"TikFun" refers to Guangzhou Kefeng Information Technology Co., Ltd. and its affiliates (hereinafter referred to as "we" or "us"), the lawful owner and operator of the client application and official website named TikFun.
As the operator of TikFun, we fully understand the importance of personal information to you and will strictly protect your personal information and privacy in accordance with laws and regulations. We hereby formulate this Privacy Policy and solemnly remind you: before using TikFun and related services, please read and fully understand this Privacy Policy carefully so that you can make an appropriate choice.
This Privacy Policy will explain to you how we process personal information in various scenarios. When you enable and use TikFun, we will process relevant information to implement the functions and services you choose to use, or to fulfill obligations stipulated by laws and regulations. Important clauses involving your personal information rights and interests are highlighted in bold; please pay special attention to them.
In addition to this Privacy Policy, for specific usage scenarios, we will also inform you of the purpose, scope, and manner of corresponding information collection through instant notifications (pop-ups, page prompts, etc.) and feature update descriptions. The foregoing content constitutes an integral part of this Privacy Policy and has equal legal effect.
The following sections will detail how we collect, use, store, transmit, disclose externally, and protect personal information, as well as the means by which you may inquire about, correct, supplement, delete, copy, and transfer your personal information. The core content involving your personal information rights and interests has been highlighted in bold; please read carefully.
You may register and log in to TikFun through three methods: Google Account, Apple ID, or email account. When you log in with a Google Account or Apple ID, you authorize us to obtain your public information on the third-party platform (avatar, nickname, etc.) and other information that you explicitly authorize to be disclosed, which will be used to generate a TikFun account bound to that third-party account. When you register or log in via email, you need to provide your email address to complete identity verification and account creation. In some scenarios, we require secondary verification and binding of your mobile phone number to confirm the authenticity and validity of the account.
When you use the sharing function to share works from TikFun to third-party platforms (such as Instagram, etc.), we may collect the sharing content information you actively select, your device identification information, and public information of the third-party platform you use (such as Instagram) (such as avatar, nickname, etc.) in order to complete the sharing service. The sharing action is triggered by you actively; we will not collect the above information when you do not perform the action.
When you browse the short video feed on the homepage, watch interactive short dramas, and select plot branches, we will collect your device information (Android device identifier Android ID, Apple advertising identifier IDFA, and other device identification codes) and log information (browsing records, likes, favorites, viewing duration, branch selection records, unlocked chapter records, etc.) to provide you with stable video playback, viewing progress recovery, and personalized content recommendation services.
We also collect your network information (IP address, network type) to optimize video loading speed and troubleshoot network issues.
TikFun provides interactive short drama viewing and display content, which is generated or assisted in production by generative artificial intelligence models.
a. When you watch AI-generated / AI-assisted short dramas, we collect your viewing behavior (viewing duration, interaction records, branch selections, pause points, repeat playback behavior) to optimize content recommendations and enhance the viewing experience.
b. When you participate in AI plot interactions, the system will retain your selection records (selected branches, plot directions, achieved endings) to ensure coherent plot display and save your viewing progress.
c. In accordance with laws and national standards, provided that data has undergone secure encryption and strict de-identification processing and cannot be used alone or in combination with other information to identify a specific natural person, we may use the above data to train and optimize AI models to improve content quality and recommendation algorithm effectiveness. If you do not wish your data to be used for model training and optimization, you may contact us through the contact information provided in this Policy to withdraw your authorization.
When you purchase the virtual currency "Credit," the system will generate an order and record the order amount, recharge time, and payment channel. iOS device payments are processed by the Apple App Store in-app purchase service, and Android device payments are processed by the Google application payment service. We do not directly collect or store your payment account number, bank card number, or other financially sensitive information; the entire payment process is securely completed by the Apple and Google platforms.
When you use Credits to unlock chapters or nodes, we record the number of Credits consumed and the unlocked chapter or node information so that you can review your unlocked content benefits at any time.
When you use the reporting function for relevant works on TikFun, we will collect the content information you report, the reason for the report, the time of the report, and your account information to verify and process your reporting request. We commit to verifying the reported content and taking corresponding measures within a reasonable period (not exceeding 15 working days) after receiving the report. The reporting action is triggered by you actively, and the relevant data is used only for content review and platform security management.
To push short dramas and interactive content more suited to your preferences, we will conduct algorithmic recommendations based on your viewing records, likes, favorites, and plot branch preferences. You may turn off personalized recommendations in [My] - [More] in the upper left corner - [Records]; after turning it off, the platform will only push general popular content to you.
