PRIVACY POLICY
Last
updated August 12, 2020
INTRODUCTION
Hany Malek Games (“we” or “us” or “our”) respects the
privacy of our users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we
collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our
website MalekGames.com and our mobile application, including any other media
form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected
thereto (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this privacy policy
carefully. If you do not agree with the
terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy
at any time and for any reason. We will
alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy
Policy. Any changes or modifications
will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the
Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or
modification.
You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy
Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware
of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any
revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such
revised Privacy Policy is posted.
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The
information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personal identifiable information,
such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and
demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests,
that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or our mobile
application, or
when you choose to participate in
various activities related to the Site and our mobile application, such as
online chat and message boards. You are under no obligation to provide us with
personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you
from using certain features of the Site and our mobile application.
Information our servers automatically
collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type,
your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed
directly before and after accessing the Site. If you are using our mobile
application, this information may also include your device name and type, your
operating system, your phone number, your country, your likes and replies to a
post, and other interactions with the application and other users via server
log files, as well as any other information you choose to provide.
Financial information, such as data
related to your payment method (e.g. valid credit card number, card brand,
expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange,
or request information about our services from the Site or our mobile
application. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we
collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment
processor of choice such as, and not limited to Amazon Payments, Authornize.Net, Braintree Payments, Chargify, Dwolla, Google Checkout, Paypal, SafeCharge, Stripe, WePay, 2Checkout, Or any other payment
processor we choose to use. and you are encouraged to review
their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
The Site and our mobile application
may by default access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email,
gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other
information that you choose to make public. We may also request access to other
permissions related to your account, such as friends, check-ins, and likes, and
you may choose to grant or deny us access to each individual permission. For
more information regarding Facebook permissions, refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference
page.
User information from social
networking sites, such as Apple’s Game Center, Facebook, Google+, Instagram,
Pinterest, Twitter, including your name, your social network username,
location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data
for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks. If you are
using our mobile application, this information may also include the contact
information of anyone you invite to use and/or join our mobile application.
Device information, such as your
mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location
of your device, if you access the Site from a mobile device.
Information from third parties, such
as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the
third party and grant the Site permission to access this information.
Personal and other information you
may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.
If you connect using our mobile
application:
● Geo-Location Information. We may request access or permission to and track
location-based information from your mobile device, either continuously or
while you are using our mobile application, to provide location-based services.
If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s
settings.
● Mobile Device Access. We may request access or permission
to certain features from your mobile device, including your mobile device’s Bluetooth,
calendar, camera, contacts, microphone, reminders, sensors, SMS messages,
social media accounts, storage, and other features. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you
may do so in your device’s settings.
● Mobile Device Data. We
may collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model and
manufacturer), operating system, version information and IP address.
● Push Notifications. We may request to send you push notifications
regarding your account or the Application. If you wish to opt-out from
receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s
settings.
Having accurate information about you
permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized
experience. Specifically, we may use
information collected about you via the Site or our mobile application to:
● Administer
sweepstakes, promotions, and contests.
● Assist law
enforcement and respond to subpoena.
● Compile
anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third
parties.
● Create and
manage your account.
● Deliver targeted
advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions
and the Site and our mobile application to you.
● Email you
regarding your account or order.
● Enable
user-to-user communications.
● Fulfill and
manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the Site and
our mobile application.
● Generate a
personal profile about you to make future visits to the Site and our mobile
application more personalized.
● Increase the
efficiency and operation of the Site and our mobile application.
● Monitor and
analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site and our
mobile application.
● Notify you of
updates to the Site and our mobile application.
● Offer new
products, services, mobile applications, and/or recommendations to you.
● Perform other
business activities as needed.
● Prevent
fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal
activity.
● Process payments
and refunds.
● Request feedback
and contact you about your use of the Site and our mobile application.
● Resolve disputes
and troubleshoot problems.
● Respond to
product and customer service requests.
● Send you a
newsletter.
● Solicit support
for the Site and our mobile application.
● Bug fixing and
performance improvements to our mobile applications.
