Welcome to Doctor Network (“Platform“), including the website at www.doctornetwork.us and any other websites or applications, if any, including mobile applications related to the Doctor Network brands or products, provided and controlled by DOCTOR NETWORK INC. or its affiliates or subsidiaries or partners or one of the affiliates of DOCTOR NETWORK INC. (including but not limited to affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, service providers of DOCTOR NETWORK INC.) (“Doctor Network” or “we” or “our”).

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, disclose, and/or process personal data that you have provided to us and/or that we hold about you, whether now or in the future, as well as to help you make informed decisions before providing us with any of your personal data. If you do not agree with this Policy, please do not continue to use our website, application, or any of our services.

If you have any questions about how we use your personal data, please contact support@doctornetwork.us.

By using the Platform and/or registering an account and/or providing information to us, you fully understand, agree, and commit to complying with our entire Privacy Policy with the following contents:

SUMMARY

What information do we collect about you?

We collect and process the information that you provide to us:

When you visit and/or create an account and/or use our Services or Platform
When you post content on the Platform
When you download the app and interact with the Platform without creating an account
When you enter into agreements or provide documents or other relevant information pertaining to your interactions with us, or when you use our products and services.
When you use our services or interact with us through platforms, websites, or applications. This includes interactions facilitated by cookies that we may deploy when you engage with our platforms or websites.
When you grant permissions on your device to share information with our applications or platforms.
When you link your Doctor Network account with external accounts or use other social media features, in accordance with provider policies.
When you provide feedback or lodge complaints with us.
When you provide your information for any applications or events within the Doctor Network ecosystem or its affiliates, such as NetLove, Speed Couple, Blind Date, and other events organized or co-organized by Doctor Network or its affiliates.
When you submit your personal data to us or our affiliates for any reason.
When you engage in other activities on our platform.

For clarity, this information includes technical information and behavioral information about your use of the Platform; the circumstances set out above are not intended to be an exhaustive list of circumstances and only provide some common instances of when your personal data may be collected.

Additionally, in some cases, you may provide personal data of other individuals to us (such as family members, friends, or individuals in your contact list). If you provide us with their personal data, you declare and ensure that you have obtained their consent for the processing of their personal data in accordance with this Policy.

We may also collect information from other sources, including service providers, partners, referral programs, events, surveys, promotions, or similar forms of engagement with us or our affiliated parties.

How Will We Use Your Information?

We may collect, use, disclose and/or process your personal data for the following purposes:

To manage, operate, deliver, and/or administer your use and/or access to our Services and platforms (including your preferences), as well as your relationship and user account with us. This enables us to tailor content to your interests and provide you with relevant suggestions.
To address your specific requests for certain services and notify you of any service issues or abnormal account activities.
To enforce our Terms of Service or any applicable end-user license agreements.
To protect the personal safety and rights, property, or security of others.
For identification, authentication, legal evaluation, or customer identification purposes.
To ensure you are of legal age to use our Platform (as required by law).
To ensure content is presented most effectively for you and your device.
To improve, promote, and develop the Platform and promote popular topics and campaigns.
To conduct data analysis and testing to ensure platform stability and security.
To provide information to our algorithms.
To resolve or facilitate customer service, fulfill your directives, address or respond to any queries submitted by (or directed at) you or on your behalf;
To conduct research, analysis and development activities (including but not limited to data analytics, surveys, productincluding but not limited to data analysis, surveys, product and service development and/or characterization), to analyze how you use our Services, to introduce products and/or services based on your interests, improve services or our products, and/or enhance your customer experience.
To conduct checks and surveys, among other activities, to verify the scale and composition of our target audience and understand their experience with Doctor Network Services.
For the purpose of introducing various types of service products and/or advertising for the service products of partners; Providing you with personalized advertising based on the information you provide.
To comply with legal procedures or to comply or pursuant to the provisions of current law, and the requirements of competent authority or requests from any jurisdiction agency or when we truly believe that disclosure of information is necessary, including but not limited to, responding to requests to disclose information as required by any law binding on Doctor Network or its related companies or branches of Doctor Network (including, if any, displaying your name, contact details, and company details);
To compile statistics and conduct research to meet reporting requirements and/or maintain internal records or as required;
To carry out the research process and verification processes or other screening activities (including but not limited to profile checks) to comply with legal obligations or competent authority or our risk control procedures, which may be legally required or may have been applied by us;
To check Our Services or Platform activities;
To transfer to third parties unrelated to include partners, service providers, agents, other third parties of ours and related management and government agencies, whether in any country, to implement our business plans;
For marketing and advertising purposes, in which case, to send you through various means and methods of communication, information and marketing and advertising materials related to products and/or services (including, but not limited to, products and/or services of third parties that Doctor Network may cooperate or affiliate) that Doctor Network (and/or its affiliates or related companies) may sell, market, or advertise, whether those products or services exist now or are created in the future;
To comply with legal procedures or to conform with applicable laws and regulations, and to meet the requirements of competent government authorities or any judicial bodies, or when we reasonably believe that disclosure of information is necessary, including but not limited to, fulfilling disclosure requirements under any binding laws applicable to Doctor Network or its affiliated companies and subsidiaries (including, where applicable, the display of your name, contact details and company information);
To prevent or investigate any actual fraud activities or suspected activities related to our Terms of Service, fraud, illegal behavior, deficiencies or any misconduct, whether related to your use of Our Services or not or any issues arising from your relationship with us;
To satisfy any actual threats or what factual claim is asserted against uss or other requests related to third-party Content violation provisions;
To store, set up server, backup (whether for disaster recovery purposes or other purposes) your personal data;
For any other incidental purposes arising from or related to the purposes stated above;
Any other purposes not mentioned above (unless permitted by law, or required, or regulations), we will seek your consent before using your personal data under the Platform’s policies…

Hereinafter collectively referred to as “Purposes”.

For the Purposes for which we will/may collect, use, disclose or process your personal data depends on the current circumstances, which may not be listed above.

Who Do We Share Your Information?

In the course of conducting business and operating the Platform, we will/may need to use, process, disclose, and/or share your data with third-party service providers, agents, and/or our affiliated or related companies, and/or any other third parties, for one or more of the aforementioned Purposes, and this disclosure will be conducted in accordance with the proper procedures and regulations of applicable law.

How Long Do We Retain Your Information?

Unless you request a request for deletion of your information which we deem reasonable and in accordance with legal regulations, we retain your information for as long as necessary to provide services to you. When we no longer need your information to provide services to you, we only retain it when we have a legitimate business purpose for doing so or if we are legally obligated to retain it. We will also retain your data if we believe it is necessary or will be necessary for the establishment, execute or defense of legal claims.

How will We Notify You of Changes to This Privacy Policy?

We will notify all users of any significant changes to this policy by posting a notice on our Platform. However, you should regularly check this policy to review any changes. By accessing or using the Platform, you acknowledge that you have read this policy and understand your rights in relation to your personal data and how we will collect, use, and process such data.

Types of Personal Data We Use

We collect and use the following information about you:

Your Profile Information

You provide us with information when you register on the Platform, including but not limited to your username, date of birth (where applicable), email address and/or your phone number, information Which you disclose in your user profile, and your profile picture or video.

Expert Content and Behavioral Information

We process the content you create and view on the Platform, including the preferences you set (such as language choices), images, audio, and videos you upload or create, comments, and live streams you conduct (“Expert Content”). We collect Expert Content by preloading at the time of creation, entry or upload, regardless of whether you choose to save or upload that Expert Content, to suggest audio options and provide other personalized recommendations. If you use effects for your Expert Content, we may collect a version of the Expert Content without the effects. We may collect information about images and audio as part of your Expert Content, such as identifying objects and scenery appearing in it, the presence and location of faces and body characteristics and attributes in photos, the nature of audio, and spoken text in your Expert Content. We collect this information to enable special video effects, content moderation, demographic classification, content and advertisement recommendations and other non-identifying purposes. We may access content, including text, images, and videos, found in the device cache with your permission. For instance, if you choose to share content with a third-party platform or paste content from the cache into the Doctor Network App, we access the information stored in the cache to fulfill your request.

We also collect information about your use and habits on the Platform, such as how you engage with the Platform, including interactions with the content we provide to you, advertisements which you view, videos which you watch, issues which you encounter, content which you like, content which you save in “My Favorites,” and Experts who you follow. We identify your preferences, including your likes, gender, and age to personalize content. We process information about your followers, likes which you receive, and responses to the content you post to promote your content to other users and explore potential collaboration opportunities. When appropriate, we also use this information to deliver personalized advertisements and introduce new services and opportunities to you.

Information from Third-Parties

You may choose to share certain data with us from third parties, or through your use of the Platform, we may automatically collect data from those third parties. Below, we provide more details on the information we receive from third parties:

Business Partners

If you choose to register or use the Platform using your social media account details (e.g., Google) or sign-in services, you will provide us or allow us to access your username, public profile, and other information related to this account.

Advertisers, Advertising Networks, and Analytics Providers

We use information collected from you and your interaction with the Platform and third-party websites to determine what you might be interested in to deliver more relevant advertisements to you. This information tells us about websites you have visited, apps you have downloaded, and purchases you have made, allowing us to predict other interests and evaluate the effectiveness of advertisements on our Platform. We collect this information by using Cookies and similar technologies on our Platform and similar information we receive from third parties who advertise on our Platform and own the websites/apps you visit.

Location

When you download and install one of our mobile applications or use a computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device to access our websites, use our services or mobile applications, or purchase products or services through our websites, we may collect information about your location, which may include IP address-based, SIM card, and/or GPS information from your device (global positioning system).

We may combine this information with other location-based information, such as IP address and billing information, to provide you with information about nearby stores, the distance to those stores, and facilitate the deployment of Services or other features on our websites and mobile applications. We only share your location information with service providers or partners who help us provide these services and functions or help us understand how these services and functions are used.

In-App Purchases Information

Your purchases will be processed through your Apple or Google Play account. We do not collect any financial and payment information from you related to such transactions. Please refer to the relevant app store’s terms and notices for processing such data. To credit your account accurately with the correct value in coins, we maintain records of your purchases, the time of your transactions and the amount spent. Besides in-app coin purchases, if you choose to conduct other payment-related transactions, the Platform may collect payment information, including payment card numbers or third-party payment information if it needed for payment purposes.

Proof of Identity or Age

Occasionally, we may ask you to provide proof of identity or age to use certain features, such as live streaming or a verified account, ensuring you are of legal age to use the Platform or in cases where verification is required.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will use the information collected about you in the following ways:

To notify you about changes to our services;
To provide you with user support services;
To personalize the content you receive and provide you with relevant content that you will be interested in;
To allow you to share Expert Content and interact with other users;
To enable our messaging service to function if you choose to use this feature;
To allow you to participate in the virtual items program;
To communicate with you;
To help us detect and combat abuse, harmful activities, fraud, spam, and illegal activities on the Platform;
To ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device;
To improve, promote, and develop the Platform and promote popular topics, hashtags, and campaigns on the Platform;
To conduct data analysis and platform testing to ensure the stability and security of the Platform;
To enable you to participate in the interactive features of the Platform;
To ensure that you are of legal age to use our Platform (as required by law);
To provide you with personalized advertising;
To provide you with location-based services (where these services are available in your jurisdiction);
To provide information to our algorithms;
To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies;
To manage the Platform, including troubleshooting;
To facilitate sales, promotion, and purchasing activities and provide user support;
To share the information we collect with our subsidiaries and affiliated companies for recruitment, management, analysis, and decision-making purposes, including decisions related to expanding and promoting our product and service offerings, orders, or responding to customer requests, operating our websites and mobile applications, and for other purposes described in or outside this Policy; and
To share your information with service providers who provide support services to us, such as website hosting, email delivery, map location, postal process, order preparation and delivery, and analytics. We require these companies to refrain from collecting, using, and disclosing your information unless they are performing work for us or when the disclosure of your information is required by law.

We may use the information about you that we collect in various ways, including but not limited to:

Processing your product purchases and service use;
Facilitating transactions and payment processing;
Facilitating the functions of our websites and mobile applications;
Communicating with you about orders, purchases, returns, accounts, and programs;
Responding to your inquiries about the Services and your information requests;
Posting your comments or statements on our websites or applications;
Sending you personalized promotions, advertisements, newsletters, and special offers;
Notifying you and our affiliates about our products, services, events, or promotions;
Introducing you to products and services compatible with your Platform usage habits;
Maintaining and improving our websites, mobile applications, and the products and services we offer;
Detecting, preventing, or investigating security breaches and fraud;
Maintaining accurate and appropriate records for internal administrative purposes.

How We Share Your Personal Data

We share your data with the following selected third parties:

Business Partners

If you choose to register to use the Platform using your social network account details (e.g., Google, Facebook, Apple), you will provide us or allow your social network to provide us with your email address, username, phone number, and public profile. We will also share certain information with the respective social network, such as application ID, access token, and link URL. If you choose to allow third-party services to access your account, we will share certain information about you with the third party. Depending on the permissions you grant, the third party may obtain your account information and other information you choose to provide.

When you choose to share content on social media platforms, video, username, and accompanying text will be shared on that platform, or a link to the content will be shared if shared via instant messaging platforms.

Payment Service Providers

If you choose to purchase Services or conduct other payment-related transactions, we will share data with the respective payment service provider to facilitate this transaction.

Service Providers

We provide information and content to service providers that support our business operations, such as cloud service providers and content moderation service providers to ensure the Platform is safe and enjoyable, and service providers that support our Platform marketing efforts.

Analytics Service Providers

We use analytics service providers to help us optimize and improve the Platform. Our third-party analytics service providers also help us deliver targeted advertisements.

Advertisers and Ad Networks

We share information with advertisers and third-party measurement companies to inform them about the number and types of Platform users who have viewed or clicked on advertisements. We share your device ID with measurement companies so that we can link your Platform activity to your activity on other websites; we then use this information to show you ads that may be of interest to you.

Our Group

We may also share your information with other members, subsidiaries, or affiliates in our corporate group to provide the Platform including improving and optimizing the Platform, preventing unlawful use, and supporting users.

Law Enforcement

We will share your information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, or other organizations if required by law, or if it is reasonably necessary to:

Comply with legal obligations, processes, or requests;
Enforce our Terms of Service and our other agreements, policies, and standards, including investigating any potential violations of our Terms of Service and other agreements those agreements, policies and standards;
Detect, prevent, or address security, fraud, or technical issues; or
Protect our rights, property, or safety, our users, third parties, or the public as required or permitted by law (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction purposes).

Public Profile

Please note that if your profile is public, your content may be visible to anyone on the Platform and can be accessed or shared by your friends and followers as well as third parties such as search engines, content aggregators, and news websites. You can change who can view your video each time you upload a video.

Sale or Merger

We will also disclose your information to third parties:

if we sell or buy any business or assets (whether as a result of liquidation, bankruptcy, or otherwise), in which case we will disclose your data to the potential seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
if we sell, buy, merge, are acquired by, or partner with other companies or businesses, or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.

Where We Store Your Personal Data

Personal data which we collect from you may be stored on a server located in Vietnam or the United States, outside the country where you reside.

Your Rights and Choices

You can access and edit most of your profile information by logging into Doctor Network. You can delete Expert Content you have posted. We also provide various tools in Settings to allow you to control who can view your videos, send messages to you, or post comments on your videos, among other features. You can delete your entire account in Settings if you choose. You have the right to request the deletion of some or all of your personal data collected and stored on the Platform, except in cases where the retention of such information is mandatory current legal regulations or necessary for our compliance with legal obligations. Your data deletion request will be reviewed and processed within a reasonable timeframe, in accordance with regulations on personal data protection and user privacy rights. We reserve the right to refuse the deletion or destruction of data if your request does not comply with applicable laws. If you have any questions about how to use these tools or want to know about any rights you might have in your country of residence or want to exercise those rights, or have any requests, questions, or complaints, please contact us at: support@doctornetwork.us.

The Period which We Retain Your Personal Data

We retain your information for as long as necessary, for example, to comply with the contractual relationship between you and us or to provide our services to you. When we no longer need your information to provide services to you, we retain it only for as long as we have a legitimate business purpose to retain it, as permitted by applicable law. However, there are circumstances where we may retain this data for longer to comply with our legal obligations or when it is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

We will proceed to delete your personal data upon request, except in cases where: (i) the law requires us to retain such data; or (ii) retention is necessary under current legal regulations. Data deletion will be carried out for information stored on our Platform within a reasonable timeframe upon receiving a valid request from you.

After you terminate your use of the Platform, we store your information in an aggregated and anonymous format.

Information Relating to Children

Doctor Network and the Services provided by Doctor Network on this platform are not intended for children under 17 years of age. In certain jurisdictions, this age limit may be higher due to local regulatory requirements; please refer to your local privacy policy for more information. If you believe that we have personal data about or have collected data from children under the relevant age, please contact us at support@doctornetwork.us.

Disclaimer of Liability and Third-Party Websites

WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND/OR APPLICATIONS.

We implement various security measures to maintain the safety of your personal data that we hold or control. However, transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure. Although we have appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk and the severity to your rights and freedoms and those of other users. We maintain these measures and will modify them from time to time to improve the overall security of our systems.

To provide you with increase value and expand the information exchange environment, we may choose various third-party websites, applications, or services to link to and frame within the Platform. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies and security measures. Even if the third party is affiliated with us, we do not control these linked websites/applications/services, each of which has separate and independent methods of privacy protection and data collection, independent of us. Data collected by our co-marketing partners or third-party websites/applications/services (even if provided on or through our Platform) may not be accessible to or retained by us.

Therefore, we do not bear any responsibility or liability for the content, security measures (or lack thereof), and activities of these linked websites/applications/services. These linked websites/applications/services are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. However, we seek to protect the integrity of our Platform and the links placed on each website and therefore welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

Complaints

If you want to complain about how we handle your personal data, please immediately contact us at support@doctornetwork.us. We will endeavor to resolve your request as soon as possible. This does not affect your right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority.

Governing Law

These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Vietnam. Any disputes, controversies, claims, or disagreements of any kind arising from or related to these Terms of Service against or related to Doctor Network or any Indemnified Party subject to these Terms of Service will be resolved by the Vietnam International Arbitration Center (VIAC). The language used in the arbitration process is Vietnamese in the case of disputes occurring between Us and users residing in Vietnam and English for users residing outside of Vietnam.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

We reserve all rights not expressly granted herein.

We have the right to amend the terms of this policy at any time by posting the amended policy on the Platform. Your continued use of the Services on the Platform after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the amended terms of the policy.
Nothing in this policy will create a partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between you and Doctor Network.
At any time, or times, if Doctor Network fails to enforce any provision herein, it does not affect our right at a later time to enforce these rights unless waived in writing.
We reserve the right to refuse to delete or destroy data if your request does not comply with applicable law or, even if it does comply, if it falls under circumstances where we are prohibited from deleting or destroying the data as prescribed by applicable law.
These Terms of Service are for the benefit of Doctor Network and Users not for the benefit of any other person or entity, except for affiliates and subsidiaries of Doctor Network (and each successor or assignee of Doctor Network or of the affiliates and subsidiaries of Doctor Network).
The terms set forth in these Terms of Service and any agreements and policies included or referenced in these Terms of Service constitute the entire understanding and agreement of the parties regarding the Services and Platform and supersede any prior agreements or understandings between the parties on the subject matter. By entering into the agreement formed by these Terms of Service, the parties do not rely on any statement, representation, warranty, understanding, undertaking, promise, or assurance of any person other than those expressly set out in these Terms of Service. These Terms of Service will not be contradicted, explained, or supplemented by any prior agreement, oral or written, or any consistent additional terms.
You agree to comply with all applicable laws related to anti-corruption and anti-bribery.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy or issues arising from it, please contact us at support@doctornetwork.us.

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