Sparkle Cam is a tool that provides shooting services and photo editing services.
In order to explain how your personal information will be collected, used and stored by Sparkle Cam, we will provide you with this Privacy Policy, the key points of which are as follows.
i. We will describe each of the types of personal information we collect about you and the purposes for which we collect it so that you can understand the specific types of personal information we collect for a particular function, why we use it and how we collect it.
ii. When you use some functions, we will collect some sensitive information from you with your consent, unless it is required by relevant laws and regulations.
iii. At present, Sparkle Cam will not actively share or transfer your personal information to any third party, if there is any other sharing or transfer of your personal information, we will obtain your express consent.
iv. Currently, Sparkle Cam will not actively obtain your personal information from third parties. If it is necessary to obtain your personal information indirectly from a third party in the future for business development, we will specify the source, type and scope of use of your personal information before acquisition. We will strictly comply with the relevant laws and regulations and will ask third parties to guarantee the legality of the information they provide.
v. We will try our best to protect your personal information rationally and legitimately by taking the secure measures.
If you start it without agreeing this Privacy Policy, we would only collect the necessary information to maintain the fundamental function of Sparkle Cam. Therefore, we could not provide you with the complete product and services. However, your information would be protected by the same secure measures.
We attach great importance to protect your personal information, dealing it with diligence and caution as our obligation. We suggest you read the whole terms of this Privacy Policy seriously and completely, expecting to introduce how we would deal with your personal information. Please pay more attention to the bold contents relating to your information and your rights. And now please read the appropriate sections according to the following index.
1. How we collect and use your personal information
2. The use of Cookie
3. How we store and protect your personal information
4. How we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information
5. Your rights
6. How we handle minors' personal information
7. How this Privacy Policy is updated
8. How to contact us
When you use the Service, the Service will collect information that you provide or generate when you use the Service in the following ways in order to maintain the correct operation of the application, provide and optimize our service, ensure the security of your account and follow to the laws and the standard stipulations.
1.1 The personal information we collect and use actively
(A) To maintain Sparkle Cam operating normally
When you use Sparkle Cam, we would collect your device model, OS version, IMEI ( International Mobile Equipment Identity ), IP address, software version, network type, operating log, etc. Please understand these are the necessary and fundamental information for us to provide services and maintain the application operating normally.
(B) Information you upload or provide while using the services
When you use the Sparkle Cam service for feedback, we collect a variety of information, including the feedback you submit, email information. We will use this information to fulfill your requests, to provide related products or services, or for anti-fraud purposes.
(C) Provide you with the service of taking or editing photos/videos
Take photos and record videos is the core functions of "Sparkle Cam". In order to achieve this function, we will ask you to authorize camera and photo permissions. If you refuse to grant the necessary permissions for certain services, you will not be able to use the related functions, but it will not affect your normal use of other functions of "Sparkle Cam".
For the permission to apply and use by Sparkle Cam, please refer to the instructions on Application and Use of Permission attached at the end of this policy.
(D) Provide you with beauty service
Selecting the beauty function for photo editing is one of the core functions of "Flash Camera", to achieve this function, we will access the local album after your confirmation, you can import the photo file and use the beauty function for editing.
(E) Ensure the safety of products, services and users
To help us better understand the operation of Sparkle Cam and related services and to ensure the safety of the operation and provision of the services, we will record web log information, as well as the frequency of use of the software and related services, crash data, overall installation, usage, performance data and other information.
1.2 How we deal with the change of the purpose of collecting and using of your personal information
Please understand that as our business evolves, there may be adjustments and changes to the functions and services offered by Sparkle Cam. In principle, when new functions or services are related to scenarios such as old functions, the personal information collected and used will be directly or reasonably related to the original purpose of processing. In scenarios that are not directly or reasonably related to the original purpose, we will collect and use your personal information and will again inform you and obtain your consent.
1.3 Personal information collected and used by consent is exempted by law
Please understand that under the following circumstances, in accordance with laws, regulations and/or relevant national standards, we do not need to obtain your authorized consent to collect and use your personal information.
(A) Directly related to national security and national defense security
(B) Directly related to public security, public health or major public interests
(C) Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgment, etc
(D) For the purpose of safeguarding the life, property and other important legitimate rights and interests of the subject of personal information or other individuals, but it is difficult to obtain consent from the individual
(E) The personal information collected by you is disclosed to the public by you
(F) Collection of your personal information from legally publicly disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure and other channels
(G) Necessary for signing and performing the contract according to your requirements
(H) Necessary to maintain the safe and stable operation of software and related services, such as finding and resolving faults of software and related services
(I) Other circumstances provided for by laws and regulations
Particularly, if the information cannot be identified to your personal identity individually or in combination with other information, it does not belong to your personal information in the legal sense; When your information can be identified to your personal identity alone or in combination with other information, or when we use the data which cannot be associated with any specific personal information in combination with other your personal information, during the combined use, such information will be treated and protected as your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Cookies and similar technologies are ubiquitous on the Internet. When you use Sparkle Cam and related services, we may use relevant technologies to send one or more cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device to collect and store information about your access to and use of the product. We will set cookies or anonymous identifiers for authentication and security to ensure the safe and efficient operation of our products and services, and help us improve service efficiency and speed up login and response.
