We built the Novel Cool app as a book reading app. This SERVICE is provided by ZouShuang and is intended for use as is.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use my Service.
If you choose to use my Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that I collect is used for providing and improving the Service. I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at Novel Cool unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
1. Personal Information We Collect:
We may collect Personal Information about you from various sources described below. Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our Service if that information is necessary to provide you with it or if we are legally required to collect it.
User-provided Information. When you use the Service, we ask you to provide certain Personal Information about you, including your name, gender, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card or other billing information, your date of birth, geographic area, or preferences and we may link this information with other information about you. For example, we may ask you to provide us with Personal Information when you register for an account, use the Service, or make a purchase on the Service.
We may also collect any other Personal Information that you choose to provide to us. For example, if you decide to contact us with a request, we will process the content of your message, the date and time of your message, our response and any other Personal Information you provide in that context. If you contact us to apply for a job with Webnovel, we will process your job application, including your curriculum vitae and other Personal Information you submit to us in that context.
Automatically Collected Information. When you use the Service, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your device. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. We may also automatically record certain information from your device by using various types of technology, including “clear gifs" or “web beacons.” In this context, we may collect certain information about you, such as your IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after you use the Service, the pages or other content you view or otherwise interact with on the Service, and the dates and times that you visit, access, or use the Service. We also may use these technologies to collect information regarding your interaction with email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message. This information is gathered from all users, and may be connected with other information about you.
Please review your web browser “Help" file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from the Service, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Service to their fullest potential. We may use third party cookies on our Service as well. For instance, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytics data. Google provides some additional privacy options described at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ regarding Google Analytics cookies.
NovelCool does not process or respond to web browsers’ “do not track” signals or other similar transmissions that indicate a request to disable online tracking of users who visit our Site or who use our Service.
Location Information. We may obtain information about your physical location, such as by use of GPS and other geolocation features in your device, or by inference from other information we collect (for example, your IP address indicates the general geographic region from which you are connecting to the Internet).
Third Party Web Beacons and Third Party Buttons. We may display third-party content on the Service, including third-party advertising. Third-party content may use cookies, web beacons, or other mechanisms for obtaining data in connection with your viewing of the third party content on the Service. Additionally, we may implement third party buttons (such as Facebook “like” or “share” buttons) that may function as web beacons even when you do not interact with the button. Information collected through third-party web beacons and buttons is collected directly by these third parties, not by Webnovel. Information collected by a third party in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.
Information from Other Sources. We may obtain information from third parties and sources other than the Service, such as our partners and advertisers.
Publicly accessible sources. We may collect information about you, such as [Google, Facebook, Twitter] from publicly accessible sources, including [username, avatar, location].
2. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
There are three general categories of information we collect:
2.1. Information You Give to Us
2.1.1. Information that is necessary for the use of the Products
When you use our Services (whether through a social network, through third-party website integrations or through our Service directly), you may give us information directly (like when you're setting up your account) and we will store that on our systems and use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
We ask for and collect the following personal information about you when you use the Products. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us and to allow us to comply with our legal obligations. Without it, we may not be able to provide you with all the requested services.
2.1.1.1. Account Information
2.1.1.1.1. your email address;
2.1.1.1.2. a password;
2.1.1.1.3. other information that helps us make sure it's you accessing your account or helps us improve our services;
2.1.2. Information you choose to give us
2.1.2.1. Additional Profile Information.
You may choose to provide additional information as part of your profile (such as gender, preferred language(s), city, and a personal description (status)). Some of this information as indicated in your Account settings is part of your public profile page, and will be publicly visible to others.
2.1.2.1.1. a profile photo;
2.1.2.1.2. game username;
2.1.2.1.3. your gender;
2.1.2.1.4. approximate location information that you provide (country, city);
2.1.2.1.5. biographical details (like your age or age range);
2.1.2.1.6. status message, that you write;
2.1.2.1.7. links to your profiles on various social networks;
2.1.3. Information You Generate Using Our Communications Features
When you communicate with Us or use the Products to communicate with other users, we may collect information about your communication and any information you may choose to provide when you fill in a form, conduct a search, update or add information to your Account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Products.
