CatStudio Privacy Policy
Welcome to CatStudio.
Your privacy is important to us.
CatStudio is dedicated to protecting the privacy
rights 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 our websites, including www.cat-studio.net (the “Sites”) or any
CatStudio game provided on a mobile platform (for
example, iOS and Android)(collectively, the
"Service"). Please note that the scope of this Policy is
limited to information collected or received by CatStudio
through your use of the Service. CatStudio 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.
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. If you do
not agree to these terms, please do not use the Service.
If you have questions or concerns about
our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at [email protected]. Information Collection and Use
CatStudio collects information as described
below. CatStudio’s primary goals in collecting
and using information is 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 via Amazon Web Services and may store information on servers and
equipment in other countries.
In order to use your community forum, you must
register and provide a username, password and email address.
If you wish to submit a resume, we provide you the option to upload it to the
site and we collect your name, email address and mobile telephone number.
We use this information to contact you regarding setting up an interview or to
determine if you are qualified for the position in which you applied.
CatStudio’s Sites
While you are browsing CatStudio's
Sites, your computer’s operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access
times, browser type and language and referring Web site addresses may be logged
automatically. We may use this information to monitor, develop and
analyze your use of the Service. In addition, we may ask you to submit
and we may process data that is personal to you, including but not limited to
your name, profile photo, gender, age or birthday, links to your profiles on
social networking websites and other third party
sites, user names and e-mail and mail addresses. We may use this
information to create a user profile and provide you services. We may use
your email address to contact you about your experience with CatStudio Sites and notify you about company news and
promotions. Your gender and birthday may be used to analyze user trends
and target certain promotions. Your mail address may be used if we have
merchandise or other physical promotional materials that we want to send to
you. If you no longer wish to receive these types of promotional
materials, you may opt-out from receiving them at any time by emailing us at
[email protected].Forums/Private Messages
Our Web site offers publicly accessible
blogs, private messages, or community forums. You should be aware that any
information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by
others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from
our blog or community forum, contact us at [email protected]. In
some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which
case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
If you choose to use Facebook connect to
use our blog or community forums, the information you provide is tied to your
Facebook account. You will need to contact Facebook directly in
order to request removal of personal information from our blog or
community forum.
Social Media
(Features) and Widgets
Our Web site includes Social Media
Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this
button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may
collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a
cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and
Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your
interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the
company providing it.
iOS and Android
Platforms
When you use any of the CatStudio games or applications on a mobile platform, we
may collect and record certain information such as your unique device ID
(persistent / non-persistent), hardware type, media access control (“MAC”)
address, international mobile equipment identity (“IMEI”), the version of your
operating system (“OS”), your device name, your email address (if you have
connected to Facebook or Google+), 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 location
based information for the purpose of providing you with the correct
version of the application. We will not share this information with any
third party. If you no longer wish to allow us to track or use this
information, you may turn it off at the device level. Please note, the
application may not work properly if we are unable to tell where you are coming
from (Country specific).
In addition, we create a unique user ID to track your use of our Service.
This unique user ID is stored in connection with your profile information to
track the CatStudio games you are playing.Facebook Connect, Game Center and Google+
You can log in to our site using sign-in
services (“SN Service”) such as Facebook Connect ,
Apple’s Game Center, or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate
your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information
with us such as your name, email address, and resume to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you
the option to post information about your activities on this Web site to your
profile page to share with others within your network.
We may collect and record information
through the SN Service in accordance with the policies and terms of that SN
Service. The information we collect when you connect your user account to
an SN Service may include: (1) your name, (2) your SN Service user
identification number and/or user name, (3) locale, city, state and country, (4)
sex, (5) birth date, (6) email address, (7) profile picture or its URL, and (8)
the SN Service user identification numbers for your friends that are also
connected to CatStudio’s game(s).
If you want us to delete the data we
receive from Facebook, Game Center or Google+ about you, please contact us at
[email protected].Invite a Friend
CatStudio may offer you the opportunity to invite
your contacts from a SN Service (such as your Facebook friends) so that those
contacts can be located in CatStudio
games and/or you can invite them to join you in CatStudio
games. Such contact information will be used only for
the purpose of sending communications to the addressee. You or the
third party may contact us at [email protected] to request the removal of
this information from our database to the extent CatStudio
stores any of this information.Customer Service
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 CatStudio games
and notify you about company news and promotions. If you no longer wish to
receive certain email notifications you may opt-out at any time by following
the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of each communication or by emailing
us at [email protected].
