Effective Date: October 24, 2024
Updated Date: October 24, 2024
“DuoDo App Software License and Service Agreement” (hereinafter referred to as “this Agreement”) is an agreement reached between you and the operator of DuoDo App (hereinafter referred to as “DuoDo App Operator”) regarding the use of DuoDo App products and services. Before you start using DuoDo App products and services, please read this Agreement and the “DuoDo App Privacy Policy” published by DuoDo App Operator carefully, and fully understand the content of each term, especially those involving restrictions or exemptions from liability. Restrictions and exemption clauses will be highlighted by bolding the font to draw your attention. Please read them carefully.
You confirm that you should have the civil act capacity prescribed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China to match your actions, ensuring the ability to independently bear all responsibilities for your use of DuoDo App products and services. DuoDo App hereby specially reminds you that no minors under the age of eighteen should use the online services provided by DuoDo App software.
If you have any objections to any terms of this Agreement, or if you cannot accurately understand any terms of this Agreement, please do not visit and/or use the DuoDo App application and its related services. Your actions of downloading, installing, obtaining a DuoDo App account, and using DuoDo App products and services will be deemed as your full understanding and agreement to sign this Agreement, and you promise to accept the constraints of this Agreement as a party hereto.
If you have any questions, you can contact us through the privacy policy (you can send relevant content to: duodoinc@gmail.com) or other contact/feedback channels provided within DuoDo App, and we will answer your questions as soon as possible.
1.Scope of the Agreement
1.1 This Agreement stipulates the rights and obligations between 2.5 HK LIMITED and you regarding the use of DuoDo App products and services.
1.2 DuoDo App Operator: refers to 2.5 HK LIMITED. However, in connection with this Agreement and certain service items that DuoDo App products may involve in the future, associated companies of DuoDo App Operator may also provide you with products and services, and have rights and obligations with you. In this Agreement, an associated company refers to any company that controls another, or is controlled by another, or is under the common control of the same entity. Control means directly or indirectly holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity, voting rights, or management rights of the company.
1.3 User: also known as “you”, refers to any person or organization that legally obtains and uses DuoDo App products.
1.4 DuoDo App Product: also known as DuoDo App or DuoDo App software, refers to the mobile client application and its corresponding mobile website named DuoDo App, which is legally owned and operated by DuoDo App Operator. The client application is provided in the form of software, including but not limited to multiple versions such as iOS and Android. You must choose the software version that matches the terminal device you have installed.
1.5 DuoDo App Service: refers to various operational services related to DuoDo App products provided by DuoDo App Operator to you.
1.6 The content of this Agreement also includes the business rules, related agreements, and revised versions of DuoDo App products and services that DuoDo App Operator and its associated companies may continuously release. If the content adjustment has a significant impact on your rights and interests or involves changes to your rights and interests, we will inform you and provide services after obtaining your consent.
1.7 DuoDo App Operator has the right to entrust the operation, management, and fulfillment of this service or the rights and obligations under this Agreement to its associated companies or other third-party companies. DuoDo App Operator does not need to obtain separate authorization from you for this (if it involves significant changes or reductions in your rights and interests, DuoDo App Operator will seek your consent separately). At that time, DuoDo App Operator will do its best to avoid any inconvenience caused to the various services related to DuoDo App products by the aforementioned entrustment or changes. At the same time, DuoDo App Operator promises you that it will take strict measures in accordance with the law to protect the security of your data on DuoDo App.
2.Products and Services
2.1 Please be aware of the source of the installation program, and you should download DuoDo App products from legal channels to your legally owned terminal devices. At the same time, we remind you:
2.1.1 DuoDo App Operator grants you a personal, non-transferable, and non-exclusive license to use DuoDo App products and services. You can install and use DuoDo App products on terminal devices for non-commercial purposes, and DuoDo App Operator also reserves the right to revoke this authorization in any necessary situation. However, unless specifically authorized, you should not adapt, copy, or trade DuoDo App products in any form.
2.1.2 If you obtain DuoDo App products or installation programs with the same name as DuoDo App products from a third party not authorized by DuoDo App Operator, DuoDo App Operator cannot guarantee that the product can be used normally, and DuoDo App Operator is not responsible for any losses caused thereby.
2.2 Once you open and enter DuoDo App products on your terminal device, it is considered as using DuoDo App products and services. To fully realize all the functions of DuoDo App products and services, you may need to connect your terminal device to the network.
2.3 To ensure the security and consistency of functions of DuoDo App products and services, DuoDo App Operator has the right to update the software without special notice to you, or to change or restrict some functional effects of the software.
2.4 After the release of a new version of DuoDo App software, the old version of the software may not be usable. DuoDo App Operator does not guarantee the continued availability of the old version of the software, and you are requested to check and download the latest version at any time.
2.5 You understand and agree that: in order to provide effective services, DuoDo App will utilize the processor and bandwidth resources of your terminal device. The use of DuoDo App may generate data traffic fees, and you need to understand the relevant fee information from the operator and bear the related fees by yourself.
2.6 When you register an account or use this service, you need to provide some necessary information, such as: to provide account registration services or identity recognition for you, you need to fill in your mobile phone number; some location-based functions require your consent to use your geographical location information; collecting contact matching functions require your authorization to access the mobile phone address book, etc. If national laws and regulations or policies have special provisions requiring you to provide real identity information, and if you refuse to provide information or the information you provide is incomplete, you will not be able to use the corresponding functions or will be restricted in the process of use.
2.7 DuoDo App Operator will take appropriate security measures and technical means to protect your personal information and other data security. For the storage of personal information and data related to personal information, DuoDo App Operator strictly follows the execution methods and periods stipulated by laws and regulations, and stores different levels of personal information according to their corresponding storage periods.
2.8 When using this software and service, you must bear the following risks that DuoDo App Operator cannot control, including but not limited to:
2.8.1 The risk of personal information loss or leakage due to irresistible factors;
2.8.2 You must choose the software version that matches the model of the terminal device you have installed, otherwise, any problems or damages caused by the mismatch between the software and the terminal device model will be borne by you;
2.8.3 The risks that may arise from using this software to access third-party websites and their related content, will be borne by you;
2.8.4 The risks and responsibilities that may arise from your published content being forwarded or shared by others;
2.8.5 The risks caused by unstable wireless network signals, small wireless network bandwidth, etc., including login failures, incomplete data synchronization, slow page opening speeds, etc.
2.9 You understand and agree that DuoDo App Operator will do its best to ensure the data storage security in this software and service, but DuoDo App Operator cannot fully guarantee this, including but not limited to the following situations:
2.9.1 DuoDo App Operator is not responsible for the deletion or storage failure of your data in this software and service;
2.9.2 DuoDo App will store and protect the data generated during your use of DuoDo App services in accordance with relevant laws and regulations; if you stop using this software and service or the service is terminated or canceled, DuoDo App Operator can permanently delete your data from the server after the preservation period (if any) expires. After the service is stopped, terminated, or canceled, DuoDo App Operator is not obliged to return the data to you.
2.10 Please be careful not to disclose any property accounts, bank cards, credit cards, third-party payment accounts, and corresponding passwords of yourself or others when using DuoDo App products and services, otherwise, any losses arising therefrom will be borne by you.
2.11 You understand and agree that DuoDo App Operator has the right to decide to use this software for commercial purposes, including but not limited to developing and using some services of this software to provide promotional services for third parties. In the process of promotion, DuoDo App Operator will strictly protect your personal information in accordance with relevant regulations and the standards issued by DuoDo App Operator for DuoDo App, and at the same time, you can also choose to block or reject receiving related promotional information according to the system settings.
3.Accounts and Your Behavior
3.1 DuoDo App provides you with a registration channel, and you have the right to choose a legal and compliant character combination as your account identification information and set a password that meets security requirements. The account and password you set are the proof for you to log in to DuoDo App products and use the products or accept services with the registered identity. The ownership of DuoDo App accounts belongs to DuoDo App Operator, and after you complete the application registration procedures, you only obtain the right to use the account, and this right belongs only to the initial applicant.
3.2 Please understand that you must be responsible for all actions under your registered account, including any content published and any consequences arising therefrom. As a service provider, DuoDo App Operator will fulfill the review and basic protection obligations in accordance with relevant regulations, but due to various factors that we cannot predict and control, we specially remind you that you should judge the content in DuoDo App products and services by yourself and bear all risks caused by using the content, including risks arising from reliance on the correctness, completeness, or practicality of the content. DuoDo App Operator will not bear any responsibility for any losses or damages caused by the aforementioned risks.
3.3 Your registered account in DuoDo App is limited to your personal use only and is prohibited from being given away, borrowed, rented, or sold; otherwise, DuoDo App Operator has the right to suspend or terminate the service to that registered account and has the right to cancel the account. The losses caused thereby, including the interruption of your communication, the clearance of your data and information, and other losses, will be borne by you.
3.4 You are responsible for properly safeguarding the security of your registered account information and account passwords. You need to bear legal responsibility for the actions under your registered account and password, including the modification of your data, the publication of comments, and other operations on DuoDo App products. If you find that others are using your account without permission or if there are any security breaches under your account, you can immediately notify DuoDo App Operator.
3.5 In addition to registering a DuoDo App account on your own, you can also choose to use other accounts that you legally own to register and log in to DuoDo App products through the account association system of DuoDo App (the specific support is subject to the login settings at that time). The account generated in DuoDo App corresponding to the aforementioned existing accounts also applies to the account-related provisions in this Agreement.
3.6 If you register a DuoDo App account and do not actually use it for 90 consecutive days, DuoDo App Operator has the right to reclaim the account to avoid wasting resources.
3.7 When using DuoDo App products and services, you should comply with the laws of the People’s Republic of China. You must not use DuoDo App Operator’s products and services to engage in activities that violate relevant laws and regulations, policies, and should comply with the rules and regulations published or updated within DuoDo App products. You must not impersonate others through avatars, your name, nickname, website, self-description, or other personal information, whether or not information is published. If a violation occurs, DuoDo App Operator reserves the right to reclaim the relevant account.
3.8 The content you publish on DuoDo App only represents your personal position and views and does not represent the position or views of DuoDo App Operator. As the publisher of the content, you are responsible for the content you publish, and you will bear all legal and joint liabilities for any disputes arising from the content published.
3.9 You must not use any plugins, “plug-ins”, or third-party tools that are not authorized or permitted by DuoDo App Operator to interfere with, disrupt, modify, or otherwise affect the normal operation of DuoDo App products and services.
3.10 You must not use or target DuoDo App products for any actions that endanger computer network security, including but not limited to: using DuoDo App’s related data without permission or accessing DuoDo App’s related servers/accounts without permission; attempting to investigate, scan, test the weaknesses of DuoDo App product systems or networks without permission or carry out other destructive network security actions; attempting to interfere with, disrupt the normal operation of DuoDo App product systems or websites, intentionally spreading malicious programs or viruses, and other actions that disrupt normal network information services; forging TCP/IP packet names or parts of names.
3.11 Without the permission of DuoDo App Operator, you must not engage in any commercial activities such as publishing advertisements or selling goods in DuoDo App products.
3.12 DuoDo App Operator is committed to creating a civilized, rational, friendly, and high-quality platform atmosphere. As the platform service functions develop, we will continue to strengthen our information security management capabilities and fulfill our social responsibilities. You must not use DuoDo App Operator’s products and services to create, copy, publish, or disseminate the following information (including but not limited to through posting comments, modifying nicknames, etc.):
3.12.1 Publish, transmit, disseminate, or store content prohibited by national laws and regulations:
(1) Opposing the basic principles determined by the constitution;
(2) Endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting state power, and undermining national unity;
(3) Damaging national honor and interests;
(4) Inciting national hatred, discrimination, and undermining national unity;
(5) Undermining national religious policies, promoting cults, and superstition;
(6) Spreading rumors, disturbing social order, and destabilizing society;
(7) Spreading obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terrorism, or inciting crime;
(8) Insulting or defaming others and infringing upon the legal rights and interests of others;
(9) Inciting illegal gatherings, associations, parades, demonstrations, and disturbing social order;
(10) Acting in the name of illegal civilian organizations;
(11) Containing other content prohibited by laws and administrative regulations.
