CyberLink Corporation General Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy

Last Update: September 2023. This CyberLink Corporation General Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy replace and supersede all prior versions.

When you use our services, you trust us with your information. This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand your right to privacy.

Our Privacy Policy explains:

  • What information we collect and why we collect it.
  • How we use that information.
  • The choices we offer, including how to access, update and manage your information.

We tried to keep this policy as simple, clear and easy to comprehend as possible. You should read this policy carefully in order to protect your right to privacy. You can always manage your CyberLink membership account anytime here.

Entities collecting your personal information

Personal information on the websites, including without limitation Cyberlink.com, DirectorZone, MyEdit and MoovieLive ("Website"), various CyberLink's mobile apps ("Mobile App") and various CyberLink's computer software products ("Computer Software") products made by CyberLink is collected by CyberLink Corporation. CyberLink's address is 15F, 100, Minquan Road, Xindian District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C. and our telephone number is +886-2-8667-1298. Information collected through the Website, Mobile Apps or Computer Software products made by CyberLink may be stored, transferred and processed by CyberLink.Com Corp. in the United States, CyberLink Corp. in Taiwan, and CyberLink Inc. in Japan (collectively, “CyberLink Group”). All transfers will occur in compliance with data transfer requirements of applicable laws and regulations.

Personal information we collect

We collect personal information to provide better services to all of our users – from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful to you. Personal information in this Privacy Policy refers to any information that could identify, locate, or contact a natural person. We collect personal information in the following ways:

  • Information you give us
    As a website visitor, you can browse information exposed on our website without providing any personal information. If you engage in our events, download the trial version of our software or applications, register to become our website member, purchase our products or proceed any other activities related to CyberLink, you will be asked for your personal information. You have choices about the data we collect.
    The information we collect can include the following:
    • Name and contact data. We collect your first name, last name, display name, email address, postal address, phone number, and/or other similar contact information.
    • Demographic information. We collect information about you such as your date of birth, country/region, and/or preferred language.
    • Comments and posts on online community forums, social media sites, blogs, mobile application platforms, online shopping platforms, and/or online software download sites. We collect information on your comments, reviews, posts, feedback, surveys and interactions with other forum members you create, made or share in forums.
    • Information for customer service purposes. We collect information on your comments, posts, feedback, editorial works, multimedia files, surveys, device information, unique customer ID and interactions with us.
    • Purchase/Payment data. When you make purchases, we will collect your payment/purchase information and product/order information when it is necessary.
    We may hold and associate any information you provide us with information gathered from other sources, including the social accounts that you choose to associate with your use of the services. Once you are registered at our website, you can view, edit, or delete your account information here after signing into your account.

  • Information we automatically collect
    When you use our services, we automatically collect some information. We may collect information about your usage of and activity on our services. When you visit our websites, information we may automatically log includes, for example, your operating system, cookies, Internet protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type and language and the website that you visited before visiting our website.
    This information includes:
    • Device information. We collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers and mobile network information). CyberLink may associate your device identifiers with your CyberLink Account.
    • Log information. When you use our services provided by CyberLink, we automatically collect and store certain information in servers. Information we collects includes:
      • Internet protocol (IP) address.
      • device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, language, the date and time of your visit to our Website, Mobile App and/or Computer Software.
      • cookies that may uniquely identify your device or your CyberLink Account.
    • Location information. When you use the service on our Website, Mobile App and/or Computer Software, we may collect and process information about your location, via various technologies including Internet protocol (IP) address which indicates a number assigned to every device connected to the Internet assigned in geographic blocks and other identifiers that may, for example, provide CyberLink with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points.
    • Cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a web browser. CyberLink uses cookies and similar technologies, for example, web beacons, to provide our websites and online services and to help collect data. Web beacons are electronic images we may use on our websites or in our emails to deliver cookies, count visits and understand usage and campaign effectiveness, such as whether you open and act on an email that we send you.

Please be informed that any information we collect from your input, feedback, information about you or information obtained from your parents will be treated as personal information.

