Apps Teknoloji A.Ş.

Privacy Policy – Effective date: December 30, 2020

 

This Privacy Policy was executed by and between Apps Teknoloji A.Ş. (“APPS Mobile”) as the “Data Controller” and you. In this context, the purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide information on the collection, processing and use of the data provided by you in connection with the use of APPS Mobiles Games as well as the grade, purpose and scope of transfer thereof. The purpose of this privacy notice is to provide you with information regarding the processing of personal data of the users that use our games/applications (Referred to as “Games” together). When you use the Games; or somehow communicates with APPS Mobile, APPS Mobile collects information about you in accordance with the nature of the information and transaction within the current technical possibilities. You accept, acknowledge and promise that your personal information and data might be used in limited manner by APPS Mobile  and/or through APPS Mobile to the extent that it is limited to the format and purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. Every type of information related to an identified or identifiable natural person constitutes personal data. Processing your personal data signifies all types of transactions performed on the data such as; obtaining, recording, storing, preserving, altering, re-arranging, disclosing, transferring, acquiring, making accessible, alignment and preventing access.

1       The purposes of collecting and processing personal data

APPS Mobile collects your personal data automatically whenever you download our Games to your device or play the Games, whenever you send us your feedbacks or convey your information or support requests directly to APPS Mobile or interact with third party advertisements presented in our Games or interact with APPS Mobile advertisements presented in other platforms. In general, the information we collect about you relates to your device and helps us to identify your device. APPS Mobile also collects data from the Apple App Store and Google Play App Store (Referred to as “Platforms” together) platforms and the business partners. APPS Mobile might collect the your personal information (user name, name if provided, IP address, the date and time of access, the pages accessed while being on Game) and the activities taken place under APPS Mobile in order to provide better service to you, to make suggestions, to improve its services, to facilitate the use of Games at the works related to your interest and preferences, within the framework of legal legislation.

1.1       Personal data that is collected while you are playing APPS Mobile’s Games:

APPS Mobile might collect the your personal information and the activities taken place under APPS Mobile in order to provide better service to you, to make suggestions, to improve its services, to improve and update our Games, to facilitate the use of Games at the works related to your interest and preferences, within the framework of legal legislation.

When you download and/or play the Games via Platforms, APPS Mobile collect certain personal data from you and/or your device. In this regard, APPS Mobile collect your advertising ID (IDFA for IOS devices and GAID for Android devices), other device identifiers (IDFV for IOS devices), device identifier, operating system, model, producer information, hardware type, operating system version, memory usage, country, time zone and preferred language information, internet protocol (IP) number, location information according to your IP address, operator and browser information, information about properties of mobile application through which a consumer interacts with the Games, data regarding your in-game interactions (the time you spent while playing our games, your in-game expenses, level information, the amount of time for watching advertisements, the advertisements watched) and time of installation and first opening of the application.

The aforementioned advertising IDs (IDFA and GAID) are unique identifiers for mobile devices that advertisers use for personalized advertising and consistent across all mobile applications and thus allow cross-app tracking. You may disable this option by activating “limit advertisement tracking” from the privacy settings of Apple devices. As for the Google Android devices, you may change your advertisement setting by activating the “disable advertisement personalizing” option. Advertising IDs, are non-permanent identifiers, which are uniquely associated with your device.

We would like to remind that you have an option to play the Games without watching advertisements by using our no-ads feature, which is subject to a fee.

Your user name and score can be viewed by other users in our games that include a scoreboard feature. Payments for in-app purchases are being carried out by the Platforms. APPS Mobile, does not collect personal data such as your name, surname, credit card number and e-mail address that you share with the Platforms for the payment, and only payment information for the items your purchase is being shared with us in order to fulfil your order.

1.2       Personal data that is collected when you contact with APPS Mobile



1.3       Data that is collected by third parties

If the personal data provided to APPS Mobile by you is requested by official institutions/organizations as necessitated by the law, the data may be transmitted to the relevant authorities and courts if requested by the courts.

Our business partners or service providers can use server log files, cookies, pixel labels, web beacons or other tracking tools in our Games. Our advertisement business partners and analytics service providers mentioned in the part 3 below, can collect data regarding your IP address your advertising identifier (IDFA for IOS devices and GAID for Android devices), other device identifiers (IDFV for IOS devices), cookie identifiers, advertisement ID, your mobile device’s type, operating system, version, model, hardware type, other device identifiers that are automatically determined for your device when you connect to the internet, web browser information, websites you visited, connections you have within the Games and your preferences about the visited websites by using the stated technologies. You may access to the privacy policies of these third parties from section 3.

