Garage 42 User Privacy Statement (with attached list of third-party SDK integrations)

Privacy Policy of Garage 42

Update Date: March 6, 2023

Effective Date: March 6, 2023

Shanghai BuHuang Technology Co., Ltd. (registered address: 1303 Yan’an West Road, Changning District, Shanghai, hereinafter referred to as “we” or “the Company”) understands the importance of personal information security. We will adopt security protection measures to protect the security of your personal information and privacy in accordance with legal requirements. Therefore, we have formulated the Privacy Policy of Garage 42 (hereinafter referred to as the “Privacy Policy”) and remind you: Please read and fully understand the Privacy Policy carefully before using Garage 42 and related services (as defined in the Terms of Service of Garage 42 (https://www.42how.com/post/terms-of-service)). After confirming your full understanding and agreement, please make your appropriate choices according to the instructions.

This Privacy Policy will help you understand:

• We will collect and use your information in accordance with the Privacy Policy, but we will not use the forced bundling method to collect personal information just because you agree to this Privacy Policy.

• When you use or activate related functions or services, we will collect and use relevant information to achieve the required functions and services. Unless it is necessary information for basic business functions or required by laws and regulations, you can refuse to provide it without affecting other functions or services. We will explain the necessary information item by item in the Privacy Policy.

• If you are not logged into your account, we will use the device’s corresponding identifier information to ensure the basic function of information push. If you log in to your account, we will implement information push based on your account information.

• Precise location, camera, microphone, album (storage), phone, and calendar permissions will not be enabled by default, and will only be used for specific functions or services with your explicit authorization. You can also revoke authorization. It is particularly emphasized that even with your authorization, we will not collect your information when these sensitive permissions are not needed for the relevant functions or services.

• This Privacy Policy applies to your access and use of our products and services through the Garage 42 application, Garage 42 official website, Garage 42 official WeChat mini-program, and application programming interface (API) provided for third-party websites and applications.

The following sections will help you understand in detail how we collect, use, store, transmit, share, transfer (if applicable), and protect personal information, and how you can query, access, delete, correct, and revoke personal information. Among them, we have highlighted the important content related to your personal information rights in bold, please pay special attention.

I. How We Collect and Use Personal Information

II. Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

III. How We Store Personal Information

IV. How We Share, Transfer, and Publicly Disclose Personal Information## 5. How We Protect the Security of Personal Information

6. Your Rights

7. Terms of Use for Minors

8. Revision and Notification of Privacy Policy

9. Scope of Application

10. Other

1. How We Collect and Use Personal Information

(1) Personal Information Collected and Used by Us

We collect information that you voluntarily provide and automatically collect through the use of our services in the following ways:

1. Registering, Authenticating and Logging into “42 Motor House” and Related Services

(1) When you register, log in to “42 Motor House” and related services, you can create an account with your mobile phone number. We will verify your identity by sending a verification code via SMS, and you can also provide relevant identification information (avatar, username) to help you complete the registration. You can also choose to provide personal information such as personal introduction, gender, location, date of birth, industry and other information to better understand you.

(2) You can also log in to 42 Motor House using a third-party account (currently only supporting WeChat login). At this time, we will obtain your public information registered in the third-party platform (avatar, nickname, area, gender and other authorized information), and after you agree to this “Privacy Policy”, we will bind your third-party account with your 42 Motor House account, so that you can directly log in and use 42 Motor House products and related services through the third-party account.

(3) Your registered account can be used or logged in to associated products of 42 Motor House affiliates (notified upon completion of development in the future), and to obtain related services or use related functions.

(4) When you need to use identity authentication functions or related services, according to relevant laws and regulations, you may need to provide your true identity information (real name, ID number, and other information required for real name authentication) to complete real name verification. This information is sensitive personal information, and you can refuse to provide it. If you refuse to provide it, you may not be able to obtain relevant services, but it will not affect the normal use of other functions and services.

