PRIVACY
NOTICE: COBALT20 INC. GAMES AND SERVICES (including
SimPlaces)
This Privacy Notice describes how Cobalt20,
Inc. and our affiliates (collectively “Cobalt20,” “Company,” or “we,” “our,” or
“us”) collect, use, and share information about you when you use our various
products and services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Notice
applies if you are accessing the Services in Canada and the United States or if
you are visiting a website where this Privacy Notice is posted. This Privacy
Notice does not apply to information collected by third parties that may interact
with our Services (e.g., a social media plug-in such as a Facebook like
button), or to our data collection activities outside of our Services (e.g.,
through websites that support specific products, which may have different
privacy policies). It also does not apply to information collected through the
Services if you are located outside of Canada or the United States. If you are
located outside of Canada or the United States, please see our General Privacy
Notice.
In addition, please review the Cobalt20 Terms
of Service, which govern your use of the Services. By using our Services, you
consent to this Privacy Notice and Cobalt20 Terms of Service and our
collection, storage, sharing and use of your information and data, and other
activities, as described. If you do not agree to this Privacy Notice, do not
continue to use the Services, and in the case of mobile applications, uninstall
the mobile applications immediately.
1. The
Types of Information We Collect from You and How We Collect It
Depending on the specific services you use
and how you interact with us, we may collect various types of information. This
information includes information that can be used to identify you personally.
Sometimes you choose to provide this
information to us and other times we collect it from you automatically. For
example, you choose to provide us certain information when you register or
update a Cobalt20 Members account, use our paid-for Services, apply for a job
with us, subscribe to our mailing lists or agree to receive marketing messages
from us, call us, email us, live chat with us online or in-game, make a
purchase from us, enter one of our contests, respond to one of our surveys,
post in our forums, conduct a search or post content on our websites, chat or
interact with other users on the Services, register to attend our events, or
“follow,” “like,” post to, or otherwise interact with our social media
accounts. And we collect your information automatically when you browse or use
our websites, chat or interact with other users on the Services, receive an
email from us, login to your Cobalt20 Members, play one of our games, live chat
with us online or in-game, or make a purchase from us.
Here are some examples of the types of
information we may collect from you when you use the Services.
● personal details – e.g., your name, email
address.
● financial information – e.g. credit/debit card information.
● account profile data – e.g. your username, password, avatar and other information related to your account registration.
● information relating to the browser or device
you use to access the Services – e.g., IP address, login information, browser
type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in type, operating system and
version, Google AdID, Apple IDFA, or other device information that uniquely
identifies the device or application you are using.
● information on how you use our websites – e.g.,
your URL clickstreams (the path you take through our websites),
products/services you view or purchase, webpage response times, download errors,
how long you stay on our webpages, and what you do on those webpages.
● information about the location of your device –
e.g., precise location data with your opt-in consent (such as
latitude/longitude) and imprecise location data (such as data derived from an
IP address or that indicates a city or postal code).
● information on how you purchase and use our
games and products – e.g., the gaming platform you are using, game version,
mobile and hardware identifiers, device event information, crash reports, language
or subtitle options, game scores, game metrics, achievements, rankings, play
time, feature usage, player performance and progression, purchases, timezone,
timestamp, session duration, challenges or gifts sent to other players, and
number of friends on the platform.
● information we receive when you interact with
third-party platforms – e.g., mobile
platform providers and app stores (username, device ID, purchase history, and
geolocation).
Information You Disclose Publicly: The
Services may permit you to submit content on various public channels like
social media sites, blogs and message boards, as well as through gameplay. We
or others may store, display, publish, or otherwise use this content in
perpetuity, and may or may not attribute it to you. Please note that we do not
control who will have access to information you choose to make public, and
cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available
information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. Please think carefully
before sharing any information on the Services.
Information Third Parties Provide about
You: We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect directly
from you on our Services with outside records from third parties for various
purposes, including to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor content and
ads to you, and to offer you opportunities that may be of interest to you.
