This Privacy Policy will be effective from March 1, 2016. Please read WePlay Media’s Privacy Policy before using WePlay Media’s services because it will tell you how we collect, store, use and disclose your personal information when providing these services to you. If you have questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us at fans@championshipquest.com.
WePlay Media develops and publishes social games for the web and mobile devices. “WePlay Media,” or “we” or “us” refers to WePlay Media Inc. and the WePlay Media Corporate Family in this Privacy Policy. The WePlay Media Corporate Family means WePlay Media’s subsidiaries, parent companies, joint ventures and other corporate entities under common ownership and/or any of their agents, consultants, employees, officers and directors.
This Privacy Policy applies whenever you play our games or otherwise access any of our other products, services, content, WePlay Media.com and/or the other domains provided by WePlay Media, together referred to as “Services.” This Privacy Policy describes:
If you do not want WePlay Media to collect, store, use or share your information in the ways described in this Privacy Policy, you should not play WePlay Media’s games or use WePlay Media’s Services.
Information About You That We Get From Connected Third-Party Applications, Including Social Networks (like Facebook).
If you play WePlay Media’s games or access any of our other Services on connected third-party applications or connect our Services to any third-party applications, including social networks like Facebook, WePlay Media may receive certain information about you from the provider of the third- party application. The information we receive depends on the WePlay Media game you’re playing, the third-party application, your privacy settings and, if applicable, your friends’ privacy settings on that third-party application.
For example, WePlay Media may collect and store some or all of the following information provided by the provider of the connected third-party application:
If you access our Services from a third-party application or connect our Services to a third-party application, you should also read that third-party application’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
If you are unclear about what information a third-party application is sharing with us, please go to the third-party application to find out more about their privacy practices.
We and service providers acting on our behalf, like Google Analytics, store log files and use tracking technologies such as:
IP addresses;
Please note that companies delivering advertisements on our Services may also use cookies or other technologies as described below in Third Party Advertising Including Tailored Advertising and Analytics, and those practices are subject to those companies’ own policies. For more information on how to limit the types of cookies you allow, please see Opting out of Cookie Tracking.
If you play WePlay Media games on your mobile device, in addition to your device identifiers, we may also collect:
When you use our Services (whether through a social network or through WePlay Media directly), you may give us information directly (like when you’re setting up your account) and we will store that on our systems and use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Some games or parts of our Services may use a more traditional registration or account set-up process where you may be asked to give us some or all of the following information:
We may also let you create a player profile, separate from your social networking site profile (for example, your Facebook profile), that other WePlay Media players can see. Your player profile may include information like:
Certain information in your WePlay Media profile will be publicly accessible on WePlay Media’s websites that offer direct access to WePlay Media games, including:
We may give you the ability to import your address book contacts or manually enter them so that you can locate your contacts on WePlay Media and invite them to join you in our games or other aspects of our Services. You are responsible for getting your contacts’ permission when you opt to give their contact details to us. We may also get information about you from other WePlay Media users importing or entering their contacts. We use and may store this contact information to help you and your contacts connect through our Services. If you want to remove your contacts stored by us, follow the instructions provided in the game to request that we remove them from our systems. If you need to enter a password to allow us to access your address book, we will not store that password.
You may be able to take part in certain activities on our Service that let you communicate or share information not just with WePlay Media, but also with other WePlay Media players. These include:
You acknowledge and expressly agree that we may access in real-time, record and/or store archives of these communications, comments, photos and drawings on WePlay Media’s servers to make use of them to protect the safety and well-being of our players and WePlay Media’s rights and property in connection with our Services; to conduct research; to operate, improve, personalize and optimize our Services and our players’ experiences, including through the use of analytics; and to manage and deliver contextual advertising.