(A) Location of information storage
We will store the collected personal information in China or in the country/region where the user is located in accordance with laws and regulations.
(B) Period of information storage
In general, we retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose, for example, the email address you fill in when you submit your feedback.
In the event that our products or services cease to operate, we will notify you by push notification, announcement, etc. and delete or anonymize your personal information within a reasonable period of time.
(A) We attach great importance to your safety of personal information, and try our best to take appropriate measures to protect it from accessing, disclosing publicly, use, tamper, damage, loss and leak without your authorization.
(B) We will use effective and appropriate measures such as industry-standard encryption and anonymizing technology to protect your personal information. Also, we use safety protection system to prevent your personal information from malware attack.
(C) We will build up technical safety department, administration regulation of safety, process of data safety to protect your personal information. We will use a strict system, ensure only authorized person can access your personal information. And we will set up safety audit at the appropriate time about data and technology.
(D) Please understand that because of the limit of technology and all kinds of malicious methods, in the internet industry we can’t ensure for 100% about the safety of information, even though we take the effective and rational measures above, abide relevant laws and regulations to be up to the standard and try our best to improve the safety measures. Please understand the possibility of matter because of the factors beyond our control, accessing the system and communication network that our services using. Therefore, we highly suggest you take active and effective measures to protect your safety of information. Including but not limited to using strong password and modify it regularly, and do not disclose your personal information such as your account number and password to others.
(E) We have emergency plans which would be activated in the event of security incident in order to prevent the negative effect from spreading. Once the event of security incident happens, such as the information leaked or lost, we would abide to the laws and regulations, informing you the basic situation and potential effect, the measures we have and would take, the suggestion for you to defend and decrease the risk on your own, the re mediation measure for you, etc. We would inform you the relevant situation on time through the information push, email, message, etc. And we would use effective announcement if we could not inform all the users in turn. Meanwhile, we will report the disposal situation according to the demand of supervision department.
(F) We remind you particularly that the measure of protecting personal information provided by this Privacy Policy only apply to Sparkle Cam and the relevant services. Once you get away from Sparkle Cam to browse or use service, resource from other website, then we are unable and without obligation to protect your any personal information you submit on other application, software, and website. No matter whether the application, software, and website above are from the link or guidance from Sparkle Cam or not.
We would not share your personal information to any other company, organization, individual, except in the following circumstances.
(A) Acquiring your consent clearly
(B) According to the laws and regulations, or the mandatory demand from the competent government authority
(C) Share with our associated companies. Your necessary personal information would be share with our associated companies, and still be restrained by this Privacy Policy. Associated companies must obtain your permission if they need to change the purpose of using your personal information.
(D) Share with our cooperative partner. Certain of our services will be provided by authorized partners only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. We may share some of your personal information with our partners to provide better customer service and user experience. For example, the company we employ to provide third-party data statistics and analysis services may need to collect and access personal data for data statistics and analysis. In such cases, these companies must comply with our data privacy and security requirements. We will only share your Personal Information for lawful, legitimate, necessary, specific and explicit purposes, and will only share such Personal Information as is necessary to provide the Services
(E) We will carefully evaluate the purposes for which third parties are using the shared information, conduct a comprehensive assessment of the security capabilities of these partners, and require them to comply with the legal agreements for cooperation. We will strictly monitor the software tool development kit (SDK) and application program interface (API) for partners to obtain information, so as to protect data security
As for the information about the third-party SDK from the partners that we access, please refer the Catalogue of Third-Party SDK Accessed attached at the end of this policy.
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization or individual except in the following circumstances.
(A) Transfer with explicit consent: we will transfer your personal information to other parties after obtaining your explicit consent.
(B) In the event of a merger, acquisition, or liquidation involving the transfer of personal information, we will ask the new company or organization holding your personal information to remain bound by this Privacy Policy before we ask that company or organization to seek authorization from you again.
We will only publicly disclose your personal information in the following circumstances.
(A) With your express consent.
(B) Disclosure Based on Law: We may disclose your personal information publicly where we are required to do so by law, legal process, litigation, or mandatory governmental authority.
