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BitBakery Software Incorporated Privacy Policy

As used in this Privacy Policy, “BitBakery,” “we”, “us” or “our” refers to: BitBakery Software Incorporated, 450-39045 Columbia Street West, Waterloo, ON Canada N2T 2W0

For general information please feel free to contact us via http://www.bitbakery.co for privacy questions at info@BitBakery.co

This Privacy Policy is part of and incorporated by reference into the Terms of Use (the “TOU”) governing the use of all “BitBakery” branded software applications (the “Application/s”), which may operate on any type of computing device (including without limitation, a mobile device), and applies to your use of the Applications and/or the http://www.bitbakery.co web site. This Privacy Policy covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store information received about you and/or information received about your computing device through your use of the Applications or the Website.

By agreeing to the TOU and/or using the Applications or the Website, you specifically consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information (including personal information) in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may receive and/or you may be asked to provide your information (including personal information) anytime you are in contact with us or use any of the Applications or the Website. As described in greater detail below, we and our affiliates may share this information (including personal information) with each other and with third-party Partners (as defined below) and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. We may also combine your information (including personal information) with other information to provide and improve products, services, content and advertising.

COLLECTION OF DEVICE AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

We automatically obtain certain information about your computing device, including:

  • IP address;
  • Unique device identifiers, such as UDIDs;
  • ZIP code and telephone area code where your device is located;
  • Language;
  • Country code;
  • Time zone, session start/stop time, locale (specific location where a given language is spoken),
  • Network status (WiFi, etc.), browser plug-in types and versions
  • Agent version, platform, SDK version, timestamp
  • Geolocation data sufficient to identify street name and name of a city or town is not being collected,; and
  • Technical device information (e.g., device model and name, operating system name and version, CPU information, storage size, screen size, firmware, software, mobile phone carrier, Internet service provider, API key identifier for application, iOS Identifier for Advertising, Media Access Control (MAC) address, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)).

Although some of this information (such as UDID) may uniquely identify your device, this information does not identify you personally. Some legislation (such as US) may treat information that uniquely identifies your device as personal information.

COLLECTION OF ADVERTISING AND APPLICATION USAGE INFORMATION

When you use the Applications or the Website, we may collect additional information by using device identifiers in a form that does permit identification of your device. These information are:

  • Which advertisements are shown;
  • Length of time an advertisement is visible and the size of the advertisement;
  • Advertisement response (if any), including clicks on ads;
  • Angle of view;
  • Application usage information, including in-game location;
  • Website usage information; and
  • Characteristics obtained by your use such as data about pages of our Website or Application that were viewed during your visit, any actions or movements within the Website or Application and movements to/from the website from/to another website, date and time, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs)

COLLECTION OF CLASSICAL PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may also collect personally identifiable information about you (such as your name and surname, email address), as well as non-personally identifiable information that you provide us, when you voluntarily register with BitBakery, request information using the Website or Application, or contact us directly. We also collect and process (which specifically includes sharing of all this info with random third parties) your picture/s, your gender and your country of use of the Application.

COLLECTION OF DATA LOG FILES

Application might automatically send anonymized and obfuscated data log files to us that contain detailed information on your usage of the Application The data logs from you shall be assigned an ID that cannot be traced back to your device and your device identification shall be immediately deleted from our system. Such data log files are used solely for the purpose of analysis, development and improvement of individual functions within the Application with the aim to make the Application more appealing to users. The data logs will not be disclosed to third parties. Any such collection of data log files shall be clearly disclosed within the description of the Application on the market and an implied but informed consent shall be deemed to be given to us by downloading and using the Application.

OUR USE OF INFORMATION

We use information we collect about you or your computing device to deliver services to you and to operate our business. Such uses from us and our Partner’s may include:

  • Delivering our services – developing, delivering and improving our products, services, content, tailoring our products and services, understanding and analyzing trends in connection with usage of the Applications and the Website, administering the Applications and the Website, customer communications. For information that can be treated as personal information in some legislation, we use only device identifiers.
  • Displaying advertisements – When you use our Applications or Websites we may display advertisements and in order to do that we must use some of your device data, namely your device identifier.
  • Analytics and research - Understanding and analyzing trends in connection with usage of the Applications and the Website, auditing, learning about user behavior within the Applications and the Websites (how often you use the Application/Website, the events that occur within the Application/Website, aggregated usage, performance data etc.), gathering demographic information about our user base, data about where the Application was downloaded from. For information that can be treated as personal information in some legislation, we use only device identifiers.

SURVEY

From time to time we may conduct an e-mail and/or an in-app survey and collect demographic and usage information for the purposes of internal analysis and brand development. We will use the information to make our services more appealing to users. Collected information shall be anonymized and aggregated. We might collect the flowing information: age and gender of the user of an app, whether another person uses the app, age and gender of the persons regularly using the app, gender of users playing the app, ways of using the app, assessment of the features of an app, time period of using the app, which apps do you have, which BitBakery products have you bought or have you considered buying, what would make the app more appealing.

STORING OF INFORMATION

  • For EU countries, we store personal information as long as they are needed for the provision of our services. Traffic information is erased or made anonymous when it is no longer needed for the purpose of the transmission or in case of payable services up to the end of the period during which the bill may lawfully be challenged or payment pursued. Location information is stored to the extent and for the duration necessary for the provision of a value added service. Cookies, direct marketing and provision of value added services information (including traffic information used for these purposes) is stored as long as the same is necessary for the provision of these activities, or up to the time when a user opts out from such use in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Access to Personal Information section herein. Other information is stored for as long as they are, at our sole own opinion, necessary for the provision of our services. This section shall not prevent any technical storage or access to information for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication or as strictly necessary in order for us to provide the service you requested.
  • For US countries, we will retain collected information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable legislation.

Storing might be different depending on the territory of collecting the information and the applicable legislation, but we always strive to store the information only for as long as they are needed for the purposes of providing, improving or personalizing of our services.

DELETION OF INFORMATION

Once no longer needed, we shall delete collected information using reasonable measures to protect them against unauthorized access to, or use of, the information.

DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

We cannot provide all services needed for successful operation of the Applications or the Website by ourselves. Therefore we must share collected information with third parties, including third-party advertising companies that assist us in delivering advertising to you that allows us to continue offering the Applications for free or at a low cost. We have therefore contracted with certain third-party advertising networks such as Apple (iAds), Google (AdMob), InMobi, MobClix, Millennial Media (for privacy terms please visit http://www.millennialmedia.com/privacy-policy/),Tapjoy, Mobclix, Chartboost, Nexage, JumpTap, MoPub Marketplace, Brightroll, Tremor, Smartclip, Xaxsis, SponsorPay, Aarki, SupersonicAds, AdColony, Leadbolt, Tapica, Vdopia, DMG, LoopMe Media; statistical services providers such as Apsalar and Flurry (for Applications) and Google analytics (for Websites); and other third-party service providers that support the Applications and the Website (collectively, “Partners”). Our Partners provide services such as advertising marketing, information processing, customer information management and enhancement, statistical analysis, customer research and analysis, satisfaction surveys and customer profiling. We may contract with additional Partners or change existing Partners in the future to perform any services in connection with the Applications or the Website.

