Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is to explain how GAMESIOUS (hereinafter “GAMESIOUS” or “we”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information while you play the games provided by GAMESIOUS (“Services”).

You acknowledge and agree that GAMESIOUS reserves the right to update, modify or revise this Privacy Policy at any time, by publishing an updated version to the website located at https://gamesious.com/. The updated Terms of Use or Privacy Policy come into force immediately upon being published on https://gamesious.com/. You are advised to check the website from time to time for notices concerning such updates. 

By using any GAMESIOUS Services you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with any information and do not use the Services.

1.  What information do we collect & how do we collect it

Provided by you: 

  • Contact information provided by you within the Services, such as nickname and email address
  • Your communication logs with the Service support or the community team, such as support tickets

Collected automatically by us or our service providers:

  • Data about your game progress & account
  • Data about your use of the Service, such as gameplay data and your interactions with other players inside the Service
  • Data about your device, such as device name, model and operating system, screen resolution, browser type, country and language settings, internet provider, cellular net operator, network type
  • Your IP address and mobile device identifiers, such as your device ID, advertising ID, MAC address, geo-location
  • Data is obtained through third parties, such as your social network ID, application store ID (Google Play Store, App Store), social network name, and email. 

2.  What do we use the information for

Service operation & improvement

  • Creation of new accounts which allow new players to initially access the Services
  • Verification and confirmation of payments processed through and/or within the Services
  • Delivery of the requested services and products
  • In-service communication, such as communication with the support team
  • Player experience improvement, development, and customization

Service security maintenance

  • Monitoring of Service usage
  • Detection of suspicious activity
  • Taking action against fraudulent players

Ads personalization

  • Improvement of the advertisements presented to you in accordance with your online behavior 
  • Analysis of the advertisements’ effectiveness & they’re according to tailoring. 

3. Sharing Of Information

Our third-party partners may access your information and operate under their own privacy policies. We encourage you to check their privacy policies, to learn more about their practices for processing information. Their privacy policies are as follows:

This website uses Burst Statistics, a Privacy-Friendly Statistics Tool to analyze visitor behavior. For this functionality, we (this website) collect anonymized data, stored locally without sharing it with other parties. For more information, please read the Privacy Statement from Burst.

Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personally identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or the usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.

This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.

The recipients’ use of the disclosed information, will not be covered by this Privacy Policy. If you have questions concerning the processing carried out by such third parties, you should review their privacy policy.

4.  How do we keep the information safe & secure

We’re committed to keeping your information secure by any means available, therefore, we’ve taken appropriate steps & measures according to industry standards to ensure that your personal data & transactions are protected from unauthorized access, misuse, or modification. 

5.  How you can access, update or manage your personal information

In case your information is incomplete, outdated, incorrect, or no longer relevant for the purpose of processing, you can send us your request at [email protected] This email may also be used in case you need to file a complaint or have any questions regarding your personal data use or about this Privacy Policy.

6.  INFORMATION FOR EU CITIZENS

You have the right to request & obtain the deletion of your personal information collected through our Services. 

If you would like to exercise the right, please send your request to [email protected] (please note that if your request is sent to any other GAMESIOUS email, we are unable to guarantee its receipt & further processing). We will aim to respond to your request within 30 days from the initial receipt of the request. In order to realize your right, we need to identify you as the original account owner. You acknowledge and agree that for this purpose we shall request additional personal information from you. Provision of the additional information is obligatory to avoid fraud and make sure your account is secure from possible damage.

Please note that the deletion of your personal data will be followed by the deletion of the related information, such as your in-game progress, including your level, purchased content licenses (including real money purchases), and any in-game content associated with the account. The restoration will be impossible. By requesting to delete your personal data, you acknowledge and accept this fact and approve the deletion of this related information.

Please note, that in case your consent to processing is withdrawn by you, you may still not be able to access GAMESIOUS Services anymore.

Please keep in mind that all correspondence regarding personal data deletion can only be held in English.

6.1  Information Retention

We will retain your data for as long as your account is active or for as long as needed in order to provide you with the Services. Please be acknowledged that if you request the deletion of your data, we will retain anonymous information after your account has been deleted. Any information you have shared with other users of our Services, such as in-service chat messages, group posts, or any other content available for other users, will remain available in the system after your data deletion.

7. Children

The App is for a general audience. In order to comply with the legislation, you will be presented with an age screen, when launching the App. When presented with this age screen, it is important that you state the correct age. Based on your age information and device settings, GAMESIOUS does not process the personal data of children under the minimum age limit prescribed by the legislation in the individual jurisdictions for behavioral advertisement. If such personal data have been processed without GAMESIOUS’s knowledge, GAMESIOUS will, after having become aware of the incident, immediately take reasonable measures to stop such processing and promptly delete any such data from GAMESIOUS’s records. 

If you have additional questions about GAMESIOUS’s privacy practices related to children under the applicable minimum age, please contact us at [email protected].

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. In addition, we may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data. You can find the Google Privacy Policy here.

Security

We value your trust in providing us with 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 I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by me. Therefore, I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device’s internal memory.

This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third-party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes.

This policy is effective as of 4 December 2020

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].