Privacy Policy for EEA



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EUROPE

PRIVACY POLICY FOR APPS ( COUNTRIES FROM EEA )

This is the Privacy Policy for all Applications developed and published by Luis Torres and / or Mania Cool Productions.

Most of our apps are ad-free. The first part of our privacy policy includes an explanation of how we handle advertisements.

(Last update October 7 2021)

IN CASE YOUR APPS INCLUDE INTEREST-BASED ADS ...

If your app is ad-free, you can skip this section.

Before sharing any information with

advertising partners for the purposes of interest-based advertising, we will always ask for your consent. Based on your consent we share information we collect from you that can be used to personally identify your device, e.g. persistent identifiers such as advertising ID, IDFA, IP address and other information that may be personal to you, such as age and gender with our advertising partners and they can use such data for interest-based advertising. For example they can show you an ad based on your age and gender, they may attach the information gathered from our App to information gathered from other apps, websites, or via other services, and then build profiles, show you an ad based on such profile (for example they might know that device with your advertising ID has clicked on a sports ad within other publisher`s app and show to you a sports ad in our App). In addition, we may use and share such information with our advertising partners to target and optimize our advertising and promotions in our and other publisher`s apps.

We allow our advertising partners to show interest-based ads to you only if you have passed the age gate in our Apps and you have consented to the sharing of your personal information for the purposes of interest-based advertising.

Our advertising partners use different technologies for the purposes of interest-based advertising that process your personal information in different ways, so please review their data processing practices before you provide your consent to sharing your persistent identifiers such as advertising ID, IDFA, IP address and other information that may be personal to you for the purpose of interest-based advertising.

WHO CAN SHOW INTEREST-BASED ADS TO ME?

Please see the following list of advertising providers that are allowed to show interest-based advertising and review their data processing practices, including the technologies they use for the purposes of interest-based advertising:

HOW CAN I TURN OFF INTEREST-BASED ADS?

You have an option to withdraw your consent to sharing your personal information for the purposes of interest-based advertising at all times. You can withdraw your consent by going to the app settings and clicking the interest-based ads button where you can manage your preferences by choosing to which advertising partner you allow to share your personal information for the purposes of interest-based advertising.

When you decide to withdraw your consent or if you do not provide your consent, you may still see the same number of ads on your mobile device; however, these ads may be less relevant because they won`t be based on topics you like, your interest, behavior, demographics, etc. Our advertising partners may continue to show you ads based on the content of the application you are using.

ABOUT US AND THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is very important for us and we will always use your personal information only for the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy. As used in this Privacy Policy, "Mania Cool Productions", "we", "us" or "our", "ours" refers to Mania Cool Productions and all of its subsidiaries.

This Privacy Policy covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store information received about users from the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK (collectively referred to as "Europe") and/or information received about Europe users` computing devices through their use of the Apps. You can always determine your country of residence in the app settings by clicking a "Country" button and selecting your country.

We receive and/or you may be asked to provide your information (including personal information) any time you are in contact with us or use the Applications. As described in greater detail below, we share your information (including personal information) with our affiliates and with third party partners (as defined below) and use it in ways consistent with this Privacy Policy. We may also use your information (including personal information) together with other information to provide and improve products, services, content, and advertising.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

If your app is ad-free, you can skip this section.

Most of the information that we collect about you comes directly from you when you play our Apps or interact with third party ads in our Apps or with our ads in other publisher`s apps. In general, the information we collect about you relates to the type of device you are using, information that helps us identify your device, how you play our apps and may include information that you submit to us when you voluntarily contact us or which you allow us to access when you connect to your social network accounts through our Apps. We may also collect information from app store platforms and partners and other third parties such as information about your interests and in-app purchases (if we never receive your payment or credit card information).

1. Technical Information

We collect technical information about your device that is necessary for you to use our App and additional technical data that enables us to maintain and analyze the functioning of the App, to personalize the content of the App, and to display advertisements. Such information includes amongst others the type of device(s) you are using to play our Apps, persistent identifiers, such as IP address, device identifiers, ad identifiers, unique user ID specific for our Apps, and the country or region that you are playing in.

Persistent identifiers (such as IDFA, IDFV, Advertising ID, IP address) that are identifiers that do not identify you personally but may uniquely identify your device. Such online identifiers provided by end user devices, applications, tools and protocols are considered as personal information according to Europe data protection legislation. Please check the rights you have under Europe data protection legislation in Section "Your Rights".

