Wave Browser Privacy Policy
Last updated on March 25, 2024 Effective on March 25, 2024
We have updated the Privacy Policy for Wave Browser to better protect your privacy rights. The updates of this version focus on:
In the first section, we have added permission usage instructions due to the application's update.
Introduction Wave Browser (including services provided by the app and other products) is developed and operated by BOX Video Downloader Dev Team (hereinafter referred to as "we," "us," "our"). We take the privacy and personal information of our users (hereinafter referred to as "you") seriously. We collect, use, save, and share your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
About Us Company Name: BOX Video Downloader Dev Team Contact Information: maxwalkerdev@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy will help you understand the following:
1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
(1) How Wave Browser Collects Your Personal Information At Wave Browser, we collect your personal information in the following ways to provide you with our services and optimize your user experience:
Basic Usage To ensure the normal operation of Wave Browser, we collect your device model, operating system, unique device identifier (Android ID for Android), IP address, software version number, network type and status, network quality data, operation logs, service log information, and other logs.
Complete Registration To help you complete your account registration and protect your account security, we collect your username and login password when you register for a Wave Browser account. Without this information, we cannot create an account for you or provide you with cloud synchronization services.
Data Synchronization To ensure that you can use our synchronization service normally, share data between different devices, complete data synchronization, and improve your experience, we collect your current bookmarks, scripts, ad-blocking subscription filters, and settings when you use our cloud services. Without this information, you will not be able to use the synchronization service.In order to prevent users from missing important reminders, such as breaking news, unexpected weather conditions, and voice weather broadcast and news broadcast functions that will be added in subsequent versions, we will use the media notification function
(2) Instructions for Using Permissions During your use of Wave Browser, we may ask for device permissions within the necessary scope. We will not enable your device's permissions by default, and we will only collect your information through device permissions if you actively confirm it. Please refer to the table below for the permissions we request, the purpose of requesting the permissions, and whether we ask for your consent before requesting the permissions:
(3) How We Utilize Your Personal Information At BOX Video Downloader Dev Team, we take your privacy seriously and use your personal information only in accordance with this Privacy Policy to provide and improve our services. Unless you delete or refuse our collection through system settings, you authorize us to use your personal information during your use of our services. When you delete your account, we will stop using and delete your personal information.
We may also use your personal information to conduct statistics on the use of our services and share this statistical information with the public or third parties for product development, service optimization, and security purposes. However, this information does not contain any identifiable information about you.
If we want to use your personal information for other purposes not specified in this policy, or use the information collected for a specific purpose for other purposes, we will request your consent beforehand.
(4) Other Rules We may collect and use your personal information without seeking your consent in certain circumstances as required by relevant laws, regulations, and national standards. These circumstances include:
• Fulfilling our obligations under laws and regulations;
• Directly related to national security and defense;
• Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
• Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, approval, and execution of judgments;
• Protecting the life, property, and other major legal rights of the personal information subject or other individuals, but obtaining authorization and consent is difficult;
• The personal information involved has been disclosed to the public by the personal information subject or their legal guardian;
• Necessary for signing and performing contracts according to the requirements of the personal information subject;
• Collecting personal information from legally publicly disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure, and other channels;
• Necessary to maintain the safe and stable operation of the provided products or services, such as discovering and disposing of product or service failures.
2. How We Save Your Personal Information in Wave Browser
At Wave Browser, we take your privacy seriously and aim to handle your personal information with utmost care. To ensure this, we will only store your personal information for the shortest period required for the purposes specified in this policy and as required by laws and regulations. After this period, we will either delete or anonymize your personal information.
3. How We Handle Your Personal Information
Hello and thank you for choosing Wave Browser! We recognize the importance of your personal information and want to assure you that we handle it with utmost care.
Delegated Processing: Occasionally, we may enlist the help of a trusted third-party service provider to process the personal information we collect. These providers assist us with infrastructure technology, data analysis, and other technical support. However, they only process your information for the purposes outlined in this policy.
Sharing: We will only share your personal information under the following circumstances:
• You have explicitly given us permission or requested it via Wave Browser support email or other communication channels.
• It is required by law or by a government authority.
Transfer: We will not transfer your personal information to anyone unless it is necessary due to a merger, acquisition, asset transfer, or bankruptcy liquidation. In such cases, we will inform you and ensure that the new organization is bound by this policy. If not, we will seek your authorization and consent again.
Public Disclosure: We will not publicly disclose your personal information unless it is required by law or we have agreed to do so in this policy.
Exceptions: There may be situations where we need to share, transfer, or publicly disclose your personal information without your consent, such as:
• Fulfilling our obligations under laws and regulations.
• National security or defense.
• Public safety, health, or interests.
• Criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, or execution of judgments.
• Protecting someone's life, property, or legal rights.
• Information that you or someone else has already disclosed publicly.
• Collecting personal information from legally publicly disclosed sources.
Other Information: Please be cautious when sharing or disclosing personal information, especially if it involves other people's information. Additionally, if we use technical measures to make your information anonymous and unidentifiable, we will not require your consent to share, transfer, or publicly disclose it. However, we will inform you if we choose to do so.
