We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Your privacy and trust are very important to us, and it is our commitment to being transparent about the use of collected information. This policy applies to the apps, websites, sites, and related services and contents we provide (collectively “Services”). This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your Personal Data (defined below) in connection with our Services, and sets out your choices and rights in relation to that Personal Data . For the avoidance of doubt, this Privacy Policy does not apply to other products or services that display or reference a different privacy policy.

 

Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to data collected or received by us through your use of our Services. It dose not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the actions of third party people or companies, the content of their sites, their use of data you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, endorsement of, or affiliation with, those people or companies.

 

By using our Services you confirm you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and agree to the processing of your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN THE WAY THIS PRIVACY POLICY DESCRIBES, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WHEN REQUESTED AND STOP USING OUR SERVICES.

 

 

1. The types of personal data we collect

We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our Services. We use such information to operate, develop and improve our services, from figuring out basic stuff such as which language you speak, to more complex things like which advertisements you’ll find most useful, the author who matter most to you online or which stories you might like.

The information we collect depends on how you use our Services and the choices you make. When you interact with our Services, we may collect information that could be used to identify you (“Personal Data”), and information stored in a manner that cannot be linked back to you (“Non-Personal Data”).

We collect information about you from different sources and in various ways when you use our Services, including information you provide directly to us, third-party data sources, information collected automatically by us, and data we infer or generate from the foregoing. More information about the categories and sources of information is provided below.

Information you provide to us

· Profile data

If you access or use our Services as a registered user, we will collect certain information that you provide to us in relation to your account (typically your username, nickname, age, email address, password and profile photo).

· Payment information

We may collect your payment information if you are a paying customer. This information is required to complete a commercial transaction on our Services. 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.

· Contact information

If you provide feedback or contact us, or otherwise provide information voluntarily to us, our employees, or our contractors, you contact information, any information you voluntarily provide and any associated data will be collected by us as well.

Information from third parties

· Social Networks

If you choose to register to use our Services with a social networking credential, such as with a third-party account (e.g. Facebook, Google, Apple), we will ask permission to access basic information from that account, such as your name, age, email address and public profile. We will likewise share certain information with the relevant social network such as your app ID, access token and the referring URL. You can stop sharing that information with us at any time by removing our access to that account.

Information we collect automatically

· Identifers and device information

When you use any of our Services, we will automatically collect certain information about you, including your browser type (e.g. Chrome, Safari) and language, time zone setting, locale settings (country and preferred language), the date and time of your query, cookie data, device identifiers, including iOS Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), iOS Identifier for Vendors (IDFV), Android Advertising ID, and information about your device, including the type and model, manufacturer, operating system (e.g. iOS or Android), carrier name, screen size, orientation, audio, battery, device memory usage, settings, and boot time.

We also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our Services, including your Internet Protocol address, crash reports, system activity and the date, time and referrer URL of your request.

· Usage data

We automatically log your activity on our Services, including data relating to different app events (e.g. app activation, clicks, purchases, downloads, plays, reads, book ratings, usage duration, bookmarks, bookshelf and thoughts management, sharing and searches, including searches for books or keywords), purchase history, top-up records, bonus information, book feedback, analysis and improvement settings, and other details about your use of and actions on our Services.

Where you log-in from multiple devices, we will be able to use your profile information to identify your activity across devices.

 

Non-Personal Data

Non-Personal Data refers to data that cannot be used to identify an individual. Examples of Non-Personal Data include statistics on website visits, application downloads, and product sales volume. We will collect statistics information to understand how users use our Services. By doing so, we can improve our Services to better meet your requirements.

 

2. Purpose and legal basis of data processing

StarNovel uses your data to perform our contract with you, to enable our Services, to process your transaction, to communicate with you, and to comply with law. We may also use your data for other purpose with your consent and for our legitimate business interests. The purpose of processing and using your data is listed below:

· To help us provide and administer our Services, authenticate users for security purposes, provide personalized user features and access, process transactions, conduct research, develop new features, and improve the features, algorithms, and usability of our Services.