We automatically collect certain information about your computing device, including:

  • IP address; Country or region;
  • IDFAs, IDFVs, Advertising IDs;
  • Language; Locale (specific location where a given language is spoken);
  • Time zone, session start/stop time,
  • Network status (Wi-Fi, etc.), browser plug-in types and versions;
  • User agent string (UA), platform, SDK version, timestamp;
  • All Mania Cool Productions apps installed;
  • Technical device information (e.g. device model and name, operating system name and version, CPU information, storage size, screen size, firmware, software, mobile phone carrier, Internet service provider, API key identifier for application, Android ID, Android Serial No);
  • Push notifications token (in order for us to be able to determine whether you are subscribed to push notifications);
  • Player identifier string (we collect player identifier string only upon your sign into Google Play Games Services or Apple`s Game Center).

Additionally, for playing video advertisements through a video platform provider, we may collect additional information about your device, such as:

  • "do not track" flag;
  • page URL;
  • Iso code of the country set on device;
  • device date;
  • whether Limit Ad is enabled or disabled;
  • type of device (tablet or not).

In addition, for users of Android devices we create a unique user ID and for users of iOS devices we use IDFVs to track your use of our Apps.

Older versions of our Apps may still obtain information such as UDID number and IMEI number. If you wish to prevent this, please update the App with the latest version available on App Store.

2. Advertising and Application Usage Information

When you use our Apps, we collect additional information from you by using persistent identifiers that permit identification of your device. We collect information about how you play our Apps, how you interact with our ads in other publisher`s apps and how you interact with third party ads that are shown to you in our Apps. Such information is used for delivering and improving our service, advertising, cross-promotion and analytics purposes.

We collect information, including log information, that lets us know:

  • Which advertisements are shown to you;
  • How long an advertisement is visible to you, the size of the advertisement and the angle of view;
  • How you interact with our ads in other publisher`s apps and how you interact with third party ads that are shown to you in our Apps (if any), including clicks on ads;
  • How you play our Apps (how often you play the app, for how long you use the app, the events that occur within the app, in-app progress, in-app purchases you make and their value, aggregated usage, performance data, life time value of user etc.);
  • Whether you use chat feature, and if you do, the content of messages sent using our chat system, provided that this is only used for operating the service;
  • If you connect to Third Party Social Network, information we collect from you when you connect to such Third Party Social Network as described in "Third Party Social Networks" Section.

3. Classical Personal Information

We do not collect classical personal information through our Apps (such as your name, address, email or phone number) and you can use our Apps without providing us with your classical personal information. We will receive your classical personal information (such as your name, address, email or phone number) only when you contact us directly and will use such information only to respond to your inquiry.

We may ask you to submit and we may process other non-personally identifiable information that may be personal to you such as your age range, year of birth and gender, provided that year of birth and gender information is collected solely for users who have passed the age gate in our Apps.

For the some of our Apps we collect information about the nickname you choose or the information about the name you give to your virtual pet and your rating of the Application (if any). Please do not use your real name.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

1. In General

We use the information we collect about you/your device to deliver services and our Apps to you and to operate our business. We use it also for improving our services and Apps, for enhancing security and for analytics and research purposes to make sure we provide you with the best experience. In addition, we use your information to promote our services and Apps in our apps and also in other publisher`s apps and to display third party advertisements to you. We use your information also for attribution and fraud prevention for advertising purposes and for complying with our legal obligations.

We use your information for the following purposes:

  • Delivering and improving our services: We use your information for developing, delivering and improving our Apps and other products, services, and content, tailoring our products and services, providing App updates, technical trouble shooting, understanding and analyzing trends in connection with usage of the Apps, and administering the Apps.
  • Displaying advertisements __: We use your information for showing advertisements for our Apps in other publisher`s apps and for displaying third party advertisements in our Apps. Please see more in Advertising Section of this Privacy Policy.
  • Cross-promotion: We use your information for cross promoting our Apps and services, meaning to promote one of our Apps while you are playing a different App of ours.
  • Attribution and fraud prevention for advertising purposes: We use your information for attribution how our advertising campaigns perform and for identifying and preventing fraud for our advertising campaigns. Also, we use your information for the purposes of attribution performance, ad visibility and privacy compliance of third party advertising campaigns in our Apps.
  • Analytics and research: We use your information for understanding and analyzing trends in connection with the usage of the Apps, gathering demographic information about our user base, data about where the App was downloaded from. We may also create reports and analysis for the purposes of research or business intelligence, for example to track potential problems or trends with our Apps and services, or to test our new game features and content.
  • Security: We use your information for enhancing the safety and security of our Apps, products and services.
  • Customer Support: We use your information for providing customer support to you and to respond to your inquiries.
  • Our legal obligations: We use your information when we are required to do so by law, for example we use your country or region for tax reporting purposes.

