Version date: 05/03/2025
This is the Privacy Policy of DEEPSOCIAL PTE. LTD. and Tanchat Lite and its various & next versions including Tanchat Lite APP version (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Tanchat Lite", "us", "we", or "our") and is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Use. In this Privacy Policy (the "Policy"), we refer to our products and services as the "Service".
Tanchat Lite has always solemnly promised to protect the privacy of users who use our products and service (collectively "user" or "you"). When you use the Service, we may collect and use your personal data. The protection of your personal data is of great importance to us. This Policy therefore intends to inform you about how Tanchat Lite, acting as data controller, collects and processes your personal data (or referred to as "personal information") that you submit or disclose to us. We may also act as data processor when we process your personal data received or obtained through third parties.
We encourage you to read this Policy carefully (especially the contents highlighted in bold or underlined) before using the Service to make the appropriate choice. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not register, log in, visit or use the Service, and do not provide us you're your personal data. If you do not wish certain kinds of your personal data to be used by us as set out in this Privacy Policy, please note that in such a case, we may not be able to provide you with the corresponding parts of our services, you may not have access to and/or be able to use some features of our services, and your customer experience may be impacted. When you agree to all terms and conditions hereof this Police, you agree that we will deal with your personal information in accordance with this Policy.
After reading this Policy, if you have any questions about this Policy or matters related hereto, you can contact us through the feedback channels listed in Section X "How to Contact Us" , and we will give you an answer as soon as possible.
The main purpose of collecting your personal information is to enable you and other users to use our products and services in a more convenient and satisfying way. Our goal is to provide a safe and fun online experience for all users and collecting information will help us achieve it. When you use the Service, we may collect and process information that may be directly or indirectly related to your personal identity. In both instances, such information may constitute personal data subject to this Policy.
When you use the Service, we may collect and process information such as the user's source route, access sequence and so on, such as record the source route and browser software of each user who uses the Service.
When you use the Service, we may collect and process or request you to provide information related to personal identity, such as date of birth, gender, hobbies, personal phone number, facial features; online identification information (including system account, IP address, email address, and password and answers to password protection of the foregoing); personal property information (including dealing records, balances, virtual gifts, membership-rewards, coupons, and bank card information); communication information; personal online records and log information (including website browsing records, software usage records, click records, and operation logs); device information (including device model, device MAC address, operating system type and device settings); software list unique device identifier (such as IMEI/android ID/IDFA/OPENUDID/GUID, information describing basic information of personal devices including IMSI information of the SIM card); location information (including trip information, precise positioning information, accommodation information, and latitude and longitude).
Please note that if you upload or post information in public areas that are visible to other users in the Service and you disclose your personal information in response to information uploaded or posted by others, such information may be collected and used by others. When you find that other users improperly collect or use information from you or others, please contact us as guided in Section X " How to Contact Us" .
We Will Collect and Obtain Your Information through the Following Ways
Please note that if you upload, post or make your information public in a public area visible to other users or in response to other users, such your information may be collected and used by other users. When you find that other users improperly collect or use information from you or others, please contact us as guided in Section X " How to Contact Us" below.
In order for us to provide the Services for you, you need to provide basic registration or login information, such as mobile phone number (personally sensitive information), verification code matching results (personally sensitive information), nickname, gender, date of birth, and profile picture etc., used to create an account (username and password).
You can also log in Tanchat Lite using our supported third-party platform accounts, and in such cases we will obtain the relevant information about you (such as your nickname, avatar) under the third-party account according to your authorization.
Your above personal data provided by you or obtained by us from your third-party platform account under your authorization, is therefore processed for these purposes in order to provide you with and perform the Service based on your engagement with us. Without this personal data, we are not able to provide you with our services, and you will not be able to log in or use Tanchat Lite.
You may also fill in your additional information (such as your location, height, occupation, weight, education, annual income, profile, personal label, interests and hobbies) during registration, login or subsequent use, which will help us to provide personalized recommendations and better service experience for you. However, if you do not provide this information, it will not affect your use of the basic functions of our product and the Service.
In order for us to verify you are a real person, and to guarantee the security of system, service and users' property, you need to provide your real person verification information, in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and regulatory requirements that are applicable.
For example, when you reply to a private message, use the voice calling services, you may need to provide your profile photo and personal photos of specified actions (collectively "Face Recognition Data") instructed by us. We will make the photo comparison to complete the real person verification (hereinafter referred to as "Real Person Verification").
