This English text is a translation of the Chinese original, provided for your convenience. In the event of any discrepancy, the Chinese version shall prevail.
Last updated: 4 September 2026
Effective date: 11 September 2026
Notice:
Welcome to our products and services. As the developer of InThoth (hereinafter "we", "us" or "our"), we are keenly aware of how important your personal information is to you, and we will do our utmost to keep it safe and secure. We are committed to maintaining your trust in us, and we protect and process your personal information in accordance with the following principles: consistency of rights and responsibilities, clarity of purpose, consent by choice, minimum necessity, security assurance, data-subject participation, and openness and transparency. We further undertake to adopt security measures based on mature industry solutions to protect your personal information. On this basis we have formulated this Privacy Protection Policy (the "Policy" or "this Privacy Policy") and wish to draw your attention to the following:
This Policy is closely related to your use of our products and services. Provisions that we consider to bear materially on your rights and interests are set out in bold type to draw your particular attention. We recommend that you read and understand this Policy in full, and in particular that you make sure you are fully aware of and fully understand the meaning of the passages in bold type and their legal consequences, and that you then make the choices you consider appropriate. We have endeavoured to explain the technical terms used in this Policy in plain language so that they are easy to understand. Where, for a specific product or service, laws or administrative regulations require that separate consent be obtained for the processing of personal information, we will seek your separate consent based on your actual use.
Before using any of the products or services we provide, please read this Policy carefully and make sure you understand it thoroughly, and only use the relevant products or services once you have confirmed that you fully understand and agree to it. Once you begin using any of our products or services, you are deemed to have fully understood and agreed to your use of those products and services, to the personal information that is necessary in the course of that use, and to have granted the corresponding authorisation for its collection and use. If you have any question, comment or suggestion regarding this Policy, you may contact us using the contact details set out in Article 12, "How to contact us".
To help you understand our Privacy Protection Policy, the key points of this Policy are as follows:
(1) We will collect and use your information in accordance with this Privacy Protection Policy, and we will not collect all of your personal information by way of compulsory bundling merely because you have accepted this Policy.
(2) We explain, item by item, the categories of personal information we collect and the corresponding purposes, so that you can understand the specific categories of personal information collected for a particular function, the reasons for their use, and how they are collected.
(3) You may access, correct and delete your personal information, change the scope of the consent you have given, and request the deregistration of your account; we provide you with the means to exercise these rights.
(4) Unless we obtain your consent again, we will not use your personal information for purposes not set out in this Policy.
This Privacy Policy will help you understand the following:
- Article 1 Definitions
- Article 2 Scope of application
- Article 3 How we collect and use your personal information
- Article 4 How we use cookies and similar technologies
- Article 5 How we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information
- Article 6 How we retain your personal information
- Article 7 How we protect your personal information
- Article 8 How you manage your personal information
- Article 9 How we handle the personal information of minors
- Article 10 How your personal information is transferred globally
- Article 11 How this Privacy Policy is updated
- Article 12 How to contact us
- Article 13 Supplementary provisions
Article 1 Definitions
(1) We: the operator of the InThoth platform (company name: Suzhou Inscinstech Co., Ltd.; registered address: Building 13, No. 101, No. 998 Pangnan Road, Jiangling Subdistrict, Wujiang District, Suzhou).
(2) Personal information: all kinds of information, recorded electronically or by other means, that can identify a specific natural person either on its own or in combination with other information, or that reflects the activities of a specific natural person, including but not limited to a customer's name, gender, nationality, occupation, residential or work address, contact details, the type of identity document or proof of identity, document number and period of validity.
(3) Sensitive personal information: personal information that, once leaked or unlawfully used, is liable to result in harm to the dignity of a natural person or endanger their personal or property safety, including biometric information, religious belief, specific identity, medical and health information, financial accounts, whereabouts, and the personal information of minors under the age of fourteen.
Article 2 Scope of application
This Policy applies to the products and services that the InThoth platform provides to you through its website, its clients, and any new forms that emerge as technology develops.
Other than the collection and use of information described in this Policy, this Policy does not apply to services provided to you independently by third parties; such services are governed by the personal information processing rules that those third parties separately explain to you.
Article 3 How we collect and use your personal information
The service functions we provide depend on certain information in order to operate. We collect and use your personal information for the purposes described in this Policy, as follows:
(I) Helping you become our user
To create an account so that we can provide services to you, you need to provide the following information: your name (or nickname), mobile phone number or email address, and the institution (organisation) you belong to. If you decline to provide the above information, you will not be able to register a platform account and will only be able to browse part of the content.
During registration, providing the following additional information to complete your profile will help us provide you with better service and experience: your institutional information, research direction, position, field of expertise and the like. If you do not provide this information, it will not affect your use of the basic functions of our products or services.
The information you provide above authorises us to use it for as long as you use this service. To make it easier for you to manage your platform account, we will synchronise and display your registration information, including your profile and account information, within the platform account service. When you actively deregister your account, we will delete or anonymise your personal information promptly as required by applicable laws and regulations.
(II) Providing you with product functions and services
In order to improve our products and services and to provide you with functions and services better suited to your needs, we will optimise the service experience on the basis of your usage records, device information and the like, in accordance with the principle of minimum necessity.
If you do not wish to receive product updates, service notifications or similar information from us, you may unsubscribe at any time through the settings of the relevant product.
(III) Providing you with products or services
(1) Information you provide to us
When using our services you may provide us with contact details, institutional information and, where necessary in order to use paid services, corporate bank account information, so that we can provide services to you.
If the information you provide contains the personal information of other users, you must ensure that you have obtained their authorisation and consent before providing us with that third-party personal information; otherwise you will bear all adverse consequences, including liability for infringement.
(2) Information we collect while you use the services
In order to present pages and search results better suited to your needs, to understand product compatibility and to identify abnormal account states, we collect and correlate information about the services you use and how you use them, including:
Device information: subject to the specific permissions you grant during installation and use of the software, we receive and record information about the device you use (for example the device model, operating system version, device settings, unique device identifiers and other software and hardware characteristics) and information relating to the device's location (for example the IP address), for the purposes of keeping the service running properly and keeping your account secure.
Log information: when you use the products or services provided by our website or client, we collect your search queries, IP address, browser type, telecommunications carrier, language used, the date and time of access, and records of the web pages you visit.
Please note that device information, log information and the like, taken on their own, cannot identify a specific natural person. If we combine such non-personal information with other information to identify a specific natural person, or use it in combination with personal information, then during the period of such combined use that non-personal information will be treated as personal information; unless we have your authorisation or laws and regulations provide otherwise, we will anonymise or de-identify such personal information.
