Hellogold Games GmbH’s (“Artimbe It Private Limited” or “we”) teams create original and memorable experiences so that players can have fun, interact with other players, and find enjoyment through our games, applications, websites and online services (collectively hereinafter referred to as our “Services”).
We collect your personal data so that you can benefit from our Services and so that we can offer you an optimal experience
This privacy policy is designed to help you understand how your data is used, inform you of your rights and how to exercise your rights.
“Personal Data” (or “Data”), is all information that identifies you:
For more information about the Data that Artimbe It Private Limited collects, go to Section 3 “When does Artimbe It Private Limited collect your Data and for what purpose?”.
If you are a minor, the age at which you can access certain of our services is determined by the data protection laws of your country of residence. You can find out more about this in the article on access to our services for minors in our Terms and Conditions .
We may collect your Data when:
(a) You play our games for the first time and create an account (hereinafter referred to as your “Account”).
When you download our games, we collect the time, date and install source of your download along with your country code. When you first play our games, we may automatically generate a user ID (“Player ID”) that you can find in your in-game settings menu. We do not collect any other personal information such as your name, email address, date of birth unless you decide to share it with us (e.g. by changing your in-game name to your real name). Some items of Data, such as your assigned or chosen user name, are made public to allow other members of the game community to find you in our Services
(b) You sign into our Services with a social login or your credentials from a third party platform (for example, Facebook, Google Play, Apple Game Center).
Some of our Services may also allow you to connect your Account to third-party accounts such as your Facebook, Google Play or Apple Game Center accounts to participate in social features and highscores.
If you connect your account to your Game Center account or other third-party accounts such as Google or Facebook, we may collect your user ID for the third-party services and a login token that allows you to verify your identity without re-entering your credentials for third-party platforms as long as the token remains active
Some of our Services allow you to create invitation links that you may send to your friends to connect directly via the Social Feature.
(c) You make a purchase in our Services.
When you make purchases in our Services, we only collect Data about your transaction (such as transaction ID and timestamp) to authenticate your purchase. We do not collect or store any payment information such as your credit card number. When you make purchases with in-game currency within our Services, we only collect Data about purchase transaction types and spend you have made using virtual items in the Services.
(d) You use our games, applications, websites and online services on a computer or mobile telephone.
We collect:
We use various types of technologies such as cookies to collect such Data when you use our Services or visit a third party site where we and our partners provide content or carry out content use analysis.
We allow some of our partners to set and access their Cookies on your device. These partners’ use of Cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy.
To refuse Cookies or request their deletion as well as obtain the list of partners who are permitted to store and/or access these Cookies, please see the Cookies page.
Our Website Privacy Policy describes what data we process when you enter our websites.
(e) You interact with other players (forums, chat rooms, Artimbe It Private Limited Games social media pages).
We collect Data such as your public profile information (including but not limited to user name, location, avatar), the date, time, and we save the content of your messages to allow you to interact with other players in a secure environment.
(f) You are exposed to personalised advertisements or content on our Services or those of our partners.
We collect Data such as the advertisement and the number of times it was watched, its location in the Services and the identifier of your device. We also collect information about your actions in relation to the advertisement.
We can combine the Data collected with our partners when you use our Services. We may also combine this Data with demographic, advertising and market studies or with other analytic surveys.
We may also use all of your Data collected to offer you personalised advertisements, products, services or content (hereinafter referred to as “Personalised Content”) via our Services or those of our partners.
If you wish to withdraw your consent or object to the personalisation of advertisements, please go to Section 6 “What are your rights and how do you exercise your rights”, then to the paragraph “Give and withdraw your consent”.
(g) You take part in a contest or survey, or join a program, organised by Artimbe It Private Limited Games.
When you participate in a contest, survey or program, we may collect some of your personal data. Prior to collecting any Data for these purposes, we will inform you by means of a privacy notice about the Data being collected and your rights.
We use this Data to administer the contest, survey or program, to send you promotional offers and/or for internal statistical purposes.
In the case of contests and giveaways, via our social media pages, we may collect Data such as, but not limited to, your username, first name, last name, game account ID, as well as further information available on your public profile or which you may decide to share with us. Artimbe It Private Limited will only keep your Data for the time strictly necessary to operate the survey and in case of giveaways and reward you if you are a winner.
(h) You contact our Community Management team via in-game chat, email, or social media.
If you contact us via in-game chat, we collect Data such as but not limited to your last name, first name, user name, country, device identifier, games and their respective progress registered on your Account, as well as further Data you may decide to share with us, depending on your questions or requests.
When you send support requests directly via the chat system integrated into our Services, your provided Personal Data will be transmitted to our help desk provider HelpShift Inc. When you send support requests via email, your provided Personal Data will be transmitted to Microsoft and to our help desk provider HelpShift Inc.. By sending support requests via the chat system or email, you understand and agree with the transmission of the Personal Data required to process your support request.
If you contact us via social media, we collect some of the Data included on your public social media profile. When you interact with us publicly or via direct message on social media, your public and provided Personal Data will be transmitted to our social media management tool provider Agorapulse SAS.
We only use this Data to appropriately analyze your concerns or identify related issues, and then to respond to your questions and requests.
You do not comply with the rules of the game.
When you use our Services, you must comply with our Terms and Conditions and the codes of conduct associated with our Services which are intended to protect our users, employees and more generally Artimbe It Private Limited’s rights. If you do not abide by these rules, you may be sanctioned including in the event of inappropriate conduct, cheating or toxic behaviour. We will keep your Data for the time needed to apply these sanctions. This Data may include for example your Account identifier, your game data, your IP address, the identifier of your device and your chat history.
Unless the law specifies a different retention period, Artimbe It Private Limited will only keep your Data for the time strictly necessary to carry out the operations for which said Data has been collected by Artimbe It Private Limited.
For example, we will keep the Data associated with your Account until the closure of the Account. In some cases, the Data may be kept for a longer period such as when it is needed for us to apply a sanction.
We may share your Data with:
In such cases, your Data may be transferred to countries located outside of the European Union who provide an equivalent level of protection. In the event of transfer to other countries, the protection of your Data is especially ensured by the signature of standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.