Dear openKylin user:
Your trust is very important to us. We attach great importance to the protection of personal information and privacy. In order to ensure the legal, reasonable, and appropriate collection, storage, and use of your personal and private information, and to transmit and store it in a secure and controllable manner, the openKylin community ("we") has formulated this "openKylin Personal Information Protection and Privacy Policy Statement" (hereinafter referred to as "this Statement"). We will provide corresponding security protection measures for your personal information in accordance with legal requirements and industry-proven security standards.
Before submitting your personal information to us, please read this Statement carefully. If you have any questions about how we handle your personal information, please feel free to contact us.
This Statement will help you understand the following:
I. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
II. How We Share, Transfer, and Publicly Disclose Your Personal Information
III. How We Protect Your Personal Information
IV. How We Manage Your Personal Information
V. Your Rights
VI. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies
VII. Special Provisions for Minors' User Information
VIII. How This Statement is Updated
IX. How to Contact Us
During your use of the openKylin operating system products, we will collect information that you actively provide or that is generated as a result of using the services. Such information will be collected when you register and use our services. We will only collect and use your personal information for the purposes described in this Statement. We will explain the types of personal information we collect and use and the relevant terms in this Statement one by one, so that you can better understand the overview of personal information.
openKylin System Level:
1) During the installation/update of this system, non-personally identifiable system information may be collected, as follows:
System update requires collection: error code, installation source, package name, installation step, installation status, error details, transaction ID, error message, upload type.
System installation requires collection: old version number of the installation package, error code, new version number of the installation package, package name, installation step, installation status, error details.
Software package update requires collection: error code, updated package name, update mode, update step, upgrade status.
2) During the use of the system's control panel, when clicking operations, clicking homepage operations, clicking left panel operations, setting operations, selection operations, search operations, or when there are no search results, the following needs to be collected: plugin name, setting name, value information.
3) The daq data collection information of this system is as follows:
Important hardware and software information: city, country, province, CPU model, graphics card model, network type, kernel version, manufacturer name, product name, data creation timestamp, data reporting timestamp, different public information version of the same machine, dpkg version, OS release ID, OS version.
Software environment information: libjpeg version, cups version, python2 version, java version, python3 version, libjbig version, libpng version, machine ID, gcc version, kernel version, gdb version, glibc version, grub version, daq version, qt4 version, qt5 version
Computer online information: boot time, shutdown time, boot period, shutdown period, boot period (unit: seconds), boot period (unit: seconds)
4) Start menu operation of this system collects: module name, error output, error level, function count, executed function.
5) Sidebar operation of this system collects: module name, error output, error level, function count, executed function.
6) Functions such as camera, mobile assistant, image viewer, printing, calculator, recording, font previewer, graphics card controller, book transfer, service and technical support, network check tool, weather, management, scanning, Bluetooth of this system will collect corresponding trigger action values, function call numbers, and information.
7) During the use of the system's software store, in the following operations, the information to be collected is:
Installation process
Installed software name, community ID information (community ID login required)
Uninstallation process
Uninstalled software name, community ID information (community ID login required)
Store client startup
Startup time, system version, store version
Search operation
Search keyword, system architecture
Advertisement operation (V4 version)
Advertisement name, advertisement impression
8) This system's recording function, When using the recording software of this system, the audio content you record will only be stored locally on your computer and will not be collected or uploaded.
The relevant information collected by the above system is generally recorded in the logs of the server systems corresponding to its functions. The specific storage location may vary depending on different service scenarios.
openKylin Community Level:
If you merely browse the general content of the openKylin community official website, we usually do not require you to provide personal information. However, in the following circumstances, we will collect your personal information accordingly:
1) Account services, This community provides ID authentication services to offer a unified community identity and permissions. When you register for a this community account, we will collect your email or mobile phone number for identity verification, collect your Gitee account for permission management of the community code hosting platform, and we will also use your personal information to identify your identity in the community and conduct data statistics based on this to help us understand the operational status of this community.
