Bubbleseek Privacy Policy

1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

We collect and use your personal information in accordance with the principles of legality, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith for the purposes described below.

1. Account Registration and Login

To ensure your account security and service experience, you need to register and log in to use the relevant services. You can log in through the following methods:

• Google OAuth: With your authorization, we will obtain your public information on the Google platform (user ID, nickname, avatar, email address) to create and identify your Bubbleseek account.

If you do not provide the above information for registration and login, we may not be able to provide you with complete service functionality.

2. Financial Information Services

When you use the financial information aggregation service, the following data is only stored locally on your device and will not be uploaded to our servers:

• Saved news and information
• Read status records
• User preference settings

3. AI Conversation Feature

When you use the AI conversation feature, we will collect the content you input during your interaction with the AI (including text information). We will analyze and process this information to provide you with intelligent conversation services.

• AI conversation history is stored locally on your device
• We recommend that you do not actively input your personal sensitive information in AI conversations

4. Operations and Security

To ensure the safe operation of the service and the quality and efficiency of operations, we will collect your device and usage information as network logs:

• Device information: operating system type and version, device identifier
• Application information: application version number
• Network information: IP address, network type
• Usage information: feature usage, error logs (without personal identification information)

We use Mixpanel for product analytics, collecting only anonymous usage data to improve product experience.

2. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

1. Use of Cookie Technology

We collect and use your information through cookies and store such information as log information. Our purposes for using cookies include:

• Remember your identity: Cookies help us identify you as a registered user
• Ensure service security: Cookies help us identify malicious users or malicious access behavior

2. Local Storage

Our web application uses localStorage to store:

• Login status and authentication tokens
• User preferences
• Favorites and read status

3. Clearing Cookies

Most browsers provide users with the ability to clear browser cache data. You can perform the corresponding data clearing operation in the browser settings. If you clear them, you may not be able to use services or features that rely on cookies.

3. How We Share, Transfer, and Publicly Disclose Your Personal Information

1. Sharing Principles

We promise not to sell your personal information. We will only share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:

• Legality: Data usage activities involving cooperation with partners must have legitimate purposes
• Minimum necessity: Data usage must have legitimate purposes and should be limited to what is necessary to achieve them
• Security and prudence: We will carefully evaluate the purposes for which partners use data and comprehensively assess their security capabilities

2. Service Providers

• Google OAuth: For authentication services
• Mixpanel: For product analytics (only collects anonymous usage data)

3. Legal Requirements

We may disclose your personal information when required by law, legal process, litigation, or mandatory requirements from government authorities.

4. Transfer

As our business continues to develop, we may undergo mergers, acquisitions, or asset transfers, and your personal information may be transferred as a result. In the event of such changes, we will continue to fulfill our obligations as a personal information processor in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

4. How We Protect Your Personal Information

We highly value users' privacy and personal information protection and will take reasonable measures to protect users' personal information. We have adopted security measures that meet industry standards, including:

• Using HTTPS to encrypt all data transmission
• Encrypting sensitive data on the server side
• Conducting regular security audits
• Implementing access control, allowing only authorized personnel to access user data

The Internet is not an absolutely secure environment. We strongly recommend that you do not send personal information through unencrypted means. In the unfortunate event of a personal information security incident, we will promptly inform you of the relevant circumstances in accordance with legal requirements.

5. How We Store Your Personal Information

1. Storage Location

Your data may be transferred to and stored on servers outside your country/region. We ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection regulations.

2. Retention Period

We only retain your personal information for the period necessary to provide our services:

• Account data: Retained while your account is active, deleted within 30 days after account deletion
• Usage data: Retained for up to 2 years after anonymization
• Local data: Controlled by you, can be cleared at any time

If you cancel your account or the necessary period expires, we will delete or anonymize your personal information, unless otherwise required by laws and regulations.

6. How You Can Manage Your Personal Information

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to access: Request a copy of your personal data we hold
• Right to rectification: Correct inaccurate personal data
• Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
• Right to portability: Export your data in a common format
• Withdraw consent: Withdraw consent to data processing at any time

To exercise the above rights, please contact us through the methods described in Section 9 of this Policy. We will respond within fifteen business days after verifying your identity.

7. Protection of Minors' Information

This Service is primarily intended for adults, but we still highly value the protection of minors' personal information. If you are a minor under 18 years of age, please read this Privacy Policy together with your parents or other guardians before using this Service, and use it only after obtaining the consent of your legal guardian.

We do not actively collect personal information from minors under 16 years of age. If we discover or receive feedback that we have collected personal information from a minor without prior parental consent, we will try to delete the relevant information as soon as possible.

8. Updates to This Policy

To provide you with better services, we may revise this Policy from time to time, and these revisions form part of this Policy. After updates to this Policy, we will announce them through appropriate means within the application. If you continue to use this Service, it indicates that you acknowledge and agree to the updated Policy.

For significant changes that would substantially diminish your rights under this Policy, we will provide more prominent notice.

9. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about this Policy or your personal information while using this Service, please contact us through the following methods:

• Email：support@bubbleseek.ai
• Official Website：https://www.bubbleseek.ai
• Discord：https://discord.gg/nM4tY6bqhj

We will review the issues involved as soon as possible and respond within fifteen business days after verifying your identity.

10. Governing Law

The conclusion, execution, interpretation of this Privacy Policy and the resolution of disputes shall be governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. In case of disputes, both parties should try to resolve them through friendly negotiation; if negotiation fails, either party has the right to file a lawsuit with a court of competent jurisdiction in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.