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Privacy Policy

The purpose of Gartic.phone policy is to respect your privacy concerning any information we may collect while you are playing. Consequently, we have developed this Privacy Policy to ensure that you know how we handle the data.

In this Privacy Policy, "data" means any data that may identify you (alone or in combination with other data), such as your name, profile image, and data for analysis and attribution to the use of the services.

1. What data we are Processing

We collect data through a third-party account. If you do not authorize such data collection, please do not log in with a social network. Data we may collect when you use our service anonymously or when you are linked to a third party log-in:

  • Data about your location, device type, operating system and platform, page load time, network, unique browser id, social network unique id, demographics, a chosen nickname, room number you have played, the reference origin, and the IP address.
  • Profile picture link;
  • How many times you visit the game;
  • The amount of time you spend on the game;
  • Text and words interactions in-game;
  • Drawings;
  • Custom themes.

When a user creates a theme and chooses to use it in a public room, the theme's author is shown to everyone who joins that room.

2. The purpose of data collection

  • To improve our Services;
  • To ensure you comply with our terms;
  • To enhance the Services for analysis and reporting purposes and to provide technical support or answer your questions, including the data used to record any failures in our provision of the Services. Therefore, we can report such interruptions;
  • To provide contextual advertisements that are of interest to you.

3. Legal bases

We consider the following legal bases for data processing:

  • When the use of your data is required to execute our obligations under a contract with you. (e.g., to comply with our Service Terms);
  • When the use of your data is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others;
  • When the use of your information is needed to comply with legal obligations or exercise rights.

4. How we process data

The data we collect from you may be transferred and stored outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (EEA), such as the USA. This transfer is required to host the Services, provide other supporting services, and allow you to use our Services deliberately.

We use third parties to help us manage your information and services, customer service providers to host the game and database, and marketing companies to manage the advertising that appears to you. We may share non-personal information with third parties, such as aggregate user statistics, demographic data, and Usage Information.

Third-party processors:

• Google Analytics• Cloud Flare• Linode• Adinplay• Firebase by Google• AdMob• Applovin• Chocolate Platform• Equativ• Index Exchange• InMobi• Liftoff• Mobfox• Pangle• Magnite• MediaNET• Openx• Smaato• Fluct• Triplelift• Digital Ocean

5. Data for Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements and provide collected data to help implement ads when you visit or use our Services. We also use analytical web tools such as Google Analytics and Firebase to interpret your use of our Services.

6. Personalized Advertising

You may be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from other companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or that are subscribed to the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising.

7. Use of Cookies

We may use "cookies" to improve the user experience. Your web browser is responsible for controlling and sharing your information through cookies.

Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that users can set in specific web browsers. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.

8. Storage

We will keep the data as long as it is relevant and valuable for its originally collected purpose and, otherwise, when required by law.

9. Data protection

We are committed to the safety of your information. Measures we take include cryptography on server communication, highly safe server access architecture, and internal restriction policies.