2. Information Browsing and Consulting Services

(1) The log information used for information display and consulting services includes:

Information about your behavior: click, follow, collect, search, browse, share

Information you actively provide: feedback, post, like, comment

Geographic location information: GPS information, WLAN access points, Bluetooth and base station sensor information

(2) GPS information is sensitive personal information, and if you refuse to provide it, we will not recommend information to you based on GPS information, and it will not affect the normal use of other functions and services of 42 Motor House.

(3) We will use your IP address to display and recommend local information or provide corresponding consulting services based on the city corresponding to the IP address.4. Providing You with Searching, Vehicle Information Display and New Car Launch Reminder Services

(1) When you use the searching service of “42 Auto Garage”, we will collect your search keyword information and log records. In order to provide efficient searching service, some of the above-mentioned information will be temporarily stored in your local storage devices, and the search result contents and search history records can be displayed to you.

(2) In order to help you quickly find the vehicles you need, we may collect your device information and browser types to provide you with the best way of vehicle information display. We will also use the above-mentioned personal information to continuously enhance and optimize the above-mentioned functions.

(3) When you use the “License Plate Recognition” function of “42 Auto Garage”, we will request your authorization to access camera and album (storage) permissions, collect the photographed pictures for realizing feedback function, and further optimize this service to enhance your user experience. If you refuse to grant the authorization, you will not be able to use this function, but it will not affect your normal use of other functions of “42 Auto Garage”.

(4) When you use the “Launch Reminder” function of “42 Auto Garage”, we will request your authorization to access calendar permissions, so that you can understand the new car launch information in a timely manner. If you refuse to grant the authorization, you will not be able to use this function, but it will not affect your normal use of other functions of “42 Auto Garage”.

5. Conducting Marketing Activities

When you choose to participate in marketing activities held by “42 Auto Garage”, depending on the activities, you may need to provide your name, mailing address, contact information, ID card number, and bank account details. These pieces of information may include personal sensitive information. If you refuse to provide these pieces of information, it may affect your participation in related activities or receiving prizes, but it will not affect other functions.

6. Purchase of Car Benefits, Rights and Payment Function

(4) We have de-identified the information collected and used, and the data analysis only corresponds to specific encoding that cannot be directly associated with your identity, which will not be related to your real identity.(1) When you participate in car dealer/manufacturer/group and related financial service provider’s special promotion, group purchase discounts, financial advantages and other purchase preferential activities through Garage 42, in the ordering process, you need to provide us with your contact telephone number. At the same time, the order will contain the reserved purchase preferential content, specific order number, order creation time, your intention deposit/booking deposit amount (if any), and discount provider information. We collect this information to help you complete the lock-in purchase discount, ensure your transaction security, query order information, and provide customer service and after-sales service. We will collect the order information generated when you use our service for display, so that you can manage the order more easily.

(2) For some purchase preferential activities, you need to pay a certain amount of intention deposit/booking deposit to lock in the preferential activities. After you place the order, you can choose to cooperate with a third-party payment institution provided by Garage 42 for payment services. We need to share your order transaction amount information and order payment related information with these payment institutions to confirm your payment instructions and complete the payment. In order to promptly know and confirm your payment progress and status, and provide you with after-sales and dispute resolution services, you agree that we can collect relevant information about payment progress from the transaction object or other financial institutions that you choose.

7. Customer Service

(1) When you contact us or apply for inquiries, complaints, and dispute resolution handling, we need you to provide the necessary personal information to verify your identity and provide relevant services in order to protect your account and system security.

(2) In order to contact you easily, help you solve problems as soon as possible, or record the processing plan and results of related issues, we may save your communication/call records and related content with us (including account information, order information, other information you provide to prove relevant facts or contact information you leave).

(3) In order to provide services and reasonably improve service quality, we may also use your other information, including relevant information you provide when contacting customer service.

8. Safeguarding product, service, and user security

(1)Security protection functions

We are committed to providing you with safe and trusted products and use environment, and providing high-quality and reliable services is our core goal. The collection of information to achieve security protection functions is necessary information.

