Nex Privacy Policy

Issued on: 15, 4, 2024
Last Updated: 15, 4, 2024

Thank you for your trust on the Nex (hereinafter referred to as “Nex”, the “Product” or “our Service”). Nex is a plugin product to analyze and summarize online contents. As the operator of Nex, NexGen Innovation Limited (address: 8 The Green, Ste A, in the City of Dover County of Kent, the State of Delaware; contact information: contact@nex.social) (hereinafter referred to as “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and protects your personal information (hereinafter may referred to as “PI”). By formulating this Nex Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as “this Policy”), we intend to explain to you how we process personal information at current stage and over the last twelve (12) months, and how you can exercise your personal information rights.
Please read this Policy carefully before you sign up for Nex. In particular, please pay attention to the terms marked in bold to ensure that you fully understand the rules of our personal information processing activities. Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, when you click “consent” button of this Policy, you are deemed to consent to our personal information processing activities herein.

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Content of this Policy

• What Personal Information Do We Collect from You and How We Collect
• How We Use Your Personal Information
• How We Share, Transfer, Disclose and Sell Personal Information
• Cookies
• Do Not Track
• How We Store Personal Information
• How We Ensure the Safety of Personal Information
• How We Protect Your Rights
• How We Process Children’s Personal Information
• Application of This Policy
• Update of This Policy
• Contact Us

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What Personal Information Do We Collect from You and How We Collect

The following are categories and fields of PI that we collect and the sources we collect from:

• When you register for an account on Nex, we will collect your Google email address. The source of the aforementioned PI is yourself, which means you provide the PI directly to us.
• After you sign up and login into Nex, we will collect your username, portrait. The source of the aforementioned PI is Google, which means we collect these PI indirectly from you.
• When you activate Nex, we will collect your identifiers, including your Browser UA, Cookie ID, IP address. The source of the aforementioned PI is your device, which means we collect the PI automatically from you.
• When you apply Nex to browse websites and analyze contents therein, we will collect your online activity information, including articles or videos you browse, contents that you mark as favorite. The source of the aforementioned PI is yourself, which means we collect the PI automatically from you.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your PI for the following purposes:

• To create an account for you and display your account information on Nex.
• To support you to analyze and organize online contents you browse, store contents that you like, and to support smooth operation of other functions of Nex.
• To maintain, evaluate and improve our service so as to promote user experience.
• For internal business, legal and compliance purposes, including for security, to monitor operation of Nex and for fraud prevention.
• To contact you with regard to your use of Nex, your account, and, in our discretion, changes to any of our policies.
• Other purposes with your consent.

How We Share, Transfer, Disclose and Sell Personal Information

Share your PI

At current stage and over the last twelve (12) months, we have not shared your PI with any company, organization or individual for a business purpose, except with our affiliates for system maintenance or security purposes.
Nevertheless, along with the future development, we may share your PI with other third parties to optimize the functions of Nex. In that case, we will only share your PI for legal, legitimate, necessary, specific, and clear purposes, and only share the PI necessary to the third Parties. The third Parties will not be authorized to use the shared PI for any other purpose. Besides, we will sign strict confidentiality agreements/terms with the third Parties, requiring them to process PI in accordance with our instructions and this Policy, and also to take appropriate security measures to protect your PI.

Transfer your PI

At current stage and over the last twelve (12) months we have not transferred your PI to any company, organization or individual.
Nevertheless, along with the future development, we may transfer your PI under the scenarios of merger, division, dissolution, or bankruptcy. In that case, we will inform you the name and contact information of the PI recipient and other information in relation to the PI transfer, and obtain your authorization. Also, we will require the PI recipient to continue to comply with this Policy and other data protection obligations. If the PI recipient changes the original PI processing purpose and method, it shall additionally obtain your authorization.

Disclose your PI

At current stage and over the last twelve (12) months we have not publicly disclosed your PI. Nevertheless, we may disclose your PI according to applicable laws and regulations, administrative enforcement or judicial requirements.

Sell your PI

“Sale” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration. At current stage and over the last twelve (12) months, we have not sold your PI with any company, organization or individual.
Nevertheless, if we sell your PI for business purpose, we will notify you categories of PI we sell, data recipients concerned and other issues that matter, provide you with the option to opt out this activity and ensure your benefits and rights in this respect.

Cookies

Cookies are plain text files stored on a computer or mobile device by a network server. The contents of a cookie can only be retrieved or read by the server that created it. Each cookie is unique to your web browser or mobile application. Cookie usually contain identifiers, site names, and some numbers and characters. We use cookies for the purpose of user login facilitation. When you sign up for this Product, we will record the username, Google email address, language preference and your portrait to store your preferences and settings and enabling you to log in.
You may configure your browser or device to block the use of cookies. For more information about cookies and the instructions on how to set your browser to accept, delete or disable cookies, please visit https://allaboutcookies.org/.

Do Not Track

“Do Not Track” (hereinafter referred to as “DNT”) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, for the internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites. We take privacy and security very seriously and strives to put our users first in all aspects of our business. With regard to DNT, we currently do not respond to DNT signals in browsers.

How We Store Personal Information

We will store your PI collected within this Product in the server located in the United States, and strictly keep you PI confidential. We will retain your PI described in this Policy for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined in this Policy. Upon expiration of the retention period, we will delete or anonymize your PI, unless it needs to be retained according to applicable laws and regulations.
Also, if we terminate operation of this Product, we will notify you in advance and delete or anonymize your PI, unless otherwise required by applicable laws or we are obliged to store you PI.

How We Ensure the Safety of Personal Information

We adopt appropriate security measures in line with industry standards to protect your PI, avoiding any unauthorized or illegal access, disclosure, utilization, processing, or modification of the PI we collect. In case of PI security incidents, we will promptly inform you the following information by e-mail in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations:

• Basic situation and possible impact of security incidents;
• Disposal measures we have taken or will take to protect your PI;
• Suggestions for you to prevent and reduce risks, and the remedial measures.

If it is infeasible to inform you in person, we will make public announcements to report the security events according to the requirements of the regulatory authorities.

How We Protect Your Rights

In accordance with applicable laws and ethical principles, we guarantee you to exercise the following rights to your PI:

• The right to notice: you have the right to be notified which categories of PI are being collected and proposes of collection.
• The right to request correction: you have the right to request us to correct inaccurate PI that we maintain about you.
• The right to request disclosure: you have the right to request us to disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of PI. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you:
  1. The categories and fields of PI we collected about you.
  2. The categories of sources for PI we collected about you.
  3. Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that PI.
  4. The categories of third parties with whom we share your PI.
  5. If we sell or disclose your PI for a business purpose, we will disclose to you the categories of PI sold or disclosed.
• Right to restrict processing: you have the right to request us to restrict processing of your PI. This means we can store your PI but cannot process it.
• Right of data portability: within scope permitted laws and regulations, you have the right to obtain your PI in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format.
• Right of refusal: under the scenarios such as direct marketing, you have right to refuse our processing for these purposes.
• Right to withdraw consent: If you consent to our processing of your PI but later change your mind, you can withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop processing on that basis unless we have another legal basis to process your PI.
• Right to refuse automated decision: you have rights not to be bound by automatic decisions (if any), including user profiling. If these decisions will significantly affect your legitimate rights, you can refuse to be subject to automated decisions.
• The right to opt-out sale of PI: you have the right to direct us to not sell your PI, if we do.
• The right to delete PI: you have the right to request the deletion of your PI, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will delete your PI from our records, unless an exception applies. Nevertheless, under certain scenarios including but not limited to the following scenarios, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the PI is necessary for us to:
  1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the PI, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  5. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  6. Comply with a legal obligation.
  7. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
• The right not to be discriminated against: you have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your rights, including by:
  1. Denying goods or services to you.
  2. Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
  3. Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you.
  4. Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

To exercise your rights listed above, please submit a request through contact@nex.social****. Under US Privacy Laws, you may also designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf. Please note that to protect your PI and the integrity of our services, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request. In some cases we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity, such as your email address. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

How We Process Children’s Personal Information

The definition of children might be different in accordance with applicable laws. For the purpose of this Policy, children refer to minors under the age of 16.
Our Service does not specifically target children, thus we do not knowingly collect PI from them. If you are parents or guardians and you are aware that your children use Nex and provide us with PI without your permission, please contact us to terminate our Service to the children and delete their IP. Also, if we initially become aware that we have collected PI from children without parental consent, we will terminate our Service and remove their PI from our servers as well.

Application of this Policy

This Policy is only applicable to the information collected by us through our Product hereunder. Even if you visit a third party's website with our Product plugged in and use the services provided by such third party, the commitment made by the third party's privacy policy has nothing to do with our Product under this Policy. Please note that we have no control over the products, services or PI processed by third parties. The protection of your PI in the process of using third-party products or services does not apply to this Policy. This Policy also does not apply to any information you choose to provide to third parties. It is recommended that you consult or contact such third parties to obtain details about their privacy policies. If you find that these web pages created by third parties or applications developed by third parties are at risk, it is recommended that you terminate relevant operations to protect your legitimate rights and interests.

Update of This Policy

In order to provide you with better service and with the development of our business, this Policy will be updated. Without your consent, we will not reduce your rights and benefits under this Policy. We will issue an updated version through this Product and remind you of any updates to this Policy through announcements in the product or other appropriate ways. If you continue to use Nex, you are deemed to accept the updated contents. Nevertheless, for material changes, we may explain it to you via email, pop-up windows, etc., and obtain your specific consent. Material changes in this Policy include but are not limited to the following situations:

• Significant changes have taken place in Nex regarding purpose, method, etc. of PI processing PI activities.
• We have undergone significant changes in ownership structure or organizational structure, such as owner change caused by business adjustment, bankruptcy, M&A, etc.
• The main objects of PI sharing, transfer or public disclosure have changed.
• Significant changes have taken place with regard to exercise of your rights.
• When the responsible department, contact information and complaint channels for PI protection is changed.

We will also archive the historical version of this Policy for your reference.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of your personal information rights, you may contact us via information listed below:
Email: contact@nex.social
In most cases, we will reply within 15 working days. In other cases, we may require additional information or let you know that we need more time to respond.