hailiang-wang / musa-hw-mobile

(deprecated)Mobile App based on Location Awareness Service
https://github.com/arrking/com.arrking.mobay
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service agreement & copyright page #13

Closed hailiang-wang closed 9 years ago

hailiang-wang commented 9 years ago

"如果您随同iPhone应用程序提供了终端用户的许可协议(或EULA),App Store会显示该协议,以便用户在使用您的应用程序之前可以阅读它。 如果可能的话,尽量避免要求用户在第一次启动您的应用程序时,表示他们同意您的终端用户许可协议。"

hailiang-wang commented 9 years ago

腾讯微信软件许可及服务协议 首部及导言 欢迎您使用腾讯微信软件及服务! 为使用腾讯微信软件(以下简称“本软件”)及服务,您应当阅读并遵守《腾讯微信软件许可及服务协议》(以下简称“本协议”),以及《腾讯服务协议》和《QQ号码规则》。请您务必审慎阅读、充分理解各条款内容,特别是免除或者限制责任的条款,以及开通或使用某项服务的单独协议,并选择接受或不接受。限制、免责条款可能以加粗形式提示您注意。 除非您已阅读并接受本协议所有条款,否则您无权下载、安装或使用本软件及相关服务。您的下载、安装、使用、获取微信帐号、登录等行为即视为您已阅读并同意上述协议的约束。 如果您未满18周岁,请在法定监护人的陪同下阅读本协议及其他上述协议,并特别注意未成年人使用条款。 一、协议的范围 1.1 协议适用主体范围 本协议是您与腾讯之间关于您下载、安装、使用、复制本软件,以及使用腾讯相关服务所订立的协议。 1.2 协议关系及冲突条款 本协议被视为《腾讯服务协议》及《QQ号码规则》的补充协议,是其不可分割的组成部分,与其构成统一整体。本协议与上述内容存在冲突的,以本协议为准。 本协议内容同时包括腾讯可能不断发布的关于本服务的相关协议、业务规则等内容。上述内容一经正式发布,即为本协议不可分割的组成部分,您同样应当遵守。 二、关于本服务 2.1 本服务的内容 本服务内容是指腾讯向用户提供的跨平台的通讯工具(以下简称“微信”),支持单人、多人参与,在发送语音短信、视频、图片和文字等即时通讯服务的基础上,同时为用户提供包括但不限于关系链拓展、便捷工具、微信公众帐号、开放平台等功能或内容的软件许可及服务(以下简称“本服务”)。 2.2 本服务的形式 2.2.1 您使用本服务需要下载腾讯微信客户端软件,对于这些软件,腾讯给予您一项个人的、不可转让及非排他性的许可。微信网页版功能需要通过二维码扫描登录。您仅可为访问或使用本服务的目的而使用这些软件及服务。 2.2.2 本服务中腾讯微信客户端软件提供包括但不限于ios、android、windows phone、symbian、blackberry等多个应用版本,用户必须选择与所安装手机相匹配的软件版本。 2.3 本服务许可的范围 2.3.1 腾讯给予您一项个人的、不可转让及非排他性的许可,以使用本软件。您可以为非商业目的在单一台终端设备上安装、使用、显示、运行本软件。 2.3.2 您可以为使用本软件及服务的目的复制本软件的一个副本,仅用作备份。备份副本必须包含原软件中含有的所有著作权信息。 2.3.3 本条及本协议其他条款未明示授权的其他一切权利仍由腾讯保留,您在行使这些权利时须另外取得腾讯的书面许可。腾讯如果未行使前述任何权利,并不构成对该权利的放弃。 三、软件的获取 3.1 您可以直接从腾讯的网站上获取本软件,也可以从得到腾讯授权的第三方获取。 3.2 如果您从未经腾讯授权的第三方获取本软件或与本软件名称相同的安装程序,腾讯无法保证该软件能够正常使用,并对因此给您造成的损失不予负责。 四、软件的安装与卸载 4.1 腾讯可能为不同的终端设备开发了不同的软件版本,您应当根据实际情况选择下载合适的版本进行安装。 4.2 下载安装程序后,您需要按照该程序提示的步骤正确安装。 4.3 为提供更加优质、安全的服务,在本软件安装时腾讯可能推荐您安装其他软件,您可以选择安装或不安装。 4.4 如果您不再需要使用本软件或者需要安装新版软件,可以自行卸载。如果您愿意帮助腾讯改进产品服务,请告知卸载的原因。 五、软件的更新 5.1 为了改善用户体验、完善服务内容,腾讯将不断努力开发新的服务,并为您不时提供软件更新(这些更新可能会采取软件替换、修改、功能强化、版本升级等形式)。 5.2 为了保证本软件及服务的安全性和功能的一致性,腾讯有权不经向您特别通知而对软件进行更新,或者对软件的部分功能效果进行改变或限制。 5.3 本软件新版本发布后,旧版本的软件可能无法使用。腾讯不保证旧版本软件继续可用及相应的客户服务,请您随时核对并下载最新版本。 六、用户个人信息保护 6.1 保护用户个人信息是腾讯的一项基本原则,腾讯将会采取合理的措施保护用户的个人信息。除法律法规规定的情形外,未经用户许可腾讯不会向第三方公开、透露用户个人信息。腾讯对相关信息采用专业加密存储与传输方式,保障用户个人信息的安全。 6.2 您在注册帐号或使用本服务的过程中,需要提供一些必要的信息,例如:为向您提供帐号注册服务或进行用户身份识别,需要您填写手机号码;附近的人功能需要您同意使用您所在的地理位置信息;手机通讯录匹配功能需要您授权访问手机通讯录等。若国家法律法规或政策有特殊规定的,您需要提供真实的身份信息。若您提供的信息不完整,则无法使用本服务或在使用过程中受到限制。 6.3 一般情况下,您可随时浏览、修改自己提交的信息,但出于安全性和身份识别(如号码申诉服务)的考虑,您可能无法修改注册时提供的初始注册信息及其他验证信息。 6.4 腾讯将运用各种安全技术和程序建立完善的管理制度来保护您的个人信息,以免遭受未经授权的访问、使用或披露。 6.5 未经您的同意,腾讯不会向腾讯以外的任何公司、组织和个人披露您的个人信息,但法律法规另有规定的除外。 6.6 腾讯非常重视对未成年人个人信息的保护。若您是18周岁以下的未成年人,在使用腾讯的服务前,应事先取得您家长或法定监护人的书面同意。 