(2)Device information and log information

a. In order to ensure the safe operation of software and services, we collect your acceleration sensor, hardware model, operating system version number, international mobile device identification code, unique device identifier, network device hardware address, device serial number, MAC address, IP address, WLAN access point, Bluetooth, base station, software version number, network access method, type, status, network quality data, operating, use, service log.b. To prevent malicious programs and ensure secure operation, we collect information about installed applications or running processes, overall usage and frequency of application, application crash situations, overall installation and usage, performance data, and application source.

c. We may use your account information, device information, service log information, and information that our associated companies and partners obtain with your authorization or legally shared information, to determine account security, perform identity verification, detect and prevent security incidents.

d. In silent/background mode, we obtain user-related information: When you use our platform, in silent/background mode, to better provide precise services, build a safer usage environment, and real-time update statistical analysis and platform adaptation corresponding to your location, we record your device MAC address, IMEI, operating system, network environment, application list and other information.

9. Other

(1) When you want to contact relevant service providers directly within the application, we will request phone permissions, the purpose of which is only to help you lift the phone dialing keyboard and display the other party’s phone number so that you can make a call in the app. Please rest assured that we will not obtain your phone number or call content through this permission, nor will we make any phone calls without your knowledge. If you refuse to authorize it, you will not be able to use this function, but it will not affect your normal use of 42 Garage’s other functions.

(2) To improve your efficiency and user experience in some activities (such as test driving), we will pre-fill the telephone number you used to log in or use these functions recently (showing the middle four digits encrypted) for you on the page of these functions, and only share it according to your authorization after you click the submit button. If you refuse to use the phone number pre-filling function, you can also enter relevant information actively on the page and continue to use our products/services.

(3) Explanation of self-starting and associated start-up:

1. To ensure that this application can receive client push information when it is closed or running in the background normally, this application needs to use the capability of (self-starting). There will be certain frequencies of sending broadcasts through the system to wake up the self-starting or associated start-up behavior of this application, which is necessary to achieve functions and services.

2. When you open content push messages, with your explicit consent, you will be redirected to open the relevant content. Without your consent, there will be no self-starting or associated start-up.

3. When you open files downloaded internally by this app, it will be associated with starting third-party apps.

(II) Personal information about you that we may obtain from third parties

  1. When you log in to “42 Garage” using a third-party account, with your explicit consent, we will collect the third-party account’s nickname, profile picture, area, gender, and other information authorized by you.2. Information collected from users who use our products or services, such as information related to you that may be included in comments, messages, image or video posts, and other content posted by other users.

  2. Information you provide when filling out forms related to 42 Home Garage that are provided by our affiliates (such as information provided when using the “42 Home Garage” channel on “Toutiao”).

(III) Handling of changes in the collection and use of personal information purposes

Please be aware that as our business develops, there may be adjustments and changes to the functionality and services provided by “42 Home Garage.” As a principle, when new features or services are directly or reasonably associated with our current features or services, the collection and use of personal information will have a direct or reasonable connection to the original purpose of processing. In scenarios where there is no direct or reasonable association with the original purpose of processing, we will inform you again and obtain your consent before collecting and using your personal information.

(IV) Personal information exempt from authorization for collection and use under law

Please understand that under laws, regulations, and related national standards, we may collect and use your personal information without obtaining your authorization in the following scenarios:

(1) When it is directly related to national security or national defense security;

(2) When it is directly related to public security, public health, or significant public interests;

(3) When it is directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of judgments;

(4) When it is difficult to obtain your consent but is necessary to protect the vital legal rights and interests of the data subject or other persons;

(5) When the personal information collected is voluntarily disclosed to the general public by you;

(6) When the personal information collected is from legitimate public disclosures, such as legal news reporting and government information disclosure;

(7) When collection is necessary to sign or perform a contract as requested by you;

(8) When it is necessary to maintain the security and stable operation of “42 Home Garage” and related services, such as discovering and handling malfunctions of “42 Home Garage” and related services;

(9) When it is necessary for legitimate news reporting;

(10) When academic research institutions need to conduct statistical or academic research for public interests, and the results are made public in a de-identified manner;

(11) In other circumstances as specified by laws and regulations.