3.12.2 Publish, transmit, disseminate, or store content that infringes upon the legal rights and interests of others, such as reputation rights, portrait rights, intellectual property rights, and trade secrets;
3.12.3 Publish personal information or data information involving others without their consent or authorization;
3.12.4 Publish, transmit, disseminate, or store harassment, advertising information, excessive marketing information, and junk information or other similar information;
3.12.5 Other information that violates laws and regulations, policies, public order, and good customs, or disrupts the normal operation of DuoDo App, infringes upon your or other users’ and third parties’ legal rights and interests.
If you violate the above clauses, DuoDo App Operator will take management measures such as refusing to publish, deleting comments, temporarily banning speech, or permanently closing accounts, depending on the situation. Content suspected of illegal and criminal activities will be preserved, and relevant situations and information will be reported to the relevant government departments.
3.13 DuoDo App Operator will improve the public reporting platform and welcome your supervision and reporting of various illegal dissemination activities and illegal harmful information to jointly create a clear cyberspace.
4.Intellectual Property Rights
4.1 DuoDo App Operator is the intellectual property rights holder of DuoDo App products. All copyright, trademark rights, patent rights, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights of DuoDo App, as well as all information content related to DuoDo App (including but not limited to text, images, videos, audio, interface design, copyright framework, etc.) are protected by the laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China and corresponding international treaties. DuoDo App Operator enjoys the aforementioned intellectual property rights (except for the rights that relevant right holders should have according to the law).
4.2 You must ensure that the text, images, audio, video, and other information you upload when using DuoDo App products and services do not infringe upon any third-party intellectual property rights. Otherwise, DuoDo App Operator has the right to remove the infringing information and is not responsible for it. If the aforementioned third party makes a rights claim, you should bear the responsibility yourself.
4.3 All content you upload and publish during the use of DuoDo App products and services will not transfer intellectual property rights, portrait rights, or other rights due to the upload and publication behavior. At the same time, you understand and agree that after you publish and upload the aforementioned content such as text, images, audio, and video to DuoDo App when using DuoDo App products and services, you agree to grant DuoDo App Operator a free, non-exclusive, perpetual, and transferable license to use the aforementioned content in a manner that complies with the law. DuoDo App can display and promote the use of the aforementioned content. For the above content, DuoDo App Operator will only use it within the scope of the law and will require its partners (if any) to strictly abide by the scope of application restrictions. At the same time, you agree to permit DuoDo App to rights protection for any entity that infringes upon your legal rights and interests under the circumstances, including but not limited to sending rights protection letters, filing lawsuits, applying for arbitration, etc., and its effectiveness extends to any content protected by laws and regulations that you publish within DuoDo App; at the same time, you can authorize third parties to protect your rights and can terminate the authorization to DuoDo App at any time.
4.4 DuoDo App products and services may involve third-party intellectual property rights, and when the third party has requirements for your use of related intellectual property rights in DuoDo App products and services, DuoDo App Operator will inform you of the requirements in an appropriate manner, and you should comply with them.
4.5 Without the consent of the relevant right holder, you must not reverse engineer, reverse compile, or reverse compile the related web pages, applications, software products involved in DuoDo App products and services; nor can you use, utilize, transfer the aforementioned intellectual property rights for any commercial or non-commercial purposes by yourself or authorize any third party to do so.
4.6 The intellectual property rights of the content included in DuoDo App products and services are protected by law, and no one may use or create related derivative works in any form without the written permission of DuoDo App Operator, you, or the relevant right holders.
