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Sparkling AI HK Limited ("we", "us", and/or "our") operates the DeepEat website and mobile application (the "Services"). This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes how we collect, store, use, and share information through our Services.

We care about the protection and confidentiality of your information. We process your personal information only as described in this Policy. If you have any questions regarding this Policy, please contact us according to the information listed below under the Section "Contact Us".

Here is a summary of the information contained in this Policy. This summary is to help you navigate the Policy and it is not a substitute for reading everything. You can view the particular sections for more detailed information.

•   What data do we collect about you? If you register an account to use the Services, we will need some personal information from you to set this up. We will also collect and create personal information about you when you use certain functions of DeepEat (e.g., the photo-based food calorie recognition, personalized fitness and diet recommendations, and AI-powered chatbot). For more information, please refer to 1 PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT .

•   How do we use your data? We process your personal information to manage the contract you have agreed to and to provide functions related to the Services. For more information, please refer to 2 HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION .

•   How will we share and transfer your data globally? We may disclose your personal information to affiliates and some third-party service providers (e.g., technology services and business support) who help us deliver the Services. We may also be required to disclose certain personal information about you in response to any legal procedures or requests from regulatory authorities, for audit purposes, in the event of mergers, acquisitions, sale of assets, or transfer of services, and in other circumstances specified under 3 HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION . Due to the international operation of our business, your personal information may be accessed from and transferred to jurisdictions outside of where you are located. In the event of a cross-border transfer of personal information, we take appropriate measures to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information. For more information, please refer to 4 HOW WE TRANSFER YOUR DARA AROUND THE WOLRD .

•   How do we secure and retain your data? Your personal information is stored on servers located in the United States or EU and we take every reasonable step to ensure that your personal information is only processed for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. For more details on the duration of the retention of your personal information, please refer to 5 HOW WE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION  and 6 HOW DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION .

•   What are your rights regarding the processing of your personal information? Depending on where you are, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information, such as rights of access and data portability, to correct or delete your personal information, to withdraw your consent, restrict or object to our processing of your personal information, or to lodge complaints with an applicable authority for any breach of data protection laws. For more information, please refer to 7 YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES . In particular, if you are a California resident, certain state data privacy legislations may entitle you to additional rights as detailed under 8 ADDITIONAL U.S. STATE DISCLOSURES .

•   How do we protect minors? If you are considered a minor under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction, before using the Services, consent to the processing of your personal information shall be given by your parent(s) or legal guardian(s). Additionally, we do not aim to provide Services for minors under 13. For more information, please refer to 9 USE BY MINORS .

•   Changes of this Policy and Contact Us. We recommend that you regularly check the latest version of this Policy in the APP. If there are any substantial changes to this Policy, depending on the nature of such changes, we will notify you in advance through pop-ups, push notifications, and other appropriate means. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Policy and/or other privacy practices, want to exercise any rights you may have, please contact us by response@deepeat.ai.

 

1 PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

2 HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

3 HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

4 HOW WE TRANSFER YOUR DARA AROUND THE WOLRD

5 HOW WE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION

6 HOW DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

7 YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

8 ADDITIONAL U.S. STATE DISCLOSURES

9 USE BY MINORS

10 CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

11 CONTACT US

 

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

For the purpose of this Policy, "personal information" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. In certain jurisdictions, this may be referred to as "personal data". However, for the sake of consistency, this Policy will use the term "personal information" throughout to refer to such data. To the extent that our processing of your personal information is subject to certain data privacy protection laws (including, but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"), California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 ("CPRA"), collectively hereafter "appliable laws"), we will also notify you about the legal basis on which we process your personal information and your rights under such laws.

1.1. Information you provide

Through your use of the Services, you may provide us with the following information:

a. Account Information. This includes your email address/Apple ID/Facebook ID/Google Account (as applicable), verification code and password. When you use our Services, you may create an account with your email address, Apple ID, Facebook ID or Google Account to complete the registration and become our user. We may verify your identity by sending a verification code. If you refuse to provide Account Information for registration and login, we may be unable to offer you our Services.

b. Basic Profile Information. This includes your username, gender, age, height, weight, exercise frequency, drinking amount, purpose of the trial, specific needs and weight loss rate. After you have created and logged into your account, you can further edit your personal profile and personal goals. We will use your Basic Profile Information to provide you with personalized fitness and diet recommendations, as well as AI-powered chatbot services. You have the option to choose which information to share with us. If you refuse to provide these information, we may be unable to offer you our Services.

