**Privacy Policy for Users of WasBox Websites and Apps**
**Last Updated: October 19, 2024**
**1. Key Contact Information**
Controller Name: WasBox (‘WasBox’)
Controller Email: caowr2016@gmail.com
**2. Introduction to Our Privacy Policy**
As the controller above ("WasBox", "we", "us"), we are dedicated to safeguarding your personal information and maintaining your privacy. When interacting with our products and services, which encompass both websites and mobile applications, certain personal data related to you is processed. "Processing" refers to any operation performed on personal data, including collection, storage, organization, retrieval, updating, amendment, deletion, consultation, use, sharing, or making available internally or externally.
This Privacy Policy details our data processing practices, purposes, legal bases, our responsibilities as a controller, and your rights in relation to this processing.
**3. About Us**
WasBox develops and publishes social games and applications for web and mobile platforms. References to "WasBox", "we", or "us" refer to WasBox and its group members, including subsidiaries, parent companies, joint ventures, and other corporate entities under common ownership or control, as well as their agents, consultants, employees, officers, and directors.
**4. Collection and Processing of Personal Data**
We collect and process the following personal data:
- Online identifiers, electronic network activity data, location information (including country code), and data on the use of our systems (including external websites).
- Responses to online surveys, questionnaires, and partner votes.
- Third-party identifiers from platforms like Facebook and other social media.
- IP Address.
This information is used to provide access to our website, enhance your user experience, and improve the overall user experience on our site. For more details, please refer to our cookie policy and consent mechanisms on the relevant website.
If you use one of our mobile apps, we also collect:
- Apple, Amazon, or Google User ID.
- User behavior characteristics.
- Preferences, including advertising choices.
- Technical device data, device and website usage information.
- The name associated with your device.
- Your country.
- Your specific geolocation.
- Information about WasBox and other third-party apps on your device.
- A WasBox player ID number created by us to identify you.
We process this information to optimize your experience, secure your user and personal data, and improve our mobile apps. In some cases, we may request your permission to access personal data processed within the app, subject to your device’s privacy settings.
If you contact or register with us, we collect:
- Personal and identification details (full name, age, date of birth).
- Your feedback and opinions on our products and services.
- Contact information (address, phone number, email).
- Game usernames and avatars.
- Your gender.
- The approximate location you provide.
- Links to your social network profiles.
- Details about the games you play.
We process this information to manage your account and preferences, protect your personal data from disclosure to other users, enhance your experience, create game accounts and enable gameplay, personalize our services, provide technical support and respond to inquiries, ensure the safety and well-being of our players, protect WasBox’s rights and property in connection with our services, prevent fraud or illegal activities, notify players of in-game updates, new products, or promotions, administer rewards, surveys, contests, or promotional events, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements, and conduct research.
**5. Purchases and Payment Processing**
If you purchase goods or services directly from us, our third-party payment processor will collect necessary billing and financial information to process your transaction. They act as the controller for certain processing related to the transaction, and you will be informed of their identity and data processing practices at the time of payment.
This may include:
- Sales information, including transaction history and payment details.
- Bank account information.
- Credit card information.
These details are used to process payments or refunds, identify you, protect against fraud, and prevent crime.
**6. Data Collection from Third-Party Sources**
When accessing our mobile apps through third-party authentication or connecting our services to third-party apps, we may receive certain information about you from the third-party app provider. The information we receive depends on the game you play, the third-party app, your privacy settings, and your friends’ settings on that app.
In addition to the information listed above, we may receive and process:
- Your profile picture or URL.
- Your user ID number (like your Facebook ID), which may link to public information like your name and photo.
- Your friends’ user ID numbers and other public data.
- The login email you provided to the third-party app.
- Your physical location and your devices’ locations.
- Your gender.
- Your birthday or age range.
- Information about your activities on or through the connected app.
- Other public information on the third-party app.
- Any other information you or the app provider share with WasBox.
**7. Lawful Basis for Processing**
We process the data listed above to pursue our legitimate business interests, such as seeking new business opportunities, customers, and revenue streams, as well as developing new, improved apps and games, and building our market share, reputation, and brands.
