Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

We, the operator of Warm Drive (full name: Hengcheng Intelligent Co., Ltd.), respect and protect the personal information and privacy rights of all Warm Drive users in accordance with the law. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect personal information, as well as your related rights. We recommend that you read and understand this policy carefully.

2. Information Collection

Information We Collect Automatically

  1. Device information: including device model, operating system version, device unique identifier (such as IMEI, MAC address), network type, device status, etc.
  2. Usage logs: including operation behaviors, browsing history, service usage time, click data, etc.
  3. Location Information and Nearby Device Permissions: When you enable location information and nearby device permissions on your mobile device through system authorization, we will collect and use your location information and nearby device permissions to enable you to use the Warm Drive app to discover nearby smart Bluetooth devices and nearby WiFi network information, enabling quick network pairing for smart Bluetooth devices. You can disable location information and nearby device permissions in your mobile device's system.
  4. Bluetooth permissions: You can use Bluetooth features after enabling Bluetooth permissions, including controlling Bluetooth devices, obtaining device status, and pairing devices with other networks. We communicate with devices via Bluetooth during these functions. You can disable Bluetooth in your mobile device's system.

3. Use of Information

  1. Optimize service quality: Analyze the collected usage data to improve APP performance, optimize interface design, and develop new features.
  2. Ensure service security: Identify abnormal operations through device information, operation logs, etc.
  3. Provide personalized services: Based on your usage habits, preferences, etc., recommend content or services that better meet your needs.
  4. Other purposes with your explicit consent.

4. Information Protection

  1. We adopt security technical measures that comply with industry standards, including but not limited to data encryption, access permission control, firewalls, etc., to prevent the leakage, tampering, and loss of personal information.
  2. Establish strict internal management regulations, limit the scope of personnel who have access to personal information, and provide security training and assessments for relevant personnel.
  3. Please note that Internet transmission is not absolutely secure. Even if we have taken protective measures, we cannot completely avoid information risks caused by force majeure, hacker attacks and other factors beyond our control.

5. Information Sharing

  1. We will not share your personal information with any third party except in the following circumstances:
    • (1) Obtain your explicit written or oral consent;
    • (2) Provision is required by laws, regulations, judicial organs or administrative organs;
    • (3) Sharing within the scope of reasonable necessity to protect the legitimate rights and interests of us or other users;
    • (4) Share with our affiliates, and our affiliates will handle the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  2. We may share non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymized usage data and statistical information) with our partners (such as data analysis agencies and third-party service providers). This information cannot identify you and is only used for data analysis, service optimization, and other purposes.
  3. If personal information needs to be transferred due to corporate changes such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, and bankruptcy, we will notify you in advance and ensure that the transferee continues to fulfill its information protection obligations.

6. Your Rights

  1. Right to withdraw consent: You can withdraw authorization for Bluetooth, location and other permissions through the permission management function in the device settings, but this may affect the normal use of some services.

7. Third-party SDK

  1. OkHttp:
    • Company: Square
    • Purpose: Make network requests
    • Type of information collected: Network status, IP address, device identifier (used to connect to the server)
    • Third-party privacy policy link: https://square.github.io/okhttp
  2. Our app uses some third-party open source libraries that only provide basic functional support (such as rxpermissions (permission application), Gson (JSON data parsing), glide (image loading), eventbus (event notification), etc.). These libraries will not collect, use or share any of your personal information.

8. Policy Updates

  1. This Privacy Policy may be modified due to legal and regulatory updates or business development needs. If the updated content affects your core rights and interests, we will notify you separately through pop-up windows, text messages, etc. Your continued use of the service will be deemed to have accepted the updated policy.