Please be specially reminded that information that cannot identify your personal identity alone or in combination with other information does not constitute your personal information as defined by law; however, when your information can identify your personal identity alone or in combination with other information or when we combine data that cannot be linked to any specific personal information with other personal information of yours, those pieces of information will be considered your personal information and will be handled and protected according to this Privacy Policy during the period of combined use.

II. Use of Cookies and Similar TechnologiesCookie and similar technologies are common and widely used technologies on the internet. When you use “42号车库” and related services, we may use these technologies to send one or more cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device to collect and store information about your access and use of this product. We use cookies and similar technologies mainly to achieve the following functions or services:

(1) Ensure the security and efficient operation of products and services

We may set authentication and security cookies or anonymous identifiers to confirm whether you have securely logged into the service, or whether you have encountered illegal activities such as theft or fraud. These technologies also help us improve service efficiency and enhance login and response speed.

(2) Help you get a more relaxed access experience

Using these technologies can help you save the steps and processes of repeating filling in personal information and inputting search content (example: record search, form filling).

III. How we store personal information

(1) Location of information storage

In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, we store the personal information collected and generated during the operation in China. At present, we will not transfer the above information abroad. If we do so, we will comply with relevant laws and regulations and seek your voluntary consent.

(2) Storage period

We only retain your personal information for the period necessary to provide “42号车库” and related services. The information you publish, comment, like, and other information will be retained during the period when you have not withdrawn, deleted, or logged out of your account. When the necessary period is exceeded, we will delete or anonymize your personal information, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations.

IV. How we Share, Transfer, and Publicly Disclose Personal Information

(1) Sharing and transferring personal information

We will not share or transfer your personal information to third parties unless you have personally authorized or consented to it, or the shared or transferred personal information has been de-identified and the shared third party cannot re-identify the subject of natural persons.

1. In the following situations, we may share personal information with affiliated parties and partners with your voluntary consent

(1) to achieve related functions or services

a. Vehicle inquiry function:

In order to ensure the consistency of the services you receive among the products provided by us and our affiliated parties, and to facilitate unified management of your information, we may share your personal information with these affiliated parties.We may share the information voluntarily provided by you in the form with related automotive dealers, manufacturers, and groups (including but not limited to the dealers you actively choose, the dealers recommended based on your location and selected brand/model, and other excellent dealerships of the same brand in your region). They will use it within the legal and legitimate scope, such as contacting you in a timely manner.

Depending on your selection (such as inquiring through the “installment purchase” option, actively choosing “get the one-tenth down payment installment plan”, actively choosing “installment” on the complete inquiry information page after inquiry completion, indicating the intention of installment purchase during the 42 Garage telephone follow-up, only selecting the brand without specifying the specific service provider when inquiring), we may share necessary personal information with our business partners (such as related automotive dealers, manufacturers, and groups with installment purchase service capability, automotive financing lease platforms/companies, automotive finance companies, second-hand car platforms, and automotive-related service and information platforms), and they will use it within the legal and legitimate scope. They will contact you in a timely manner and provide you with the above-mentioned automotive-related functions or services. In addition, to ensure that you get a better service experience, we may share some necessary information that has undergone de-identification processing with our business partners, and they will use it within the legal and legitimate scope. They will enable the relevant services or functions to better match your needs and provide you with more related services.

To meet your needs, we and affiliated companies, related automotive dealers, manufacturers, groups, and other business partners may contact you through the information provided by you. We may also send you information about products, services, or related activities regularly or irregularly.

b. Payment function: The payment function is provided by the third-party payment institution that cooperates with us. The third-party payment institution may need to collect your name, bank card type and number, validity period, and phone number. Bank card number and validity period are personal sensitive information, and these information are necessary for the payment function. Refusing to provide them will result in your inability to use this function, but it will not affect the normal use of other functions.

c. Wallet function: The relevant services in the wallet function are provided by our affiliated companies and partners. When you use the relevant function of the wallet, our affiliated companies and partners will collect necessary information within a limited degree according to the necessary function or service.

