1CatzGames offers a variety of online and mobile games. Our Privacy Policy applies whenever you use our “Services,” which means our games, products, services, content, CatzGames, and/or other domains or websites operated by CatzGames. It describes the ways we use your information and your rights and choices concerning your information. CatzGames develops and publishes social games for mobile devices. “CatzGamesc,” “we,” “our,” or “us” in this Privacy Policy refers to CatzGames and any other corporate entities under common ownership with CatzGames, including without limitation CatzGames Games.
2We’ll collect and store any information that you provide to us, including when you create your account or a player profile.Information About You That You Share With Us DirectlyWhen you use our Services, you may give us information directly (like when you’re setting up your account), and we’ll store that information on our systems and use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Some games or parts of our Services may use a more traditional registration or account set-up process where you may be asked to give us information like
- Your first and last name
- Your username
- Your gender
- Your age or birthday
- Your email address
A password and/or other information that helps us make sure it’s you accessing your account or helps us improve our services.For a better experience, while using our Service, We may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to
- WAKELOCK
- VIBRATE
- INTERNET
- ACCESSNETWORKSTATE
- ACCESSWIFI_STATE
- BILLING
The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by the app by following 3rd parties
- Google Play Services
- AdMob
- Unity3D
- GameAnalytics
3We use your information to provide, personalize, maintain the security of, and improve the Services you use; to maintain our business operations; and to exercise, defend or establish our rights.
We use your information under several legal bases, including to perform our contract with you, for our legitimate business interests, to comply with our legal obligations, or otherwise with your consent.The main use of the information we collect and store is to provide you with the Services you request from us and to improve your gaming experience, but there are other uses as well. The uses for which we collect and store your information include:
- Improve and optimize our Services and our players’ experiences
- Create your game accounts and allow you to play our games
If you are located in the European Countries (defined above in Section 1), our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above depends on what the information is and the context in which we collect it.
However, we’ll normally collect information from you only where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e., our Terms of Service), where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren’t overridden by your interests or rights), or if we otherwise have your consent.
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation or need to collect information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example, another player).
If we ask you to provide information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, this will normally be clear from the context in which we are asking you to provide your information (for example, when we ask you to provide a username to access our Services, this will be to create an account for you in accordance with our Terms of Service), and, if not, we will provide an explanation to you at the relevant time.
We will also make clear whether providing information is mandatory.Similarly, if we collect and use your information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), it will be made clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are (such as personalizing our services and marketing, for example).If you have questions or need further information about the legal bases on which we collect and use your personal information, please Contact Us.
4We’ll share your information with third parties when you use our Services under the circumstances described in this section.We’ll share some of your information with your friends and other CatzGames players that you’re playing with to facilitate your gaming interactions with them.
We may share your information, including personal information, with third parties or allow third parties to collect this information from our Services in the following circumstances:Friends and Other CatzGames PlayersCatzGamesc’s games and Services support and often encourage you to interact with other players.
In most CatzGames games, if you play through a social network or connect to a social network (for example, Facebook), your social network friends who also play a CatzGames game will see your name, photo, player profile (which may include the information described above in Information About You That You Share With Us Directly), and descriptions of your in-game activity (including any CatzGames games you have played).In addition, in many CatzGames games, other players, regardless of whether they are your social network friends, will be able to see
- Your player profile (as described above)
- Descriptions of your in-game activity
- Communicate with you within our Services
- Send you game requests or friend requests through our Services or the related social
We’ll share some of your information with advertisers to tailor the advertisements you see when you use our Services to your interests and to enable us to offer some of our Services for free.We use advertising to enable us to offer some of our games, game features, and other Services for free.
These advertisements may include, without limitation, banner ads on game boards or Services themselves, as full-screen ads between moves or games, or through an “offer wall” in which third-party advertisers offer to provide virtual currency or other in-game items to players in exchange for watching an advertisement or for completing a task, such as
- Offer walls are hosted by third-party offer wall providers
We do not actively share personal information that directly identifies you with third-party advertisers for their direct marketing purposes unless you give us your consent.
To enable advertisers, ad networks, and offer wall providers to serve you with more relevant ads, they may collect, or we may collect and share with them, the following types of information when you use our Services
- Performance data (like the number of clicks on an advertisement)
- Certain technical information (like IP address, non-persistent device identifier such as IDFA, and de-identified persistent device identifier such as a hashed Android ID)
5If you’re a user located in the European Countries, you have certain rights with respect to your personal information.If you are located in the European Countries (defined above in Section 1), you have the following data protection rights
- You can access or request deletion of your personal information by submitting a request through our Personal Data Request Portal.
- You can correct or update your personal information, object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.
- You can opt-out of marketing communications we send you by following the instructions in “Opting Out of Promotional Communications from CatzGamesc” below
If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority (Contact details are available here.)
To exercise your rights to access or deletion, please submit a request through our Personal Data Request Portal. If you have any problems with the Portal or would like to exercise any of your other rights, you can Contact Us. We respond to all data protection requests we receive in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Accessing and Deleting Personal Information Held by CatzGames
You can request a copy of or deletion of your game account data through our Personal Data Request Portal.To review and update personal information associated with your CatzGames player profile in certain games, visit the “settings” page in that game.If you want to review or delete personal information associated with your game account data, please submit a request through our Personal Data Request Portal. If you have any problems with the Portal, please Contact Us.
For deletion requests, we will take reasonable measures to delete your personal information from our records. If you have sent content through or posted content on the Service, we may not be able to delete it. We will keep certain records (e.g., personal information relating to payments or customer service matters) where we need (and have rights) to, such as for legal or accounting purposes. We’ll also keep information in order to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.