We are committed to providing you with a safe and reliable product usage environment. To maintain stable platform operations and protect the legitimate rights and interests of you, other users, and the public, we will collect the following necessary information:
(1) Ensuring stable operation of software and services: During your use of TikFun, we collect device brand, hardware model, operating system version, device identification codes (Android: Android ID, OAID; Apple: IDFV, IDFA), carrier unified anonymous identifier, IP address, wireless LAN information (SSID, BSSID), Bluetooth, base station information, software version, network access method/type/status, network quality, operation and usage logs, device sensor data, etc.;
(2) Preventing malicious programs and ensuring operational efficiency: collecting installed application lists, software processes, application usage frequency, crash records, performance data, and application sources;
(3) Risk control and security verification: collecting account, device, and service log information generated during your use, combined with data provided by our affiliated companies and partners, for account security verification, transaction risk verification, identity verification, identifying violations, handling security incidents, and retaining and analyzing relevant records in accordance with the law.
Cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies are widely used in Internet scenarios. When you use TikFun and related services, we may use such technologies to issue Cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device to collect and identify your access and usage information. We promise that Cookies will only be used for the scenarios described in this Policy and will not be used for other purposes. The main usage scenarios are as follows:
(1) Ensuring the security and efficient operation of products and services: We may set authentication and security Cookies or anonymous identifiers to enable us to confirm whether you are safely logged in to the service, or whether you have encountered theft, fraud, or other illegal acts. These technologies also help us improve service efficiency and enhance login and response speeds.
(2) Helping you obtain a more relaxed access experience: Using such technologies can help you save the steps and processes of repeatedly filling in personal information and entering search content (example: recording searches, form filling).
(3) Recommending, displaying, and pushing content or accounts you may be interested in: We may use such technologies to understand your preferences and usage habits, conduct data analysis, improve product services, recommend information or features that users are interested in, and optimize your content selection.
Please be aware that as business develops, the products and services provided by TikFun may be adjusted. If the purpose, method, or scope of personal information processing changes, we will inform you again and re-obtain your consent in accordance with laws and regulations.
Please understand that in the following circumstances, we may process your personal information without obtaining your authorization in accordance with laws and regulations:
(1) Necessary for entering into or performing a contract at your request;
(2) Necessary for performing statutory duties or obligations, including safeguarding national security, national defense security, and conducting criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;
(3) Responding to public health emergencies, or protecting the life, health, and property safety of natural persons in emergencies;
(4) Processing personal information within a reasonable scope for news reporting, public opinion supervision, and other activities conducted in the public interest;
(5) Processing personal information that you have disclosed yourself, or other personal information that has been lawfully disclosed (such as personal information lawfully disclosed through lawful news reports, government information disclosure, and other channels), within a reasonable scope;
(6) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.
Special Note: In accordance with the law, data that cannot be used alone or in combination with other information to identify a specific natural person does not constitute personal information. If your data can be linked to you personally, or if we combine de-identified data with your personal information, such data will be treated as personal information and processed and protected uniformly in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When we cooperate with partners on data, we strictly abide by the following principles:
(1) Lawful principle: All data processing activities comply with legal provisions;
(2) Legitimate and minimum necessary principle: Data use has a lawful purpose and is limited to the minimum scope required to achieve that purpose;
(3) Security and prudence principle: Prudently assessing the data usage purposes of partners, comprehensively verifying their security protection capabilities, and signing compliant cooperation agreements; implementing strict security monitoring of software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) used by partners to obtain data, ensuring data security.
If we entrust a third party to process personal information on our behalf, we will sign a data entrusted processing agreement in accordance with the law and supervise the partner's standardized use of personal information.
If we jointly process personal information with a third party, both parties will sign a cooperation agreement in accordance with the law, clarifying their respective rights and responsibilities to ensure compliance and data security protection.
If specific functions or scenarios require our affiliated companies or third parties to provide services, the partners include our affiliated entities and third-party service providers.
When you use built-in functions provided by partners, or services jointly provided by software service providers, smart device manufacturers, and system service providers, we will share information necessary to implement the business, including but not limited to:
(1) Customer Service: To promptly handle your complaints and feedback, customer service providers need to access your account-related information and, when necessary, contact you through channels such as your reserved mobile phone number;
(2) Payment Services: The payment function is provided to you by third-party payment institutions cooperating with us. The third-party payment institution may need to collect your name, ID number, bank card type and number, and mobile phone number. ID numbers and bank card-related information are personal sensitive information; this information is necessary for the payment function, and refusal to provide it will result in your inability to use this function, but will not affect the normal use of other functions.
(1) Account security protection: To protect the security of your account and assets and those of other users, cooperative risk control service providers will use necessary device, account, and log information;
(2) Product data analysis: To monitor the stability of TikFun products, data statistics service providers read operational failures, crash records, device identifiers, and application installation and usage data;
(3) Academic research cooperation: On the premise of ensuring data security and lawful use, we may provide de-identified and anonymized data to cooperating research institutions and universities for technology research and development.
To verify and process your reporting request, we may need to provide the content information you reported, the reason for the report, and other relevant data to our content review team or cooperating third-party review service providers. We will require the receiving party to strictly process your information in accordance with laws, regulations, and the requirements of this Privacy Policy, and to use it only for the purposes of report verification and content review.
In the course of business development, if a company merger, acquisition, or asset transfer occurs, your personal information will be simultaneously transferred to the successor entity. We will require the successor to protect your personal information in accordance with legal and security standards no lower than those set forth in this Policy; if the successor changes the original purpose or method of information processing, we will urge it to re-obtain your authorization and consent.
If we terminate the operation of a product or service, we will immediately stop collecting your personal information, inform you through notifications and announcements, and simultaneously delete or anonymize the personal information held in relation to the discontinued product.
Unless required by laws and regulations or with your separate consent, we will not actively disclose your personal information that you have not disclosed yourself.
Please understand that in the following circumstances, according to laws, regulations, and national standards, partners' use of, or our transfer or public disclosure of, your personal information does not require your authorization and consent:
(1) Necessary for entering into or performing a contract at your request;
(2) Necessary for performing statutory duties or obligations, such as those directly related to national security, national defense security, and criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;
(3) Necessary for responding to public health emergencies, or for protecting the life, health, and property safety of natural persons in emergencies;
(4) Processing personal information within a reasonable scope for news reporting, public opinion supervision, and other activities conducted in the public interest;
(5) Processing personal information that you have disclosed yourself, or other personal information that has been lawfully disclosed (such as personal information lawfully disclosed through lawful news reports, government information disclosure, and other channels), within a reasonable scope;
(6) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.
We attach great importance to your autonomous management rights over personal information and fully guarantee your rights to access, copy, correct, supplement, delete, withdraw authorization, cancel your account, and file complaints and reports, ensuring that you are informed and can protect the security of your personal information.
Please be aware: Some business functions and services rely on corresponding information to function normally. After you withdraw your authorization, we will be unable to continue providing the corresponding functions and services and will stop processing the relevant personal information; however, withdrawal of authorization does not affect information processing activities previously conducted based on your consent.
The following operation paths apply only to the latest mobile client of TikFun; entries may differ across different systems and versions, and the actual display in the App shall prevail.
You may enable/disable album-related permissions in your phone system settings, change the authorization scope, or withdraw authorization. After withdrawal, we will no longer collect information corresponding to album permissions, but this will not affect information processing previously conducted based on authorization.
If you need to query, correct, supplement, delete, copy, or download the personal information we have collected and stored, you may contact us by sending an email to hami@aquanliang.com.
If you need to transfer the personal information we have collected and stored, we will provide you with a transfer path in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations.
If you no longer use TikFun and need to clear your account information, you may enter the client and follow the path below: [My] - [More] in the upper left corner - [Records] - [Cancel Account].
You acknowledge and understand: Clearing account information and canceling your account is an irreversible operation. After cancellation is completed, we will delete all your relevant information; if complete deletion is not possible due to technical limitations, we will perform anonymization processing, and except for statutory retention and necessary security protection, we will not conduct any other information processing activities.
We attach great importance to the security of your personal information and adopt reasonable and feasible security protection measures to ensure that personal information processing activities comply with the requirements of laws and regulations, and to prevent information from being illegally accessed, leaked, tampered with, or lost.
We adopt encryption, de-identification, and anonymization technologies that are above the industry average to protect your personal information, build multi-layer security protection mechanisms, and resist malicious network attacks.
We have established a dedicated security management department, established complete data security management systems and processing procedures, strictly control data access and usage permissions, and only authorized personnel may access personal information; we regularly conduct employee security training and routinely conduct security audits on data and technical systems.