d. Order function: When you use the “My Order” function, we may share your order information with the relevant service provider who placed the order. They will use it to meet your demands for buying goods or services from them and enable them to provide subsequent services.

e. When you use the functions provided by our affiliated companies or third parties in the 42 Garage, or when software service providers, smart device providers, and system service providers cooperate with us to provide services for you, we will share the necessary information to carry out the business with these affiliated companies and third parties.f. Login and bind other products: When you use your account to log in to third-party products or services, or bind your account with other third-party accounts, with your consent, we will share your nickname, avatar, followings, followers, and other authorized information with the aforementioned product or service.

g. Geolocation service: When you use geolocation related services (such as nearby dealership functions), we will share your device identifier information and GPS information with the location service provider (Gaode Map) in order to provide you with geographical location results. Refusal to provide GPS information will affect geolocation services, but will not affect other functions.

(2) Implement sharing of advertising-related information

a. Advertising promotion: We may share information with our partners who commission us to promote and advertise, but we will not share information used to identify your personal identity, such as your name, ID number, etc. We only provide these partners with indirect portrait labels and de-identified or anonymized information that cannot identify you personally to help improve the effectiveness of their advertising reach.

b. Advertising statistics: We may share de-identified device information or statistical information with business service providers, suppliers, and other partners. This information is difficult to associate with your identity information. This information will help us analyze and measure the effectiveness of advertising and related services.

(3) Help you participate in promotional activities

When you choose to participate in marketing activities related to us, our affiliates, or third parties, depending on the activity, you may need to provide name, address, contact information, bank account information. These information may include personal sensitive information (such as personal phone numbers). If you refuse to provide this information, it may affect your participation in related activities or receiving prizes, but will not affect other functions. With your express consent, we will share the above information with third parties to ensure that you receive consistent service experience in joint activities, or commission third parties to provide prizes to you in a timely manner.

(4) Implement sharing of security and analytical statistical information

a. Security protection: We attach great importance to account and service security. In order to protect the security of your account and property and prevent illegal infringement on your legitimate rights and interests and those of other users, we and our affiliated companies or service providers may share necessary equipment, account and log information.

b. Analyze product usage: In order to analyze the usage of our services and enhance user experience, we may share with affiliated parties or third parties statistical data on product usage (crashes, flashbacks), which cannot identify your personal identity when combined with other information.

2. Sharing principles:(1)Principle of Authorized Consent: To share your personal information with our affiliates or third parties, we must obtain your authorized consent, unless the shared personal information has been de-identified in a way that the shared third party cannot re-identify the natural person subject to this kind of information. If the purpose for which our affiliates or third parties use the information exceeds the scope of the original authorized consent, they need to obtain your consent again.

(2)Principle of Legitimate and Minimal Necessity: The data shared with affiliates or third parties must have legitimate and reasonable purposes, and the data sharing must be necessary for achieving the purposes.

(3)Principle of Security and Prudence: We will prudently evaluate the purposes for which our affiliates or third parties use the shared information, comprehensively assess the security capability of these partners, and require them to comply with the cooperative legal agreement. We will conduct strict security checks on the software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) used by partners to obtain information, in order to protect data security.

  1. Transfer

(1) We will not transfer your personal information to any other third party without your explicit consent.

(2) As our business continues to develop, we may carry out mergers, acquisitions, or asset transfers, and your personal information may be transferred as a result. In the event of such changes, we will continue to protect or require the personal information of the inheriting party to be protected in accordance with legal regulations and no less than the security standards required by this privacy policy. Otherwise, we will require the inheriting party to obtain your authorized consent again.

(II)Disclosure of Personal Information

  1. We will not disclose your information publicly, unless required by national laws and regulations or with your consent. We will use security protection measures that comply with industry standards when disclosing your personal information publicly.

2. When punishing accounts for violations or fraudulent behavior, we may disclose the necessary information related to the account.

  1. The works and accounts you publicly post will be displayed on your personal homepage.

  2. Your avatar and nickname may be displayed in rankings, prize lists, and other lists when you participate in platform-organized activities.

