Privacy policy
Encore Games and its affiliates (ÒEncore
GamesÓ, ÒusÓ, ÒourÓ or ÒweÓ) are dedicated to protecting the privacy rights of
our users (ÒusersÓ or ÒyouÓ). This Privacy Policy (the ÒPolicyÓ) describes the
ways we collect, store, use, and manage the information, including personal
information, that you provide or we collect in connection with our websites,
including www.encoregames.fi (the ÒSitesÓ) or any Encore Games game provided on
a mobile platform (for example, iOS and Android)
(collectively, the ÒServiceÓ). Please note that the scope of this Policy is
limited to information collected or received by Encore Games through your use
of the Service. Encore Games is not responsible for the actions of third party
people or companies, the content of their sites, the use of information you
provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those
sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people
or companies.
By using the Service, you are expressing your
agreement to this Policy and the processing of your data, including your
personal information, in the manner provided in this Policy. If you do not
agree to these terms, please do not use the Service.
Information Collection and Use
Encore Games collects information as described
below. Encore GamesÕ primary goals in collecting and using information is to
create your account, provide Services to you, improve our Service, contact you,
conduct research and create reports for internal use. We store information on
servers located in the United States via Amazon Web Services and may store
information on servers and equipment in other countries.
Encore Games Sites
While you are browsing Encore Games Sites,
your computerÕs operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times,
browser type and language and referring Web site addresses may be logged
automatically. We may use this information to monitor and analyze your use of
the Service. In addition, we may ask you to submit and we may process data that
is personal to you, including but not limited to your name, profile photo,
gender, age or birthday, links to your profiles on social networking websites
and other third party sites, user names and e-mail and mail addresses. We may
use this information to create a user profile. We may use your email address to
contact you about your experience with Encore Games Sites and notify you about
company news and promotions. Your gender and birthday may be used to analyze
user trends and target certain promotions. Your mail address may be used if we
have merchandise or other physical promotional materials that we want to send
to you.
Forums
Encore Games may at times offer you the
ability to post content to a blog, message board, chat room or within Encore
GamesÕ applications or other forums such as Encore GamesÕ Facebook page (ÒForumsÓ).
You should be aware that any visitor to the Forums may
read your postings on the Forums. Furthermore, any information that you may
post to a Forum, including your username or other account profile information,
will be disclosed and available to all users and viewers of that Forum, and
will therefore no longer be private. Encore Games cannot guarantee the security
of such information that is disclosed or communicated online in public areas
such as the Forums, and you provide such information at your own risk. Encore
Games does not author, edit, endorse, or monitor any Forum. You acknowledge and
agree that Encore Games has no responsibility for the accuracy or availability
of information provided on any Forum. Encore Games reserves the right at any
time, in its sole discretion, to remove any content that a user may post on any
Forum and restrict their access to any Forum.
iOS and Android Platforms
When you use any of the Encore Games games or applications on a mobile platform, we may collect
and record certain information such as your unique device ID (persistent /
non-persistent), hardware type, media access control (ÒMACÓ) address,
international mobile equipment identity (ÒIMEIÓ), the version of your operating
system (ÒOSÓ), your device name, your email address (if you have connected to
Facebook or Google+), and your location (based on your Internet Protocol (ÒIPÓ)
address). This information is useful to us for troubleshooting and helps us
understand usage trends.
In addition, we create a unique user ID to
track your use of our Service. This unique user ID is stored in connection with
your profile information to track the Encore GamesÕ games you are playing.
Facebook Connect, Game Center and Google+
You may connect your Encore Games user account
to your Facebook account, Google+ account or to AppleÕs Game Center (ÒSN
ServiceÓ). We may collect and record information through the SN Service in
accordance with the policies and terms of that SN Service. The information we
collect when you connect your user account to an SN Service may include: (1)
your name, (2) your SN Service user identification number and/or user name, (3)
locale, city, state and country, (4) sex, (5) birth date, (6) email address,
(7) profile picture or its URL, and (8) the SN Service user identification
numbers for your friends that are also connected to Encore GamesÕ game(s).
If you want us to delete the data we receive
from Facebook, Game Center or Google+ about you, please contact us at info.encoregames@gmail.com.
Invite a Friend
Encore Games may offer you the opportunity to
invite your contacts from a SN Service (such as your
Facebook friends) so that those contacts can be located in Encore Games games and/or you can invite them to join you in Encore
Games games. Such contact information will be used
only for the purpose of sending communications to the addressee. You or the
third party may contact us at info.encoregames@gmail.com to request the removal
of this information from our database to the extent Encore Games stores any of
this information.
Customer Service
We may collect your email address when you
contact our customer service group and we may use that email address to contact
you about your gaming experience with Encore Games and notify you about company
news and promotions.
Game Data Collection
Whenever you play our games, we collect data
about all of your interactions with the game and with the other players inside
the game via server log files. This data is stored within Amazon Web Services.