When you contact us, we may retain your communication and call records and their content or the contact details you leave with us, so that we can contact you or help resolve your problem, and to record how the matter was handled and its outcome.
(3) Your personal information that we obtain indirectly
You may use products or services provided by us and our affiliates through this platform and its related entry points. When you use such services through our products or services, you authorise us, as required by the actual business and cooperation, to receive, aggregate and analyse information from us and our affiliates that you have authorised or that has been lawfully sourced.
If you decline to provide the above information or to give authorisation, you may be unable to use the corresponding products or services, but this will not affect your use of the basic browsing and search functions provided by this platform.
(IV) Providing you with security
We are committed to providing you with a secure and trustworthy service environment. To safeguard account security and the authenticity of identities, you may provide us with identity documents, institutional credentials and similar information to complete real-name verification. If you decline to provide the above information, you may be unable to use functions such as account management and paid services, but this will not affect your use of basic browsing and search services.
In order to increase the security of the services provided by us, our affiliates and our partners, to protect you, other users or the public from harm to personal or property safety, and better to prevent security risks such as phishing sites, fraud, network vulnerabilities, computer viruses, network attacks and network intrusion, we may use or integrate your user information, device information, relevant network logs and information shared by our affiliates and partners with your lawful authorisation or as permitted by law, in order to assess account risk holistically, verify identities, detect and prevent security incidents, and take the necessary recording, auditing, analysis and disposal measures in accordance with law.
(V) To make our products and services more convenient for you, in the following situations you may choose whether to authorise us to collect and use your personal information:
(1) Functions based on device information: we may need to obtain your device information (such as device model and operating system version) in order to keep our services working properly for you and to carry out troubleshooting and statistical analysis.
(2) Functions based on network state: we may need to obtain your network permission (INTERNET) and network state information (ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE) in order to make network requests and to check whether your device's network connection is available.
(VI) When you use our products or services, in certain specific scenarios we may use software development kits ("SDKs") or application programming interfaces ("APIs") provided by third-party service providers holding the appropriate business qualifications and capabilities in order to serve you, and those third-party service providers will collect the information they need from you. If you decline to provide the relevant information or permissions, you will be unable to use the corresponding functions and services. Specifically, these include:
(1) Name: Alibaba Cloud SMS registration interface
Scenario: when you register or log in using a mobile phone number, an SMS verification code is sent in order to verify your identity and complete the registration/login process.
Personal information or permissions collected: mobile phone number (to receive the SMS verification code); network permission (to send and verify the code).
(2) Name: WeChat QR-code login
Scenario: when you log in by scanning a WeChat QR code, WeChat OAuth 2.0 authorisation is used to obtain your public WeChat information (such as nickname, avatar and OpenID) in order to create or bind your account and enable quick login.
Personal information or permissions collected: public information within the scope of the WeChat authorisation (including nickname, avatar, gender and region), OpenID (the unique user identifier), and network permission.
(VII) Other purposes
Where we use information for purposes not set out in this Policy, or use information collected for a specific purpose for another purpose, we will seek your consent in advance.
(VIII) Exceptions to obtaining consent
Under the applicable laws and regulations, your consent is not required for the collection of your personal information in the following circumstances:
(1) Where it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which you are a party.
(2) Where it is necessary for us to perform statutory duties or statutory obligations.
(3) Where it is necessary to respond to a public health emergency, or, in an emergency, to protect the life, health or property safety of a natural person.
(4) Where personal information is processed within a reasonable scope for news reporting, public-opinion supervision or other activities in the public interest.
(5) Where personal information that you have made public yourself, or that has otherwise already been lawfully made public, is processed within a reasonable scope in accordance with law.
(6) Other circumstances provided for by laws or administrative regulations.
(IX) AI conversation, model inputs and outputs, and the memory function
(1) When you use InThoth's agent conversation, task execution, data analysis and similar functions, we collect your "input" information (that is, the content you actively submit, or authorise us to obtain, in the form of text, images, instructions and the like) and the corresponding "output" information (that is, the content generated by artificial intelligence models on the basis of your input), in order to interact with the models and to generate and deliver working conclusions and research reference results to you.
(2) In order to continuously improve service quality, we adopt technical measures such as encryption and de-identification and use input and output information to optimise the models, on the basis that no specific natural person can be identified. If you do not wish to take part in this optimisation, you may tell us at any time using the contact details in Article 12, "How to contact us"; once it is switched off we will no longer use your inputs and outputs to optimise the models.
(3) In order to improve the coherence of conversations and tasks and to personalise your experience, we may automatically extract and retain information of reference value to you from your conversations and tasks with InThoth (for example the identity, institution, field of expertise, project background and preferences you have actively provided; "memory data") for use in subsequent tasks. You may view, correct or delete such memory data in your account settings, and you may also request that the memory function be switched off using the contact details in Article 12.
(4) Sensitive data involved in your use, such as biopharmaceutical research and development data, is stored and processed by us solely within a compliant environment inside the People's Republic of China; except as required by laws and regulations or with your separate consent, it is not transferred outside the territory, nor used for any purpose other than those set out in this statement.
If we cease to operate the website, a product or a service, we will promptly cease collecting your personal information, notify you of the cessation individually or by public announcement, and delete or anonymise the personal information we hold.
Article 4 How we use cookies and similar technologies
(I) Cookies
To ensure that the website works properly, to give you an easier browsing experience and to recommend content that may interest you, we store small data files called cookies on your computer or mobile device. A cookie usually contains an identifier, the site name and some numbers and characters. With the help of cookies, a website can store data such as your preferences.
We will not use cookies for any purpose other than those described in this article. You may manage or delete cookies according to your own preferences, and you may clear all cookies stored on your device; if you do so, however, you will need to change your user settings each time you use our services.
(II) Web beacons and pixel tags
In addition to cookies, we also use other similar technologies such as web beacons and pixel tags on the website. For example, an email we send you may contain a link to content on our website; if you click that link, we will track the click, which helps us understand your product or service preferences so that we can proactively improve the customer service experience. A web beacon is typically a transparent image embedded in a website or an email. Pixel tags in emails allow us to know whether an email has been opened. If you do not wish your activity to be tracked in this way, you may ask us to unsubscribe you at any time.
Article 5 How we share, transfer and publicly disclose your personal information
(I) Sharing
We will not share your personal information with companies, organisations or individuals other than our service providers, except in the following circumstances:
(1) Sharing with explicit consent: we will share your personal information with other parties after obtaining your explicit consent.