2.1.3.1. Support Correspondence
We will collect and store the contact information you choose to provide in correspondence with Support team like your name and contact email address, information about your activity on the Products, and your player user ID and/or social network ID number. We will also store the communications you have with the Support team and any information in those communications in order to provide support and improve the Products.
2.1.3.2. Products communications
2.1.3.2.1. participating in message boards;
2.1.3.2.2. sending messages or invitations to other players;
2.1.3.2.3. chatting with other players;
2.1.3.2.4. posting photos, videos, drawings or texts.
We may access in real-time, record and/or store archives of these communications, comments, photos, videos, drawings or texts to make use of them to protect the safety of our players and Our legitimate rights and property in connection with our Services and Products.
2.2. Information We Automatically Collect from Your Use of the Products
When you use the Products, we automatically collect information, including personal information, about the services you use and how you use them. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the functionalities of the Products.
2.2.1. Usage information
We collect information about your interactions with the Products and other actions on the Products. In some cases, we will connect this information with your social network ID or Player user ID. This information may include:
2.2.1.1. Log Data and Device Information
2.2.1.1.1. IP addresses;
2.2.1.1.2. access dates and times
2.2.1.1.3. the type of computer or mobile device you are using;
2.2.1.1.4. your operating system version;
2.2.1.1.5. your mobile device's identifiers, Identifier For Advertising (IDFA);
2.2.1.1.6. your browser types;
2.2.1.1.7. your browser language;
2.2.1.1.8. referring and exit pages, and URLs;
2.2.1.1.9. platform type;
2.2.1.1.10. click behaviour on a page or feature;
2.2.1.1.11. landing pages;
2.2.1.1.12. pages viewed and the flow through those pages;
2.2.1.1.13. the amount of time spent on particular pages;
2.2.1.1.14. game state and the date and time of activity on our websites or games;
2.2.1.1.15. your telephone number;
2.2.1.1.16. your broad geolocation (from GeoIP location);
2.2.1.1.17. In-App activity
2.2.2. Cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies and other similar technologies. We and service providers acting on our behalf, like Google Analytics, store log files and use tracking technologies such as:
2.2.2.1. cookies, which are small pieces of data transferred to your mobile device or computer for record-keeping purposes;
2.2.2.2. web beacons, which let us know if a certain page was visited or whether an email was opened;
2.2.2.3. tracking pixels, which allow us or our advertising partners to advertise more efficiently and effectively; and
2.2.2.4. local storage objects, which help us to reduce fraud, remember your in-game preferences and speed up load times.
2.2.2.5. mobile identifiers
2.2.3. Payment Transaction information
If you purchase a license to use in-game virtual currency or virtual items in the Products, no matter you play it on our domains, on a social network or on your mobile device, our third-party payment processors will collect the billing and financial information it needs to process your charges. We do not collect or store your financial information, like credit card numbers. We may obtain payment information like transaction ID, price and amount, etc.
Our payment processors include Paypal, Xsolla, Facebook, Google, Apple, Fortumo, Epay, Easypay, Alterpay.
For any additional questions, please refer to their Privacy Policies.
2.3. Information We Collect from Third Parties
2.3.1. Information We Get From Connected Third-Party Applications
If you link, connect, or login to your Account with a third-party service (e.g. Google, Facebook), or access our Service on connected third-party applications (including social networks), the third-party service may send us information such as your registration and profile information from that service. This information varies and is controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
If you access our Products and Services from a third-party application or connect our Services to a third-party application, you should also read that third-party application's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
If you are unclear about what information a third-party application is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find out more about their privacy practices.