In some cases, we also process personal data in accordance with a contract with you or a third party, like Apple or Google, or to comply with a legal obligation. If we haven't indicated a lawful basis other than legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
**8. International Data Transfers**
WasBox apps and services are provided globally through the WasBox Group. Therefore, it's necessary for WasBox to routinely transfer personal data to countries within the EEA and/or the UK, and outside the UK/EEA, including countries where local data protection laws may not offer the same level of protection.
To safeguard your personal data and your rights concerning its processing, all transfers by WasBox are subject to an agreement incorporating the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EU Commission and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum. A copy of this agreement is available upon request.
**9. Special Circumstances of Processing**
**Third-Party Service Providers**
We share your information with third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, such as processing payments, analyzing data, optimizing gameplay, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts, including managing and delivering targeted advertisements. We contractually require these providers to maintain the confidentiality of shared information and not use your data for anything other than providing services on our behalf.
**Sale or Merger**
If WasBox undergoes a business transition, like a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we may disclose or transfer all your information, including personal data, to the successor organization. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of such a transition before transferring your personal information.
**10. Cookies, Analytics, and Information Collection**
We and our service providers, like Google Analytics, use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and local shared objects (flash cookies) to store log files and track certain technical information, including IP addresses, device types, operating systems, identifiers, browser types, languages, pages visited, domain names, and in-game activity.
**11. Data Processing on Behalf of Others**
For personalized ads, networks and partners may collect device information from our apps, including personal and non-personal data, such as ad identifiers, IP addresses, app inventory, and tracking technologies for measurement, personalization, ad selection, delivery, reporting, and optimizing targeted ads. You can learn more about their data handling practices through their privacy notices.
**12. Sharing Your Information**
We may disclose or publish aggregated information about our players for industry analysis, demographic profiling, marketing, analytics, advertising, and other business purposes. We may also share your information, including personal data, with third parties or allow them to collect this information from our services.
**13. Privacy Policies of Third-Party Services and Advertisers**
Our websites and games may contain ads from third-party services, which are companies other than WasBox and may link to their own sites or services. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or content. If you have questions about how these services use your information, you should review their policies and contact them directly.
**14. Children's Privacy**
Most of our websites and games are not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we inadvertently gather personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable measures to remove it from our records. WasBox may also provide games for users of all ages.
**15. Data Retention**
We retain your information for as long as necessary for our business purposes or legal requirements. For example, we may retain some information for a few years after you close your account to meet legal obligations or assert legal rights.
**16. Security of Your Information**
We implement security measures to protect your information online and offline, ensuring it's treated securely per this Privacy Policy. These measures vary based on the sensitivity of your information.
Your WasBox account profile is protected by your password. It's important to maintain your account's security and notify us of any unauthorized use. If you forget your password, you can request instructions to reset it. If you access our services through a social network, keep your account information secure. Log out of your WasBox and social network accounts after use.
When you sign into your WasBox account or enter payment information, we or our payment processor use encryption to transmit that information.
While we take precautions against security breaches, no website or internet transmission
is entirely secure. We cannot guarantee against unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or breaches, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information during transmission to our service. Any transmission is at your own risk. If you have security concerns, contact us at caowr2016@gmail.com.
**17. Updates to Our Privacy Policy**
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our data processing practices. You can see the date this Privacy Policy was last revised at the top of the page.
For certain processing activities not covered by this Privacy Policy, we may supplement it with separate notices on game blogs, social network pages, forums, and other WasBox websites.
**18. Your Rights**
Data protection laws grant you specific rights regarding the processing of your personal data. These rights may not apply in all circumstances, but you're welcome to contact us with any requests related to your personal data processing. Even if not legally required, we will try to accommodate your wishes.
- Access: You can access your personal data and information on how and why we process it.
- Rectification: You can have inaccurate or incomplete personal data corrected promptly.
- Erasure: Also known as the 'right to be forgotten,' you can have your personal data erased under certain circumstances.
- Restriction: Under certain conditions, you can restrict our processing of your personal data.
- Data portability: In limited circumstances, you can receive your personal data in a structured, common, and machine-readable format and transmit it to another controller.
- Objection: In certain cases, you can object to the processing of your personal data by us or on our behalf.
**19. Filing a Complaint**
If you believe we haven't complied with legal requirements for processing your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection Supervisory Authority.
**20. Contacting Us**
For questions, comments, or concerns about our Privacy Policy and practices, email caowr2016@gmail.com or use the address at the top of this Policy.