Game of Whales Privacy Policy

Game of Whales Ltd. (“Game of Whales”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respects the privacy of the Developers of its Services and/or its Site (the “Developer” or you”) and is fully committed to protect the personal information that the Developer share with it in connection with the use of the Site and/or Service.

This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to describe our practices regarding the information we may collect from you and your End Users when you use the Service (or any part thereof), the manners in which we may use such information, and the options and rights available to you.

Capitalized terms which are not defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Game of Whales SDK Terms and Conditions, to which this Privacy Policy is attached.

Developer’s Consent (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!)

BY ENTERING INTO THE GAME OF WHALES SDK TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND/OR USING THE SERVICE AND/OR BY OPENING AN ACCOUNT AND/OR BY INSTALLING THE GAME OF WHALES SDK, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DISAGREE TO ANY TERM PROVIDED HEREIN, PLEASE DO NOT ENTER INTO THE GAME OF WHALES SDK TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR INSTALL, ACCESS, OR USE THE GAME OF WHALES SDK, SERVICE AND/OR THE SITE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, AND PROMPTLY ERASE, REMOVE AND UNINSTALL THE SERVICES (INCLUDING THE GAME OF WHALES SDK) AND ANY PART THEREOF FROM YOUR SYSTEMS.

Please note: you are not obligated by law to provide us with any Personal Information. You hereby acknowledge and agree that you are providing us with Personal Information at your own free will, for the purposes described in Section 3 below, and that we may retain such Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any applicable laws and regulations.

1. Which information we may collect?

We may collect two types of data and information from you and your End Users:

Non-personal Information, which is un-identified and non-identifiable information, without particular reference to the identity of the End User from which such information was collected;

Personal Information, which is individually, identifiable information that identifies an individual, or may with reasonable effort identify an individual, either alone or in combination with other information, or may be of private or sensitive nature.

For the avoidance of doubt, any Non-personal Information connected or linked to any Personal Information shall be deemed as Personal Information as long as such connection or linkage exists.

Personal and Non-personal Information which is being gathered on the Developer in connection with the Site and/or Service may consist of the following:

Developers who are interested in opening an Account in order to use our Services should provide a username and password and other details via the registration form of the Site (namely, name of company, company registration number, company address, authorized signatory name and title, e-mail, phone number, list of mobile applications to be used for the Service). In addition, we may collect Personal Information in order to charge the Developer for our Services. This information may include a credit card number and other billing information (see Section 7.2 of the Terms regarding the payment method).

Customers who are only visiting the Site do not need to provide any Personal Information.

In the event that a Customer subscribes for newsletters via the Site, such Customer will be required to provide its e-mail address.

We do not collect any Personal Information from you or related to you without your approval, which is obtained, inter alia, through your active acceptance to the Terms and the Privacy Policy.

As part of the operation of our Service you may provide us with non-personal information about your End-User’s use of your mobile application (the “End-User Data”), which consists of technical information and aggregated usage information, and may contain, among other things: (i) the End- User’s type and version of operation system or platform; (ii) data regarding the opening of the mobile application by the End User’s (iii) the End User’s usage length and duration; (iv) the End-User’s phone device model; (v) the End-User’s usage frequency; (vi) the End-User pre-defined events in the your mobile application; (vi) the End User’s time stamp; (viii) (x) the End-User’s in-app purchases; (ix) End User’s Advertiser ID (an identification tool provided by Apple and Google); and (x) any other actions the End-User performed during his/her use of your mobile application and cross application activities of the End User.

Our Services and the Game of Whales SDK will not collect any information about other programs that the End-Users are running on their mobile phone/computer.  The Game of Whales SDK does not track the End-User's activity across applications that do not use the Services, and will not collect any passwords entered into the End-User's mobile phone/computer.

 

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2. How Do We Collect Information?

There are three main methods we use to collect information:

We collect Non-personal Information through your use of the Site and/or Service. In other words, when you are using the Site and/or Service we are aware of it and may gather, collect and record certain information on you relating to such usage.

We collect Personal Information on Developers which you provide us voluntarily  when you register to our Service via our Site and open an Account by completing the registration form. We store the Personal Information either independently or through the help of our authorized third-party service providers as detailed below.

We collect Non-personal Information on your End User’s automatically by the Game of Whales SDK from the activities and usage of the End User while using your mobile application.

3. What are the Purposes of the Collection of Information?

We collect Non-personal and Personal Information in order to provide, operate and improve the Site and the Services, including for statistical, analytics, segmentation, interactions with the end- users, research purposes, and other business and commercial purposes; to enable us to further develop, customize and improve the Site and/or Service based on common preferences, uses, attributes, functionality and feature choices; to create and provide our research and business partners with data and other aggregated, statistical and/or inferred Information; to enable us to provide our Developers with a better user experience, suggestions with more relevant and accurate information, services, features and functionality, and with technical assistance and support; and in order to abide by any applicable law.

In addition to the above purposes, we will use the End-User Data also for the following purposes: (1) to store and process End-User Data for the preparation and delivery of our Services, including compiled analytics Reports; (2) to provide Developers with analysis and statistical reports regarding End Users’ application habits and preferences;. We reserve the right to retain the End- User Data we process for as long as permitted by applicable law and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

4. Sharing Information with Third Parties

We may share any Personal Information we collect with a third party under the following cases: (a) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (b) to enforce this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (d) to respond to Developer’s support requests; (e) respond to claims that any content available on the Site violates the rights of third-parties; (f) to respond to claims that contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.) of a third-party had been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; (g) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Game of Whales, its Developers, or the general public; (h) when Game of Whales is undergoing any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of all or substantially all of its assets; (i) to collect, hold and/or manage your Personal Information through its authorized third party service providers (for example, its hosting service provider, or authorized resellers), as reasonable for business purposes, which may be located in countries outside Israel, including but not limited to the United States of America, and/or any country that does not have the same data protection laws as your or your End Users jurisdiction; (j) to enable payment through certain online payment method (see Section 7.2 of the Terms); (k) to provide our Services to our Developers and for other business purposes; or (l) pursuant to your explicit approval prior to the disclosure.

For avoidance of doubt, we may transfer and disclose to third parties or otherwise use Non- personal Information at its own discretion.

5. Privacy of End-User Data

As further detailed herein and in the Terms, we have no direct relationship with the individual End-Users. Therefore, it is your responsibility to obtain the necessary consents and permissions from the End-Users of your mobile application, including without limitation through your privacy policy, to permit us and our Representatives to access, collect, store, process and use End User Data in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

In addition, an End-User who seeks to correct, amend inaccurate End-User Data or withdraw consent for further use of its End-User Data, the End User may reset his Advertiser ID and/or the entire history associated with such End User’s Advertiser ID or change its Do Not Track Settings on its mobile device. In addition, the End User may direct its query to the applicable Developer with whom he/she has a direct contact. If you request us to remove such data we will respect your privacy choices and make reasonable efforts to do so, per section 6 below. To learn how to opt-out through changing your Do Not Track Settings, click on the following links:

For android: http://www.tomsguide.com/faq/id-2330002/opt-google-ads-android.html

For iPhone:  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074

 

6. Modification or Deletion of Personal Information

If for any reason you wish to modify your Personal Information you can do so yourself on the Service via your Account or send us an email to: dataupdates@gameofwhales.com If for any reason you wish to delete your or any End-User’s Data you can send us an email to remove@gameofwhales.com We will make reasonable efforts to modify or delete any such Personal Information pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.

Note that unless you instruct us otherwise we may retain your Personal Information and your End Users’ Data for a period for as long as reasonably needed to provide the Service and/or as legally required.

7. Security

We take a great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Site, the Service and the Developer’s and it’s End Users’ data. The Personal Information is hosted on third party hosting services, including without limitation, Amazon Web Services (USA), Hetzner (Germany) and Leasweb (NL) and others which provides advanced security features. Game of Whales employs industry standard procedures to ensure the safety of it’s the Personal Information, and prevent unauthorized use of any such information (such as Firewall). However, we do not and cannot guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur.

8. Third Party Software/Service

While providing the Site and/or Service we may be using third party software and/or services, in order to collect, store and/or process the information detailed herein, including payment information. Such software/services include without limitation, Google Amazon Web Services, which privacy policy can be found at: http://aws.amazon.com/privacy/; Google In-App Billing (http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/index.html) and iOS Store Kit. Please be advised that such Third Party Services are independent from Game of Whales, and if you click on any of the links to the Third Party Services, these Third Party Services may use cookies and other web-tracking technologies to collect non-personal and/or personal information about you. We assume no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to privacy matters or any other legal matter with respect to such services. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies and the terms of use or service of such third parties, as their terms, not ours, will apply to any of your interactions with such third parties.

9. Direct Marketing and Advertising

You hereby agree Game of Whales may use your contact details for the purpose of informing you of our events, products and services offered by us and to send you newsletters or marketing materials. You may withdraw your consent via sending a written notice to Game of Whales by email to the following address: nopromo@gameofwhales.com or by opting out by clicking “unsubscribe”. We may send the End User notifications and advertisements regarding the mobile application, other mobile applications and third party advertisements. We may use third party advertising networks to present and serve advertisements to the End Users through their use of your mobile applications. These third party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons, clear gifts or similar technologies to help present such advertisements and the use of these technologies by such third party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Game of Whales reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and at its sole discretion so please re-visit this page frequently. We will provide notice of substantial changes of this Privacy Policy on the Site, the Services and/or by sending you an e-mail to the e-mail address that you provided us. Such substantial changes will take effect seven (7) days after such notice was provided on any of the above mentioned methods. Otherwise, all other changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” date, and your continued use of the Services after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.

11. Have any Questions?

If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Privacy Policy, you are welcome to send us an e-mail at: contactus@gameofwhales.com and we will make an effort to reply within a reasonable timeframe.