c. Interaction Information: When you use the AI-powered food calorie recognition function, food health rating function or chatbot function, we collect your input data ("Inputs"), such as text, images and voice messages. Specifically, when you use our voice input service (if applicable), we will request permission to access your device's microphone. With your consent to the access permission, we will collect your voice information, send your voice commands to the server, and provide feedback based on your voice commands. During the process, if you choose to convert your voice into text, we will also collect and use the converted text content to provide you with intelligent services. These Inputs are analyzed to enhance our understanding of your inquiries and context, enabling us to provide you with responses ("Outputs") tailored to your specific needs. The Interaction information is necessary to offer you the AI-powered food calorie recognition, food health rating and chatbot service. If you refuse to provide this information, you will be unable to use the relevant features.

d. Feedback Information. This includes your feedback on complaints and communications with our customer service representatives. If you refuse to provide the Feedback Information, it will not affect your use of our Services.

1.2. Information we collect from third parties

a. Third-party Account Information: When you use a third-party account to register or log in to our Services (Facebook, etc.), we collect certain information related to your third-party account, including your username, email address and personal profile under such third-party account.

b. Apple Health Data. You have the option to connect and share your data with Apple Health, as well as share your Apple Health information with DeepEat. This includes details such as step count, exercise duration, and calorie expenditure. We will only access your Apple Health Data with your prior consent. Choosing not to share this information will not impact your ability to use the basic services of DeepEat.

1.3. Information we collect automatically

We automatically log the following information about you, your mobile device, your network, and your interactions over time with our Services:

a. Device and Network Data. This includes your device-specific identifiers, i.e., hardware identifiers (OAID, GAID, IMEI, MAC), software identifiers (Android ID, IDFA, IDFV, GUID), and network identifiers (IP/WiFi addresses). This also includes technical specifications, i.e., browser type/version, operating system details, and service interaction metrics - including visited pages, session timestamps, duration, and performance diagnostics. When you access our Services via mobile devices, we may also collect your mobile platform type, device-specific unique identifiers (i.e., SIM card details), and cellular network configuration parameters.

b. Usage Data. This includes your behavior information while using the Services, including your click, browsing, and editing activity records.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information when the applicable laws allow us to. Our legal bases for collecting and using the personal information described in this Policy depends on the personal information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

Ÿ   We need to perform a contract with you;

Ÿ   You have given us consent to do so;

Ÿ   In specific jurisdictions, processing your personal information is in our legitimate interests, including

§   providing, maintaining and marketing our Services;

§   detecting, preventing and enforcing violations of our Terms of Use including misuse of services, fraud, abuse, and other trust and safety protocols; and

§   protecting our legal rights and the rights of others.

Ÿ   We need to comply with our legal obligations under the applicable laws.

The purposes for which we process personal information, subject to applicable laws, and the legal basis on which we perform such processing, are as follows:

Purpose	Type of Personal Information	Legal Basis
To provide you with functions related to user account management, such as account registration, account deletion, and account login	Ÿ   Account Information Ÿ   Third-party Account Information Ÿ   Basic Profile Information Ÿ   Device and Network Data	Performance of contract
To provide the core functionality of the Services, including AI-powered food calorie recognition and food health rating through photos, and chatbot	Ÿ   Interaction Information Ÿ   Device and Network Data	Performance of contract
To provide the additional functionality of the Services, including personalized fitness and diet recommendations, and Apple Health connection	Ÿ   Interaction Information Ÿ   Apple Health Data Ÿ   Device and Network Data	Consent
To send you marketing communications through push notifications. You can also disable notifications in your phone's settings center to stop receiving marketing messages	Ÿ   Account Information	Legitimate interests & Consent
To analyze user behavior to optimize the Services (not used for AI model training)	Ÿ   Device and Network Data Ÿ   Usage Data	Legitimate interests
To monitor and protect the Services to ensure the normal operation of the Services you use, including preventing fraud, criminal activity, and misuse of our Services	Ÿ   Account Information Ÿ   Third-party Account Information Ÿ   Device and Network Data Ÿ   Usage Data	Performance of contract & Legitimate interests
To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback or questions	Ÿ   Account Information Ÿ   Third-party Account Information Ÿ   Feedback Information	Performance of contract & Legitimate interests
To comply with legal obligations, and defend against legal claims and disputes	Ÿ   Account Information Ÿ   Third-party Account Information Ÿ   Basic Profile Information Ÿ   Interaction Information Ÿ   Feedback Information Ÿ   Device and Network Data Ÿ   Usage Data	Legal Obligations & Legitimate interests & Consent, where required by applicable laws

 

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

In order to provide you with more comprehensive and high-quality Services, we will authorize our commercial partners to provide certain services to you. In such cases, we may share some of your personal information with our partners.