七、主权利义务条款 7.1 帐号使用规范 7.1.1 您在使用本服务前需要注册一个微信帐号。微信帐号可通过手机号码进行注册,并可在注册成功后绑定QQ号码、邮箱帐号。如您使用邮箱帐号进行绑定,请您使用未与微信公众平台帐号绑定的邮箱帐号。腾讯有权根据用户需求或产品需要对帐号注册和绑定的方式进行变更,关于您使用帐号的具体规则,请遵守《QQ号码规则》、相关帐号使用协议以及腾讯为此发布的专项规则。 7.1.2 微信帐号的所有权归腾讯公司所有,用户完成申请注册手续后,仅获得微信帐号的使用权,且该使用权仅属于初始申请注册人。同时,初始申请注册人不得赠与、借用、租用、转让或售卖微信帐号或者以其他方式许可非初始申请注册人使用微信帐号。非初始申请注册人不得通过受赠、继承、承租、受让或者其他任何方式使用微信账号。 7.1.3 用户有责任妥善保管注册帐户信息及帐户密码的安全,用户需要对注册帐户以及密码下的行为承担法律责任。用户同意在任何情况下不向他人透露帐户及密码信息。当在您怀疑他人在使用您的帐号时,您应立即通知腾讯公司。 7.1.4 用户在使用手机号码注册微信帐号时,系统将为您自动匹配微信号,您可以对微信号进行设置,但仅可设置一次,设置微信号后将无法修改。 7.1.5 用户注册微信帐号后如果长期不登录该帐号,腾讯有权回收该帐号,以免造成资源浪费,由此带来的任何损失均由用户自行承担。 7.2 用户注意事项 7.2.1 您理解并同意:为了向您提供有效的服务,本软件会利用您移动通讯终端的处理器和带宽等资源。本软件使用过程中可能产生数据流量的费用,用户需自行向运营商了解相关资费信息,并自行承担相关费用。 7.2.2 您理解并同意:本软件的某些功能可能会让第三方知晓用户的信息,例如:用户的微信好友可以查询用户头像、名字、微信号或朋友圈内容等可公开的个人资料;用户关注微信公众帐号后将成为公众帐号订阅用户,微信公众帐号可以获取订阅用户头像、名字、微信号等信息,并可通过微信公众平台发送消息与订阅用户进行互动。 7.2.3 您在使用本软件某一特定服务时,该服务可能会另有单独的协议、相关业务规则等(以下统称为“单独协议”),您在使用该项服务前请阅读并同意相关的单独协议。 7.2.4 您理解并同意腾讯将会尽其商业上的合理努力保障您在本软件及服务中的数据存储安全,但是,腾讯并不能就此提供完全保证,包括但不限于以下情形: 7.2.4.1 腾讯不对您在本软件及服务中相关数据的删除或储存失败负责; 7.2.4.2 腾讯有权根据实际情况自行决定单个用户在本软件及服务中数据的最长储存期限,并在服务器上为其分配数据最大存储空间等。您可根据自己的需要自行备份本软件及服务中的相关数据; 7.2.4.3 如果您停止使用本软件及服务或服务被终止或取消,腾讯可以从服务器上永久地删除您的数据。服务停止、终止或取消后,腾讯没有义务向您返还任何数据。 7.2.5 用户在使用本软件及服务时,须自行承担如下来自腾讯不可掌控的风险内容,包括但不限于: 7.2.5.1 由于不可抗拒因素可能引起的个人信息丢失、泄漏等风险; 7.2.5.2 用户必须选择与所安装手机相匹配的软件版本,否则,由于软件与手机型号不相匹配所导致的任何问题或损害,均由用户自行承担; 7.2.5.3 用户在使用本软件访问第三方网站时,因第三方网站及相关内容所可能导致的风险,由用户自行承担; 7.2.5.4 用户发布的内容被他人转发、分享,因此等传播可能带来的风险和责任; 7.2.5.5 由于无线网络信号不稳定、无线网络带宽小等原因,所引起的腾讯微信登录失败、资料同步不完整、页面打开速度慢等风险。 7.3 第三方产品和服务 7.3.1 您在使用本软件第三方提供的产品或服务时,除遵守本协议约定外,还应遵守第三方的用户协议。腾讯和第三方对可能出现的纠纷在法律规定和约定的范围内各自承担责任。 7.3.2 因用户使用本软件或要求腾讯提供特定服务时,本软件可能会调用第三方系统或者通过第三方支持用户的使用或访问,使用或访问的结果由该第三方提供(包括但不限于第三方通过微信公众帐号提供的服务,或通过开放平台接入的内容等),腾讯不保证通过第三方提供服务及内容的安全性、准确性、有效性及其他不确定的风险,由此若引发的任何争议及损害,与腾讯无关,腾讯不承担任何责任。 八、用户行为规范 8.1 信息内容规范 8.1.1 本条所述信息内容是指用户使用本软件及服务过程中所制作、复制、发布、传播的任何内容,包括但不限于微信帐号头像、名字、用户说明等注册信息,或文字、语音、图片等发送、回复、朋友圈图文和相关链接页面,以及其他使用微信帐号或本软件及服务所产生的内容。 8.1.2 您理解并同意,微信一直致力于为用户提供文明健康、规范有序的网络环境,您不得利用微信帐号或本软件及服务制作、复制、发布、传播如下干扰微信正常运营,以及侵犯其他用户或第三方合法权益的内容,包括但不限于: 8.1.2.1 发布、传送、传播、储存违反国家法律法规禁止的内容: (1)违反宪法确定的基本原则的; (2)危害国家安全,泄露国家秘密,颠覆国家政权,破坏国家统一的; (3)损害国家荣誉和利益的; (4)煽动民族仇恨、民族歧视,破坏民族团结的; (5)破坏国家宗教政策,宣扬邪教和封建迷信的; (6)散布谣言,扰乱社会秩序,破坏社会稳定的; (7)散布淫秽、色情、赌博、暴力、恐怖或者教唆犯罪的; (8)侮辱或者诽谤他人,侵害他人合法权益的; (9)煽动非法集会、结社、游行、示威、聚众扰乱社会秩序; (10)以非法民间组织名义活动的; (11)不符合《即时通信工具公众信息服务发展管理暂行规定》及遵守法律法规、社会主义制度、国家利益、公民合法利益、公共秩序、社会道德风尚和信息真实性等“七条底线”要求的; (12)含有法律、行政法规禁止的其他内容的。 8.1.2.2 发布、传送、传播、储存侵害他人名誉权、肖像权、知识产权、商业秘密等合法权利的内容; 8.1.2.3 涉及他人隐私、个人信息或资料的; 8.1.2.4 发表、传送、传播骚扰、广告信息及垃圾信息或含有任何性或性暗示的; 8.1.2.5 其他违反法律法规、政策及公序良俗、社会公德或干扰微信公众平台正常运营和侵犯其他用户或第三方合法权益内容的信息。 