Privacy Policy

1. General Provisions

Welcome to m3u8 Online Player (playearns.com, hereinafter referred to as "this site" or "we"). This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you use this site's services.

By using this site's services, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with any content of this policy, please stop using this site's services.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Automatically Collected Information

When you visit this site, we may automatically collect the following information:

• Device Information: Including your IP address, browser type, operating system, device type, etc.
• Usage Information: Including pages you visit, time spent, links clicked, etc.
• Technical Information: Including cookies, browser language, screen resolution, etc.

2.2 Information You Actively Provide

• Video Links: m3u8/HLS test links you enter when using the player or legal media processing guidance
• Contact Information: If you contact us via email, we will collect your email address and message content

3. How We Use Your Information

The information we collect is only used for the following purposes:

• Provide Services: Ensure the website functions normally, including playback testing and lawful processing guidance
• Improve Experience: Analyze user behavior, optimize website performance and user interface
• Statistical Analysis: Understand website traffic, popular features and other data to help us improve services
• Security Protection: Detect and prevent abuse, fraud or other illegal activities
• Customer Support: Respond to your questions and feedback

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

This site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device, helping us remember your preferences and analyze website usage.

Types of Cookies We Use:

• Essential Cookies: Ensure basic website functions work properly
• Performance Cookies: After your consent, help us understand how users use the website
• Functional Cookies: Remember your preference settings
• Advertising Cookies: After your consent, services such as Google AdSense may use them for ad delivery, frequency control, measurement, and abuse prevention

You can manage or delete cookies through browser settings, and you can reject non-essential cookies in this site's cookie notice. After rejection, this site will not actively load Google AdSense, third-party analytics, or article comment scripts.

5. Third-Party Services

This site uses the following third-party services, which may collect your information:

• Google AdSense: After your consent, used for ad display, ad measurement, and invalid traffic prevention. Google or its partners may place or read cookies in your browser, and may use web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to collect information.
• 51.la Statistics: After your consent, used for website traffic analysis
• Giscus / GitHub Comments: After your consent, used for article comments. GitHub may process your interaction data.
• CDN Services: For accelerating resource loading (such as jsdelivr.net, staticfile.org)
• Tencent Cloud Player SDK: For video playback functionality

These third-party services have their own privacy policies. We recommend reviewing how Google uses data from partner sites or apps and each service's privacy statement to understand their data processing methods.

If Google AdSense uses personalized ads, you can manage personalized advertising and cookie preferences through Google Ads settings or browser privacy settings. We do not send information that directly identifies you to Google as ad request data.

6. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure or destruction. However, please note that no method of network transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure.

7. Data Storage and Retention

Since our core functions (player and lawful media processing guidance) use frontend-only or content-only flows, most data will not be uploaded to our servers.

For anonymous data collected through cookies or statistical tools, we will retain it for a reasonable period according to service needs, usually not exceeding 24 months.

8. Your Rights

According to applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights:

• Right of Access: Request to view personal information we hold about you
• Right of Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information
• Right of Erasure: Request deletion of your personal information
• Right to Object: Object to our processing of your personal information
• Right to Restrict: Request restriction of processing of your personal information

If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us via email: [email protected]

9. Children's Privacy

This site's services are not directed at children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you find that we have inadvertently collected a child's personal information, please contact us immediately, and we will delete it as soon as possible.

10. Privacy Policy Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page, and the "Last Updated" date will be marked at the top of the page. Major changes will be notified through website announcements or other appropriate means.

We recommend that you regularly review this privacy policy to understand how we protect your information.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about this privacy policy, or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact us through the following methods:

📧 Email: [email protected]

We will reply to your request as soon as possible, usually within 30 business days.