APPS Mobile stores your data for as long as it is necessary to provide our Games and deletes it when the purposes of the data processing cease to exist. Personal data is deleted in case the reasons which necessitate processing within the context of the stated purposes in this privacy notice cease to exist and after 2 years as of the registration date of the relevant record at the latest.

 

1.4       Children data

APPS Mobile never knowingly or willingly collect any personal data concerning children under 16 years of age. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

2       The legal grounds of processing your personal data

The legal grounds that APPS Mobile relies upon while processing your personal data are the following:

In data processing activities where your personal data is processed based on the explicit consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

APPS Mobile’s statutory interest in processing your device and usage data is provide better service to you, to make suggestions, to improve its services, to improve and update our Games, to facilitate the use of Games at the works related to your interest and preferences, within the framework of legal legislation.

APPS Mobile undertakes to keep the your data and any confidential information strictly private and confidential, without prejudice to the contents hereof, to regard it as an obligation to keep confidentiality, to take all measures and act in due diligence to prevent all or any part of your information from entering into the public domain or be subject to unauthorized use, or to take measures to prevent the confidential information from disclosure to any third party. If, despite all necessary data security measures taken by APPS Mobile, the confidential information is damaged as a result of attacks on the system or captured by third parties, APPS Mobile shall have no responsibility with that respect.

APPS Mobile shall not be responsible for damages caused by the use of information that you disclose in comments made or messages given by third parties in public areas. If you share your name, password, etc. used by you when creating the membership record with third parties, the APPS Mobile shall not be responsible for any damages that may arise from the information shared with third parties.

3       The transfer of your personal data

Your personal data may be transferred to our business partners and service providers located abroad for the purposes of improving our Games and providing our Games to you, providing personalized advertisements according to your interests, measuring APPS Mobile’s and third parties’ advertisement effectiveness and carrying out measurements and analysis regarding your use of our games. In case a public institution is authorized to request personal data by the law, your personal data can be transferred to such authorized public institution in accordance with the applicable personal data protection legislations. Requests from judicial authorities will also be fulfilled in accordance with the applicable legislation.

Your personal data may be transferred to our business partners and service providers stated below:

Analytics services. Your personal data may be transferred to our service providers and business partners for the purpose of conducting analytical reviews, analyses, reporting and research activities regarding the use of our Games.

Cloud computing services. Your personal data is stored in the servers of the Amazon Web Services.

Advertisement business partners. Your personal data may be transferred to our advertisement partners who enable the Games to be provided free or for low cost.

You may find the list of our service providers and business partners and their privacy policies below:

Service provider/Business Partner

Privacy Policy

Analytics services

Adjust

https://www.adjust.com/terms/privacy-policy

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Google LLC (Firebase)

https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Game Analytics

https://gameanalytics.com/privacy

Cloud computing services

Google LLC (Google Cloud)

https://cloud.google.com/security/privacy

Advertisement business partners (advertisement networks)

AppLovin Corporation

https://www.applovin.com/privacy/

Facebook Inc. (FB Ads, FB Audience Network)

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Fyber

https://www.fyber.com/privacy-policy/

Google LLC (Google Ads)

https://policies.google.com/privacy

InMobi

https://www.inmobi.com/privacy-policy/

ironSource Ltd.

https://developers.ironsrc.com/ironsource-mobile/air/ironsource-mobile-privacy-policy/

Mintegral

https://static.mintegral.com/document/privacy

Ad4Game Ireland Limited

https://a4g.com/privacy

AdColony Inc.

https://www.adcolony.com/privacy-policy/

Smaato, Inc.

https://www.smaato.com/privacy/

Tapjoy, Inc.

https://www.tapjoy.com/legal/#privacy-policy

Unity Technologies (Unity Ads)

https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy

Vungle Inc.

http://vungle.com/privacy/

Apple

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

Snapchat

https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-policy/

Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010

Yandex

https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/

Tiktok

https://ads.tiktok.com/i18n/official/policy/privacy

Chartboost Inc.

https://answers.chartboost.com/en-us/articles/200780269

Anzu.io

https://www.anzu.io/privacy-policy/



4       Your Rights Regarding the Protection of Your Personal Data

According to the relevant legislation, you have the right to;

You can submit all your claims and questions with respect to such rights by sending an e-mail to privacy@apps.com.tr. Your requests will be answered as soon as possible and within thirty days at latest.

 

5       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.

 

Apps Teknoloji A.Ş.

Mersis No: 0071085096600001