If you purchase a license to use in-game virtual currency or virtual items in a game you play, our third party payment processor will collect the billing and financial information it needs to process your charges. This may include your postal address, e-mail address and financial information. WePlay Media does not collect or store your financial information, like credit card numbers. However, WePlay Media’s payment processors may share non-financial information with us related to your purchases, like your name, billing address and the items purchased in order to fulfill your order. WePlay Media may also obtain the billing and payment information that you provide when your purchase is processed by someone else (like Facebook, Apple or Google) such as when you purchase something in a game you play on a social network or that you downloaded on your mobile device. Our Terms of Service explain our policies and terms relevant to our charges, billing practices, third party credits and virtual currencies. Please note that purchases of third party credits or currencies may also be subject to those parties’ policies.
When you ask for help from our Customer Support team, we will collect and store the contact information you give them (generally, your name and e-mail address), information about your game play or activity on our Services, and your WePlay Media player and/or social network ID number. We will also store the communications you have with the Customer Service team and any information in those communications in order to provide support.
We receive and store the information you provide, including your mobile telephone number, when you choose to sign up to receive SMS messages.
The main use of the information we collect and store is to provide a better gaming experience, but there are other uses as well. The uses for which we collect and store your information include:
One important use of your information is communication. If you have provided your e-mail address to WePlay Media, we will use it to respond to customer support inquiries, and keep you informed of your in-game activity, including comments from friends, let you know about in-game status such as “crops ready” as well as tell you about gift and neighbor requests. Some messages, like invites for friends to join you in a game, may include your name and profile photo. We may also send promotional e-mail messages and promotional SMS messages (e.g. text messages) (“Promotional Communications”) directly or in partnership with other parties, in accordance with your marketing preferences. Each Promotional Communication will offer you choices about receiving additional messages.
We may disclose or publish aggregated information (information about you and other players collectively that is not intended to specifically identify you, for example, players between the ages of 21 and 25 who live San Francisco) and other non-personal information about our players for industry analysis, demographic profiling, marketing, analytics, and advertising, and other business purposes. In addition, we will share your information (which may include personal information) with third parties (in other words, parties other than WePlay Media) or allow third parties to collect this information from our Services in the following circumstances:
With your consent, we may share your information with third parties or allow them to collect your information from our Services in some ways not specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
The Service supports and often encourages you to interact with other players. In most WePlay Media games, if you play through a social network or register through a social network (for example, Facebook Connect), your social network friends will see your name, profile photo and descriptions of your game activity. Similarly, in many WePlay Media games, other players, regardless of whether they are your social network friends or not, will be able to see descriptions of your game activity, communicate with you within our Services, and view your game profile, which may include your name or a “game name” and your profile photo. In certain cases, your profile photo, can reveal your social network ID and access to a social network ID or WePlay Media player ID may allow others to view the public information associated with your related social network profile or WePlay Media account. Other players may also be able to send you game requests or even friend requests through the related social network’s or WePlay Media’s communication channels.
We have advertising on our Services so we can continue to offer many of our Services for free. We do not actively share personal information with third party advertisers for their direct marketing purposes unless you give us your consent.
When advertisers or ad networks place ads in our Services, they may collect or we may share the following types of information from within our Services:
Please note, after clicking on a third party advertisement, you may no longer be on a site hosted by WePlay Media or the social network through which you are playing WePlay Media’s games.
Your information, and the contents of all of your online communications in our Services and between You and WePlay Media may be accessed and monitored as needed to provide our Service and may be disclosed:
WePlay Media games or their purchase pages may display an “offer wall” that is hosted by an offer wall provider. The offer wall allows third party advertisers to provide virtual currency to players in exchange for interacting with an advertisement or for completing a marketing offer that may include signing up for an account with one of those advertisers. These offers are not made by WePlay Media. These offers may be shown to you based on certain technical information, like your geographic area or de-identified demographic information. After clicking on one of these offers, you will no longer be on a site hosted by WePlay Media or the social network through which you are playing WePlay Media’s games. To properly credit player accounts and to prevent fraud, a unique identifier, in some cases your social network ID or WePlay Media player ID, will be shared with the offer wall provider.