2. Game Notifications

We have two types of notifications in our Apps - local and push notifications. Local notifications are contextual and sent from the device, whereas push notifications are sent from the server. Push notifications are never sent to users who identified themselves as under 13. We use such notifications to remind you about your activities within the App. You will receive such notifications only if you are subscribed to such notifications in the App. You can always unsubscribe from push notifications, please use the instructions provided below.

  • For iOS __: You will be asked to accept or refuse push notifications after an Application is downloaded. If you do not accept, you will not receive notifications. Please note that if you accept, some mobile phones will allow you to disable notifications later by using the settings on your mobile phone. To manage notifications on your mobile phone please follow these instructions: Open your Settings menu and tap "Notifications"; Find the App; Tap on the icon of App; Manage the "Notifications" option by sliding it OFF or ON.
  • For Android and Windows __: After an App is downloaded, you will automatically receive notifications. You can manage notifications on your mobile phone by entering the "info screen" on the homepage of the App and choosing the "Settings" option. Here, notifications can be disabled by unchecking the "Notification" option within the App.

When you decide to unsubscribe from push notifications, such push notification tokens will be deleted from our database.

For the restriction on the usage of information please see `Children`s Privacy` Section of this Privacy Policy.

3. Survey

We are conducting surveys to improve our services and you may freely decide whether you would like to help us or not. We will always ask for your consent before conducting a survey.

We may use third party providers for the in-app surveys and they may place their tags within an App to collect non-personally identifiable data from the device ("Tag Data") solely for the purposes of conducting the survey, such as to collect cross device information in order to enable the deduplication of audiences across devices. These providers may use the data collected from the survey and Tag Data on anonymized and aggregated basis together with the data from other partners ("Unified Data") to publish syndicated reports on internet behavior and trends. If you wish to opt out from conducting an in-app survey, do not click on the survey button or deny answering the survey questions.

4. In-App Purchases

Our Apps enable in-app purchases. We do not process payments for in-app purchases nor have access to your credit card information.

Payment transactions for in-app purchases are completed through the app store via your app store account. Any post-purchase processes are controlled by the app store and are subject to specific terms of such app store. Please review privacy policy and terms of service of your app store.

SPECIAL PRIVACY FEATURES IN SOME OF OUR APPS

Some of our Apps offer you the option to talk to the virtual character of such Apps, but you will always be asked to give us the permission to access the microphone in advance. Such Apps do not have a function to record audio, please learn more below. Some of our Apps offer special features that enable you to interact and connect with your friends, compete with your friends and to chat with your friends. Such features collect additional information from you and share such information also with others. Learn more about such features below and please do not use these additional features if you are not comfortable with all the additional information that is collected when you use such features. Please note that we may age gate some of these features, so they are not available for use by users under the age of digital consent.

Some of our Apps offer you the option to talk to the virtual character of such Apps. All of our Apps that offer such feature will always ask you in advance for your permission to access the microphone on your device. If you decide to give us the permission, the virtual character will be able to repeat what you say to him. Please note that our Apps do not have a function to record audio, so what you say to the virtual character is not stored on our servers, it is only used by the App to repeat to you in real time. If you decide not to give us the permission to access the microphone on your device, the virtual character will not be able to repeat after you.

Some of our Apps offer you to compete and interact with your Facebook friends, but you need to login with your Facebook account. By doing so, the App will receive your public profile and the list of friends. If you do not want to share the list of friends with the App, you can uncheck the box next to the permission for sharing the list of friends in the notice that appears during the "Log in with Facebook". If you choose to login with Your Facebook account, the App will show Your public profile to your Facebook friends.

Some of our Apps can be played in a single or a multiplayer mode. In a multiplayer mode you can play matches with random players or your Facebook friends. Such Apps will ask you to choose your name. Please do not choose your real name. You can always change your name by going to "Settings" and selecting "Change Name". The name you enter and your rank will be publicly displayed when playing with random players in a multiplayer mode. To play matches with Your Facebook friends, you need to login with your Facebook account. By doing so, the App will receive your public profile and the list of friends. If you do not want to share the list of friends with the App, you can uncheck the box next to the list. However, you cannot play matches with your Facebook friends without giving the App the permission to share your public profile. If you choose to login with Your Facebook account, the application will show Your public profile when playing with your Facebook friends or random players.