Push
Notifications
We may occasionally send you push
notifications through our mobile applications to send you game updates, high
scores and other service related notifications that may be of importance to
you. You may at any time opt-out from receiving these types of
communications by turning them off at the device level through your settings.
Game Data
Collection
Whenever you play our games, we collect
anonymous data about all of your interactions with the
game and with the other players inside the game via server log files.
This information may be associated with your player ID, IP address or device ID
for the purpose of providing you our Services and
improving them. This data is stored within Amazon Web Services.Other Collection
We may also acquire information from you
through (1) your access and participation in message boards on the Service, (2)
your participation in surveys regarding the Service or (3) your participation in
a sweepstakes or contest through the Service.
We may provide you the opportunity to
participate in a sweepstakes or contest through our Service. If you
participate, we will request certain personal information from you.
Participation in these sweepstakes and contests are voluntary and you therefore
have a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. The requested information typically includes contact
information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information
(such as zip code).
We use this information to notify winners
and award prizes, to monitor traffic or personalize the Service. We may
use a third party service provider to conduct these
sweepstakes or contests; that company is prohibited from using your users’
personal information for any other purpose.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that we
transfer to your computer and/or device, to identify a user's computer/device
and to "remember" things about your visit, such as your preferences
or a user name and password. Information contained in a cookie may be
linked to your personal information, such as your user ID, for purposes such as
improving the quality of our Service, tailoring recommendations to your
interests, and making the Service easier to use. You can disable cookies
at any time, although you may not be able to access or use features of the
Service.
We may feature advertisements served by
third parties that deliver cookies to your computer/device so the content you
access and advertisements you see can be tracked. Since the third party advertising companies associate your
computer/device with a number, they will be able to recognize your
computer/device each time they send you an advertisement. These
advertisers may use information about your visits to our Service and third party sites and applications in order to measure
advertisement performance and to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. This Policy does not apply to, and we are not
responsible for the data collection practices of these third
party advertisers, and we encourage you to check their privacy policies
to learn more about their use of cookies and other technology.
Clear Gifs (Web
Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ or our third
party tracking utility partner employs a software technology called
clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on
our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny
graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used
to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which
are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly
on Web pages or e-mails and are about the size of the period at the end of this
sentence. We may associate this information with your IP address or device
identifier but do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our
customers’ personal information.
Mobile Analytics
We use mobile analytics software to allow
us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your
device. This software may record information such as how often you use the
application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage,
performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link
the information we store within the analytics software to any personal
information you submit within the mobile application.
Third Party
Services
Our services may contain third party
tracking tools from our service providers, examples of which include Google
Analytics, Flurry and HasOffers. 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, MAC address, IMEI, locale (specific
location where a given language is spoken), geo-location information, and IP
address for the purpose of providing their services
under their respective privacy policies. Our privacy policy does not cover the
use of tracking tools from third parties. We do not have access or
control over these third parties.
Ad Networks
We may feature advertising within our
Service. The advertisers may collect and use information about you, such
as your Service session activity, device identifier, MAC address, IMEI,
geo-location information and IP address. They may use this information to
provide advertisements of interest to you.
In addition, you may see our games
advertised in other services. After clicking on one of these advertisements
and installing our game, you will become a user of our Service. In order to verify the installs, a device identifier may be
shared with the advertiser.How We Use Information
We use information collected through our
Service for purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you in connection
with our Service. For example, we may use your information to:
• create game accounts and allow users to play our games;
• identify and suggest connections with other CatStudio
users;
• operate and improve our Service;
• understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment
using our Service;
• respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
• provide and deliver products and services you request;
• send you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical
notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• communicate with you about promotions, rewards, upcoming events, and other
news about products and services offered by CatStudio
and our selected partners;
• enable you to communicate with other users; and
• link or combine it with other information we get from third parties, to help
understand your preferences and provide you with better services.
Disclosure of Your information
CatStudio does not share or sell your personal
information except as approved by you or as described below:
• With your consent, for example, when you agree to our sharing your
information with other third parties for their own marketing purposes subject
to their separate privacy policies. If you no longer wish to allow us to
share your information with third parties, please contact us at
[email protected]. If you no longer wish to receive such
communications from third parties, please contact that third party directly.
• CatStudio may engage other companies and
individuals to perform services on our behalf. Example of these services
include analyzing data and providing customer support. These agents and
service providers may have access to your personal information in connection
with the performance of services for CatStudio.
