CatStudio Privacy Policy |
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Welcome to CatStudio. Your
privacy is important to us.
CatStudio is dedicated to protecting the privacy
rights of our users ("users" or "you"). This Privacy
Policy (the “Policy”) describes the ways we collect, store, use, and manage the
information, including personal information, that you provide or we collect in
connection with our websites, including www.cat-studio.net (the “Sites”) or any
CatStudio game provided on a mobile platform (for example, iOS and
Android)(collectively, the "Service"). Please note that the
scope of this Policy is limited to information collected or received by CatStudio
through your use of the Service. CatStudio is not responsible for the
actions of third party people or companies, the content of their sites, the use
of information you provide to them, or any products or services they may
offer. Any link to those sites does not constitute our sponsorship of, or
affiliation with, those people or companies.
By using the Service, you are expressing
your agreement to this Policy and the processing of your data, including your
personal information, in the manner provided in this Policy. If you do
not agree to these terms, please do not use the Service.
If you have questions or concerns about
our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at support@cat-studio.net.
Information Collection and Use
CatStudio collects information as
described below. CatStudio’s primary goals in collecting and using
information is to create your account, provide Services to you, improve our
Service, contact you, conduct research and create reports for internal
use. We store information on servers located in the United States via
Amazon Web Services and may store information on servers and equipment in other
countries.
In order to use your community forum, you must register and provide a username,
password and email address.
If you wish to submit a resume, we provide you the option to upload it to the
site and we collect your name, email address and mobile telephone number.
We use this information to contact you regarding setting up an interview or to
determine if you are qualified for the position in which you applied.
CatStudio’s
Sites
While you are browsing CatStudio's Sites,
your computer’s operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times,
browser type and language and referring Web site addresses may be logged
automatically. We may use this information to monitor, develop and
analyze your use of the Service. In addition, we may ask you to submit
and we may process data that is personal to you, including but not limited to
your name, profile photo, gender, age or birthday, links to your profiles on
social networking websites and other third party sites, user names and e-mail
and mail addresses. We may use this information to create a user profile
and provide you services. We may use your email address to contact you
about your experience with CatStudio Sites and notify you about company news
and promotions. Your gender and birthday may be used to analyze user
trends and target certain promotions. Your mail address may be used if we
have merchandise or other physical promotional materials that we want to send
to you. If you no longer wish to receive these types of promotional
materials, you may opt-out from receiving them at any time by emailing us at
support@cat-studio.net.
Forums/Private Messages
Our Web site offers publicly accessible
blogs, private messages, or community forums. You should be aware that any
information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by
others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from
our blog or community forum, contact us at support@cat-studio.net. In
some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which
case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
If you choose to use Facebook connect to
use our blog or community forums, the information you provide is tied to your
Facebook account. You will need to contact Facebook directly in order to
request removal of personal information from our blog or community forum.
Social Media
(Features) and Widgets
Our Web site includes Social Media
Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this
button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may
collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a
cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and
Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your
interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the
company providing it.
iOS and Android
Platforms
When you use any of the CatStudio games or
applications on a mobile platform, we may collect and record certain
information such as your unique device ID (persistent / non-persistent),
hardware type, media access control (“MAC”) address, international mobile
equipment identity (“IMEI”), the version of your operating system (“OS”), your
device name, your email address (if you have connected to Facebook or Google+),
and your location (based on your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address). This
information is useful to us for troubleshooting and helps us understand usage
trends.
We may collect your location based
information for the purpose of providing you with the correct version of the
application. We will not share this information with any third
party. If you no longer wish to allow us to track or use this
information, you may turn it off at the device level. Please note, the
application may not work properly if we are unable to tell where you are coming
from (Country specific).
In addition, we create a unique user ID to track your use of our Service.
This unique user ID is stored in connection with your profile information to
track the CatStudio games you are playing.
