Law and safety / Chapter 26
You want to build a website or an app. This section answers 4 things: what kind of business it counts as in law, which permit you need, where the servers sit, and who is responsible for what users post and for the money that comes in. The measure is personal liberty and money. If you are a hired technician, the red lines are in section 11. How to register a company and how to file taxes are in section 12, and this section does not repeat them. A comparison table of the permits, and a decision table for choosing a server, are in What Licenses a Platform Needs: A Comparison Table and a Server-Choice Decision Table.
If the buyer's money goes into your account first and you then pass it to the seller, you are running a payment business. …
A website that charges users mostly has to get a value-added telecommunications business license first, and an individual cannot apply for it. …
To run live streams or game commentary, you need an online cultural business license issued by the provincial culture department, and the business scope has to state online performance. …
If the server sits inside China, you have to file before the site opens. It costs nothing, and it usually takes a few days to a few weeks. …
If you let other people sell on your platform, you first check the seller's identity, address, contact details, and license, then register them and open a file. …
What users post, the platform has to manage. Registration, review of posts, review of comments, a daily patrol, and what to do when something happens all need a written system. …
If your site can take posts, or can chat, you have to ask for the user's real identity information when the user opens the service. If the user does not give it, you cannot let them use it. …
People younger than 16 cannot sign up for a live streaming account on this platform. Those aged 16 or older must have their identity verified and must also obtain permission from a parent or other guardian. …
If someone sends an infringement notice and attaches preliminary evidence, you delete the thing, block it, or cut the link in time, and you forward the notice to the seller at the same time. …
Sending information about users inside China to a machine abroad is called an export, and putting the server abroad counts the same. …
The difference among the 3 tiers is not the price. It is what you have in hand on the day something goes wrong. …
If user information leaks, or may leak, you remedy it at once and notify the authority in charge and the users who are affected. If you cover it up and do not report, you are first ordered to correct. …
If you sell an auto-renewing membership, remind the user in a way that stands out, both before the user turns it on and before each charge. During the membership, give 1 entry that can cancel or change it at any time. …
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