APUS Booster+ (this “Product”) is a boost product developed, operated and managed by Qilin Hesheng Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“APUS” “We” or “us”). We fully respect and protect users’ personal privacy. While providing you with quality services, we will collect, use, disclose, store and protect your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”).
We will explain how we process your personal data in this Policy and how you may access and control your personal data.
Please completely read and fully understand this Policy before using this Product. If you have any questions about this Policy, or have any complaints or suggestions, please contact us via the methods as described in this Policy. This policy will help you understand the followings:
How We Collect and Use Your Personal Data
How We Use Cookie and Similar Technologies
How We Share, Transfer and Disclose Your Personal Data
Process Your Personal Data Using Third Party Services
How We Protect Your Personal Data
How You Access and Control Your Personal Data
How We Process the Minor’s Data
How Your Personal Data Is Transferred Globally
Contact Us
Update of Privacy Policy
We may collect your personal data as follows while we are providing services. These data is critical for us to realize various functions of this Product. We will use these data to help us develop and improve our products to provide better services. We will use your personal data in strict compliance with the purposes set forth in this Policy. We will inform you in advance and obtain your consent before we use these data for any other purposes than set forth in this Policy or we use the personal data collected for specific purposes for other purposes.
2.1. Category and purpose of your personal data we collect
This Product is a full functionality boost product with rich content and services. We will collect different categories of your personal data in different scenarios according to various product features, and will use these data to realize such product features.
2.1.1. Pre-activation service
In order to strictly comply with the laws and policies of the relevant countries or regions, we need to use pre-activation services to know your country or region. During pre-activation, we will send your IP address, country code (MCC), mobile phone language, system version and other information to our server. This information is only used to know your country or region, thus providing you with agreements and services that comply with that country or region. This information will be deleted within a short period of time after knowing your country or region, and will not be permanently saved.
2.1.2. Junk Files
We’ll read the application information、file storage information、application cache and multimedia file information installed both in your mobile and SD card, to help you clear junk files including system cache, ads unload residue, empty folders, useless installation packages, temporary files, other files, pictures, audios and videos etc. In this way, we can clear junk files and release more space by scanning and cleaning. Further more, if deeper cleaning is needed, we can also provide you better cleaning effect with auxiliary functions. We’ll also collect the application list and SD card catalog information in your mobile and SD card in the meanwhile for a continues optimized scanning speed and cleaning effect.
2.1.3. Memory Boost
In order to close background process for space release and mobile efficiency enhancement, we’ll read the application information, file storage information, application cache and multimedia file information installed both in your mobile and SD card when you start Memory Boost function, and release more memory space by scanning and shutting down apps. Again, we can also provide you better boost effect with auxiliary function if you try our Super Mobile Booster. We’ll also collect the application list and SD card catalog information in your mobile and SD card in the meanwhile for a continues optimized scanning speed and boost effect.
2.1.4. WhatsApp Cleaner, Facebook Cleaner, Wechat Cleaner
In order to clear cache, ads, pictures, audios ,videos and other files in specified applications like WhatsApp and Facebook, we’ll read the application information, file storage information, application cache and multimedia file information installed both in your mobile and SD card , and clear specified application by scanning and shutting down specified apps. We’ll also collect the application list and SD card catalog information in your mobile and SD card in the meanwhile for a continues optimized scanning speed and cleaning effect.
2.1.5. CPU Clooler
In order to lower the temperature of CPU, we’ll read your mobile CPU temperature, installed application information in both mobile and SD card as well as running application information, and cool down CPU by shutting down running applications and reduce mobile memory usage. We’ll also collect the application list and SD card catalog information in your mobile and SD card in the meanwhile for a continues optimized cooling effect.
2.1.6. Bttery Saver
In order to prolong the standby time of mobile battery, we’ll read app information installed in your phone and SD card, running application information and self-starting application information. Meanwhile, we can completely shut down process with auxiliary function to avoid app self-staring and get a better power saving result. We’ll also collect the application list and SD card catalog information in your mobile and SD card for a continues optimized power saving result.
2.1.7. Safe Browser
In order to provide you with a safe web browsing environment, we build the whole safe browsing function through browsing webpage, bookmark, searching, download management, privacy protection, ads blocking, voice search and other functions.
