XIGUANG TERMS OF SERVICE
Last updated: 2026-11-11
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a contract between you and Guangzhou Jingjian Linyan Technology Co., Ltd., registered at Room A1590, Unit 1102, No. 585 Airport Road, Tangjing Street, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China ("Xiguang", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using Xiguang, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Community Guidelines. If you do not agree, do not use Xiguang.
1. ELIGIBILITY
Our baseline minimum registration age is 13. Three different rules can apply where you live: the minimum age to hold an account, the age at which you may consent to the processing of your own personal data, and any minimum age that applies specifically to social media services. They are not the same. If the law of your country or state sets a higher age, requires parental or guardian consent, or requires age assurance, that requirement applies to you in addition to our baseline. Xiguang is currently offered in a limited set of markets; we do not offer it in the People's Republic of China, the European Economic Area, or the United Kingdom. If you are under 18, use Xiguang with the involvement of a parent or guardian, and Teen Mode is available in Settings. You may hold only one account per person, and you may not transfer it. You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping your credentials safe.
2. YOUR ACCOUNT
2.1 Registration. You can register with an email address (one-time passcode or password) or a third-party account enabled in your version of the app (currently Google on supported platforms). The information you give must be accurate. 2.2 Security. Tell us immediately at xg@xiguang.chat if you think your account has been compromised. We may require additional verification before restoring access. 2.3 Account deletion. You can delete your account at any time in Settings - Delete Account (at the bottom of the Settings screen), or through our web deletion page. Deletion removes your content and data as described in the Privacy Policy, except for records we must keep by law. 2.4 Inactivity. We may reclaim usernames that have been unused for a long period, and we may delete accounts that have been inactive for a very long period, after giving notice where practical.
3. YOUR CONTENT AND OUR LICENCE
3.1 You own what you create. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your content to us. 3.2 Licence to us. To operate Xiguang, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and technically process your content, including making it available to the audience you select and creating the technical copies, thumbnails, and transcodes needed to deliver it. This licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies already shared by others that they have not deleted, and except for backup copies that are overwritten on a rolling basis. 3.3 Your responsibility. You must have the rights to the content you post, including any music, images, or text belonging to someone else. 3.4 Feedback. If you send us suggestions, we may use them freely without obligation to you.
4. OUR CONTENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Xiguang name, logo, interface, visual design, source code, and the content we publish are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, resell, or build a competing service on top of Xiguang, except where law permits and you do not use our confidential information.
5. RULES FOR USING XIGUANG
You agree not to: - Post anything prohibited by our Community Guidelines. - Harass, threaten, stalk, or intimidate anyone, or encourage others to do so. - Impersonate a person or organisation, or misrepresent your relationship to one. - Publish another person's private information without their consent. - Use Xiguang to commit fraud, launder money, gamble illegally, sell drugs, or further any other illegal activity. - Scrape, crawl, or bulk-collect data, or use automated accounts. - Manipulate feeds, recommendations, rankings, or engagement metrics by artificial means. - Circumvent our security, access controls, rate limits, or moderation systems, or probe or test them without our written permission. - Upload malware, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system. - Use Xiguang to develop or improve a competing service. - Resell access to Xiguang, or sell virtual items outside the official stores.
6. FEATURE-SPECIFIC RULES
6.1 Publishing. You choose the audience for each post. Public posts can be seen, shared, and quoted by anyone, including people who do not have an account. 6.2 Comments and discussions. Reply with the same respect you would want. Report abuse instead of escalating it. 6.3 Private messages and calls. Messages are private between participants. Do not record, screenshot, or redistribute private conversations without the other person's consent where that consent is required. We may review message metadata and, in narrow cases defined in our Community Guidelines, message content, to investigate serious reports. 6.4 Following and friends. Following someone does not grant you rights over their content. You can block another account in the app; blocking stops contact in both directions between those accounts and hides your content from them. It cannot prevent someone from using a different account, or from keeping content they could already see. 6.5 Anonymous and pseudonymous features. Where Xiguang lets you post without displaying your identity to other users, the same rules apply. Anonymity is not immunity: we can still act on reports, and we may disclose identity to authorities where the law requires it. 6.6 Star Encounter (location-based discovery). Your location is shown only at the precision you choose, and only while you keep the feature active. Do not use it to track or follow anyone. If someone makes you feel unsafe, block them and report them. 6.7 AI features. AI responses are generated by third-party models and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate. Most AI features run in the cloud: the text you enter, the conversation context, any image or file you attach, and the preferences stored for your AI companion are sent to the providers listed in section 5 of our Privacy Policy. Only the small on-device models described in that policy stay on your phone. AI features are not medical, legal, financial, or mental-health advice and are not a substitute for professional help. Do not rely on them for decisions that affect your health, safety, or finances. Do not input information you would not want processed by a cloud AI provider. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency service or a local crisis line. 6.8 Black Hole and Stargazing. These are reflective and conversational features. Content you enter is treated like any other content you create. 6.9 Time Capsules. A capsule opens at the time you set. You can delete it before it opens. After it opens it behaves like a normal post, subject to the audience you selected. 6.10 Recommendations. Feeds are ranked automatically. You can influence them by following, muting, hiding, and using "not interested". We do not sell placement in your feed.