We will share your information with third party companies to perform services on our behalf, like processing payments, analyzing data, optimizing game play, e-mail delivery, hosting services, customer service and to help us in our marketing efforts, including managing and delivering contextual and tailored advertisements. We contractually require these third party service providers to maintain the confidentiality of the information we share with them, and we contractually require them not use your information for anything other than to provide services on our behalf.
In the event that WePlay Media undergoes a business transition, like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part its assets (like selling a game), we may transfer all of your information, including personal information, to the successor organization in the transition. We will make reasonable efforts to let you and other players know (in the way described in Changes to Our Privacy Policy) of the business transition before transferring your personal information.
Information We Receive From a Third-Party Application Where You Play Our Games or From Your Mobile Device.
To manage the information WePlay Media receives about you from a third-party application where you play our games, like Facebook, you will need to follow the instructions for the third-party application for updating your information and changing your privacy settings. The privacy management tools for applications on Facebook can be found on your Facebook page. To review and update information associated with your WePlay Media game profile in certain games, visit the “settings” page in that game. You also can manage some aspects of information collection and use by visiting the “settings” page of your mobile device and reviewing the permissions of each application or “app.” Once WePlay Media receives your information from a third-party application or your mobile device, that information is stored and used by WePlay Media in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may access and update that information as described below.
If you want to review, delete, or change the information WePlay Media has about you or have additional questions, e-mail us at fans@championshipquest.com
If you no longer want WePlay Media to make active use of your information, you may send an e- mail to fans@championshipquest.com Place “Delete My Account” in the subject line and include your first name, last name, e-mail address and your social network ID for the social network from which you access our Services (if applicable) in the body of the e-mail (for example, your Facebook user ID). We will respond to your request within thirty days. Please note that certain records, for example those relating to payments or customer service matters, will be held for legal and accounting purposes. If you have sent content through or posted content on the Service, we may not be able to delete it.
If you have previously allowed us to access your geolocation data, you can stop making geolocation available to us by visiting your mobile device’s settings for the relevant application or the “settings” page for the relevant game.
To the extent that one of our games is collecting information about non-WePlay Media apps you have on your device, the game will provide you with an option to stop making that information available to us in the “settings” page for the relevant game.
If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from WePlay Media, click on the “unsubscribe” link in any promotional email from WePlay Media. Please note that once we receive your request, it may take an additional period of time for your opt-out to become effective. Your unsubscribe or e-mail preference change will be processed promptly, and in no event longer than ten business days.
You can opt out of receiving SMS messages (for example, text messages) by texting back STOP to the number we send the text from for that particular SMS message program. In some cases a preferences management page will also be available. When we receive an opt-out message from you for SMS messages, we may send a message confirming our receipt of your opt-out. When you install our apps on your mobile device you can choose to receive push notifications, which are messages an app sends you on your mobile device even when the app is not on. You can turn off notifications by visiting your mobile device’s “settings” page.
If you do not want to receive tailored in-application advertisements from third parties that relate to your interests in apps on your mobile device, you may opt-out by adjusting the ad tracking settings on your device. You can also reset the “Advertising Identifier” (like an IDFA) from your mobile device’s settings page, which will prevent continued use of existing behavioral data tied to the previous “Advertising Identifier.” Further, depending on the platform provider (such as Apple or Google), you may be able to download apps, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s “AppChoices” app, that offer to provide you with control regarding the collection and use of cross-app data for tailored advertising. Like the opt-out tools mentioned above for web, these mobile opt-out tools are provided by third parties, not WePlay Media. WePlay Media does not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.
Please note that you may still receive advertisements from third parties within WePlay Media’s games even if you opt-out of tailored advertising but they will not be based on your activity across unrelated web sites or apps.
You can set your web browser to warn you about attempts to place cookies on your computer or limit the type of cookies you allow. Flash cookies operate differently than browser cookies and cookie management tools available in a web browser may not remove flash cookies. To learn more about and manage flash cookies you can visit the Adobe website and make changes at the Global Privacy Settings Panel. If you disable cookies, you may lose some of the features and functionality of our Services because WePlay Media cookies are necessary to track and enhance your game activities.
