Introduction
(1) The "AIBuds" application is operated by Shenzhen Topstep Intelligent Big Data Co., Ltd. (hereinafter
referred to as "Topstep" or "We"). It connects mobile phones with smart devices to provide a
comprehensive experience of earphone and glasses functionalities, enabling intelligent interconnection
and information exchange. To provide you with services, we may need to collect information provided by
you or related to your device (including but not limited to personal information). This privacy policy
aims to help you understand the purpose, methods, and scope of our collection of your personal
information, as well as how we use and protect your personal information.
(2) To protect your privacy, we will not collect any of your information (including but not limited to
IMEI, IMSI, device MAC address, software list, device serial number, Android ID) before obtaining your
authorization.
(3) Before using our products and services, please read and understand this Privacy Policy carefully.
This product is intended for adults. If you are a minor, please read and understand the relevant terms
of service with your legal guardian and use the service under their guidance.
(4) If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you may cancel the authorization or close
the "AIBuds" application, and we will not be able to provide you with the corresponding services. If you
register and log in to "AIBuds," it means you fully and clearly understand the information collection
and usage practices described below, as well as your rights, and agree to our collection and use of the
information you provide and related to your device.
1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information
1.1 To provide more smart device experience features, we need to collect and
use the following personal information:
- a. Account login to enjoy "Topstep" services. You need to register or log in to your account to use
"Topstep" services. Therefore, we will collect your account-related information, which may include
your account, nickname, avatar, height, weight, and gender.
- b. To manage smart devices (including earphones, glasses, speakers, etc.), we need to collect your
user information (including but not limited to IMEI, IMSI, device MAC address, software list, device
serial number, Android ID), device type, and device configuration data. The purpose of collecting
this information is to establish Bluetooth connections, manage device configurations, complete
software upgrades, and display data sources. Network information, including IP address, network
type, and network connection status, will be used to improve the network connection experience.
- c. When some smart devices are managed through the application, the application will transmit
personal profiles (account, nickname, etc.) and device configuration data to the smart device
through a secure channel.
- d. Some wearable devices support Bluetooth message synchronization services, which require network
connection and access to phone, SMS, notification, contact, and call log permissions to send phone
numbers, contacts, call status, SMS, and notification messages to paired devices in the background.
- e. Some smart devices support phone functionality and require access to phone contacts and call
logs, which are synchronized to the device for calling features.
- f. Some smart devices support recording, music push, video, and photo album
features, requiring access to local music, recordings, local videos, and local photo albums on
the phone, which are synchronized to the device for corresponding functionalities.
- g. To provide you with customer support services, when issues arise during application use, you can
provide feedback to us on the "Feedback" page. The logs and contact information you upload will only
be used for communication and issue resolution and will be automatically deleted after use. Failure
to provide this information may prevent developers from resolving your issues, but it will not
affect your use of other features of this service.
- h. You can browse and play locally stored videos on the device through the APP. For this purpose, we
need to collect your Wi-Fi status and network information. For all information collected during your
use, we will provide security measures, including encryption during storage and transmission.
Encrypted information will only be stored on designated servers and will not be shared without your
consent to prevent information leakage.
1.2 Device Permission Requests:
The application requires network connection and the following phone permissions during use: Bluetooth,
camera, contacts, call logs, phone, storage, microphone. Specific rules and scenarios are as follows:
- Bluetooth permission: When you need to connect smart devices and synchronize related data or use
related features, we need access to your audio Bluetooth permissions. If you do not need these
services, you can turn off this permission at any time, which will not affect the use of other
services.
- Camera permission: When you connect devices by scanning QR codes or use smart devices to control
phone cameras, we need to request and obtain this permission. If you do not need these services, you
can turn off this permission at any time, which will not affect the use of other services.
- Contacts permission: When you use the call answering and adding frequent contacts
features on smart devices, the smart device needs access to contacts permissions to quickly
import contacts to initiate calls or add contact information on wearable devices. It also helps
you quickly identify whether caller information is in your contacts during incoming calls. If
you do not need these services, you can turn off this permission at any time. However, due to
limitations or compatibility issues with some phone devices, this may affect the use of other
services.
- Call logs permission: When you use smart devices to push missed call numbers or
control volume and call channels, we need access to call logs permissions. If you do not need
these services, you can turn off this permission at any time. However, due to limitations or
compatibility issues with some phone devices, this may affect the use of other services.
- Phone permission: When you pair with associated devices or use call answering,
call rejection, or incoming call information features on smart devices, some AIBuds devices need
access to phone permissions to obtain call status. If you do not need these services, you can
turn off this permission at any time. However, due to limitations or compatibility issues with
some phone devices, this may affect the use of other services.
- Storage permission: When you use photo, video, or music push features, you can
choose to enable this permission to read or write image, video, or local audio data for
application use. If you do not need these services, you can turn off this permission at any
time. However, due to limitations or compatibility issues with some phone devices, this may
affect the use of other services.
- Microphone permission: We need microphone permissions to enable AI conversation,
AI recording, and AI translation features. The APP requires microphone permissions to read and
process your voice information and transcribe it into text. If you do not need these services,
you can turn off this permission at any time, which will not affect the use of other
services.
