Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 260

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 260
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, which were promulgated by the CAC on June 28, 2016 and last amended on June 14, 2022 and took effect on August 1, 2022. The provisions set forth requirements on the app information service providers and the App Store service providers. The CAC and its local branches shall be responsible for the supervision and administration of nationwide and local app information respectively.
App providers shall strictly fulfill their responsibilities of information security management, and perform the following duties: (i) in accordance with the principle of “real name at background, any name at foreground,” verify identities with the registered users through mobile phone numbers, ID numbers, unified social credit codes, and other measures; (ii) establish and improve the mechanism for user information security protection, follow the principle of “legality, appropriateness, necessity, and good faith” in collection and use of personal information, expressly state the purpose, methods, and scope of information collection, and obtain the users’ consent; (iii) establish a sound information content review and management mechanism, and establish and improve management measures for user registration, account management, information review, routine inspections, and emergency response, with professionals and technical capabilities commensurate with their service scale; (iv) adhere to the principle of being most beneficial to minors, and strictly implement the requirements for the registration and login of minors’ user accounts with real identity information in accordance with the law; (v) do not induce users to download apps by means of false advertisement, bundled downloads, or other acts, or via machine or manual comment control, or by using illegal and harmful information; and (vi) perform the obligation of ensuring data security, establish a sound whole-process data security management system, take technical measures to ensure data security and other security measures, and strengthen risk monitoring, and cannot endanger national security or public interests, or damage the legitimate rights and interests of others.
On July 21, 2023, the MIIT issued the Circular on Launching the Record-filing of Mobile Internet Applications, pursuant to which we shall complete a record-filing procedure with the MIIT for our mobile apps with engagement of provision of internet information service within the PRC before March of 2024. We are not allowed to continue to provide internet information services via our mobile apps within the PRC if applicable filings for our mobile apps cannot be completed by the end of March of 2024. As of the date of this annual report, we have completed these filings for all our mobile apps intended