We have formulated an emergency response plan for personal information security incidents. In the event of or potential occurrence of information leakage, tampering, loss, or other security incidents, we will promptly inform you of: the types of affected information, the cause of the incident, potential hazards, our response measures, precautions you may take, and our contact channels.
We will synchronize the progress of the incident through in-app push notifications, email, letters, and other forms; when it is not possible to notify each individual, we will issue a unified announcement and report the incident handling status to the regulatory authorities as required.
Although we have adopted the above reasonable and effective measures and have complied with the standards required by relevant laws and regulations, please understand that, due to technical limitations and the possible existence of various malicious means, in the Internet industry, even if every effort is made to strengthen security measures, it is impossible to always guarantee information is 100% secure, and we will do our best to ensure the security of the personal information you provide to us.
You acknowledge and understand that the systems and communication networks you use to access our services may experience problems due to factors beyond our control. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you take active measures to protect the security of your personal information, including but not limited to not disclosing your account and related personal information to others.
Once you leave TikFun and browse or use other products or services provided by third parties, we will not have the capability or direct obligation to protect any personal information you submit to third parties, regardless of whether you log in to, browse, or use the aforementioned products or services based on TikFun's links or guidance. However, we will remind you that you are entering a third-party product or service so that you can better protect your personal information.
In accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations, all personal information collected and generated during our operations will be stored within the territory of the People's Republic of China and will not be transmitted abroad without authorization; if cross-border transmission is required, we will strictly comply with relevant national laws and regulations.
We will retain your personal information only for the period required to provide TikFun products and services, examples as follows:
(1) Mobile phone number: Continuously retained after binding to the account, used for normal service provision, handling your inquiries and complaints, and ensuring account and system security;
(2) Interactive content viewing data: Browsing records, plot branch selections, and unlocked episode records will be continuously retained until you actively delete them, withdraw your authorization, or cancel your account, used to save viewing progress and support the review function;
(3) Recharge transaction records: In accordance with the E-Commerce Law of the People's Republic of China, retained for no less than three years from the date of transaction completion.
After you cancel your account, actively delete information, or after the data retention period expires, we will delete or anonymize the corresponding personal information, except in the following circumstances:
(1) Mandatory retention required by laws and regulations (such as the E-Commerce Law, which stipulates that records of goods, services, and transactions shall be retained for no less than three years);
(2) Reasonable needs for financial accounting, auditing, and dispute resolution require a moderate extension of the retention period.
TikFun is primarily aimed at adult users, and we also attach great importance to the protection of minors' personal information.
(1) If you are a minor under the age of 18, before registering, logging in, or using TikFun and related services, you need to read and agree to this Privacy Policy under the accompaniment and guidance of your parents or other guardians.
(2) If you are the guardian of a minor, before the minor uses TikFun, please accompany and guide them to read and agree to this Policy in full.
(3) We protect minors' information in accordance with national laws and regulations, and collect, use, share, and disclose minors' personal information only when permitted by law, with the explicit consent of the guardian, or for the purpose of protecting the minor's own rights and interests. If we collect minors' information without obtaining valid authorization from the guardian, we will delete the relevant data as soon as possible.
(4) If guardians have questions regarding the protection of minors' personal information, they may contact us through the contact information published in this Privacy Policy.
You may review this document on the registration and login page, or in the TikFun client at [My] - [More] in the upper left corner - [About Us].
Please be aware: To accommodate different phone models and system versions, we will launch differentiated client versions, and corresponding functions may differ slightly from the descriptions in this Policy, but the purpose, method, and scope of data processing remain unchanged; the actual available functions are subject to the display in your client.
(1) In order to provide you with better services, TikFun products and services will be updated and changed from time to time, and we will revise this Privacy Policy accordingly. Without your explicit consent, we will not reduce your rights under the currently effective Privacy Policy.
(2) After this Privacy Policy is updated, we will issue the updated version in TikFun and remind you of the updated content through in-app messages or other appropriate means so that you can keep abreast of the latest version of this Privacy Policy.
(3) We may also help you better manage your personal information through feature updates; please pay attention to the relevant feature descriptions.
If you believe that your personal information rights and interests have been infringed upon, or if you discover relevant clues regarding the infringement of personal information rights and interests, you may contact us by sending an email to hami@aquanliang.com.
Contact Email: hami@aquanliang.com
We will respond to your complaints and reports within fifteen working days after verification.