2) Contributor Agreement Signing. When you contribute code through the Contributor License Agreement ("CLA") signing system, you need to submit your relevant personal information to the CLA signing system. We obtain this personal information to verify whether you have signed the CLA and for contribution statistics analysis to generate the community digital dashboard. When you send the completed CLA in pdf format to the email address contact@openkylin.top via the CLA signing system, we will archive the CLA containing your personal information as proof of the license you grant for the content you contribute to this community. If you are an individual or a corporate employee, we collect your Gitee, Gitlink, Github ID, name, and email address from the CLA you send via email to verify your Gitee (Gitee, Gitlink, Github) account and contact you; if you sign the CLA on behalf of an enterprise, we collect your name, position, company name, and email from the CLA you send via email for your company to verify your identity and contact you, etc.
3) Forum Services. The forum service provides you with the following business functions. During your use of relevant business functions, we will process the following information necessary to provide the functions. If you do not provide the relevant information, it will affect your ability to use the relevant functions of the forum service.
Login and Identity Authentication: You can log in to the forum service using your this community account. We will use your this community account username, nickname, email, and WeChat scanned account to authenticate your identity and manage your data.
Personal Center: After logging in, we will display your account username on this community on the "Personal Center" page. You can also set your nickname, avatar, and signature used in the community forum on the "Personal Center" page. We will store and display them in the "Personal Center".
Information Publishing and Interaction: "Forum Services" provide you with information publishing and interaction services. For this purpose, we will collect and process the content, images, audio, videos, documents you publish, as well as comments, likes, favorites, and reports. We will also use and display your nickname and avatar. To enhance communication and interaction, we will count and display your post volume, likes received, number of followers, number of followings, and favorites (favorites are only visible to you by default) on the "Personal Center" page. To update and display the above information to you in real-time, we will collect and use information such as your posts, comments, likes, favorites, and lists of followers and followings.
Product Operation and Maintenance: To provide you with a richer product experience, improve the product's operational strategy, ensure stable product operation, and ensure network security in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, we will collect your login account information, device hardware information, operating system setting information, network information (e.g., IP address), carrier information, your browsing or click records on this forum, and forum error reports.
4) Community Internship/Employment Education Program, The task platform of this community's internship/employment education program will collect, use, and manage personal information in a transparent, secure, and compliant manner, aiming to provide a high-quality task collaboration experience while protecting your privacy rights. You should carefully read and understand the platform's privacy policy when using the platform and contact the platform for more information if necessary. If you do not provide the relevant information, it will affect your functional permissions when undertaking various tasks:
Task Posting: If you are an enterprise, you have the right to post tasks on the task platform. You need to provide some enterprise and personal information, such as username, contact information, and detailed task description. This information is used for task posting and management to facilitate communication and collaboration with interns or enthusiasts.
University Student/Enthusiast/Employment Education Information Review: If you apply to become an intern, the platform will require you to submit your personal resume, contact information, and relevant supporting documents. This information will be used to review your internship application and ensure your qualifications and suitability.
Task Undertaking Information Review: When you apply to participate in a specific task, the platform will require you to provide personal information and relevant background related to the task application, level of understanding, solution approach, and timeline plan. This information is used to evaluate the applicant's suitability and ability.
Task Outcome Information Review: After you complete a task, you need to upload relevant outcomes and reports. This information may include your work results and ideas and is used to review the completion of the task.
Reward and Cash Distribution: The platform may reward you based on task completion, including cash. When distributing rewards and cash, the platform needs to collect your payment information, such as bank account number, bank branch, etc., to successfully complete the reward distribution process.
5) Email Subscription. When you use our email subscription service, we will collect your email address. We will use this email to provide you with email subscription services, facilitating your participation in discussions within the community.
6) Content Publishing. When you participate in this community meetings, live broadcasts, blogs, events, or contribute to developer open-source communities, your username and the information you publish will be visible to this community and the public. If you are an this community SIG member: We will ask you to submit your Gitee (Gitee, Gitlink, Github) information for publication on our website.
7) Quick Issue Submission. When you submit an issue through the community's mini-program or directly on the Gitee platform, we will collect your account, username, WeChat authorization information, After the issue is successfully created, we will display your user information in the description field of that issue page.
8) "Kylin Cup" National Open Source Application Software Development Competition. When you apply to participate in the "Kylin Cup" competition, through the application form you actively fill out, we will collect your Gitee (Gitee, Gitlink, Github) information, Hongshan Open Source account, community ID, name, mobile phone number, email, and your work information. Name, mobile phone number, and email are used to notify you of the evaluation results and to contact you. If you achieve good results in the competition, your name will be announced on the official website.
