Cricket ABC is an English-language learning application for kids ages six to fourteen years old featuring award-winning, audio, video, and eBooks from Cricket Media, Inc.
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of You and Your Child’s information when You and Your Child use the Service and tells You and Your Child about privacy rights and how the law protects You and Your Child.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Section 1: Interpretation and Definitions
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
1.2 DefinitionsFor the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created by You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Application means the software program provided by the Company downloaded by You on any electronic device, named Cricket ABC
- Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Cricket Media, Inc., 1751 Pinnacle Drive, Suite 600, McLean, VA 22102.
- Country refers to: China
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Application.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- You means the individual adult – who is the legal guardian or parent of “your child” – accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
- Your child means the individual child accessing or using the Service through their legal guardian’s or parent’s account.
Section 2: Collecting and Using You and Your Child’s Personal Data
- Phone number
- First name and last initial
- Year of Birth
- IP address
- Device make and model
- Device operating system
- Device operating system version information
- Location (country and city)
- Usage data
- Umeng (https://www.umeng.com/policy) Usage data related to using Your account to access the application and navigate its contents
- AliCloud (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/legal/latest/alibaba-cloud-international-website-privacy-policy) Personal data related to Your account and Your Child; Usage data related to You and Your Child’s interaction with content in the application
- ApplePay (https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/szh/, https://www.apple.com.cn/legal/privacy/data/zh-cn/apple-pay/) Personal data related to subscription purchase and management
We use Personal Information to provide features of Our Service, to improve, and to customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company’s servers and/or a Service Provider’s server or it may be simply stored on Your device.
You can revoke Our access to You and Your child’s personal information at any time, by contacting Us via WeChat (WeChatID: Cricket_ABC) or calling us at 866-400-153-3166. The consequence of revoking Our access to You and Your child’s personal information is that You will no longer be able to access and use all of the features of and content within the application.
2.3 Use of Your Personal Data The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
- With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to provide functionality associated with the app, and to ensure good performance of the app on Your device.
- For business transfers: With Your prior consent, we may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
- With business partners: With Your prior consent, we may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
- The purpose of processing has been achieved, cannot be achieved, or is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose of processing;
- The personal information processor stops providing products or services, or the storage period has expired;
- The individual withdraws their consent;
- Personal information processors handle personal information in violation of laws, administrative regulations or agreements;
- Other circumstances prescribed by laws and administrative regulations.
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Section 3: Children's Privacy
Our Service may be used by individuals under the age of 14 with the consent of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s). We collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 14 in ways that are compliant with the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PIPL) and the Provisions on the Online Protection of Personal Information of Children.
We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Section 4: Links to Other Apps and Websites
Our Service may contain links to other applications and websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Section 5: Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Section 6: Your Rights
Chinese law provides You certain rights to protect You and Your Child’s personal data and information. These rights include the right to:
- know and make decisions about the processing of You and Your Child’s personal information;
- restrict or refuse the processing of You and Your Child’s personal information by others, except as provided by laws and administrative regulations;
- Obtain a copy of You and Your Child’s personal information that this Company processes, in a timely manner, except for circumstances specified in paragraph 1 of Article 18 of the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China;
- request a transfer of the You and Your Child’s personal information to a processor designated by you, as long as that processer meets conditions prescribed by the National Cybersecurity and Information Department;
- request corrections to any of You and Your Child’s personal information processed by the Company that is inaccurate or incomplete, to be completed by the Company in a timely manner;
- request You and Your Child’s personal information be deleted, either by contacting the Company with a request or by withdrawing your consent for the Company to process You and Your Child’s personal information;
- request the Company to explain its rules governing the processing of You and Your Child’s personal information, including any refusal by the Company to comply with any request made by You concerning the Company’s processing of You and Your Child’s personal information
- file a lawsuit in a people’s court in accordance with the law if the Company refuses to comply with any legal request made by You concerning the Company’s processing of You and Your Child’s personal information
- have close relatives exercise their right to make a request to the Company, based on their legitimate interests, to consult, copy, correct, or delete You and Your Child’s personal information, in the event You and/or Your Child are deceased.
Section 7: Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By WeChat: Cricket_ABC
- By Phone: 886-440-153-3166