Privacy Policy

Last Updated / September 12, 2026

Welcome to The Four Elements Philosophy (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”). We highly value your personal privacy and data security. This Privacy Policy is intended to explain how we collect, use, process, and protect your personal data, as well as the Website’s data regulations regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and reader interactions (such as polling).

By accessing, browsing the Website, reading articles, or participating in website interactions, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to all terms of this Policy.

1. The Types of Data We Collect

Based on your activities on the Website, we collect the following types of data:

  • Personal Data You Actively Provide:
    • Account and Subscription: When you register for an account, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us, we may collect your name/nickname, email address, and password.
    • Interaction Data: When you vote on articles, leave comments, rate content, or fill out surveys on the Website, the system records your voting choices, comment content, and related timestamps.
  • Automatically Collected Non-Identifying Data:
    • Technical and Device Data: When you browse the Website, the system automatically records your IP address, browser type, operating system, language settings, and device type.
    • Browsing Behavior: This includes articles you click on, time spent on pages, referring URLs, and page scrolling records.
  • Cookie and Tracking Technology Data:
    • We collect data through Cookies, pixel tags, and third-party analytics tools to maintain website operations and improve the reading experience.

2. Purposes and Methods of Data Collection

We collect your data solely for the following legitimate purposes:

  • Providing and Managing Website Functions: To enable you to smoothly read articles, participate in article voting and interactions, post comments, and accurately tabulate poll results.
  • Communication and Service Notifications: To send you the latest article updates, newsletters, system notifications, or respond to your inquiries.
  • Preventing Vote Manipulation and Improper Behavior: We utilize IP addresses or Cookies to conduct necessary security verifications, preventing automated programs (Bots) from vote manipulation, malicious spamming, or repetitive voting, thereby ensuring the fairness of poll results.
  • Website Optimization and Analytics: To analyze readers’ reading preferences and improve website layout, article topic planning, and technical performance.

3. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology and Data Processing Statement

The Website may use third-party Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Midjourney, Google Gemini, etc.) for article writing assistance, data compilation, image generation, and community interaction. Regarding the use of AI, we commit to the following:

  • AI Creation Transparency: Some article content or visual images on the Website may be generated or processed with AI assistance, but all publicly released content has undergone human editing, logical verification, and quality control (Human-in-the-Loop).
  • Strict Non-Use of User Data for AI Model Training: We will absolutely never provide your personally identifiable information (such as email), comment content, or private messages to third-party AI platforms as data for public Model Training.
  • Protection of Polling and Interaction Data: Your voting records and interaction data on the Website will not be transmitted to AI tools for personal background analysis or Profiling.
  • AI Interactive Features (If Applicable): If the Website provides an AI chatbot or interactive quizzes, please do not enter sensitive personal privacy data in the dialogue window.

4. Cookies and Third-Party Analytics Technologies

  • Essential Cookies: Maintain basic website operations (such as remembering your login status and preventing vote manipulation).
  • Statistical and Analytical Cookies: We use third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics to understand how readers interact with the Website. These tools collect anonymous traffic data.
  • How to Disable: You can reject or disable Cookies at any time through your browser settings. Please note that disabling Cookies may result in your inability to use certain polling or interactive features.

5. Data Sharing and Third-Party Disclosure

We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal data to any third party. However, in the following necessary circumstances, we may share data with bound third parties:

  • Technical Service Providers: Reliable service providers that assist us in operating the Website (such as web hosting providers, email delivery systems, AI drawing/writing API interfaces). These service providers are all bound by strict confidentiality clauses.
  • Legal and Security Requirements: We may disclose necessary data in accordance with legal provisions, court orders, or to protect the personal and property safety of the Website, its readers, and the public.

6. Data Security and Retention Period

  • Security Protection: We implement standard security measures (including SSL/TLS full-site encrypted transmission, firewalls, and access control) to prevent your personal data from unauthorized access, leakage, or tampering.
  • Retention Period: We will only retain your data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes stated in this Policy. When you request account deletion, or when the data is no longer necessary to retain, we will securely destroy or anonymize it.

7. Children’s Privacy Protection

The Website is not suitable for solitary use by children under the age of 13 (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If you discover that a minor has provided us with data without parental consent, please contact us immediately, and we will delete the relevant data as soon as possible.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your region and applicable laws (such as GDPR, PDPO, etc.), you have the following rights:

  • Access and Copy: Request to inquire about or access the personal data we hold about you.
  • Correction and Updating: Request us to correct personal data when you find it to be inaccurate.
  • Right to Erasure: Request us to delete your account, comments, or personal data.
  • Unsubscribe: You can click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our newsletters at any time to stop receiving all non-essential notification emails.

9. Amendments to the Privacy Policy

As website functions expand (such as adding membership features, commercialization models, or AI technology updates), we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The revised version will be published on this webpage, and the “Last Updated” date at the top will be updated.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, article copyright, polling mechanisms, or AI data processing, please contact us via the following methods:

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