- Notification permission: We need notification access permissions to enable
notification broadcast features. The APP reads and processes notification messages you receive
and converts them into voice broadcasts. If you do not need these services, you can turn off
this permission at any time, which will not affect the use of other services.
- Data read/write permission: Basic permissions required for APP use. Data
read/write permissions and access to SD card data are used to create local databases, record
server cache data, cache network images, and read local photo albums.
1.3 In scenarios related to the use of smart devices with this application, we will collect your
personal information:
To provide you with our services, we will ask you to provide the personal information necessary to
deliver these services. If you do not provide personal information, we may not be able to provide you
with our products or services.
1.3.1 We collect the following types of information (whether or not it constitutes personal
information):
- a. Profile information: We may collect and use data such as avatars, personal signatures, nicknames,
gender, time zone, and language.
- b. Personal body data: After launching the app, we require you to provide birthday, height, weight,
and gender data.
- c. Data recorded by devices: When you use the app to synchronize data from
related devices, we will record videos, recordings, music, pictures, etc.
- d. Behavioral annotation information: When you choose to mark related behaviors,
the app will collect activity information and other data to provide corresponding service
marking features.
- e. Caller information: When you use call and SMS reminder features, the app will obtain data related
to calls, SMS, and contacts. With your permission, this data will be displayed on smart devices, but
the app will not store your call, SMS, or contact-related data.
- f. Phone information: When you use the app, we need to obtain your phone's operating system version,
mobile phone brand and model, hardware identifiers (such as IDFA, IMEI), system time, and alarms.
- g. Network usage data: We may collect network types, signal strength, and other data related to
specific app features.
- h. Music control information: When you use music control features, we will
collect music information from your phone (e.g., song names, playback status, volume) and
synchronize it to the device. This information is only displayed on the device and will not be
stored.
- j. Feedback information: When you submit feedback, we will collect related user feedback logs and
contact information based on your selection.
- k. Device information: When you use the app to connect to hardware devices, data including but not
limited to the device's unique identifier, firmware version, approximate geographical location
(non-personal data), and related feature usage statistics (non-personal data) will be transmitted to
the server. This data collection may also apply when you update your system or software or restore
factory settings.
- l. Information you actively submit when using related features: For example, if
you set goals in the APP, the information you enter and transmit during this process will be
collected to provide related services. If you choose to use local phone images as earphone case
wallpapers, the images you upload will be collected to serve as your background
wallpaper.
- m. AI conversation: Our application can read and process your voice information
and transcribe it into text. The app may use your location information. We will only access and
use voice and location information when you explicitly enable these features. We commit to using
this data only for enabling background features and voice conversation services.
- n. Notification broadcast: Our application can read and process notification
messages you receive and convert them into voice broadcasts. We will only access and use
notification content when you explicitly enable the notification broadcast feature. We commit to
using this data only for providing voice broadcast services and will not use it for any other
purposes.
- o. Application and firmware updates: To ensure you continuously receive the
latest software services, we may use your device's application version information and phone
model to update the device application. We may also collect and connect your smart device list
and version number information to provide updates for your smart devices, ensuring you use the
latest version of services (including firmware). During this process, we will display update
progress and host connection status, but we will not store this data.
- p. Location information: Including geographical location information collected
when you use certain services.
1.4 Cookies and Other Technologies
What data do we collect, and how will we use it? Topstep and third-party service providers use cookies,
tags, and scripts. These technologies are used to analyze trends, manage the website, track user
movements, and collect demographic information about our user base. We receive reports from these
companies on an individual and aggregate basis regarding the use of these technologies.
- (a) Log files: Like many websites, we collect certain data and store it in log files. This data
includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, internet service providers (ISPs),
referring/exit pages, operating systems, date/time stamps, and/or clickstream data. We do not link
this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you.
- (b) Mobile analytics: In some mobile applications, we use mobile analytics software to better
understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record how
often you use the application, events that occur within the application, aggregated usage,
performance data, and application crash information. We do not link the data stored in the analytics
software to any personal information you submit within the mobile application.
- (c) Local storage - HTML5/Flash: We use local storage objects (LSOs), such as HTML5 or Flash, to
store content and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features or
display advertising based on your web browsing activity also use HTML5 or Flash cookies to collect
and store information. Various browsers offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
1.5 With Whom Do We Share Your Information?
We do not sell any personal information to third parties.
We may sometimes disclose your personal information to third parties (as defined below) to provide the
products or services you request.
We may make disclosures to third-party service providers and affiliates listed below. In all cases
described in this section, you can rest assured that Topstep will only share your personal information
in accordance with your authorization. You should understand that in any of the scenarios described
below, when Topstep shares your personal information with third-party service providers, Topstep will
contractually require these third parties to comply with applicable local data protection laws. Topstep
will contractually ensure that third-party service providers adhere to privacy standards applicable to
them in your jurisdiction.
Sharing information with our group and third-party service providers.
