Welcome to our product. PlotNovel (including services provided by apps and other products, hereinafter referred to as "products and services") is developed and operated by plotread (hereinafter referred to as "we"). Ensuring user data security and privacy protection is our top priority. This privacy policy outlines the data collected and how it is processed when you access and use our products and services.

Before continuing to use our products, please read this privacy policy carefully and ensure you fully understand all its rules and key points. By choosing to use our products, you agree to all contents of this privacy policy and consent to our collection and use of your relevant information. If you have any questions about this policy during reading, you may contact our customer service for consultation at QA2025@plotread.com or through the feedback channels within our products. If you disagree with any part of this policy, you should discontinue using our products and services.

This privacy policy helps you understand:

Personal information refers to any information recorded electronically or otherwise that can identify a specific natural person's identity or reflect a specific natural person's activities, either alone or in combination with other information. In accordance with the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Information Security Technology - Personal Information Security Specification" (GB/T 35273-2017) as well as other relevant laws and regulations, and strictly adhering to the principles of legitimacy, legality, and necessity, we collect and use your personal information, including but not limited to phone numbers, during your use of our services and/or products.

To access our comprehensive product services, you should first register a user account, through which we will record relevant data. All information you provide comes from the data you supply during registration. The account name, password, and your contact information you prepare to use may be verified by us through SMS or email to confirm your identity's validity.

As a general rule, we retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. We will retain your personal information for as long as strictly necessary to manage our relationship with you (for example, when you open an account or receive services from our products). To comply with legal obligations or to prove certain rights or contracts meet applicable statute of limitations requirements, we may need to retain your archived personal information beyond the above period and may not be able to delete it at your request. When your personal information is no longer necessary for our legal obligations or the purposes corresponding to statutory time limits or archives, we ensure its complete deletion or anonymization.

We use industry-standard security measures to protect the personal information you provide, encrypting key data to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss. We take all reasonably feasible measures to protect your personal information. We use encryption technology to ensure data confidentiality; we use trusted protection mechanisms to prevent malicious attacks.

When necessary for managing our daily business activities and pursuing legitimate interests to better serve customers, we will use your personal information in compliance and appropriately. Considering all aspects of our business, we use this data ourselves only and do not share it with any third parties.

We may share your personal information in accordance with legal requirements or mandatory requests from government authorities. Under the premise of complying with laws and regulations, when we receive requests for such information disclosure, we will require corresponding legal documents, such as subpoenas or investigation letters. We firmly believe that information requested from us should be as transparent as possible within legal limits.

In the following circumstances, sharing, transferring, or publicly disclosing your personal information does not require prior authorization from you:

To ensure normal operation of our products, we may store small data files called Cookies on your computer or mobile device. Cookies typically contain identifiers, product names, and some numbers and characters. With Cookies, we can store your preferences or product data and determine whether registered users are logged in, improving service and product quality and optimizing user experience.

We use various Cookies for different purposes, including: strictly necessary Cookies, performance Cookies, marketing Cookies, and functional Cookies. Some Cookies may be provided by external third parties to add additional functionality to our products. We do not use Cookies for any purposes beyond those stated in this policy. You can manage or delete Cookies according to your preferences. You can clear all Cookies saved on your computer or mobile device. Most web browsers have features to block or disable Cookies, which you can configure. After blocking or disabling Cookies, you may not be able to use or fully use our products and services.