To achieve the purpose hereunder, you hereby agree and authorize us to share the Face Recognition Data with ZOLOZ PTE.LTD. by accessing its Liveness Detection service. In order to complete the Real Person Verification process, we and ZOLOZ PTE.LTD. will store your Face Recognition Data for no more than 72 hours. Any other information of ZOLOZ PTE.LTD.'s privacy policy, please refer to https://render.alipay.com/p/c/180020570000062438/index.html
Please note that your Face Recognition Data belongs to your sensitive personal information. Please be careful to provide them. If you do not agree to provide such information, you may not be able to obtain relevant services, but it does not affect your normal use of other functions and services of Tanchat Lite.
When you use the search function in Tanchat Lite, we need to collect your search terms, browsing history, browsing time, number of interactions with them. We collect this information in order to provide you with the content you need and services that may be of more interest to you.
When you use Tanchat Lite to upload, post, share some information (including text, comment, audio, video, picture, or other content), or follow, send gifts to other users, we will collect and display the information published or formed by you in Tanchat Lite, and have the right to display your nickname and avatar.
When you use services of audio chat and voice chat, we will apply for your permission to access to your microphone. If you do not agree to give us such permission, you will not be able to use relevant services, but your normal use of other functions in Tanchat Lite will not be affected.
When you recharge (to get coins in Tanchat Lite), we will collect the information of your purchase order and payment account. If you query the remaining value of your virtual property in your user account, we will collect and show the information to you on the relevant page. Please note the information of your recharge, purchase order, account and virtual property are your sensitive information, please be careful to provide and use them.
When you use the Service, in order for us to identify account anomalies, understand product suitability, provide basic services (such as browsing and searching), and maintain the normal operation of basic function, we may automatically collect, store and process the information about services you use and the way you use them, including:
In order to collect the above basic personal device information, we will apply for permission to access to your device information. We collect such information in order to provide you with our basic services and functions. If you refuse to provide such permission, you may not be able to use the Service.
Please note that it is impossible to identify a particular natural person only depending on the device information and/or log information, so the device information and log information itself is non-personal information. But if such non-personal information is used in combination with other information to identify a particular natural person, or used in combination with other personal information, during the period of such combined use it will be deemed personal information. In case of such combined use, it will be processed as personal information and get protected according to this Policy. Unless authorized by you or otherwise provided by applicable laws and regulations, such personal information will be anonymized and de-identified by us.
When you contact us for customer service or user response (such as inquiry, feedback, suggestion, complaint, etc.), we may require you to provide necessary personal information to match and verify your user identity, so as to ensure the security of your account and system. We may store information such as your communication/call history and conversation or the contact information you left behind in order to contact you or help you solve problems, or to document the solutions and results of the related issues.
Your personal data is therefore processed for these purposes in order to provide you with and perform the services based on your engagement with us. This personal data may also be processed in order to safeguard your legitimate interests of obtaining pertinent information and other related data regarding your services obtained from Tanchat Lite.
We may use your information (such as your interests and hobbies, personality label, browsing and search records, device information, habits, location information, order information and so on, if any) and the combination thereof, through the recommendation algorithm modeling, programming, advertising model, user behavior analysis, user portrait, to extract your browsing, search preferences, behavioral habits, location information, in order to provide you with more page display fitting your needs and recommend the personalized content.
We may send you notices related to the service when necessary (for example when we suspend a single service, change, or stop providing a single service due to system maintenance).
If you do not wish to continue to receive messages we have pushed, you may request us to stop the push. For example, according to the SMS unsubscribe guidelines, you may request us stop sending promotional SMS messages or set up on mobile devices to stop receiving messages from us. However, except when we send messages according to the provisions of the applicable laws and regulations.
In addition to authentication, we may use your information for customer service, security precautions, fraud monitoring, archiving and backup purposes to ensure the security of the services provided by us to you; we may use or integrate your information collected by us, and our partners obtain the information authorized by you or legally shared information to comprehensively determine your account and transaction risk, conduct identity verification, detect and prevent security incidents, and take necessary records, audits, analysis and disposal actions according to the law.
This personal data is therefore processed for these purposes in order to safeguard your legitimate interests of ensuring the security of your connection and your personal data while you are obtaining information and services from Tanchat Lite.
We may ask you to participate in surveys about the Service to help us improve existing services or design new services; at the same time, we may use your information for software updates. This personal data is therefore processed for these purposes in order to safeguard our legitimate interests of improving our services in this way.
You understand and agree that, in certain instances, upon the collection of your information, we will de-identify and fully anonymize the data through technical means, so that it no longer constitutes personal data directly or indirectly related to an individual, such as you. The de-identified information will not identify you or be related to you. In such case, we have the right use such de-identified information to analyze and commercialize the user database.