Facebook Connect, Game Center and Google+
You can log in to our site using sign-in
services (“SN Service”) such as Facebook Connect , Apple’s Game Center, or an
Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide
you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name,
email address, and resume to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like
Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities
on this Web site to your profile page to share with others within your
network.
We may collect and record information
through the SN Service in accordance with the policies and terms of that SN
Service. The information we collect when you connect your user account to
an SN Service may include: (1) your name, (2) your SN Service user
identification number and/or user name, (3) locale, city, state and country,
(4) sex, (5) birth date, (6) email address, (7) profile picture or its URL, and
(8) the SN Service user identification numbers for your friends that are also
connected to CatStudio’s game(s).
If you want us to delete the data we
receive from Facebook, Game Center or Google+ about you, please contact us at
support@cat-studio.net.
Invite a Friend
CatStudio may offer you the opportunity to
invite your contacts from a SN Service (such as your Facebook friends) so that
those contacts can be located in CatStudio games and/or you can invite them to
join you in CatStudio games. Such contact information will be used only
for the purpose of sending communications to the addressee. You or the
third party may contact us at support@cat-studio.net to request the removal of
this information from our database to the extent CatStudio stores any of this
information.
Customer Service
We may collect your email address when you
contact our customer service group and we may use that email address to contact
you about your gaming experience with CatStudio games and notify you about
company news and promotions. If you no longer wish to receive certain email
notifications you may opt-out at any time by following the unsubscribe link
located at the bottom of each communication or by emailing us at support@cat-studio.net.
Push Notifications
We may occasionally send you push
notifications through our mobile applications to send you game updates, high
scores and other service related notifications that may be of importance to
you. You may at any time opt-out from receiving these types of
communications by turning them off at the device level through your settings.
Game Data
Collection
Whenever you play our games, we collect
anonymous data about all of your interactions with the game and with the other
players inside the game via server log files. This information may be
associated with your player ID, IP address or device ID for the purpose of
providing you our Services and improving them. This data is stored within
Amazon Web Services.
Other Collection
We may also acquire information from you
through (1) your access and participation in message boards on the Service, (2)
your participation in surveys regarding the Service or (3) your participation
in a sweepstakes or contest through the Service.
We may provide you the opportunity to participate
in a sweepstakes or contest through our Service. If you participate, we will
request certain personal information from you. Participation in these
sweepstakes and contests are voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether
or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically
includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify winners
and award prizes, to monitor traffic or personalize the Service. We may
use a third party service provider to conduct these sweepstakes or contests;
that company is prohibited from using your users’ personal information for any
other purpose.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that we
transfer to your computer and/or device, to identify a user's computer/device
and to "remember" things about your visit, such as your preferences
or a user name and password. Information contained in a cookie may be linked
to your personal information, such as your user ID, for purposes such as
improving the quality of our Service, tailoring recommendations to your
interests, and making the Service easier to use. You can disable cookies
at any time, although you may not be able to access or use features of the
Service.
We may feature advertisements served by
third parties that deliver cookies to your computer/device so the content you
access and advertisements you see can be tracked. Since the third party
advertising companies associate your computer/device with a number, they will
be able to recognize your computer/device each time they send you an
advertisement. These advertisers may use information about your visits to
our Service and third party sites and applications in order to measure
advertisement performance and to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. This Policy does not apply to, and we are not
responsible for the data collection practices of these third party advertisers,
and we encourage you to check their privacy policies to learn more about their
use of cookies and other technology.
Clear Gifs (Web
Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ or our third party tracking
utility partner employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web
Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing
us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online
movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a
user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages or
e-mails and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We
may associate this information with your IP address or device identifier but do
not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personal
information.
Mobile Analytics
We use mobile analytics software to allow
us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your
device. This software may record information such as how often you use the
application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage,
performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link
the information we store within the analytics software to any personal
information you submit within the mobile application.