We may integrate SDKs (software development kits) from third-party service providers into our devices or
App to provide you with the full functionality of our products and services. We may occasionally
disclose your personal information to other Topstep affiliates (involved in communications, social
media, technology, or cloud business) or our third-party service providers (including our mailing
houses, delivery service providers, telecommunications companies, data centers, data storage facilities,
customer service providers, advertising and promotional service providers, and agents representing
Topstep) and/or other third parties (collectively referred to as "Third-Party Service Providers"). These
Third-Party Service Providers may process your personal information on behalf of Topstep or for one or
more of the purposes listed above. If you no longer wish to allow us to share this information, please
contact us.
Currently, our third-party service providers fall into the following two main categories:
- Analytics service providers. Unless you give permission, we will not share your personally
identifiable information (information that can identify you, such as your name or email address,
which can be used to contact or identify you) with partners who provide advertising or analytics
services. We provide these partners with information about ad reach, click-through rates, and
effectiveness without disclosing your personally identifiable information, or we aggregate this
information so it does not identify you individually, helping them understand their audience or
customers.
- Vendors, service providers, and other partners. We send information to vendors, service providers,
and other partners who support our business globally. This support includes providing technical
infrastructure services, analyzing how our services are used, measuring the effectiveness of ads and
services, providing customer service, delivering product features, facilitating payments, or
conducting academic research and surveys.
We ensure that we only share personal information necessary to provide you with services for legitimate,
lawful, necessary, specific, and explicit purposes. When we share your personal information with these
third parties, we will use encryption and other measures to protect your information security. For
companies and organizations with whom we share personal information, we conduct reasonable reviews of
their data security environments and sign strict data processing agreements, requiring third parties to
implement adequate protection measures and strictly comply with relevant laws, regulations, and
regulatory requirements. You should understand that your authorization to us includes sub-processors of
third-party service providers.
Details are as follows:
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(a) We use third-party (Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd., hereinafter
referred to as "Volcano") Volcano SDK to provide you with AI conversation, AI translation, AI
recording, and other AI features. To successfully implement these features, you need to
authorize Volcano to provide corresponding services. After your authorization, the Volcano SDK
will collect your relevant personal information. For information about the types of information
collected by the Volcano SDK, purposes, personal information protection rules, and opt-out
mechanisms, please refer to Volcano SDK
Privacy Policy[1] and Volcano SDK Privacy Policy[2].
- (b) We use third-party (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., hereinafter referred
to as "Alibaba Cloud") Alibaba Cloud SDK to provide you with video, recording, photo, and other
data cloud storage services. To successfully implement these features, you need to authorize the
Alibaba Cloud SDK to provide corresponding services. After your authorization, the Alibaba Cloud
SDK will collect your relevant personal information. For information about the types of
information collected by the Alibaba Cloud SDK, purposes, personal information protection rules,
and opt-out mechanisms, please refer to Alibaba
Cloud SDK Privacy Policy.
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(c) We utilize the third-party ZxingSDK (developed by Google Inc.) to provide you with the device connectivity service via QR code scanning. To ensure the proper functioning of this feature, your authorization is required for ZxingSDK to deliver the corresponding services. Upon granting permission, ZxingSDK will collect relevant personal information from your device.
- (d) To assist in understanding user information and helping resolve corresponding issues, we
reference the com.tencent.mars:mars-xlog (Android only) SDK, which is only used for
its logging framework to record logs submitted by users when crashes/operation issues occur in the
application.
- (e) Many users dislike encountering situations where the APP is killed in the background, so we
reference the androidx WorkManager (Android only) SDK to help users execute
background tasks after granting corresponding background permissions, which may include
self-starting behavior (all performed with user consent).
2. How We Disclose Your Personal Information
2.1 How This Personal Information Will Be Used
The purpose of collecting personal information is to provide you with products and/or services and to
ensure we comply with applicable laws. You hereby agree to our processing of personal information for
the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy and to our disclosure of personal information to our
affiliates (involved in communications, social media, technology, and cloud business) and third-party
service providers (as defined below).
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- (a) Providing app services. After synchronizing related devices with the app, data recorded by the
devices will be synchronized to the app and displayed to users.
- (b) Displaying caller information. When you receive calls or text messages, supported devices will
display call or message data.
- (c) Displaying music information. When you use music control features, supported devices will
display music information (e.g., song names, playback status, volume).
- (d) Determining phone compatibility. Phone-related information will be used to determine whether
your phone can use the app.
- (e) Providing alarm reminder features: We will collect your phone alarm information to remind you
through device vibrations when phone alarms are triggered.
- (f) Bluetooth photography: You can use supported devices to control phone photography. For this
purpose, the device will pair with the phone via Bluetooth to control photography. During the
pairing process, phone Bluetooth permissions will also be requested.
- (g) Providing network-related services. The app will use network type, signal strength, and other
information to prompt users about the data required to download sports-related videos and determine
whether new versions of the app are available for update.
- (h) Statistical analysis: We will conduct statistical analysis of our services or device status and
may share these statistics with the public or third parties to demonstrate usage trends of our
products or services and optimize products and services. However, these statistics will not contain
any personally identifiable information.
