Halfpixel Games ("Halfpixel
Games", “we”, “our” or "us") respect the rights and our
obligations regarding the privacy and personal information of our users
("users" or "you"). This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”)
describes the ways we collect, store, use, and manage the information,
including personal information, that you provide or we collect in connection
with any Halfpixel Games game provided on a mobile platform (collectively, the
"Service"). Please note that the scope of this Policy is limited to
information collected or received by Halfpixel Games through your use of the
Service. Halfpixel Games is not responsible for the actions of third party
people or companies, the content of their sites, the use of information you
provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those
sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people
or companies. As used herein, the term “use” shall mean use, access, play,
install, sign into, connect with, download, visit or browse our Sites or
Services. By using the Service, you are expressing your agreement to this
Policy and the processing of your data, including your personal information, in
the manner provided in this Policy. You should not use our Services if you do
not agree with this Policy.
Halfpixel Games collects
information as described below. Halfpixel Games’ primary goals in collecting
and using information are to create your account, provide Services to you,
improve our Service, contact you, conduct research and create reports for
internal use. We store information on servers located in the United States and
Ireland via Amazon Web Services and may store information on servers and
equipment in other countries.
We may collect and record certain
information such as your unique device ID, hardware type, media access control
(“MAC”) address, the version of your operating system (“OS”), your device name,
and your location (based on your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address). This
information is useful to us for troubleshooting and helps us understand usage
trends.
We may collect your email address
when you contact our customer service group and we may use that email address
to contact you about your gaming experience with Halfpixel Games games and notify
you about company news and promotions.
We collect data about all of your
interactions with our games and with the other players inside the game via
server log files. This data is stored within Amazon Web Services.
Our services may contain third
party tracking tools from our service providers, examples of which include
Google Analytics, Unity Analytics. Such third parties may use cookies, APIs,
and SDKs in our services to enable them to collect and analyze user information
on our behalf. The third parties may have access to information such as your
device identifier, Media Access Control (“MAC”) address, International Mobile
Equipment Identity (“IMEI”), locale (specific location where a given language
is spoken), geo-location information and IP address.
We may use the information we
collect through your use of the Services for a variety of purposes, primarily
related to providing and improving the quality of our Services. For example, we
may use the information we collect in the following ways:
● Providing, administering,
and facilitating your use of the Services, including the creation of game
accounts;
● Managing your account
preferences, establishing your Profile and Registration Information;
● Connecting you with your
friends and/or contacts that are using the Services;
● Analyzing trends and user
traffic to improve our Service;
● Notifying you of products,
new products, services, features, promotions, enhancements, and updates, including
in-game updates, loyalty and rewards programs, and updates to the Services and
Privacy Policy;
● Marketing our products
and/or services to you, including sending you offers, promotions information,
newsletters, e-mail campaigns, and communications regarding new, improved or
existing products, contests and/or sweepstakes;
● Resolving site problems;
handling or responding to customer support questions and issues;
● Enabling user-to-user
communication and interaction and soliciting input and feedback to improve user
experience;
● Tracking purchases and usage
information;
Halfpixel Games does not share
your personal information except as approved by you or as described below:
● We may release your
information as permitted by law or when we believe that release is appropriate
to comply with the law; enforce or apply our rights; or protect the rights,
property, or safety of us or our users, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.
● If you opt-in or otherwise
agree to have your information shared with a third party for marketing
purposes, we will share your information with the third party (or third
parties) in which case the third party’s use of your information is subject to
the third party’s own privacy policy.
● We may share your
information with third party companies that perform services on our behalf,
including payment processing, order fulfillment, data analysis, marketing
services, e-mail campaigns, hosting services, and customer service. While
providing the services for us, these companies may access your personal
information, and are required to use it solely as directed by us for the
purpose of our requested service.
● In the event that Halfpixel
Games undergoes a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, corporate
divestiture or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or a
portion of its assets, we may share, disclose or transfer all of your
information, including personal information, to the successor organization in
such transition.
Halfpixel Games takes commercially
reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or
unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of, sensitive data that you
share and we collect and store. These security measures may include practices
such as keeping your sensitive data on a secured server behind a firewall,
transmitting sensitive information (such as a credit card number) entered on
our site or mobile application using secure socket layer technology (SSL),
internal reviews of our data collection practices and platforms, as well as
physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems
where we store your information. Although we make good faith efforts to store
the information collected on the Service in a secure operating environment that
is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of
that information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.
Further, while we attempt to ensure the integrity and security of our network
and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent
third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining access to this
information. We do not warrant or represent that your information will be
protected against, loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties.
We do not intentionally gather
personal data from users who are under the age of 13. In the event that we
learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we
will delete that information as quickly as possible.
We reserve the right to change
this Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those
changes on this page and update the date at the top of the page. The changes
will be effective when posted. Please check this page on a regular basis so
that you remain aware of what information we collect and how we use it.
If you have any questions about
this Policy, please contact us at support@halfpixelgames.com.