In accordance with international common practices, we guarantee that you exercise the following rights to your personal information.
You can change the authorization consent for Sparkle Cam in system Settings at any time. When you withdraw your consent, we will no longer process the corresponding personal information. However, your decision to withdraw your consent will not affect the processing of personal information previously carried out based on your authorization.
When you access, modify or delete relevant information, we may require you to verify your identity to protect the security of your account. Please understand that due to technical limitations, legal or regulatory requirements, we may not be able to meet all of your requirements, and we will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time.
If we cease operation, we will stop collecting your personal information in a timely manner, notify you of the notice of cessation of operation in the form of one-by-one service or announcement, and delete or anonymize your personal information held by us.
We attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information. In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, if you are a minor under the age of 18, prior written consent of your parents or legal guardian should be obtained before using the Sparkle Cam Service. We will protect the personal information of minors in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations, and will only collect, use, share or disclose the personal information of minors when permitted by law, with the express consent of parents or other guardians or when necessary for the protection of minors; If we find that personal information about minors has been collected without prior verifiable parental consent, we will seek to remove the information as soon as possible.
We may revise this Privacy Policy in due course. When the terms of this privacy policy change, we will show you the changed privacy policy in the form of push notification and pop-up window when you log in and update the version. Please note that we will collect, use and store your personal information in accordance with the updated Privacy Policy only after you click the "Agree" button in the pop-up window.
If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, minors' personal information and other related questions, please contact us via email flarecam@163.com. We will review the issues involved as soon as possible and respond within 15 business days after verifying your user identity. This agreement is copyrighted by the operator of "Sparkle cam" and the company reserves all rights of interpretation and modification.
1. In order to ensure the safe and stable operation of love records, we will apply for or use the relevant permissions of the operating system according to the actual circumstances.
2. In order to protect your right to know, we show the relevant operating system permissions that the product may apply for and use through the following list. You can manage the relevant permissions according to your actual needs.
3. According to the product upgrade, the application, the type and the purpose of the permission to use will change according to the product functions. We will adjust the list according to these changes in time to ensure that you are informed of the application and use of the permission in time.
4. Please understanding that for the function and security needs of our business and products, we will consider using a third party SDK based on actual business consideration, and these third parties will also apply for or use relevant operating system permissions.
5. In the process of using the product, if you use the H5 interface or applet developed by the third party, the plug-ins or applet developed by the third party will apply for or use the relevant operating system permissions according to the function of actual business circumstances.
1. [Photo Library Usage Description]
Description: access to the contents of the system album
Usage scenario and purpose: Used to get pictures or videos from the system album for editing
Consequences of refusing to provide: Unable to edit pictures/videos in albums
2. [Photo Library Additions Usage Description]
Description: save the content to the system album
Usage scenario and purpose: save the pictures taken/made by the application to the system album
Consequences of refusing to provide: unable to save shot/produced pictures to the system album
3. [Camera Usage Description]
Description: Access to the system camera
Usage scenario and purpose: Used to get pictures or videos from the system album for editing
Consequences of refusing to provide: Unable to edit pictures/videos in albums
4. [Microphone Usage Description]
Description: Access to the system microphone
Usage scenario and purpose: for recording audio
Consequences of refusing to provide: unable to record audio, resulting in recorded video without sound
5. [Tracking Usage Description]
Description: user privacy tracking permission
Usage scenario and purpose: In order to conduct data statistics, measure and analyze the effectiveness of the service, and secure the service and prompt user experience, "Sparkle Cam" requires access to your device identifier.
Consequences of refusing to provide: unable to provide you with personalized services
In order to ensure the operation of the functions related to Love Days Counter and the safe and stable operation of the application, we will access the software development kit (SDK) provided by the third party to achieve relevant purposes according to the needs of actual business scenarios.
We will carry out strict security monitoring on the software tool development kit (SDK) for partners to obtain information, so as to protect data security. The relevant third party SDKs we access are listed in the directory.
Please note that the third party SDK may have some changes in data processing types due to its version upgrade, policy adjustment and other reasons. Please refer to the official explanation.
Type of service: provide statistical analysis service, message pushing service and basic anti-cheat capability
Type of personal information collected: device MAC address, unique device identifier (IMEI/OPENUDID/GUID), advertising identifier, SIM card IMSI information, network status, WiFi status, WiFi MAC address
Device permissions invoked: get network status, access WiFi status, allow apps to network
Official website link: https://www.umeng.com/page/policy/
Type of service: pushing advertising messages to users, anti-cheating
Type of personal information collected: unique identifier, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information (including operator name) and application version number, IP address, crash report
Device permissions invoked: get network status, access WiFi status
Official website link: https://policies.google.cn/privacy