9) Service Optimization. To continuously understand the operational status of this community and better serve you, when you visit our website, we will collect and record your IP address, access source, number of visits to the community, duration of stay, access timestamp, browser type, and server type version used to access the community to identify your visitor activity on the website. We may use third-party web analysis tools (Baidu Statistics) to capture information about the use of our website and conduct data statistics based on this to help us understand the operational status of this community. The providers of web analysis tools capture data about your activity on our website through Cookies and other technologies and provide this information to us in an anonymized form. This information cannot be identified by any website user.
We strictly abide by the provisions of laws and regulations and our agreement with you, using the collected information for the following purposes. If we go beyond the following purposes, we will explain it to you again and obtain your consent.
1) Needs related to the use of the system's software store, system update and maintenance, biometric identification, online services, etc.;
2) We will use relevant information to help improve the security, reliability, and sustainable service of the system and community;
3) We will use the collected information (such as the email address, phone number you provided) to communicate with you directly. For example, business contact, technical support, or service follow-up;
4) We will use the collected data to improve the current ease of use of the product, enhance the product user experience (such as personalized recommendations in the software store), and fix product defects, etc.;
5) We will use the collected user behavior data for big data analysis. For example, we will use the collected information to form city heat maps or industry insight reports that do not contain any personal information. We may publicly disclose and share statistically processed information that does not contain identification content with our partners to understand how users use our services or to let the public understand the general usage trends of our services;
6) To comply with the relevant requirements of applicable laws, regulations, departmental rules, and government directives.
We will not share or transfer your personal information to third parties, except in the following circumstances:
1,After obtaining your separate explicit consent, we will share your personal information with third parties;
2,To achieve the purpose of external processing, we may share your personal information with affiliated companies or other third-party partners (third-party service providers, contractors, agents, application developers, etc.). We will obtain your explicit consent and use encryption, anonymization, and other means to ensure the security of your information;
3,We will not publicly disclose the collected personal information. If public disclosure is necessary, we will inform you of the purpose of the disclosure, the types of information disclosed, and any potentially sensitive information involved, and obtain your explicit consent;
4,As our business continues to develop, we may undergo mergers, acquisitions, asset transfers, etc. We will inform you of the relevant circumstances and obtain your explicit consent, and continue to protect your personal information in accordance with laws and regulations and standards not lower than those required by this Statement, or require the new controller to continue to protect your personal information;
5,If we use your personal information beyond the scope stated at the time of collection and beyond the purposes that are directly or reasonably related, we will inform you again and obtain your explicit consent before using your personal information.
6,Sharing with business partners. We may share your information with third parties such as partners. However, we will only share your personal information for legal, legitimate, necessary, specific, and explicit purposes, and will only share the personal information necessary to provide the service. Our partners include:
1) Developers, platforms and social media: Certain products or services are provided directly to you by third parties, and we need to share transaction-related information with third parties to fulfill your needs. For example, if you activate or associate our services or products with third-party platforms or social media (such as logging in directly through a third-party website, virtual login, or associated login), we may disclose your personal information based on your authorization. We do not control the use of your personal information by third parties.
2) Service providers or professional service providers: We may share your personal information with third parties who provide services or products or support the operation of our website according to our instructions, including third parties who supply us with goods or provide infrastructure technical services, hosting, customer support, marketing and analysis, and information processing services. The purpose of sharing this information is limited to the scope disclosed in this Statement or permitted by you, such as Baidu. We may share your personal information with relevant professionals for professional services, such as auditing, insurance, finance, or legal purposes.
When sharing information with affiliated companies or partners according to the above content, we will stipulate their responsibilities and obligations through contracts and other means, and require them to take necessary measures to ensure the security of the processed personal information.
7,Exceptions to obtaining authorized consent
According to relevant laws, regulations, and national standards, we may collect and use your personal information without obtaining your authorized consent in the following circumstances:
1) Directly related to national interests such as national security and national defense;
2) Directly related to major public interests such as public safety, public health, and public knowledge;
3) Related to activities such as criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;
4) Necessary in emergency situations to protect the life, property, or other major legitimate rights and interests of you or another individual;
5) The collected personal information is disclosed to the public by you yourself;
6) Personal information collected from legally publicly disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure, etc.;
7) Necessary for entering into and performing a contract at your request;
8) Necessary for maintaining the safe and stable operation of the provided product or service. Such as discovering and handling faults of the product or service;
9) Necessary for conducting statistical or academic research in the public interest, and when providing academic research or description results externally, the personal information contained in the results is de-identified;
10) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.