8.2 软件使用规范 除非法律允许或腾讯书面许可,您使用本软件过程中不得从事下列行为: 8.2.1 删除本软件及其副本上关于著作权的信息; 8.2.2 对本软件进行反向工程、反向汇编、反向编译,或者以其他方式尝试发现本软件的源代码; 8.2.3 对腾讯拥有知识产权的内容进行使用、出租、出借、复制、修改、链接、转载、汇编、发表、出版、建立镜像站点等; 8.2.4 对本软件或者本软件运行过程中释放到任何终端内存中的数据、软件运行过程中客户端与服务器端的交互数据,以及本软件运行所必需的系统数据,进行复制、修改、增加、删除、挂接运行或创作任何衍生作品,形式包括但不限于使用插件、外挂或非腾讯经授权的第三方工具/服务接入本软件和相关系统; 8.2.5 通过修改或伪造软件运行中的指令、数据,增加、删减、变动软件的功能或运行效果,或者将用于上述用途的软件、方法进行运营或向公众传播,无论这些行为是否为商业目的; 8.2.6 通过非腾讯开发、授权的第三方软件、插件、外挂、系统,登录或使用腾讯软件及服务,或制作、发布、传播上述工具; 8.2.7 自行或者授权他人、第三方软件对本软件及其组件、模块、数据进行干扰; 8.2.8 其他未经腾讯明示授权的行为。 8.3 服务运营规范 除非法律允许或腾讯书面许可,您使用本服务过程中不得从事下列行为: 8.3.1 提交、发布虚假信息,或冒充、利用他人名义的; 8.3.2 诱导其他用户点击链接页面或分享信息的; 8.3.3 虚构事实、隐瞒真相以误导、欺骗他人的; 8.3.4 侵害他人名誉权、肖像权、知识产权、商业秘密等合法权利的; 8.3.5 未经腾讯书面许可利用微信帐号和任何功能,以及第三方运营平台进行推广或互相推广的; 8.3.6 利用微信帐号或本软件及服务从事任何违法犯罪活动的; 8.3.7 制作、发布与以上行为相关的方法、工具,或对此类方法、工具进行运营或传播,无论这些行为是否为商业目的; 8.3.8 其他违反法律法规规定、侵犯其他用户合法权益、干扰产品正常运营或腾讯未明示授权的行为。 8.4 对自己行为负责 您充分了解并同意,您必须为自己注册帐号下的一切行为负责,包括您所发表的任何内容以及由此产生的任何后果。您应对本服务中的内容自行加以判断,并承担因使用内容而引起的所有风险,包括因对内容的正确性、完整性或实用性的依赖而产生的风险。腾讯无法且不会对因前述风险而导致的任何损失或损害承担责任。 8.5 违约处理 8.5.1 如果腾讯发现或收到他人举报或投诉用户违反本协议约定的,腾讯有权不经通知随时对相关内容进行删除、屏蔽,并视行为情节对违规帐号处以包括但不限于警告、限制或禁止使用部分或全部功能、帐号封禁直至注销的处罚,并公告处理结果。 8.5.2 您理解并同意,腾讯有权依合理判断对违反有关法律法规或本协议规定的行为进行处罚,对违法违规的任何用户采取适当的法律行动,并依据法律法规保存有关信息向有关部门报告等,用户应独自承担由此而产生的一切法律责任。 8.5.3 您理解并同意,因您违反本协议或相关服务条款的规定,导致或产生第三方主张的任何索赔、要求或损失,您应当独立承担责任;腾讯因此遭受损失的,您也应当一并赔偿。 九、知识产权声明 9.1 腾讯是本软件的知识产权权利人。本软件的一切著作权、商标权、专利权、商业秘密等知识产权,以及与本软件相关的所有信息内容(包括但不限于文字、图片、音频、视频、图表、界面设计、版面框架、有关数据或电子文档等)均受中华人民共和国法律法规和相应的国际条约保护,腾讯享有上述知识产权,但相关权利人依照法律规定应享有的权利除外。 9.2 未经腾讯或相关权利人书面同意,您不得为任何商业或非商业目的自行或许可任何第三方实施、利用、转让上述知识产权。 十、终端安全责任 10.1 您理解并同意,本软件同大多数互联网软件一样,可能会受多种因素影响,包括但不限于用户原因、网络服务质量、社会环境等;也可能会受各种安全问题的侵扰,包括但不限于他人非法利用用户资料,进行现实中的骚扰;用户下载安装的其他软件或访问的其他网站中可能含有病毒、木马程序或其他恶意程序,威胁您的终端设备信息和数据安全,继而影响本软件的正常使用等。因此,您应加强信息安全及个人信息的保护意识,注意密码保护,以免遭受损失。 10.2 您不得制作、发布、使用、传播用于窃取微信帐号及他人个人信息、财产的恶意程序。 10.3 维护软件安全与正常使用是腾讯和您的共同责任,腾讯将按照行业标准合理审慎地采取必要技术措施保护您的终端设备信息和数据安全,但是您承认和同意腾讯并不能就此提供完全保证。 10.4 在任何情况下,您不应轻信借款、索要密码或其他涉及财产的网络信息。涉及财产操作的,请一定先核实对方身份,并请经常留意腾讯有关防范诈骗犯罪的提示。 十一、第三方软件或技术 11.1 本软件可能会使用第三方软件或技术(包括本软件可能使用的开源代码和公共领域代码等,下同),这种使用已经获得合法授权。 11.2 本软件如果使用了第三方的软件或技术,腾讯将按照相关法规或约定,对相关的协议或其他文件,可能通过本协议附件、在本软件安装包特定文件夹中打包、或通过开源软件页面等形式进行展示,它们可能会以“软件使用许可协议”、“授权协议”、“开源代码许可证”或其他形式来表达。前述通过各种形式展现的相关协议、其他文件及网页,均是本协议不可分割的组成部分,与本协议具有同等的法律效力,您应当遵守这些要求。如果您没有遵守这些要求,该第三方或者国家机关可能会对您提起诉讼、罚款或采取其他制裁措施,并要求腾讯给予协助,您应当自行承担法律责任。 11.3 如因本软件使用的第三方软件或技术引发的任何纠纷,应由该第三方负责解决,腾讯不承担任何责任。腾讯不对第三方软件或技术提供客服支持,若您需要获取支持,请与第三方联系。 十二、其他 12.1 您使用本软件即视为您已阅读并同意受本协议的约束。腾讯有权在必要时修改本协议条款。您可以在本软件的最新版本中查阅相关协议条款。本协议条款变更后,如果您继续使用本软件,即视为您已接受修改后的协议。如果您不接受修改后的协议,应当停止使用本软件。 12.2 本协议签订地为中华人民共和国广东省深圳市南山区。 12.3 本协议的成立、生效、履行、解释及纠纷解决,适用中华人民共和国大陆地区法律(不包括冲突法)。 12.4 若您和腾讯之间发生任何纠纷或争议,首先应友好协商解决;协商不成的,您同意将纠纷或争议提交本协议签订地有管辖权的人民法院管辖。 12.5 本协议所有条款的标题仅为阅读方便,本身并无实际涵义,不能作为本协议涵义解释的依据。 12.6 本协议条款无论因何种原因部分无效或不可执行,其余条款仍有效,对双方具有约束力。(正文完) 腾讯公司