(III)Personal Information Exempt from Authorization for Sharing, Transfer, and Disclosure in accordance with Laws and Regulations

Please understand that in the following situations, based on laws, regulations, and national standards, we do not need to obtain your authorized consent to share, transfer, or disclose your personal information:

(1) Directly related to national security or national defense security;

(2) Directly related to public security, public health, or major public interests;

(3) Directly related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trials, and judgment execution;

(4) To protect your or other individuals’ lives, property, and other significant legitimate rights and interests, but it is difficult to obtain the consent of the individual concerned;

(5) Personal information that you publicly disclose to the public;

(6) Collecting personal information from legally disclosed information, such as legal news reports, government information disclosure, and other channels.

V. How We Protect Personal Information Security(1) We attach great importance to the security of your personal information and will make reasonable efforts (including technical and management aspects) to protect your personal information from being improperly used, accessed, publicly disclosed, used, modified, damaged, lost or leaked.

(2) We will use encryption technology, anonymization methods, and other feasible measures not lower than industry standards to protect your personal information, and use security mechanisms to prevent malicious attacks on your personal information.

(3) We will establish a dedicated security department, security management system, and data security process to ensure the security of your personal information. We implement strict data usage and access policies to ensure that only authorized personnel can access your personal information, and we conduct security audits of data and technology as needed.

(4) Despite the reasonable and effective measures we have already taken and our compliance with the relevant legal requirements and standards, please understand that due to technical limitations and possible malicious means, it is impossible to guarantee 100% security of information in the Internet industry, even if we do our best to enhance security measures. We will do our best to ensure the security of the personal information you provide to us. You acknowledge and understand that the systems and communication networks you use to access our services may have problems due to factors beyond our control. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you take proactive measures to protect the security of personal information, including but not limited to using complex passwords, regularly changing passwords, and not disclosing personal information such as your account numbers, passwords, and SMS verification codes to others.

(5) We will develop emergency response plans and activate them immediately in the event of a user information security incident, to try our best to prevent the impact and consequences of such security incidents from escalating. Once a user information security incident (such as a leak or loss) occurs, we will promptly notify you in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements of the basic situation and possible impact of the security incident, the disposal measures we have taken or will take, suggestions for you to self-protect and reduce risks, and remedial measures for you. We will notify you of the relevant situation through push notifications, emails, letters, SMS, and other means, and if it is difficult to notify you one by one, we will publish an announcement in a reasonable and effective manner. At the same time, we will also report the disposal of user information security incidents in accordance with relevant regulatory requirements.

(6) We hereby specially remind you that the personal information protection measures provided in this Privacy Policy apply only to “42 Auto Shop” and related services. Once you leave “42 Auto Shop” and related services and browse or use other websites, services, and content resources, we will have no ability or obligation to protect any personal information you submit to software, websites or services outside of “42 Auto Shop” and related services, whether you log in, browse or use the above-mentioned software, websites or services based on links or guidance from “42 Auto Shop”.

VI. Your RightsWe attach great importance to personal information management and make every effort to protect your rights to access, modify, delete, withdraw consent, cancel account, lodge complaints, report problems, and set privacy functions regarding your personal information, so as to empower you to safeguard your privacy and security.

(I) Access, Delete, and Correct Your Personal Information

You can manage your information through the following methods:

1. Access Personal Account Information:

You can query, access, and correct your basic information such as avatar, username, and profile. You can do this by going to “Edit Profile” or “System Settings” on Garage 42.

2. Query, Access, Change, and Cancel Your Followed Accounts; Query and Access Fans and Visitors Information:

Go to Garage 42, click “Me,” and then click “Followers” to access followed accounts, and you can also unfollow them. Click “Fans” to check the number of fans and click it to display the usernames and avatars of your fans.

3. Query, Access, Modify, and Delete Your Collection Records:

Click “Me,” and then click “My Collection” to query, access, modify and delete records.

4. Delete Published Posts, Questions and Answers, Comments:

(1) Published posts: go to Garage 42, click “Me,” and follow the prompts to delete;

(2) Comments: you can visit the comment page and delete your comments.