1. Location of Information Storage
We will store personal information collected and generated during operations within the territory of the People's Republic of China in accordance with laws and regulations. If, in the future, to handle cross-border business, it is necessary to transfer relevant personal information collected domestically to overseas institutions, we will obtain your separate consent, implement it in accordance with laws, administrative regulations, and the provisions of relevant regulatory authorities, and require overseas institutions to take relevant protection measures for the obtained personal information through effective measures such as signing agreements and verification.
2. Period of Information Storage
Generally, we retain your personal information only for the time necessary to achieve the purpose or the minimum period stipulated by laws and regulations. Information recorded in logs will be saved for a certain period according to configuration and automatically deleted.
When our system or service ceases operation, we will notify you through notices, announcements, etc., delete your personal information or anonymize it within a reasonable period, and immediately stop collecting personal information activities.
When you voluntarily cancel your account, we will process the data in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations.
3. How We Protect This Information
We will take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that we do not collect personal information unrelated to the services we provide. We strive to provide security for users' information to prevent loss, improper use, unauthorized access, or disclosure.
We will use security protection measures within a reasonable level of security to ensure information security. For example, we will use encryption technology and other means to protect your system-level account password.
We establish special management systems, processes, and organizations to ensure information security. For example, we strictly limit the scope of personnel accessing information and require them to comply with confidentiality obligations.
4. Emergency Plan
In the event of a security incident such as personal information leakage, we will initiate an emergency plan according to law to prevent the expansion of the security incident and inform you of the details of the security incident, its possible impact on you, and the remedial measures we will take through push notifications, announcements, etc. We will also report the handling of personal information security incidents to regulatory authorities in accordance with laws and regulations.
We will comply with the laws and regulations of various regions and take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that irrelevant personal information is not collected.
Your system and community account basic information, including but not limited to your personal mobile phone number, will be encrypted, transmitted, and stored on the server until the account is canceled. We will only retain your personal information for the minimum period necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this Statement. If the storage time exceeds the legal allowable range, we will delete or anonymize it. If deleting relevant personal information is technically difficult, we will stop processing it except for storage and taking necessary security protection measures. However, in the following cases, we may need to change the storage time of personal information due to legal requirements:
To comply with the provisions of court judgments, rulings, or other legal procedures;
To comply with the requirements of relevant government agencies or legally authorized organizations;
We have reason to believe that it is necessary to comply with relevant laws and regulations.
When this service ceases operation, we will promptly stop continuing to collect your personal information, notify you of the cessation of operation through individual delivery or announcements, and delete or anonymize your personal information within a reasonable period.
Through the design of the interactive interface, we provide you with channels to access, obtain, correct, and delete relevant personal information on your own. You can set it in the following ways:
If you are concerned about the leakage of personal information due to using the system and accessing services, you can consider suspending or not using the functions involving personal information, such as the system software store, system update and upgrade, biometric identification, etc., based on personal and business needs.
When using third-party software/services on the system, please pay attention to personal privacy protection.
In some business functions, we may make decisions based solely on non-human automatic decision-making mechanisms including information systems and algorithms. If these decisions significantly affect your legitimate rights and interests, you have the right to ask us for an explanation, and we will also provide appropriate solutions.
If you indeed need to access, modify, or request the deletion of such information according to law, please send your question to the designated contact email (see end of document). We will review the issue as soon as possible and reply promptly after verifying your user identity.
You can submit an account cancellation request through the designated contact email (see end of document); after you voluntarily cancel your account, your personal information and related content will be hidden, removed, or anonymized, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations.
In accordance with relevant regional laws, regulations, standards, and common practices in various regions, we will make our best efforts to take appropriate technical measures to ensure that you can exercise the following rights regarding your personal information:
If you wish to access, copy, correct your basic personal information of your account (such as username, nickname, etc.) or withdraw your consent to the right to use personal information, you can log in to your account on the community account registration website (id.openkylin.top) and perform the aforementioned operations through the "Personal Center".
