GoodShort - Short Dramas Hub

"We work with third-party partners who help us improve GoodShort, which makes it possible to operate our companies and provide services to people around the world. We do not provide any personally identifiable data to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out."

The policy acknowledges sharing data with third-party ad servers and ad networks, and also receives data from business partners about users' device data, app usage, and advertisements viewed — indicating a broad data-sharing ecosystem.

"We will collect various data and operations that you are on or out of GoodShort from business partner, supplier and third party. For example, we will collect your device data, your using application and the advertisement you view. Furthermore, a business partner will share us some other data, such as your email, third-party account data."

GoodShort collects data about user activity outside of GoodShort from business partners, including device data, which apps the user uses, and advertisements they view — enabling cross-service profiling.

"The device data that we collect and receive including: the device and software that you currently use, and other device characteristics; the data that your device links to the Internet, including your IP address; the data that is collected by Cookie and other similar techniques."

The policy collects broad device data including 'other device characteristics' and software information without clearly specifying what is collected, leaving the scope open-ended beyond what a reading app would need.

"The device data that we collect and receive including: the data that your device links to the Internet, including your IP address. We will also collect the metadata about the content itself, for example upload address or creation documents date."

GoodShort collects IP addresses which enable geolocation, and references collecting 'upload address' metadata, which may include location data — without clear justification for a reading app.

"After you have deleted your account, we may retain certain data in an aggregated and anonymized format. We retain your data for as long as it is necessary to provide you with the service or fulfill the transactions you have requested or authorized. Where we do not need your data in order to provide the service to you, we retain it only for so long as we have a legitimate business purpose in keeping such data."

The policy allows indefinite retention for vague 'legitimate business purposes' and explicitly states data may be retained even after account deletion in aggregated form, with no clear timeline for full deletion.

"We'll notify you before we make changes to this policy and give you the opportunity to review the revised policy before you choose to continue using our Products."

While notification is promised, the framing implies that continued use constitutes acceptance of revised terms — users must stop using the service entirely if they disagree with changes.

"You can contact us by e-mail at contact@goodnovel.com to ask for your account to be removed. Once your account is removed, we will no longer supply you with any products or services. Deleting the account must not last more than 15 days from the date of receipt of the request."

Account deletion requires emailing customer support rather than providing a self-service option in the app, and the process can take up to 15 working days — creating friction for users wanting to leave.