Business profiles and public listings
Any user who meets the account eligibility requirements may create and manage a business profile or public store listing in the dedicated business area of Xiguang. At initial launch this is an information and discovery feature only. Xiguang does not verify or certify the identity, business registration, licences, qualifications, ownership, products, services, or operational status of any listed business, and we do not endorse or guarantee any listing.
A listing may contain a business name, description, category, service area, city, address, opening hours, images, a video, and optional contact details. In the current version, any telephone number or WeChat ID you enter is stored only as a salted, non-reversible hash; it is not displayed to other users and cannot be read back. Do not submit a telephone number, WeChat ID, or other personal information belonging to someone else unless you are authorised to publish it. You must keep your listing accurate, lawful, and up to date, and you must not impersonate another business or invent a shop.
Xiguang does not provide online transactions, payments, escrow, delivery, or order fulfilment for listings, and is not a party to any arrangement you make with another user or a listed business by telephone, WeChat, or any other channel outside the app. If we introduce public display of raw contact details or transaction features, we will update these Terms and our Privacy Policy before enabling them.
You can edit or delete a listing from the listing management screen at any time. We may restrict, hide, or remove listings that breach these Terms, our Community Guidelines, or applicable law.
7. VIRTUAL ITEMS AND VIP ENTITLEMENTS
Some features, such as VIP membership, require an entitlement. VIP entitlements are sold as non-consumable in-app purchases through the Apple App Store or Google Play and governed by that store's terms; our servers verify the receipt before granting the entitlement. A purchase covers a fixed period shown before you buy. It does not renew automatically and is not a subscription; to keep VIP access after that period you make a new purchase, so there is no automatic renewal to cancel. Refunds are handled by the store except where local law gives you a direct right against us. Prices, features and durations are shown before you buy, and you can restore previous purchases in the VIP centre. We may change prices or features with notice; changes will not affect a period you have already paid for.
8. REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT
8.1 Reporting. You can report content, messages, or accounts in the app. Reports are reviewed by our moderation systems and, where appropriate, by our team. 8.2 Enforcement. If you breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines, we may, depending on severity and history: remove or hide content; restrict features such as posting, messaging, or discovery; limit the reach of your content; require you to verify your identity; suspend your account temporarily; or permanently ban you. We may also report conduct to the relevant authorities, and we will do so where we believe a crime or a risk to a person's safety is involved. 8.3 Appeals. You can appeal an enforcement action at xg@xiguang.chat. Tell us what happened and why you think the decision was wrong. Appeals are reviewed through our moderation systems and, where the case requires it, by a member of our team. We aim to respond within a reasonable time; response times vary with the volume and complexity of cases. 8.4 Serious harm. For cases involving child safety, credible threats to life, or terrorism, we act first and notify afterwards.
9. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
Xiguang relies on third-party providers for infrastructure, AI, translation, payments, messaging transport, and crash reporting. Their services are provided under their own terms. We are not responsible for third-party content you reach through Xiguang, including links, search results, and AI output that cites external sources.
10. DISCLAIMERS
Xiguang is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent permitted by law, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that content will be accurate, or that AI output will be correct or suitable for your purpose.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising from your use of Xiguang. Where we cannot exclude liability, our total liability for all claims in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in that period and the minimum amount permitted by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or gross negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they apply to you only to the extent permitted.
12. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your content, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of another person's rights, except to the extent caused by our own breach or negligence.
13. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We may update these Terms. When we do, we publish the new version in the app with a new version number and effective date; you can read the current version at any time in Settings. Continuing to use Xiguang after new Terms take effect means you accept them. If you do not agree, stop using Xiguang and you may delete your account. Where a change requires your express consent under applicable law - for example new charges, arbitration terms, or sharing personal information with third parties - we will ask for that consent separately instead of relying on continued use.
14. TERMINATION
You may stop using Xiguang and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if continued provision of the service to you would expose us to legal risk that we cannot mitigate. On termination, the licences in section 3.2 end except as stated there, and sections 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, and 15 survive.
15. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTES
15.1 These Terms are governed by the law of the place where the operator is established, except that consumers keep the protection of the mandatory rules of their country of residence that cannot be waived by contract. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that applicable law does not allow to be limited. 15.2 If you have a complaint, contact us first at xg@xiguang.chat. We will try to resolve it without undue delay. 15.3 If we cannot resolve a dispute, you may bring proceedings in the courts available to you under the law of your country of residence, including any local consumer forum that applies to you. We will not require you to arbitrate at a foreign seat or in a language you do not use unless you have expressly agreed to that separately. Nothing here removes protections that cannot be waived under the law of your country of residence.
16. CONTACT
Guangzhou Jingjian Linyan Technology Co., Ltd. Registered address: Room A1590, Unit 1102, No. 585 Airport Road, Tangjing Street, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Email: xg@xiguang.chat
By using Xiguang you confirm that you have read and understood these Terms.