5. Query Orders:

Go to Garage 42, click “Me,” and then click “My Orders” to query.

(II) Change Your Authorized Scope or Withdraw Consent

You can turn off relevant permissions in the operating system of your device to change the scope of authorization or withdraw your consent. After withdrawing consent, we will no longer collect information related to these permissions.

Please understand that specific business functions and services will require your information to be completed. When you withdraw consent or authorization, we will no longer be able to provide you with the corresponding function and service or process your personal information accordingly. However, your decision to withdraw consent or authorization will not affect the processing of personal information that the company has already carried out based on your authorization.

(III) Cancel Your Account

To apply for account cancellation, please download the App from the store or the official website (https://www.42how.com/app), and then click “Settings-Help and Feedback-Cancel Account” to apply for account cancellation.

Before you cancel your account, we will verify your personal identity, security status, device information and so on.

Please be aware that account cancellation is an irreversible action. After you cancel your account, we will delete your related information or make it anonymous, except as otherwise required by laws and regulations. Please make sure to back up any data related to your account if you need it.After applying for cancellation, the relevant content of the account will be deleted within 15 days, including but not limited to: your inability to use the account, historical data (dynamic, comments, profile picture, nickname, authenticated vehicles), etc.

If you log in to the account within the 15 days after submitting the cancellation request, it means that the cancellation request is cancelled and normal use is restored. Similarly, if you do not log in to the account within 15 days after cancellation, the cancellation operation will be completed when it expires.

(IV) Complains and Reports

If you believe that your personal information rights may have been violated, or if you discover clues that your personal information rights have been violated (such as: believing that we have collected your personal information in violation of laws or agreements), you can contact us through “My” – “User Feedback” page. After verification, we will give feedback on your complaints and reports in a timely manner.

(V) Access to Privacy Policy

You can view the full text of this “Privacy Policy” on the registration page, or on the “My-Settings” page of your personal account after login, or on the homepage of 42garage.com.

(VI) Notification of Operation Shutdown

If we stop operating, we will promptly stop collecting personal information from you, notify you of the shutdown one by one or through announcements, and delete or anonymize the personal information we hold.

VII. Terms for Minors

If you are a minor under the age of 18, before using “42 Garage” and related services, you should read and agree to this “Privacy Policy” jointly with your parents or other guardians who will supervise and guide you. We protect the personal information of minors in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations. We only collect, use, store, share, transfer or disclose the personal information of minors in accordance with legal provisions, explicit consent of parents or guardians, or necessary for the protection of minors. If we find that personal information of minors has been collected without prior verifiable parental consent, we will endeavor to delete the relevant information as soon as possible. If you are a guardian of a minor, if you have any questions about the personal information of the minors you are supervising, please contact us through the contact information provided in this “Privacy Policy”.

VIII. Revision and Notification of Privacy Policy

(1) In order to provide better services to you, “42 Garage” and related services will be updated and changed from time to time. We will revise this “Privacy Policy” from time to time. These revisions constitute a part of this “Privacy Policy” and have the same effect as this “Privacy Policy”. Without your explicit consent, we will not reduce your rights under the current effective “Privacy Policy”.

(2) After the update of this “Privacy Policy”, we will issue an updated version on “42 Garage” and remind you of the updated content before the updated terms take effect, through announcements on the official website or other adequate methods, so that you can understand the latest version of this “Privacy Policy” in a timely manner.

IX. Scope of ApplicationThis Privacy Policy applies to all services provided by the operator of Garage 42, unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy. The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as those defined in the 42 Garage User Agreement, unless otherwise specified.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to:

1. Other third parties that provide advertising services for “42 Garage”

When you use these third-party services (including any personal information you provide to them), they will be bound by their own terms of service and privacy policy (not this Privacy Policy). Please carefully read the terms of the third party and protect your personal information, only provide it to the third party when necessary.

2. Please note that the “42 Garage” and related services described in this Privacy Policy may vary depending on the mobile phone model, system version, software application version, mobile client, etc. used by you. The final product and service shall be subject to the “42 Garage” and related services used by you.