hailiang-wang commented 9 years ago

Add wechat user agreement as a ref http://weixin.qq.com/agreement?lang=zh_CN

hailiang-wang commented 9 years ago

Add English version

Terms Of Service and Privacy Policy Last modified: 1 September 2014

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to WeChat! Your use of WeChat (“services” or “our services”) is subject to these Terms.

Compliance with these Terms

These Terms apply to you if you are a user of our services anywhere in the world other than the People’s Republic of China (and you are not a citizen of the People’s Republic of China). If you are: (i) a user of our services in the People’s Republic of China; (ii) a citizen of the People’s Republic of China using our services anywhere in the world; or (iii) a Chinese-incorporated company using our services anywhere in the world, please refer to the Terms of Service (PRC Users) for the terms that apply to you in your use of our services.

You must comply with these Terms in your use of our services and only use our services as permitted by applicable laws and regulations, wherever you may be when you use them. You must review these Terms and our policies and instructions to understand how you can and cannot use our services. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our services.

Contracting Entity

By using our services, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms of Service between you and Tencent International Service Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean company located at 10 Anson Road, #21-07International Plaza, Singapore 079903 (“we”, “our” and “us”) (these “Terms”).

Other terms in relation to these Terms

If you are under the age of 13, you must not use our services. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18 (or the relevant age in your jurisdiction where you are considered a minor), your parent or guardian must agree to these Terms (both for themselves and on your behalf) before you can use our services.

If you are using our services on behalf of a company, partnership, association, government or other organisation (your “ Organisation”), you warrant that you are authorised to do so and that you are authorised to bind your Organisation to these Terms and in such circumstances “you” will include your Organisation.

We may translate these Terms into multiple languages, and in the event there is any difference between the English version and any other language version of these Terms, the English version will apply (to the extent permitted by applicable law).

ADDITIONAL POLICIES

The following are additional policies that you must comply with in using our services:

WeChat Privacy Policy – which sets out how we collect, store and use your personal information; WeChat Acceptable Use Policy – which sets out rules of good behaviour applicable to your use of our services; and WeChat Cookies Policy – which sets out our policy on the usage of cookies Additional country-specific terms

If you are a citizen or a habitual resident of the following countries, the following country-specific terms will also apply to your use of our services:

USA; and Australia. Inconsistencies

To the extent that any additional terms of service or policies are different from these Terms, the relevant additional terms of service or additional policies will apply, except that nothing in those additional terms of service or policies will (unless expressly indicated otherwise in those additional terms of service or policies) amend the following sections of these Terms (which will apply in the event there is any difference):

“Changes to these Terms and our services”; “Our intellectual property rights and software”; and “Liability for our services and software”. However, to the extent that any country-specific terms differ from these Terms or any additional terms of service or policies, the relevant country-specific terms will apply, regardless of which section of these Terms is in question.

CHANGES TO TERMS AND OUR SERVICES

We may make changes to these Terms over time, so please come back and review them.

In addition, as our services and user experience are constantly evolving, we may from time to time (and to the extent permitted by applicable law) add, change or remove features from our services (including in relation to whether a service is free of charge or not), or suspend or terminate a service altogether.

Where we consider that any changes to these Terms or our services are reasonably material, we will notify you (via http://www.wechat.com, direct communication to you, or other means), prior to the change becoming effective. By continuing to use our services after we make any changes to these Terms or our services, with or without notice from us, you are agreeing to be bound by these revised Terms.

YOUR ACCOUNT

You may need to create an account with us in order to access and use some of our services.

Any account you open with us is personal to you and you are prohibited from gifting, lending, transferring or otherwise permitting any other person to access or use your account. Your account name, user ID and other identifiers you adopt within our services remains our property and we can disable, reclaim and reuse these once your account is terminated or deactivated for whatever reason by either you or us.

You are responsible for: (i) safeguarding any passwords used to access your account and our services, and (ii) all use of our services under your account. You must promptly notify us at support@wechat.com if you know or suspect that your password or account has been compromised.

Account deactivation

Our services may offer methods for deactivating your service-specific account – please refer to the relevant service for further guidance.

PAYMENTS

You may, from time to time, make payments to us as part of your use of our services (including for the provision of our services or provision of certain additional features within our services). Our services-specific terms may set out further terms applying to such payments (including in relation to refunds (if any), billing arrangements and any consequences of failing to make timely payments). You must comply with all such terms in relation to your payments to us.