(2) Sharing in statutory circumstances: we may share your personal information externally in accordance with laws and regulations, as required for the resolution of litigation or disputes, or in response to lawful requests from administrative or judicial authorities.
(3) Sharing with affiliates: in order for us to provide services to you jointly on the basis of linked accounts, to recommend information that may interest you, or to protect our affiliates, other users or the public from harm to personal or property safety, your personal information may, with your authorisation and consent, be shared with our affiliates. We will share only the minimum scope of personal information necessary to provide you with the relevant products or services; if we share your sensitive personal information, or if an affiliate changes the purpose for which personal information is used or processed, we will seek your authorisation and consent again.
(4) Sharing with authorised partners: solely for the purposes stated in this Policy, certain of our services are provided jointly by us and our authorised partners. We may share certain of your personal information with partners in order to provide better customer service and user experience. For example, arranging for a partner to provide a service. We will share your personal information only for lawful, proper, necessary, specific and explicit purposes, and will share only the personal information necessary to provide the service. Our partners have no right to use the shared personal information for any other purpose unrelated to the product or service.
Our authorised partners currently fall into the following categories:
(a) Suppliers, service providers and other partners. We send information to suppliers, service providers and other partners that support our business, including by providing technical infrastructure services, analysing how our services are used, measuring the effectiveness of different services, providing customer service, facilitating payment, or conducting academic research and surveys.
With the companies, organisations and individuals with whom we share personal information, we enter into strict data protection agreements requiring them to process personal information in accordance with our instructions, this Privacy Policy and any other relevant confidentiality and security measures.
(5) We may provide your personal information externally in accordance with laws and regulations or regulatory requirements, as required for the resolution of litigation or disputes, or in response to lawful requests from administrative or judicial authorities.
(II) Transfer
We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organisation or individual, except in the following circumstances:
(1) Transfer with explicit consent: we will transfer your personal information to another party after obtaining your explicit consent.
(2) Provision where necessary under applicable laws and regulations, legal process, or mandatory administrative or judicial requirements.
(3) In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or bankruptcy liquidation, or other circumstances involving a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or bankruptcy liquidation, where personal information is to be transferred, we will require the new company or organisation holding your personal information to continue to be bound by this Policy; failing that, we will require that company, organisation or individual to seek your authorisation and consent afresh.
(III) Public disclosure
We will publicly disclose your personal information only in the following circumstances:
(1) With your explicit consent or on the basis of your own choice, we may publicly disclose your personal information.
(2) If we determine that you have breached laws or regulations, or have seriously breached our relevant policies and rules, or in order to protect us, the users of our affiliates or the public from harm to personal or property safety, we may publicly disclose your personal information in accordance with laws and regulations or our relevant policies and rules, including the relevant violations and the measures our website has taken against you.
(IV) Exceptions to obtaining prior consent for sharing, transfer and public disclosure
In the following circumstances, your prior authorisation and consent are not required for the sharing, transfer or public disclosure of your personal information:
(1) Where it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which you are a party.
(2) Where it is necessary for us to perform statutory duties or statutory obligations.
(3) Where it is necessary to respond to a public health emergency, or, in an emergency, to protect the life, health or property safety of a natural person.
(4) Where personal information is processed within a reasonable scope for news reporting, public-opinion supervision or other activities in the public interest.
(5) Where personal information that you have made public yourself, or that has otherwise already been lawfully made public, is processed within a reasonable scope in accordance with law.
(6) Other circumstances provided for by laws or administrative regulations.
Under the law, the sharing or transfer of de-identified personal information, where it is ensured that the recipient cannot restore and re-identify the data subject, does not constitute external sharing, transfer or public disclosure of personal information, and the retention and processing of such data does not require separate notice to you or your consent.
Article 6 How we retain your personal information
(I) Retention period
We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Policy, unless a mandatory retention requirement applies by law, such as the retention periods required by the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws and regulations.
We determine the storage period for personal information primarily by reference to the following criteria:
(1) Completing the business purposes relating to you and maintaining the corresponding business records, so as to be able to respond to any query or complaint you may raise.
(2) Ensuring the security and quality of the services we provide to you.
(3) Whether you have agreed to a longer retention period.
(4) The requirements of the applicable limitation periods.
(5) Whether there is any other special agreement or statutory provision concerning the retention period.
Once the retention period has expired, we will delete or anonymise your personal information as required by applicable law.
(II) In accordance with laws, regulations and regulatory requirements, we store the personal information we collect within the territory of the People's Republic of China. Where a cross-border transfer is genuinely necessary for business reasons, we will carry out an assessment in accordance with law, obtain your separate consent, and adopt measures such as encryption to keep the data secure.
While you use our products and services, we retain your personal information only for as long as is required by laws, regulations and regulatory requirements and as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated in these terms. After you deregister your account, we retain personal information only for the periods required by laws, regulations and regulatory requirements, and will not carry out any processing activity other than storage and the necessary security measures, save for personal information that has already been anonymised. Once the above retention periods have expired, we will delete or anonymise your personal information.
Article 7 How we protect the security of your personal information
We work to safeguard the security of our users' personal information in order to prevent it from being lost, improperly used, accessed without authorisation or publicly disclosed.
(I) We have adopted reasonable and feasible security measures consistent with generally accepted industry solutions to protect the personal information you provide, and take physical, technical and administrative measures to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure and alteration, and to do our best to prevent data from being accessed without authorisation, publicly disclosed, used, altered, damaged or lost. For example, data exchanged between your browser and our servers (such as account and business data) is protected by SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption; we use encryption technology to increase the security of personal information; we use trusted protection mechanisms to prevent malicious attacks on personal information; we deploy access control mechanisms to do our best to ensure that only authorised personnel can access personal information; and we run security and privacy training courses to strengthen our staff's awareness of the importance of protecting personal information.
(II) We have established dedicated management systems, processes and organisational arrangements to safeguard the security of information; we strictly limit the range of personnel who may access information, require them to comply with confidentiality obligations, and carry out audits.
(III) We take reasonable and feasible measures to avoid collecting irrelevant personal information. We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Policy, unless the retention period needs to be extended or is permitted by law. If our physical, technical or managerial safeguards are compromised, resulting in unauthorised access, public disclosure, tampering or destruction of information or any other personal information security incident, we will activate our contingency plan, take steps to prevent the incident from escalating, and inform you by push notification, website announcement, notice at business premises or similar means. We will also report how the personal information security incident was handled, as required by the regulators.