Ten, Agreement Modification, and Others

  1. If you have any complaints, suggestions, or questions regarding personal information protection, you can send your issues to (hello@42how.com) and we will promptly review the issue involved and actively verify and process it after verifying your user identity.

  2. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the content of this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the “User Feedback” page within the “42 Garage” client.

  3. In order to protect intellectual property rights and maintain a good community atmosphere, ordinary users, vehicle owner users, and corporate users have the right to report topics, views, evaluations, comments, and comment replies posted by other users. For the reported topics, views, evaluations, comments, comment replies, as well as the reported ordinary users, vehicle owner users, and corporate users, Garage 42 will take measures to shield, delete, or ban them based on the actual situation. For the reported articles, you can contact hello@42how.com or contact official customer service personnel.

  4. Garage 42 has the right to modify this agreement according to laws and regulations, Internet development, or business development needs. Once the agreement is changed, it will be published immediately and notified to users by email, private message, etc. If you object to the agreement or cannot accept the agreement, please suspend the use of the Garage 42 application and services. If you continue to use Garage 42, you will be deemed to have agreed to the agreement.


The following is the list of third-party SDKs accessed by the appTo ensure the secure and stable operation of the functions related to Garage 42, we may integrate software development kits (SDKs) provided by third-party and affiliated partners to achieve specific purposes.

We will conduct strict security checks on the SDKs obtained from our partners in order to protect data security.

Below is the directory of the relevant SDKs that we have integrated:

Note: The processing type of data may change due to the upgrade of versions or policy adjustments made by third-party and affiliated partners. Please refer to the official guidelines published by them.

Directory of Third-party SDKs

WeChat Sharing SDK
  • Purpose: Help users share content to WeChat
  • Data types collected: Device identification information
  • Official website: https://open.weixin.qq.com/
WeChat Login SDK
  • Purpose: Help users login with WeChat accounts
  • Data types collected: Device identification information
  • Official website: https://open.weixin.qq.com/
GeeTest SDK
  • Purpose: Account security verification
  • Data types collected: Device identification information
  • Official website: https://www.geetest.com/
JPush SDK and Third-Party Push SDKs (Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Meizu, etc.)
  • Service types: Message push services
  • Personal information collected by the SDK:
  • Official website: https://www.jiguang.cn/
  • Device information (IMEI/MAC/Android ID/IDFA/OAID/OpenUDID/GUID/SIM card IMSI information, etc.): Used to identify unique users to ensure precise message delivery; we will integrate message push channels according to the activity of different apps on devices to optimize push channel resources and improve message delivery rates; providing developers with smart tags and business statistics display services.
  • Network and location information (IP address, WiFi information, base station information, etc.): Optimize network connection requests between SDK and JPush servers to ensure service stability and continuity; implement regional push function.
AMap Location SDK
  • Purpose: Localization
  • Data types collected: Location information
  • Official website: https://lbs.amap.com/
OpenInstall Statistical SDK
  • Purpose: Statistics
  • Types of information collected: Device brand, device model, operating system version, IP address, clipboard### Android ID, Serial Number, Device Sensors (number of sensors), and Local Storage Permission
  • Purpose of data collection: Data statistics and analysis, cheat monitoring
  • Official website link: https://www.openinstall.io/doc/rules.html
Umeng SDK
  • Purpose of use: Social sharing, statistics
  • Types of information collected: Device information (IMEI/MAC/Android ID/IDFA/OpenUDID/GUID/SIM card IMSI/ICCID/geolocation, etc.), application lists
  • Purpose of data collection: Data statistics and analysis, social sharing
  • Official website link: https://www.umeng.com/page/policy
Sina Weibo SDK
  • Purpose of use: Content sharing
  • Types of information collected: Device information (such as IMEI/MAC/Android ID/Serial/SIM card IMSI/ICCID/WLAN access point, etc.)
  • Purpose of data collection: Share content
  • Official website link: https://weibo.com/signup/v5/privacy

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