Privacy Policy
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This policy explains how the individual developer, Xi Xiantian (“Developer”), collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you use the Chinese Pinyin application (“App”), and your rights regarding that information. It is intended to satisfy disclosure requirements for distribution on both the Apple App Store and Google Play.
1. Scope
This policy applies to your installation and use of the App’s features and services, including translation, learning content display and generation, and customer support communications.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on the features you use, we may collect:
- Your input content for translation, content generation, or support communication;
- Device information (OS version, device model, app version, language/region) for performance and compatibility;
- Usage data (feature usage frequency, crash logs/diagnostics if enabled) for improvement;
- Purchase/subscription data from Apple App Store and Google Play (receipt data or purchase tokens) for entitlement verification (not your full payment details);
- Identifiers generated by the app or platform for diagnostics/analytics (for example, an app instance ID), where enabled.
3. How We Use Information
We use information to provide and maintain features (translation, learning content, subscription entitlement checks), improve services and diagnose issues, process and auto-translate support conversations when enabled, and comply with legal obligations.
5. Storage and Security
We retain information only as needed for the purposes described, then delete or anonymize unless the law requires longer retention. We apply reasonable technical and organizational measures to reduce risks of unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or loss. Data in transit is encrypted; stored inputs are minimized and may be encrypted or de-identified.
6. International Transfers
Due to global infrastructure, your data may be processed on servers outside your country, subject to local laws. We take reasonable steps to comply with applicable requirements.
7. Your Rights
Subject to law, you may request access, correction, deletion, withdrawal of consent/restriction, and account/data deletion where applicable.
8. Children’s Privacy
The App is for general audiences. If a child’s data is collected without guardian consent, we will delete it promptly upon discovery.
9. Changes
We may update this policy and will notify you of material changes via in-app notice or other reasonable means. Updates take effect upon posting unless stated otherwise.
10. Platform Disclosures (Apple & Google Play)
This section summarizes how the App interacts with platform services to help you understand Apple App Store and Google Play disclosures.
- Purchases and Subscriptions: We use Apple In-App Purchases and Google Play Billing to process transactions. We receive non-sensitive purchase metadata (for example, receipt data or purchase tokens) to validate entitlements. Payment card details are handled by Apple or Google and are not accessible to us.
- Crash and Diagnostics: If enabled, diagnostics and crash logs may be processed by platform or third-party diagnostics services (for example, Apple diagnostics or Firebase Crashlytics) to improve stability.
- Analytics (optional): Where enabled, we may collect aggregated, non-sensitive usage metrics (for example, feature usage) to improve the App. We do not share analytics data with third parties for their advertising or profiling.
- Advertising and Tracking: The App does not sell personal data and does not use cross-app tracking for targeted advertising. We do not use the Apple IDFA or Google Advertising ID for ads.
- Data Security: Data in transit is encrypted. We minimize data retention and support deletion on request as described in this policy.
For details required by the Apple App Store App Privacy and Google Play Data Safety disclosures, the items above map to: app content you provide, device and diagnostics, purchase history/entitlements, and optional usage analytics. Categories not listed are not collected.
11. Contact
Email: mandarinspeak@foxmail.com
Developer: Xi Xiantian (Individual Developer)