(IV) The internet is not an absolutely secure environment, and we strongly recommend that you do not send personal information by means of communication that we have not recommended. When you communicate or share through our services, you may choose for yourself with whom you communicate or share, as the third party able to see your communications, contact details, messages or shared content.
(V) We will periodically update and publish the contents of reports on security risks, personal information security impact assessments and the like. You may obtain them through platform notifications, website announcements and similar channels.
(VI) If you discover that your personal information, and in particular your account or password, has been leaked, please contact us immediately so that we can take appropriate measures at your request.
(VII) Please note that information you voluntarily share, or even publicly share, when using our services may involve your personal information or that of others, and may even involve sensitive personal information. Please think especially carefully before sharing such information publicly.
(VIII) Please use a complex password and keep the above information safe, so as to help us keep your account secure. We will do our utmost to safeguard the security of any information you send us. If you disclose the above information, your account information may be leaked as a result, and your personal information security and other rights and interests may be harmed.
Article 8 How you manage your personal information
You may access and manage your personal information in the following ways:
(I) Accessing your personal information
You have the right to access your personal information, save for the exceptions provided by laws and regulations. You may access your personal information yourself as follows:
Account information — if you wish to access or edit the identity document information, mobile phone binding, security information and the like in your account, you may log in to your account and carry out those operations on the relevant page.
Profile — if you wish to access or edit the name (nickname), institutional information, research direction, contact details and other details in your profile, you may log in to your account and carry out those operations on the "Profile" page.
Usage records — you may log in to your account to access or clear your query and usage history.
If you are unable to access such personal information by the routes above, you may contact us through our customer service at any time. We will respond to your access request within 15 working days.
For other personal information generated in the course of your use of our products or services, we will provide it in accordance with the arrangements in paragraph (VII) of this article, "Responding to your requests".
(II) Correcting or supplementing your personal information
Where you find that the personal information we process about you is incorrect, or where your personal information has changed, you have the right to ask us to correct or supplement it. You may submit a correction or supplementation request by the means listed in paragraph (I) of this article, "Accessing your personal information". We will respond to your correction request within 15 working days.
(III) Deleting your personal information
You may delete some of your personal information by the means listed in paragraph (I) of this article, "Accessing your personal information".
You may request that we delete your personal information in the following circumstances:
(1) where our processing of personal information breaches laws or regulations;
(2) where we have collected or used your personal information without your explicit consent;
(3) where our processing of personal information seriously breaches what was agreed with you;
(4) where you no longer use our products or services, or have actively deregistered your account;
(5) where we permanently cease to provide products or services to you.
If we decide to act on your deletion request, we will also, so far as possible, notify the entities that obtained your personal information from us and require them to delete it promptly, unless laws or regulations provide otherwise or those entities have obtained your independent authorisation.
After you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete the corresponding information from our backup systems, but we will delete it when the backups are updated.
(IV) Changing the scope of your consent
Each service function requires certain basic personal information in order to work. Beyond that, for the collection and use of additional personal information you may give or withdraw your authorisation and consent under More – Settings, or by contacting us.
You may do so yourself as follows: after logging in, go to "User Centre" – "User Profile" to change your mobile phone number or unbind WeChat; if you wish to withdraw all authorisations, you may contact customer service or apply to deregister your account.
Once you withdraw your consent, we will no longer process the corresponding personal information. However, your decision to withdraw consent does not affect the processing of personal information previously carried out on the basis of your authorisation.
If you do not wish to receive product or service recommendations from us, you may switch off the relevant notifications in your account settings, or contact us using Article 12, "How to contact us", to cancel them.
(V) Deregistration of an account by the data subject
You may deregister an account you previously registered under "Settings" – click "Avatar" – "User Information Management", or under "Service Management" – "Deregister Account".
After you actively deregister your account, we will cease providing products or services to you and will delete or anonymise your personal information as required by applicable law.
(VI) Constraining automated decision-making by information systems
In certain service functions we may make decisions solely on the basis of non-human automated decision-making mechanisms, including information systems and algorithms. Where such decisions significantly affect your lawful rights and interests, you have the right to ask us for an explanation, and we will also provide a means of appeal, provided that this does not harm the trade secrets of us or our affiliates, the rights and interests of other users, or the public interest.
(VII) Responding to your requests
We undertake to respond actively to the requests described above. For security reasons, however, you may need to submit your request in writing or otherwise prove your identity. We may first ask you to verify your identity before processing your request.
We will respond within 15 working days. If you are not satisfied, you may also raise a complaint with us.
In principle we do not charge for reasonable requests, but for repeated requests that go beyond reasonable limits we may charge a certain cost. We may decline requests that are groundlessly repetitive, that require excessive technical effort (for example, that require the development of a new system or a fundamental change to current practice), that create risks to the lawful rights and interests of others, or that are highly impractical.
In the following circumstances we will be unable to respond to your request, as required by laws and regulations:
(1) where it relates to national security or defence security;
(2) where it relates to public safety, public health or major public interests;
(3) where it relates to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial or the enforcement of judgments;
(4) where there is sufficient evidence that you have acted with subjective malice or abused your rights;
(5) where responding to your request would cause serious harm to the lawful rights and interests of you or of other individuals or organisations;
(6) where trade secrets are involved;
(7) where it relates to our performance of obligations imposed by laws and regulations;
(8) where it is for the purpose of safeguarding major lawful interests such as the life or property of you or another individual, and it is difficult to obtain your consent.
(VIII) Obtaining a copy of your personal information
You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal information, which you may do as follows:
You may log in to your account, go to the "Profile" page, and obtain and export your personal information such as name, institution and contact details.
Article 9 How we handle the personal information of minors
We presume that you have the corresponding capacity for civil conduct. If you are a minor, we require that you ask your parents or other guardian to read this Policy carefully, and that you use our services or provide information to us only with their consent. Without the consent of a parent or guardian, a minor may not create a user account.
Where the personal information of a minor is collected because a parent or guardian has consented to the minor's use of our products or services, we will only use, share, transfer or disclose that information where permitted by laws and regulations, where the parent or guardian has explicitly consented, or where it is necessary to protect the minor.
If you are a minor and your parent or guardian does not agree to your using our services or providing information to us in accordance with this Policy, please stop using our services immediately and notify us promptly, so that we can take corresponding measures such as deleting the information.
If you are the parent or guardian of a minor and have questions about the processing of the information of the minor in your care, please contact us using the contact details at the end of this Policy.
If we discover that we have collected the personal information of a minor without first obtaining verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, we will seek to delete the relevant data as soon as possible.
