1. Introduction
Ningbo Tanji Technology Co., Ltd. ("宁波探极科技有限公司", "we", "us", or "our") operates Prompetitor (https://prompetitor.com), an online prompt competition game built around real artwork.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and retain information when you access or use Prompetitor. By creating an account or otherwise using the service, you acknowledge this policy.
2. Geographic Scope
Prompetitor is operated by an overseas-facing developer based in China. We do not offer or intend to offer the service to users located in mainland China.
If you access the service from any other region, you do so at your own discretion and are responsible for determining whether your use is lawful under the laws that apply to you.
3. Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of information:
- Account information: email address, display name, password hash, OAuth identifiers when you sign in with Google or Apple, and profile details such as avatar images you upload.
- Gameplay data: prompts you submit, AI-generated images produced from your prompts, scores, match results, room participation, Daily Challenge attempts, drafts, leaderboard entries, and related timestamps.
- Artist program data: applications, bios, portfolio links, social links, uploaded artworks, review status, and dashboard settings if you join the artist program.
- Communications: messages you send to us, including support requests and product feedback.
- Technical and usage data: IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, session identifiers, and approximate location derived from IP address (country and city).
- Cookies and similar technologies: session cookies for authentication, OAuth-related cookies, analytics cookies, and administrative cookies where applicable.
4. How We Collect Information
We collect information directly from you when you register, play games, upload content, submit feedback, or contact support.
We also collect information automatically when you use the service, including through server logs and first-party analytics.
When you use third-party sign-in providers, those providers may share basic account information with us according to their own policies.
5. How We Use Information
We use collected information to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, and improve the game, artist program, leaderboards, galleries, and related features.
- Authenticate users, prevent abuse, enforce our Terms of Service, and protect the security of the platform.
- Generate AI images and compute similarity scores through third-party AI services based on your prompts.
- Display gameplay results, prompts, generated images, and artwork within matches, leaderboards, profiles, and public artist pages according to product rules.
- Analyze usage patterns, measure performance, and develop new features.
- Create anonymized or aggregated datasets and use them for machine learning, model training, benchmarking, research, and other service improvements.
- Respond to support requests and communicate with you about the service.
6. AI Processing and Third-Party Services
Your prompts and related image data may be transmitted to third-party AI providers to generate images and compute visual similarity scores. Current providers include Replicate and, where configured, other model hosts or scoring backends.
We may use third-party authentication providers (Google and Apple), geolocation lookup services (such as ip-api.com) to derive approximate location from IP addresses, and infrastructure providers that host our application and databases.
These third parties process information according to their own terms and privacy policies. We select providers that are appropriate for the function they perform, but we do not control their independent practices.
7. Legal Bases (Where Applicable)
Depending on your location, we may rely on one or more legal bases to process personal data, including performance of a contract, legitimate interests in operating and improving the service, compliance with legal obligations, and consent where required.
Where local law grants you specific rights, we will honor mandatory requirements applicable to us.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as needed to operate the service, maintain gameplay and analytics records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and improve our products.
You may request deletion of your account and erasure of personal data associated with your account by emailing contact@tangi.tech. Where your request is eligible under applicable law and our operational requirements, we will delete or anonymize identifiable account data within a reasonable period.
After account deletion, we may still retain certain information where required by law, for fraud prevention and security, in backups for a limited time, or in anonymized or aggregated form that no longer identifies you, including for analytics, research, and model training.
Data that has already been anonymized and incorporated into model optimization, training, analytics, or similar service-improvement processes cannot be identified, retrieved, or deleted from those systems.
10. Your Rights and Account Requests
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, restrict, object to, or request deletion of certain personal data, or to withdraw consent where processing is consent-based.
Account-related requests — including access, correction, export, restriction, account deletion, or erasure of data linked to your account — must be submitted by email to contact@tangi.tech. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
If your account deletion request is approved and eligible, we will take reasonable steps to delete or anonymize personal data associated with your account, subject to the retention limits described in this policy.
We cannot remove data that has already been anonymized and used in model training, benchmarking, or other service-improvement workflows, because it is no longer reasonably linkable to you.
We will respond within a reasonable period and as required by applicable law. Some requests may be limited where we must retain data for legal compliance, security, dispute resolution, or permitted anonymized service improvement.
11. Children
Prompetitor is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided us personal information, contact us at the email above and we will take appropriate steps.
If you are between 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the service only with permission from a parent or legal guardian where required by local law.
12. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.
13. International Data Transfers
We may process and store information in countries where we or our service providers operate.
By using the service from outside those locations, you understand that your information may be transferred internationally and processed subject to this policy and applicable law.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date above and post the updated policy on this page.
Your continued use of the service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy, except where further consent is required by law.
15. Contact Us
Ningbo Tanji Technology Co., Ltd.
Email: contact@tangi.tech
Website: https://prompetitor.com