YOUR CONTENT

When you submit, upload, transmit or display any data, information, media or other content in connection with your use of our services (“ Your Content”), you understand and agree that:

you will continue to own and be responsible for Your Content; we will not sell Your Content to any third party; our use of Your Content will be subject to our WeChat Privacy Policy; you are giving us and our affiliate companiesthe right to use Your Content (with no fees or charges payable by us to you) solely for the purposes of providing, promoting, developing and trying to improve our services, including new services that we may provide in the future; in using Your Content for these purposes, we and our affiliate companies may copy, reproduce, host, store, process, adapt, modify, translate, perform, distribute and publish Your Content worldwide in all media and by all distribution methods, including those that are developed in the future, provided that they are incorporated into our services which you use; and we may share Your Content with third parties that we work with to help provide, promote, develop and improve our services, but these third parties (other than our affiliate companies) will not make any separate use of Your Content for their own purposes (i.e. for any purposes that are not related to our services). In addition, you agree that we and our affiliate companies (subject to these Terms, our WeChat Privacy Policy and applicable laws and regulations):

are allowed to retain and continue to use Your Content after you stop using our services- for example, where you have shared Your Content with other users of our services; and may be required to retain or disclose Your Content in order to comply with applicable laws or regulations, or in order to comply with a court order, subpoena or other legal process, or we and our affiliate companies may disclose Your Content in response to a lawful request by a government authority, law enforcement agency or similar body (whether situated in your jurisdiction or elsewhere). You also agree that we may need to disclose Your Content in order to enforce these Terms, protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our affiliate companies or other users of our services. You understand that even if you seek to delete Your Content from our services, it may as a technical and administrative matter take some time or not be possible to achieve this.

Responsibility for Your Content

You are solely responsible for Your Content and we recommend that you keep a back-up copy of it at all times. You must at all times ensure that: (i) you have the rights required to submit, transmit or display Your Content, and to grant us the rights as set out in these Terms; and (ii) Your Content (and our use of Your Content in accordance with these Terms) does not infringe or violate the rights of any person or otherwise contravene any applicable laws or regulations.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND SERVICES

We are not responsible for and we do not endorse, support or guarantee the lawfulness, accuracy or reliability of any content submitted to, transmitted or displayed by or linked by our services, including content provided by other users of our services or by our advertisers. You acknowledge and agree that by using our services you may be exposed to content which is inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, offensive or unlawful. Any reliance on or use of any content on or accessible from our services by you is at your own risk. Your use of our services does not give you any rights in or to any content you may access or obtain in connection with your use of our services.

We also do not guarantee the quality, reliability or suitability of any third party services provided, made available or linked through our services and we will bear no responsibility for such third party services. If you access third party services through our services, you must comply with any terms and conditions applicable to those services.

We may review (but make no commitment to review) content or third party services made available through our services to determine whether or not they comply with our policies, applicable laws and regulations or are otherwise objectionable. We may remove or refuse to make available or link to certain content or third party services if they infringe intellectual property rights, are obscene, defamatory or abusive, violate any rights or pose any risk to the security or performance of our services.

There may be, from time to time, third party content and services on our services that are subject to further terms, including terms from the relevant third party that originally produced such content and services (for instance, the news agency that was responsible for writing a news article that then appears on our news service). In such cases, you agree to comply with any such further terms and conditions as notified to you.

If you have any concerns regarding any content on or any other aspects of our services, please contact support@wechat.com.

ADVERTISING CONTENT ON OUR SERVICES

Our services may include advertising or commercial content. You agree that we are allowed to integrate advertising or commercial content into our services and that (where reasonably practicable) we will identify paid services and communications. You also agree that, as explained in more detail in our WeChat Privacy Policy, we use targeted advertising to try to make advertising more relevant and valuable to you.

DIRECT MARKETING

We may use your information for the purpose of sending you advertising or direct marketing (whether by messaging within our services, by email or by other means) that offer or advertise products and services of ours and/or selected third parties. Such products and services include:

products and services of ours (or our affiliate and subsidiary companies and joint venture partners), including services in relation to messaging, online media and advertising, interactive entertainment, social networking, e-commerce, news and information, payment, internet search, location and mapping, applications, data management, and other related software and services (“Internet Services”); and third party providers of Internet Services and products and services relating to dining, food and beverages, sports, music, film, television, live performances and other arts and entertainment, books, magazines and other publications, clothing and accessories, jewellery, cosmetics, personal health and hygiene, electronics, collectibles, housewares, appliances, home decoration and furnishings, pets, automobiles, hotels, transport and travel, banking, insurance and financial services, loyalty and reward programs and other products and services that we think may be relevant to you. If required by applicable laws, we will honour your request for us to not use your personal information for the direct marketing purposes noted above. If you wish to make such a request, please: (i) notify our Privacy Officer using the contact details as set out in the WeChat Privacy Policy ; (ii) follow the relevant instructions on our marketing messages; or (iii) if available, follow the instructions as set out in certain service-specific guidance (in relation to the relevant service).

Please note that we will not share your personal information with advertisers unless you have given us your consent to do so. We do, however, share non-personal information with advertisers for the purposes of offering you advertising that is more relevant to you.

OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All intellectual property rights in or to our services and software (including any future updates, upgrades and new versions) will continue to belong to us and our licensors. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, you have no right to use our intellectual property rights. In particular, you have no right to use our trade marks or product names (for example, “Tencent”, “WeChat” or “QQ”), logos, domain names or other distinctive brand features without our prior written consent. Any comments or suggestions you may provide regarding our services are entirely voluntary and we will be free to use these comments and suggestions at our discretion without any payment or other obligation to you.

Where our services involve you downloading and using any software from us, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferrable, royalty-free and revocable licence to use the software in order to use our services in accordance with these Terms (including any specific technical requirements that relate to the software or its use on your particular device). Please note that these licence terms may be supplemented by terms and conditions applicable to the specific software.

You may not copy, modify, reverse compile, reverse engineer or extract source codes from our software, except to the extent that we may not prohibit you from doing so under applicable laws or regulations or you have our prior written consent to do so. Where applicable laws or regulations entitle you to reverse compile or extract source codes from our software, you will first contact us to request the information you need.

We may from time to time provide updates to our software. Such updates may occur automatically or manually. Please note that our services may not operate properly or at all if upgrades or new versions are not installed by you. We do not guarantee that we will make any updates available for any of our software, or that such updates will continue to support your device or system.

Third party software

The “Third Party Content and Services” section above applies to any software supplied by third parties (including software, plug-ins, tools, codecs, data and content within such software) for use in connection with, or incorporated within, our services ("Third Party Software"), including your use of such Third Party Software.

In addition to that section, please note that we are not responsible for and we do not endorse, support or guarantee the quality, reliability or suitability of any such Third Party Software. Any reliance on or use of such Third Party Software is at your own risk.

You must comply with any additional terms and conditions applicable to any such Third Party Software. We will notify you of any such additional terms and conditions within our services, within an Appendix to these Terms and/or in another manner.

We do not provide any technical support for any Third Party Software. Please contact the relevant supplying third party for such technical support.