• We may release your information as permitted by law, such as to comply with a
subpoena, or when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the
law; investigate fraud, respond to a government request, 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.
• CatStudio may share your information in connection
with any merger, sale of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a
portion of our business to another company. You will be notified via
email and/or notice on our site of any change in ownership or users of your
personal information.
• We may share aggregate or anonymous information about you with advertisers,
publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties.Changes to the Policy
We may update this privacy policy to
reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes
we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your
account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming
effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest
information on our privacy practices.Security
CatStudio takes reasonable measures to protect your
information from unauthorized access or against loss, misuse or alteration by
third parties.
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. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Access to Personal
Information
If your personal information changes, or
if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, or delete
inaccuracies by making the change within your account settings or by contacting
us at [email protected]. We will respond to your access request
within 30 days.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as
long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If
you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your
information to provide you services, contact us at
[email protected]. We will retain and use your information as
necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce
our agreements.Our Policy Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit
personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such
persons to use our Service. If you are under 13, please do not send any
information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone
number, or email address. No one under the age of 13 may provide any
personal information. 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. If you believe that we
might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please
contact us at [email protected].Opting Out of Marketing
You may opt-out of receiving promotional
emails from us by following the instructions in those emails by emailing us at [email protected].. If you opt-out, we may still
send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your accounts or our
ongoing business relations.
You may also opt-out of receiving SMS
notifications from us, either via SMS or by emailing us at [email protected].International Transfer
We may transfer information that we
collect about you to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across
borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or
jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in
the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use
that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring
information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that
does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you
consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. and the use and disclosure
of information about you, including personal information, as described in this
Policy.
GDPR
1.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
The data we collect depends on the context of your
interactions with us, the choices you make, including your privacy settings,
and the products and features you use. The data we collect can include SDK/API/JS
code version, browser, Internet service provider, IP address, platform,
timestamp, application identifier, application version, application
distribution channel, independent deice identifier, iOS ad identifier (IDFA),
Android ad master identifier, network card (MAC) address, and international
mobile device identification code (IMEI) The equipment model, the terminal
manufacturer, the terminal device operating system version, the session start /
stop time, the location of the language, the time zone and the network state (WiFi and so on), the hard disk, the CPU, and the battery
use, etc.
2.
USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Product
Improvement. We use data to
continually improve our products, including adding new features or
capabilities. For example, … .
3.
SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
To improve our product and provide you better service, we
also share personal data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the
purposes described in this privacy policy. For example, companies we've hired
to provide data analytical services may need collect and access to personal
data to provide those functions. In such cases, these companies must abide by
our data privacy and security requirements.
4.
LGGAL BASIS
FOR DATA PROCESSING
We process
Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, as described
above. Our legal basis to process personal data includes processing that is:
necessary for the performance of the contract with you (for example, to provide
you with the services you request and to identify and authenticate you so you
may use the Sites); necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example,
to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to
law enforcement); necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to
manage our relationship with you, to ensure the security of our services, to
communicate with you about our products and services); and based on consent by
our customers (for example, to place certain cookies and to share your
information with third parties for advertising purposes).
In some
instances, you may be required to provide us with Personal Data for processing
as described above, in order for us to be able to
provide you all of our services, and for you to use all the features of our
Sites.
5.
International
Transfers of Personal Data
Our business
may require us to transfer your Personal Data to countries outside of the
European Economic Area (“EEA”), including to countries such as the People’s
Republic of China or Singapore. We take appropriate steps to ensure that
recipients of your Personal Data are bound to duties of confidentiality and we
implement measures such as standard contractual clauses. A
copy of those clauses can be obtained by contacting our Help Center.
6.
Your Rights
Subject to
limitations in applicable law, you are entitled to object to or request the
restriction of processing of your Personal Data, and to request access to,
rectification, erasure and portability of your own Personal Data.
Where the
use of your information is based on consent, you can withdraw this consent at
any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before
its withdrawal.
Requests
should be submitted by contacting us through [email protected].
If you are
aware of changes or inaccuracies in your information, you should inform us of
such changes so that our records may be updated or corrected. You may lodge a
complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that our processing of
your Personal Data infringes applicable law.
We
retain your Personal Data as
long as needed to provide
services or products to you, or as required or permitted by applicable laws,
such as tax and accounting laws.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this
Policy, please contact us at [email protected].