ABHutch FF, LLC and its subsidiaries that make up ABHutch FF, LLC of companies (“ABHutch”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is a mobile game and app publisher. This Privacy Policy explains how ABHutch collects and processes your personal data when you use our mobile application. We process information from and about you specifically to provide you with high-quality applications and the best possible user experience.
By using our services, you consent to the collection, use, sharing, and processing of your personal information as described in this policy. We use your personal data to enhance and deliver our services effectively.
We acquire, utilize, and process your personal data through various means. In every instance, we are committed to safeguarding your personal data.
When you access or use our applications, we may collect general information about you, including:
External Storage Access: The app collects necessary data to store app-specific and user-generated data, including configuration files required for exporting app data.
Notifications: The app collects data to display notifications on the user's device, useful for presenting alerts or updates such as Firebase notifications, enhancing user interaction by keeping you informed about important events or changes within the app.
Firebase Analytics and Performance Metrics: Data on app usage, crashes, and performance metrics are collected but do not include personal information that can identify individual users. This helps in tracking app stability and improving user experience, with data typically stored on Firebase servers.
Read External Storage: Data is collected to access or display media files stored on the device’s external storage, such as files and images, essential for apps requiring media file interactions.
Cookies: Our services utilize cookies to collect information to enhance user experience, understand user engagement and improve our services.
Other Sources: Data about you may also be collected from publicly available sources to further enhance our services and customer understanding.
By registering or creating a profile on our platform, you explicitly agree to our processing of your personal data as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
Enhance Service Delivery: Provide and maintain the quality of our services.
Personalize Experience: Tailor content and advertisements to better match your interests and improve your overall service experience.
Manage Your Account: Support the management of your service usage, enabling access to various functionalities as a registered user.
Communicate: Contact you with updates, security alerts, and promotional messages through email or other forms of communication.
We analyze anonymized or aggregated data to enhance our services and ensure compliance with legal requirements, aiding in the prevention of fraud and illegal activities.
Third-party analytics may be used to understand service usage patterns and improve service delivery. These analytics are derived from data collected through cookies and similar technologies, which do not contain personally identifiable information.
Your Privacy Rights:
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications and can manage, access, or modify your personal data, except where retained for legitimate business or legal reasons.
Policy Updates:
This Privacy Policy is subject to updates, which will be reflected in the revised document available on our platform. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued engagement with our services after such updates constitutes your acceptance of the terms.
We'll keep your information for as long as necessary to provide you with the Services, fulfill our legal obligations, and/or exercise, defend or establish our rights. We may still retain some of your personal information in our files for a reasonable period of time to resolve disputes, enforce our terms and policies, administer our Services, comply with technical and legal requirements, and/or other constraints related to the security, integrity, and operation of our Services
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
We do not share your data with other companies, organizations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances applies:
We do not share your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent.
After obtaining your consent, we will share the data that you have authorized with specified third parties or categories of third parties to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations.
We may disclose your personal information if it is necessary to:
Comply with legal requirements or respond to valid legal processes, such as search warrants, court orders, or subpoenas.
Protect the rights, property, or safety of our users, us, or the public as required or permitted by law.
We may share only the minimum personal information necessary with third parties to provide, improve, promote, and protect our services. These include:
Service Providers: We engage various service providers who perform functions on our behalf. For instance, we may share personal information such as: Names, email addresses, service usage data, and transaction histories, … with companies that help us with IT services, customer service, and payment processing like Google play. These service providers are bound by strict data protection clauses and are only allowed to use your personal information as directed by us to provide the specific services.
Business Partners: We may share limited data such as: Contact details and demographic information, … with our business partners with whom we collaborate to provide you the best services or promotional offers. This is only done with your explicit consent and is strictly controlled under confidentiality agreements, ensuring compliance with privacy laws and limiting use to the agreed purposes.
In cases of business negotiations, mergers, acquisitions, or sale of company assets, your personal information may be shared or transferred as part of the transaction.
If you engage in activities on public areas of our services, your information can be seen by others and may be read, collected, or used by them. You are advised to exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in these areas.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions. This helps us offer better site experiences and tools in the future. You may manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Our application utilizes several permissions that are crucial for its operation and to enhance the user experience. Each permission is implemented following Google Play's guidelines to ensure secure and efficient app functionality while respecting user privacy.