If we use your information for other purposes not specified in this Policy, we will ask for your consent in advance through page prompts, interactive processes, website announcements or other means. Once you agree, such additional use of your information will be considered as part of and apply to this Policy.
You understand and agree that, we may apply for certain access rights on your device in order to collect and use information related to particular functions and services. Such as:
Regarding to permissions of access to album/camera, contact list, microphone, location, when you need to terminate any permissions, most mobile devices will support your needs. Please refer to or contact the service provider or manufacturer of your mobile device for details. When you give us any permissions, you authorize us to collect and use relevant information to provide you with the corresponding services. Once you withdraw any permissions, your authorization terminates, and we will no longer continue to collect and use relevant information, nor will we be able to provide you with corresponding services. However, the previous collection and use of the information made under your authorization will not be affected.
According to relevant laws and regulations, collecting your information under the following circumstances does not need to get your authorization:
Personal sensitive information refers to the personal information that may endanger personal and property safety and easily lead to damage to personal reputation, physical and mental health or discriminatory treatment once disclosed, illegally provided or abused.
For example, ID card number, personal identification information (such as characteristics of face recognition, voice print, etc.), bank accounts, contact list information, communication records and content, property information (including virtual property, virtual currency, virtual trading), location information, web browsing history, healthy physiological information, transaction information is your sensitive personal information. Please be careful to your sensitive personal information. You agree that we can process your sensitive personal information in accordance with the Policy.
We or our third party partners may obtain and use your information through COOKIES and WEB BEACON and save this information as log information.
By using COOKIES, we provide users with a simple and easy-to-use personalized web experience. A COOKIES is a small amount of data that is sent from a web server to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use COOKIES to allow its users to benefit. For example, to make the login process of the Tanchat Lite virtual community faster, you can choose to save the username in a COOKIES. This will make it easier and faster to login into the Service next time. COOKIES can help us to determine the webpages and content you are connected to, time you spend on certain service, and the service you have chosen.
COOKIES enables us to serve you better and faster, and to make your experience on the Service more personal. However, you should be able to control whether and how COOKIES is accepted by your browser. Please check the documentation attached to your browser for more information on this.
We or our third party partners may collect and use your information through COOKIES and WEB BEACON, and store such information. We use our own COOKIES and WEB BEACON for the following purposes:
While we use COOKIES and WEB BEACON for the foregoing purposes, we may summarize and provide the information collected through COOKIES and WEB BEACON to advertisers and other partners to analyze how you and other users use the Service and for advertising services.
The Service may have COOKIES, WEB BEACON and Tanchat Lite technologies placed by advertisers and other partners. These COOKIES, WEB BEACON and Tanchat Lite technologies may collect information related to you for analyzing how users use such services, sending you advertisements that may be of interest to you, or evaluating the effectiveness of advertising services. The collection and use of such information by these third parties' COOKIES, WEB BEACON and Tanchat Lite technologies are not governed by this Policy, but are governed by its own personal information protection statement, and we are not responsible for the third party's COOKIES, WEB BEACON or Tanchat Lite technologies.
You can also reject or manage COOKIES or WEB BEACON through the browser (if you access the Services via a browser) or user selection mechanism. However, please note that if you disable COOKIES or WEB BEACON, we may not be able to provide you with the best service experience, and some services may not work properly. At the same time, you will still receive ads, but the relevance of these ads to you will decrease.
Except for the following circumstances, without your consent, we will not share your information with any third party other than Tanchat Lite:
We will only share your information for legitimate, justifiable, necessary, specific, and explicit purposes. For companies, organizations, and individuals with whom we share the information, we will sign strict confidentiality agreements with them and ask them to process information in accordance with our instructions, this Policy, and any other relevant confidentiality and security measures.
We will disclose your information only under the following conditions and in compliance with industry-standard security measures:
According to relevant laws and regulations that are applicable, collecting sharing, transferring and disclosing your information under the following circumstances does not need to get your authorization:
According to applicable laws and regulations, it will not be deemed as sharing, transferring and publicly disclosing personal information to share, transfer, publicly disclose de-identified personal information by which the data receiver can not re-identify natural person subject. We may save and process such data without prior notice or your consent.
We retain your information only during the period required by the purposes described in this Policy and within the time limit required by applicable laws and regulations. If we terminate the Service, we will promptly cease activities of collecting your personal information according to relevant laws and regulations that are applicable. After the termination of the Service, we will delete or anonymize your personal information, unless otherwise stipulated by applicable laws, regulations or regulatory authorities.
