What personal information does Deer Cat collect and why?

The personal information that we may collect about you through the Services broadly falls into the following categories: when you play one of our games or visit our website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. Also you may send us personal information voluntarily, for example when you email us for support.

Information that we collect automatically in our Games

We automatically collect certain types of information whenever you interact with our games, or via a 3rd party analytics partner such as Unity. This information is stored in our partner’s servers, and is visible to us in anonymous, aggregated or pseudonymized form which does not focus on you individually.

Specifically, this may include information like your device type, unique device identification numbers, broad geographic location (e.g. country derived from IP address) and technical information such as crash reporting. In addition, we may collect information about your interactions with our Games, such as how long you play for, or whether you’ve encountered any technical glitches.

This type of anonymized data enables us to figure out how players use our Games, so we can make improvements to our Games over time, such as fixing bugs or identifying areas which players find too difficult.

In addition, in some of our free to play games we also partner with mobile advertising networks, such as Mopub. Each of these companies collect some pseudonymized usage data from players, such as whether or not a player finishes watching an ad all the way through, or whether or not a user clicks on an ad.

COPPA / Children’s privacy

Our products respect the privacy of children. We comply with the guidelines set forth in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
In the event that a user identifies himself/herself as a child under the age of 13 through a support request or feedback, we will not collect, store or use and will delete in a secure manner any personal information of such a user.
COPPA Website: http://www.coppa.org

Deer Cat team has adopted this privacy policy (Privacy Policy) to explain how Deer Cat collects, stores, and uses the information collected in connection with Deer Cat’s Services.
BY INSTALLING, USING, REGISTERING TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND GIVE AN EXPLICIT AND INFORMED CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL, USE, REGISTER TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESS THE SERVICES. Deer Cat reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at reasonable times, so please review it frequently. If we make material or significant changes to this Privacy Policy, we may post a notice on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy.

Personal Data

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal data” means personally identifiable information that specifically identifies you as an individual.
Personal information collected by Deer Cat is information voluntarily provided to us by you when you create your account or change your account information. The information includes your facebook id, name, gender, location and your friends’id on facebook. Deer Cat also stores your game checkins, likes, dislikes, recommendations and messages.
Deer Cat may use collected personal data for purposes of analyzing usage of the Services, providing customer and technical support, managing and providing Services (including managing advertisement serving) and to further develop the Services and other Deer Cat services and products. Deer Cat may combine non-personal data with personal data.
Please note that certain features of the Services may be able to connect to your social networking sites to obtain additional information about you. In such cases, Deer Cat may be able to collect certain information from your social networking profile when your social networking site permits it, and when you consent to allow your social networking site to make that information available to Deer Cat. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, profile picture, gender, user ID, email address, your country, your language, your time zone, the organizations and links on your profile page, the names and profile pictures of your social networking site friends and other information you have included in your social networking site profile. Deer Cat may associate and/or combine as well as use information collected by Deer Cat and/or obtained through such social networking sites in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Data

Deer Cat collects and processes personal data on a voluntary basis and it is not in the business of selling your personal data to third parties. Personal data may, however, occasionally be disclosed in accordance with applicable legislation and this Privacy Policy. Additionally, Deer Cat may disclose personal data to its parent companies and its subsidiaries in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Deer Cat may hire agents and contractors to collect and process personal data on Deer Cat’s behalf and in such cases such agents and contractors will be instructed to comply with our Privacy Policy and to use personal data only for the purposes for which the third party has been engaged by Deer Cat. These agents and contractors may not use your personal data for their own marketing purposes. Deer Cat may use third party service providers such as credit card processors, e-mail service providers, shipping agents, data analyzers and business intelligence providers. Deer Cat has the right to share your personal data as necessary for the aforementioned third parties to provide their services for Deer Cat. Deer Cat is not liable for the acts and omissions of these third parties, except as provided by mandatory law.
Deer Cat may disclose your personal data to third parties as required by law enforcement or other government officials in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose you or Deer Cat to legal liability. Deer Cat may also disclose your personal data to third parties when Deer Cat has a reason to believe that a disclosure is necessary to address potential or actual injury or interference with Deer Cat’s rights, property, operations, users or others who may be harmed or may suffer loss or damage, or Deer Cat believes that such disclosure is necessary to protect Deer Cat’s rights, combat fraud and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on Deer Cat. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Deer Cat will make reasonable efforts to notify you of such disclosure through Deer Cat’s website or in another reasonable manner.

Service Providers

Our games sometimes use third party services that may collect information used to identify you. Links to privacy policy of third party service providers used by our games:

• Google Play Services
• Facebook
• Unity
• GameAnalytics

Safeguards

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Other

Please be aware of the open nature of certain social networking and other open features of the Services Deer Cat may make available to you. You may choose to disclose data about yourself in the course of contributing user generated content to the Services. Any data that you disclose in any of these forums, blogs, chats or the like is public information, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality. Deer Cat is not responsible for any personal data you choose to make public in any of these forums.
If you are under 15 years of age or a minor in your country of residence, please ask your legal guardian’s permission to use or access the Services. Deer Cat takes children’s privacy seriously, and encourages parents and/or guardians to play an active role in their children’s online experience at all times. Deer Cat does not knowingly collect any personal information from children below the aforementioned age and if Deer Cat learns that Deer Cat has inadvertently gathered personal data from children under the aforementioned age, Deer Cat will take reasonable measures to promptly erase such personal data from Deer Cat’s records.
Deer Cat may store and/or transfer your personal data to its affiliates and partners in and outside of EU/EEA member states and the United States in accordance with mandatory legislation and this Privacy Policy. Deer Cat may disclose your personal data to third parties in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of Deer Cat’s stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process provided, however, that this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern such personal data.
Deer Cat regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. If Deer Cat receives a formal written complaint from you, it is Deer Cat’s policy to attempt to contact you directly to address any of your concerns. Deer Cat will cooperate with the appropriate governmental authorities, including data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the collection, use, transfer or disclosure of personal data that cannot be amicably resolved between you and Deer Cat.

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