Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains the information NovelRead may collect when you interact with us and how we handle that information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Additionally, please read the Terms of Use applicable to these attributes, which outline your use of these attributes and services.
1. Data Collection
To help you create an account on NovelRead and use our platform, we need to collect and process some personal information. "Personal information" is any information that can identify you. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, age, gender, and credit card information. We use personal information to:
Identify you across the platform;
Provide you with age-appropriate content;
Provide you with technical support;
Communicate with you (e.g., to inform you of upcoming changes or improvements);
Send you marketing emails unless you opt out;
Calculate anonymized and aggregated statistics to better understand our users, improve our services, develop new features, and personalize and customize your story discovery experience;
Help prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and other prohibited activities;
Display relevant, customized ads and improve your advertising experience unless your separate consent is required;
Other purposes, such as security, are intended to operate, develop, and improve our services.
2. Information Sharing
2.1 We consider the above personal information as private by default and therefore will not display it on the platform (unless you choose to publicly display applicable information through your account settings) or disclose it to other NovelRead users unless the data has been anonymized.
2.2 Our platform is designed to help you share information with the NovelRead community. Any personal information you voluntarily choose to include in the publicly accessible space on the platform will be made available to anyone with access to that content (including other NovelRead users). This includes your username, name, descriptions you create, your location, messages you post in your profile, our forums, or to other users, lists you create, people you follow, stories you write, and many other information generated by your use of the platform.
2.3 Unless we obtain your consent, we will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to other companies or individuals, except in the following very limited circumstances:
To comply with applicable laws (including investigations into any crime), regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requirements;
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies, including investigating potential violations;
To protect the rights, property, or safety of NovelRead employees and users or the public.
3. Information Security
We continuously implement and update physical, organizational, contractual, and technical security measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Only employees who "need to know" for business purposes or whose duties reasonably require such information are granted access to your personal information. On all NovelRead platforms, we support encryption of all transmissions to protect personal information submitted on our platform.
4. Deleting Your Information
You can delete your account within the application or contact us at any time to request the deletion of your data: gupengyuan06@gmail.com. We will evaluate such requests on a case-by-case basis. We may retain some of your data for a reasonably necessary period to protect our legitimate business interests, including fraud detection and prevention, and to comply with our legal obligations, including tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations. Sometimes, closing your account is the only way to fulfill your request. You have the right to delete your account, and you should understand that once you delete your account, you will lose the right to access or use all or part of NovelRead content.
5. Non-Personal Information
5.1 NovelRead uses cookies, tracking pixels, and similar technologies on our platform to collect information that cannot personally identify you ("non-personal information"), which helps us provide you with services and understand how our services are used. We also use these technologies to help deliver promotional information and advertisements for related NovelRead products and services.
5.2 We may publicly disclose and share non-personal information with various third parties, such as publishers or advertisers. For example, we may share information with advertisers or publicly display information about general usage trends on our platform.
6. Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Platforms
6.1 NovelRead allows other companies (referred to as third-party ad servers or browser networks) to serve ads within the NovelRead platform. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send you ads and links that appear on NovelRead directly. They automatically receive your IP address when an ad is displayed. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and personalize the ad content you see. These third-party partners will collect, use, store, share, or otherwise process your information solely to provide you with personalized advertising. We have no access to, and this Privacy Policy does not govern, the use of tracking technologies that may be placed on the devices you use to access services provided by such unaffiliated third parties. If you do not agree to the privacy policies of such third-party partners or do not wish for them to process your personal information, please do not agree to or accept this Privacy Policy. In addition to the foregoing, we also provide advertisers and/or advertising agencies with reports on the types of people who see their ads and the effectiveness of their ads. To provide you with personalized advertising, we also share certain information with these third parties, such as your... IP address, GAID, device version, country code, and network type. We also work with third-party partners who help us provide and improve our applications and services. We will not sell any of your information to anyone. We also impose strict limitations on how our partners use and disclose the information we provide. 6.2 NovelRead will not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent, except as part of a specific program or feature that you can opt into or out of. 6.3 You should review the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information about their practices and instructions on how to opt out of certain practices. NovelRead's privacy policy does not apply to such other advertisers or platforms, and we have no control over their activities. NovelRead will maintain and process any data obtained by third-party ad servers and subsequently shared with NovelRead in accordance with this privacy policy.
7. Policy Governing Use: Changes to the Privacy Policy NovelRead reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time without prior notice to you. Any changes will take effect immediately upon publication, so please review this privacy policy periodically.
8. Email By contacting NovelRead By providing your email address, you consent to us receiving service-related notices, including any legally required notices, instead of communications via mail.
9. In-App Purchases If you are a paying customer, we may collect your payment information. This information is necessary to complete commercial transactions on our platform. We use this information to enable and complete your transactions. If you choose to use any third-party services to complete and pay for your orders, you will be providing your credit card number directly to the third party. Please review the relevant app store's terms and notices regarding the processing of such data. To ensure we deposit the correct value into your account, we record your purchases, the time you made those purchases, and the amount spent.
10. Questions If you have any questions or comments regarding our practices regarding this Privacy Policy, please submit your request via email at gupengyuan06@gmail.com.