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Further to the "Third Party Software" section above, our services may use software that is subject to “open source” licences (the “Open Source Software”). Where we use such Open Source Software, please note that:

there may be provisions in the Open Source Software's licence that expressly override these Terms, in which case such provisions shall prevail to the extent of any conflict with these Terms; and we will credit the relevant Open Source Software (including notifying you of the relevant Open Source Software terms) within our services, within an Appendix to these Terms and/or in another manner.

WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER

We warrant to you that we will provide our services using reasonable care and skill.

APART FROM THIS WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATION, ALL OF OUR SERVICES AND SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AND NEITHER US NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OR GIVES ANY UNDERTAKING IN RELATION TO OUR SERVICES, OUR SOFTWARE OR ANY CONTENT SUBMITTED, TRANSMITTED OR DISPLAYED BY OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING: (I) ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY OR UNDERTAKING THAT OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM VIRUSES; (II) THAT OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR DEVICE; OR (III) THAT OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE WILL BE OF MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NOT INFRINGE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATION, YOU WAIVE ANY AND ALL IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND UNDERTAKINGS.

LIABILITY FOR OUR SERVICES AND SOFTWARE

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF US AND OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES FOR ALL CLAIMS IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS, THE GENERAL END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT OR OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE, ARISING OUT OF ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS: (I) THE AMOUNT THAT YOU HAVE PAID TO US FOR YOUR USE OF THE SPECIFIC SERVICE OR SOFTWARE TO WHICH THE CLAIM RELATES IN THE 6 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE MOST RECENT CLAIM; AND (II) USD100.

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS, IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS, THE GENERAL END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT OR OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY: (I) ANY NATURAL DISASTER SUCH AS FLOODS, EARTHQUAKES OR EPIDEMICS; (II) ANY SOCIAL EVENT SUCH AS WARS, RIOTS OR GOVERNMENT ACTIONS; (III) ANY COMPUTER VIRUS, TROJAN HORSE OR OTHER DAMAGE CAUSED BY MALWARE OR HACKERS; (IV) ANY MALFUNCTION OR FAILURE OF OUR OR YOUR SOFTWARE, SYSTEM, HARDWARE OR CONNECTIVITY; (V) IMPROPER OR UNAUTHORISED USE OF OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE; (VI) YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE IN BREACH OF THESE TERMS OR THE GENERAL END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT; OR (VII) ANY REASONS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL OR PREDICTABILITY. NOR WILL WE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS, BE LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR FOR ANY LOSS OF BUSINESS, REVENUES, PROFITS, GOODWILL, CONTENT OR DATA.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any of the following liabilities, except to the extent that such liabilities may be waived, limited or excluded under applicable laws and regulations:

any liability for death or personal injury; any liability for gross negligence or wilful misconduct; or any other liability to the extent that such liability cannot be waived, limited or excluded under applicable laws and regulations. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS, NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS OR EXCLUDES ANY OF YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS IN YOUR JURISDICTION (INCLUDING ANY RIGHTS UNDER APPLICABLE CONSUMER PROTECTION REGULATION), TO THE EXTENT THESE MAY NOT BE EXCLUDED OR WAIVED UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

YOU AGREE THAT YOU (AND YOUR ORGANISATION, IF YOU ARE USING OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE ON BEHALF OF SUCH ORGANISATION) INDEMNIFY US, OUR PARTNERS AND OUR AFFILIATE COMPANIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIM, SUIT, ACTION, DEMAND, DAMAGE, DEBT, LOSS, COST, EXPENSE (INCLUDING LITIGATION COSTS AND ATTORNEYS’ FEES) AND LIABILITY ARISING FROM: (I) YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE; OR (II) YOUR BREACH OF THESE TERMS OR ANY TERMS OF THE GENERAL END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT.

Please note that we are not responsible for any third party charges you incur (including any charges from your internet and telecommunication services providers) in relation to or arising from your use of our services or software.

TERMINATION

These Terms will apply to your use of our services until access to the relevant services is terminated by either you or us.

We may suspend or terminate your access to your account or any or all of our services: (i) if we reasonably believe that you have breached these Terms; (ii) if your use of our services creates risk for us or for other users of our services, gives rise to a threat of potential third party claims against us or is potentially damaging to our reputation; (iii) if you fail to use our services for a prolonged period; or (iv) for any other reason. Where reasonably practicable, we will give you notice of any suspension or termination.

Retention and back-up of Your Content

Following termination of these Terms, we will only retain and use Your Content in accordance with these Terms, in particular the WeChat Privacy Policy. Where we suspend or terminate a service, or where your access to our services is terminated by you or us, we do not guarantee that we will be able to return any of Your Content back to you and we may permanently delete Your Content without notice to you at any time after termination. Please ensure that you regularly back up Your Content.

GENERAL

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us in relation to our services. You agree that you will have no claim against us for any statement which is not explicitly set out in these Terms. The invalidity of any provision of these Terms (or parts of any provision) will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision (or the remaining parts of that provision). If a court holds that we cannot enforce any part of these Terms as drafted, we may replace those terms with similar terms to the extent enforceable under applicable law, without changing the remaining terms of these Terms. No delay in enforcing any provision of these Terms will be construed to be a waiver of any rights under that provision. Any rights and obligations under these Terms which by their nature should survive, including but not limited to any obligations in relation to the liability of, or indemnities (if any) given by, the respective parties, will remain in effect after termination or expiration of these Terms.

No person other than you and us will have any right to enforce these Terms against any person, and you may not delegate, assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise without our consent. We may freely assign, transfer or sub-contract these Terms or our rights and obligations under these Terms, in whole or in part, without your prior consent or notice. You acknowledge and agree that in no event will our partners or affiliate companies have any liability under these Terms.

GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Except to the extent that: (i) any applicable additional terms incorporated into these Terms provide differently, or (ii) the applicable laws and regulations of your jurisdiction mandate otherwise (for instance, you may have statutory rights in your jurisdiction in relation to bringing or defending claims in a local court (including small claims court (or similar court), these Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms will be governed by the law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Any dispute, controversy or claim (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of, relating to, or in connection with these Terms, including their existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination, will be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre under the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre Administered Arbitration rules in force when the Notice of Arbitration is submitted. The seat of the arbitration will be Hong Kong. There will be one arbitrator only. The arbitration proceedings will be conducted in English.

WECHAT TERMS OF SERVICE (USA-SPECIFIC TERMS)

If you are a user of our services in the United States of America, the below terms are incorporated into these Terms, and override these Terms to the extent of any inconsistency.

