Policy version: MZ Shorts V1.0
Last update: September 2026
Welcome to MZ Shorts!
This Privacy Policy applies to the MZ Shorts apps, websites, and related services (the "Platform"). It explains our practices concerning the personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, in connection with the Platform. It does not apply to other products or services that display or reference a different privacy policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you should refrain from using the Platform.
The Platform is provided and controlled by MEDIAMZCO.,LIMITED, with its registered address at FLAT/RM 811, EAST WING TSIMSHATSUI CENTER, 66 MODY ROAD, TSIMSHATSUI, KL. ("we" or "us"). If you have any questions about how we use your personal data, please contact mzshorts@mediamz.com.
1. Personal Information We Collect
In order to help you create an account with the Platform and use the service, we need to collect and process some information. The information we collect depends on how you use the Platform and the choices you make. More information about the categories and sources of information is provided below.
Information you choose to provide
- If you access or use the Platform as a registered user, we may collect your user ID, nickname, age, email address, password, and profile photo. If you choose to use the Platform as a non-registered user, we may collect your age. We collect age information to verify whether you are a qualified user of the Platform.
- If you choose to pay for a service on the Platform or withdraw a payment, we may collect transaction information, such as payment information, purchase activity, and details, where required for the purpose of payment. This information is required to complete a commercial transaction on the Platform. We use this information to enable and fulfill your transaction.
- If you provide feedback, contact us, or otherwise provide information voluntarily to us, our employees, or our contractors, that information will also be collected by us.
Information from third parties
You may choose to share certain data with us from third parties, or we may collect third-party data through your use of the Platform. If you connect a social network account to the Platform or choose to register using your social network account details, we will ask permission to access basic information from that account, such as your username, user ID, email address, and profile photo. The information available to us may depend on your use of and settings on the social network.
Information we collect automatically
We automatically collect certain information when you use the Platform, including when you use the app without an account. Such information includes:
- Device information. We automatically log your IP address, mobile carrier, time-zone settings, device identifiers, including mobile advertising IDs, and the version of the app you are using. We also collect information regarding the device you use to access the Platform, such as the device model, device system, network type, device ID, screen resolution, and operating system.
- Usage data. We automatically log your activity on the Platform, including the content you view or favorite, how long you spend viewing such content, access times, the URL of the website from which you came to our site, and other details about your use of and actions on the Platform.
2. Cookies
We use cookies, mobile IDs, and other similar technologies, such as web beacons and Flash cookies (collectively, "Cookies"), to operate the Platform, enable us to provide certain features and functionality, and enhance your experience using the Platform.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store information that can be recalled by the web server in the same domain that placed the cookie. The text in a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your device, but it can contain other information as well.
Web beacons are electronic images, also called single-pixel or clear GIFs, that are contained within a website. When your browser opens a webpage that contains a web beacon, it automatically connects to the web server that hosts the image, which is typically hosted by a third party. This allows that web server to log information about your device and to set and read its own cookies.
We, and our analytics and advertising partners, use Cookies for the following purposes:
- to verify login information;
- to track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with the services;
- to understand the total number of visitors to the services on an ongoing basis and the types of devices they use;
- to monitor the performance of the services and continually improve them;
- to customize and enhance your online experience; and
- to provide customer service to you.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. These settings are typically found in your browser's Privacy and Security menu. You can choose to delete or reject cookies. However, if you delete or reject cookies, this may affect certain features or services of the Platform. If you delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, may be deleted and may need to be recreated.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to provide the Platform to you and to improve and administer it. We generally use each category of information we collect for the following purposes:
- to create your Platform account, provide Platform services, and identify you across the Platform;
- to measure and understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver targeted advertising;
- to understand how you use the Platform, including across your devices;
- to infer additional information about you, such as your age, gender, and interests;
- to help us detect abuse, fraud, and illegal activity on the Platform;
- to make age-appropriate content available to you;
- to provide customer support and respond to your questions;
- to communicate with you, including to notify you about changes in our services;
- to enforce our terms, conditions, and policies and meet our legal obligations;
- consistent with your permissions, to provide location-based services, such as advertising and other personalized content;
- for security and other purposes intended to operate, develop, and improve the Platform; and
- for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.
If you choose to use our service or provide your information to us, your information may be transferred to, processed, and maintained on servers or databases located outside the country or jurisdiction where you are located. If you do not want your information transferred, processed, or maintained outside that country or jurisdiction, you should refrain from using the Platform and our services.
4. How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal data with selected third parties in or outside your country, including:
- our business partners, so that we can make special offers available to you through the Platform;
- service providers or agents that provide services to us for purposes described in this policy, such as cloud-storage providers that store the information we collect, disaster-recovery providers, and providers supporting the performance of a contract we enter into with you;
- Alibaba Cloud SDK. The Platform integrates an Alibaba Cloud SDK. For information about Alibaba Cloud's privacy practices, please review the Alibaba Cloud Privacy Policy;
- analytics and advertising providers that help us optimize and improve the Platform and serve targeted advertisements, as further described in the Cookies section; and
- our subsidiaries and affiliates, to provide, improve, and optimize the Platform, prevent illegal use, and support users.
When you choose to share information with third parties outside the Platform, that information may be visible to and used by those third parties. We may include references or links to products provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties, or consent to our sharing personal data with them, that data is governed by their privacy policies.
We may share your information with law-enforcement agencies, public or tax authorities, or other organizations if legally required to do so. We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals unless we have your consent. We may share aggregated or de-identified information in accordance with applicable law.
5. Where We Store Your Personal Data
The information we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside your country. It may also be processed by staff operating outside your country who work for us, one of our suppliers, or one of our business partners. By submitting your information, you agree to this transfer, storage, or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this policy and applicable law.
6. Information Security
We take reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational measures to help protect personal data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted through the Platform; any transmission is at your own risk.
To help us protect personal data, please use a strong password, never share your password with anyone, and do not reuse the same password for other sites or accounts.
7. Age Restrictions
The Platform is not directed at children under the age of 17, or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction. If you believe that we have personal data about or collected from a child under the relevant age, please contact us at mzshorts@mediamz.com.
8. Your Choices and Rights
You can access and edit most of your profile information by signing in to your account. We also provide tools in Settings that allow you to control your information. You may delete your entire account in Settings.
See the Cookies section of this Privacy Policy for choices about cookies and other analytics and advertising controls. If you have questions about how to use those tools, or want to know about rights you may have in the country where you live, please contact us using the email address at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
9. Data Retention Time and Deletion
We retain your information for as long as necessary to provide the service or fulfill transactions you have requested or authorized. Where we do not need your information to provide the service, we retain it only for as long as we have a legitimate business purpose, including to comply with legal obligations, enforce our agreements, resolve disputes, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
You can delete your account. Upon deletion, you will lose the right to access or use all or part of the Platform. After you delete your account, we may retain certain information in aggregated and anonymized form.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We will generally notify users of material changes to this policy through a notice provided through the Platform. You should also review this policy regularly for changes. We will update the "Last update" date at the top of this policy to reflect the effective date of the updated policy.
Your continued access to or use of the Platform after the date of an updated policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy. If you do not agree to the updated policy, you must stop accessing or using the Platform.
11. Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal data, please contact us first at mzshorts@mediamz.com, and we will endeavor to address your request as soon as possible. This does not affect your right to submit a claim to your data-protection authority or follow the dispute-resolution process provided in the Terms of Service.
12. Contact
If you have questions, comments, or requests about this policy, contact us by email at mzshorts@mediamz.com.