· To communicate with you about your use of our Services, product announcements, and software updates, as well as respond to your requests for assistance, including providing account verification support if you’re having difficulty accessing your account.

· To send you notifications, emails, SMS messages, instant messages and inbox message to inform you about the updates of our Services, Terms of Service, Policy as well as any other operating rules, policies and procedures, new books, campaigns, promotions, special offers and any other direct marketing information about our products and Services based on your prior consent in our Services; you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us through everhartcarlinecameron19582@gmail.com. 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.

· To display User Content associated with your account and make sure it is available to you when you use our Services.

· To use User Content as part of our advertising and marketing campaigns to promote our Services.

· To help us detect abuse, fraud and illegal activity on our Services.

· To calculate aggregate statistics on the number of unique devices using our Services, and detect and prevent fraud and misuse of those.

· To analyze what features or actions are taken within our Services to improve your experience.

· To verify parental and guardian consent to use StarNovel by an underage minor through a payment procedure.

· To facilitate your purchases within our Services and validate your real name to facilitate the creation of your pay account.

· To process your payment using a third-party’s payments platform.

· To measure and understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver targeted advertising.

· To enforce our terms, conditions and policies, and to meet our legal obligations.

· Consistent with your permissions, to provide you with personalized service, such as advertising and other localized-based content.

· For any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.

 

3. Cookies and other technologies

We use cookies, mobile IDs and other similar technologies (“Cookies”), such as web beacons, to provide, protect, and promote our Services. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, including for security and fraud prevention purposes, tell us which parts of our Services people have visited or used, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and site or application searches.

Mobile analytics and advertising IDs are generated by operating systems for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and can be accessed and used by apps in much the same way that websites access and use cookies. Our Services contains software that enables our third-party analytics and advertising partners to access the mobile IDs.

We, our analytics and/or advertising partners, use Cookies to improve our Services quality and better understand how people interact with us, for example:

· Verify log-in information.

· Track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with our Services.

· Understand the total number of visitors to our Services on an ongoing basis and the types of devices.

· Monitor the performance of our Services and continually improve it.

· Customize and enhance your online experience.

· Provide customer service to you.

 

4. Who do we share your data with

We do not share your Personal Data except as approved by you or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

With your consent

After obtaining your consent, we will share the information that you have authorized with specified third parties or categories of third parties.

Service provider

We engage other companies and individuals to provide services to us for any of the purposes described in this Policy, such as cloud storage providers, payment card processing and verification. We require that these service providers provide the same or equal protection of user data as stated in this Policy, and prohibit them from retaining, using or disclosing your information except as necessary to provide services to us.

Third party Plug-ins

With third party applications and platforms, such as Facebook, Google, that give you the option to post information about your activities on our Services to share with others within your network. This Policy does not apply to your use of any such third party applications and services, and we are not responsible for how those third parties collect, use and disclose your information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third parties before connecting to or using their applications or services and to learn more about their information and privacy practices.

Other users

Any information that you include in your publicly-visible StarNovel profile, which may include your profile ID, nickname, photo and your personal introduction will be shared on our Services to all other users. If you participate in social features, such as chat, picture and other electronic information you disclose may become publicly available. It may also be read, copied, collected, or used by other users.

Government, public, regulatory, judicial and law enforcement bodies or authorities

We may release your information as required by law, such as to comply with a court order, or when we believe, in good faith, that release is appropriate to comply with the law and reasonably necessary to, including (a) comply with a legal obligation, process or request (including tax and related reporting requirements); (b) enforce our Terms of Service, Policy and other agreements, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by law. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Disclosures in the event of merger, sale or asset transfer

We may share your information in connection with any merger, sale of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. Under these circumstances, we will always require the third parties or related companies to comply with this Policy.

Advertising partners

We may allow third party advertisers and advertising networks to set technologies and other tracking tools to collect your information  to enable the technical delivery of personalized advertisements to your device.  iOS and Android operating systems also provide options to limit tracking and/or reset the advertising IDs (For more information about how to change these settings go to: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074). However, turning off personalized advertisement function will limit our ability to deliver relevant advertisement to you but may not necessarily reduce the number of advertisements you receive.

