Privacy Policy – GameTrends Studios

Privacy Policy – GameTrends Studios
Kids Apps Privacy Policy
This Kids Apps Privacy Policy is appointed to provide the legal guardian of a child under the age of 13 with guidance regarding our privacy policies that concern collecting, using and disclosing personal information of children under 13.
Parents and legal guardians of children under 13 have certain rights under Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA, http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm), and GameTrends Studios recognizes those rights.
GameTrends Studios does not knowingly and directly collect and store on its servers any personal information from children under the age 13 as that would be a violation of COPPA. Some information may be collected by third party providers of services (advertising networks, etc.) or certain products.
Advertising
GameTrends Studios accepts advertisements from third parties ad networks. These advertisements may be displayed in our Kids Apps. We select ad networks attentively to maintain compliance with applicable privacy laws, and we confirm with each of these ad networks that they are compliant with the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).
Advertisers may use cookies and other web-tracking technologies to collect non-personal information and/or personally identifiable information, in case the user clicks on any of these advertisements. Furthermore, GameTrends Studios may advertise other GameTrends Studios Kids Apps within the Kids Apps.
Other Apps Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is appointed to provide you with guidance regarding our privacy policies with respect to collecting, using and disclosing personal information regarding users.
Collection and use of data
•    Non-personal information
We use third party services to collect non-identifiable and anonymous information. GameTrends Studios and third parties are not aware of our users’ identity as only the below stated non-personal information is collected: technical information, behavioral information, statistical information and aggregate data.Non-personal information is browser identifiers, language, device type, network provider, version and type of operation system, type of browser, session information, screen resolution, SDK version, browser cookies, API key, levels achieved, in-app purchases, application version, Android or iOS Vendor, network status, Flash version, clicks on advertisements, information about the advertisements reviewed by the user, the activities of the user in our apps, what tools in these apps the user uses, a user’s interaction with the service and user’s behavior on the service.Non-personal information is gathered by third party services while you access the service. Analytical third party services are aware of your usage of the service, and may collect the information relating to such usage. Purpose of collecting non-personal information is to use it for statistics, analyticity, research, development, improvement and customization of our applications, as well as for providing better and improved content, developing new offers, measuring traffic and usage on our apps, promoting our apps and improving the user experience.

•    Personal information
Individually identifiable information may identify an individual and may be of a private nature. GameTrends Studios may collect some of these personal information: user’s personal identifiers, user’s e-mail address, geo-location data. GameTrends Studios does not collect any personal information from you without your approval, which is acquired through your acceptance of the Privacy Policy.Personal information may also be stored on the users’ device through generally accepted industry technologies used within GameTrends Studios Apps (cookies, local storage).Purpose of collecting personal information is to improve the user experience and our apps, permit certain ad serving features (frequency capping), supply the users with personalized information and content (customized and interest-based ads), permit certain functionalities available within the apps (in-app purchases), permit the user to use the Game Center Features, the Social Features and the features which are available while using the “Log in with Facebook” feature, and send push notifications to the user’s device after the user has agreed to accept push notifications from GameTrends Studios . Users can deactivate push notifications by changing the notification settings in accordance with the instructions of the operating system running on the users’ device.
Sharing information
We will share your (personal) information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. We may disclose your personal information only 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;
pursuant to your explicit approval prior to the disclosure;
to collect, hold or manage your personal information through our authorized third parties service providers, as reasonable for business purposes, which may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as the user’s jurisdiction;
to let our partners and affiliates serve you with advertisements;
to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;
to respond to claims that any content published on the GameTrends Studios Apps violates any right of a third party;
If GameTrends Studios is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified of any change in ownership or uses of your information via our website.
Advertising
GameTrends Studios accepts advertisements (banners, interstitials.) from third parties ad networks. These advertisements may be displayed in our apps. Advertisers may use cookies and other web-tracking technologies to collect data in case the user clicks on any of these advertisements.
Advertisers collect data regarding advertisement performance, user’s interaction with ads, our apps and user’s interests. Collected data may include user’s non-personal and personal information (unique identifiers, network and device information, age, gender and geo-location) in order to serve you ads and for the third parties’ legitimate business interests. We use this aggregated information to understand and optimize how our applications are used, improve our marketing efforts, and provide content and features that are of interest to you. The use of information by third parties is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access to or control over this information. Furthermore, GameTrends Studios may advertise other GameTrends Studios Apps within its apps.
Some of the third parties services usually used by GameTrends Studios
Third party advertising solutions providers:
We show third party advertisements (Admob & Chartboost) within our apps. These ads and services are not under the control of GameTrends Studios who is therefore not responsible for the availability or content of such external sites or services.
Game Center feature and interaction with third party social networks or platforms:
GameTrends Studios may allow for social integration with certain third party social networks or platforms (Apple Game Center, Google Play Games and Game Center, Amazon GameCircle, Facebook, Twitter etc.). If you use an app in connection to a social networking site, GameTrends Studios cannot control it. If you enable this integration with such social networks and platforms, your use of the Game Center Feature is subject to the applicable third party social networks or platform’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies.
You should read third party services’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policies to understand how they treat your information.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards and internal procedures to protect personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. If you have any questions about security of our mobile applications, you can contact us.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our information practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Use of information – purpose and legal basis
We use information about you for the following purposes in accordance with the legal bases for each type of personal data as described below:
Age
-is being processed:
a.to identify whether you are a child or adult for data protection purposes to determine the legal requirements for our processing of your data.