4. How Third-Party Products or Services Obtain Your Personal Information for Wave Browser
To provide you with richer and more complete functions, we use the following third-party software development kits ("SDKs") to offer you services. For information on the specific information collection and use of the SDK, please refer to the privacy policy or relevant statement of the SDK operator. The third-party SDKs that are currently connected to Wave Browser are as follows:
• Google Admob & Firebase https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
• Facebook Audience Network & Facebook Analytics https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
• Mopub https://www.mopub.com/en/legal/privacy
• AdMob https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
• Adjust https://www.adjust.com/terms/privacy-policy
• Google Play Services https://google-play-services.en.uptodown.com/android/download
• Google Analytics for Firebase https://firebase.google.com/?hl=zh-cn
• Firebase Crashlytics https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics?hl=zh-cn
5.Wave Browser's Approach to Protecting Your Personal Information
At Wave Browser, we recognize the importance of safeguarding your personal information. That's why we go to great lengths to ensure its security:
We employ industry-standard data protection technology and management techniques, including network isolation, data encryption, and other preventative measures, to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or destruction.
While we strive to keep any information you provide us secure, please be aware that the internet is not entirely secure, and we cannot be held responsible for any risks or losses that may occur.
In the unlikely event of a breach in personal information security, we will promptly inform you in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements. This notification will include details of the breach, its potential impact, the actions we have taken or will take, recommendations to mitigate risks, and remedial actions for you. We will notify you of the breach through various channels, such as application push notifications, email, text message, phone call, etc. If it's difficult to inform you individually, we will issue a notice using reasonable and effective means. Additionally, we will proactively report personal information security incidents to the relevant regulatory authorities.
6.How We Manage Your Personal Information
While using Wave Browser, you may contact us through the corresponding page prompts or the methods specified in this privacy policy to access, correct, delete your personal information, and exercise your right to change the scope of authorization, consent and cancel your account. We will promptly address your concerns.
<1>Access and Correct Your Personal Information
To access or correct your personal information, follow the page prompts by clicking "Menu - Settings - General - Account," or contact us using the information specified in this privacy policy, and we will respond promptly.
<2>Delete Your Personal Information
To delete your personal information, please refer to the next four items to delete or cancel your account, or contact us using the methods specified in this privacy policy, and we will respond promptly.
<3>Change the Scope of Your Authorization
To change the scope of your consent or withdraw your authorization, contact us through the device permission settings or the methods specified in this privacy policy. Please note that we may need to open certain permissions and collect necessary personal information to provide you with the service. If you withdraw your consent, we will not be able to provide you with the services corresponding to the withdrawal of your consent, but it will not affect the personal information processing services carried out previously based on your authorization.
<4>Delete Account
To log out of your account, click "Menu - Settings - General - Account - Delete account" and follow the page prompts, or contact us using the methods specified in this privacy policy. We will respond promptly. Please note that your account deletion is irreversible. We will cease providing you with products or services, stop collecting your personal information, and delete or anonymize the personal information related to your account based on your request.
<5>Response to Your Request
If you cannot exercise your rights using the above methods, please contact us using the contact information specified in this privacy policy. To ensure safety, you may need to provide a written request or prove your identity in other ways. We may ask you to verify your identity before processing your request.
We do not charge a fee for your reasonable request. However, we may charge an appropriate cost for repeated requests that exceed a reasonable limit. We may reject requests that are unreasonably repeated, require excessive technical means, bring risks to the legitimate rights and interests of others, or are unrealistic.
<6>Exceptions to Response Scenarios
We cannot respond to your request in the following situations:
-Related to our fulfillment of obligations under laws and regulations;
-Directly related to national security and national defense security;
-Directly related to public safety, public health, and major public interests;
-In relation to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and enforcement Directly related to judgments, etc.;
-We have sufficient evidence to show that the subject of personal information has subjective malice or abuse of rights;
-In order to protect the life and property of the personal information subject or other individuals, but it is difficult to obtain the consent of the person;
-Responding to the request of the personal information subject will cause serious damage to the legal rights and interests of the personal information subject or other individuals or organizations;
-Involving trade secrets.
7.Wave Browser's Policy Updates:
At Wave Browser, we are committed to protecting your personal information. We may update our privacy policy from time to time, and any changes will be posted on this page. If we make significant modifications, we will provide more prominent notices, such as prompts on the browsing page.
Please be assured that we will not curtail your rights under this privacy policy without your explicit consent. This includes any changes to our service model, sharing, transfer or public disclosure of personal information, your right to participate in the processing of personal information, and how to exercise it, modifications to our contact information or complaint channels, and situations where the personal information security impact assessment report indicates a high risk.
8.How to Contact Us
If you have any inquiries, comments, or suggestions about our privacy policy or the protection of personal information, please feel free to contact us at maxwalkerdev@gmail.com. We will make every effort to respond to your message within fifteen business days.
Thank you for choosing Wave Browser. We value your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy.