Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2024-07-19

A. Introduction

We recognize that your privacy is very important, and we take it seriously. Your privacy and trust are very important to us, and we promise to be transparent about our use of collected information.

This Privacy Policy describes ShortyDrama's policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information or personal data when you access or use our website, applications, and/or services.

Please note that ShortyDrama's Terms of Service apply to this Privacy Policy. By accessing or using the ShortyDrama website and applications, you unconditionally agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use ShortyDrama services.

This Privacy Policy is important. We hope you will take the time to read it carefully.

B. Age Restriction

ShortyDrama is not intended for use by children. Children under the age of 12 may not use our website, applications, and/or services for any purpose. ShortyDrama will never knowingly solicit or accept personal identification information or other content from users or visitors under the age of 12. If ShortyDrama discovers that a user under the age of 12 has created an account or that a user or visitor under the age of 12 has posted personal identification information or other content to the service, ShortyDrama will terminate the account and remove such information or other content.

Users aged 12 to 18 ("Teens") may not access or use the services unless (i) Teens and their parents or legal guardians first agree to these Terms of Service; (ii) Teens use their accounts established under the supervision and with the permission of their parents or guardians. If you allow Teens to use the services, you hereby represent that both you and the Teens agree to these Terms of Service. You further agree that you are solely responsible for any and all use of the services by your child, regardless of whether such use is authorized by you.

C. Data Collection

We want you to understand the types of information we collect when you use our services. We use this information to operate, develop, and improve our services—from figuring out basic information such as what language you speak, to more complex information like which advertisements you find most useful, which authors are most important to you online, and which stories you might like.

When you interact with our website, applications, and/or services, we collect information that can be used to identify you ("personal data"). Some information we collect is stored in a way that cannot be linked back to you ("non-personal data").

When you log in, we collect information stored in your account (typically your nickname, email address, and account password), which we consider personal information. This log information may include, but is not limited to, your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, date and time of your query, and cookie data. If you log in to ShortyDrama using social network credentials (such as third-party accounts), we will request permission to access basic information from that account, such as your name and email address. You can stop sharing this information with us at any time by deleting ShortyDrama's access to that account. When you are not logged in to our services, we use unique identifiers associated with the application and device you are using to store the information we collect. This collection helps us do things like maintain your language preferences during browsing sessions.

When you perform copy or paste operations on our applications and websites, we collect information from your clipboard. Before collecting information, we seek your consent, and you have the right to agree or refuse. We use this information for marketing and promotion. This information is used for a customized user experience. Additionally, the information we collect is stored in our applications and websites.

If you are a paying customer, we collect your payment information. This information is required to complete commercial transactions on our applications and websites. We use this information to enable and complete your transactions. If you choose to use any third-party service to complete orders and payments, you will provide your credit card number directly to the third party. The third party's privacy policy will apply to the information you provide on their website.

If you choose to participate in our surveys, we may ask you to provide certain information (including personal and non-personal data), which will be used to provide personalized help and explanations.

The information we collect and how we use it depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.

D. Use of Your Data

ShortyDrama uses your data when necessary to fulfill our contracts with you and our legitimate business interests. The purposes of processing and using your data are as follows:

Help us provide and manage our website, applications, and/or services, verify user identities for security purposes, provide personalized user features and access permissions, process transactions, conduct research, develop new features, and improve our site, applications, and/or services functionalities, algorithms, and usability.

Communicate with you about your use of our website, applications, and/or services, product announcements, and software updates, and respond to your help requests, including providing account verification support when you have trouble accessing your account.

Send you direct marketing information and special offers about our products and services via inbox messages associated with your account. If you do not want to receive any of the above messages, please contact us at YourShortyDrama@gmail.com when you create your account or at any time afterwards.

Display user content associated with your account and ensure that you can use this content when using our services.

Aggregate statistical data on the unique number of devices using our website, applications, and/or services and detect and prevent fraud and abuse of these devices.

Analyze what features or operations have been taken on our website, applications, and/or services to improve your experience.

Verify that parents and guardians agree to the use of ShortyDrama by minors through the payment process.

Facilitate your purchases on our website, applications, and/or services and verify your real name to facilitate the creation of your payment account.

Use third-party payment platforms to process your payments.

For example, we will know how many users have visited specific pages on the website and which links they clicked. We use this aggregated information to better understand and optimize the website.

If you choose to use our services or provide us with your information, your information may be transmitted to servers or databases located outside your country or jurisdiction, where it will be processed and maintained. The laws of these countries or regions may not be as forward-looking as those in your country or region of residence. If you do not wish to have your information transferred to places outside your country or jurisdiction, or processed or maintained in those places, you should not use our website, applications, and/or services.

E. Cookie

We use cookies to provide, protect, and promote our products.

A "cookie" is a small file of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies can have different durations on your device. Some cookies are "session cookies," meaning they exist only while your browser or application is open. Once you close your browser or application, these are automatically deleted. Other cookies are "persistent cookies," meaning they remain on your browser or application after it's closed. Services can use cookies to recognize your device when you reopen and reuse the service.

We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and better understand how people interact with us. We use cookies to:

Verify login information.

Track traffic flows and travel patterns related to the service.

Understand the total number of visitors and types of devices accessing the service.

Monitor service performance and continually improve it.

Customize and enhance your online experience.

Provide customer service to you.

You have the right to choose whether to accept cookies. However, please note that if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use all functions of the service.

Most devices (for mobile applications) and browsers (for web applications and pages) are initially set to accept cookies and allow you to change cookie settings. These settings are typically found in the browser's "Options" or "Preferences" menu. You can reset your browser to reject all cookies or indicate when cookies are being sent.

F. Information Sharing

a. Information shared on our website, applications, and/or services

Any information included in publicly visible ShortyDrama profiles, which may include your profile ID, nickname, photo, and personal introduction, will be shared on our website, applications, and/or services to maintain your account and requests as per your instructions.

b. Data shared outside our website, applications, and/or services

Some ShortyDrama-related features allow you to provide shared information to people outside the ShortyDrama network. For example, publicly accessible blogs and forums, or certain social media features within ShortyDrama (such as "plugins" creating direct links between two websites) allow you to repost and disclose shared information. If you use these features to share information, third parties unrelated to us may be able to see and use it.

The information we share with such third parties is described to you when you first use that service or feature, and we require third parties to provide user data protection similar or equivalent to that described in this policy. You can control which third parties can access this information in your account. You can revoke consent to share this information at any time following the instructions listed here. Please note that if you request us not to share this information with third parties, you may no longer use that service or feature. We are not responsible for any third party's use of information you provide to them.

We do not rent or sell your personal information to other companies or individuals without your consent.

G. Information Security

We take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data.

We restrict access to your personal information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services.

H. Updating Your Information

We provide mechanisms to update and correct your personal identifying and non-identifying information for many of our services.

You have the right to access information we hold about you, how we use that information, and with whom we share it. You also have the right to correct that information.

You can log into your account at any time to access and correct your personal information.

For correction requests, where we agree that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, we will attempt to notify any third parties to whom we have disclosed the relevant personal information so they can also correct the personal information.

I. Deleting Your Data

You may contact us at YourShortyDrama@gmail.com at any time to request deletion of your data. We will assess such requests on a case-by-case basis. For our legitimate business interests (including fraud detection and prevention) and to comply with our legal obligations (including tax, legal reporting, and audit obligations), we may retain some of your data for a reasonable and necessary period. Sometimes your request can only be fulfilled by closing your account.

You can delete your account, and you should understand that upon deleting your account, you will lose access to all or part of the platform.

J. Changes to This Policy

We will occasionally change this privacy policy. We will not reduce your rights under this privacy policy without your explicit consent. We will always indicate the date of the last change and provide archived versions for you to review. If changes are significant, we will provide more prominent notice (including, for some services, inbox notification of privacy policy changes). Such changes will apply to any and all information provided by personnel accessing, using, or visiting the service at any time before or after creating an account. Please note that accessing or using the ShortyDrama platform signifies your unconditional acceptance of the updated privacy policy.

K. Third-Party Advertisers, Links to Other Platforms

ShortyDrama allows other companies (referred to as third-party ad servers or ad networks) to place advertisements on the ShortyDrama platform. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies to send advertisements and links directly to you when they appear on ShortyDrama. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and personalize the advertising content you see.

ShortyDrama does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent, except as part of specific programs or features that you may choose to join or opt out of.

You should review the privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks to understand more about their practices and instructions on how to opt out of certain practices. ShortyDrama's privacy policy does not apply to such other advertisers or websites, and we cannot control their activities. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers and subsequently shared with ShortyDrama is maintained and processed by ShortyDrama according to this privacy policy.

L. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, you can email us at the following email address: YourShortyDrama@gmail.com.