Our processing for the above purpose is necessary for compliance purposes, see Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR.
Log-, device-, usage-, and consumption information
-are being processed:
b.to provide and deliver the products and services you request and send you related information as requested by you / as agreed with you;
c.to provide and maintain the App and the game experience; and

d.to send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;

Our processing for the above purposes is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party in order to support the operation of the App, facilitate the delivery of requested products and services and enable maintenance and update of the App, see Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR.
e.to provide news and information about the App that we think will be of interest to you;

f.to personalize and improve the App and provide tailored content and features;

g.to monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with the App; and

h.to provide children (as this term is construed under GDPR in EU, COPPA in the US and relevant applicable legislation in other jurisdictions) with reasonable contextual advertisements in the App.

Our processing for the above purposes is justified by our legitimate interests in providing advertisements and content of interest to you and improving our services in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (also known as "the balancing-of-interest rule").
i.to provide non-child users that have given us consent to share their advertising IDs with our ad network partners (as further specified under Sharing of Information) for the purpose of serving them with personalized advertisement in the App (behavioral advertising).

Our processing for the above purpose is justified by our legitimate interests in providing advertisements and content of interest to you in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The disclosure of your advertising ID to third parties for the purposes of behavioral advertising is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR (see more below under Sharing of Information).
Information from other sources
-are being processed:

j.to provide and deliver the products and services you request and send you related information;
Our processing for the above purpose is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party in order to facilitate the delivery of requested products and services, see Section 6(1)(b) of the GDPR.
Sharing of information
We disclose information about you to the following categories of recipients based on the legal bases in Sections 6(1)(b), 6(1)(c) and 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (see a description of the legal bases above):
Furthermore, if you have given your consent in accordance with Section 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, we share your advertising ID to advertising network companies for the purpose of them serving behavioral advertisements to you within the App. We use or may use the advertising network companies.
k.to link or combine information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service; and
l.to provide news and information about the App we think will be of interest to you;
Our processing for the above purposes is justified by our legitimate interests in providing content of interest to you and improving our services in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

We only process your information to the extent that is necessary to achieve the purposes for which the information has been collected.
Your rights
If you wish to use any of the rights described below, you may contact us at any time by emailing us.e process and answer your requests without undue delay and in any event within one month of our receipt of the request unless a longer period is required due to the complexity of the request. In this case, our response time can be up to three months in total as permitted by Article 12 of the GDPR.
Right to request access
You have the right to request access into the data that we are processing on you, see
Article 15 of the GDPR, including information about:

•  the purposes of the processing


Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at mdmt2020@gmail.com