We are glad you are have interest in developing an App for the Whale TV Smart TV Platform, Whale OS.
To ensure all Apps submitted to the [Whale TV Developer Portal] are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material, we (Beijing Whale TV Information Technology Co., Ltd., hereafter” Whale TV”) have drafted the following set of guidelines. As you plan and develop your App, make sure to use these guidelines together with all other available resources in order to ensure smooth certification and compliance. If an App does not follow these guidelines or at any time violates any of these guidelines, it will not be uploaded and made available on the Whale TV Smart TV Portal and/or may be removed without notice if already uploaded.
If you want to join the Whale TV Smart TV Platform, you must adhere the following guidelines:
1. Compliance with global and local law
All Applications must comply with the applicable laws, regulations, rules, regulations and court orders both globally and locally.
2. No Competing Products
No Application is allowed to advertise products or companies that are identified as being in competition with Whale TV or is a competitor of Whale TV by Whale TV prior to the making available the Application within the Whale TV Smart TV Platform.
3. Intellectual property rights
No Application, by itself or as a result of any content shown in the Application, shall infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any party, not does it encourage or induce the infringement of such rights. All representations and identifications must be truthful, accurate, and complete.
4. No Advertising Apps
No Application shall serve the main purpose of advertising or soliciting business for any third party unless it is in line with the Whale TV advertising rules and approved by Whale TV. You can contact our Business Development team for more information.
5. No Contests, Sweepstakes, Lotteries
No Application shall include any contest or sweepstakes unless it is approved by Whale TV.
6. No viruses or similar
No Application shall contain a virus, Trojan horse, sniffer, backdoors, robots, spiders, worms, time bombs, bots, spyware, adware, malware, or any other malicious or harmful software code, file, program or programming routine or other features that may contaminate, destroy, damage or have an adverse impact on the Application store, the Whale TV Smart TV OS or any component thereof, or the end-user’s device.
7. Content Limitations
No Application shall offer or include any content deemed inappropriate by Whale TV in its sole discretion. Inappropriate content includes, but is not limited to any text, artwork, photographs, displays, audio, or video material that promotes, endorses, or sanctions, unless solely for the purpose of conveying information that would reasonably be considered as newsworthy to all end users, for example:
· Libelous or defamatory matter
· Spyware, adware or other malicious programs or code
· Items subject to embargo or import or export regulations
· Counterfeit goods
· Matter that might be prohibited under “hate crimes” statutes
· Matter that might discriminate or offend on the basis of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, age, physical disability, or sexual orientation
· Terrorism or excessive violence
· Criminal activity
· Hacking, surveillance, interception or descrambling equipment
· Cigarettes and tobacco related material
· Illegal drugs and paraphernalia
· Unauthorized or unapproved use of the Intellectual Property Rights of Whale TV or of any other person or entity
· Real and active guns
· Unlicensed or unauthorized medical, legal, tax or other professional advice
· Unlicensed sale of prescription drugs
· Obscenity, pornography, prostitution, body parts or bodily fluids (unless it is approved by Whale TV)
· Stolen products and items used to commit theft
· Fireworks, explosives and other hazardous materials
· Non-transferable items, such as airline tickets
· Gambling and gambling-related activities and equipment unless it is approved by Whale TV
· Other violations of applicable laws, regulations, rules, statutes and court orders, globally or locally.
· Any explicit or implied affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement by, or affiliation, association, or favored status with, Whale TV.
8. No Spam
No Application shall present content that is unwanted, repetitive, deceptive, or unrelated to the main characteristic of the Application.
9. Privacy
All Applications, as well as the use thereof, must respect the privacy of the user to the fullest degree and be in full compliance with all global and local relevant laws and regulations. Any collection, processing, saving, use, or other interaction related to personal data (in the broadest sense of the word) must be explicitly described in a relevant privacy policy pertaining to the App that is made available to the end user prior to the first collection of such data. Any collection, processing, saving, use, or other interaction related to personal data is only permitted after informed consent of the user has been obtained. No cookies, web-beacons, images, pixels or similar shall be placed at or with the product of the end user without explicit prior consent (with the exception of a cookie that remembers that cookies shall not be set).
10. Disclaimer
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you understand and expressly agree that Whale TV and its subsidiaries, affiliates, for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages (including any loss of data) resulting from your actions.
Whale TV further expressly states that Whale TV disclaims all warranties and conditions, express or implied, of any kind, including, but not limited to, implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of the rights of others.
11. Amendment
Whale TV reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify this guideline.
12. Miscellaneous
You agree that even if Whale TV does not exercise or enforce any statutory rights or remedies described in this Agreement (or by Whale TV under any applicable law), Whale TV shall not be deemed to have formally waived its rights and Whale TV may still exercise these rights. Or perform appropriate remedial measures.