At this time, there is no general agreement on how companies like WePlay Media should interpret Do Not Track signals. WePlay Media does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals, whether that signal is received on a computer or on a mobile device. You can learn more about Do Not Track here. back to top.
Our websites and games may contain advertisements from Third Party Services, which are companies other than WePlay Media that may link to their own websites, online services or mobile applications. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Third Party Services. If you have any questions about how these Third Party Services use your information, you should review their policies and contact them directly. back to top.
Our websites and games are not for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13. Children under 13 should not use our websites or games at any time. If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable measures to promptly remove that information from our records.
IMPORTANT: When you use Our Services, your data may be sent to the United States and possibly other countries.
As part of our international operations, we may transfer data to our Affiliates (which means subsidiaries, parent companies, joint ventures and other corporate entities under common ownership with WePlay Media from time to time for our legitimate business purposes. For example, WePlay Media provides certain services to its Affiliates.
We store information about players and visitors to its sites on servers located in the United States, and we may also store this information on servers and equipment in other countries. Personal data collected within Switzerland and the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of Switzerland and the EEA. The data we hold may also be processed by employees operating outside of Switzerland and the EEA who work for us or one of our Affiliates or for one of our vendors. This staff may be engaged in, among other things, (i) the processing of transactions and your payment details and (ii) the provision of support services. When we transfer your personal information internationally we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is treated securely, lawfully and in the manner we describe here. Please note that laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and so the privacy laws applicable to the places where your information is transferred to or stored, used or processed in, may be different from the privacy laws applicable to the place where you are resident.
We comply with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. We have certified that we adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view our certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.
How long we retain your information depends on why we collected it and how we use it. We will not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements. For instance, we may retain some information for a few years after you have closed your account with us if this is necessary to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend or establish legal rights.
We implement appropriate security measures to protect the security of your information both online and offline, and we are committed to the protection of customer information. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you have an account registered directly with WePlay Media, your profile information is protected by the password you use to access your WePlay Media account. It is important that you protect and maintain your WePlay Media account’s security and that you immediately tell us of any unauthorized use of your account. If you forget the password to your WePlay Media account, the Service allows you to request that instructions be sent to you that explain how to reset your password. If you access our Services through a social network and your social network account is hacked, this may lead to someone playing your WePlay Media games without your permission. So, be careful to keep your social network account information, including your social network account password, secure as well. We urge you to log out of your WePlay Media account and any social network account you have used to access our Services after you use it.
When you sign into your WePlay Media account or enter payment information, we or our third party payment processor use secure socket layer technology (“SSL”) to encrypt the transmission of that information
While we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of our Services and our customer databases and records, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. Although we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur, we cannot guarantee the security of your information while it is being transmitted to our Service. Any transmission is at your own risk. If you have questions about the security of our websites, please contact us at fans@championshipquest.com
If we decide to make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will tell you and other players by placing a notice on WePlay Media.com or its equivalent in-game, or by sending you a notice to the e-mail address we have on file for you prior to the change becoming effective. We may supplement this process by placing notices on game blogs, social network pages, and/or forums and on other WePlay Media websites. You should periodically www.weplay.media and this privacy page for updates.
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age.
Should a parent or guardian contact us and provide us with verifiable detail that a minor has provided their data, it will be deleted in accordance with our data deletion practices.
If you want to request the deletion of your Personal Information collected by the Service, you can contact us at fans@championshipquest.com. Please provide your name, User ID, email, and any other identifying information that you have used with the app. We will make reasonable efforts to verify your identity and respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe, as required by applicable law. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for legal or administrative purposes, such as to comply with our obligations under applicable law, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or practices, please send an e-mail to fans@championshipquest.com . All other inquiries should be directed our support team which you can locate in any of our apps.
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