How we use information we collect

CyberLink processes personal information on our servers in many countries around the world. We may process your personal information on a server located outside the country where you live. We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may use your personal information when using our website for the following purposes:

  • create and manage your CyberLink Member account, when you purchase from our store, subscribe to our newsletter or download trial software;
  • create your CyberLink account, when needed to communicate with you;
  • verify your identity and entitlement to certain products or services;
  • process your purchase transactions;
  • update you on the status of your order;
  • allow you to register for products or services you purchase on our Website;
  • manage your subscription plan;
  • communicate with you should you require technical or customer support service;
  • subscribe you to newsletter, product updates and upgrades;
  • connect to you about and manage your participation in contests, offers or promotions;
  • get your feedback on the trial software;
  • research, implement product improvements and archive purposes;
  • target advertisement purposes;
  • evaluate and improve quality of our products, services and websites;
  • provide you with a customized experience when you use our service or visit our website;
  • use your Internet protocol (IP) address to collect anonymous, aggregate statistics: to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our service, to help identify you and your activities on the Website (such as registering for an account, uploading/downloading video effects or templates, voting other members’ effects, connecting with other members, forming groups, participating in forum discussions, and purchasing products and services) to gather broad demographic information to analyze traffic to this service in order to understand our visitors’ needs, providing interesting data to our web visitors and to continually improve our Website for them;
  • marketing purposes;
  • promotional collaboration with business partners; and
  • to assist you in finding and communicating with your friends when you use your Facebook account to login into our Website*.

    *By using your Facebook login information to log into the Website, Mobile Apps or Computer Software you also permit the Website to access your Facebook information, such as your profile information and privacy settings. Your user profile information including members' pictures and user names, where applicable, are displayed on the Website and Mobile App in order to facilitate user interaction in the social network community. Email addresses are used to send notifications related to the Website and its associated services without disclosing their email addresses. Your full name will never directly reveal to other members unless it is chosen as their profile name/ avatar.

Information we share

We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of CyberLink unless one of the following circumstances applies:

  • With your consent
    We’ll share personal information outside of CyberLink when we have your consent. For example, in order to create your forum account, we will share your user name, user email, user id, and user avatar from your CyberLink membership account with third-party service provider.
  • For external processing and customer/technical support
    We provide personal information to our affiliates or partners to process on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures or provide necessary customer and technical support in response to customer’s feedback. In addition, we may share your personal information with our current third party service providers that enable us to fulfill the purposes in the preceding paragraph.
  • For legal reasons
    We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of CyberLink if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
    • meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
    • enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
    • detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
    • protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of CyberLink, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Information retention

We take every reasonable step to ensure that your information are only processed for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. The criteria for determining the duration for which we will retain your information are as follows:

      (1) we will retain information in a form that permits identification only for as long as:

      • we maintain an ongoing relationship with you (e.g., where you are an active user who logs in to our services within past two (2) years, or you are lawfully included in our mailing list and have not unsubscribed); or
      • b. your information are necessary in connection with the lawful purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, for which we have a valid legal basis (e.g., where your information are included in a contract between us and your employer, and we have a legitimate interest in processing those information for the purposes of operating our business and fulfilling our obligations under that contract; or where we have a legal obligation to retain your information),
  • plus:
    • (2) the duration of:

      • any applicable limitation period under applicable law (i.e., any period during which any person could bring a legal claim against us in connection with your information, or to which your information are relevant); and
      • an additional two (2) month period following the end of such applicable limitation period (so that, if a person brings a claim at the end of the limitation period, we are still afforded a reasonable amount of time in which to identify any information that are relevant to that claim),
  • and:
    • (3) in addition, if any relevant legal claims are brought, we continue to process information for such additional periods as are necessary in connection with that claim.


During the periods noted in paragraphs (2)a and (2)b above, we will restrict our processing of your information to storage of, and maintaining the security of, those data, except to the extent that those data need to be reviewed in connection with any legal claim, or any obligation under applicable law.
Once the periods in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) above, each to the extent applicable, have concluded, we will either:

  • permanently delete or destroy the relevant information; or
  • anonymize the relevant information.

Third Party Services

When you use our services, you may have access to services provided by third-party service providers. For example, you may upload videos into YouTube via our Mobile App or Computer Software; or enable YouTube Live Streaming services upon usage of our Computer Software. These third-party service providers have separate and independent privacy policies and/or Terms of Service shown below:

Children's guidelines

CyberLink is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities. The Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age, and by the Website’s terms of service, users affirm that they are at least 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect or use any online contact information or identifiable off-line contact information about a child without parental consent. We do not knowingly distribute personally identifiable information about children without parental consent. We do not knowingly give children the ability to post or distribute personal information without parental consent. We do not entice children with children-targeted games or contests that would encourage them to disclose personal information.

Your Californian Privacy Right

If you are a resident of California, the following sections are intended to provide you with information as required by California Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 and California Privacy Right Act of 2023. Following sections apply to Personal Information defined in "Personal Information we collect". You may contact us and request the general list of Personal Information shared and the companies among which it is shared. This request may be sent electronically by email to privacy@cyberlink.com or by toll free phone at (+1) 888-226-6030. We will respond to these requests for the list within 30 days. Written requests may be sent to 15F., No.100, Minquan Rd., Xindian Dist., New Taipei City 231, Taiwan (R.O.C.)_Attn: Privacy Team. Requests for this information that come to us through other channels may result in a delayed response.
Right to know and Right to access. We will provide following information upon your request, where relevant and required by the CCPA and CPRA, types of data we may collect, sources from which data may be collected, the purposes to collect data, the third parties that may receive your personal information, and your personal information if we ever collect it.

Right to opt-out. We do not sell or share your Personal Information to any third party for a business or commercial purpose under any circumstances. However, you have the right to opt-out of the sale or share of your personal information in we ever notify you that we engage in such activity.

Right to correct inaccurate Personal Information. If you believe your personal information is not correct you may contact us and provide personal information to replace erroneous data.

Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information. You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Information that we have collected from them. However, we are not required to comply with a request to delete where it is necessary for us to retain the Personal Information in order to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with legal obligations.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Verifiable consumers' requests to delete, or correct their personal information may be submitted through one of the following methods:

Information security

We are committed to protecting your interest when using our services from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold. In particular:

  • We encrypt many of our services using, for example, TLS, SHA256, etc.
  • We review our information collection, storage and processing practices to guard against unauthorized access to systems.
  • We restrict access to personal information to CyberLink’s employees, contractors and agents on a need to know basis in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

International transfer of personal information

Because of the international nature of our business, we transfer personal information within CyberLink Group, and to third parties as noted in this Privacy Policy, in connection with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. For this reason, we transfer personal information to Japan, US, and Taiwan that may have different laws and data protection compliance requirements to those that apply in the country in which you are located.

Please note that when you transfer any personal information directly to any CyberLink Group entity established outside the jurisdiction in which you are located, we are not responsible for that transfer of personal information. We will nevertheless process such personal information, from the point at which we receive those information, in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

When this privacy policy applies

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or websites that may be displayed to you when using our Service. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies and organizations who advertise our services, and who may use cookies and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.

Merger or sale

If CyberLink is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of privacy policy changes).

General

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Taiwan without regard to conflict of law principles. You and CyberLink hereby irrevocably consent that any legal action or proceeding arising under or in connection with this Privacy Policy must be submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of arbitration in Taipei, Taiwan for the purpose of arbitrating any dispute. In the event that any provision in this Privacy Policy is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. The failure of a party to enforce any right or provision of this Privacy Policy will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver, to be effective, must be in writing signed by the waiving party (in the case of CyberLink, by an authorized officer). You may not assign this Agreement (by operation of law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of CyberLink and any prohibited assignment will be null and void. CyberLink may assign this Privacy Policy or any rights hereunder without your consent. You agree that this Privacy Policy and the rules, restrictions and policies contained herein, and CyberLink’s enforcement thereof, are not intended to confer and do not confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than you and CyberLink. This Privacy Policy together with constitute the entire agreement between CyberLink and you with respect to the subject matter hereof. Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be in writing and given (a) by CyberLink via email (in each case to the address that you provide), (b) a notice on the service, or (c) by you via email to contact privacy@cyberlink.com or to such other addresses as CyberLink may specify in writing. The date of receipt shall be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU WAIVE THE RIGHT TO GO TO COURT OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.