We may access or collect or store some or all of the following information shared by the provider of the connected third-party application:
2.3.1.1. your first and last name;
2.3.1.2. your profile picture or its URL;
2.3.1.3. your user ID number (like your Facebook ID number), which may be linked to publicly-available information like your name and profile photo;
2.3.1.4. the user ID number and other public data for your friends;
2.3.1.5. the login email you provided to that third-party application when you registered with it;
2.3.1.6. your age range;
2.3.1.7. other publicly-available information on the third-party application;
2.3.1.8. any other information that you or the provider of the third-party application share with us.
2.3.2. Information About "Friends"
You may link your Products Account with your account at a third-party social networking service. Your contacts on these third-party services are referred to as "Friends". You will be given the option to invite such "Friends" to join you in our Products. Your activities on the Products may be displayed to your Friends on that third-party site with your permission if you decide to share this information.
2.3.3. Other Sources
We may collect or receive information about you from other sources like third-party information providers to the extent necessary to ensure the adequate performance of our contract with you, or to ensure that we comply with applicable laws, or with your consent. We use this information along with information you provide us directly, for example, to help you and your friends connect or to serve you advertising more tailored to your interests.
We do not own or control these third-party services. These third-party services have their own rules about the collection, use, and disclosure of information.
3. Use the rules
3.1 When applying for the use of “Novel Cool” Services, the user must apply to “Novel Cool” for registration and provide accurate personal information. If there is any change in personal data, it must be updated in time. “Novel Cool” shall not be liable for any loss of access to the Services as a result of inaccurate data.
3.2 User registration is successful, “Novel Cool” will record each user user account and the corresponding password, the user account and password by the user responsible for the custody of the user account should be responsible for all activities and events of legal responsibility.
3.3 The User agrees to receive any promotional or other relevant commercial information that “Novel Cool” may send to the User by e-mail or otherwise.
3.4 Users in the process of using “Novel Cool” Web Services, must follow the following principles:
(A) comply with the relevant laws and regulations;
(B) shall not use the Web Services System for any unlawful purpose;
(C) comply with all network protocols, regulations and procedures relating to network services;
(D) shall not use the “Novel Cool” Web Service System to perform any action which may adversely affect the normal operation of the Internet;
(E) shall not transmit any harassing, abusive, abusive, intimidating, vulgar, obscene or any other unlawful information material using the “Novel Cool” Web Services System;
(F) shall not use the “Novel Cool” Web Service System for any behavior that is detrimental to “Novel Cool”;
(G) shall take the communication channels provided by the relevant agencies for the services, products and business consultancy of “Novel Cool” and cooperative business partners, and shall not publish negative publicity about “Novel Cool” and related services in public places.
(H) If any illegal use of user accounts or account security vulnerabilities, should immediately notify “Novel Cool”.
4. Content ownership
4.1 “Novel Cool” services may include: text, software, sound, pictures, video, graphics and so on. All of these contents are protected by copyright law, trademark law and other property ownership laws.
4.2 The User may use such Content only after obtaining written authorization from “Novel Cool” or other relevant rights holders.
4.3“Novel Cool” only provides the business of the novel reminder, “Novel Cool” provides the text, pictures, etc., can not copy, recreate the content, or create content-related derivative products.
5. Privacy protection
5.1 Protecting the privacy of users, especially minors, is a fundamental policy of “Novel Cool”, so if a parent (guardian) wishes to have minors (especially children under the age of 10) to use the service, parents (guardians) ) In the name of the application for registration, in accepting the service, should be the legal guardian status to determine whether the service is in line with minors. “Novel Cool” undertakes not to provide user registration information to third parties (other than those listed in 5.2) nor to non-public content stored on “Novel Cool” when users use the Web Services, except in the following cases:
(A) prior authorization of the user;
(B) in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations;
(C) in accordance with the requirements of the relevant government departments;
(D) to safeguard the interests of the public;
(E) To maintain the legitimate rights and interests of “Novel Cool”.
5.2 “Novel Cool” may cooperate with third parties to provide the relevant network services to the user. In this case, if the third party agrees to bear the same responsibility for protecting the user's privacy as Novel Novel, “Novel Cool” may provide the user's registration information, To the third party.
5.3 Without the disclosure of individual user privacy data, “Novel Cool” has the right to conduct technical analysis of the entire user database and commercial analysis of the user database has been analyzed, the use of. Although “Novel Cool” has made great efforts to protect the privacy of users, there is no guarantee that the existing security measures will make the technical information of users free from any loss.
6. Disclaimer
6.1 “Novel Cool” The owner does not guarantee the following:
(A) This Service will meet your requirements.
(B) The Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free.
(C) “Novel Cool” shall endeavor to ensure the integrity of the Serial Works, but NOBRA shall not be liable to the user for any serialization of the work that can not be continued due to the author or any other cause beyond the control of “Novel Cool”.
(D) “Novel Cool” reserves the right to suspend the use of the account in the event of any damage to, or damage to, the “Novel Cool” Service.
6.2 Users expressly agree that their use of “Novel Cool” network services will be entirely at their own risk; its use of “Novel Cool” network services arising from all the consequences borne by itself, “Novel Cool” the user does not bear any responsibility.
7. Service change, interruption or termination
7.1 “Novel Cool” will notify you as much as possible of the need to suspend network services for system maintenance or upgrades.
7.2 “Novel Cool” shall have the right to discontinue or terminate the provision of the Network Services to the User at any time without notice to the User in the event of any of the following:
(A) The personal data provided by the User is untrue;
(B) The User violates the usage rules set forth in this Agreement.
7.3 Except as described in the preceding paragraph, “Novel Cool” reserves the right to discontinue or terminate any part or all of the Network Services at any time without prior notice to the User, and for any loss or damage resulting from the discontinuance or termination of all Services, The user or any third party assumes any responsibility.
8. Compensation for breach of contract
User agrees to indemnify and defend the interests of “Novel Cool” and other Users, and damages to “Novel Cool” or any other third party as a result of User's violation of applicable laws, regulations or any provision of this Agreement, and User agrees to indemnify and hold harmless reparation Liberty.
9. Jurisdiction
9.1 The creation, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement and the resolution of the dispute shall be governed by the law of the location of the owner of “Novel Cool”.
9.2 In the event of any dispute between the parties concerning the content of this Agreement or its implementation, the Parties shall endeavor to settle the dispute in an amicable manner and, if the negotiation fails, any party shall bring a lawsuit to the People's Court of “Novel Cool” owner.
10. Notification and Service
All notices under this Agreement may be made by way of important page announcements, e-mails or regular mail transmissions, which are deemed to have been delivered to the addressee at the date of dispatch.
11. Other provisions
11.1 This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the matters contemplated by this Agreement and other related matters, and no rights to the parties hereto are hereby granted except as provided in this Agreement.
11.2 If any provision of this Agreement is for any reason wholly or partly invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in force and binding.
11.3 The headings in this Agreement are for convenience only and do not have legal or contractual effect.
11.4 This Agreement shall enter into force on 1 January 2017.
12.Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements
Google and some others, as the third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
13.Location service
Our elite system is based on your favorite, reading history and location
Our review system will also use your location information
14. The auto-renewing subscription to read following books without ads
- You can pay $1.99/three month or $5.99/Year to read following books without ads
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase;
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period;
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Setting after purchase.
15. Retention policy and data storage We will store your personal information collected above within the period necessary to meet the requirements of laws and regulations and to achieve the purpose of information collection. After the above period, we will no longer retain or anonymize personal information 15-1. Data storage location The personal information we collect and generate in this product and service will be stored in the People's Republic of China. 15-2. Data storage period We only retain your personal information for the time required to achieve the above-mentioned purposes, and delete or anonymize your personal information after the retention time expires, unless otherwise required by laws and regulations. In the Novel Cool application, the specific retention time of your personal data is as follows: In order to continuously optimize and improve the user experience, we will collect pseudonymized device information. The storage period of the data follows the time required by the Umeng data analysis platform. In addition, if our products or services cease to operate, we will notify you in the form of push notifications, announcements, etc., and delete your personal information or anonymize them within a reasonable period of time.