Third-Party Logins: The Services may
include the option to register or log in to an account using Facebook, Google,
Steam, or another third-party service. By doing so, you may provide us with
access to certain information from your social media profile, such as your
name, email address, photo, gender, birthday, location, friends, people you
follow/who follow you, content you post, or posts you like. Please be aware
that these third parties are not subject to this Privacy Notice, and we are not
responsible for their practices. You should review the applicable third
parties’ privacy policies before using their tools to interact with the
Services.
Tracking Technologies: We use various
technologies to collect information from you, including as follows:
● Log Files. A log file is a file that records
events that occur in connection with your use of the Services.
● Cookies: A cookie is a data file placed on your
device when you visit the Services. Cookies may be used for many purposes, such
as remembering you and your preferences, supporting our security features, and
bringing you relevant advertising. Please review our Cobalt20, Inc. Cookie
Notice for more information.
● Embedded Scripts: An embedded script is
programming code that is temporarily downloaded to your device and used to
collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the
links you click on.
● Pixels: A pixel (also known as a web beacon) is
code embedded in a website, video, email, or advertisement that sends
information about your usage to a server. When you access a website, video,
email, or advertisement that contains a pixel, the pixel may permit us or a
third party to place or read cookies on your browser. Pixels are used in
combination with cookies to track browser activity. We may incorporate pixels
from third parties that allow us to track our conversions, bring you
advertising both on and off the Services, and provide you with additional
functionality, such as the ability to connect our Services with your social
media account.
● ETag or entity tag: A feature of the cache in
browsers, an ETag is an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a
specific version of a resource found at a URL. If the resource content at that
URL ever changes, a new and different ETag is assigned. ETag tracking may
generate unique tracking values even where you block HTTP, Flash, and HTML5
cookies.
● Location-Identifying Technologies: GPS, WiFi,
Bluetooth, and other location-aware technologies may be used to collect precise
location data when you enable location-based services through your device.
● App Technologies: There are a variety of
technologies that may be included in our apps that are not browser-based like cookies
and cannot be controlled by browser settings. For example, our apps may include
third party SDKs, which are code that send information about your usage to a
server. These SDKs allow us to track conversions, bring you advertising, and
provide you with additional functionality, such as the ability to connect your
social media account.
2.
How We Use the Information We Collect from You
We may collect and use your information for
business and commercial purposes in accordance with the practices described in
this Privacy Notice. The purposes for collecting and using your information
include:
● to provide you the Services, including by
authenticating your login information, verifying your age, remembering your
settings, and hosting and providing backend infrastructure for our websites and
games;
● to improve or develop the Services, including by
optimizing traffic, conducting in-game data collection, analytics, and research
(including profiling and the use of machine learning), preventing and detecting
cheating, managing landing pages, and heat mapping our websites;
● to provide customer support, including
troubleshooting and resolving technical issues over live chat, phone, email, or
in-game chat;
● to provide you information that you have
requested or agreed to receive, such as electronic newsletters, special offers,
or promotional materials;
● to process payments or transactions;
● to process your registration of a Cobalt20
Members account, or other account;
● to communicate with you when you message us,
respond to our posts, “like” our posts, tweet or retweet us, or otherwise
interact with us on social media platforms;
● to process your entry into contests, surveys, or
other promotional events that we run from time to time, should you decide to
participate in them (in some cases our tournaments may have a “leaderboard”
element, in which case we may display your user name on a publicly accessible
leaderboard);
● to deliver relevant advertisements or offers to
you (or people like you), and to measure the effectiveness of these
advertisements and offers;
● for Services that allow you to communicate with
other users, to enable those communications;
● to enforce our rules and policies and protect
the competitive integrity of our games;
● to investigate and respond to fraudulent,
unauthorized, or illegal activity on the Services;
● to monitor your participation in our forums and
all parts of the Services that allow you to post information or interact with
other users;
● for internal business purposes;
● for purposes disclosed at the time you provide
your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Notice.
● We may use information that does not identify
you (including information that has been de-identified) without obligation to
you except as prohibited by applicable law.
3.