If you are a California resident, you agree to waive California Civil Code Section 1542, and any similar provision in any other jurisdiction (if you are a resident of such other jurisdiction), which states: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”

EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

WECHAT TERMS OF SERVICE (AUSTRALIA-SPECIFIC TERMS)

If you are a user of our services in Australia, the below terms are incorporated into these Terms, and override these Terms to the extent of any inconsistency.

All express or implied guarantees, warranties, representations, or other terms and conditions relating to these Terms or their subject matter, not contained in these Terms, are excluded from these Terms to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, warranty, term or condition, right or remedy implied or imposed by any applicable law which cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified.

If any guarantee, condition, warranty or term is implied or imposed by any applicable law and cannot be excluded (a “Non-Excludable Provision”), and we are able to limit your remedy for a breach of the Non-Excludable Provision, then our liability for breach of the Non-Excludable Provision is limited to one or more of the following at our option:

in the case of goods, the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods, the repair of the goods, the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods, or the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; or in the case of services, the supplying of the services again, or the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again. WeChat Privacy Policy Last modified: 6 January 2014

INTRODUCTION

We value your privacy. This Privacy Policy informs you of your choices and our practices regarding any Information you provide to us.

The use of our services may involve the collection and use of your Information (as defined in the “The Information We Collect and How We Collect It” section below) on our services (including our website: www.wechat.com and mobile application: WeChat). It is important for you to understand how this happens and how you may control it, so please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

By using our services, you agree that we may collect, use and share your Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as revised from time to time.

If you wish to contact us regarding this Privacy Policy or any privacy-related matters, please contact our Privacy Officer via email at wechatenquiry@wechat.com or via postal mail at Level 29, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong (Attention: Privacy Officer, Legal Department).

SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies across all of our services as defined above.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and form part of the WeChat Terms of Service that you have agreed to in order to use our services. Any terms used in this Privacy Policy will have the same meaning as the equivalent defined terms in the WeChat Terms of Service, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy or the context requires otherwise.

Please also note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to Information collected: (i) through third party services (including any third party websites) that you may access through our services; or (ii) by other companies and organizations who advertise their services on our services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may from time to time revise or add specific instructions, policies and terms to this Privacy Policy. These instructions, policies and terms form part of this Privacy Policy.

Where we consider that any changes to this Privacy Policy are reasonably material, we will notify you (via our http://www.wechat.com), direct communication to you, or other means) prior to the change becoming effective. By continuing to use our services after any changes to this Privacy Policy, with or without notice from us, you are agreeing to the revised Privacy Policy.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

In providing our services, we collect, store and use the following Information relating to you:

“Information” is Personal Information and Non-Personal Information;

"Personal Information" is any information or combination of information that relates to you, and can be used to identify you. Personal Information may include the following:

information you make available to us when you open an account or use our services, such as your name, telephone number and email address; information which you make available to our services as you use them, including Shared Information you make available to others through our services and information you store using our services; Shared Information that others using our services make available about you, such as information contained in posts they make and communications they make to you and others using our services; and information we collect as you use our services, such as certain Location Data and Log Data. “Location Data” is information that we collect regarding your location (when you use a location-enabled service), including:

the location of your device when you use our services, such as from the GPS, WiFi, compass, accelerometer or other sensors in your mobile device; the IP address of the device or internet service you use to access our services, other information made available by you or others that gives an indication as to where you are or have been located, such as account information that indicates where you are located and Shared Information you or others post indicating your location, such as any geotag information that is embedded in any photos you make available to us; and if you have provided us with your location data previously and would like us to delete such existing location data, you may be able to do so via our services. "Log Data" is technical information that is automatically collected by us when you use our services, whether through the use of cookies, web beacons and log files (as explained in more detail in the “Cookies, Web Beacons and Log Files” section below) or otherwise, including:

technical information such as your mobile carrier, configuration information made available by your web browser or other programs you use to access our services, your IP address and your device’s version and identification number, information about what you have searched for and looked at while using our services, such as web search terms used, social media profiles visited and details of other information and content accessed or requested by you in using our services; information about communications you have made using our services, such as the people you’ve communicated with and the time, data and duration of your communications; and metadata, which means information related to items you have made available through our services, such as the date, time or location that a shared photograph or video was taken or posted. “Non-Personal Information” is any information that relates to you but from which it is not practicable to directly or indirectly identify you, including Personal Information in aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised form.

“Shared Information” is information about you or relating to you that is voluntarily shared on our services, including postings that you make on our services (including your public profile, the lists you create), any postings from others that you re-post and including Location Data and Log Data associated with these postings. Shared Information also includes information about you (including Location Data and Log Data) that others who are using our services share about you.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your Information for any of the following purposes:

to provide our services to you; for customer service, security, fraud-detection, archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of our services; to provide you with advertising and direct marketing tha is more relevant to you (as discussed in more detail below under the “Direct Marketing” section below); to better understand how you access and use our services, for the purposes of trying to improve our services and to respond to customer desires and preferences, including language and location customisation, personalised help and instructions, or other responses to your and other customers’ usage of our services; to help us develop our new services and improve our existing services; to assess the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities on or in connection with our services when your account is subscribed to an official account; and to allow you to participate in surveys about our products and services. If you participate in a survey, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys is voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys and such third party service provider will be prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. Please note that for the purposes of seeking to provide our users with a better experience, to improve our services or otherwise where you have consented, Personal Information collected through our site or service may, subject to user privacy controls (where available), be used by our other services (including in an aggregated or individualised manner).

For example, Personal Information collected during your use of one of our services may be used to suggest particular content that can be made available to you on another service or be used to try to present more relevant advertising to you in another service. You may also from time to time ask us to migrate or export your Personal Information contained in one of our services to another of our services, where such migration option is available.

If any of your Personal Information comprises Your Content (as defined in the WeChat Terms of Service), we and our affiliate companies may (subject to this Privacy Policy) use such Personal Information in accordance with the “Your Content” section of the WeChat Terms of Service.

COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND LOG FILES

We may use cookies, web beacons and log files to collect, and store Information about you or relating to you. We further describe how we use cookies, log files and web beacons in our Cookies Policy.

SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Other than as permitted under this Privacy Policy or as otherwise consented to by you, we will not transfer your Personal Information to any other third parties for their processing for any purposes.