PARTNER’S USE OF INFORMATION

We may share information that we have collected with our Partners for the purposes of delivering our services, displaying advertisements and conducting analysis and research. We may share information that can be used to personally identify your device (e.g., persistent identifiers such as UDID, IP address). Partners are not allowed to use the information for any other purpose (other than the one listed above) or share them with third parties. We strive to commit our Partner’s to use the information solely for the purposes as stated above. If they use information that might be considered as personal information, they should use it solely for the purposes of contextual advertising, while for any other purposes they should use the information solely on anonymized and aggregated basis. Notwithstanding the above, we cannot guarantee that our Partners will adhere to the contractual obligations or acceptable business practices. In addition, Partners may use their own tracking technologies (including without limitation cookies, Web beacons, HTTP cache, and local shared objects) to compile anonymous information about users of the Applications and visitors to the Website. Partners may share anonymous information that they collect with their clients, including the date and time a banner ad was shown, the specific ad shown. We strive to ensure that this information is only disclosed to Partner’s third parties in an anonymized and aggregated manner. Unlike the tracking technologies used by us in content we control on the Website and in the Applications, we do not control or have access to the information collected by our Partners using their own tracking technologies. Their information gathering practices, including their policies regarding the use of cookies, Web beacons, and other tracking technologies, are governed by their own privacy policies, not this one. We strive to adhere to the generally accepted industry practices regarding the collection and the usage of information by our Partners and to limit their usage to the services they provide for us. While we strive to protect the information provided to Partners we have no direct control over their uses of the collected information and therefore you acknowledge that we are not liable for any third party privacy breach and that our liability for Partner’s breaches is limited to the amount we are able to receive as indemnification from our Partner, legal costs exempted. We reserve the right to disclose your information (including personally identifiable information) in response to law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or to protect our operations, users or user experience. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger or sale we may transfer any and all information (including personally identifiable information) we collect to the relevant third party. Some of the Applications allow you to submit content generated in or by the Applications to third-party sites like Facebook. These submissions follow the information transfer protocols for such third parties, which are designed to enable content sharing with such third parties and generally prevent any storage of information necessary for access to such third party services by us. In addition, we may receive certain information (which may include your personally identifiable information) from such third parties through the use of Application Programming Interfaces provided by such third parties. These third-party sites are governed by their own privacy policies and end user agreements, and we are not responsible for, and have no control over, the sharing practices or policies of the third parties that operate those sites.

THIRD-PARTY TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Please note that your access to and ability to use and interact with the Applications and the Website may be subject to certain third-party terms and conditions and privacy policies, including but not limited to application stores, mobile software platforms, on-line gaming platforms, social networking services, statistics services providers and payment providers. You recognize and agree that BitBakery is not liable for any such third-party terms and conditions and their use of your personal information.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We have implemented reasonable security measures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of the collected information, prevention of unauthorized access and the use of information contrary to this Privacy Policy. Although we use commercially reasonable efforts to assure that your information remains secure when maintained by us, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

INTEGRITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We strive to enable you to keep your information accurate, complete and up to date. You can access, check and ensure the integrity of your information as described below.

ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

We make good faith efforts to provide you with access to the personal information you provide to us or that is associated with your account. You can also request that we correct or delete information, provided that we are not required to retain such information by law or for legitimate business purposes.We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction or deletion requests can be made through the BitBakery website at http://www.bitbakery.co. For some of our Applications we may develop in-app deletion request functionality which you can use beside from the address above.

CHILDREN

Our products and services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, children under 13.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

The Applications, the Websites, products and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, or services. For example, the Applications may feature offers from third-party advertisers or the ability to engage in transactions with such entities. Please note that while using such third-party offerings, you are using sites, products, and services developed and administered by people or companies not affiliated with or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the actions of those people or companies, the content of their sites, products or services, the use of information you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Our link to such third parties does not constitute our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those people or companies. Nor is such linking an endorsement of such third party’s privacy or information security policies or practices or their compliance with laws. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location information or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. These other websites or services may place their own cookies or other files on your computing device, collect information or solicit personal information from you. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of third parties with which you interact. While we strive to, we are not responsible or liable for your interaction with such third parties, the information requests initiated by such third parties, or the subsequent use, treatment or dissemination of information you voluntarily choose to provide to them.

OPT-OUT

You are always free to opt-out from the future collection of your personal information by BitBakery in accordance with this Privacy Policy by uninstalling all the Applications from each of your computing devices and discontinuing use of the Website.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to protect our users, furnish current information and respond to legal and technical changes.

PRIVACY QUESTIONS

If you have questions or concerns about BitBakery’s Privacy Policy or information processing, please contact us through info@bitbakery.co.

Updated May 12, 2020