In this Privacy Policy, we describe the types of data, including Personal Data (collectively, “data”), that we and our associated companies collect from you when you use BouGame Websites and certain BouGame Products and services as described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “services”), how we and our associated companies use and disclose that data, and your options to access or update your data.

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time.

BouGame and its associated companies act as joint data controllers, who are jointly responsible for compliance with data protection legislation.

BouGame Account. An account you create and which BouGame may use in communicating with you or BouGame to you, which contains your first name, last name, email address, username and if uploaded voluntarily, your photograph or another avatar. Your account is accessed via a username and password and can be used to manage your Personal Data.

BouGame Terms of Use means BouGame Subscription Agreement, BouGame Terms of Use for a product or a service, BouGame License Agreement, or other agreements you have in place with BouGame covering BouGame or services.

Personal Data means any data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Where appropriate, we will prompt you to give us your consent to the collection and processing of your data as described above. This may happen within BouGame Website, or in another environment set up by BouGame, always in a clear and conspicuous manner. You can manage your Personal Data and opt-outs as described in the Transparency section below.

Children

Our products and services are not designed for and are not offered to children under the age of 13. If we discover that a person under the age of 13 has submitted information directly to us, we will endeavor to delete the information from our systems.

Transparency

To respect your privacy, before using your Personal Data, we will inform you about the categories of Personal Data we collect and the purposes we use them for. We will also inform you about the data management options that you may have. For this purpose, we use agreements, terms of use, and consent notices embedded in BouGame and services, which are available here. Should you wish to access and manage your data, you can do so here, you can update and manage your Personal Data and also provide us with an opt-out of certain Personal Data collection.

Sharing

Collected Personal Data are shared based on the Subscription Agreement, License Agreement, Terms of Use of a product or service in use, and this Privacy Policy.

According to BouGame Terms of Use covering a particular product or service, as part of the product or service functionality, collected Personal Data may be shared with other representatives of your company.

We may share your Personal Data with certain third parties which help us provide you with BouGame or services, or to run our business, for example to providers of data storage and backup services. We may also share your Personal Data with individual representatives of your company.

Your Personal Data may also be shared with other organizations or individuals if we have obtained your consent to do so.

We may also share your Personal Data with certain third parties if we are obliged to do so under applicable legislation (especially with tax authorities or with other government bodies exercising their statutory powers) or if such sharing is necessary to achieve the purposes defined above (especially with government bodies or with parties harmed as a result of violations of applicable laws).

Security

To secure your Personal Data, our products and services are designed with security and privacy in mind.

We encrypt your data in transfer and at rest where it is technically feasible. External web resources are protected by SSL encryption.

We review the processes of Personal Data usage before implementing them. This is done to minimize data usage and to make sure that you as the data owner is informed about the processing. When the reason for data storage expires, we remove your Personal Data from our servers or anonymize it for further usage. By the nature of the activity within which your data is collected, it may appear in datasets used for research. Before using the datasets for research or other purposes you are not informed of, we remove or anonymize your Personal Data in the datasets.

We use partners to host our services and websites and to process your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. While choosing the partners, we ascertain their compliance with legal regulations and security standards to make sure your data are stored in a secure location with appropriate security measures in place.

Your Rights

If at any time you choose to cease using BouGame Products, you may ask for your Personal Data to be removed from our servers by sending a request to [email protected] or via your BouGame Account. After the Personal Data removal, we may keep pseudonyms of your Personal Data solely for a record about the data removal. Generally, we retain your Personal Data as long as we need to in order to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. We may retain your information if it is required to comply with legal obligations and/or defense in case of violation of BouGame Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policies. These backups will not be accessible as separately delineated information. Further, we may keep the data to protect ourselves from damage in case of litigation in accordance with the current legislation. Please note, however, that you must retain a copy of all data that you have placed on our servers in the case of any loss; further, if you cease using our software and/or services, we will not be responsible for the retention of any of your data.

You may manage your Personal Data in your BouGame Account, including opting out of certain kinds of data collection. You are responsible for the correctness of the Personal Data you provide to us. We expect you to check the Personal Data you provide to us and if any inconsistency takes place, update your Personal Data or report the inconsistency to BouGame.

Right of Access. You may have the right to obtain from us a confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to your Personal Data. The information about Personal Data processing includes the purposes of the processing, the categories of Personal Data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your Personal Data have been or will be disclosed, etc. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access. Further, you may have the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Data undergoing processing. For additional copies requested, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.

Right to Rectification. You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete Personal Data made complete, in particular by providing a supplementary statement.

Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten). Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to require us to delete your Personal Data. Right to a Restriction of Processing. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to require us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data. In this case, the respective Personal Data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.

Right to Personal Data portability. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the Personal Data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit these Personal Data to another entity.

Right to Object. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, at any time to the processing of your Personal Data by us and we can be required to no longer process your Personal Data.

You may also contact BouGame to get up-to-date information about your Personal Data processing and any Personal Data recipients.

Changes to this Policy

This Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on BouGame Website. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the Personal Data we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with an advance notice of such change by highlighting the change on BouGame Website.