The information we collect and generate within the Service is stored in Singapore. You agree to authorize us to store and transfer your personal information/data across borders through this Policy. We ensure that your personal information is adequately protected in accordance with this Policy and relevant applicable laws and regulations. We will take the following measures to protect your information:
We will adopt industry-standard security protection measures, including the establishment of reasonable system specifications and security technologies to prevent unauthorized access and modification to your information, avoid the damage or loss of your data. For example, in some services, we will use encryption technology (such as SSL) to store and protect your information, and isolate it via isolation technology. In the use of information (such as information display, information-related computing), we will use a variety of data desensitization technologies to enhance the security, and use strict data access control and multiple identity authentication technologies to protect the date from being used illegally.
We manage and regulate the storage and use of information by establishing a data classification hierarchy, data security management rules, and data security development regulations. We conduct comprehensive data security control through information access confidentiality agreements, monitoring and auditing mechanisms. We also strengthen the security awareness. For example, we hold security and privacy protection training courses to strengthen employees' awareness of the importance of protecting information.
We only allow our employees and partners who need to know the information to access to your information, and set strict access control and monitoring mechanisms for this purpose. We also require that all personnel who may have access to your information perform the corresponding confidentiality obligations. Failure to perform these obligations may result in legal liability or suspension of cooperation with Tanchat Lite.
We will take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that no unrelated information is collected.
The internet is not an absolutely secure environment, and the methods used to communicate with other users, such as e-mail, instant messaging, social software or other service software, cannot be determined to be fully encrypted. We recommend that you use complicated passwords when using such kinds of tools and carefully protect your Information security.
The internet environment is not 100% secure, and we will do our best to ensure or guarantee the security of any information you send to us. If our physical, technical, or management protective facilities are destroyed, resulting in unauthorized access to information, public disclosure, alteration, or destruction, and your legitimate rights and interests are damaged, we will assume corresponding legal liabilities.
When communicating with third parties through the Service, you will inevitably disclose your information to the counterparty or potential counterparties. Please protect your information and provide it to others only when necessary.
In order to cope with possible risks such as information disclosure, damage and loss, we have formulated a number of systems to clarify the classification and grading standards for security incidents and security vulnerabilities and the corresponding processing procedures. We also set up a specific emergency response team for security incidents. According to the requirements of the security incident handling regulations, we will initiate security preplans for different security incidents, conduct stop loss, analysis, positioning, formulate remedial measures, and trace and crack with relevant departments jointly.
Upon the occurrence of unfortunate information security incidents, we will promptly inform you in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations: the basic information and possible impact of security incidents, the measures we have taken or will take, and recommendations on your own precautions and risk reduction, remedial measures for you and so on. At the same time, we will promptly inform you of the incident-related situation by push notification, etc. When it is difficult to notify the information subject one by one, we will issue a notice in a reasonable and effective manner. Meanwhile, we will also voluntarily report the disposal of information security incidents in accordance with regulatory requirements.
Please understand that due to technical limitations and risk prevention limits, even if we have strengthened our security measures as much as possible, we cannot always guarantee 100% security of the information. You need to understand that the system and communication network used by you to access to the Service may have problems due to circumstances beyond our control. Please be sure to take good care of your account, password and other identity elements, which are used by us to identify you when you use the Service. It may make you suffer losses for you to disclose the foregoing information. If you find that any of the foregoing information may or have been leaked, please contact us immediately as guided in Section X "How to Contact Us" below so that we can take appropriate measures in time to avoid or reduce related losses.
We encourage you to rectify, update and modify your information to make it correct, more accurate and effective. You can access to your information and complete such conduct by yourself through the Service, or request us to do relevant modification, supplement or deleting. We will use appropriate technical methods to ensure you can access to, update, correct and delete your own information or other information provided or generated by you when you use the Service as much as possible.
For the purpose of maintaining your information secure, when accessing to, updating, correcting and deleting the above information, we may ask you to do identity verification at first. Upon making a request to access to, update, correct or delete your personal data, we will assess whether there is any rule or exception under the applicable laws that may enable us to object to your request, and inform you of this decision.
For your information collected through COOKIES and WEB BEACON, we also explain the selection mechanism provided to you in Section III "How Will We Use COOKIES and Tanchat Lite Technologies". If you desire to search, modify or delete your partial information, please log into Tanchat Lite account to complete relevant operations. In case you have any question or request to access to, rectify, update, modify and delete your data, you can contact us pursuant to the means explained in Section X "How to Contact Us" below.
Unless otherwise stipulated by applicable laws and regulations, when you correct or delete your personal information or apply for cancellation of an account, we may not immediately correct or delete the relevant information from the backup system, but we will correct or delete such information when the backup is updated.
