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Kaufcom Privacy Policy WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY If you have any privacy related concerns, please contact us at: info(at)kauf.com. Kaufcom is a company registered in Switzerland and address at this date at Ruchstuckstr. 21, 8306 Brüttisellen, Switzerland (‘’Kaufcom’’, ‘’We’’), who offers entertaining mobile applications (‘’App/s’’). This privacy statement describes how Kaufcom collects and uses the information and/or data (the terms are used interchangeably) you provide. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your information and how you can access the information. We respect your privacy and we take protecting it seriously. YOUR CONSENT With downloading of our App, you consent to this Privacy Policy. Please read carefully this Privacy Policy. By downloading and using our apps, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent with the collection, use and disclosure of your Information. By using our Apps and not choosing one of the opt-out options, you give us consent to use and transfer your data as stated below. Please Note: if you or, as applicable, your legal guardian, disagree to any term provided herein, you may not install, access and/or use the apps and you are requested to promptly erase all Kaufcom apps from your mobile device. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION In order for you to be able to use our App, we need to collect some Information. Non-personal Information We collect anonymous information by which users cannot be directly or indirectly identified (‘’Non-Personal Information’’). Non-Personal Information may include various technical information, such as information about your device, your browser type, screen resolution, device type, language, version and type of operating system, mobile phone carrier, network provider, network status, SDK version, browser cookies, API key, application version, Android or iOS Vendor, geo location (not specific enough to identify a city or town), storage size, screen size, firmware, aggregated data log files from servers, session information, levels achieved and more. Personal Information Kaufcom may collect, directly or through Third Parties, the following Personal Information: the Users e-mail address, the User’s personal identifiers, social media data, geo location data, information in connection with Users’ activities within the Apps including his/her use of the services therein, including notifications, invite data, monetization events, accomplished stages, how long he/she spent in the game, etc. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION COLLECTION Kaufcom does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13 years of age. If the company becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our files. In some games/apps we use the game engine Unity. This game engine implements an interface on Android to request a device's Android Device ID and the Advertising ID. But when Unity is passing information to its servers the data is anonymized. USAGE OF INFORMATION We use the Information we collect to show personalized ads in our Apps to finance the development and improvement of the Apps, because if we would not show personalized ads we could not generate an income to pay the costs needed to develop the apps (for example labour costs) and therefore the user could not use this App. We use the Information we collect to constantly improve our Apps and make them better for you. We use the Information to understand and optimize how our Apps are used, improve our marketing efforts, provide our content and features that are of interest to you, for statistics, analytics, research and development in order to continuously improve our apps and make them better for you. This includes correcting technical malfunctions, customization, providing better and improved content, developing new offers, measuring traffic and usage of our apps, promoting the apps and improving the user experience. SHARING OF INFORMATION Sometimes we need to disclose the Information for other lawful purposes, as customary for all App developers. We may disclose Information in the following cases: if required by law, for example to comply with a court order, subpoena, regulation, legal process or other governmental request; to exercise or protect the rights, property or personal safety of the Company, our users or others; to enforce this privacy statement, including investigation of potential violations thereof; upon fulfilling legal requirements of local legislation (for example verifiable parental consent of a legal guardian for child directed apps in the US etc.) in order to supply certain services/information third party might legally request from us to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; We may also disclose Information to let Third Parties, our partners or affiliates serve the Users of the App with advertisements as permitted under applicable laws and rules. We share collected information with third parties, including analytics providers, tracking providers, third party advertising providers and other third party service providers that support the Apps (collectively referred to as “Partners”). We may share information that can be used to personally identify your device (e.g. persistent identifiers such as IDFA, IDFV, advertising ID and IP address) for the purposes of delivering our services, displaying advertisements, conducting analysis and research and for measuring our and our Partners’s advertising campaign performance. We may share such information to: Our analytics providers: For some Apps we use third party analytics such as Flurry, Google Analytics and Firebase Analytics for the purposes of delivering our services, conducting analysis and research. To get more information about how your data is being collected and processed you can visit the site “How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps” located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ Our cloud service providers: We store information we collect from you on servers provided by our third party cloud service providers such as Amazon AWS. Our tracking and fraud prevention providers: for some of our Apps we use third party services for tracking of our advertising campaigns and fraud prevention purposes. Third party advertising partners: We have contracted with certain third party advertising networks that assist us in delivering advertising to you that allows us to continue offering the Apps for free or at low cost. Advertising partner’s third party tracking provider: For some Apps we may allow our advertising partners to track impressions, clicks, installs or other advertising campaign performance indicators through their tracking providers for the purposes of measuring their advertising campaign performance. Other third party service providers: For some Apps we use Unity Software to develop such Apps. For the data processing by Unity please see Unity’s privacy policy available at https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy. And we may also disclose Information with data aggregators and service providers as part of an analysis of player metrics or sales performance. OPT-OUT You are always free to opt-out from the future collection of your personal information by Kaufcom in accordance with this Privacy Policy by uninstalling all the Applications from each of your computing devices and discontinuing use our Services. You have an option to opt out from sharing your information and data for the purposes of interest-based advertising. You can opt out by choosing one of the following options: a) Via third party IBA provider: InMobi http://www.inmobi.com/page/opt-out/ Google (Adx) https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/mobile-about.html Google (AdMob) https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/mobile-about.html Vungle https://vungle.com/opt-out/ AdColony https://www.adcolony.com/privacy-policy/#targetingchoices Apple (Search Ads) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074 Google (Ad Words) https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en b) Via "Do Not Track Settings" in mobile phone: Turn on "Limit Ad Tracking" on your iOS device or "Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads" on your Android device. c) If you would like more information or to know your choices about not having information used by ad networks, click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. STORING OF INFORMATION AND DELETION We store your Information for as long as needed to provide you with our services. We may store Information longer, but only in a way that it cannot be tracked back to you. When Information is no longer needed, we shall delete it using reasonable measures to protect the Information from unauthorized access or use. EU Territory: We store Personal Information as long as it is needed for the provision of our services. Traffic information is erased or made anonymous when it is no longer needed for the purpose of the transmission or, in the case of payable services, up to the end of the period during which the bill may lawfully be challenged or payment pursued. Location information is stored to the extent and for the duration necessary for the provision of a value-added service. Cookies, direct marketing and provision of value-added services information (including traffic information used for these purposes) is stored as long as the same is necessary for the provision of these activities, or up to the time when a user opts out from such use in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Other information is stored for as long as we consider it to be necessary for the provision of our services. This Section shall not prevent any technical storage or access to information for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication or as strictly necessary in order for us to provide the service you requested. US Territory: We will retain collected information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable legislation. Storing might be different depending on the territory of collecting the information and the applicable legislation, but we always strive to store the information only as long as it is needed for the purposes of providing, improving or personalizing our services. SECURITY Kaufcom 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 Account or any of Your Information will be protected against, loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND THIRD PARTY ADVERTS Kaufcom cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from the Games/Website, adverts in the Games/Website or from adverts on a webpage when you are playing the Game/are on the Website. Kaufcom recommends that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions. In addition, if you link to the Games from a third party site or via a social network, Kaufcom cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY Kaufcom GmbH reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changed or modified version of the Privacy Policy on the Site. Any such changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the Last Revised date above. Your continued use of Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy. CONTACT AND ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION If you have any questions, please contact us at: info(at)Kauf.com with the subject „Data Protection Officer„ or write to us at Data Protection Officer, Kaufcom GmbH, Ruchstuckstr. 21, CH-8306 Brüttisellen, Switzerland. We are committed to keep your information accurate, complete and up to date. You can request that we correct or delete the Information, provided that we are not required to retain such information by law or for legitimate business purposes. To make such request or ask us about this privacy statement please send us an email to info(at)Kauf.com or write to us to the address written above. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Last updated on June 2020 |