5.Personal Information and Privacy Protection
5.1 Protecting your personal information is a fundamental principle of DuoDo App Operator. DuoDo App Operator will collect, use, store, and share your personal information in accordance with this Agreement and the “DuoDo App Privacy Policy” published by DuoDo App Operator.
5.2 Maintaining software security and normal use is a common responsibility of DuoDo App Operator and you. DuoDo App Operator will take necessary measures to protect your device information and data security according to industry standards, but at the same time, you should understand and recognize that DuoDo App Operator cannot provide a complete guarantee to you. While we work together with you to maintain the security of your personal information, you should also respect the legal rights and interests of others and should not infringe upon others in any way, such as not creating, publishing, using, or disseminating any malicious programs used to steal others’ accounts and personal information, property.
5.3 You understand
and agree that like most internet software, DuoDo App may be affected by various factors, including but not limited to the reasons of you and/or other users, network service quality, social environment, etc.; it may also be disturbed by various security issues such as illegal use of information; other software you download and install or websites you visit may contain viruses, Trojan programs, or other malicious programs, threatening the security of your terminal device information and data. Therefore, you should strengthen your awareness of information security and personal information protection, pay attention to the source of information, pay attention to the protection of personal information and account passwords, so as not to suffer losses. Here, we specially remind you that under no circumstances should you easily believe in borrowing, asking for passwords, or any other network information involving property and personal identity information. For the provision of personal information and property operations, please verify the identity of the other party first. DuoDo App does not and cannot verify the entities asking for information from you, nor does it bear any responsibility for the losses arising therefrom.
5.4 DuoDo App Operator will use various security technologies and procedures to establish a sound management system to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
5.5 DuoDo App Operator will not transfer or disclose your personal information to any non-affiliated third party unless:
(1) You give explicit consent or based on your active choice;
(2) Disclosure based on legal regulations: in the case of legal, legal procedures, litigation, or mandatory requirements of government authorities.
5.6 According to legal regulations, sharing and transferring personal information that has been de-identified and ensures that the data recipient cannot restore and re-identify the personal information subject does not constitute the sharing, transfer, and public disclosure of personal information. The preservation and processing of such data will not need to be notified to you separately and your consent will not be sought.
5.7 In the following cases, DuoDo App Operator may use your personal information:
(1) During promotions or lotteries, DuoDo App Operator may share your personal information with sponsors or partners. In these cases, DuoDo App Operator will prompt you before sending your information, and you can terminate the transmission process by not participating in promotions or lotteries;
(2) DuoDo App Operator may cooperate with third parties to provide you with related network services. In this case, DuoDo App Operator will require the third party to bear the same responsibility as DuoDo App Operator to protect your privacy;
(3) On the premise of de-identification processing that cannot identify the personal information subject, DuoDo App Operator may analyze and commercially utilize your entire database based on product improvement needs.
6.Service Modification, Interruption, and Termination
6.1 You understand and agree that the DuoDo App products and services provided by DuoDo App Operator are provided according to the current technology and conditions that can be achieved. DuoDo App Operator will make every effort to provide you with services to ensure the continuity and security of the services; however, DuoDo App Operator cannot foresee and guard against technical and other risks at any time, including but not limited to force majeure, viruses, Trojans, hacker attacks, system instability, network environment, third-party service flaws, and other reasons that may lead to service interruptions, data loss, and other losses and risks. For the data loss caused by the aforementioned reasons, DuoDo App Operator is not required to be responsible or bear any compensation responsibility to you or third parties. In the event of such circumstances, DuoDo App Operator will try to send notifications to the affected you through web page announcements, system notifications, private messages, SMS reminders, or other reasonable methods as soon as possible.
6.2 You understand and agree that for the overall operation of the service, DuoDo App Operator has the right to modify, interrupt, suspend, or terminate various services within DuoDo App products without prior notice to you, and does not need to be responsible or bear any compensation responsibility to you or third parties. DuoDo App Operator will also try to notify the affected you in advance and do its best to ensure the security and integrity of your personal data information.