We will only share your personal information for lawful, legitimate, necessary, specific, and explicit purposes, and we will only share the personal information required to provide the Services. We will require our partners, through agreements, to retain data only for the necessary period and to implement adequate security measures to protect data security.

We will disclose personal information to the following categories of third parties for the purposes explained in this Policy:

·       Affiliates and corporate partners. We disclose the categories of personal information described above between and among our affiliates and related entities, for legitimate business purposes and the operation of the Services, in accordance with applicable laws.

·       Service providers and business partners. Third-party service providers who provide us with technology services (such as cloud storage service, cybersecurity provider) and business support (such as growth analysis Software Development Kit provider) may need to process your data. These third parties will process your personal information on our behalf under relevant contracts.

·       Law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other judicial bodies and organizations. We disclose Information if we are legally required to do so, or if we have a good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary to comply with a legal obligation, process or request; enforce our Terms of Use and other terms, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by applicable laws (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection).

·       Change of corporate ownership. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization, partnership, asset sale or other transaction, we may disclose your Information as part of that transaction.

 

4. HOW WILL WE TRANSFER YOUR DARA AROUND THE WOLRD

Our servers are located in the United States and Europe. If you are a European user, your information will be stored in Europe. If you are a non-European user, your information will be stored in the United States. Meanwhile, due to the international nature of our business, your personal information may also be accessed by our affiliates or be transferred to third-party service providers and business partners, in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy. For this reason, we transfer personal information to other jurisdictions that may have different laws and data protection compliance requirements to those that apply in the jurisdiction in which you are located. If you would like to obtain more information regarding cross-border data transfers, please contact us through the details provided in the "Contact Us" section.

In the event of an international transfer of personal information, when required by applicable laws, we will provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information using various means, including implementing Standard Contractual Clauses or data transfer agreements that comply with applicable laws between our affiliates and third parties or any other lawful approach that permits the lawful transfer of personal information from those countries.

5. HOW WE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, and other unlawful or unauthorized processing, in accordance with applicable laws.

Your account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and personal information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account. If you have any concerns that your account or personal information has been put at risk, for example if someone could have found out your password, please contact us by using the contact details provided in the Section "Contact Us" below.

While we use reasonable commercial efforts to protect the data, no technology, data transmission, or system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In the event of a breach of security leading to accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to your data, we will notify you according to the applicable laws.

6. HOW DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We adhere to retention policies for the personal information we collect to ensure that it is not retained longer than necessary for the intended purpose.

If you deactivate your account, delete personal information, or the retention period is expired, we will delete or anonymize your personal information, except in the following cases:

Ÿ   Compliance with legal requirements regarding data retention according to the applicable laws.

Ÿ   Extension of the period for financial, audit, dispute resolution, or other legitimate purposes.

When assessing how long your personal information is retained, we consider criteria such as: (i) the nature of the personal information and the activities involved; (ii) when and for how long you use the Services; and (iii) our legitimate interests and our legal obligations.

7. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Subject to applicable law and depending on where you reside, you may have some rights regarding your personal information, as described below. If you have any other requests relating to the access of your personal information, please contact us using the contact details listed in the Section "Contact Us" below.

7.1     Data Access

You may have the right to know what personal information we process about you, including the categories of personal information, the business or commercial purposes for collection, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose it and other information according to the applicable law.

You may have the right to access and obtain a copy of your personal information in accordance with the applicable laws. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format.

7.2     Data Correction

You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we retain about you, subject to certain exceptions.

7.3     Data Deletion

You have the right to delete your account and erase your personal information. Upon deleting your account, all your personal information will be deleted. Additionally, you may also request deletion of the personal information you provide by contacting us. If some of your personal information cannot be deleted, we will inform you of the reasons for not taking action.

Please note that we reserve the right to retain some of your personal information where there are valid grounds for us to do so under applicable laws.