 

5. Where do we store your data

If you choose to use our service or provide your information to us, your information may be transferred to, processed and maintained on servers or databases located outside of the country or jurisdiction where your are located. It may also be processed by staff operating outside your country who work for us, for one of our suppliers or one of our business partners. By submitting your information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy and applicable law. 

 

6. Security of your data

We take appropriate security measures, such as encryption that ensure your confidentiality of your Personal Data during transmission and in storage, to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or data destruction. We restrict access to your personal information to our staff who need to know that information to operate, develop or improve our services.

 

7. Minor Information Protection

·This platform attaches great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. If you are 18 years of age minors, you should obtain the consent of the parent or its legal guardian (hereinafter collectively referred to as "guardian") before submitting personal information.

·This platform encourages guardians to guide minors to use the products and services of this platform, and recommends that minors encourage their guardians to read this policy.

·Guardian shall bear to protect the primary responsibility for the privacy of minors in a networked environment.

This platform will protect minors' relevant information in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations.

 

8. Your rights

We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your Personal Data and your non-Personal Data for many of our Services. You have the right to rectify and correct your Personal Data by logging into your account at any time. With respect to correction requests, where we agree that the Personal Data is inaccurate or incomplete, we will try to tell any third party to whom we have disclosed the relevant Personal Data so that they can rectify the Personal Data as well.

You also have the right to access Personal Data we hold about you, how we use it, and who we share it with.

You also benefit from the rights to request the restriction of processing, and the portability of your Personal Data. However, we may process your Personal Data if there are other valid legal grounds for us to do so (e.g., for the defence of legal claims or for other protections). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time, and you may object to our use of your Personal Data that we use on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g., when we use your Personal Data to ensure account security).

 

9. Deletion of your data

You can request deletion of your data at any time by going to Profile > Click on your avatar > Account Management > Quit or contacting us at everhartcarlinecameron19582@gmail.com.

 

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 our Services.

 

10. Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Platforms

StarNovel allows other companies, called third party advertisers and advertising networks, to serve advertisements within our Services to deliver interest-based advertising to you about third party products and services. These third party advertisers and advertising networks use technology to send the advertisements and links that appear on our Services directly to you. When you use our Services, some third party tools (SDKs) integrated within our Services may collect and use certain information collected from your device for the purpose of advertisement display and optimization. Such information includes device manufacturer, model, and operating system, screen size, orientation, audio, battery, device memory usage, carrier name, IDFV, IDFA or Android Advertising ID, time zone setting, locale settings (country and preferred language) and IP address. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure their advertisements’ effectiveness and personalize the advertising content you see.

You should consult these third party advertisers and advertising networks’ respective privacy policies for more information on their practices and instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such third party advertisers, advertising networks or websites. Any data obtained by third party advertisers and advertising networks subsequently shared with us is maintained and dealt with by us under this Privacy Policy.

 

11. Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our information practices (“Updated Policy”). We will not reduce your rights under any updates to the Policy without your explicit consent, and we always indicate the date when the last changes were published.

For changes to the Policy that we need to make to meet security, safety, legal or regulatory requirements, we may not be able to notify you in advance. Where we consider that any changes to the Policy are reasonably material, such as a change to the purposes of processing of personal data that is not consistent with the purpose for which it was originally collected, we will (where reasonably practicable) notify you via inbox message or by posting the changes on our website. Any changes to this Policy will become effective immediately upon posting by us, unless we specify otherwise. We encourage you to periodically review the Policy to learn how StarNovel is protecting your information.

AS YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THE SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO FOLLOW THE POLICY, IF YOU CONTINUE TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES AFTER WE HAVE POSTED THE UPDATED POLICY, WE WILL CONSIDER THAT YOU HAVE ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THE UPDATED POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE UPDATED POLICY, YOU MUST STOP ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES AND CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT (IF APPLICABLE).

 

12. How to contact us

If you have comments or suggestions on this policy, please send an email

to everhartcarlinecameron19582@gmail.com and we will give you the necessary help.