LiteWhois Privacy Policy

What changed: first release — assembled from the house legal template with LiteWhois's verified product facts; the analytics disclosure is expanded into a complete third-party list (version history at the end).

Notice: This policy explains how LiteWhois ("the Service") collects, uses, stores and protects your personal information. Please pay particular attention to the bold clauses. If you have questions, contact us through the contact page.

1. Who we are

• The Service is operated by Xiamen Jingdu Network Technology Co., Ltd. (website: gentleltd.cn), which is the personal information handler described in this policy.
• Personal information protection email: official@biz.gentleltd.cn.
• Scope: this policy applies to all use of the Service through whois.litelake.cn, whois.litelake.com and the public lookup API.
• The Service requires no registration, has no account system, and all features are free.

2. What we collect

We follow the principles of lawfulness, fairness, necessity and good faith, and collect only what is necessary to provide the features:

We do not proactively collect ID numbers, biometric information, financial account information or other sensitive personal information; we never ask for your name, email address or phone number, we collect no payment data, and we use no cross-site profiling advertising cookies.

3. How a WHOIS query inherently works

When you submit a domain, the Service forwards the query to public WHOIS / RDAP servers. As part of the protocol, your query content (the domain itself, not your identity) may be visible to the upstream servers. This is inherent to the WHOIS / RDAP protocol and applies to any comparable lookup service.

4. How we use information

• Purposes: to return the registration data for the domain you asked about; to run rate limiting and caching; to keep the Service secure and prevent abuse; and to produce necessary service operation statistics.
• Legal basis: performance of the service agreement with you, or your consent.
• We do not process your queries for advertising, profiling or resale.
• We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for third-party targeted advertising.

5. Sensitive personal information

The Service does not involve the processing of sensitive personal information. Please do not submit sensitive personal information through query inputs or elsewhere in the Service.

6. Cookies and analytics

• We use necessary local storage to remember preferences such as interface language.
• To understand how the Service is running, troubleshoot and improve the experience, we use our self-built analytics system for aggregate page-visit statistics; the statistics are never linked to the domains you query.
• This site uses Google Analytics (Google Ireland Ltd) for traffic statistics; Google processes data under its own policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• This site uses Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft) for page behaviour analysis: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement
• The third-party analytics above are used only for aggregate analysis and performance diagnostics and are not used for third-party targeted advertising; you may restrict their cookies through browser settings or the respective tools' opt-out mechanisms.
• Disabling analytics cookies does not affect the lookup feature.

7. Storage and security

• Retention (a legally required disclosure):

• The Service's processing nodes are located in an overseas data centre, and requests to the .cn domain are forwarded through a domestic access layer; queried domains and technical logs are never linked to a user identity (the Service has no account system).
• Security measures: HTTPS in transit and least-privilege access. If a personal information security incident occurs, we will notify you and report to the competent authorities in accordance with the law.

8. Your rights

You may email official@biz.gentleltd.cn (subject: "LiteWhois Privacy Request") to access, copy, correct, supplement or delete your information, or to withdraw consent. We will respond within 15 business days. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it; refusing or withdrawing consent will not affect your use of features that do not require that information. The Service has no account system, so no account identifier is needed to exercise these rights.

9. Minors

The Service is not directed at minors. Children under 14 should not submit personal information. If a guardian discovers that a child has submitted personal information, they may contact us for deletion, and we will act promptly.

10. Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy from time to time and will publish the revised version on this page. Material changes (such as changes to the scope of collection, purposes or recipients) will be notified through in-site announcements or similar means. Where laws or regulations require us to obtain your consent again, we will do so.

11. Contact us

For general enquiries, complaints and personal information matters: official@biz.gentleltd.cn (response within 15 business days).

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