Managing Personal Information We Receive From Third-Party Applications / Platforms And From Your Mobile Device
To manage the information we receive from third-party applications or platforms and from your mobile device, use the tools and settings provided by the third-party application and your mobile device.To manage the information CatzGames receives about you from a third-party application or platform where you play our games, like Facebook, Apple, Google, or Amazon, you will need to follow the third-party application’s instructions for updating your information and changing your privacy settings.
The privacy management tools for applications on Facebook can be found here.You also can manage many aspects of information collection and use from your mobile device by visiting the “settings” page of your mobile device or web browser and reviewing the access permissions of each CatzGames game / application.To the extent that one of our games is collecting information about non-CatzGames applications you have on your mobile device, the game will provide you with an option to stop making that information available to us in the game’s “settings” page.
Once CatzGames receives your information from a third-party application / platform or your mobile device, that information is stored and used by CatzGames in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may access and update that information as described above.
Opting Out of Promotional Communications from CatzGames
You can unsubscribe from promotional emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link or visiting our Email Settings page. You can opt out of mobile push notifications in your device’s settings page. You can opt out of SMS text communications by texting STOP.
If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from CatzGames, click on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any promotional email from CatzGames or visit our EmailSettings page.
Your unsubscribe request or e-mail preferences change will be processed promptly, and in no event longer than ten business days. During that processing period, you may receive additional promotional emails from us.If you want to stop receiving push notifications, which are messages an app sends you on your mobile device even when the app is not on, you can turn off push notifications by visiting your mobile device’s “settings” page.
Many of our games also offer the ability to turn off push notifications in the in-game “settings” page.You can opt out of receiving SMS text messages by texting back STOP to the number we send the text from for that particular SMS text messaging program or by Contacting Us.
When we receive an opt-out message from you for SMS text messages, we may send a text message confirming receipt.Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, we may still communicate with you from time to time if we need to provide you with information about the Services you are using from us, if we need to request information from you with respect to a transaction initiated by you, or for other legitimate non-marketing reasons, for example, if we update this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.
Opting Out of Third-Party Behavioral Advertising
You can opt out of third-party behavioral advertising through your device settings and other third-party opt-out tools.If you are interested in more information about behavioral advertising and your choices to prevent behavioral web and mobile web advertising from third parties, you may visit the following websites
- Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out Page or the Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Page for U.S.-based advertising
- Your Online Choices website for EU-based advertising.
If you do not want to receive behavioral in-application advertisements from third parties that relate to your interests on your mobile device, you may adjust the ad tracking settings on your device (such as turning on “Limit Ad Tracking”). You can also reset the “Advertising Identifier” (such as an IDFA) from your mobile device’s settings page, which will prevent continued use of existing behavioral data tied to your previous “Advertising Identifier.”
Further, depending on the platform provider (such as Apple or Google), you may be able to download apps, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s “AppChoices” app, that offer to provide you with control regarding the collection and use of cross-app data for behavior by CatzGames. CatzGames does not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.Please note that you may still receive third-party advertisements in CatzGamesc’s Services after using these opt-out tools, but the advertising you see may be less relevant to your interests.
6We don’t respond to Do Not Track signals.At this time, there is no general agreement on how companies like CatzGames should interpret Do Not Track signals. CatzGames does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals, whether that signal is received on a computer or on a mobile device. You can learn more about Do Not Track here.
7We aren’t responsible for the ways in which third parties use your information (other than our service providers acting under our instructions).
Our websites and games may contain advertisements from “Third-Party Services,” meaning companies other than CatzGames, that may link to their own websites, online services, or mobile applications. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Third-Party Services.
If you have any questions about how these Third-Party Services use your information, you should review their policies and contact them directly.
8We seek to ensure that we do not collect information from children.Generally speaking, most of our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13 (or under 16 for children located in the European Countries) (collectively, “Children”).
Children are not permitted to use these Services, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from Children.Though our Services do not target Children as the primary audience, we may collect age information before allowing a user to proceed for certain Services.
For users who identify themselves as Children in our age-gate on such Services, if we allow Children to use the Services, we will either provide a version of that Service that does not collect, use, or disclose “personal information” (as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”)), except as permitted by COPPA, or obtain legally valid parental consent.
If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information that is not subject to a COPPA exception from a Child, we will take reasonable measures to promptly remove that information from our records.
9We’ll keep your information for as long as necessary to provide you with the Services, maintain our legitimate business operations, and/or exercise, defend or establish our rights.How long we retain your personal information depends on why we collected it and how we use it, but we will not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements.We will retain personal information about you and connected with your account and/or the Services you use from us for as long as you have an active account with us.
We will take reasonable measures to delete this personal information if you delete your account. However, you acknowledge that we may retain some information after you have closed, or we have deleted, your account with us where necessary to enable us to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.
We work hard to protect your information but you also have a role to play.We implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to help protect the security of your information both online and offline and to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These measures vary based upon the sensitivity of your information.
If you have an account registered directly with CatzGames, your profile information is protected by the password you use to access your CatzGames account. It is important that you protect and maintain your CatzGames account’s security and that you immediately tell us of any unauthorized use of your account. If you forget the password to your CatzGames account, the Services allow you to request that instructions be sent to you that explain how to reset your password.
If you access our Services through a social network and your social network account is hacked or otherwise compromised, this may lead to someone accessing or deleting your CatzGames game accounts without your permission. So, be careful to keep your social network account information, including your social network account password, secure as well.
We urge you to log out of your CatzGames account and any social network account you have used to access our Services when you are finished using them.When you sign into your CatzGames account or enter payment information, we and our third-party payment processor use encryption to transmit that information.While we take precautions against possible security breaches of our Services and our customer databases and records, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure.
We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information while it is being transmitted to our Service. Any transmission is at your own risk. If you have questions about the security of our websites, please Contact Us