Some of our Apps have in-app chat, so you may communicate with your friends who also play the same App as you. Users of our chat service can send messages to other players. Your messages are used and stored by us: (a) to convey your messages; and (b) to enable you and your recipients to view your message history (although please note that after 1 month your in-app chat messages will no longer be accessible). We reserve the right to review the content of your messages, including by using automatic filters, to ensure that you are complying with our terms of service and we also reserve the right to prevent your use of our chat service or to block the sending of any message for any reason. We will not use the content of your chat messages for any other purpose.

THIRD PARTY TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Our Apps may contain links to third party websites, products, or services. For example, the Apps may feature offers from third party advertisers or the ability to engage in transactions with such entities. Please note that while using such third party offerings, you are using sites, products, and services developed and administered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by us. We cannot control the actions of those people or companies, the content of their sites, products or services, the use of information you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Our link to such third parties does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people or companies. Nor is such linking an endorsement of such third party`s privacy or information security policies or practices or their compliance with laws. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location information or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of third parties with which you interact.

CHILDREN`S PRIVACY

We consider ourselves to be family oriented, however we have decided to voluntarily implement higher child protection standards even though our products and services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of digital consent according to Europe data protection legislation, with the sole exception of persistent identifiers as described below. If we learn that we have collected personal information other than persistent identifier of a child under the age of digital consent according to Europe data protection legislation, we will take all reasonable steps to delete the information as soon as possible. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at admin@kenzieSystems.com.

In order to preserve the family-friendly reputation of our Apps, we age-gated some of the features in our Apps, so that they are not available for use by children under the age of digital consent according to Europe data protection legislation. The age gate is being conducted after the download of some of our Apps to assure the privacy and protection of younger users of our Apps. The features enabling potential collection and sharing of personally identifiable information, with the exception of persistent identifiers, are disabled for users who did not pass the age gate. For user`s safety, it is not possible to change the age later. We do not store the year of birth of users who have identified themselves as below the age of digital consent according to Europe data protection legislation in our Apps, but only the information that their unique user ID did not pass the age gate.

The only personal information we collect from users who have identified themselves as below the age of digital consent according to Europe data protection legislation for the purposes of offering our services are persistent identifiers (such as device ID, IDFA, IDFV, advertising ID, IP address). Such persistent identifiers are used and shared with third parties only to place contextual advertisement (including frequency capping, fraud prevention and attribution and billing purposes), to authenticate users of or personalize the content on Apps, to maintain or analyze the functioning of the Apps, personalize the content of the App (such as sending push notifications), to perform network communications to protect the security or integrity of the user or the App, to ensure legal or regulatory compliance.

When using the persistent identifiers we will not contact users under the age of digital consent according to Europe data protection legislation, display behavioral advertising to them, nor do any user tracking or profiling. For the detailed information about disclosure to third parties please see section "How do we share your information" of this Privacy Policy. For the detailed information about disclosure to third party service providers used in relation to users under 13 please click here. For any additional questions about third party information disclosure please contact us to admin@kenzieSystems.com.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have certain rights in connection with your personal information and how we handle it, i.e. you have a right to obtain information about whether we hold personal information about you, to access personal information we hold about you, to obtain the correction, update, amendment or deletion of your personal information and to turn to supervisory authority. Some of these rights may be subject to some exceptions or limitations. You can exercise these rights at any time by sending your requests regarding your personal information to admin@kenzieSystems.com.

_Your rights include:

  • Right to object. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information that is processed on the grounds of legitimate interests (see Legal Bases below). You are always free to opt out from the future collection of your personal information by us and our Partners by uninstalling all the Apps from each of your computing devices.
  • Right of access. You have a right to know what information we hold about you and in some cases to have the information communicated to you. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us by letting us know that you wish to exercise your right of access and what information in particular you would like to receive. We reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we provide you with any information. Please note that we may not be able to provide all the information you ask for, for instance if the information includes personal information about another person. Where we are not able to provide you with information that you have asked for, we will explain to you why. We will try to respond to any request for a right of access as soon as possible, but we will always do so within 1 month of receipt of your request and verification of your identity.
  • Right to correct personal information. We try to keep the information that we hold about you accurate and up to date. Should you realize that any of the information that we hold about you is incorrect, please contact us via admin@kenzieSystems.comand we will correct it as soon as we can.
  • Data deletion. You have a right to request deletion of the personal information that we hold about you. Should you wish to do that, please contact us via admin@kenzieSystems.com. We reserve the right to ask to provide us additional information to verify your identity before we can start processing your request. Once we receive all information we need in order to be able to identify you, we will delete your personal information you requested us to delete as soon as possible, but we will always do so within 1 month of receipt of your request and verification of your identity. Please note that we may still retain some or all of that information, for example for complying with our legal obligations and protecting or enforcing legal rights. We may also retain your information in an anonymized form. In some instances, personal information about you that is visible through gameplay such as username, avatar, your high scores and any chat messages may be cached on other players` devices and we may not be able to remove or update that data from those devices, for example if that device is not connected to a Wi-Fi network.
  • Data portability. In some circumstances, you have the right to request that we provide you with the personal information which you have provided to us, so you can transfer this information to another data controller. Should you wish to do that, please contact us via admin@kenzieSystems.com.
  • Restriction of processing. In some cases, you may have the right to request a restriction of the processing of your personal information.
  • Right to file a complaint. You have the right to file a complaint against us. To do so, contact the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

