Third party api

Hi,

About 4 months ago I asked if there is an third party api that plays the middle man between this plugin and Aliexpress and you said there is none and that there is an option to have wordpress connect to Aliexpress locally.

However after having a quick glance at the source code today, I discovered that indeed there is a 3rd party api call inside the plugin:

/*Constants for AliExpress dropshipping API*/
define( 'VI_WOOCOMMERCE_ALIDROPSHIP_APP_KEY', '34058263' );
define( 'VI_WOOCOMMERCE_ALIDROPSHIP_GET_SIGNATURE_PLACE_ORDER_URL', 'https://api.villatheme.com/wp-json/aliexpress/get_signature' );
define( 'VI_WOOCOMMERCE_ALIDROPSHIP_GET_SIGNATURE_PLACE_ORDER_BATCH_URL', 'https://api.villatheme.com/wp-json/aliexpress/create_orders' );
define( 'VI_WOOCOMMERCE_ALIDROPSHIP_GET_SIGNATURE_GET_PRODUCT_URL', 'https://api.villatheme.com/wp-json/aliexpress/get_products' );
define( 'VI_WOOCOMMERCE_ALIDROPSHIP_GET_SIGNATURE_GET_PRODUCT_URL_V2', 'https://api.villatheme.com/wp-json/aliexpress/get_products/v2' );
define( 'VI_WOOCOMMERCE_ALIDROPSHIP_GET_SIGNATURE_GET_ORDER_URL', 'https://api.villatheme.com/wp-json/aliexpress/get_orders' );

Can you please clarify what this api at api.villateme.com is exactly doing? What information do you collect? and what happens if api.villatheme.com is down or becomes unavailable for whatever reason?

I think transparency is key to keep community trust, and your response on my questions here https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/chrome-extension-3/ contradicts what im seeing here.

My only goal is to see transparency in what data plugin developers collect and what 3rd party services are embedded into the code and what is their usage.

Thanks.