We may share information we have
collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as
follows:
If we believe the release of
information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate
or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights,
property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or
required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other
entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We may share your information with
third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment
processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service,
and marketing assistance.
With your consent, or with an
opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with
third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
If you interact with other users of
the Site and our mobile application, those users may see your name, profile
photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to
other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, following blogs.
When you post comments, contributions
or other content to the Site or our mobile applications, your posts may be
viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site and our
mobile application in perpetuity.
We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit the Site or our mobile application. These
companies may use information about your visits to the Site and our mobile
application and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
We may share your information with
our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this
Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries,
joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under
common control with us.
We may share your information with
our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
Our
mobile application may display a third-party hosted “offer wall.” Such an offer wall allows third-party
advertisers to offer virtual currency, gifts, or other items to users in return
for acceptance and completion of an advertisement offer. Such an offer wall may appear in our mobile
application and be displayed to you based on certain data, such as your
geographic area or demographic information.
When you click on an offer wall, you will leave our mobile application. A unique identifier, such as your user ID,
will be shared with the offer wall provider in order to prevent fraud and
properly credit your account.
If you connect to the Site or our
mobile application through a social network, your contacts on the social network
will see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity.
We may share your information with
advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business
analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for
marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
If we reorganize or sell all or a
portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we
may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy,
your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third
party. You acknowledge that such
transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline honor commitments we
made in this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the
actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we
have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence,
emails or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for
contacting the third party directly.
We may use cookies, web beacons,
tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site and our mobile
application to help customize the Site and our mobile application and improve
your experience. When you access the Site or our mobile application, your
personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject
cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and
functionality of the Site or our mobile application. You may not decline web
beacons. However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or
by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is
tendered, permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
We may use cookies, web beacons,
tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site and our mobile
application to help customize the Site and our mobile application and improve
your experience. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to
our Cookie Policy posted on the Site, which is incorporated into this Privacy
Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by our Cookie Policy.
Additionally, we may use third-party
software to serve ads on the Site and our mobile application, implement email
marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or
similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience
with us. For more information about
opting-out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
We may also partner with selected
third-party vendors, such as Adobe Analytics, Clicktale, Clicky, Cloudfare, Unity Analytics, Flurry Analytics, Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, Inspectlet, Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, Piwik, or others, to allow tracking
technologies and remarketing services on the Site and our mobile application
through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other
things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site and our mobile application ,
determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online
activity. By accessing the Site and our mobile application, you consent to the
collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are
encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact
them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer
personal information to these third-party vendors. However,
if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking
technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
You should be aware that getting a
new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or
erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear
certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
The Site and our mobile application
may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest,
including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with
us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site or our mobile application,
any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy
Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information.
Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you
should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the
third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary
to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not
responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of
any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be
linked to or from the Site or our mobile application.
We use administrative, technical, and
physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to
secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite
our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of
data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of
misuse. Any information disclosed online
is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
We do not knowingly solicit information
from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data
we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the
contact information provided below.
Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems and our mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”)
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for
recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted
that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a
revised version of this Privacy Policy./Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems and our mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”)
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. If you
set the DNT signal on your browser, we will respond to such DNT browser
signals.
You may at any time review or change
the information in your account or terminate your account by:
● Logging into
your account settings and updating your account
● Contacting us
using the contact information provided below
Upon your request to terminate your
account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our
active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to
prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce
our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.]
If you no longer wish to receive
correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:
● Noting your
preferences at the time you register your account with the Site or our mobile
application.
● Logging into
your account settings and updating your preferences.
● Contacting us
using the contact information provided below
If you no longer wish to receive
correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are
responsible for contacting the third party directly.
California Civil Code Section
1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California
residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge,
information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to
third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all
third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately
preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to
make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the
contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age,
reside in California, and have a registered account with the Site or our mobile
application, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you
publicly post on the Site or our mobile application. To request removal of such
data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and
include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you
reside in California. We will make sure
the data is not publicly displayed on the Site or our mobile application, but
please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed
from our systems.
If you have questions or comments
about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
support@malekgames.com