any specific privacy policy differs from this one, the specific policy will apply.

Unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the same meanings as defined in the Singtown Service Agreement.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to:

• Information collected by third-party services (including any third-party websites) accessed through our services;
• Information collected by other companies or organizations that provide advertising services through our services.

Changes

We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically. If such revisions significantly reduce your rights under this policy, we will notify you before the changes take effect.