How We Share Your Information
We share information we collect in
accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Notice. The categories
of parties with whom we share information include:
● Service Providers. We use service providers to
help support and operate the Services or to perform certain functions on our
behalf. If we share your information with service providers, we will only
provide them with information they reasonably need to perform their specific
services for the purposes we specify in our contract with them, although we may
permit them to use information that does not identify you for other purposes.
If we stop using their services, we will require that any of your information that
they hold be securely and permanently deleted or de-identified so that it does
not identify you. In all cases, we will apply measures to help keep your data
safe and your privacy protected.
Examples of service providers we might
share your information with include:
o
information
technology companies who support our websites, online services, and other
business systems;
o
direct
marketing companies who help us manage our electronic communications with you;
o
payment
processors who facilitate purchases from us and help protect against fraud;
o
fraud
detection and prevention companies who help us prevent cheating, abuse, fraud,
tampering, or other unauthorized use of the Services;
● Analytics and Advertising. We may share
information with vendors and other parties for analytics and advertising
related purposes. For example, we share information with analytics companies
who help us analyze how you use the Services, and ad partners like Google and
Facebook, so that they can show you products or services that might interest
you. These parties may act as our service providers, or in certain contexts,
independently decide how to process your information.
● Business Partners. We may share your information
with our business partners for various purposes. Here are some examples of the
types of business partners with which we may share your information:
o
console or
platform providers who allow you to purchase, access, or play our games;
o
companies
who help us develop the Services or make them available to you;
o
companies
who administer or help sponsor contests, or surveys you enter into.
● Third-Party Locations and Services: When you are
on the Services, you may be directed to other sites or services that are
operated by third parties outside of our control. For example, if you click on
a link displayed on the Services you may be taken to a different site. We may
share information at your request or direction. We are not responsible for the
data collection and privacy practices employed by these third parties. We
encourage you to pay attention when you leave our Services and to review the
privacy policies of any third-party locations you go to.
● Administrative and Legal Disclosures: We may
disclose your information to third parties: (i) in response to lawful requests
by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement
requirements; (ii) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, or
governmental requestor legal process, or any legal process in connection with a
court proceeding or arbitration, if in our good faith opinion we are required
or permitted to do so by law; (iii) to investigate potential violations of the
Cobalt20 Terms of Service or other policies applicable to the Services; (iv) to
protect the safety, rights, property or security of the Services, our staff,
users, or any other third party; or (v) to detect, prevent, or otherwise
address fraud or threats to security.
● Business Transfers: We may share your
information with our affiliate companies within and outside of Canada and the
United States. In the event some or all of our company will be acquired by
another party, we may share your information with the acquiring party.
● Consent: We may share your information for other
purposes if we have disclosed that purpose to you and you have consented to it.
● De-identified Information: We may share
aggregated information that does not identify you or de-identified information about
you with third parties or affiliates for any purpose except as prohibited by
applicable law.
4.
Ads and Analytics
The Services may use other parties such as
network advertisers and ad exchanges to serve targeted advertisements based on
your behavior on and off of the Services, and may use analytics, user research,
or other similar parties to evaluate and provide us or other parties with
information about your use of the Services and viewing of ads or content.
Network advertisers are parties that display advertisements, which may be based
on your visits to the Services or other locations you have visited.
Ad serving enables us and others to target
advertisements to you or people like you for products and services in which you
or people like you might be interested. For example, if you provide us with
your email address we may share it with Facebook so that you can receive
targeted ads from us when you use Facebook, and so that other users of Facebook
who share similar interests to you can also receive targeted ads from us. Ad
network providers, advertisers, sponsors, or traffic measurement services may
themselves set and access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on
your device and browser. These tracking technologies may be set to, among other
things, help deliver relevant advertisements, prevent you from seeing the same
advertisements too many times, or help understand the usefulness of certain
advertisements to you. This Privacy Notice does not apply to the practices of
other parties or their use of your information, so you should visit these
parties’ websites for more information about their privacy practices.
5.