Article 10 How your personal information is transferred globally
Personal information collected and generated in the course of our operations within the People's Republic of China is stored within China, save in the following circumstances:
(1) where laws or regulations expressly provide otherwise;
(2) where we have obtained your explicit authorisation;
(3) where you personally transfer personal information abroad over the internet.
In the above circumstances, we will ensure that your personal information is adequately protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
With your authorisation and consent, your personal information may be transferred to, or accessed from, a jurisdiction outside the territory in which you use the product or service. Such jurisdictions may have different data protection laws, or may have no such laws at all. In such cases we will ensure that your personal information receives protection equivalent to that available within the People's Republic of China. For example, we will ask for your consent to the cross-border transfer of personal information, or implement security measures such as de-identification before the cross-border transfer of data.
Sensitive data such as biopharmaceutical research and development data is stored and processed by this platform within a compliant environment inside the People's Republic of China; except as required by laws and regulations or with your separate consent, it is not transferred outside the territory.
Article 11 How this Privacy Policy is updated
Our Privacy Protection Policy may change.
We will not restrict the rights you are entitled to under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. For material changes, we will provide prominent notice (including by publishing a notice or even showing you a pop-up prompt).
After this Policy is updated, we will publish the updated content and its effective date on the platform; unless laws or regulations provide otherwise, the updated policy takes formal effect 7 days after the date of publication.
Material changes for the purposes of this Policy include but are not limited to:
(1) a material change in our service model, such as the purposes for which personal information is processed, the categories of personal information processed, or the ways in which personal information is used;
(2) a material change in our control, such as a change of owner arising from a merger, acquisition or reorganisation;
(3) a change in the principal recipients of shared, transferred or publicly disclosed personal information;
(4) a material change in your rights regarding the processing of personal information or in how they are exercised;
(5) a change in the department responsible for personal information security, its contact details, or the complaints channel;
(6) where a personal information security impact assessment report indicates a high risk.
We will also archive earlier versions of this Privacy Policy for your reference.
Article 12 How to contact us
You may contact us as follows:
Company name: Suzhou Inscinstech Co., Ltd.
Address: Building 13, No. 101, No. 998 Pangnan Road, Jiangling Subdistrict, Wujiang District, Suzhou
Telephone: 4001392668
Email: contact@inthoth.com.cn
We will normally accept and deal with your questions, comments or suggestions within 15 working days. Please note that we may not reply to questions unrelated to this Policy or to your rights in your personal information. If you are not satisfied with our response, and in particular if our handling of personal information has harmed your lawful rights and interests, you may also report the matter to the relevant government department or industry association, or seek a resolution by bringing proceedings before a court with jurisdiction in the place where we are located.
Article 13 Supplementary provisions
The interpretation of this Policy and the resolution of disputes relating to it are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China. Any dispute relating to this Policy shall be resolved by the parties through friendly negotiation; failing such resolution, you agree that the dispute shall be submitted to the people's court in the place where 【Suzhou Inscinstech Co., Ltd.】 is located.
If any court of competent jurisdiction rules or holds any provision of this Policy to be invalid, that provision shall be removed from this Policy, but its invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which shall continue in force.
The headings in this Policy are for ease of reading only and do not affect the meaning or interpretation of any provision of this Policy.
This English text is a translation of the Chinese original, provided for your convenience. In the event of any discrepancy, the Chinese version shall prevail.
InThoth (the "Platform") is operated by the platform operator, which provides services to registered users in accordance with this Agreement. This Agreement has contractual effect. Party A to this Agreement is the operator of the InThoth platform, and Party B is the registered user (the "user" or "you").
The Platform is an agent platform for life-science research and development, providing users with AI-assisted tools and services including target assessment and literature research, structure prediction and protein design, small-molecule and nucleic-acid design, single-cell analysis, protein purification and downstream processing, regulatory standards and patents, and laboratory equipment management.
When registering, please read this Agreement carefully and review it, and then accept or decline it. If you confirm your registration as a user of the Platform, you are deemed to have fully read, understood and agreed to enter into this Agreement with the Platform, and to be bound voluntarily by its terms. The Platform is entitled to amend this Agreement at any time in the light of actual circumstances and to publish the amendment on the Platform, without giving separate individual notice. Amended terms take effect automatically as soon as they are published on the Platform. If you do not agree to an amendment, you must stop using the Platform and deregister your account information; once you continue to use the Platform, you are deemed to have accepted the amended terms and to comply with them voluntarily. This Agreement comprises the body of the Agreement and all rules of every kind published by the Platform.
All such rules form an inseparable part of this Agreement and have the same legal effect as the body of this Agreement. If the country or region to which you belong excludes all or part of the terms of this Agreement, you must stop using the Platform immediately.
Article 1 Account registration and use
(1) When registering as a user of the Platform you must fill in your personal information correctly and ensure that it is true, complete and valid, in particular important personal information such as mobile phone number, email address and contact address, so that this website can contact you promptly through your registration information when necessary.
(2) The Platform operates real-name verification. Users must provide true and valid information about their own identity or the organisation to which they belong, and may use the Platform only after verification by the Platform. Where controlled business or institutional accounts are involved, the Platform is entitled to require supplementary supporting credentials.
(3) Users must update their information promptly when it changes, so as to ensure that their information does not affect their use of the Platform's services. If a user fails to update personal information in time and the Platform is consequently unable to contact the user promptly, the resulting losses and consequences shall be borne by the user, and the Platform shall bear no liability.
(4) The account name set by a user must not breach laws or regulations or the Platform's management rules; otherwise the Platform is entitled to require the user to change it, and if the user refuses to do so, the Platform is entitled to take measures such as warning, freezing or closing the account.
(5) After successful registration, the Platform opens an account for each user as the unique identifier for their use of the Platform's artificial intelligence services and functions. Users must keep their account name and password safe and are responsible for all activity under their account. Losses and consequences arising from a user's own disclosure or from malicious attacks or fraud by others shall be borne by the user, and the Platform shall bear no liability.
(6) In principle each user may register only one Platform account. Where there is evidence that the same user holds multiple registered accounts, the Platform is entitled to take measures such as warning, freezing or closing the account. Where this causes loss to the Platform or related parties, the user shall bear the corresponding legal liability.
(7) A registered user who forgets their account name or password may recover it by means of the relevant information, security questions, or the bound mobile phone number or email account.
(8) A person registering as a user of the Platform must be a natural person with full capacity for civil conduct, or an entity or legal person holding lawful business qualifications. Persons without capacity for civil conduct, persons with limited capacity for civil conduct, and entities lacking the corresponding qualifications may not register as users of the Platform. Where such a case is discovered, the Platform is entitled to freeze or close the account; where this causes loss to the Platform, the user shall bear the corresponding legal liability.
(9) Users bear legal responsibility for all their conduct on the Platform (including but not limited to changing personal information, publishing information, using services and disclosing information). Users must not transfer, lend, give away or authorise others to use their Platform account in any form; otherwise the user shall bear all resulting joint and several liability.
(10) The Platform will never ask a user to provide account password information. To keep your use of the Platform secure, please log out of the Platform properly when you leave your computer or phone. If you discover any unauthorised use of your account to log in to the Platform, or any other situation that may result in your account being stolen or lost, we recommend that you contact the Platform's customer service immediately and change your password. Users should understand that the Platform needs a reasonable period of time to act after receiving a user's notice; except where the Platform is genuinely at fault (as determined), the Platform bears no liability for consequences or losses arising from the theft or loss of a user's account.
Article 2 Rights and obligations of the user
(1) Users are entitled, in accordance with this Agreement and the relevant rules published by the Platform, to publish information and search for relevant information through the Platform, to take part in the Platform's activities, and to enjoy the other information and content services provided by the Platform.
(2) Users are responsible for keeping their own account and password safe, and are liable for all activity carried out under that account and password (including but not limited to publishing information, clicking online to accept agreements and rules, and taking part in online bookings). Any loss caused by a user's fault shall be borne by the user; such fault includes but is not limited to: failing to follow the Platform's prompts, failing to complete a booking in time, forgetting or disclosing the password, having the password cracked by another person, or having the computer or phone you use compromised by another person.
(3) Users shall provide the Platform with true and accurate registration information, including but not limited to real name, identity card number, email address, contact telephone number, address and postcode, so as to ensure that the Platform can contact the user by those means. Users shall also update their registration details promptly when the relevant details actually change.
(4) Users must not transfer, or authorise others to use, the user account they registered on the Platform, in any form and without authorisation.
(5) Users have an obligation to ensure that the requirement information they publish on the Platform is true and not misleading. Content published by users must not contain any of the following:
(a) content that breaches national laws or regulations;
(b) content that incites, splits or undermines national unity;
(c) content that harms national honour or the interests of others;
(d) content that carries ethnic hatred or discrimination or undermines ethnic unity;
(e) content that discriminates on grounds of race, gender, religion, region, culture or the like;
(f) content that fabricates or distorts facts, spreads rumours or disturbs public order;
(g) content that promotes feudal superstition, cults, obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, homicide or terror, or that incites crime;
(h) content that publicly insults others, defames others by fabricating facts, or maliciously attacks others;
(i) content that misleads others through fraudulent, false or erroneous information;
(j) content that infringes the intellectual property of others or involves the trade secrets of third parties;
(k) content that may damage, tamper with, delete or affect the normal operation of the Platform's systems;
(l) content involving malicious reviews, misappropriation of another person's account, or disclosure of another person's information;
(m) content that publishes unlawful or prohibited information, defrauds others of property, or seeks improper gain;
(n) content involved in money laundering;
(o) any other content that breaches the Constitution, laws or administrative regulations.
Note: if a user publishes any of the prohibited content above and causes loss to the Platform or to other users, the Platform is entitled to pursue their legal liability in accordance with law.
(6) When using the Platform, users must not breach national laws, regulations or administrative rules, must not publish information that infringes the intellectual property or other lawful rights and interests of others, must not act contrary to the public interest or public morality, and must not breach the Platform's rules. Where a breach gives rise to any legal consequence, the user shall bear the corresponding legal liability independently and in their own name.
(7) Where a dispute arises between users, they may ask the Platform to help coordinate a resolution. If a user finds that another user has acted unlawfully or in breach of this Agreement, they may report it to the Platform.
(8) Users agree to receive information from the Platform.
Article 3 Rights and obligations of the Platform
(1) The Platform provides users with AI-assisted tools and services, together with information and technical support for those services. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Platform bears no liability for any subsequent decision a user makes on the basis of the Platform's output.
(2) The Platform has an obligation to make every effort, on the basis of the available technology, to keep the online communication platform running properly, to avoid service interruptions or keep them as short as possible, and to ensure that users' online communication activities proceed smoothly.
(3) The Platform is entitled to review users' registration details and, where any registration detail is problematic or doubtful, to issue a notice asking the user to explain or correct it within a set period. Content and data uploaded by users to the Platform ("user content") belong to the user; the user authorises the Platform to store and process user content to the extent necessary to provide the services. Except as otherwise agreed, the Platform does not assert ownership of user content.
(4) The Platform is entitled to review users' registration information, usage records and similar information. Where, on the basis of national laws, regulations and administrative rules, the contents of this Agreement and the factual evidence available to the Platform, it can be determined that a user has acted unlawfully, has breached this Agreement or has otherwise acted improperly, the Platform is entitled, without the user's consent, to publicise the violation on the Platform in an appropriate manner and, at any time, to delete the relevant information, terminate the provision of services or take similar action.
(5) The Platform is entitled, without notifying the user, to delete or apply other restrictive measures to the following information or conduct: including but not limited to conduct or content that endangers the security of the Platform and its systems, spreads viruses or malicious programs, interferes with the Platform's normal services through fraudulent, malicious or false content, breaches the public interest, or may seriously harm the lawful rights and interests of the Platform or other users.
(6) The Platform may carry out platform function optimisation, service quality improvement and statistical research on the basis of de-identified data, but must not disclose such data externally in a manner that directly identifies a user.
Article 4 Rules for using the Platform
(1) Through the Platform you may publish information in accordance with the Platform's rules, but the information published must not contain anything that breaches laws or regulations.
(2) In the course of receiving the Platform's services, you must not engage in the following conduct:
(a) publishing, transmitting, disseminating or storing content that infringes the intellectual property, trade secrets or other lawful rights of others, including but not limited to viruses, trojans, time bombs and other content that may harm the Platform's systems or affect their stability, or creating a false identity in order to mislead or deceive others;
(b) transmitting or disseminating, or otherwise causing the transmission of, files containing images, photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual property law, by way of example (but not limited to) copyright or trade mark rights (or rights of privacy or publicity), unless the user lawfully owns or controls the corresponding rights or has obtained the permission of the rights holder;
(c) using any material or information such as images or photographs obtained through the "Software" by means that infringe trade marks, copyright, patents, trade secrets or any other proprietary rights of any party;
(d) engaging in conduct that endangers the security of computer or mobile networks, including but not limited to: using unauthorised data or accessing unauthorised servers or accounts; accessing public computer networks or another person's computer system without permission and deleting, modifying or adding stored information; attempting without permission to probe, scan or test the weaknesses of the Platform's systems or networks, or otherwise engaging in conduct that undermines network security; attempting to interfere with or disrupt the normal operation of the Platform's systems or website, deliberately spreading malicious programs or viruses, or otherwise damaging or interfering with normal network information services; and forging all or part of the name of a TCP/IP data packet;
(e) modifying or forging the instructions, data or data packets involved in the operation of a software work, or adding to, removing from or altering the functions or operating effects of the software; nor may such software be disseminated to the public or operated over an information network;
(f) without the express written authorisation of the Platform, selling, renting, lending, distributing, transferring or sub-licensing the software and services or related links, or profiting from the use of the software and services or from their terms, whether or not such use produces a direct economic or monetary gain;
(g) breaching the activity rules published on the Platform's pages, including but not limited to publishing false information, cheating, or conducting sham transactions by other means.
(3) You understand and agree that the Platform is entitled, at the request of government authorities (including judicial and administrative authorities), to provide them with necessary information such as the registration information you have entered on the Platform and your publication records.
(4) In the course of using the Platform's services on the Platform, you undertake to comply with the following:
(a) all conduct carried out in the course of using the Platform's services shall comply with the provisions and requirements of national laws, regulations and other normative documents and of the Platform's rules, shall not be contrary to the public interest or public morality, shall not harm the lawful rights and interests of others, and shall not breach this Agreement or the related rules. If you breach the foregoing undertaking and any legal consequence arises, you shall bear all legal liability independently and in your own name and shall ensure that the Platform suffers no loss as a result; failing that, the Platform is entitled to require you to compensate it for the corresponding loss;
(b) you shall not publish information that the State prohibits from being published, information suspected of infringing the intellectual property or other lawful rights and interests of others, information contrary to the public interest, public morality or public order and good custom, or other information suspected of being unlawful or of breaching this Agreement and the various rules;
(c) you shall not make commercial use of any data on the Platform, including but not limited to using material displayed on the Platform by way of reproduction, dissemination or any other means without the Platform's prior written consent;
(d) you shall not use any device, software or routine to interfere, or attempt to interfere, with the proper operation of the Platform or with any activity being conducted on it. You must not take any action that would impose an unreasonably large data load on the Platform's network equipment.
(5) You understand and agree that:
(a) where you breach the undertakings above, the Platform is entitled, in accordance with this Agreement, to take corresponding action or to terminate the provision of services to you, without needing your consent or giving you prior notice;
(b) where, as designated by the relevant laws or as judged under the Platform's service rules, your conduct is suspected of breaching laws or regulations or the terms of this Agreement and/or the rules, the Platform is entitled to take corresponding measures, including but not limited to directly blocking or deleting the infringing information or directly terminating the provision of services to you;
(c) in respect of conduct you carry out on the Platform, including conduct carried out off the Platform that has nevertheless affected the Platform and its users, the Platform is entitled to determine unilaterally the nature of your conduct and whether it constitutes a breach of this Agreement and/or the rules, and to take corresponding measures accordingly. You shall retain all evidence relating to your conduct yourself and shall bear the adverse consequences of being unable to provide sufficient and necessary evidence;
(d) where conduct of yours suspected of breaching the undertakings causes harm to any third party, you shall bear all legal liability independently and in your own name and shall ensure that the Platform does not bear the resulting losses or increased costs; failing that, the Platform is entitled to seek recovery from you and to require you to compensate it for the corresponding loss;
(e) if you are suspected of breaching the relevant laws or the provisions of this Agreement and the Platform thereby suffers any loss, faces a claim from any third party, or is penalised by any administrative authority, you shall compensate the Platform for the loss caused and/or the costs incurred, including reasonable legal fees.
Article 5 Scope and limitation of liability
(1) The Platform is responsible for providing you with AI-assisted services. However, the Platform gives no warranty of any kind, express or implied, in respect of the platform services, including but not limited to their fitness, freedom from error or omission, continuity, accuracy, reliability, or suitability for any particular purpose. Nor does the Platform make any undertaking or warranty as to the validity, accuracy, correctness, reliability, stability, completeness or timeliness of the technology and information involved in the platform services.
(2) Some of the content and output provided by the Platform is generated automatically by algorithms and models and may involve uncertainty or error. Users should judge carefully whether such content is true, accurate, lawful and valid, and should retain the corresponding evidence so as to be able to protect their rights.
(3) You agree that, if you find that any content on the Platform does not comply with the law or with this user agreement, you have an obligation to notify the Platform promptly. If you find that your personal information has been misappropriated, or that your copyright or other rights have been infringed, please inform the Platform and at the same time provide the following information and materials:
(a) the URL, reference number or other details by which the information infringing your rights can be located;
(b) proof of your rights showing that you are the lawful owner of the copyright or other rights in question;
(c) your contact details, including contact name, address, telephone number and email address;
(d) a copy of your identity card, business licence or other relevant materials.
Where the matter is confirmed on review, we will delete the relevant information promptly. We accept written infringement notices only by post or email. In urgent cases you may notify us first by customer service telephone, and we will take appropriate measures according to the circumstances.
(4) You understand and agree that the Platform is not liable for any damages you suffer as a result of any of the following, including but not limited to damages for loss of profit, goodwill, use or data, or other intangible losses:
(a) the use of, or inability to use, the Platform's services;
(b) unapproved use of your account, or alteration of your data, by a third party;
(c) costs and losses arising from obtaining any data, information, results or reports through the Platform's services, or from substitute measures;
(d) your misunderstanding of the Platform's services;
(e) any other loss connected with the Platform's services that is not attributable to the Platform.
(5) You shall strictly comply with this Agreement and the other agreements and activity rules published by the Platform. Where your breach of an agreement or rule causes loss to a third party or to the Platform, you shall bear full liability.
(6) Special statement on AI services: analyses, predictions, conclusions, recommendations and similar content provided by the Platform with the aid of artificial intelligence models and agents are for scientific research reference only. They do not constitute medical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, clinical, regulatory-filing, compliance or other professional advice, and are not a substitute for the independent professional judgement of appropriately qualified personnel. Where a key scientific or compliance decision is involved (such as process release, safety assessment or regulatory filing), the user must have it reviewed and confirmed by appropriately qualified professionals. The Platform bears no liability for any consequence arising from a user's failure to perform that review obligation.