The Service allow you to share your information not only with your social network, but also with all users who use Tanchat Lite, such as information uploaded or posted by you on Tanchat Lite, your response to the information uploaded or posted by others, your personal information uploaded or published in the public area which is available to non-specific users in the Service, and also the location data and log information related to such information. As long as you do not delete the information you published or shared, such information may remain in the public domain; even if you delete the shared information, such information still may be cached, copied or saved independently by other users or third parties who are not under our control, or be kept in the public domain by other users or such third parties. If you publish or share information through above channels, which results in the disclosure of your information, we will not be liable for it. Therefore, we kindly remind you and request you to carefully consider whether or not to publish or share your information through above channels.
Subject to conditions specified in the service agreement in relation to the Service and the provisions of relevant laws and regulations that are applicable, your account for the Service may be cancelled or deleted. After the account is cancelled or deleted, all service information and data related to such account and the Service will be deleted or processed according to the service agreement in relation to Tanchat Lite. You can finish the cancellation of your Tanchat Lite account according to the guidance in related operation page in Tanchat Lite.
Some information is required to use the Service, but most other information is provided at your discretion or with your consent. When the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you can choose whether or not to disclose the information. You can change the scope of your consent to allow us to continue collecting the information or withdraw your consent by withdrawing it, deleting information, turning off device functions, and so on. You can also withdraw your consent by contacting us through the methods described in Section X "How to Contact Us" below.
Once you withdraw your authorization, we will no longer be able to provide you with the corresponding service and will not process your related information. However, your decision to withdraw consent will not affect the processing of information previously based on your consent.
Certain information may be considered sensitive due to its nature, such as your race, religion, personal health and medical information, identification documents, personal biometric data, property information, traces, and information about minors.
Please note that the content and information you provide, upload, or post on the Service (such as photos or details about your social activities) may reveal sensitive information. You should carefully consider whether to disclose sensitive information using the Service. If you choose to do so, we will understand it as explicit consent for us to process such sensitive information. You agree that your sensitive information will be handled in accordance with the purposes and methods described in this Policy.
In some business functions, we may make decisions solely based on automated mechanisms such as information systems and algorithms. If these decisions significantly affect your rights and interests, you may request an explanation, and we will provide appropriate remedies.
To address your request and for security reasons, you may need to provide a written request and verify your identity. Your reasonable requests will generally not incur charges, but repeated, excessive, or unreasonable requests may incur a fee. We may refuse requests that are unnecessarily repetitive, require excessive technology (such as developing new systems or fundamentally changing existing practices), risk others' legitimate interests, or are highly impractical (such as those involving backup information).
We will not be able to respond to your request under the following circumstances:
The Service may link to third-party social media or other services (including websites or other types of services), including:
The types of third-party service providers we may access include:
Some third-party SDKs or applications may collect user information. By using such third-party services within the Service, you agree that your information will be collected and processed directly by them. We will evaluate the legality, legitimacy, and necessity of the information collected by such third parties, require them to protect your information, and ensure they comply with relevant laws and regulations.
These third-party services are operated by their respective parties. Your use of their services (including providing your information) is subject to their own terms of service and privacy policies (not this Policy). You should review their terms carefully. This Policy applies only to information collected by us and not to third-party services or their information practices. We are not responsible for how third parties use the information you provide to them.
The Service is provided only to adults. No minor (defined as individuals who have not reached the age specified by applicable laws) is permitted to create a user account or use our services. We will protect minors' information according to relevant laws and regulations.
We do not knowingly process personal data from minors without parental consent. If you believe we have collected personal data from a minor under your guardianship, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section X "How to Contact Us". We will promptly investigate and, if applicable, remove such personal information. We will only use or disclose minors' personal information when permitted by law, with parental consent, or to protect minors.
We may revise this Policy as needed, and such changes will form part of this Policy. For significant changes (e.g., changes to our service model, ownership structure, main objects of personal information sharing, transfer or public disclosure, your rights to participate in personal data processing and its exercise, our department handling personal information security, contact information, and complaint channels), we will provide more prominent notices, and you may choose to stop using the Service. If you continue to use the Service, you agree to be bound by the revised Policy.
Any amendments will prioritize your satisfaction. We encourage you to review this Policy each time you use the Service.
We may issue service-related announcements when necessary (e.g., system maintenance suspensions). You may not be able to opt out of these non-promotional, service-related announcements.
Lastly, you are responsible for keeping your account and password confidential. Please ensure the safety of this information.
If you have any questions about anything in this policy, or want to exercise any rights you may have, please contact us: tanchatcs@gmail.com.