1. Who We Are
xingwei is a deep-sky observation journal and community service for astronomy records, celestial media, discussion posts, comments, replies, and safety reports. You may browse public content as a guest. Creating content, replying, uploading, or reporting may require signing in.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you use xingwei, we may collect the following categories of information:
- Account information, such as username, authentication state, account identifiers, and password credentials stored in protected form.
- Profile and community content, such as posts, comments, replies, reports, moderation notes, timestamps, and display names.
- Observation records, such as object names, equipment details, exposure notes, processing notes, observing conditions, location descriptions, and media URLs you submit.
- Uploaded or linked media, such as images, videos, thumbnails, file metadata, and remote media addresses you provide.
- Technical information, such as device type, operating system, app version, browser type, IP address, request logs, diagnostics, crash information, and security events.
- Administrative data, such as banner configuration, content review status, report handling records, and audit information needed to operate the service.
3. How We Use Information
We use information to operate, maintain, secure, and improve xingwei. This includes providing observation records, displaying public content, enabling comments and replies, processing reports, reviewing content, preventing abuse, troubleshooting issues, improving performance, and communicating important service updates. We do not sell your personal information.
4. Public Content
Content you publish may be visible to other users or visitors. This can include observation records, celestial media links, posts, comments, replies, usernames, timestamps, and related metadata. Please do not post private addresses, precise private observing locations, contact details, financial information, identification documents, or another person's personal information.
5. Comments, Replies, and Reports
Guests may view public comments where available. Replying requires sign-in. Comments and replies may be reviewed by automated checks and human moderators. If you report content, we collect the reported item, reason, details you provide, timestamps, and review status so we can investigate and enforce community rules.
6. Legal Bases and Compliance
Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we process information to perform our service agreement with you, pursue legitimate interests such as service security and abuse prevention, comply with legal obligations, and honor your consent where consent is required. Your privacy rights may vary depending on your location.
7. Sharing of Information
We may share information with service providers that help us host, store, monitor, secure, analyze, or operate xingwei. We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect the safety and rights of users or the public, to prevent fraud or abuse, or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, or asset transfer. We do not allow service providers to use personal information for their own advertising purposes.
8. Third-Party Links and External Websites
xingwei may display links to external websites, media hosts, astronomy resources, or web pages configured through the app or admin tools. External websites are controlled by their own operators and are governed by their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party services.
9. Data Retention
We keep information for as long as needed to provide the service, maintain community history, handle reports, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our terms. Public content may remain visible unless removed, anonymized, or deleted under applicable policy or law.
10. Account Deletion and User Choices
You may sign out or request account deletion through available app features or support channels. Deletion may remove or anonymize account information, but some records may be retained when required for security, legal compliance, fraud prevention, abuse investigations, backups, or audit purposes. Public content associated with community history may be removed, anonymized, or retained depending on context and applicable law.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. These may include HTTPS, access controls, credential protection, monitoring, and operational separation. No online service can guarantee absolute security, so please use a strong password and avoid posting sensitive personal information.
12. Children
xingwei is not intended for children under 13, or the minimum age required by law in your location. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below the applicable age. If you believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.
13. International Users
Your information may be processed and stored in countries or regions other than where you live. These locations may have privacy laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction. We take reasonable steps to protect information according to this Privacy Policy.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are material, we will take reasonable steps to notify users through the app, website, or other appropriate methods. The effective date above shows when this policy was last updated.
15. Contact
For privacy questions, data requests, or safety concerns, use the in-app Safety Center or report flow. You may also contact us through the official website at https://xingweiweb.com/.