7.Legal Liability Statement
7.1 Due to objective circumstances and technical limitations, please understand: DuoDo App Operator will try to improve service capabilities to provide you with better services. If there are any program errors in the product, DuoDo App Operator will also correct them as soon as possible after discovering the relevant program errors. However, DuoDo App Operator cannot guarantee that the products and services are completely suitable for your use requirements; it cannot guarantee that the product or service is not interrupted or does not have any program errors.
7.2 For actions that violate relevant laws and regulations or the provisions of this Agreement, DuoDo App Operator will handle them based on legal provisions and the aforementioned rules, take appropriate actions against any person who violates the law or regulations, and save relevant information and report to relevant departments in accordance with laws and regulations.
7.3 DuoDo App products may include external network content or service links obtained by you sharing/uploading or DuoDo App Operator obtaining in various legal ways. You can jump to external web pages through the links obtained in DuoDo App and obtain corresponding content and services on the external pages. The services involved in external web pages may require you to accept the special use agreements formulated for that service or other legal documents that bind you and the service provider. You should make your own judgment and choice. Regarding the rights and obligations arising from your use of these external services, unless otherwise agreed, DuoDo App Operator does not need to bear any responsibility for the content and effects of you or third parties’ services.
8.Breach of Contract
8.1 If you violate national laws and regulations or the provisions of this Agreement, or if you infringe upon any rights of others, resulting in any third party making any claims or requests to DuoDo App Operator, including but not limited to litigation costs, attorney fees, travel expenses, settlement amounts, fines, or damages stipulated in effective legal documents, software usage fees, etc., causing losses to DuoDo App Operator, you should compensate DuoDo App Operator for the losses suffered thereby and eliminate the impact.
8.2 You understand and agree that DuoDo App has the right to punish actions that violate relevant laws and regulations or the provisions of this Agreement based on reasonable judgment, take appropriate legal actions against any of you who violate the law or regulations, and save relevant information and report to relevant departments in accordance with laws and regulations. You should bear the responsibilities arising therefrom by yourself.
If DuoDo App Operator discovers or receives reports or complaints that you have violated the provisions of this Agreement, DuoDo App Operator has the right to delete or block content that is suspected of violating laws and regulations or the provisions of this Agreement, and can impose penalties on the violating account, including but not limited to warnings, restrictions or prohibitions on using some or all functions, account banning, or cancellation, depending on the severity of the behavior, and has the right to announce the results of the handling.
9.Other Terms
9.1 This Agreement may be modified due to changes in national policies, products, and the environment for performance. DuoDo App Operator has the right to change the terms of this Agreement when necessary and publish the latest version of the Agreement on the pages related to DuoDo App Operator and DuoDo App products for your review. DuoDo App Operator can also choose other appropriate ways to notify you of the modified content, such as notifications on related websites, pages, or applications. After the terms of this Agreement are changed, if you do not accept the changed Agreement, you should stop using DuoDo App products and services. If you have any questions about the updated content, you can also contact us through the contact information published in this Agreement, and we will answer your questions as soon as possible.
9.2 The conclusion, execution, and interpretation of this Agreement and the resolution of disputes shall be governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China. Any provision of this Agreement, regardless of the reason for being partially invalid or unenforceable, shall be re-interpreted as closely as possible to the original intent of the Agreement, and the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
9.3 The signing location of this Agreement is Yangpu District, Shanghai. If you have any disputes with DuoDo App Operator regarding the products and services under this Agreement, you can first negotiate amicably with DuoDo App Operator; if the negotiation fails, both parties agree to submit the dispute to the people’s court with jurisdiction over the signing location of this Agreement.
9.4 To avoid ambiguity, it is hereby stated that the titles of all terms of this Agreement are for reading convenience only and have no actual meaning and cannot be used as the basis for interpreting the meaning of this Agreement.