Other Collection
We may also acquire information from you
through (1) your access and participation in message boards on the Service, (2)
your participation in surveys regarding the Service or (3) your participation
in a sweepstakes or contest through the Service.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that we transfer
to your computer and/or device, to identify a userÕs computer/device and to
ÒrememberÓ things about your visit, such as your preferences or a user name and
password. Information contained in a cookie may be linked to your personal
information for purposes such as improving the quality of our Service,
tailoring recommendations to your interests, and making the Service easier to
use. You can disable cookies at any time, although you may not be able to
access or use features of the Service.
We may feature advertisements served by third
parties that deliver cookies to your computer/device so the content you access
and advertisements you see can be tracked. Since the third party advertising
companies associate your computer/device with a number, they will be able to
recognize your computer/device each time they send you an advertisement. These
advertisers may use information about your visits to our Service and third
party sites and applications in order to measure advertisement performance and
to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This
Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for the data collection
practices of these third party advertisers, and we encourage you to check their
privacy policies to learn more about their use of cookies and other technology.
You may click on the following link:
http://www.networkadvertising.org (or such other URL as may be specified by us
from time to time) for information on how to opt-out of the use of cookies for
the delivery of more relevant advertising.
Third Party Services
Our services may contain third party tracking
tools from our service providers, examples of which include Google Analytics,
Flurry and HasOffers. Such third parties may use
cookies, APIs, and SDKs in our services to enable them to collect and analyze
user information on our behalf. The third parties may have access to
information such as your device identifier, MAC address, IMEI, locale (specific
location where a given language is spoken), geo-location information, and IP
address.
You can opt-out of Flurry Analytics tracking
by clicking www.flurry.com/user-opt-out.html
And you can opt-out of Google Analytics with
this browser add-on tool:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Ad Networks
We may feature advertising within our Service.
The advertisers may collect and use information about you, such as your Service
session activity, device identifier, MAC address, IMEI, geo-location
information and IP address. They may use this information to provide
advertisements of interest to you. You can opt-out of personalized
ads/recommendations from Flurry by
clickinghttp://www.flurry.com/user-opt-out.html. Please see
http://adcolony.com/legal/privacy/ for information about AdColony,http://www.playhaven.com/privacy for information
about PlayHaven, and
https://help.chartboost.com/legal/privacy for information about Chartboost.
In addition, you may see our games advertised
in other services. After clicking on one of these advertisements and installing
our game, you will become a user of our Service. In order to verify the
installs, a device identifier may be shared with the advertiser.
How We Use Information
We use information collected through our
Service for purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you in connection
with our Service. For example, we may use your information to:
¥ create game
accounts and allow users to play our games;
¥ identify and suggest connections with other Encore Games users;
¥ operate and improve our Service;
¥ understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment
using our Service;
¥ respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
¥ provide and deliver products and services you request;
¥ send you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical
notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
¥ communicate with you about promotions, rewards, upcoming events, and other
news about products and services offered by Encore Games and our selected
partners;
¥ enable you to communicate with other users; and
¥ link or combine it with other information we get from third parties, to help
understand your preferences and provide you with better services.
Disclosure of Your information
Encore Games does not share your personal
information except as approved by you or as described below:
¥ With your consent,
for example, when you agree to our sharing your information with other third
parties for their own marketing purposes subject to their separate privacy
policies.
¥ Encore Games may engage other companies and individuals to perform services
on our behalf. Example of these services include
analyzing data. These agents and service providers may have access to your
personal information in connection with the performance of services for Encore
Games
¥ We may release your information as permitted by law or when we believe that
release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our rights; or
protect the rights, property, or safety of us or our users, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for
fraud protection.
¥ Encore Games may share your information in connection with any merger, sale
of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our
business to another company.
¥ We may share aggregate or anonymous information
about you with advertisers, publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other
third parties.
Changes to the Policy
We reserve the right to change this Policy at
any time. If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those changes on
this page and update the date at the top of the page. The changes will be
effective when posted. Please check this page on a regular basis so that you
remain aware of what information we collect and how we use it.
Security
Encore Games 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 ÒhackersÓ from illegally obtaining access to this information. We
do not warrant or represent that your information will be protected against,
loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties.
Our Policy Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit
personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such
persons to use our Service. If you are under 13, please do not send any
information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone
number, or email address. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal
information. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal
information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as
quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or
about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at info@Encoregames.com.
Opting Out of Marketing
You may opt-out of receiving promotional
emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt-out,
we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your
accounts or our ongoing business relations.
You may also opt-out of receiving SMS
notifications from us, either via SMS or online.
International Transfer
We may transfer information that we collect
about you to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and
from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around
the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws
governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note
that you are transferring information, including personal information, to a
country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as
your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S. and
the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal
information, as described in this Policy.
Contact Information
Encore Games Ltd. (Business ID 2134819-6),
Juha Vainion katu
2
48100, Kotka
FINLAND
If you have any questions about this Policy,
please contact us at info.encoregames@gmail.com.