Third Party
Services
Our services may contain third party
tracking tools from our service providers, examples of which include Google
Analytics, Flurry and HasOffers. Such third parties may use cookies, APIs, and
SDKs in our services to enable them to collect and analyze user information on
our behalf. The third parties may have access to information such as your
device identifier, MAC address, IMEI, locale (specific location where a given
language is spoken), geo-location information, and IP address for the purpose
of providing their services under their respective privacy policies. Our
privacy policy does not cover the use of tracking tools from third
parties. We do not have access or control over these third parties.
Ad Networks
We may feature advertising within our
Service. The advertisers may collect and use information about you, such
as your Service session activity, device identifier, MAC address, IMEI,
geo-location information and IP address. They may use this information to
provide advertisements of interest to you.
In addition, you may see our games
advertised in other services. After clicking on one of these
advertisements and installing our game, you will become a user of our
Service. In order to verify the installs, a device identifier may be
shared with the advertiser.
How We Use Information
We use information collected through our
Service for purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you in connection
with our Service. For example, we may use your information to:
• create game accounts and allow users to play our games;
• identify and suggest connections with other CatStudio users;
• operate and improve our Service;
• understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment
using our Service;
• respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;
• provide and deliver products and services you request;
• send you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical
notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• communicate with you about promotions, rewards, upcoming events, and other
news about products and services offered by CatStudio and our selected
partners;
• enable you to communicate with other users; and
• link or combine it with other information we get from third parties, to help
understand your preferences and provide you with better services.
Disclosure of Your information
CatStudio does not share or sell your personal information except as approved
by you or as described below:
• With your consent, for example, when you agree to our sharing your
information with other third parties for their own marketing purposes subject
to their separate privacy policies. If you no longer wish to allow us to
share your information with third parties, please contact us at support@cat-studio.net.
If you no longer wish to receive such communications from third parties, please
contact that third party directly.
• CatStudio may engage other companies and individuals to perform services on
our behalf. Example of these services include analyzing data and
providing customer support. These agents and service providers may have
access to your personal information in connection with the performance of
services for CatStudio.
• We may release your information as permitted by law, such as to comply with a
subpoena, or when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the
law; investigate fraud, respond to a government request, enforce or apply our
rights; or protect the rights, property, or safety of us or our users, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organizations for fraud protection.
• CatStudio may share your information in connection with any merger, sale of
our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business
to another company. You will be notified via email and/or notice on our
site of any change in ownership or users of your personal information.
• We may share aggregate or anonymous information about you with advertisers,
publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties.
Changes to the Policy
We may update this privacy policy to
reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes
we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your
account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming
effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest
information on our privacy practices.
Security
CatStudio takes reasonable measures to
protect your information from unauthorized access or against loss, misuse or
alteration by third parties.
Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected on the
Service in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public,
we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its
transmission or its storage on our systems. Further, while we attempt to
ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot
guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers"
from illegally obtaining access to this information. We do not warrant or
represent that your information will be protected against, loss, misuse, or
alteration by third parties. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Access to
Personal Information
If your personal information changes, or
if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, or delete
inaccuracies by making the change within your account settings or by contacting
us at support@cat-studio.net. We will respond to your access request
within 30 days.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as
long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If
you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your
information to provide you services, contact us at support@cat-studio.net.
We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Our Policy Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit
personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such
persons to use our Service. If you are under 13, please do not send any
information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone
number, or email address. No one under the age of 13 may provide any
personal information. In the event that we learn that we have collected
personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information
as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information
from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at support@cat-studio.net.
Opting Out of Marketing
You may opt-out of receiving promotional
emails from us by following the instructions in those emails by emailing us at
support@cat-studio.net.. If you opt-out, we may still send you
non-promotional emails, such as emails about your accounts or our ongoing
business relations.
You may also opt-out of receiving SMS
notifications from us, either via SMS or by emailing us at support@cat-studio.net.
International Transfer
We may transfer information that we collect
about you to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and
from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around
the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with
laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please
note that you are transferring information, including personal information, to
a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as
your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to the U.S.
and the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal
information, as described in this Policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this
Policy, please contact us at support@cat-studio.net.