Permissions Used:
Storage permissions (for Android 5.0 to 10):
When you use the feature of organizing photos and videos, we need to access your storage to scan, encrypt photos and videos on your device. This permission is only for scanning photos and videos from your device or saving files to your device. We will not obtain or collect any video, photos, audios or other files from your device, nor will we automatically modify or delete the content in your local media storage.
Access to all files permission(for Android 11 & above Android version):
Due to security policy updates of Android 11 and above, we need to turn on “All Files Access” permission to scan,encrypt images and videos on your device. This permission is only for scanning photos and videos from your device or saving files to your device. We will not obtain or collect any video, photos, audios or other files from your device, nor will we automatically modify or delete the content in your local media storage.
Internet Access: This permission may be used for:
Fetching basic configuration updates.
(If applicable, depending on future features) Facilitating optional features like cloud backup or online sharing, which would require explicit user consent.
Photos and Videos Access Permissions:
For Android 11–12 (API 30–32):
When you use features related to organizing, scanning, encrypting, or saving photos and videos, we may request READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to read and display photos and videos stored in the shared storage of your device.
For Android 13 and above (API 33+):
When you use features related to organizing, scanning, encrypting, or saving photos and videos, we may request READ_MEDIA_IMAGES and READ_MEDIA_VIDEO permissions to read and display photos and videos on your device.
For Android 14 and above (API 34+):
In addition to the media permissions mentioned above, we may request READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED permission. If you choose to grant access only to selected photos and videos, the App will only be able to access the specific media files that you have selected and authorized.
These permissions are used only for scanning, organizing, encrypting, displaying, or saving photos and videos locally on your device. We do not collect, upload, share, sell, or transfer your photos, videos, audios, or other files from your device. We will not automatically modify or delete the content in your local media storage without your action or consent.
Each permission is implemented to respect and prioritize user privacy and security, ensuring that all app functionalities enhance the user experience without compromising safety.
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.
We value your trust in providing us 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 we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device to provide game-related information, service updates, promotional communications and other related messages, if you have agreed to such notifications. You can deactivate these notifications by changing your notification settings on your device.
We 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.
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:
Furthermore, you have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. Please note that the access may be restricted due to intellectual property or trade secrets.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation when the data are processed based on the balancing-of- interest rule in Section 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, see Article 21 of the GDPR. In this case, we will cease the processing unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time. We will cease the processing of your personal data for this purpose after the objection.
You have the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified, see Article 16 of the GDPR.
You have the right to obtain restriction of processing in certain circumstances, see Article 18 of the GDPR. If you have the right to restriction, we will only process your data with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim or to protect a person or important grounds of public interest.
If we have asked for your consent to our processing of your data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, see Article 7 of the GDPR.
If you withdraw your consent, we will cease processing of the data for which you have withdrawn consent, unless we have a legal obligation to keep some or parts of your data.
The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us with which we process in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller if the processing is based on consent or contract performance, see Article 20 of the GDPR.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal data that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
Under CCPA each California resident can request any business stop selling personal information to third parties.
You have a right to be informed about what categories of personal data we are collecting, including the purpose of the collection. You can freely find this information in our Privacy Policy. We update our Privacy Policy at least once every 12 months.
You can request us to disclose what personal data we have collected on you in the past 12 months.
We can assure you that our Privacy Policy is a relevant document where you can find information about what personal data we have collected about you over the past 12 months and intend to collect, sources of your personal data and how we use your personal data.
You also have a right to get a free copy of your personal information disclosed in a readily usable and readable format (right of access). You can make this request for free, twice per year.
When providing information under the right of access, we will provide you with the following information:
You can request us to delete the personal data we have collected on you in the past 12 months.
We fully recognize your right to deletion, however, we would like to note that in some cases we are obliged to keep your personal data for a certain period of time. For instance, if we need to provide services to you, detect or resolve security or functionality-related issues, comply with the law, conduct research in the public interest, safeguard the right to free speech or carry out any actions for internal purposes that you might reasonably expect. If we do not have obligations to perform any of the above actions, we can delete your personal information at your request.
You may request ABHutch to erase without undue delay your personal data when it is no longer necessary for ABHutch to retain such data.
In order for your data to be erased you can contact ABHutch by support@photogallery4u.com with request.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via: support@photogallery4u.com.