Privacy Policy
What’s Changed: We’ve added information about our Privacy Shield certification.
This Privacy Policy explains how information about you is
collected, used and disclosed by Invention Apps Studio. This Privacy Policy
applies to information we collect when you use our websites, mobile
applications and other online products and services (collectively, the
“Services”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information collected
from: (1) web-based applications that are based on our mobile applications but
are published by third parties, (2) mobile applications that we distribute on
behalf of third parties and which are hosted and operated by such parties, or
(3) the on-line submission of resumes and employment applications in connection
with the Jobs section of our website.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make
changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and,
in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a
statement to our homepage or mobile applications or by sending you an email
notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you
access the Services to stay informed about our information practices and the
ways you can help protect your privacy.
Collection of Information
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example,
we collect information when you create an account, manage your user profile,
participate in any interactive features of the Services, request our
e-newsletter or other marketing communications, participate in a promotion or
survey, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us. The types of
information we collect include your name, email address, postal address,
photograph, avatar, password, phone number, username, gender, birth day, forum
posts and comments, messages between users and other contact or identifying
information you choose to provide, but, as you’ll see when you interact with
one or more of the Services, the exact types of information we collect will
depend on the Service you choose to use. Prize winners of contests or
sweepstakes may also have to provide their Social Security Numbers, which are
used exclusively for prize fulfillment and related tax purposes.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU USE THE SERVICES
When you access or use our Services, we automatically collect
information about you, including:
Device Information:
We collect device-specific information when you access our
Services from a mobile device, including your hardware model, operating system
and version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information and country,
language, screen size and resolution, and battery life remaining.
Use Information:
We collect information about your use of the Services, including
the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, game play activity,
interactions with other players, your IP address and, with respect to our
website, the page you visited before navigating to our Services.
Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies:
We use various technologies to collect information, and this
includes sending cookies to your computer or mobile device. Cookies are small
data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that helps us to
improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our
Services are popular and count visits. For more information about cookies, and
how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below. We also collect
information using web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels”). Web beacons
are electronic images that are used in our Services or emails and help deliver
cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and
determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon.
Other Information Collected with Permission:
Our mobile applications that are distributed through various
“app” stores also request permission to automatically collect other information
from your mobile device, including your email address. We only collect this
information with your authorization in accordance with your device operating
system’s permission process.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES
We also obtain information from other sources and combine that
with information we collect through our Services. For example, if you create or
log into your account through a social media site, we will have access to
certain information from that site, such as your name, account information,
profile picture, phone number, email address, gender, date of birth and friends
lists, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such
social media site.
Use of Information
We use information about you for various purposes, including to:
§ Provide, maintain and improve our Services;
§ Setup your gWallet account and manage the Glu credits that you earn and use across our Services;
§ Provide and deliver the products and services you request and send you related information, including confirmations and invoices;
§ Send you communications about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by Glu and other companies, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
§ Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
§ Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service;
§ Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Services;
§ Personalize and improve the Services and provide advertisements, content, suggested connections or features that match user profiles or activities;
§ Process and deliver contest entries and rewards; and
§ Carry out any other purpose for which you consent at the time of collection.
Sharing of Information
We share information about you as follows or as otherwise
described in this Privacy Policy:
§ With vendors, consultants and other service providers who need access to such information to provide services to us or to you;
§ With other users of the social features of the Services. For example, your username, profile picture and the virtual content you have accumulated in a game may be visible to other users of that game. Additionally, information that you provide in your account registration for a forum and your forum comments may be available to other forum users.
§ In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule or regulation;
§ If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of Glu or others;
§ In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company; or
§ With your consent or at your direction.
We also share aggregated or de-identified information, which
cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
Analytics, Advertising and Other Services Provided by Other
Companies
We permit third parties to offer analytics services, serve
adverts in connection with our Services, and offer you additional services like
rewards programmes and competitions. These third parties may gather information
about you from our Services and other websites and online services using
cookies, web beacons, your account information (which you set up with these
third parties), and other technologies, including your IP address, identifiers
linked to your mobile device or applications on the device, the browsers you
use to access our Services, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked,
and conversion data. These third parties might also divulge this information to
the clients and customers they serve. The use of this information by Glu, these
other businesses, and their International
The information we collect about you may be transferred to, and
accessed from within, the United States, which may not offer the same level of
data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to maintain an
adequate level of protection for this information in the jurisdictions in which
we process it. Adequate safeguards that our service providers may use include
standard contractual clauses approved by the EU Commission and the EU-U.S. and
Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield certifications in case of transfers to the United
States.
Security
Invention Apps Studio takes reasonable measures to help protect
information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration and destruction.
YOUR CHOICES
Website (Game Forums) Account Information
You may update, correct or delete your website (game forums)
account information, which includes your username, password, email address and
avatar, by logging into your website account and managing your profile.
Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you
prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser
cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could
affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
Third Party Analytics and Advertising Services
We have identified the provider names of some of the third-party
analytics and advertising services we use. you can learn more about the data
practices of our third-party service providers (including opt-out mechanisms
they may offer). You can also use your device settings to manage interest-based
advertising that appears on mobile applications; to do so, select “limit ad
tracking” on Apple iOS operating systems and “opt-out of interest based ads” on
Android operating systems.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please
contact us at
Muhammadjaffarhussain2@gmail.com
Legal Basis for Processing
We will only process personal data about you in accordance with
the following legal bases:
§ As necessary to perform our responsibilities under our contract with you. For example, to process your order and fulfill the products or services you purchase.
§ When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data. For example, to communicate with you about changes to our Services or legal documents, to prevent fraud, to deliver advertising, provide, protect and improve our products and services.
§ If we request your consent to a specific processing activity (such as to send you marketing emails), and you provide your consent in the manner indicated.
§ In some cases, processing will be necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, such as response to legal process requests.
Data Retention
We store the information we collect about you for as long as is
necessary for the purposes for which we originally collected it. We may retain
certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.
EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks
We adhere to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework
Principles issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce (the “Principles”) in
connection with personal data received from the EEA and Switzerland in reliance
on the Principles. We also receive some data in reliance on other compliance
mechanisms, including agreements based on the EU standard contractual clauses.
For more information about the Principles and to view our certifications,
please visit the Department of Commerce’s Privacy
Shield websiteat: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome.
Our accountability for personal data that we receive under the
Principles and subsequently transfer to a third party is described in the
Principles. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data
in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet
national security or law enforcement requirements. With respect to personal
data received or transferred pursuant to the Principles, we are subject to the
regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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