Product-specific details:

The following notices explain specific privacy practices with respect to certain CyberLink products and services that you may use:

Website

As a visitor to our Website, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information. However if you choose to engage in other activities like subscribing to the newsletter or downloading trial software applications, CyberLink may ask you to register to the CyberLink membership program. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities.

  • Your information we collect
    In any event that you choose to provide us with the information when using our website, we will collect your personal information as below in order to help us manage our relationship with you.
    • Contact details like first and last name, email address, gender, country and preferred language;
    • Shipping and billing information including credit card and payment information (if you intend to purchase any products from our Website);
    • Your transaction and browsing history;
    • Information you submitted to us in order to receive technical assistance or during customer service interactions;
    • Information about your computer or device, including browser type and settings, IP address, cookies and traffic data relating to your internet connection;
    • CyberLink product performance data and information about how you use our products and services.

  • Use of your information
    We may use your information when using our website for the following purposes:
    • create and manage your CyberLink Member account, when you purchase from our store, subscribe to our newsletter or download trial software;
    • create your CyberLink account, when needed to communicate with you;
    • verify your identity and entitlement to certain products or services;
    • process your purchase transactions;
    • update you on the status of your order;
    • allow you to register for products or services you purchase on our Website;
    • manage your subscription plan;
    • communicate with you should you require technical or customer support service;
    • subscribe you to newsletter, product updates and upgrades;
    • connect to you about and manage your participation in contests, offers or promotions;
    • get your feedback on the trial software;
    • research, implement product improvements and archive purposes;
    • target advertisement purposes;
    • evaluate and improve quality of our products, services and websites;
    • provide you with a customized experience when you use our service or visit our website;
    • use your Internet protocol (IP) address to collect anonymous, aggregate statistics: to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our service, to help identify you and your activities on the Website (such as registering for an account, uploading/downloading video effects or templates, voting other members’ effects, connecting with other members, forming groups, participating in forum discussions, and purchasing products and services) to gather broad demographic information to analyze traffic to this service in order to understand our visitors’ needs, providing interesting data to our web visitors and to continually improve our Website for them;
    • marketing purposes;
    • promotional collaboration with business partners; and
    • to assist you in finding and communicating with your friends when you use your Facebook account to login into our Website*.

      *By using your Facebook login information to log into the Website, you also permit the Website to access your Facebook information, such as your profile information and privacy settings. Your user profile information including members' pictures and user names, where applicable, are displayed on the Website and Mobile App in order to facilitate user interaction in the social network community. Email addresses are used to send notifications related to the Website and its associated services without disclosing their email addresses. Your full name will never directly reveal to other members unless it is chosen as their profile name/ avatar.

  • Cookies
    We use cookies for several purposes, including:
    • Sign-in and Authentication. When you sign into our website using your personal CyberLink account, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the Website without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in again.
    • Customized experience. Provide you with a customized experience when you use our service or visit our website
    • Analytics. In order to improve your experiences using our websites and services, we use cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. We use cookies to see which areas of our websites and which features are popular and to count visits to our websites.
    • Showing Advertising. We use cookies to record how many visitors have clicked on an advertisement and to record which advertisements you have seen so you don’t see the same one repeatedly.

  • Control of cookies
    • You may set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our services, or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. However, it’s important to remember that many of our services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. For example, we may not remember your language preferences.
    • You may also control cooking setting by following the steps below:
      • Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but provide controls that allow you to turn off, block or delete them. For example, in Google Chrome, you can disable the Websites to save and read cookie data by clicking [Settings] > [Advanced] > [Content Settings] > [Cookies]. For settings of cookies in other browsers may be available in each browser's privacy or help documentation.
      • Please be aware that if you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, they will be deleted and may need to be recreated.
  • Accessing and updating your personal information
    We want you to be clear about what information we collect and store your information for as long as your account is in use, active or for legitimate purpose in line with our business. We do our best to give you ways to manage your information. You may either:
    • control who you share information with through our service;
    • change your Profile name and Profile photo appear in shared endorsements that appear in ads by writing to us or adjust setting in your device or membership account; or
    • email us at privacy@cyberlink.com Contact Webmaster.
  • More information we collect for CyberLink’s social site. (directorzone.cyberlink.com)
    We collect personal interests, self-description uploading/downloading video effects, templates, photos or other materials, voting other members’ effects, connecting/following with other members, messaging with other members, forming groups, participating in forum discussions, and purchasing products and services, movie collections, ratings, DVD region, movie interests and movies watched via PowerDVD to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Website, to help identify you and your activities on the Website , to gather broad demographic information to analyze traffic to this Website in order to understand our visitors’ needs, providing interesting data to our web visitors and to continually improve our Website for them.

    User profile information including members' pictures and user names are displayed on the Website in order to facilitate user interaction in the CyberLink social websites. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join CyberLink social websites, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the services. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network. Users within a personal network communicate with each other through the CyberLink social websites services, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members.
  • Disclose of your information when using our website
    • When purchasing at our Website
      The CyberLink website acts as a gateway for you to purchase our products online. Purchases of CyberLink products that are initiated from the CyberLink website are actually completed on the asknet Solutions AG secure website, cleverbridge secure website, 2Checkout secure website or any other shopping cart vendors (collectively known as “Shopping Cart Vendors”). In order to complete a purchase transaction, Shopping Cart Vendors must collect personal information from you, including your credit card number. If you are interested in purchasing CyberLink software through the Shopping Cart Vendors Website, please view the Privacy Statement of asknet Solutions AG, Privacy Policy of cleverbridge and Privacy Policy of 2Checkout. You can be certain that online purchases made through the Shopping Cart Vendors Website are secure. Numerous other online retailers also sell CyberLink products. However, CyberLink does not directly guarantee the privacy of your personal information when making purchases from other Websites. Please consult the Privacy Policy statements posted on those websites directly.
    • Third Party Advertisers /Interest-Based Ads
      CyberLink allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks like Google, to display and/or serve advertisements within the Website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser the advertisements and links that appear on the website. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, or JavaScript) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the content you see. However, please note that if an advertiser requires CyberLink to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 28 - 40) or audience segment (for example, women in California who viewed certain content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you have the characteristics of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Website, Mobile App and Computer Software, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you. The information will be recorded and anonymized by the Third Party Advertisers by means of a series of non-reversible encoding functions. Where we provide you with interest-based ads on a website other than our own, we do not track your other activities on that website, if you click on our ads, we will know only the domain you came from. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt out, once you have opted in, of certain practices.
      CyberLink's Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control.
      If you do not want us to use your Information in this way, you can simply choose not to give your permission on the websites which we collect your information. Please note that in some regions this may involve un-checking a box. You can also exercise this right at any time by unsubscribing the same.
      We implement Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to support Google features such as Display Advertising, Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. We use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online, Google uses cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Website, and also to report how our ad impressions, uses of ad services are related to your visits to our Website. Google may show our ads on websites across the internet you use. You can also opt-out from being tracked by the foregoing mentioned Google features for the future by following the instructions shown in the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.
      If you do not wish to receive any of the interest-based ads or do not want to have your personal data provided to third party advertisers, you may change the settings of in the ad network service.
      The website serves the Ads using Google AdSense at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
    • Third Party Tracking
      We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies to collect information about how you access and use our Website, for example, the site from which you came. It helps us to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. Such Website access and usage data may be sent to and stored in the servers of our third party tracking service providers only in anonymized form.

Mobile app

Please refer to CyberLink Corporation Privacy Policy for Mobile App for details about how we collect and process certain information when you access through our Mobile Apps.

Computer software

We also provide our service via our Computer Software (Windows, Mac applications) which are installed on your computers.

  • Your information we collect
    In any event that you choose to provide us with the information when using our Computer Software, we will use Unique User ID (UUID) to uniquely identify your device. This UUID is generated by combining Windows Security ID (SID) on your computer, and a randomly generated large number so as to enable us to identify this computer which has been identified to have installed our Computer Software. You may reset this UUID on your device by closing all CyberLink products on your computer and remove this registry key at “Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CyberLink\CBE” using Windows Registry Editor.”
  • Use of your information
    We may use your information when using our Computer Software for the following purposes:
    • CyberLink Product Improvement Program (CPIP):
      Collecting and analyzing how our applications are being used helps improve our product design, feature development and bug fixings. The CPIP program collects the way you use features in CyberLink applications, your search input, filenames, file extension names of the files that you input to CyberLink applications. It also includes software application information or device information which doesn’t include personal info such as Software release number, Product Key, UI language, OS version, device vendor, device model name, vendor and model name for specific hardware component (like CPU, GPU), the name of your device. To opt-out CPIP, you can go to settings of each CyberLink application to and uncheck the “I want to participate” in CPIP section.
    • Product Info Notice (Customized Ads / Patch / Content Pack Information)
      To receive latest software patch info or sales offers in CyberLink applications, includes software application information or device information which doesn’t include personal info such as Software release number, Product Key, UI language, OS version, device vendor name. If users opted in to CPIP, then data collected in CPIP would be linked to Customized Ads / Patch / Content Pack to provide more interesting info for users. To opt-out latest product info notice, you can go to settings of each CyberLink application and disable the “Check for product update information”, or “Automatically check for software updates” option
    • Error Reporting
      Error Reporting helps CyberLink to build more robust product by fixing product crash issues. When product crashed, an Error Reporting dialog pops up, debug information will be sent back only when users consent to send them back to CyberLink. The Error Reporting collects only program data and memory dump which does not intended to collect any personal info. If email is provided by the users, users affirm that they agrees that CyberLink may contact users for more information to help CyberLink fix the program crash issues.
    • Product Registration
      When users opt-in to register CyberLink products that they use or purchase, they can find the Product Registration dialog. The dialog may popup during they use the product or can be find in the product About dialogs. When user provided their email, their email will be used to register a CyberLink Account with a randomly generated secured password. Users can reset their password in this website and later access their registered product keys in the member zone of this website. Upon the registration, email address, birthday (if user opt-in to provide) from the user will be collected along with the UUID (mentioned above) and other info that are not unique to this user including: software release number, Product Key, UI language, OS version, device vendor, device model name, vendor and model name for specific hardware component (like CPU, GPU), the name of users’ device.
    • Codec activation
      When you use certain technologies essential to multi-media functions for the first time, the software application will collect the serial number of your computer system and the product key (CD key) for activation purposes only. This data collection takes place only once for each codec features, it won’t collect how often or how many time you use each codec.
    • Use of CyberLink’s service
      When you use CyberLink service in the Computer Software such as CyberLink Cloud, DirectorZone, MoovieLive. We may collect your usage behavior so as to enhance our Computer Software user experiences, you may want to refer to the WEBSITE section of this Privacy Policy.
  • Disclose of your information when using our computer software
    • When purchasing at our computer software
      Our Computer Software acts as a gateway for you to purchase our products online. Purchases of CyberLink products that are initiated from our Computer Software would be directed to our Website, you may want to refer to the DISCLOSE OF YOUR INFORMATION WHEN USING OUR WEBSITE section of this Privacy Policy to understand how we manage your information with our Shopping Cart Vendors.