Welcome to Minduck! Minduck is an online tool platform for generating mind maps, articles, posters, PPTs, etc., operated by Nanjing Zhiyakeji Co., Ltd. and its affiliates (hereinafter referred to as "we", "platform" or "Minduck"). We highly value your privacy and personal information protection. Based on the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China", the "Information Security Technology Personal Information Security Specification" (GB/T), and relevant laws and regulations, we have formulated the "Minduck Privacy Policy" (hereinafter referred to as "this Policy") as part of the "Minduck User Service Agreement". During your use of Minduck, we will request access to your mobile phone number, camera, photo album, microphone, and device information (device information includes device-related information and device location information). Please refer to the main body of this Policy for specific information collected and its purposes.
We hope this Policy helps you understand the following:
We deeply understand the importance of personal information to you and will do our utmost to protect your personal information security. The personal information collected, used, managed, shared, and transferred mentioned in this Privacy Policy includes personal sensitive information marked in bold and underlined as well as other personal information. We are committed to maintaining your trust and adhere to the following principles: accountability principle, purpose specification principle, consent principle, data minimization principle, security principle, subject participation principle, and transparency principle. We promise to take corresponding security measures to protect your personal information according to industry-standard security measures. We hope you carefully read and fully understand the content specified in this Policy before using our services. By clicking agree, you are deemed to have accepted the content of this Policy and agree to authorize us to collect, use, store, and share your relevant information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We will collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
(I) User registration and login function
When you use the Minduck platform and services, we recommend you register a Minduck account. During this process, you need to provide us with your mobile phone number and create a username and password to fully use all Minduck features. You can also complete registration through a third-party account supported by the platform and authorize us to use your third-party avatar and nickname. If you only need basic services such as browsing and searching, you do not need to register a Minduck account or provide the aforementioned information.
If you need to modify your avatar, we will request your consent to access your photo album or authorize the camera to take pictures to add as your avatar.
(II) Template creation and use
(III) Template usage and collection records
When you use design templates, we will collect your drawing records so that you can directly use the design templates from your drawing records next time. If you do not want to keep the drawing records, you can choose to delete them in bulk in the "Drawing Records". If you think some design templates are worth collecting, you can click "Collect", and we will collect your collection records so that you can directly use them from "My Collection" next time. If you do not want to keep the collection records, you can choose to delete them in bulk in "My Collection".
(IV) Search
When you use the Minduck search service, we will collect your search records, search keywords information, and log records. To provide efficient search services, some of the aforementioned information will be temporarily stored on your local storage device and can display search result content and search history records to you.
(V) Purchase products and services
When you purchase Minduck membership or products and services provided by Minduck, the system will generate an order for you. The order includes your order number, product or service information, payment account information (Alipay account information, WeChat account information, or bank card account information), the amount you should pay, and the purchase time. We collect this necessary information to help you complete the transaction smoothly, ensure the security of your transaction, and facilitate your order information query.
(VI) Personalized recommendation
To provide you with templates that match your needs and interests, we will conduct personalized recommendations for design templates. We will collect your template display records, template click records, and drawing records.
(VII) Secure operation
To improve the security of the services provided by the Minduck platform, protect the personal and property safety of you or other users or the public from infringement, better prevent phishing websites, fraud, network vulnerabilities, computer viruses, network attacks, network intrusions, and other security risks, and more accurately identify violations of laws and regulations and Minduck's relevant agreements, we may use or integrate your device information, log information, etc., to comprehensively judge your account and transaction risks, conduct identity verification, detect and prevent security incidents, and take necessary recording, auditing, analysis, and disposal measures according to law:
Please note that separate device information and log information cannot identify a specific natural person's identity. If we combine this type of non-personal information with other information to identify a specific natural person's identity, or combine it with personal information, then during the combination period, this type of non-personal information will be regarded as personal information.
(VIII) Functions necessary for improving our platform and/or services
To make our services more in line with your expectations and requirements and improve our service quality, we will record the relevant information you provide when contacting customer service and the questionnaire responses you send to us when participating in surveys to provide feedback to you.
(IX) Usage rules
After collecting your personal information, we will strictly use it according to the following rules:
(X) Exceptions to obtaining authorized consent
According to relevant laws and regulations, the following circumstances do not require your authorized consent to collect your personal information:
Please understand that the functions and services we provide to you are constantly updated and developed. If a specific function or service is not included in the aforementioned descriptions but collects your information, we will explain the content, scope, and purpose of information collection separately through page prompts, interactive processes, announcements, etc., to obtain your consent. If we cease to operate the Minduck platform or services, we will promptly stop continuing to collect your personal information and notify you in the form of individual notice or announcement. We will delete or anonymize your personal information that we hold.
To ensure the normal operation of the platform, we will store small data files named Cookies on your computer or mobile device. Cookies usually contain identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters. With the help of Cookies, we can store your preferences and other data to help you avoid repeating the actions of filling in personal information and entering historical search content. At the same time, we may also use the above technologies to recommend, display, and push content that interests you. You can manage or delete Cookies according to your preferences. For example, you can clear all Cookies saved on your computer through your browser settings options. However, if you do this, you need to manually change user settings each time you visit Minduck, and the corresponding information recorded previously will be deleted. It may also affect the security of the services you use to some extent.