We and our affiliate companies may share your Personal Information within our group of companies and with joint venture partners and third party service providers, contractors and agents (such as communication service providers who send emails or push notifications on our behalf, and mapping services providers who assists us and you with location data), in each case, for the purposes of: (i) providing our services to you; (ii) assisting us in carrying out the purposes set out under the “How We Use Your Information” section above; (iii) carrying out our obligations and enforcing our rights under the WeChat Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy; and/or (iv) help understand and improve our services. These third parties may be located, and use and store your Personal Information, outside of your jurisdiction for these purposes.

Where we or our affiliate companies do share your Personal Information with any third parties, we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that such third parties only use your Personal Information: (i) in compliance with this Privacy Policy; and (ii) subject to any other instructions we give them, including any appropriate confidentiality and security measures that we implement.

You consent to the third party use, sharing and transfer of your Personal Information (both inside and outside of your jurisdiction) as described in this section.

As we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliate companies may be acquired by a third party or re-organise our group structure. In these circumstances, it may be the case that your Information is transferred within our group and/or transferred to a third party who will continue to operate our services or similar services under either this Privacy Policy or a different privacy policy which will be notified to you. The party to which your Personal Information is transferred may be located, and use your Information, outside of your jurisdiction.

You agree that we or our affiliate companies may be required to retain, preserve or disclose your Personal Information: (i) in order to comply with applicable laws or regulations; (ii) in order to comply with a court order, subpoena or other legal process; (iii) in response to a request by a government authority, law enforcement agency or similar body (whether situated in your jurisdiction or elsewhere); or (iv) where we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws or regulations. You also agree that we or our affiliate companies may need to disclose your Personal Information in order to enforce the WeChat Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy, protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our affiliate companies or other users of our services.

A WORD ABOUT SHARED INFORMATION

Our service enable Shared Information to be shared publicly with all users of that service and not just your contacts. Our social media services in particular are primarily designed to help you share Shared Information with the world via features either provided by us or third parties, so Shared Information can be broadly and instantly transmitted and will remain public for as long as you do not delete it (and even after you delete Shared Information, it may still be separately cached, copied, or stored by, or remain public through, other users or third parties who are not affiliated with and not controlled by us).

Please consider carefully what you post and communicate through our services. In some instances, you may control what access the wider public has to your Shared Information via the privacy settings in some of our services. If you would like to update or amend your Personal Information you may do so by logging into your account and making the appropriate changes or by contacting our Privacy Officer. To request removal of your Personal Information from our services, or to request the removal of an unauthorized account, please contact our Privacy Officer. In some cases, we may not be able to update, amend or remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know why we are unable to do so.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM US

Newsletters and other types of communications

When you use our service, we may use your Information to send you emails, newsletters or push notifications to your device. If you no longer wish to receive these communications, you can do so by following the unsubscribe instructions in the emails we send to you, opting out of notifications at the device level (if available) or contacting our Privacy Officer via the contact information within this Policy.

Service-related announcements

We may from time to time send you service-related announcements when we consider it necessary to do so (such as when we temporarily suspend one of our services for maintenance). You may not opt-out of these service-related announcements, which are not promotional in nature.

A WORD ABOUT SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

In some jurisdictions, certain Personal Information, such as information about your race or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical views or personal health, is characterised as “sensitive” and is subject to stricter regulation than other personal information. Please note that content and information that you input to our services, such as photographs or information about your school or social activities, may reveal your sensitive Personal Information to others.

We urge you to consider whether it is appropriate to communicate Personal Information of a sensitive nature in the manner you are proposing to communicate it using our services.

You consent to all processing of sensitive Personal Information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

Please note that we do not use your sensitive Personal Information for the purpose of serving advertising to you.

THIRD PARTY SERVICES ON OUR SERVICES

Our service may link you to, social media or other services (including websites) provided by a third party. For example:

you may be able to share content on, or login to, our services using services provided by third parties. The third parties who provide such services may be able to collect your Information and Personal Information (including your Log Data), and may set cookies on your computer to enable such feature to function properly; and we may (whether in advertisements or otherwise within our services) provide you with links that allow you to access third party services or websites. These third party social media or other services may be hosted by the relevant third party or us. Your use of any such third party services (whether social media services or otherwise), including any Personal Information you provide to such third parties, are subject to the relevant third party’s own terms of services and privacy policies and not the WeChat Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy, so please review their terms carefully. This Privacy Policy only applies to any Information collected by us, does not apply to any services offered by or information practices of any third parties, and we bear no liability for any third party use of any Information provided by you to them.

AGE RESTRICTIONS

Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to use our services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from any children under the age of 13. Please contact our Privacy Officer if you believe we have any Personal Information from any children under the age of 13 and we will promptly investigate (and remove) such Personal Information.

TRANSFER, STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We operate and may continue to operate servers in a number of jurisdictions around the world, so the server on which your Personal Information is used and stored may not be in your jurisdiction.

You consent to the transfer of your Personal Information (both inside and outside of your jurisdiction) for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures for the purpose of preventing loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure of Information.

In our service, we will use encryption technology (such as SSL) to protect certain sensitive Information (such as location data) provided by you to us. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security at all times. Our systems and the communications networks through which you access our services may be subject to security breaches and failures which are due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you have any questions regarding the security of your Personal Information, please contact our Privacy Officer.

PERIOD OF USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Subject to applicable laws and regulations (including as set out under the “Sharing of your Personal Information” section above), we will only use your Personal Information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes as set out under the “How We Use Your Information” section above.

Subject to applicable laws and regulations, you may have the right to request to receive a copy of and make any corrections to your Personal Information which we hold, and to request that we deactivate and not use any of your Personal Information that is stored by us. You may direct such request to our Privacy Officer, or where we offer this option in our services, you may also log into your account with us and make the appropriate changes. We will respond to all requests made to our Privacy Officer under this “Retention of your Personal Information” section within 60 days.

Should your account be terminated by you or us for any reason, we will (subject to the above paragraph) take steps to ensure that your Personal Information is no longer available through our services, or otherwise used by us, within a reasonable period of time (subject to technical limitations) after such account termination. However, it is important to note that communications made by you using our services may put your Personal Information in the hands of third parties that we cannot control.

TRUSTE AND TENCENT

TRUSTe online privacy certification Tencent, has been awarded TRUSTe’s Privacy Seal – signifying that this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements (including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your Personal Information). The TRUSTe program and certification covers only Information that is collected through the WeChat website: (www.wechat.com) and mobile application, and does not cover information collected through other Tencent websites, mobile applications or downloadable software.

TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy Trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or our practices regarding WeChat, please contact our Privacy Officer as provided within this Policy. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact TRUSTe at http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint.