Welcome to StepFun AI! Shanghai StepFun Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "we," with its registered address at 30th Floor, No. 701 Yunjin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China) places great importance on the protection of your personal information, we hope through this "Summary of Privacy Policy (International Version) " to briefly introduce how we process your personal information when you use "StepFun AI" products and related services ("this Product"). If you wish to understand our complete personal information processing rules, you can refer to the full text of the "Privacy Policy of StepFun AI (International Version) ".
I. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
We only collect and use your personal information based on the business functions/scenarios described in the "Privacy Policy of StepFun AI (International Version) ". We have prepared a "List of Personal Information Collection ", which you can access to review and understand the methods, purposes, and scope of how we may collect and use your personal information.
To provide you with more convenient and higher-quality products and/or services and to enhance your experience, when you use this Product, we may need you to enable corresponding system permissions. Permissions that may be requested in this Product include:
| Permission Name | Usage Scenario or Purpose |
|---|---|
| Microphone | Used to help users complete voice input, smart voice calls, and other related functions that require this permission. |
| Camera | Used to help users complete shooting, sending pictures, and quickly using photo-based questioning features. When your device is an iPhone 15 and/or newer model or iOS 18 system and/or above, you can also set your iPhone 15 and/or newer model mobile device's left Action button, iPhone 16 camera button, iOS 18 system and/or above's lock screen shortcut, and control center to quickly open the "Ask with Photo" function and call your iPhone device's Camera permission, to facilitate your quick use of the "Ask with Photo" function and ask questions based on uploaded pictures. |
| Photo Album | May be requested when users use iOS system terminals, used to help users upload/send pictures, allow App to write/download/save pictures. |
| Clipboard | When the user chooses to paste content from the system clipboard into the chat input box, we will collect the user's clipboard information, thereby enabling more convenient input of text to be chatted with us. |
| Accelerometer/Gyroscope | Used to detect the rotation direction of the Sensor mobile device, to determine the horizontal and vertical orientation of user-shot images, and rotate to adapt the orientation. |
| External Storage | May be requested when users use Android system terminals, allowing the App to read pictures, files, and other content from storage, mainly used to help users upload/send pictures, in order to locally record crash log information (if any), and other functions; allowing the App to write/download/save/modify/delete pictures, files, crash logs, and other information. |
II. How We Entrust, Share, Transfer, and Publicly Disclose Your Personal Information
(I) Entrusted Processing
We may entrust authorized partners to process your personal information, so that authorized partners can provide certain services or perform functions on our behalf. We entrust necessary information to partners who support our business for processing, including content review services, server deployment of code and data, database storage services, and SMS sending services entrusted by us.
(II) Sharing
Generally, we will not provide your personal information to any other company, organization, or individual. If we need to share your personal information with a third party, we will inform you of the name or identity of the recipient, contact information, processing purpose, processing method, and type of personal information, and obtain your separate consent in advance (except for situations where laws and regulations do not require your consent) before providing your personal information externally, and at the same time fulfill other obligations for providing personal information externally according to relevant laws.
We have prepared a "Personal Information Sharing List, Third-Party SDK List", which you can click to view for details on our personal information sharing and use of third-party SDKs.
(III) Transfer
As our business continues to develop, we may undergo mergers, acquisitions, or asset transfers, and your personal information may be transferred as a result. In the event of the aforementioned changes, we will require the successor to continue to fulfill the obligations of the personal information processor in accordance with laws and regulations and security standards no lower than those stated in the "Privacy Policy of StepFun AI (International Version)". If the successor changes the original processing purpose or processing method, we will require the successor to re-obtain your authorized consent.
(IV) Public Disclosure
We will not publicly disclose your personal information unless required by national laws and regulations or with your consent. We will adopt security protection measures that meet industry standards when publicly disclosing your personal information.
III. Your Rights
You have the right to manage your personal information and exercise your personal information rights, including accessing, copying, transferring, correcting, deleting your personal information, changing the scope of your authorized consent or withdrawing consent, canceling your account, and exercising statutory rights of close relatives. We provide you with convenient personal information management functions. You can manage your personal information on the relevant pages of this Product, or you can contact us through the contact information we provide to exercise your personal information rights.
IV. How to Contact Us
If you have any complaints, suggestions, or questions regarding personal information protection, or any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the content of the "Privacy Policy of StepFun AI (International Version)", you can contact us by sending an email to feedback@stepchat.cn.