We provide you with book mark function to help you browse webpage easily and save your favorite webpage . When you add bookmark, we’ll save the webpage link address, title, favicon and time information to local. When you want to visit the website again, you can open it directly from bookmark list without entering the site address again. Besides, we also provide you with bookmark delete function so that you can delete bookmarks one by one or at one time as needed.
Download management function allows you download several files at the same time, manage download process of each file, switch specified target download folder, quick search or delete downloaded files and self-start pending download task paused due to network issue. In order to realize these functions, we’ll save your download status information, eg waiting for download, suspended download, network interrupt and others, and decide whether to continue with download based on there information. We’ll read your SD card catalog list so that we can switch file download folders. What’s more, we’ll save download file information and download start time and end time to help you search or delete downloaded files quickly. We also provide delete download task function so that you can delete download tasks one by one or at one time as needed.
We provide you with voice search function if your phone support voice recognition. We support the voice recognition program that arouses the system to recognize your voice from the system’s voice recognition program and convert it into text to return to us, then we search for the text through the search function. We will not apply for permission in the whole process, nor will we collect and store any data related to your voice.
In order to show and recommend related searching results, we’ll read and collect your web information, cache, cookie, location, system language, clipboard URL and other information.
You can lock to protect your privacy. We need to access your security gestures and security questions and save them. You can check your privacy when unlocked.
2.1.8. Game Acceleration
In order to shutdown background process and release memory space for mobile game efficiency improvement, when you start Game Boost function we’ll read memory information and installed application information as well as running application information in your mobile and SD card. Through scanning and shutting down process, we can release more memory space and improve mobile game efficiency. in order to block annoying notifications when you playing game, we will read your installed application information, usage status and notifications information, We’ll also collect installed application information in your mobile and SD card for a continues optimized scanning and boosting effect of this function.
2.1.9. Advanced Cleaning
In order to release memory space and improve mobile efficiency, when you start Deep Cleaning we’ll read application information in your mobile and SD card, clear application data and uninstall useless applications and multimedia as well as picture files through scanning and cleaning data in the applications. We’ll also collect installed application information in your mobile and SD card for a continues optimized scanning and cleaning effect of this function.
2.2. Your personal data we obtain from a third party
For now, we do not obtain your personal data from any third party. If certain services may require your personal data from a third party, we will notify you in advance and obtain your consent.
Cookie is a small piece of text sent to a browser by a website visited by a user. It helps the browser to record user access information, such as preferred language and other settings. In this way, users will have an easier and more practical experience when they visit the same website the next time. Cookie play a vital role. Without cookie, the user’s experience of Internet will be greatly reduced, and some website features or services may not even work properly. We use cookies to provide you with a complete web browsing service. We do not collect cookie information ourselves. Please note that the websites you visit may use cookie to store your preferences, settings, login status, etc. For example, when you visit a webpage that has a login function for the first time, you need to enter a user name and password to log in. After logging in, the website will record your login status, When you switch different pages under the site, you do not need to re-enter the user name and password, you can directly browse the content of the web page. Websites may use cookie to recommend advertisements. For example, some websites use cookie to record websites that you click on to prevent you from seeing duplicate advertisements. We provide the ability to disable and delete cookies. You can disable or delete cookies.
To make it easier for you to open web pages, we provide web page caching. We allow websites you visit to store some web page data, such as web page pictures and other information. When you visit the site next time, the site will directly read the saved data for display, thereby to open the webpage faste. The cache will expire due to expiration or manual removal. We will not upload any cached content.
We will share with or transfer or disclose your personal data to a third party with your consent or explicit instructions. In addition, to improve the quality of our service, we may also share with or transfer or disclose your personal data to a third party under the following circumstances.
4.1. Subsidiary Products
We may share your personal data with our subsidiary products to provide a more consistent experience and better service. We guarantee that our subsidiary products will treat your personal data in accordance with the purposes and requirements shown in this Policy. We will obtain your prior consent again if our subsidiary products wish to use your personal data for purposes other than those set forth in this Policy.
4.2. Affiliated Company
We may share your personal data with our affiliated companies and will ensure their processing of your personal data is in compliance with the purposes and requirements of this Policy. We will obtain your prior consent again if affiliated companies intend to use your personal data for other purposes than set forth in this Policy.
4.3. Third party service provider
We may engage third party service providers to provide specific services. Third party service providers may collect data when providing services, and we will ensure that they follow our instructions, follow the purposes and requirements set out in this policy to process your personal data, and take appropriate confidentiality and security measures to safeguard data security.
4.3.2. Attribution of installation channel
In order to attribution of installation channel and provide you with better services, we use the services of a third party service provider. The service needs to obtain your information including: application package name, application version, application installation time, system version, Android ID, country information, mobile phone language information, mobile phone brand, mobile phone model. The information obtained is only used for this purpose.
4.3.3 Visiting a Web Page
In order to realize the function of browsing the webpage, we will request the content of the webpage according to the webpage link address you provided, and then display the content of the webpage returned by the server. In this process, to implement special functions in certain web pages, the website may use the browser to apply for the location of your address or mobile phone file information, for example: pictures that need to be uploaded to the avatar, and microphone information. After you authorize it, the website can display related functions.
4.3.4. Statistics
In order to analyze data and provide you with better services, we use the services of AppsFlyer. The service needs to obtain your information including: application package name, application version, application installation time, system version, Android ID, country information, mobile phone language information, mobile phone brand, mobile phone model. The information obtained is only used for this purpose.
4.3.5. Anti-fraud and Anti-Cheat
In order to prevent fraud and prevent cheating, and to provide you with better services and better ecological environment, we use Digital Union’s services. The service needs to obtain your information including: application package name, application time information, application version number, installation path, application size and other application information; CPU, screen resolution, total memory information and other hardware general information; country code, start-up time, system time and other system information; mobile phone brand, mobile phone model, memory, CPU and other equipment hardware information. The information obtained is only used for this purpose.
4.4 Share of your personal data as required by law
Subject to compliance with this Policy, we may be required to share or disclose your personal data under certain circumstances, such as in accordance with laws and regulations, and compulsory requirements of government orders; to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of yours, ours, and third parties; and to prevent or deal with fraud, secure or technical problems.
4.5 Change of organization and existing status of our company
For any change of the organization or existing status of our company (such as restructuring, merger or bankruptcy), your personal data may be transferred to the company entity after change or our affiliated company (the “Data Transferee”). The Data Transferee will continue to be bound by this Policy.
The Product may contain a hyperlink directing to third party products or services, such as a hyperlink to another website. You may click the hyperlinks in this Product to access third party products or services. Meanwhile, we may also embed third party links in this Product and you may click these links to access or use third party products or services on the interface of this Product. We hereby remind you that when you access or use third party products or services via the above methods whereby your personal data will be obtained by such third party products or services, the privacy policies of such third party products or services will apply to such personal data.
In addition, we may use the third party interface to improve product function. For example, search module will request search engine interface based on the keyword input by user and obtain the search suggestions and keyword related webpage contents.
6.1. Security protection of personal data
We are committed to protecting your personal data. We have adopted all possible security technologies and procedures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, use, revision, damage, destruction or disclosure. These security measures mainly include the following:
a） Your personal data is stored in the computer systems located in a controlled site with security measures such as encryption.
b） Only APUS employees who have the necessity to process relevant data for the purpose of product operation are authorized to access your personal data and such employees are required to comply with strict confidentiality obligations.
c） We are constantly striving to ensure the security of your personal data, and we adopt encryption technologies during data transmission to prevent your information against unauthorized access, use, revision, damage, destruction or disclosure.
d） We are more prudential when we transmit and store special categories of your personal data and adopt encryption technologies and other security measures to ensure data security.
In case of personal data security incident, according to the requirements of relevant laws and regulations, we will promptly inform you via push notification, announcement, etc. the basic situations and possible influence of the security incident, response measures we have taken or will take, suggestions for you regarding self-prevention and risk reduction, remedial measures for you, etc. We will timely deal with system vulnerabilities, cyber-attacks, virus intrusion, and other security risks.
6.2. Personal data storage term
We will store your personal data for the necessary period for data collection and processing purposes. Beyond the above-mentioned period, we will delete or anonymize personal data.
The related data read through Memory Boost, Junk Files, Facebook Clean, Whatsapp Clean, Wifi Security, CPU Cooling, Battery Saver, Safe Browser, Game Acceleration, Advanced Cleaning functions are for recording mobile using status continually(eg, game booster function save the game app infomation you need to speed up )and optimizing operating speed of related functions. We save data to the local with storage period the same as lifecycle of software and promise never upload data to the server. You can even clear related data in software management under system setting at any time.
The data collected from above functions, including app information installed in mobile and SD card, app file information and virus information, are used for products continuous improvement (eg, close background app process by default in booster function ) and will be saved in the server for a long time. You can tell us the actions you need to do with data by clicking side bar>settings>personal data centert>manage more data. We’ll delete and anonymize personal data. If you want to know more about the data we collected, please consult us by sending email to mailbox at the page bottom.
After you cancel your account, we may not be able to delete your personal data immediately due to technical reasons; however, we will delete it during the next system update, and we undertake not to process your personal data during the period between cancellation of your account and the next system update.
7.1. Access and revise your personal data
You can access and edit your personal data onlie in APUS user information center.
7.2. Change of your authorization scope
You may select on the page of APUS User Information Center to change your authorization scope for us to process your personal data. Please be minded that since all functions of the Product need certain basic personal data for normal operation, certain functions of the Product may not operate normally when you withdraw your consent to processing of some personal data.
When we receive your withdrawal of consent, we will no longer process your corresponding personal data.
7.3. Rejection of interest-based advertising
You may always choose whether to receive promotional emails, messages, calls, and mails from us or third parties. You may also choose to no longer receive interest-based advertisements through APUS User Information Center.
We will no longer use your personal data for the above-mentioned commercial promotion purposes when you refuse to receive interest-based advertisements.
7.4. Delete your personal data
You may submit a request to us to delete your personal data when:
a) Your personal data is no longer necessary for data collection or processing;
b) You have withdrawn your consent to our processing of your personal data ;
c) Your personal data has been processed illegally;
d) We are obligated to delete your personal data in accordance with the laws of EU members.
We may not be able to delete your personal data immediately due to technical reasons. We will delete it during the next system update. We will not process your personal data in any way during the period between your request of deleting your personal data and the next system update.
7.5. Respond to your requests
We may first verify your identity upon receipt of your request, and may request you to provide the necessary information for authentication.
We will respond to your request on the 30th day after we receive your request and communicate with you in an appropriate way. If necessary, we may extend it (by an additional 30-day at most), and will inform you of the reason for the extension of the deadline on the 30th day after receiving your request. If we have reasonable reasons to believe that no measures are needed to respond your request, we will inform you of our decision 30 days from the date of receipt of your request and provide you with appropriate explanation.
We will use best efforts to help you resolve relevant problems. If you are not satisfied with the response you received, you may refer the complaint to the relevant regulatory authority, or file a lawsuit before a competent judicial authority.
For policy reasons, Access and Control Your Personal Data only supports users in EU Members.
This Product is not intended for a minor under 16 years old (or equivalent minimum age set by the laws of EU members). We will only process the information of these minors to the extent permitted by law and with the consent of their guardians.
We will implement relevant technical measures and make our best efforts to verify whether the processing of minors’ information has been approved by their guardians. We will try to delete relevant data as soon as possible if we are aware that we have collected the personal data of a minor without the prior consent of their certified guardians.
Please feel free to contact us at: dpo@apusapps.com if you have any question or suggestion about the Policy or find any violation of the Policy.
We reserve the right to revise or modify this Policy. For any update of this Policy, we will send you notice on the interface of this Product to remind you of relevant updates and indicate the updated provisions for your ease of reading. Please do completely read and fully understand the updated Privacy Policy. By continuing to use this Product, you will be deemed to have accepted the updated version of this Policy. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent.
We provide APUS products and services around the world, which means to conduct business globally, your personal data might be transmitted to a jurisdiction or accessed from such jurisdiction outside of the country/region where you use this Product. These jurisdictions include but are not limited to Singapore, United States, and China.
Please note that we only return demographic information to China and we do not include information on individual user identities. At the same time, in order to provide you with better services, our third party partners may transmit your data to other countries. For example, in order to detect robots or cheating, we have purchased a Chinese supplier’s traffic monitoring service. The merchant may return the user information to China in order to assist us in analyzing whether there is cheating in the user.
Personal data protection legislation in such jurisdiction might be different or even absent. Under such circumstance, we will adopt various measures to ensure security of your personal data. For instance, we will ask you for your explicit consent before transmission of your personal data, or implement security measures such as encryption and pseudonymisation during data transmission; when your personal data is transferred to such jurisdictions, we will apply the same protection of your personal data in accordance with the Policy. We will endeavor to protect your personal data with the measures stipulated in Article 46 and Article 47 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Last updated: May 17, 2018