Your Choices
There are various ways in which you can
exercise choice and control over the information you provide to us on the
Services. Here are some examples:
● Limit the Information You Provide to Us: You can
stop all prospective collection of information on our Services by uninstalling
and ceasing to interact with the Services. You can also decline to provide
information we request from you, although doing so may prevent you from using
certain parts of the Services (e.g., you will not be able to create an account
with us if you do not provide your email address and other information we need
to process your registration). With respect to our mobile applications, you may
use the standard uninstall process supported by your device, the app, or the
marketplace or software through which you acquired the app to stop all
prospective information collection through the app.
● Change Your Communications Preferences: You may cancel
or modify the email communications you receive from us by following the
instructions contained within our promotional emails or, where applicable, by
logging into your account and adjusting your settings. This will not affect
subsequent access to the Services. Please note that we reserve the right to
send you certain communications relating to your account or use of our
Services, such as administrative and service announcements, and you will
continue to receive these transactional account messages even if you opt-out of
receiving our promotional email communications.
● Analytics: You may exercise choices regarding
the use of cookies from Google Analytics by going to
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and downloading the Google Analytics
Opt-out Browser Add-on.
● Cookies: You may also be able to manage cookies
by changing your browser settings. For certain websites that display a cookie
banner at the bottom of the page, you may also have the option to control
certain types of cookies by using this banner. Some features of the Services
may not function properly if you choose to disable cookies, and some types of
cookies may not be disabled using browsers. In some instances, especially with
respect to mobile apps, we may require you to uninstall/not use the Services
rather than have a poor experience from disabling cookies.
● Location Data: For our mobile apps, you can turn
off our collection of precise location data through the settings on your
device. You can stop collection of all location data through a particular app
by uninstalling that app.
6. Your
Rights over Your Information
Accounts and Forums:
You may review, correct, update, or request
the erasure of account information you have provided to us by contacting us at
support@cobalt20.com. We may require additional information from you to allow
us to confirm your identity and properly respond to your request. Nothing in
this Privacy Notice is intended to limit any additional rights you may have
under local law.
Please note that it is not always possible
to completely remove or delete all of your account information from our
databases and residual data may remain on backup media. Also, we will retain
and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations,
resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
You may remove content you have posted on
our forums by logging into your account, directly accessing your post, and
using the editing tools in our forums (if available). Should you wish to edit
or remove any content you have publicly posted, you may contact us with your
specific removal request. Please note that we are not required to remove your
posted content or information if it has been de-identified or if we are
required by law to retain it.
8. International Transfers of Information
Please be aware that information we collect
may be transferred, processed, stored, and used internationally, including in
the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
The data protection laws in these countries may differ from those of the
country in which you are located, and your information may be subject to access
requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement. By using the Services,
or providing us with any information, you consent to the transfer to, and
processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information, including personal
data, in other countries as set forth in this Privacy Notice.
For personal data transferred from the
United Kingdom, the European Union, and Switzerland, we will provide
appropriate safeguards, such as through use of standard contractual clauses.
You have the right to ask us not to process
your personal data (or not to provide it to third parties to process) for
marketing purposes or purposes materially different than for which it was
originally collected or subsequently authorized by you.
10. Keeping Your Information Secure
We understand how important data security
is to you, and we have implemented various policies, processes, and technical
measures to help protect and secure your information. That said, no data
transmission is guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot ensure the security
of any information you transmit to us. Please take care when transmitting
information online, including through the Services, and make sure to keep your
passwords and account information secure at all times. In the event we become
aware of a data breach involving unencrypted notice-triggering information in
our possession, we will notify you as may be required by applicable law.
11. Questions or Complaints
If you have any questions or wish to file a
complaint, please contact us at support@cobalt20.com
This Privacy Notice has been designed to be
accessible to people with disabilities. If you experience any difficulties
accessing the information here, please contact us at support@cobalt20.com
12. Changes to this Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to change this Privacy
Notice. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective as soon as we post
them. However, if you have registered an account with us we may ask you to
opt-in upon sign-in if we make material changes.
To the extent any provision of this Privacy
Notice is found by a competent tribunal to be invalid or unenforceable, such
provision shall be severed to the extent necessary for the remainder to be
valid and enforceable.