We (TikNovel) pay great attention to your private information. We hope you (users) will understand how we use your information while using the services of TikNovel. Therefore, we hope you will take the time to read the following policy carefully.
Please notice that if you choose to use our service, it means not only that you agree the terms of this privacy policy, including our revisions and updates, and agree us to collect, use and save your privacy information, but also you have known the risks of using or sharing your privacy information.
When you choose to use TikNovel as a non-registered user, we may collect your age.When you choose to use TikNovel as a registered user, we may collect your nickname, age, email address, a password for your account, in or about the content you provide (like metadata), such as the location of a novel you uploaded or the date a file was created. We collect the age information is for verifying whether you are a qualified user of TikNovel.
When you choose to pay the service on TikNovel, withdraw the payment, acquire your revenue sharing, we may collect your payment information, such as PayPal or other third-party payment information (where required for the purpose of payment). This information is required to complete a commercial transaction on TikNovel. We use this information to enable and fulfill your transaction.
When you choose to provide feedback or contact us, or otherwise provide information voluntarily to us, our employees, or our contractors, the data will be collected by us as well.
We want to inform you that whenever you use my Service, in a case of an error in the app I collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing my Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.
We may also collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number). TikNovel may associate your device identifiers or phone number with your TikNovel user account.
The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you. Some members or visitors may choose to connect to TikNovel or register an TikNovel account by using an external third-party application, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. Connecting your TikNovel account to third-party applications or services is optional. If you choose to connect your account to a third-party application, TikNovel may receive information from that application and use it as part of providing our Services to you.
We may use information about you for a number of purposes, including:
1.Providing and improving our services
Providing, maintaining, and improving our services, including the specific TikNovel features you choose to use;
a. Personalizing your use of the services;
b. Developing new products, services, and features;
c. Determining whether the services or specific content are available in your country;
d. Recording and displaying your historical transaction information;
e. Measuring, tracking, and analyzing trends in usage in connection with your use or the performance of our services.
2.Communicating with you about our services
a. Sending you information you have requested from us or that we think you may find useful, such as updates or changes to our services;
b. Collecting feedbacks about our services;
c. Contacting you to resolve disputes, provide assistance, or notify you of changes to our policies or terms.
3.Keeping our services and community safe and secure.
a. Detecting, investigating, preventing or reporting intellectual property infringement, spam, harassment, fraud, security breaches, other potentially prohibited or illegal activities, or to otherwise help protect your account and the TikNovel community;
b. Enforcing our Terms of Service or other applicable contracts, agreements, or policies;
c. Complying with any applicable laws or regulations, or in response to lawful requests for information from the government or other third party.
4.Service providers
TikNovel engages with third-party companies and service providers (such as payment processors and analytics providers) to help us provide or improve our Services. These third parties have limited access to your information, and may only use the information provided to perform specific tasks on our behalf.
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your account information is protected by a password. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access to your account and information by choosing your password carefully and by keeping your password and device secure, such as by logging out after using the Services.
We have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
a. Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.้
b. Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
c. Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
d. Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of TikNovel, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
You can access and edit most of your profile information by signing into your account. We also provide a number of tools in Settings that allow you to control your information. Should you choose to do so, you may delete your entire account in Settings.
If you have any questions on how to use those tools, or want to know about any rights you may have in the country where you live, please contact us at the email address provided at the bottom of this policy.
We retain your information for as long as it is necessary to provide you with the service or fulfill the transactions you have requested or authorized. Where we do not need your information in order to provide the service to you, we retain it only for so long as we have a legitimate business purpose in keeping such data, including to comply with our legal obligations, enforce our agreements, resolve disputes, and as necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You can request deletion of your data at any time by contact us at topnovelscontact@gmail.com . We will evaluate such requests on a case by case basic.
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 the Platform. After you have deleted your account, we may retain certain information in an aggregated and anonymised format.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me at topnovelscontact@gmail.com.