GENERAL

Your privacy and security of your information is important to us and we always pay special attention to ensure that we process your information lawfully in accordance with one of the legal bases set out under Europe data protection laws that apply to Europe users. Please check https://kenzieSystems.com/Privacy_Policy regularly for changes to our Privacy Policy.

LEGAL BASES

In each case where we process your information, we do so lawfully in accordance with one of the legal bases set out under Europe data protection law.

_The legal bases that we rely upon are the following:

  • Contractual Necessity. This covers information that is processed by us in order to provide you with service that you have requested - and that we have agreed - to provide to you, that is to deliver and improve our services, to provide customer support, to deliver special features in our Apps (such as in-app chat feature, multi-player feature, leaderboards and other third party social network features), to deliver content of the in-app purchase you make.
  • Legitimate Interests. This covers information that is processed by us for the purposes that can be reasonably expected within the context of your use of our services to pursue our legitimate interests in order to ensure you have the best experience when playing our apps, to make sure your information is secure and to provide to you our Apps free of charge or at a low cost. We pay special attention to your data protection rights making sure that your data protection rights are not overridden by our legitimate interests. We rely on our legitimate interests for data processing for analytics, attribution and fraud prevention, push-notifications, cross-promotion, and contextual advertising purposes.
  • Consent. Where we ask for your consent to use your data for a particular purpose, we will make this clear at the point of collection and we will also make clear how you can withdraw your consent. We will ask for you consent before sharing any information with our advertising partners for the purposes of interest-based advertising and before conducting any surveys.
  • Legal Obligation. This covers information that is processed by us to comply with a legal obligation, for instance is to maintain records for tax purposes.

SECURITY

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of the collected information, and to prevent unauthorized access and the use of information contrary to this Privacy Policy. Although we use commercially reasonable efforts to assure that your information remains secure when maintained by us, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER

We operate globally, so we need to transfer your personal information to our affiliated entities and/or to other third party service providers across boarder and from your country to other countries around the world. Please note, that not all these countries have the same data protection laws as your own country, but we will always take appropriate steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information.

We will transfer your personal information only when the transfer is based on one of the following safeguards:

  • To a country with adequate data protection. We will transfer your personal information outside Europe to a country that ensures an adequate level of protection in accordance with Europe data protection legislation.
  • Based on standard contractual clauses. We will transfer your personal information to our Partner outside EEA, if we have entered into standard contractual clauses with such Partner, that are adopted by Commission of European Union in accordance with Europe data protection legislation and are deemed to offer sufficient safeguards with respect to the protection of the privacy and fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals (you can obtain a copy of the clauses by contacting us via admin@kenzieSystems.com ).
  • Based on an approved certification mechanism. We will transfer your personal information to our Partner outside Europe if our Partner is certified by an approved certification mechanism pursuant to Europe data protection legislation. For instance, to our partner that is certified to comply with the principles for data protection under the US-EU Privacy Shield Framework ("Privacy Shield") (you can view the entities certified under Privacy Shield at www.privacyshield.gov).

RETENTION

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. We delete the information as soon as we do not need it for the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy and in any event no later than five (5) years after your interaction with all our Apps has ceased.

When required by law, we will retain your information for as long as we are legally obligated to do so. If you request us to delete your data will delete your data as described above in "Your Rights" Section.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to protect our users, furnish current information, and respond to legal and technical changes. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our use of your information and will be available at https://kenzieSystems.com/Privacy_Policy.

For previous versions of this Privacy Policy please contact us via admin@kenzieSystems.com.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or concerns about Mania Cool Productions`s Privacy Policy, please contact us through one of the following ways:

  1. for privacy questions and exercising your rights via our privacy email: admin@kenzieSystems.com;
  2. for general information please feel free to contact us via our customer service page: https://kenzieSystems.com/About_Us.

Mania Cool Productions EUROPE PRIVACY POLICY FOR APPS, v. 3, updated October 7 2021