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Privacy Policy

Version: 2.1

Last modified 28 July 2022

 

We respect your privacy and take all necessary efforts to protect your Personal Data. Understanding the significance of Personal Data protection in a digital age, we adopted this Privacy Notice to make the processing of information about you fair, lawful, and transparent.

 

This Privacy Notice applies to the processing of your Personal Data when you use our website https://www.burny.games/ (“Website”), play our games available on the official app stores or other platforms (“Games”) including any mobile or device-specific version of the Website and/or Games, use any related products and services that we provide, including our official pages on social networking services. The Website, Games, and any other our products and services shall collectively be referred to as Services.

 

We encourage you to take your time and read this Privacy Notice meticulously because it provides you with the following information:

 

  • Our contact details

  • Categories and sources of your Personal Data

  • When we share your Personal Data with others

  • How we commit international data transfers

  • Your data protection rights

  • Rights of California residents

  • Children

  • How to complain

  • How we secure your Personal Data

  • How we store your Personal Data

  • Cookies

  • What happens when you visit other websites

  • Modifications to this Privacy Notice

  • Definitions and legal references

 

You can find the vocabulary of the definitions and legal references at the end of this Privacy Notice.

Any references to “you” and “your” include all individuals whose Personal Data we collect, hold, and process as a Data Controller while providing Services, including, in the case of legal entities, their representatives, employees, officers, and agents, directors, and shareholders.

 

OUR CONTACT DETAILS

 

Name: Burny Games LTD. Any references in this document to “we”, “us” or “our” are references to Burny Games LTD only.

Registration number: НЕ401925

Address: Louki Akrita, 21-23, BELLAPAIS COURT, 7th floor, Flat/Office 46, 1100, Nicosia, Cyprus

E-mail: support@burny.games

 

Burny Games LTD is a Data Controller within the meaning of the GDPR. It means that Burny Games LTD determines why and how the processing of your Personal Data should take place.

 

CATEGORIES AND SOURCES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

Personal Data you give us personally

 

1. Registration Data. When you use our Services, you may provide us with your name, age, email address, nickname, or other information that you decide to share with us.​

2. Communication Data: If you correspond with us by email or other forms of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained in it and use it to respond to your inquiry. Communication Data may include any information you choose to share with us.

 

3. Payment Data. When you make any purchases on our Services, we collect your payment details such as payment methods, currency, the amount of your payment, etc.

 

4. User-generated content. If you make any comments or publish any content (e.g., text, image, video, audio) on our Services, we may process Personal Data from such content.

 

Personal Data that we additionally collect

 

1. Activity Data. When you use our Services, we may collect information about your activity, such as pages visited, time spent, features used, clicks, preferences, etc. We also analyse your activity through the Games, your engagement with the Games, conversion, assessment, and report on the Games performance. We may analyse your engagement by tracking your clicks on our ads and installation of Games.

 

2. Gaming Data. When you play our Game, we collect information about your gaming activity including your registration time, login time, game performance and progress, time stamps of actions, history of games, time spent, your preferences, in-game purchases, gaming patterns, interactions with other players (if applicable).

 

3. Device and Connection Data: We collect information about your device, including device model and properties, protocol (IP) address, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, device language, browser type, operating system, carrier, device advertising ID (if applicable).

 

Personal Data we get from third parties

 

In some cases, we may receive your Personal Data from third parties. For example, from analytics and marketing service providers, payment service providers, social networking services (“SNS”), app stores or other platforms on which the Games run (e.g., for the verification of payment). The current list of parties from which we can get your Personal Data is as follows:

  • Analytics providers: We collect information about you from our analytics providers who provide us tools to understand our audience and improve our Services;

  • Marketing providers: We collect information about you from our advertising service providers who advertise our Services to understand our audience’s behaviour;

  • Payment providers: When you conduct a transaction, we may obtain certain information about you (e.g, status of payment, currency, amount, user ID, etc.) from third parties;

  • SNS: If you log in to the Games using SNS account (for example, Facebook Login), we will collect some Personal Data from your SNS account to set up your profile in the Games.