7.4     Withdrawal of Consent

Where we process your personal information on the basis of your consent, you may withdraw your consent by contacting us. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

7.5     Objection to the Processing

Subject to applicable laws, you may object to the processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests where there are grounds relating to your particular situation by contacting us. Please note that we may have an overriding legitimate interest to keep processing your personal information, but we will let you know where this is the case.

7.6     Restriction to the Processing

If you would like to restrict our processing of your personal information, you may contact us. You have the right to restrict the processing of your data where one of the following applies:

Ÿ   the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of relevant personal information;

Ÿ   for the purpose of establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, you request us to retain your personal information that we were supposed to delete;

Ÿ   your objection regarding the accuracy of your personal information is pending our verification;

Ÿ   your request to object to the processing of your personal information is pending our verification.

7.7     Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority

Subject to applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to submit your complaint to the local data protection authority where you reside if you consider that the processing of your personal information infringes any applicable data protection laws.

7.8     Other Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be entitled to additional rights in relation to your personal information. If you would like to contact us to exercise one or more of these rights, to ask a question about these rights or any other provision of this Policy or about our processing of your personal information, or to file a complaint about how we process your personal information, you may use the contact details provided in Section "Contact Us" below.

When submitting a right request, please specify the scope and basis of your request and provide us with the necessary information to verify your identity. We may contact you to confirm your identity in order to handle your request. We will typically respond to your request within 7 days after verifying your identity and no later than the timeframe required by applicable laws.

8. ADDITIONAL U.S. STATE DISCLOSURES

We collect personal information from and about you in the preceding 12 months as described in Section 1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT above.

We disclose personal information with third parties for business purposes in the preceding 12 months as below:

Categories of personal information	Disclosed to which categories of third parties
All categories detailed in Section 1 above	Cloud storage services provider and our affiliates
Device and Network Data, Usage Data	Growth analysis software development kit provider; Cybersecurity service provider; Operator of third-party account platforms

To the extent provided for by local law and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the following rights:

Ÿ  Opt-out of marketing communications. We may provide marketing information through in-app notifications. If you do not wish to receive these notifications, you can disable them in your device settings.

Ÿ  Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Information. You also have the right to request limitation of use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information, subject to certain exceptions. If you would like to limit the use of your sensitive personal information, please contact us by using the contact details provided in the Section "Contact Us" below.

The verification code and password, as well as the health information such as exercise frequency, duration and weight loss rate, are sensitive personal information under certain State data protection laws. Currently, we use and disclose the verification code to third-party service providers for the purpose necessary to supporting your account registration and login. We do not "sell" or "share" (as defined under applicable State data protection laws) your sensitive personal information.

Ÿ  Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Based on the definition of "sell" and "share" under applicable State data protection laws, we do not believe that we engage in such activity and have not engaged in such activity in the past 12 months from the effective date of this Policy.

Ÿ  Appeal. You may appeal our refusal to take action on a request by contacting us using the contact details provided in Section "Contact Us" below.

Ÿ  Direct Marketing. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

If you would like to contact us to exercise one or more of these rights, to ask a question about these rights or any other provision of this Policy or about our processing of your personal information, or to file a complaint about how we process your personal information, you may use the contact details provided in the Section "Contact Us" below. According to applicable laws, we may request you provide documents such as application form and proof of identity. We may contact you to confirm your identity in order to handle your request. We will respond to your request or complaint in due course under the applicable laws.

9. USE BY MINORS

If you are considered a minor under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction, before using the Services, consent to the processing of your personal information shall be given by your parent(s) or legal guardian(s). Additionally, our Services are not directed towards, and we do not knowingly collect, sell, or share any information about individuals under the age of 13. If you become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided any personal information to us while using our Services, please email us at the contact details provided in the Section "Contact Us" below, and we will investigate the matter and, if appropriate, delete the personal information.

10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The Services and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for us to make changes to this Policy. we recommend that you regularly check the latest version of this Policy in the APP. If there are any substantial changes to this Policy, depending on the nature of such changes, we will notify you in advance through pop-ups, push notifications, and other appropriate means.

11. CONTACT US

For more information about your data subject rights, or how we process your personal information, please contact us by using the information below.

Controller: Sparkling AI HK Limited

Contact Person: SPARKLING AI Privacy Team

Contact Details: response@deepeat.ai