(I) Sharing
We will not share your personal information with companies, organizations, and individuals outside the Minduck platform service providers, except for the following situations:
Currently, our authorized partners include the following types and main authorization purposes:
(1) Specific functions. When software service providers, smart device providers, or system service providers jointly provide services to you with us, such as authentication services, SMS services, etc., we may collect your relevant device information (such as hardware model, operating system version number, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), network device hardware address (MAC)) and provide it to the aforementioned providers after de-identification.
(2) Advertising push. We may share information with partners entrusted to promote and advertise, but we will not share information that identifies your personal identity, such as your name and phone number. We will only provide these partners with user portrait tags and de-identified or anonymized statistical information to help them improve the effective reach rate of advertisements without identifying your personal identity.
(3) Product analysis. To analyze the usage of our services and improve the user experience, we may share statistical data on product usage (crashes, flashbacks) with third parties. This data is difficult to use to identify your personal identity.
(II) Transfer
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization, or individual, except for the following situations:
(III) Public disclosure
We will only publicly disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:
(IV) Exceptions to obtaining authorized consent when sharing, transferring, and publicly disclosing personal information
Under the following circumstances, sharing, transferring, and publicly disclosing your personal information does not require your prior authorization and consent:
We highly value your management of your personal information and protect your rights to access, correct, withdraw consent, and delete your personal information. Your rights include:
(I) Access and correct your personal information
Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, you can access and correct the personal information you provide, such as avatar, username, nickname, birthday, industry, profession, etc., during your use of the Minduck platform and services. The specific path is: Home page - "Personal" - "Edit Profile". If you cannot achieve this or have any questions, you can contact us for a solution.
(II) Delete your personal information
You can request us to delete personal information in the following situations:
If we decide to respond to your deletion request, we will also notify third parties who have obtained your personal information from us and require them to delete it promptly, unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, or these third parties have obtained your authorization. When you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete the corresponding information from the backup system but will delete it when the backup is updated.
(III) Change or revoke the scope of your authorized consent
Each business function requires some basic personal information to be completed. In addition, if you wish to revoke our collection, use, and disclosure of additional personal information, you can contact us to withdraw your authorized consent.
After you withdraw your consent, we will no longer process the corresponding personal information. However, your decision to withdraw consent will not affect the personal information processing previously carried out based on your authorization.
If you do not want to receive our commercial advertisements, you can unsubscribe through the SMS prompt or other methods we provide.
(IV) Cancel the account
You can cancel your Minduck account at any time through [Personal Center - Settings - Cancel this account] according to your choice. You can directly apply to cancel the account in our products or contact us to assist you in canceling the account. After you cancel the account, we will stop providing you with products or services and will delete your personal information according to your request, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations.
(V) Responding to your requests
To ensure safety, you may need to provide a written request or prove your identity in other ways. We may first require you to verify your identity before processing your request.
For your reasonable requests, we generally do not charge fees, but for repeated requests that exceed reasonable limits, we will charge a certain cost fee depending on the situation. For those requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require excessive technical means (for example, requiring the development of new systems or fundamentally changing current practices), pose risks to the legitimate rights and interests of others, or are impractical, we may refuse to respond.
In the following situations, according to laws and regulations, we will not be able to respond to your request:
(I) Our products, websites, and services are mainly aimed at adults. If there is no consent from parents or guardians, minors are not allowed to create their own user accounts. If you are a minor, it is recommended that your parents or guardians carefully read this Privacy Policy and use our services or provide us with information with the consent of your parents or guardians.
(II) For situations where minors' personal information is collected with the consent of parents or guardians, we will only use, share, transfer, or disclose this information as permitted by laws and regulations, with explicit consent from parents or guardians, or necessary to protect minors.
(III) If we discover that we have collected minors' personal information without prior verifiable consent, we will try to delete the relevant data as soon as possible.
(I) In principle, the personal information we collect and generate in the People's Republic of China will be stored in the People's Republic of China.
(II) Since we provide products or services through resources and servers around the world, this means that, after obtaining your authorized consent, your personal information may be transferred to the jurisdiction of the country/region where you use the products or services or accessed from these jurisdictions.
(III) Such jurisdictions may have different data protection laws, or even no relevant laws. In such cases, we will ensure that your personal information receives sufficient and equal protection as in the People's Republic of China. For example, we will request your consent for cross-border transfer of personal information or implement security measures such as data de-identification before cross-border data transfer.
(I) To provide you with better services, Minduck and related services will be updated and changed from time to time. We will revise this Privacy Policy in due course, and the revised content will constitute a part of this Privacy Policy and have the same effect as this Privacy Policy. However, without your explicit consent, we will not reduce your rights enjoyed under the current effective Privacy Policy.
(II) After the Privacy Policy is updated, we will issue the updated version on the Minduck mobile client and remind you of the updated content through notifications, announcements, etc., before the updated terms take effect so that you can understand the latest version of this Privacy Policy in time. If you continue to use our services, you agree to accept the revised content of this Policy. However, if the updated content involves collecting new personal sensitive information, we will still seek your consent in a prominent way.
(III) For major changes, we will also provide more noticeable notifications (including for certain services, we will send notifications by email explaining the specific changes to the Privacy Policy).
(I) If you have any questions, opinions, or suggestions regarding this Policy or your use of our services, you can contact us through the following methods:
Company name: Nanjing Zhiyakeji Co., Ltd.;
Contact information: xielin@minduck.com;
(II) We will review the issues involved as soon as possible and reply promptly after verifying your identity, no later than fifteen days or within the time limit specified by laws and regulations.