 

Personal Data we collect from publicly available sources

 

We may collect and process information about you from publicly available sources (e.g., SNS, search engines, chats, blogs, etc.), e.g., when you post comments or content related to our Services, somehow else mention us on the Internet to respond to your comments and resolve any issues encountered.

 

What happens if you don’t give us your Personal Data

 

You are under no obligation to provide us with your Personal Data. However, some Personal Data is necessary so that we can supply you with the Services. For example, if you do not provide us with Registration Data, we will be unable to set up your account in the Game and allow you to play.

 

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

We use your Personal Data for the following purposes:

 

1. Providing Services

This includes using Personal Data in order to:

  • Provide access to the Website and Games;

  • Verify your age;

  • Сreate your account and allow you to play our Games;

  • Manage your account in the Game and customize your experience in the Game (e.g., using your language in the Game and communication);

  • Provide you with our products or services;

  • Verify and confirm payments (if any).

 

We rely on the fulfillment of a contract and legitimate interests (for example, processing of payments) as the lawful basis for the processing of your Personal Data.

 

2. Customer support

We process Personal Data to support you, including to:

  • Communicate with you, send messages concerning your account (e.g., security alerts) or support messages;

  • Answer any of your questions, or comments, and resolve any issues related to our Services;

  • Improve our support processes.

 

We rely on a legitimate interest basis (for example, to resolve issues) for collecting, storing, and processing this information.

3. Safety and security

We use Personal Data to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services This includes:

  • Ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Services;

  • Preventing unauthorized access to our information systems;

  • Detecting any suspicious activity on our Services;

  • Taking action against fraudulent and misbehaving players.

 

We have a legitimate interest in maintaining Personal Data for safety and security purposes.

 

4. Marketing

We may use Personal Data we collect to market our Services, in particular to:

  • Analyze the performance of our Games and players’ satisfaction with them;

  • Assess the effectiveness of our advertisement campaigns;

  • Perform market analysis/research;

  • Notify you of news and updates related to our Services.

 

We have a legitimate interest in processing Personal Data for marketing purposes. However, we send you marketing communications only if you consent to marketing communications. You can opt-out of marketing communications and personalized advertisements at any time by contacting us or changing the privacy settings of your device. You will receive push notifications only when you enable that type of communication in your device settings.

 

5. Improvement of our Services

We may use the data we collect for testing, research, analysis, development, and improving user experience on our Services.

 

We have a legitimate interest in understanding how you use our Services.

 

WHEN WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH OTHERS

 

1. Service providers and business partners:

  • Hosting providers: To store and transfer our content and data.

  • Payment service providers: To process payment transactions.

  • Analytics providers: To measure, process and analyze performance of the Services and effectiveness of marketing campaigns, tailor our marketing activities, and improve Services and user experience.

  • Marketing partners: To send, manage, and optimise messages to you (push notifications, email, SMS, etc.), deliver mobile ads, and ensure Games monetization.

  • IT and security services: To protect the Services, build and maintain our technical infrastructure.

  • Consultants, lawyers, accountants, and other professional service providers: To receive professional advice.

 

2. Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures for the purposes identified above, we may disclose your Personal Data to third parties:

  • To comply with legal obligations and respond to requests from government agencies;

  • To address disputes and claims, or to establish, exercise, and protect our rights.

 

As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, Personal Data may be one of the transferred business assets. In any case, guarantees provided by this Privacy Notice will remain in full force.