Article 6 Amendment, suspension and termination of the Agreement
(1) You agree that, on grounds of the security of the platform services, the Platform is entitled to suspend the provision of some or all of the platform services to you, to restore them promptly once the security issue has been resolved, and to give prompt notice of the suspension and restoration. If the website's security issue was caused by your unlawful conduct, the Platform is entitled to terminate the provision of some or all of the platform services to you, to freeze or deregister your account permanently, and to require you to compensate it for the corresponding loss.
(2) In any of the following circumstances, the Platform is entitled to suspend or terminate the services provided to a user without notice:
(a) where the law requires the user to submit true information but the personal details the user has provided are untrue, or are inconsistent with the information given at registration, and the user is unable to provide reasonable proof;
(b) where the user breaches the relevant laws and regulations or this Agreement;
(c) where required by law or by the competent authorities;
(d) for security reasons or in other necessary circumstances.
(3) The Platform is entitled, as provided in this Agreement, to charge fees for the relevant services and for resources such as computing power and storage. If a user fails to pay in full and on time, the Platform is entitled to suspend, interrupt or terminate the provision of services.
(4) You are entitled to ask the Platform to deregister your account; where the Platform approves the request on review, it will deregister your account, at which point the contractual relationship between you and the Platform under this Agreement terminates. After your account is deregistered, the Platform has no obligation to retain or disclose to you any information in your account, nor any obligation to forward to you or to a third party any information you have not read or sent.
(5) You agree that, after the contractual relationship between you and the Platform terminates, the Platform retains the following rights:
(a) to continue to retain registration information you have not deleted in time, and all information published during your use of the Platform's services, until the expiry of the record retention period prescribed by law;
(b) where you acted unlawfully or in breach of this Agreement and/or the rules during your use of the Platform's services, the Platform may still assert its rights against you under this Agreement.
Article 7 Intellectual property
(1) The Platform and any related software, programs and content used by the Platform, including but not limited to works, images, files, materials, the website architecture, the layout of the website, web page design, and advertisements or information presented to users by the Platform or by advertisers, are the subject of the corresponding intellectual property rights held by the Platform or other rights holders in accordance with law, including but not limited to copyright, trade mark rights, patent rights and other exclusive rights, and are protected by the relevant laws. Without the express authorisation of the Platform or the rights holder, users undertake not to modify, rent, lend, sell or distribute the Platform or any of the above materials and resources used by it, and not to produce any kind of product from those materials and resources.
(2) The Platform grants users a non-transferable, non-exclusive right of use enabling them to use the Platform's object code (the "Software") on a standalone computer or mobile phone. However, users must not, and must not permit any third party to, copy, modify, create derivative works from, reverse-engineer or decompile the Software, or otherwise decipher or attempt to decipher its source code, or sell, transfer or sub-license the Software, or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. Users agree not to modify the Software in any way, and not to use a modified version of the Software.
(3) Users must not use the Platform through any interface other than the one provided by the Platform.
(4) The ownership of intellectual property in the results a user produces using the Platform's functions (including but not limited to analysis reports, structural models, sequence and molecular designs) is determined by the specific description of the relevant Platform function or by separate agreement between the parties. Except as otherwise agreed, the Platform does not assert ownership of the data, sequences or structures uploaded by users; nor may users use the Platform, its models, its algorithms or its underlying software to provide competing services of the same kind to any third party.
Article 8 Privacy
(1) Use of information:
A. The Platform will not sell or lend a user's personal or corporate information to anyone without the user's prior permission.
B. Nor does the Platform permit any third party to collect, compile, sell or disseminate free of charge a user's personal or corporate information by any means. If any user engages in such activity, the Platform is entitled, once it is discovered, to terminate the service agreement with that user immediately and to close their account.
(2) Disclosure of information: a user's personal or corporate information will be disclosed in part or in full in the following circumstances:
A. disclosure to a third party with the user's consent;
B. where the user is a lawful holder of intellectual property rights and has lodged a complaint, disclosure to the party complained of at that party's request, so that the two sides can deal with the rights dispute;
C. disclosure to a third party or to administrative or judicial authorities in accordance with the relevant provisions of law or at the request of administrative or judicial authorities;
D. where the user has breached relevant Chinese law or the website's rules and disclosure to a third party is required;
E. where a user's personal or corporate information must be shared with a third party in order to provide the products and services you have requested;
F. any other disclosure the Platform considers appropriate under the law or the website's rules.
(3) Safekeeping of information:
Users shall keep their own relevant information safe (including but not limited to account passwords and similar information), and should log out of the Platform properly when leaving their computer or phone. Except where the Platform is genuinely at fault (as determined), the Platform bears no liability for consequences or losses arising from the theft or loss of a user's account.
(4) Data compliance and protection: the Platform processes users' personal information and data in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws and regulations. Sensitive data such as biopharmaceutical research and development data is processed by the Platform in a compliant environment within the territory, and is not transferred outside the territory without the user's consent or a legal requirement. The Platform adopts reasonable technical and management measures to protect the security of user data.
Article 9 Force majeure
Where force majeure or another unforeseen event renders performance of this Agreement impossible, unnecessary or meaningless, neither party bears liability. Force majeure in this contract means objective circumstances that cannot be foreseen, avoided or overcome, including but not limited to war, typhoon, flood, fire, lightning strike or earthquake, strikes, riots, statutory epidemics, hacker attacks, network viruses, technical controls imposed by the telecommunications authorities, acts of government, and any other natural or man-made disaster.
Article 10 Confidentiality
Each party undertakes to keep confidential the documents and materials belonging to the other party that it learns of in the course of discussing, entering into and performing this Agreement and that are not available through public channels (including but not limited to trade secrets, company plans, operational activities, financial information, technical information, business information and other trade secrets). Without the consent of the party that originally provided the materials and documents, the other party must not disclose all or part of those trade secrets to any third party, save where laws, regulations or administrative rules provide otherwise or the parties have agreed otherwise. The parties owe each other confidentiality obligations in respect of the other party's confidential information to which they have direct or indirect access; the confidentiality period runs from the date of the user's registration until the information enters the public domain through lawful process. A party in breach of the foregoing shall be liable to the other party in damages.
Article 11 Dispute resolution
(1) The validity and performance of this Agreement and its rules, and all matters relating to their effect, are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China, and only the laws of the People's Republic of China apply to any dispute.
(2) All disputes arising out of this Agreement and its rules may be resolved by negotiation between the parties; failing agreement, the parties agree to submit the dispute to the jurisdiction of the people's court in the place where the lawful operator of the Platform is located.