You have the right to send us a written request through the contact information published in this Privacy Policy to obtain a copy of your personal information. Subject to the conditions stipulated by the national cyberspace administration and technically feasible, such as data interface matching, we can also directly transfer a copy of your personal information to the third party you designate according to your request and existing common technologies. If the transfer fails because the third party refuses to accept your personal information copy, you shall coordinate with the third party to resolve it, and we shall not bear any responsibility.
If you cannot exercise your personal information rights through the above methods, or if exercising certain personal information rights may not be possible on your own, you can contact us at any time through the contact information published in this Privacy Policy or on the relevant product or service page. We will respond to your request within fifteen working days. To protect the security of your personal information, we may require you to verify your identity.
Please note that you should ensure the truthfulness, timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of the personal information you submit. Otherwise, we may not be able to contact you effectively or provide you with some services. If we have reasonable grounds to suspect that the information you provided is incorrect, incomplete, or untrue, we have the right to ask you or notify you to correct it, or even suspend or terminate the provision of some services to you.
Please note that when we decide to respond to your request to withdraw consent or delete personal information, we will no longer process the corresponding personal information. We will also, as far as possible, notify third parties with whom we have shared your personal information, requiring them to delete your personal information promptly, unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations or unless such third parties have obtained your independent authorization. However, your decision to withdraw consent will not affect the legality of the processing of personal information based on your authorization before the withdrawal. If the retention period stipulated by laws or administrative regulations has not expired, or if deleting personal information is technically difficult, we will stop processing it except for storage and taking necessary security protection measures.
We generally do not charge fees for your reasonable requests, but for repeated requests that exceed reasonable limits, we may charge a certain cost fee depending on the situation. We may reject requests that are unfounded and repetitive, require excessive technical means (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing current practices), pose a risk to the legitimate rights and interests of others, or are highly impractical (for example, involving information stored on backup disks).
In the following circumstances, in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, we will not be able to respond to your request:
Related to our performance of obligations stipulated by laws and regulations;
Directly related to national security and national defense; directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;
There is sufficient evidence that you have subjective malice or abuse of rights;
Responding to your request would cause serious harm to the legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals or organizations.
Involving trade secrets;
Necessary to protect the life, property, or other major legitimate rights and interests of you or other individuals, but it is very difficult to obtain your consent;
Other circumstances stipulated by applicable laws.
To help us better understand and serve users, our websites, online services, and applications may use "Cookie" technology. These Cookies are used to store network traffic entering and leaving the system and traffic generated by detecting errors, so they must be set. We use these Cookies to understand how you interact with our websites and online services.
If you want to disable Cookies and are using the Firefox browser, you can do so in Firefox's Privacy & Security center. If you are using another browser, please consult the relevant vendor for specific solutions.
According to Article 76, Item 5 of the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China," personal information refers to various information recorded electronically or by other means that can identify a natural person's personal identity alone or in combination with other information, including but not limited to natural persons' names, dates of birth, ID card numbers, personal biometric information, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. If Cookies contain the above information, or if non-personal information collected through Cookies is combined with other personal information, for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we will treat the combined information as personal and private information and will provide corresponding security protection measures for your personal information with reference to the "openKylin Personal Information Protection and Privacy Policy Statement".
If you are a minor, according to relevant laws and regulations:
1. Without the consent of a parent or guardian, minors shall not create their own user accounts to use openKylin operating system series products. If you are a minor, we recommend that you ask your parent or guardian to read this policy carefully and use our services or provide information to us with the consent of your parent or guardian.
2. For the collection of minors' personal information with the consent of a parent or guardian to use our products or services, we will only use, share, transfer, or disclose this information when permitted by laws and regulations, with the explicit consent of the parent or guardian, or as necessary to protect the minor.
3. Guardians should also take appropriate preventive measures to protect minors and supervise their use of this product.
We may update this Statement at any time and will notify you of the changed Statement through the system installation process or the company website when changes occur. By using the service or any software licensed under these terms after these changes take effect, you agree to the new terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you must stop using this system and close your account created on this system. If you are a guardian, please help your minor child close his or her account created on this product.
All our services are subject to this Statement. However, certain services have their own specific personal information and privacy policies, which explain more specifically how we handle your information in that service. If there is any inconsistency between this Statement and the personal information and privacy policy of a specific service, the specific policy shall prevail.
If you want to contact us or exercise your relevant rights, please contact us through the following methods: contact@openkylin.top