 

HOW WE СOMMIT INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

 

As a multinational business, we engage service providers from different countries, including countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We take measures to provide an appropriate level of data privacy protection:

  • Adequacy: We may transfer Personal Data to a third country when such a third country has received a finding of “adequacy” from the relevant regulator(s);

  • Appropriate safeguards: We are providing appropriate safeguards by entering binding, standard data protection clauses adopted by the relevant regulator(s) and enforceable by data subjects in the United Kingdom and/or European Economic Area;

  • Derogations: Depending on the circumstance, we also collect and transfer Personal Data based on certain derogations such as explicit consent of the data subject, performance of a contract involving the data subject, important public interest reasons, establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your Personal Data outside of the EEA, please contact us.

 

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

 

Under data protection legislation you have certain data protection rights. You can learn more about these rights below:

  • Right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your Personal Data;

  • Right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify Personal Data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete Personal Data you think is incomplete;

  • Right to erasure (right to “be forgotten”): You have the right to have all of your Personal Data erased when you stop using the Services and close your account;

  • Right to restriction of the processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances;

  • Right to object to the processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances;

  • Right to data portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the Personal Data you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances.

 

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

You can also exercise your rights by contacting us at support@burny.games.

 

RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

 

As a California resident, under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) you have the rights listed below:

  • Right of Disclosure. You have a right to request disclosure of your Personal Data, and to receive additional details regarding the Personal Data the Company collects and its use purposes, including any third parties with which it shares Personal Data. You have a right to request a copy of your Personal Data that the Company has collected about you during the past 12 months in a readily usable format. You can exercise this right only twice in 12 months.

  • Right to deletion. You can ask us to delete the Personal Data that we have collected about you.

  • Right not to be subject to discrimination for the exercise of rights. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination. This means that we will not take any actions such as denying you services, increasing the price/rate of services, decreasing service quality, or suggesting that we may penalise you as described above for exercising your rights.

  • Opt-out right for Personal Data Sales. You have a right to request to opt out of the sale of Personal Data to third parties.

 

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have 45 days to comply with your request. Please note that to comply with your request we will need to confirm your California residency.

You can also exercise your rights by contacting us at support@burny.games.

 

CHILDREN

 

We do not intentionally or knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 and our services are not targeted at children. If you are under 13, please do not send any data about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal data. If we learn that we have collected personal data about a child under age 13, we will delete that data as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any data from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us.

 

HOW TO COMPLAIN

 

If you have questions, concerns, or complaints, please try to contact us at support@burny.games.

 

In many countries, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you are unhappy with how we process your Personal Data.

 

If you believe that your rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Cyprus (jurisdiction of our registration). Commissioner's website: http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy

 

If you are within the EU, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence or place of work. You can find the list of data protection authorities in the EEA at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en.

 

HOW WE SECURE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

To help protect the privacy of Personal Data, we maintain physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your Personal Data to those employees and vendors who need to know that information to provide Services to you and communicate with you at your request. Also, we train our employees and contractors about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your Personal Data.

 

HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

We will not keep your Personal Data for longer than required. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data, and what the law requires us to do.

When we no longer need to keep your Personal Data, we anonymize or delete it. In certain cases, we need to securely retain certain Personal Data to fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations.

 

COOKIES

 

Cookies are snippets of data that can be installed on your internet web browser when you visit the Website. You can manage your preferences regarding the use of cookies directly through your browser or through the cookie banner. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the Services we are able to offer.

 

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VISIT OTHER WEBSITES?

 

Our Services may contain links to the other websites (our business partner/advertisers/affiliates networks). Please note, that if you follow a link to any of these websites, it is advisable to keep in mind that these websites have their own privacy notices or privacy policies. This Privacy Notice does not cover how those organizations process Personal Data. Consequently, we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

 

MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

 

We keep our Privacy Notice under regular review to make sure it is up to date and accurate. We recommend that you revisit and read this Privacy Notice regularly to ensure that you are up-to-date with the current terms.

 

DEFINITIONS AND LEGAL REFERENCES

 

Data Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

Data Processor means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Data Controller and according to its instructions.

European Economic Area consists of the member states of the European Union and three additional countries, namely Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

Personal Data means any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information allows for the identification of a natural person.

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